The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025. epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ @rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.

New paper with Anders Sundell published in West European Politics: Ideological bias in policy implementation: public opinion and policy outcomes in 43 democracies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#APSA2025 The deadline has been extended until October 1, 2025.

🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp! 💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis 🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies) 🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪 📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

⬇️#APSA2025 colleagues interested in political participation & representation! ‪@elenaleuschner.bsky.social ✨will present Fri 2pm tinyurl.com/ylpnhh9w our paper, structured as a Registered Report, with a survey to Swedish politicians planned for spring 2026 - happy to share the paper for comments!

Somehow, it's already time for #APSA2025! Presenting the newest version of my paper w @jenny-oser.bsky.social + @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social on political participation and politicians' perceptions of public opinion. Happy to meet during the conference, so please reach out! @apsa.bsky.social

The link is to a different article! :-) Ours is: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 New in Journal of Politics! 🚨 Do radical right parties need to cut ties with old dictatorships to succeed? 👉 @sergipardos.bsky.social and my study of Spain’s VOX says: ❌ Not necessarily.

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Why do some people keep voting throughout their lives while others drop out? And how do authoritarian elections - even uncompetitive ones- shape citizens’ habits? Ksenia Northmore-Ball and I tackle these questions in my new paper, now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by ‪@sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter. In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New article w/ @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter Protest and the rise of left-nationalist challengers: evidence from Germany 📔 Social Movement Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1474... In 2022, Germany faced a cost-of-living crisis. Many expected a “Hot Autumn” of mass protest—but it never happened. Why?

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔔 Very happy to see our paper published open access on cleavage theory and civil society! 📖 We have tried to sketch a new research agenda, that I think has a lot of potential. I very much enjoyed working on this! Check Alex's thread below 👇 & read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Highly recommend giving it a read! What a fun and insightful writing journey. Also, I’m new here on Bluesky, excited to connect!

Please share! We look forward to your submissions to EPSS in Belfast next year. We hope the below will be useful as you plan your panels/paper. Do reach out if you have any queries!

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

I am very happy to serve as section co-chair for #EPSS Belfast next June, please consider submitting your most excellent work!

📢 New Publication 📢 📄 Review article in Nature Climate Change It examines how resistance to climate policy is reshaping politics & why populist right parties are the main beneficiaries? (with Valentina Bosseti, Italo Colantone & Giorgio Musto) Short 🧵 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎓📢 We’re hiring! Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability) 💼 Permanent position 📍 Münster, Germany 🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025 jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

So great to see Voters Under Pressure featured in this @comppol.bsky.social review article by @klingelt.bsky.social! Reviewing the book alongside work of Bartels and Tillman, Tristan's reading is the mandate function of elections is being challenged👇 www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

🚨New forthcoming paper at JOP: @noamlupu.bsky.social and I use data from 10 surveys in N&S America to see whether lower-income, lower-wealth, and working-class people are less interested in running for office. Interest in running (nascent ambition) can lead to representation gaps. However, ...(1/2)

Exciting news! 🎉 This summer I'm joining @HebrewU Econ Department and the PPE program as a Senior Lecturer (Asst. Prof.). My lab will focus on neural mechanisms of individual and strategic choices combining behavioral and MRI experiments with computational models. 1/3

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Seligson Prize! 🎉Congratulations🎉 to Amy Erica Smith and @tboas.bsky.social for their article: “Religion, Sexuality Politics, and the Transformation of Latin American Electorates.” [1/4] Read it in ‪@bjpols.bsky.social: 🔗cup.org/4f3Ly4F

Does democratic satisfaction drive voter turnout, or does voting increase dem. satisfaction? Using 7 election panels, Lukas Linek, @jrovny.bsky.social, @skvrnami.bsky.social, and I find that—unlike in the West—both mechanisms may operate in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). 1/n @eui-sps.bsky.social

‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇

"Invitation Letters Increase Response Rates in Elite Surveys" with @nathaliegiger.bsky.social. Short report @ JEPS. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🧵 Hiring 2 PhDs in political science! Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES @uantwerpen.be 🇧🇪 We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️ 💥 4-yr fully funded 📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025 🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug Details + apply 👇

Political scientists! APSA @epovb.bsky.social‬ is now on bsky. Drop us a follow! And help us circulate this call for proposals to junior scholars?

Are you an early career researchers working on elections, public opinion, or political behavior? Apply to the @epovb.bsky.social fellowship!

From April 2025 - Choosing Democracy Over Party? How Civic Education Can Mitigate the Anti-Democratic Effects of Partisan Polarization - cup.org/4iooX3d - Melek Hilal Eroglu, Steven E. Finkel, @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @aykutozturk.bsky.social & Ericka G. Rascón Ramírez #OpenAccess

Are you using online surveys in your research? Recruiting participants through paid ads? Then @anjaneundorf.bsky.social and I have an article you’ll want to read: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

I'm presenting work w the amazing @jenny-oser.bsky.social and @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social at #EPSA2025 on Thursday. We combine 40 years of parallel surveys among citizens/MPs + a survey experiment w Swedish politicians on participation and public opinion Come and say hi - always happy to meet!

Nice thread here! It’s incredibly important for thinking about violence and protest tactics. What counts as violence depends on who is protesting and who is observing those protests. So, one-size-fits-all judgments about whether specific tactics “work” would definitely benefit from more skepticism.

Excellent op-ed on nonviolent protest from @robbwiller.bsky.social and @owasow.bsky.social on the importance of nonviolence here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o.... Some additional points worth noting:

🚨 The Toronto Political Behavior Workshop is back for its 11th edition! 📍Nov 7–8/25 @uoft.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social #Munk Apply to present a paper/poster by July 11: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @dktrdr.bsky.social @ericmerkley.bsky.social @sborwein.bsky.social @mjdonnelly.bsky.social

📢 Our last webinar of the academic year! Jun 18 @cbwlezien.bsky.social U. of Texas at Austin "Democratic Policy Representation is (Really) Hard" ✨ 16:30 Israel, 15:30 CET, 14:30 London, 9:30 ET, including Q&A. Zoom link, working paper & form for submitting questions in advance: prd-erc.eu/events

@carolinaplescia.bsky.social presented her forthcoming book "The Meanings of Voting for Citizens: A Scientific Challenge, a Portrait, and Implications" Oxford University Press in the framework of a course at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev thought by Prof. Jennifer Oser. 📢🎥

How important is it to stay peaceful as protesters? Especially when protesters represent to most extent marginalized groups? Amazing thread below on how protesters' violent tactics and their identities interfere - and the difficulty of knowing what the most effective protest behaviors are.

Yes, but tactics are perceived and covered through racialized lenses that frame them as threatening regardless of facts on the ground.

An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.

Delighted to organize and chair this panel tomorrow. Promising research on cohorts, voting for radical right parties and satisfaction with democracy, with some really fascinating findings. ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Hello world! We are DEMOLAW, an ERC-funded project investigating the design, creation, and survival of democratic laws. Our website is now live! sites.google.com/view/demolaw To read our first research paper, visit: tinyurl.com/58p4m2m4 We will be at #EPSA2025 in Madrid & look forward to meeting!

From February 2025 - Do Political Leaders Understand Public Opinion Better than Backbenchers? - cup.org/3CNR4dt - Stefaan Walgrave, Julie Sevenans, Frédéric Varone, @liorsheffer.bsky.social & @breunig.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Now in @ispp-pops.bsky.social: what type of personality do citizens want their leaders to have? In a series of studies conducted in Belgium, Canada, and Israel, we present citizens with profiles of potential leaders with different personality configurations drawn using the Big Five traits /1

⬇️Video is *live*! Fabulous talk by @carolinaplescia.bsky.social about her forthcoming OUP book on "The Meanings of Voting." Highlight video: youtube.com/watch?v=2wT0... Full video & additional info: prd-erc.eu/events Thanks to Carolina, student panelists, webinar advisory board members including...

🗓️ It’s official: we’re launching a powerful, user-friendly tool for exploring #AmericasBarometer data on Wed., June 18! ✨ Don’t miss the big day—sign up for a sneak peek: tinyurl.com/yvt26yhh 🗓️Demo on Tues., June 17 @ 11 am CT #DataPlayground #AmericasBarometer #PublicOpinion

I am incredibly proud that my book, co-authored with Andrea Aldrich, is published. Using an original party leadership dataset from 11 parliamentary democracies, Andrea and I show that women candidates face a glass ceiling for leadership and quickly sink once elected (the quicksand theory).

#ComparativeResearch #EducationMeasurement #SurveyMethods Measuring education across countries is complex—but crucial for valid, comparable survey data. This study tests 16 coding strategies using ESS data and finds a strong contender for a new international standard.

Check out this new Element by Nik Usher & Jessica Hagman, which "...provides unique insights into how American journalism creates space for small-town extremists to gain power, especially given declines in local news." The free download period is extended to June 13th! #politics #commsky #polcom