Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend. Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)

🚨 Excited to share that my job market paper is now online at @thejop.bsky.social! "When Do Citizens Resist the Use of AI Algorithms in Public Policy? Theory and Evidence" shorturl.at/hHoxw 1/6

With my project IMMERSE I investigate whether immersive narrative interventions (storytelling, live theatre, video games and virtual reality) can strengthen support for liberal democracy by engaging people more deeply than conventional communication. See: www.uva.nl/en/content/n... 2/2

Excited to share that my project on polarization and nonviolent resistance was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. So grateful to the many colleagues who supported the work along the way, and looking forward to the research ahead!

🔗 Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🌐 More info: University of Glasgow – Social Media as a Research Tool: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

This was a fun project to work on. Check out our new paper, out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social now! ⬇️

Fantastic to work on this with the dream-team @maxgroemping.bsky.social & @dominiquewirz.bsky.social A massive thank you to all authors for their kindness & expertise ❤️

Some entries in #OpenAccess from January: Algorithmic biases Artificial intelligence Cartoons Dehumanizing language Far-right communication Incivility Inoculation Intergroup bias Investigative journalism Post-truth Postcolonial communication Prejudice Schadenfreude Soft propaganda War journalism

The cover price for the hardback is high - for libraries only But the digital version is quite affordable, should be around $50 - just 11 cents per entry! Available from next week onwards

While we have strived to open up towards regions that tend to be underrepresented in the literature, most of the authors come from the “usual suspects” (including us editors) - authors nonetheless come from 58 different countries

We have tried to be diverse and inclusive in the entries’ coverage - to reflect the massive scope of our field, and to avoid reproducing power dynamics that obfuscate (sub)fields and authors that are usually out of the spotlight Which topics/voices have we missed? Let us know!

Entries are short and sweet - about 2,500 words each - perfect for a quick and cutting-edge entry to the topic Teaching an introductory course to political communication? This Encyclopedia is for you

Topics covered are extremely diverse, from Algorithmic biases to Bullshit, Censorship, Deepfakes, Emotions in Journalism, Far-right communication, Inoculation, Irony, Local news, Media malaise, Multimodality, Open science, Prejudice, Satire, Toxicity, and (so much) more Check out the full list 👇

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf... 🧵

⬇️ Video is now *live* for the fantastic webinar by @netakv.bsky.social on "Young People's Political Expression on Social Media" ✨ Full video: youtu.be/Pzf1Erxj-pE ✨ 5-minute highlight reel: youtu.be/9HUOZMCcEOE With thanks to the fantastic scholars & students for an excellent discussion!

Do policy preferences of voters and non-voters differ in European democracies? My new article in @ejprjournal.bsky.social finds: Yes, sometimes, but this is not the norm. Let's break it down. 🧵 1/10

The 2024 EU @chesdata.bsky.social has been added to both the trend file (1999-2024) and the Shiny app. Please take both for a spin! www.chesdata.eu/ches-europe chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/

📢Launching our webinar series Wed Nov 19 with Neta Kligler-Vilenchik @netakv.bsky.social, "Young People’s Political Expression on Social Media”! 16:30 Israel, 15:30 CET, 14:30 London, 9:30 ET. For zoom link, reading & series info: www.prd-erc.eu/events/ And save the dates for our next 2 webinars:

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

New publication alert🔓🚨 Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity? Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.

We have a new paper out with @gricoc.bsky.social in @jwpp.bsky.social (this time I swear I am going to post the right link): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The gender gap in radical right support isn’t about women versus men, it’s about sexism. Do not miss this great piece of @evaanduiza.bsky.social @gricoc.bsky.social. The insights go well beyond Spain.

From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT). rdcu.be/eIkms

Our study thus speaks against the "electoral explanation" of unequal opinion-policy congruence. @annakurella.bsky.social @nathaliegiger.bsky.social and @janrosset.bsky.social found evidence pointing in a similar direction in an interesting study last year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to see our study out! Our main takeaway is that while poor voters vote less often, are less ideologically aligned with their preferred party, and see their preferred party less often in government - voting still does not seem to explain unequal representation.

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

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)