Jens Carstens
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PhD researcher @ CEE / Sciences Po: political (dis)trust | political science | firstgen
A week ago, I defended my PhD on place, trust and vote. I’m still processing what this means, both personally and for the research itself - especially at a moment when the far-right is on the brink of (or already) governing.
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Lukas Haffert
4 months ago
Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area,
@nilsblossey.bsky.social
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@lstoetze.bsky.social
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Dr. Silke Goubin
4 months ago
Shout-out to all
#PoliticalTrust
researchers interested in attending the first
@epssnet.bsky.social
conference in
#Belfast
@annakern.bsky.social
,
@danjdevine.bsky.social
,
@cvalebeek.bsky.social
,
@hannesbey.bsky.social
and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!
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Leo Azzollini
5 months ago
Billions of 🇪🇺 money flow into regional development. But do citizens trust the EU more in return? 🔬 Find out in this Electoral Studies article with Paul Maneuvrier-Hervieu and Anne-Marie Jeannet. ❗Spoiler: EU 💶 regional funds do build trust in the 🇪🇺 , especially among working-class citizens.
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Cultivating trust? The role of European Union investments in bridging rural-urban divides
Over the last decades, agricultural policies and structural investment funds for regional development have been central to European integration. Howev…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379425000939
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Empirical Political Science #Duisburg
5 months ago
🚨 New blog post online! What do missing schools, closed hospitals, or long trips to the nearest train station reveal about trust in government? (1/3)
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Teresa Hummler
7 months ago
Extremely happy to see my first single-authored paper published! Check it out in
@ersjournal.com
👇
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Theodore Tallent
7 months ago
Excited to share that my first single-authored article is now published in
@wepsocial.bsky.social
! In light of the current backlash to climate policy, I explore the (rural) geography of support for climate policies in Europe. 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A green divide? Climate policy support and its rural geography in Europe
Opposition to the green transition is often attributed to the direct costs of climate policies, with particularly vulnerable individuals perceived as more resistant. While recent studies suggest ru...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402382.2025.2521589
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Twan Huijsmans
7 months ago
New publication with Wouter van der Brug in Electoral Studies! What is the role of place-based resentment for voting behavior in multiparty systems? We took data from the Dutch parliamentary elections in '17, '21 and '23 to find out. (1/4)
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Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems: A study of three consecutive elections in the Netherlands
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379425000691
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Theodore Tallent
8 months ago
Attending
#EPSA2025
in beautiful Madrid to present 2 papers on climate politics ⤵️ On Thursday at 13:10, I'll present our work on symbolic policies and climate policy support 💡 On Saturday at 13:10, I'll present my paper on rural discontent with the green transition ☀️
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Jacobin Magazin
9 months ago
Während die AfD immer weiter erstarkt, mehren sich die Rufe nach einer Wirtschaftspolitik gegen Rechts – und das aus gutem Grund. Doch Antifaschismus muss auch in der Nachbarschaft verankert sein. Ein Gastbeitrag von @feratkocak.dielinkebt.de.
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Antifaschismus aus der Nachbarschaft
Während die AfD immer weiter erstarkt, mehren sich die Rufe nach einer Wirtschaftspolitik gegen Rechts – zu Recht. Doch Antifaschismus muss auch in der Nachbarschaft verankert sein. Ein Gastbeitrag.
https://jacobin.de/artikel/die-linke-linkspartei-antifaschismus-wirtschaftspolitik
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
9 months ago
A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in
@thejop.bsky.social
with
@bertous.bsky.social
We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸
doi.org/10.1086/736698
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Staffan Kumlin
9 months ago
Interested in how public services affect political distrust, populist support, and similar? Longitudinal evidence from Germany and Norway.
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Welfare state evaluations, normative expectations, and political trust: longitudinal evidence from Germany and Norway
The expectancy-disconfirmation model (EDM) explains satisfaction with public services as a combination of service expectations and perceived performance. We study how satisfaction in turn affects p...
https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2023.2297292
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Cas Mudde
9 months ago
This is a BIG decision, which will undoubtedly get a legal follow-up. It allows not only state surveillance but could also hinder the growing normalization, as public sector employees cannot be members of “extreme right” organizations.
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AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence
The AfD came second in Germany's February elections and has a record number of seats in the new parliament.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6zk9wkrdo
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Datendealerin 🌷☕
10 months ago
Beginne langsam zu verstehen, was alles "juristisch nicht reicht" in Deutschland 😭
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Tom van der Meer
10 months ago
I am really proud about this publication on trust, with Chaïm la Roi and
@cvalebeek.bsky.social
. Using unique panel data, we show (1) that trust has a dispositional element among adults, and (2) that these trust attitudes are socialized during adolescence.
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Socialized to (Dis)trust? A Panel Study into the Origins of Dispositional Institutional Trust - Social Indicators Research
A longstanding argument in the field of institutional trust reads that trust is the outcome of a process of socialization. This approach suggests that institutional trust may be understood as a set di...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-025-03564-3?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250410&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs11205-025-03564-3
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Nils Steiner
10 months ago
Was erklärt regionale Unterschiede im Wahlerfolg der AfD? Hiermit befasst sich die Dissertation meiner Kollegin
@theresabernemann.bsky.social
, die in unserer
#AK-Wahlen
Buchreihe erschienen ist. Check it out:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Ansgar Hudde
11 months ago
Neues @taz.de-Interview zur Bundestagswahl. Fokus: Gender Gaps & um regionale Veränderungen. Dabei geht es auch um lokale Wahlmuster – und mein bald erscheinendes Buch dazu: 📚"Wo wir wie wählen – Politische Muster in Deutschlands Nachbarschaften"📚 Stay tuned!🚀
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Theodore Tallent
11 months ago
Tomorrow will be an exciting day: I'll be presenting our work on "symbolic policies" and their effect on climate policy support at the Nuffield Comparative Political Economy Seminar
@nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
Reach out if you want to attend online or in person!
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Will Jennings📉🗳️
11 months ago
Fish and chips and the Brexit vote. Brilliant work by
@stevepickering.bsky.social
and Seiki Tanaka in Geoforum.
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Justin Zimmerman
12 months ago
This was YEARS in the making but my first solo authored publication is out. I do more than rant on social media. I also study situational trust!
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Cooperating through distrust: seeking remedies to state and community violence
This article focuses on a crucial issue in Black politics: the spectrum of trust. Building on Monica Bell’s theory of situational trust, I explain how community members in three South Side Chicago ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21565503.2025.2466578
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British Journal of Political Science
12 months ago
NEW - Can Official Messaging on Trust in Elections Break Through Partisan Polarization? -
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-
@jengaudette.bsky.social
,
@sethjhill.bsky.social
, Thad Kousser,
@maclockhart.bsky.social
& Mindy Romero
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Lukas Haffert
12 months ago
A few thoughts on the urban-rural divide in the upcoming German election (Thread). First: the benchmark. The 2021 election saw the strongest urban-rural divide in decades. With AfD and Greens, two parties had more distinct rural/urban voter support than any party had in recent elections 1/8
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American Political Science Review
about 1 year ago
From our new issue: "Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods" by Cory McCartan, Jacob Brown, and Kosuke Imai.
#ASPRNewIssue
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/measuring-and-modeling-neighborhoods/13D284E0CF76458F597B70F2242C23EA
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Will Jennings📉🗳️
about 1 year ago
Our analysis of the geography of GE2024 is now out in
@politicalquarterly.bsky.social
. This offers an important update of The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales by
@jwfurlong.bsky.social
and me, published by OUP just ahead of the election.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Paulus Wagner
about 1 year ago
🚨It's finally out! The
#SciencesPo_CEE
starter pack :) Add Europe's coolest researchers in
#polsci
and
#sociology
right here 👇 Credits go to
@malojan.bsky.social
@sciencespo-cee.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/54D9Bjk
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Lukas Haffert
about 1 year ago
Mal wieder herausragender Datenjournalismus bei
@zeit.de
:
www.zeit.de/politik/2024...
Übrigens gibt es zu fast jeder hier untersuchten Grenze auch akademische Studien (kleiner Thread):
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Phantomgrenzen: Wo die alten deutschen Grenzen sichtbar werden
Preußen und das deutsche Kaiserreich beeinflussen noch immer, wie Menschen heute in der EU wählen. Absurd, oder? Wir zeigen erstmals fünf Phantomgrenzen Europas.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/2024-12/phantomgrenzen-wahldaten-politische-grenzen-ddr-polen
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Sven Hegewald
about 1 year ago
The urban-rural divide is back in European politics. My dissertation explores how place-based identities, resentments, and affective polarization shape this divide—and what it means for political attitudes and behavior. A short 🧵 on my main findings: (1/6)
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Lukas Haffert
about 1 year ago
There is a general assumption that urban-rural divides in politics have increased across Western Democracies in recent decades. But is this really case? Or are we just extrapolating from the US? A recent paper by
@twanhuijsmans.bsky.social
and Jonathan Rodden provides comparative evidence. 1/c
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Common Wealth
about 1 year ago
We can’t understand the geography of capitalism in our present moment without seeing how these old industries overlap with the new. "Two Towns" features an interactive map showing how ex-industrial towns were not “left behind” but actively made into havens for low-paid work.
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Daniel Devine
about 1 year ago
Are you interested in political trust but think 'actually, it's a bit more complicated than that'? You'd be right! In a draft paper, we use original data from 13 surveys across 11 countries & 52 focus groups w/ 311 participants in 8 countries, arguing that trust, mistrust, & distrust are distinct:
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
about 1 year ago
Man I cannot endorse this abstract more
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Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics
about 1 year ago
#HelloESR
#HiSciSky🔵🦋
We're a
#PolSci
&
#Sociology
lab within
#SciencesPo
and
@cnrs.bsky.social
. Research focus on the comparative analysis of politics/policy/polity to apprehend contemp. European societies. Stay tuned for posts in EN & FR about projects, events, publications, jobs!
#AcademicSky
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Daniel Devine
about 1 year ago
Our paper on trust and trusworthiness is out, where we test a model of competence, benevolence, and integrity in 5 countries. We find these are generally consistent across people and countries, with benevolence being most important in determining trust judgements.
doi.org/10.1111/1475...
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Zeth Isaksson
about 1 year ago
If there’s one paper to read on local service deprivation & far-right support—this might be THE one!
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