Gen-Z Turnout in a Compulsory System: ‪@ammassarisofia.bsky.social‬, Ferran Martinez i Coma & @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social examine what drives Gen-Z electoral behaviour by surveying them about their '22 AU federal election choices. Read OPEN ACCESS: https://buff.ly/3CAvTvp @uoypolitics.bsky.social

Our article on Gen-Z turnout in Australia (w/ Ferran Martinez i Coma & @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social) is now out (open access) in Political Studies 🎉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A quick thread 🧵:

Our first publication from the @g-epicproject.bsky.social project is now available online, open access. Co-authored with a great team :) www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Høyrebølgen blant unge gutter har kommet for å bli sier Sampols @janabelschner.bsky.social til TV 2. Utviklingen er viktig, fordi de politiske grunnholdningene vi utvikler sent i tenårene, ofte varer livet ut. Høyredreiningen kan derfor få varig effekt for norsk politikk. www.tv2.no/.../dette-er...

We don’t need better stories. We need to be humble. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Representerer vi fremtiden? Generasjonskløfter i politisk deltakelse og representasjon" @janabelschner.bsky.social (@sampol.bsky.social) er gjest på #AkademiskMorgenkaffe på onsdag. Les mer og sjekk ut programmet for #AkademiskMorgenkaffe i ukene som kommer her: www.uib.no/svf/175014/a...

Why is the belief in meritocracy so pervasive? New article argues that the dose–response schema for causes and effects may encourage us to believe that what we get out of life depends on what we put in: "More effort = more success!" doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #SocialPsyc #CogPsyc #AcademicSky 🧪

People don't really think any of this! Overestimates of small proportions are a quirk of general innumeracy, not genuine misperceptions. See research by @brianguay.bsky.social et al: —PNAS forthcoming: www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2... —Psychonomic Bulletin 2017: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

While ‘Good’ wealth contributes to the common good, ‘Bad’ wealth occurs when disproportionate and unmerited power is used to seize a larger slice of the economic pie at the expense of others. Stewart Lansley explores the impact of wealth accumulation.

♀️Do citizens evaluate quota and non-quota politicians similarly? ➡️Using a vignette experiment in Morocco, @cbarns.bsky.social A. Blackman @shalaby12.bsky.social find no evidence that quota-elected women are viewed as less competent than other politicians www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

Kärnten stimmt gegen Windräder, Weidel will sie alle abreißen... Warum soviel Ablehnung, obwohl Windkraft für die Klimaziele wichtig wäre? Eine kürzliche Studie zeigt: Dahinter steckt oft ein Mix aus Falschinformationen und Verschwörungsmentalität: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

5. Promovieren braucht Zeit. Erstverträge für Promovierende müssen deshalb eine Laufzeit von mindestens vier Jahren haben. Und bitte: Schluss mit der Vollzeitarbeit auf Teilzeitstellen wegen "Wettbewerbssituation"! #IchBinHanna #HannaWählt2025 @amreibahr.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social

Glad to learn of this, & to see it refer to the classic Cook & Farewell paper on multiplicity in #ClinicalTrials. People need to know that corrections are sometimes appropriate for testing a union (H1 OR H2) but not for testing H1 just because you test H2 a minute later. #StatsSky #rct #Statistics

Are you an early-career social scientist exploring the impacts of conflict, insecurity, or war? Apply to the WarEffects Global Fellows Network: ✨ Research grants ✨ Workshop opportunities ✨ Publication support 📅 Deadline: 7 Feb 25 🔗 Apply now: www.wareffects.eu/get-involved...

It's fair to expect that places with more older people need more adult social care services to support them. However, evidence suggests that social care spending on older adults isn’t evenly distributed across the country after accounting for age.

My fantastic co-author Julian Voss has meticulously compiled municipality-level election results for Post-WW2 Western German elections (1949-1969) from historical records. What a great resource! Read the paper, use the data: osf.io/preprints/os...

Great upcoming seminar on gender inequalities in Academia organised by @geypog.bsky.social !! GenderSky Polisky

We have a forthcoming BJPS paper and a new dataset on the gender, education, and occupational backgrounds of lawmakers in the world's democracies! Paper: www.noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm... Here's one application . . . (1/2)

Daily Caller says that BlueSky “has already devolved into a deranged playground for the terminally online, the kind of liberals who might actually be insane. The kind who identify as autistic, transgender, polyamorous allies to pedophiles.”

Cool stuff. Btw: most CT children are in childcare deserts. Stay tuned as we (ie UConn group) finish up this paper.

Follow me here for a more centre-left friendly version of my Twitter takes, the AJ+ to my Twitter account's Al Jazeera Arabic. My substack - sadly suppressed by King Elon - can be found at www.edwest.co.uk

Hi. We’re on Bluesky! Neil and Chris xx

You probably already know that question wording matters a lot in polling. But this chart from @aedwardslevy.bsky.social at @cnn.com underscores the point: Public support for mass deportation varies from 62% to 33%, depending on how the question is asked. www.cnn.com/2024/11/17/p...

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parliaments often overlook MPs' family needs & this poses challenges for diverse recruitment & retention. 🤰 Yet, based on EJPR research, @jesssmith.bsky.social reveals that voters don’t penalise MPs for taking parental leave; women MPs even gain more support as mothers. 👉 bit.ly/4fSU6Ly

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Back in March, Ipsos released its annual Women's Day poll, which showed that roughly half of American men--and even larger percentages of Gen-Z and Millennial men--are skeptical of women's rights and blame efforts toward gender equality for the struggles of men. 🧵1/ www.ipsos.com/en-us/millen...

Here's a list of the political scientists working on climate I could find on here. Let me know if I missed you! go.bsky.app/C9L9xV

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 @traceyraney.bsky.social, Michael McGregor & Cameron Anderson look to non-partisan municipal elections in 🇨🇦 to understand the tolerance of sanctions for sexual harassment when partisanship is not at play. 🌟 #OpenAccess 🌟 polisky gendersky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I did not find the time to do this earlier, but I want to introduce you to my latest published work with Bryony Hoskins @sfjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU

Poverty and social policy started pack with EU focus. Wave to be added. go.bsky.app/BQXryVx

Three Days To Go! Really looking forward to hosting this event with @finnfox.bsky.social next Monday: ‘War Over Gender? Researching Female Masculinities and Queer Identities in the Context of Backlash’. I’ve just emailed 50+ attendees with details on how to join us in person or online. Register here

A brief history of everything

I made a Starter Pack! But I got tired after 70 names. Intended to be inclusive of the #work-family adjacent and interdisciplinary Reply if you'd like to be added and please RT @wfrn.bsky.social @cwfjournal.bsky.social go.bsky.app/63Jq944 #Sociology #Demography #hdfs #PoliSky #academicsky

Ever wondered where most members of government studied political science? The answer is France 🥇, Thailand 🥈 and South Korea🥉. Finland is fourth and Denmark and is fifth. Data from the Paths to Power-project (WP here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....). Updated with more countries from last time.

You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇. t.co/aJ0SOwyCge

Two positions as PhD fellow available in the project Representing the Future in an Aging Europe: The Politics of Demographic Change, PI @janabelschner.bsky.social - deadline 2nd August. Full call 👇

We have 2 PhD positions in the project Representing the Future in an Aging Europe: The Politics of Demographic Change, PI @janabelschner.bsky.social, funded by Trond Mohn Research Foundation & UiB. Deadline: 2nd August 2024. Looking forward to your application! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Niche content: Atkinson Hyperlegible is an excellent font for lecture slides! – Created for readers who are partially visually impaired – Easy to use in LaTeX Beamer, Quarto, RMarkdown, PowerPoint, Google Slides – Download font at: brailleinstitute.org/freefont @ucdtl.bsky.social #polisky

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Josefina Sipinen, Jana Belschner @janabelschner.bsky.social & Brittany Anlar @britanlar.bsky.social 👉 Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections 📗 Open Access in Electoral Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

New publication w ⁦‪@JosefinaSipinen‬⁩ & ⁦‪@britanlar‬⁩.Drawing data from FIN,we show that young candidates are more likely to run & succeed in national than in local elections.1 explanation is local affinity voting by the many senior citizens.

📢 New article 🌟  👤 Jana Belschner @janabelschner.bsky.social    👉 Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage  📗 Open Access in Electoral Studies  🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

📢New article out:Using data from the CompCandSurvey, I explore age-related electoral disadvantages across time and countries.Main finding: Core resources (💰⏰🕸️)are distributed on an inverted u-shape,favoring middle-aged over young & senior candidates.

Our article “Party-interest group ties: The resource exchange model revisited” is published in the latest issue of European Journal of Political Research (Volume 63, Issue 1). #OpenAccess. 👇 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Substantial increases in poverty for working-age people on low incomes is overwhelmingly an issue of intra, not intergenerational inequality, as the data demonstrates – based on structural inequalities like gender and ethnicity" - @jdportes.bsky.social #pensions #UKpol

sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New publication out in Electoral Studies! In this study, I analyze generational voting differences in Western European multiparty systems - focusing on generational realignment *within* political blocs and using individual survey data spanning over 70 years.