📄 New WP version out: revised text, tightened argument, and new analysis. The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social) Grateful for the helpful comments and presentation opportunities. Further feedback welcome! 🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...

Really thrilled to announce the publication of what I consider to be the most important article of my academic career in the journal West European Politics: "The Ecologism/Productivism cleavage: reassessing the transformation of cleavage politics in Western Europe", co-authored with Florent Gougou.

📝Inattentive respondents are a growing concern in online surveys. ➡S Blatte & @bfschaffner.bsky.social that 4 to 6% of respondents pass attention checks yet remain inattentive, biasing public opinion estimates for small subgroups www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

Why are cities and rural areas drifting apart politically? 🌄🌆 @indubioproreto.bsky.social & @lhaffert.bsky.social conducted a long-term Swiss study to find the biggest divide is amongst younger generations who hold very different views depending on where they grew up 👶 🔎

🥊 Who contests the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and its Deforestation Regulation? And why? 🤔 👉 @alexboegner.bsky.social shows it’s not just affectedness — allies are far more forgiving 👇 📕 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

Now out @apsrjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! 🫒 We advance a new argument on how economic crises fuel support for far-right parties in left-behind places by tapping into long-standing community narratives shorturl.at/bA55v @catherinedevries.bsky.social

🚨 New paper with Maria Grasso on generational shifts in political values. Despite talk of rising age polarisation, we show that gaps in attitudes are stable or even narrowing. Economic attitudes move in cycles, while social values have become more liberal – mainly due to generational replacement.

🆕 Latest article out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When do liberal orders become self-undermining? @cknill.bsky.social, Andreas Kruck, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf & Bernhard Zangl provide answers to this timely question! Check out the introduction to their new Special Issue in @jeppjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

💥OUT NOW! "Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions. Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Just out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with @dschraff.bsky.social, I ask: Is the urban–rural divide in Europe affectively polarised? 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 1/7 🧵

📬🚩 Our article on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out in APSR! Here is the @excinequality.bsky.social working paper: kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/4... with @klueserthan.bsky.social & Martin Haselmayer 🧗🙏

New publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social : “Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?” @polstudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0032... A short 🧵:

Some papers are a long time in the making. This one, written with the excellent @iguinaudeau.bsky.social, took long and I am incredibly grad to see it published. 1/8 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Economic crises tend to favour the right. Voters tend to assign greater importance to issues owned by the right. When center-right parties preside over a crisis, voters often drift further rightward to nationalist parties rather than defect to the left onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Returning from vacation and looking for a late summer read? @ivobantel.bsky.social and I got you covered! In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Seems like a good time to read this beautiful paper! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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....

Yet more evidence that mainstream parties are crucial in stemming the success of the populist-right and the norm erosion that facilitates its rise - for better of worse.

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How are the classic social identities (urban-rural, education, etc. ) and perceptions about those groups related to a persons own European and national identity? Read it here (in fantastic company) in print

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:

Thrilled that our article is published open access @annualreviews.bsky.social! We review recent strides in the study of lobbying & flesh out 1) transaction, 2) persuasion and 3) mobilisation mechanisms with @garlicksauce.bsky.social & @heathbrown.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

New article from our latest issue (Issue 8, 2025): "In Search of the Causes of the Globalization Backlash: Methodological Considerations on Post-treatment Bias" by Paolo Agnolin @paoloagnolin.bsky.social , Italo Colantone, and Piero Stanig @pstanig.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New preprint w/ @grahn.bsky.social & @joenoonan.se What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸 In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing. 📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Sexism isn't just driving support for the radical right — it shaped vote choice across the board in #btw21 🗳🇩🇪 Our new research shows how different forms of sexism influenced sympathy for chancellor candidates and party choice. (Spoiler: not just the AfD!) 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fresh from the press: "Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions" together with @nilsjungmann.bsky.social We challenge dominant assumptions about the structure of political conflict. a 🧵1/ x

▫️ "Perceived constraints from European and international integration: citizens’ feeling of being represented and turnout" by Cal Le Gall, Virginie Van Ingelgom, and Claire Dupuy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted that my paper with @kevincunning.bsky.social on "Still second-order national elections? Evaluating the classic model after the 2024 European elections" has just been published by @wepsocial.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... 1/

This looks great! Lucky me that my short letter "The 2024 European Parliament Election: Another Second-Order National Election?" has already been accepted at @eupthejournal.bsky.social (with broadly similar findings, though limited to 2024 data). Thread on the letter coming soon...

Ever wondered what happened in the last EU elections in each Member State? Can't wait for the upcoming edited books? Wait no more – the latest @politiqueue.bsky.social special issue brings together short research notes from EU specialists in every EU MS just for you: shs.cairn.info/journal-poli...

🚨 New open-access publication out in the European Journal of Political Research! @markuskollberg.bsky.social and I examine how coalition government performance shapes affective polarization between coalition partners—and find that it matters. 🧵 1/6 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

New paper out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social! With Ian McAllister, we examine how party competition and party positions condition the presence and size of an age gap in voting for the left. A short 🧵 below! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

‼️ No party is immune from the competitive pressures that polarization places on them to moralize: the language of right and wrong, good and evil is used by parties positioned at extreme ends as well as those in the middle of the ideological spectrum ⚡️⚡️⚡️ A key conclusion from our new study 👇🏼

🇪🇺 Retrouvez le Bilan des élections européennes de 2024 dans les 27 États membres publié dans Politique européenne avec Laurie Beaudonnet (directrice scientifique du CJMM) et Florent Guntz (doctorant, @sciencepo-udem.bsky.social) ! 👉 L'intégralité est à lire ici : shs.cairn.info/revue-politi...

Very happy to see this out! An amazing review and analysis of the 2024 EP elections in each of the EU27 (both in FR and EN). Huge thanks to the editors for putting together this SI, and to my co-author @rsenninger.bsky.social, with whom we analyzed the Danish campaign and elections.

Always a pleasure to be a guest on my favorite podcast. @hakhverdian.bsky.social and I talked about the German election: the results, how they came about and what they mean for the future.

My article on voter support for disabled candidates is now published at doi.org/10.1086/732994. I find that left-wing voters in UK+US favour disabled candidates, while right-wing voters prefer non-disabled candidates - but only because voters assume disabled candidates to be more left-wing. [1/2]

How should we study party polarization in Europe? Happy to share that our paper on *multidimensional* polarization is now out @bjpols.bsky.social! (more 👇)

Do citizens stereotype Muslims as inherently homophobic? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w/ @bertous.bsky.social & @michaelhunklinger.bsky.social we answer this question using a double-list experiment across 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 doi.org/10.1017/S000... Spoiler: Yes. 🧵

‼️ New paper out in EJPR! With @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, we use a new survey item that we fielded in surveys in five countries to examine who accepts party policy change. Check out the 🧵 by Maurits below for an overview of our findings!

We (that is @cerpintaxt.bsky.social and me) are happy to share that our co-edited book “Populism: An Introduction” is now out from SAGE. With Trump’s inauguration today, it’s the perfect moment for a clear, accessible overview of populism. Our 15 chapters are written by top experts worldwide.

My latest article “Promising links: how parties combine policy issues with group appeals“ (coauthored with Martin Haselmayer) is now available open access! Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0140... #PoliSky

My paper (w/ @turnbulldugarte.com) is now out on: ❓How do people derive social class of representatives and the public? The headline is that working-class parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as such (compared to otherwise identical lay public) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈 Read: osf.io/preprints/os... Findings 🧵👇