I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

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🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

I'm very honored to have received the Frances Rosenbluth Best Paper Prize for the best paper published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social in 2024, together with Jonathan Rodden. Many thanks to the Editorial Board for appreciating our study! Here is the paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

Undecided which section to submit your paper to for the 2026 EPSS conference? Look here for short explainers by our stellar set of section chairs:

Bloody hell. The one, cost-free, open goal the new government had to differentiate itself from the last one was to be ethically sound and laser-focused on propriety. Well.

🚨DATA RELEASE 🚨 The BES team are pleased to announce the release of Wave 30 of the British Election Study Internet Panel. Please follow the link below, and we look forward to seeing your research! www.britishelectionstudy.com/bes-resource...

🚨New Research 🚨 Ahead of the release of Wave 30 of the BES Internet Panel, the team has examined Labour's decline since the 2024 GE. Labour's support has splintered into mostly indecision or left-liberal parties, but they've also lost their few right-wing voters. 🧵⬇️ tinyurl.com/3m62exph

If an Islamist regime is established, the vision is co-religionists should flock towards it. When refugees flee an Isis caliphate or flee Taliban regime for democratic west, its a particular humiliation So Taliban have a shared interest in the Trump/Orban politics of tearing up refugee protection

Indeed. From 2010 to 2015, would hear constantly (and correctly) that things would change when the forced choice was Cameron vs Milband, but the Cameron machine didn't just complacently assume this. They attacked Ed Miliband relentlessly.

Wow -- a lesser spotted Job out in the wild. Not one, but three. Jobs are like buses, etc... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK772/l...

The London Mayoralty is 25 this year. As a birthday present, the Mile End Institute asked Londoners whether they feel politically empowered. In short, no. But why? For @theconversation.com, @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I dig into the clashing explanations. theconversation.com/its-25-years...

As UK net migration continues falling to about 350k, how much will this impact public opinion, and what political benefits would this present to Labour? Research with @lawrencemckay.bsky.social and @robjohns75.bsky.social suggests probably little on both counts: see 🧵 bsky.app/profile/robj...

Hitting ~350k is significant - our recent survey experiment finds no real political benefit to getting overall net migration numbers below their current level See earlier thread on the findings - bsky.app/profile/robj... @robjohns75.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social

🚨New book alert!🚨 Thrilled to announce that my @britishacademy.bsky.social Monograph, 'Capital, Privilege, and Political Participation,' will be published via @livunipress.bsky.social later this month. Find details and pre-order (with discount) here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

The Times claims that private school numbers going down 1.9% is "higher than expected" The Independent Schools Council, Mail, Times made exaggerated claims of 25-40% The IFS modelled a fall of 3-7% Where was the prediction the Tjmes refers to? www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

New article out now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social in which I provide a comparative analysis of disability & political parties and develop a framework for assessing their accessibility.

David Marquand’s Intellectual & Political Legacy SI edited by @pjsloman.bsky.social Colin Crouch & Ben Jackson with @emilyrobinson.bsky.social Will Hutton @npjgarland.bsky.social @anthonybarnett.bsky.social Hilary Wainwright Andrew Gamble Jean Seaton & + politicalquarterly.org.uk/collections/...

you genuinely have to admire his brain. getting hammered 24/7 on Epstein? better fabricate a personal link to the Unabomber, specifically mentioning one of the prestigious universities where Epstein peddled his influence

We invite paper submissions to our workshop on Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences @gesis.org ⏳November 26-28, 2025 🎓Keynotes Prof. Dr. Monika Kuffer (University of Twente) Dr. Ana Andries (University of Surrey). ⏱️Deadline August 6th ✉️abstracts (max. 500 words) to [email protected]

NEW - The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/44rcdVW - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Why are working class people under-represented in legislatures? We propose one potential mechanism: working-class individuals are *perceived* as less likely to achieve political success, and are subsequently 'pragmatically' discriminated against. We provide an experiment in the UK to test it:

A sign of how little attention it's got, but it just passed a planning bill that's going to make housebuilding and infrastructure a lot easier that I recall being told for many years Labour would never pass, because it would be torn apart over it by protests and by nimby backbenchers in the Commons

Featuring new analysis of the local elections - I find that areas in ill health are switching to Reform, and argue that the PIP U-turn must be the start of a wider reckoning with health inequalities:

Mine and @profsob.bsky.social paper Comparing registration systems using the International Difficulty of Registration Index (IDORI). How difficult is electoral registration in the UK? has been published. Please read it here, url: academic.oup.com/pa/article/d...

Who wants to see how 81 different census variables correlate with this May's local election results? Of course you do: www.datawrapper.de/_/avuui/?v=4

For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !

excellent cover, big fan

Susan Hall, the 2024 Tory candidate for London mayor, has joined Rupert Lowe's movement, which promises: • Deport 2m people • Push for foreign nationals who speak poor English or "fail to integrate" to "go home" • "Restore Christian principles • "Carpet-bomb the cancer of wokery" • Death penalty

Short-term rentals can disrupt urban life & influence the ballot box - @tonirodon.bsky.social, Raya & Llaneza link high Airbnb density in Barcelona to increased support for parties targeting home-sharing regulation: buff.ly/cpnXuCV @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Now that #EPSA2025 has begun, I invite you to attend the panel "Understanding the Rural-Urban Cleavage", which I will be pleased to chair next Saturday at 3 p.m. @lawrencemckay.bsky.social and @astroppe.bsky.social will present really interesting papers!

*Register data* results now published for whole Germany: 37% of women under 25 voted for die Linke in the German federal elections in 2025. Also very striking to see that the AfD was the strongest party among *all age groups of men except those older than 60*.

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

In Connecting Local Economic Decline to the Politics of Geographic Discontent, @willjennings.bsky.social, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, & Gerry Stoker show perceptions of decline aren’t just about data—they’re shaped by partisanship & personal experience. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My favorite tidbit about Zohran Mamdani is the spicy names he used as a rapper.

A really welcome announcement from the government earlier this week on fairer funding for local government. I was pleased to comment on it. www.gov.uk/government/n...

My story on a new report (by @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social @markpackuk.bsky.social) claiming almost £2m given to candidates in the 2024 general election has “essentially disappeared” from the public’s view of British political campaign finance. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

IN NEW ISSUE: What makes a politician trusted by citizens? @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, G Stoker, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social & @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social find attributes of authenticity are as important as competence & integrity: buff.ly/41DzrXI OPEN ACCESS

"hey 35 to 50 year old newsreading liberals what was the run-up to the iraq war like" is the most precision crafted bait possible on this website

You can see how painless they are in that people who have paid them, dozens of times, are going 'well, how would that work'. Sorry to break it to you but you are talking about a tax that is older than Ted Heath's government.

Can't recommend this enough - great for your CV (I know it's helped me on the job market), and one of the most rewarding things I did as an ECA.

IN NEW ISSUE: What makes a politician trusted by citizens? @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, G Stoker, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social & @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social find attributes of authenticity are as important as competence & integrity: buff.ly/41DzrXI OPEN ACCESS

The year is 2029, in her resignation speech Kemi Badenoch announces that Britain is not the place the Conservative Party fightback begins and promptly moves to Washington DC.

Explore incidents of election violence in 19th Century England and Wales on our interactive map at victorianelectionviolence.uk/interactive-.... Read short descriptions, see how violence changed over time, and follow the historical newspapers sources to discover more.

New analysis from me showing how feeling priced out of homeownership reduced support for the Conservatives over the last government. Plus some thoughts on: decline on youth Conservative vote; the Conservatives (lack of) issue ownership; YIMBY vs NIMBYism; downward mobility; housing inheritance