65.2 🫐 #VoterCompetence in direct democracy 🗺️ Jannik Fenger looks at 4 Danish EU referendums to find out whether #Voters are more aware of policy during campaigns, and does this help with informed choices? ↔️

65.2 🫐 Administrative democratic defence ⚔️ @jmvanlit.bsky.social uses elite interviews from the Netherlands to argue that administrative democratic defence requires continued awareness and action to prevent #Autocratisation and sustain resilience 🛡️

65.2 🫐 Is the #Left vs #Right becoming personal 🔴🔵 New cross-national evidence by N. Lin, L.P. Santoso & R.T. Stevenson shows voters in Western democracies are developing emotional attachments to the Left and Right as social groups, but how will this impact voting?

🆕 An emotional #Climate 🌳 🫩 @dienerjulius.bsky.social argues that the emotional investment in #ClimateIssues is on the up, particularly among young MPs or MPs from #Green and progressive parties, by looking at who was most emotionally engaged during German speeches from 2011-2020

🆕 Breaking down political constraints ⛓️‍💥 W. Horncastle of @ecprpovb.bsky.social & I. McMenamin look for associations between #PublicFunding and political constraints using Lieberman's nested analysis design 📊

65.2 🫐 🗳️ Does negative #Campaigning work? British experiment by Alan Duggan, Caitlin Milazzo, Harry Applestein & John Barry Ryan shows that attacks on personal traits, even if paired with positive messaging, can backfire and hurt how #Voters view the sponsor

65.2 🫐 #CourtPacking or #Persuasion ⚖️ Poland’s Constitutional Court 🇵🇱 shifted sharply after 2015 not due to judge behavior, but because the government reshaped the bench according to L. Pellegrina, J.Kantorowicz, N.Garoupa & J.Lewkowicz.

🆕 It's complicated 💔 @kendallcurtis.bsky.social addresses how longer-lasting impressions of #Coalition relationships affects #Voters perceptions of parties after coalitions split, using data from ParlGov and CSES

🆕 Echoes of hostility 🔊 Lumin Fang & Jiwu Yin argue that the public is motivated to defend their own when faced with external #Coercion based on evidence from Arab states between 2010 & 2019 🛡️

65.2 🫐 Being shaped by the fight for #Climate policy 🥊 🌳 Karl Magnus Møller looks at how the EU’s green industrial policies shift corporate support by targeting different industries, changing the politics of #ClimateAction, using corporate resource data

65.2 🫐 MAGA & MAGYAR 🗣️ Christian Lamour examines how "common sense" language is used to challenge liberal democratic views, and similarities between Trump's and Orbán's speech styles used to promote ideas grounded in the #RadicalRight

65.2 🫐 The honest, the efficient, & the trustworthy 🕊️ 🏭️ 🚓 @adinaakbik.bsky.social & Christina L. Toenshoff examine the relationships between national stereotypes and #Policy preference within the EU, uncovering the influence of stereotypes in #PublicOpinion

65.2 🫐 Are MP's putting their best foot(print) forward? 👣 @lucasgeese.bsky.social and @chantal-st.bsky.social use rare data to understand the impact carbon footprint of voters has on an MPs #Decarbonisation focus asking whether politician's prioritise #NetZero, or electoral gains🌍️

65.2 🫐 Pandemic VS. Election 🥊 @celinejhonegger.bsky.social studies Germany’s 2021 #COVID🦠 comms to find that the Health Minister dodged blame and claimed wins with citizen-blaming peaking during the “emergency brake”

65.2 🫐 But who is getting what? 🎁😌 @petroleuse-sbd.bsky.social & Timothy Hellwig show that economic security shapes welfare preferences, linking policy design directly to voter approval and electoral incentives, using evidence from Europe

65.2 🫐 Fear, anger, and populism on Twitter/X 😡 By analysing 1M UK tweets, @giulianoformisano.bsky.social, Jörg Friedrichs, Florian S. Schaffner & Niklas Stoehr seperate #Populist from #Governmentalist rhetoric and track how emotions drive #PoliticalCommunication

65.2 🫐 Politicising public service institutions 🧑‍🏫 E. van Elsas, @takesipma.bsky.social & @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social use survey data collected across 5 European countries to work out how citizens perceive ideological bias in public service institutions

65.2 🫐 A tilted playing field for extremist organisations? ⚽️ Michael C. Zeller looks at Germany's “militant democracy” to show why some #Extremist groups get banned whilst others do not.

65.2 is out now! 🫐 More than 15 articles on topics such as #VoterBehaviour, #Policy and so much more! Stay tuned 📻️ buff.ly/y729LW3

🆕 Full steam ahead 🚂 Christel Koop & Edoardo Bressanelli of @ecprsgeu.bsky.social, & Christine Reh use their new dataset to address the impact of European Council interventions in everyday law-making, finding if and where leaders speed up law-making 🧑‍⚖️

🆕 How does that make you feel? 📝 @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @versteegenluca.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social ask how #AffectivePolarization feels, using cross sectional data from 5 European countries, to see what emotions corrleate with #AffectivePolarization scores 💯

🆕 Is this what you wanted? 🆘 @simonotjes.bsky.social, @sgparliaments.bsky.social's convenor David Willumsen, & Michael Jankowski find that increasingly complex multi-party systems may be leaving the 'winning' voter dissatisfied in the #Coalition's that form 😒

🆕 A force of nature 👩 Søren Frank Etzerodt uses data from EU countries to argue that women in parliament make trade cleaner, with stronger preferences for environmental protection and more stringent regulation, highlight the significance of representation for distribution 🌳

🆕 Friends in high places 🤳 @allernelin.bsky.social, Maiken Røed of @ecprinterestgroups.bsky.social & Gunnar Thesen compile survey data and daily news to highlight links between the media notability of #InterestGroups and their organisational connections to political parties 🗞️

🆕 Voters at cross swords ⚔️ @walderm.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social analyse situations where the average voter and the party electorate don't align, using Swiss context to highlight how parties responses toward party #VoterPreferences compares to the median voter 🗳️ buff.ly/v4Ugd7E

🆕 When allies disagree @pitrieger.bsky.social uses a formal model to examine what happens when sidelined coalition parties employ public dissent as a negotiation strategy to broaden the understanding of #Coalition policymaking buff.ly/1YoANRn

🆕 Trust, earned or given? 🎁 These authors 🧵 analyse the determinants of #Trust using samples from six OECD countries to find what needs to happen to drive trust, where we might find these influences and how directly it is influenced by government competency buff.ly/qu5qpyi

🆕 Sore losers in the home team? ⚽️ @madeleinesiegel.bsky.social & Sabrina Jasmin Mayer use German panel data to ask whether the winner-loser gap is less noticeable among non-citizen than among citizens, finding electoral participation enhances responsiveness 💬 buff.ly/pjQxbu0

Have some time and hungry for more? ⌛ 🍽️ Why not check out this #Illiberalism piece based on recently published EJPR research? 😱 #Propaganda

🆕 Team players or the main act? 🎭️ E.O'Malley, @alexmarland.bsky.social & @galapalavicini.bsky.social take a look at prime ministerial power over 40 years in 21 countries to understand trends and discuss the 'presidentialisation' of prime ministers

🆕 Measuring district size isn’t just maths, it can reshape our understanding of elections 🗳️ Orit Kedar & Gilad Hurvitz offer alternative measures of #DistinctMagnitude to help prevent inaccurate comparisons between countries ⚖️ buff.ly/M9VYG51

🆕 Still shaping minds? 🧠 @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social, Micha Germann of @uniofbath.bsky.social, & Fernando Mendez use a dataset previous studies and effect estimates to see whether repeated exposure to Islamist terrorism has changed public reactions, or are we desensitised? buff.ly/zCogmj4

🆕 Is “right-wing populism” a myth? 🧚 @alexyates2000.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.com argue three reasons why the #Populist label is ill-fitting for #FarRight politics, calling for the more common use of precise but stigmatising signifiers

🆕 How history shapes political generations 🧒 🧑 🧓 @laiabalcells.bsky.social & Francisco Villamil ask what the is the long-term impact of authoritarian repression on society, using survey data to assess differences in civic engagement across generations of regime

🆕 Who gets a say in genomic revolution? 🧬 @andreafelicetti.bsky.social & Federica Frazzetta compare two public engagement processes addressing new genomic techniques (NGTs) in France and the UK to propose remedies to enhance NGTs governance efforts

🆕 Religious minorities under secular pressure 🪨 Nilay Saiya & Stuti Manchanda use cross-national data from European states, 2003-2017, to argue that discriminatory #Secularism fosters a culture of hostility towards religious minority communities and increases chances of violence

🆕 When carbon taxes feel unfair 💸 David Hope, @julianlimberg.bsky.social & Yves Steinebach carry out a survey in the UK to provide observational and experimental evidence to highlight the impacts of rural resentment on support for carbon taxation

Happy to see our @ejprjournal.bsky.social article on political representation on policy issues across European countries cited in this piece in @economist.com Article link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... With fantastic co-authors: @stefaniereher.bsky.social @dtoshkov.bsky.social

At the #ecprjs26, I had the pleasure of meeting early-career scholars to discuss publishing in @ejprjournal.bsky.social. One rewarding part of being an editor is learning about the incredible research taking shape. I look forward to seeing these projects develop. Photo: @ecpr.bsky.social

🆕 Putting #Populism to the test?📝 Or Dar critically examines the concept of #Populism, using a comparative analysis of Tony Blair, Emmanuel Macron, Jeremy Corbyn, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon to challenge definitions, & highlight the importance of relationships between actors and elites

🆕 Who gets blamed for industrial decline? 🏭️ 📉 Søren Frank Etzerodt proposes three mechanisms to link industrial decline to #VotingBehaviour leveraging a difference-in-difference design with national election data from 2001 to 2019 in Denmark

🆕 Citizens vs politicians: The conflict gap 🙍 🥊 🧑‍💼 These authors 🧵 use survey experiment data among citizens and politicians in Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland to examine how different types of political conflict are perceived by the public and political elites buff.ly/Baua3Bz

🆕 Global pressures and local strikes 🌐 🪨 Melle Scholten shows that labour strikes in the OECD are generally less intense with higher representation of left-wing parties in government, offering comment on how government #Partisanship impacts strike intensity

🆕 Vulnerability and Voice 🔇 These authors 🧵 investigate how the gender of representatives influence their ability to estimate party voters' policy position when electorally vulnerable, using original survey data from Germany and Switzerland 👩‍💼 buff.ly/7hf0EQ0

🆕 Unelected and untrusted? 🦹‍♂️ These authors 🧵 use a preregistered vignette experiment in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Romania to assess whether citizens satisfaction with democracy is impacted by unelected representatives voicing political demands on behalf of constituencies buff.ly/YHgLyKN

🆕 The ties that bind young women and #PartyMembership 🪢 These author 🧵 use YOUMEM survey data to see whether young women are more attracted to political parties by family ties and social incentives then men and whether these ties will moderate the gender gap in incentives buff.ly/Z12g4IW

🆕 Playing fair and the key to EU legitimacy 😇 @pmeiners.bsky.social, @acgoldberg.bsky.social & @pieterdewilde.bsky.social use survey data to see how Europeans reacted when the #Spitzenkandidaten process was ignored in 2019, and how it could be salvaged to increase satisfaction

🆕 From school track to the ballot box 🏃‍➡️ 🗳️ @marcusosterman.bsky.social & Jonas Larsson Taghizadeh show how taking an academic or vocational route in upper secondary school can influence how people participate in elections using a regression discontinuity design

Slots are booking up fast! ⏱️ Book now to meet with @robert-a-huber.bsky.social at #ecprjs26

🆕 Financing the state Per F. Andersson introduces the Government Revenue Dataset, which provides information on central government revenues in 31 countries in Europe from 1800 to 2012 to reanalyse the relationship between elite competition + taxation.