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PhD student at UAB | Political Science | Rural-urban divide sites.google.com/view/rgarciadelhorno
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🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in
@politicalgeography.bsky.social
! It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment 👇 [1/5]
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There is nothing here! Unequal access to services and rural resentment in Spain
The rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behaviour has gained increasing attention in recent years. One of the key unresolved debates in this…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096262982600020X
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🚨
@eupoplink.bsky.social
lanza una gran encuesta sobre el futuro de Europa para todos los países miembros y candidatos a entrar en la UE. Respóndela en el siguiente enlace:
get.epoll.eu/index.php/48...
@juanperezrajo.bsky.social
@gricoc.bsky.social
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Lawrence McKay
16 days ago
⏰ CALL FOR PAPERS - EPSS PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON PLACE, POLITICS AND EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY ⏰ Submit by Weds 20 May! For all those interested in politics of geographic divides and keen to explore impact potential of their work. More info/submit here:
shorturl.at/xS0iS
@twanhuijsmans.bsky.social
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EPSS pre-conference: “Place, Politics, and Evidence-Based Policy”
In this pre-conference workshop we bring together researchers who study the role of place in politics, and we want to focus particularly on how we (can) make impact on policies and public debates with...
https://shorturl.at/xS0iS
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Twan Huijsmans
16 days ago
For those at @epssnet.bsky.social in Belfast this June: If you're interested in Place & Politics and want to join our discussions on the (potential) impact of the research in this field, make sure to register for the pre-conference that
@lawrencemckay.bsky.social
and I are organizing! 👇
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Diane Bolet
17 days ago
A reminder that applications for this 3-year fully funded PhD position close at the end of next week (May 17). This is a great opportunity to work on climate politics comparative politics in a vibrant environment, with loads of freedom to develop your own project.
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
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Call for applications for a 3 years doctoral contract
For the ERC GREENLOSS Project - Application deadline: May 17, 2026
https://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/en/news/call-for-applications-doctoral-contract-greenloss/
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20 days ago
🎉Congratulations to our fellow
@ehernandez.bsky.social
on receiving the 2025 National Research Award “Clara Campoamor” in the area of Law and Economic & Social Sciences.
www.ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/202...
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Diana Morant, en los Premios Nacionales de Investigación 2025: “Sois mucho más que genios, sois trabajadores y trabajadoras de las ideas, sostenidos por la tarea de mejorar la vida de todas y todos no...
Diana Morant, en los Premios Nacionales de Investigación 2025: “Sois mucho más que genios, sois trabajadores y trabajadoras de las ideas, sostenidos por la tarea de mejorar la vida de todas y todos no...
https://www.ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/2026/mayo/entrega-premios-nacionales-investigacion-2025.html
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Kathrin Ackermann
26 days ago
🚀 Very much looking forward to our new
@dfg.de
/
@agencerecherche.bsky.social
project RECOGNITION with
@mfilsinger.bsky.social
🙏 Big thanks to
@nilssteiner.bsky.social
and
@clandwehr.bsky.social
for very helpful feedback on the proposal 🎓 Apply now for one of the PhD positions in the project team ⬇️
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Antonia Lang
26 days ago
Delighted to see this paper, co-authored by brilliant
@jessicakuhlm.bsky.social
, published!
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Cèlia Estruch
27 days ago
Last week,
@charlottekuberka.bsky.social
and I hosted our ECR Conference on the Political Dimensions of Place-Based Inequalities in Urban & Rural Life at the LSE. Thanks to all participants,
@neillee.bsky.social
,
@msands.bsky.social
,
@lseinequalities.bsky.social
&
@lsegovernment.bsky.social
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Delighted to present the first results of my new project at Beyond the Divide: ECR Conference on the Political Dimensions of Place-Based Inequalities in Urban & Rural Life (LSE). Great discussions—thanks to all presenters, and especially to
@charlottekuberka.bsky.social
&
@celiaestruch.bsky.social
!
27 days ago
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about 1 month ago
📢Open call for applications. DEC welcomes expressions of interest for the 2026 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships. Applicants interested in developing a proposal with us are encouraged to get in touch before 15 May. More information ⬇️
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
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Postdoctoral Fellowships
The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.
https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fellowships
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Rural Spatial Justice
about 2 months ago
Fidesz is an interesting case of a party that had an urban skew to its vote in the 2000s but has become more & more rural as it’s moved to the right. it’s an exemplar of rural populism/nationalism, but it’s also an outlier for ideas that link disruptive politics & rural discontent.
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about 2 months ago
🎤 Professor Ian Shapiro’s lecture was a great success today. A full room, an engaging talk, and a lively discussion around “Angry Populist Politics: Why Is It Happening and What to Do About It.” Many thanks to Professor Shapiro and to everyone who joined us. A fantastic session for our faculty.
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Marta's colleagues can only say that she has a brilliant mind and a huge heart. Congratulations, Doctor
@martavallve.bsky.social
! 🎊♥️
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2 months ago
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Álvaro Sánchez-García
2 months ago
⚠️🚨 LAST CALL! Última semana para enviar vuestras propuestas a nuestro GT “The politics of place: Geographic divides in contemporary democracies” en AECPA (Granada, 9-11 Septiembre).
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Ana S. Cardenal
2 months ago
Really happy to see this piece finally out in
@poqjournal.bsky.social
. We exploit an unexpected global news event to test exogenous measures of exposure varying in granularity. The results have implications for studies using webtracking data, particularly domain-level measures of news exposure
#CSS
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"The politics of place: geographic divides in contemporary democracies" Coordinan Rubén García del Horno (
@rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social
), Juan Pérez Rajó (
@juanperezrajo.bsky.social
), Álvaro Sánchez-García (
@asanchezgarcia.es
) y Alberto de León (
@aldeleon.bsky.social
).
www.aecpa.es/es-es/the-po...
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https://www.aecpa.es/es-es/the-politics-of-place-geographic-divides-in-contemporary-democracies/congress-workgroups/703/
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‼️📆 Call for papers – The politics of place: geographic divides in contemporary democracies (AECPA, Granada, 9-11 Septiembre) Con
@asanchezgarcia.es
@aldeleon.bsky.social
@juanperezrajo.bsky.social
te invitamos a que nos envíes tu propuesta antes del 31/03 👇
www.aecpa.es/es-es/the-po...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
📢Next seminar: Next Tuesday (3rd March), Luca Bernardi (
@lbernardi.bsky.social
) from the University of Liverpool will present his work "Public Perceptions of Politicians with Mental Health Problems in the UK" 📍Sala de Juntes 🕐13:00 Join us!
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Anne Stroppe
3 months ago
📢 Study out in Research & Politics! We (
@lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social
@wurthmann.bsky.social
@msaeltzer.bsky.social
) find that directly elected MPs talk more about local & deprived places than list MPs on social media. 🔍
doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Some Highlights [1/3]
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📝Artículo de
@rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social
en
@agendapublica.es
que recoge los resultados de su investigación sobre el resentimiento rural.
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Sin médico, sin escuela, sin autopista, así surge el resentimiento rural
Las "opciones políticas antisistema, populistas y de derecha radical" suelen recibir "más apoyos" electorales en "entornos rurales", observa el investigador Rubén García del Horno. Tratando de buscar ...
https://agendapublica.es/noticia/20683/sin-dico-sin-escuela-sin-autopista-asi-surge-resentimiento-rural
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Eva Anduiza
3 months ago
It has been great to navigate this paper with amazing
@gefjonoff.bsky.social
. Started expecting angry right-wing men to feel threatened by feminism and found out more than one surprise 👇
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Sobre lo de Extremadura, Aragón, Castilla y León... ¿Tiene el resentimiento rural un fundamento real? Sí, las dificultades para acceder a servicios esenciales. Escribo en
@agendapublica.es
sobre los resultados de mi última investigación 👇
@dec-gr.bsky.social
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Sin médico, sin escuela, sin autopista, así surge el resentimiento rural
Las "opciones políticas antisistema, populistas y de derecha radical" suelen recibir "más apoyos" electorales en "entornos rurales", observa el investigador Rubén García del Horno. Tratando de buscar ...
https://agendapublica.es/noticia/20683/sin-dico-sin-escuela-sin-autopista-asi-surge-resentimiento-rural
3 months ago
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Krissy Lunz Trujillo
3 months ago
New paper
@jhppl.bsky.social
(w/ Michael Shepherd & Alee Lockman) where we find Americans who grew up (socialized) in rural areas are more likely to own guns, support the NRA, & hold more conservative firearm policy attitudes over the lifespan, even after moving away. 1/
doi.org/10.1215/0361...
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Don't Take Your Guns to Town? Rural Socialization and the Long-Term Politics of Firearms | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-12461771
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Krissy Lunz Trujillo
3 months ago
Excited that this paper is now out! We show that over decades, the demographic predictors of trust in science in the US remain relatively stable, however, the changes in party alignment have made Reps less trusting of science in recent years.
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Gina-Julia Westenberger
3 months ago
🗞️ From working-class to expert city: How has Berlin's employment structure changed over the past 30 years? I discussed our study on polarized upgrading (with Daniel Oesch and
@katymorris.bsky.social
) with
@tagesspiegel.de
👉 Full article (in German):
www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/von-d...
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Von der Arbeiter- zur Expertenstadt: Neue Studie erklärt den radikalen Wandel der Berufe in Berlin
Die Arbeit in Berlin hat sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten extrem verändert. Hat die Stadt sich in Arm und Reich aufgespalten? Eine neue Studie zeigt einen anderen, positiveren Trend. Er ist auch in...
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/von-der-arbeiter-zur-expertenstadt-neue-studie-erklart-den-radikalen-wandel-der-berufe-in-berlin-15237321.html
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3 months ago
📢Next seminar: Next Tuesday (17th February)
@rdassonneville.bsky.social
(
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
) will present "Rural Sympathy rather than In- and Out-Group Dynamics: How Voters Respond to Place-Based" co-authored with Richard Nadeau. 📍Sala de Juntes 🕐13:00 Join us!
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Alba Huidobro
4 months ago
🚨New publication! Thrilled to finally see this paper out in
@psrm.bsky.social
🎉 📊I study how gender shapes coalition preferences among politicians. Turns out mayors prefer forming governments with women-led parties, perceiving them as better communicators and more competent governors.
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📢 New publication alert: “There is nothing here! Unequal access to services and rural resentment in Spain” by
@rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social
in
@politicalgeography.bsky.social
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🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in
@politicalgeography.bsky.social
! It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment 👇 [1/5]
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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There is nothing here! Unequal access to services and rural resentment in Spain
The rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behaviour has gained increasing attention in recent years. One of the key unresolved debates in this…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096262982600020X
4 months ago
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Pedro Manuel Bellón
4 months ago
🎙️ He participat a El Balcó de Cadena SER per presentar el nostre article sobre l’ampliació del permís de paternitat, analitzant-ne l’impacte en la corresponsabilitat, el mercat laboral, la igualtat de gènere i el disseny de polítiques públiques.
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Great work by great colleagues! 🙌
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4 months ago
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Will Jennings📉🗳️
4 months ago
What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with
@yougov.co.uk
in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights... Some key findings...
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Perspectives on Place: what the English think about their local area
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/publicpolicy/Perspectives_On_Place_Will_Jennings.page
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WEP Journal
4 months ago
🎉 Online first: How does owning a home change how people feel about politics? In this article,
@mhaslberger.bsky.social
and
@madselk.bsky.social
find that owning a home is linked to feeling more politically included, especially for older people. 🔗
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
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South European Society & Politics
4 months ago
🧭 in our
#NewIssue
(30.3) The study by
@galais.bsky.social
&
@ruizhdezmaria.bsky.social
reveals that sadness can reduce support for far-right parties in Spain, whereas anger—the most studied emotion—shows only a limited reinforcing effect 🔓 Read the article
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Twan Huijsmans
4 months ago
📢Today a great new book on urban-rural divides got published! 🚜🌇 In 'Rethinking Rural Politics' a large group of experts paints a detailed picture of what rural politics means in the US nowadays, and how to explain geographic political divides. Open access
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Rethinking Rural Politics
Rural communities in the United States have become a distinctive political concern. In this interdisciplinary volume, Nicholas Jacobs brings together a collection of leading experts in rural studies t...
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111600215/html#contents
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4 months ago
📢Next seminar: Tomorrow Delia Dumitrescu (Heidelberg University) presents"How does War Look Like on the European Mainstream Media Facebook? A Large N Comparison on Media Facebook Posts on Ukraine and Gaza in 24 European Countries in Spring 2024" 🕐 13:00 📍Sala de Juntes
@politiquesuab.bsky.social
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📢 First seminar of the year : Tomorrow (Jan 13)
@javierpadilla.bsky.social
(CUNY) will present “When Authoritarians Embrace Democracy :The Hidden Hand of Pre-Existing Oligarchies in Brazil’s Transition” 🕐 13:00 📍Sala de Juntes
@politiquesuab.bsky.social
Join us!
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Lukas Haffert
5 months ago
This is a really interesting paper about the role of knowledge claims in rural resentment and urban-rural divides more broadly.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
cc:
@svenhegewald.bsky.social
@juliusk.bsky.social
@twanhuijsmans.bsky.social
@pauruh.bsky.social
@rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social
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‘They don't know what they're doing.’ Epistemic divides and rural consciousness in Switzerland
Established frameworks of rural resentment help explain right-wing voting behavior and anti-establishment attitudes, but they struggle to account for …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016725003948
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Pedro Manuel Bellón
5 months ago
📰 Escribimos en
@agendapublica.es
sobre los efectos de la equiparación del permiso del permiso de paternidad sobre la penalización por maternidad. “La ampliación del permiso funciona especialmente bien en hogares donde ya existía una cierta igualdad previa” ⬇️⬇️⬇️
agendapublica.es/noticia/2048...
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Great work by my colleagues
@martavallve.bsky.social
and
@evaanduiza.bsky.social
about the rural-urban divide in support for green policies and the feeling of being losers of the ecological transitions
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5 months ago
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Barcelona Network of Political Science (BANPS)
5 months ago
🗓️ La XIII edició del Workshop on Empirical Poli. Sci. és aquest dijous! 📢 Quatre doctorands/es de la UB, UPF i UAB presentaran la seva recerca 📍UB, Nou edifici, Planta 4, Aula Maria Soteras Consulta el programa 👉🏻
sites.google.com/view/barcelo...
Esperem veure't a
@cpoliticaub.bsky.social
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Barcelona PhD Workshop
Who is it for?
https://sites.google.com/view/barcelonaphdworkshop
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Werner Krause
6 months ago
📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database! The data now covers - > 3.000 parties - 1.100 parliamentary elections - 402 presidential elections - 2.044 cabinets across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31). All info:
ppeg.wzb.eu
We hope that data is helpful to the community!
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Marta Fraile
6 months ago
@ipp-csic.bsky.social
. En un día como el 25N hay que contarlo: La violencia contra las mujeres se esconde en la intimidad de los hogares y se cobra víctimas cada día globalmente con un coste social abrumador: No podemos ignorarlo ni tampoco relativizarlo.
@csic.es
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Barcelona Network of Political Science (BANPS)
6 months ago
🗓️ New JCPOP date: 10 December 2025 (IBEI/UPF) If it doesn’t rain too much, the next Catalonia Political Behaviour and Public Opinion Workshop will take place on the 10th. ▶️ You can already mark it in your calendar!
@ibei.org
@politiquesupf.bsky.social
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Twan Huijsmans
6 months ago
New publication!📢
@jvanslageren.bsky.social
and I study political socialization during adolescence in urban and rural areas, using data from
@adkspanel.bsky.social
Discussing politics with parents and peers is positively related to multiculturalist attitudes in cities, but not in rural places (1/3)
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Ignacio Molina
7 months ago
España ya está a la cabeza de Europa en porcentaje de estudiantes en universidades privadas. Solo le superan tres países minúsculos (Chipre, Malta y Montenegro) y dos del Este (Hungría y Polonia). A nadie parece preocuparle la transformación estructural que esta tendencia supone.
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Lukas Haffert
7 months ago
Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area,
@nilsblossey.bsky.social
,
@lstoetze.bsky.social
and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12
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Super relevant and interesting contribution by
@asanchezgarcia.es
and Iván Llamazares! The takeaway is quite clear: maybe we look too much at the rural areas while ignoring what happens in other contexts Congratulations! ✨
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7 months ago
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Sven Hegewald
8 months ago
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....
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Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised? Comparative Evidence from Nine European Countries - Sven Hegewald, Dominik Schraff, 2025
Recent studies in the United States and Europe have documented a growing divergence in voting behaviour and political attitudes between cities and the countrysi...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00104140251369317
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