🚨New blog post 🚨 If fewer people vote, do elections still represent what policies citizens want? I summarize research using data from 29 European democracies on whether voters and non-voters actually differ in their policy preferences and when turnout matters for representation. 1/2

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

Excited to share a new preprint with @bnbakker.bsky.social, @ylelkes.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social! doi.org/10.31234/osf... Affective polarization research focuses almost exclusively on valence, despite affect having at least two core dimensions. We show that emotional arousal matters!

🚨Publication Alert! My first first-author publication with @msaeltzer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social, which began as my bachelor's thesis. We study how party polarization shapes affective polarization—with a particularly important role of the AfD. (1/7)🧵

Who speaks🔉for Europe? 🌍 @mascakir.bsky.social finds that with low turnout, regular voters dominate but could boosting participation could reduce bias in #PolicyRepresentation?

With @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social, we are designing a survey experiment with low-income Germans 🇩🇪 Survey folks: any tips on reliable institutes, good practices, or any useful approach for harder-to-reach groups? We are really grateful for any hint or experience 🙏

We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!

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

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

Still confused about EPSA vs. EPSS? Which conference should you go to? Here is a link to clarify things: epssnet.org/uncategorize... TL;DR: "EPSA" community will be in Belfast. Same community, new organisation, bigger mission; slightly new name; and a very different foundation @epssnet.bsky.social

Proof that political scientists do leave the conference center. Granville Island, Vancouver - APSA 2025 🇨🇦🍁

Very happy to share that this paper from my PhD dissertation is now published in print. It tackles a question central to my research: How much can parties actually shape the opinions of their supporters? Results suggest their leeway might be more limited than often assumed!

The lowest point of my research career? Not impostor syndrome. Not rejection letters. Not even Reviewer 2. It’s Qualtrics hiking fees, my uni pulling the plug… and QuestionPro.

I strongly recommend this!👇🏻 Ruth is truly one of the most inspiring scholars I know and she is definitely a super supportive supervisor!

Doing important things at @epsanet.bsky.social …like locating the one veg canapé at the reception 👀 @stawi-univie.bsky.social @bseisl.bsky.social @mkaltenegger.bsky.social @alexanderdalheimer.bsky.social @marvins.bsky.social @elenaheinz.bsky.social @mascakir.bsky.social @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social

From 26 to 28 June 2025, the 15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association will take place in Madrid, Spain. Many of our colleagues will attend the conference and present their research. #EPSA2025. The presenters are: 🧵 1/3

Recs for #EPSA2025 schedule: THU, 1.10-2.50, in 0A.05: I’ll chair a panel on conceptual issues in affective polarization, feat. @luismremiro.bsky.social, @mascakir.bsky.social, Mickael Temporão, @fghjorth.bsky.social, plus present work w @katharinalawall.bsky.social + @mtsakiris.bsky.social

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

Online first: "Lipset and Rokkan meet data: the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages, 1870–1967" by Vincenco Emanuele & Bruno Marino. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of the forthcoming Special Issue "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies"

Super happy to share this new paper with @zeynsom.bsky.social and Patrick Fournier, out now in JEPOP! We study how the accuracy of citizens' perceptions of parties' issue positions depends on the importance they attach to the issue. See Zeynep's 🧵 for an overview of our findings!

A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸 doi.org/10.1086/736698

First, I need every country jury to submit a 500-word essay, APA style, citing relevant music theory to justify their votes. Second, do we have access to raw audience vote count per country? Finally, I thought I'd never ditch my flat white, but it's espresso macchiato from now on. Loyalty is earned.

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I probably relate to this quote more than I should.

Incredibly happy to share that I received funding through the FWO Odysseus program for the SOCIOVOTE project! Over the next five years, I’ll be examining how social groups think politically, and study the processes through which groups and group identities become politicized.

🚨Do echo chambers polarize? Yes! 🚨Very excited that our paper “The Polarizing Effect of Partisan Echo Chambers” w @sarahobolt.bsky.social and James Tilley has been published FirstView at APSR! Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Thread 👇1/n

Schnitzel and great company (@rdassonneville.bsky.social @zeynsom.bsky.social )—can’t go wrong! Always such a pleasure to catch up with these two amazing mentors 🍽️🍾

Le discours de Trudeau sur la réponse du Canada aux tarifs américains est peut-être tout simplement son meilleur ! 🇨🇦 🍁

🚨Neue Studie: Prekäre Arbeitsverhältnisse an Österreichs Universitäten 📊 >2.300 befragte Wissenschafter:innen 🏛️ 22 Universitäten 📖 Zusammenfassung & Link zur Studie: www.nuwiss.at/nuwiss-studi... 📰 Bericht in Profil: www.profil.at/oesterreich/... 🔽 Langer Thread #ichbinhanna @nuwiss.bsky.social

🚨 Does elite ideological polarization lead to mass ideological polarization? My latest article in European Journal of Political Research provides **limited** evidence that it is the case. Let's break it down. 🧵

Time to share some big professional news! After 9 amazing years at @umontreal.ca, I am moving back home. From January onwards, I am taking up a professorship at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social. I am excited and looking forward to the new challenge. But I’m also sad to leave an amazing department.

Check out this great presentation by Bocconi PhD @bogatyrev.bsky.social next week on the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia ⤵️

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Do sexual minorities participate more in politics? Using Canadian data, our analyses indicate that yes, sexual minorities participate more, especially in non-institutionalized forms of participation! with @jfdaoust.bsky.social, Semih Çakir and Mélyann Guévremont. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2053...

We proudly introduce manifestoberta, a multilingual xlm-roberta-large model fine-tuned on ~1,6 m. annotated statements of the Manifesto Corpus (2023a). Find it here: manifesto-project.wzb.eu/information/... and also on huggingface.co/manifesto-pr.... A thread 🧵:

Online first: "Do more inclusive parties change less? Intraparty democracy and programmatic change" by Sofia Marini doi.org/10.1080/0140... Polisky

Friends, please encourage your students to consider a pre-doctoral fellowship with me working on meta-analyses of political science experiments. I promise a good trade of money and skills in exchange for effort and time! tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...

Sometimes it's hard for me to quite spit out what this book is about -- thank you to @rickharrison.bsky.social for giving me the space to get there in this interview about RDSS. BTW, you can read for the whole thing for free at book.declaredesign.org @graemeblair.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social

Nice new study from Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg and @andyguess.com on the effect of source credibility on persuasion. Headline for me: successfully manipulating credibility doesn't seem to have downstream effects on persuasiveness doi.org/10.1017/XPS....

Excited to share on 🟦 as well: My project on Multidimensional Polarization received a 4-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation 🎉 🚨 Please help me share the ad for the PhD position on the project! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... polisky PSJMinfo

If you are PolSky/CommSky but haven't been on Twitter for a while, you might not have heard of #MEDem yet. Here is what you need to know: #MEDem is a new, evolving #ERI that will enable innovative comparative democracy research by making democracy research data more #FAIR. www.medem.eu

📢 📢 📢 OPEN DATA RELEASE 📢 📢 📢 New large-scale comparative dataset on (negative) campaigns and candidate personality worldwide NEGex 2.0 is now available: osf.io/mekwg/ Covers all nat elections worldwide (2016-2020) ✅ 142 national elections ✅ 720 candidates ✅ 457 parties Data is open & free

We are launching another round of the Zurich Talks on the Politics of Inequality TOPIQ. This edition will be on Social Mobility and Electoral Change with a Keynote by Torben Iversen (Oct 10, 5pm). Online and open for everyone! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/forschung...

Please apply for or promote this post doc with @fhollenbach.bsky.social and myself at Copenhagen Business School. 2 years. No teaching. Well paid. Comparative political economy, legislative institutions, interbranch politics. PLEASE contact one or both of us for more info if you have questions

Delighted that this article on measures of affective polarization w/ NoamGidron, Will Horne and Jim Adams is now available online in POQ 🥳 We examine the relationship between hostility towards out-parties and out-partisans across 10 countries. Our novel dataset is also available on dataverse!

Our Cambridge UP Element on Compulsory voting is now out !! In “Citizens Under Compulsory Voting” we study citizens’ attitudes about compulsory voting, their perceptions of how CV works in practice and its impact in Australia, Belgium and Brazil. Free download until 3 October!  bit.ly/48nX5bG