For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....

🌍📢 Exciting news: @lucykinski.bsky.social, @wouterwolfs.bsky.social and myself have launched the ECPR Research Network on Democracy and Representation in a Transnational Space! We aim to connect scholars studying transnational politics, democracy & representation in Europe. ecpr.eu/Group/democr...

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...

New #research that included analysis of our democracy #data was recently published by Political Behavior (@springernature.com). @chankaming.bsky.social (@newcastleuni.bsky.social 🇬🇧) explored whether authoritarians’ electoral success abroad can change citizens’ satisfaction with #democracy.

Citizens’ satisfaction with democracy involves benchmarking, and one benchmark is the authoritarian’s electoral victory abroad link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢 Glad to share my new publication in @polbehavior.bsky.social 📢 In this paper, I study whether authoritarians’ electoral success abroad can change citizens’ satisfaction with democracy (SWD). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨NEW STUDY: Do Americans support a woman president? Our list experiment during the 2024 election, when @kamalaharris.com was on the ballot, reveals hidden bias, and it's more widespread than you'd expect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣Out on #FirstView 📣 In "When Does Fame Not Matter?" @maarja.bsky.social, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, Pablo Barberá, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social & @jatucker.bsky.social conduct a cross-national study on online incivility. polisky gendersky buff.ly/vkcPI2Y

🚨 Job alert! We’re looking for a 1-year Lecturer (T&S) in International Public Policy & Diplomacy to join our team for a year. 📍 1-year fixed-term 🌍 Open to applicants regardless of visa/immigration status 🗓️ Deadline: 20 August 2025 Come work with us! 👇 #AcademicJobs #PublicPolicy #IR #HigherEd

An *amazing* opportunity to work at @gesis.org as a senior researcher with the #CSES project and have a big impact in the field of voting behavior and elections!! Deadline for sending in applications is August 15! #PoliSciJobs

🎓📢 We’re hiring! Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability) 💼 Permanent position 📍 Münster, Germany 🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025 jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

The cover is here! 🎉 Thrilled to share the design for The Making of International Status—coming out soon with Oxford University Press @oxfordacademic.bsky.social Can’t wait for this to be out in the world!

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

📣 Call for Sections & Section Chairs #ECPG26 European Conference on Politics and Gender @ecprgender.bsky.social 📆 15–17 Jun 2026 @nclpolitics.bsky.social Section Chairs will refine the theme, call for contributions and select Panels & Papers ✅ Submissions from teams of 2+ More

📢 University of Warwick is hiring two Assistant Professors (apply by 17 July 2025): •International Relations (Conflict & Security): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR672/a... •International Organisations: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR770/a... #PoliSciJobs #PolScijobs

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 !

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

🚨 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. 🧵

❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗ 📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣ ⁣ wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... ⁣ #Polisky @epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

🏆 Political Studies Review has announced the winner of its 2024/5 Best Paper Prize. Read the prize-winning article here: doi.org/10.1177/1478... Browse all shortlisted papers: journals.sagepub.com/page/psw/col... #PoliSci #OpenAccess @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

The 2025 Canadian Election Study (CES) team is pleased to announce our very first hackathon. Early career scholars are welcome to apply by Sept. 5 and selected projects will get pre-release access to the 2025 CES. Full call here: c-dem.ca/wp-content/u...

Delighted that our paper "Cooperate but Divided at Heart: Analysis of an Opposition Elite Survey During Autocratization" is selected as the 2024 Political Studies Review's Best Research Article. A🧵on this research

🚨New publication! By now, we know 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 democratic institutions autocratizers undermine, yet we (w/ Gorazd Ordanoski) ask: 𝑯𝒐𝒘 do they attack them? We present three sequential repressive steps: 1️⃣ legitimization rhetoric 2️⃣ legal engineering 3️⃣ coercive control 🔓🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs! Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🗓 Deadline: 25 August 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 🔹 Associate Professor 🗓 Deadline: 8 September 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

New paper out in IJPOR! We (w Ian McAllister) use @ess-survey.bsky.social and other survey data to examine East/West differences in the use and meaning of left-right. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

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!

I had the pleasure of reading the first draft. If you are studying autocratization and transnational learning, this is an article you can't miss. Thanks @turnbulldugarte.com for the shout out of my recent article in @bjpols.bsky.social. For more, see bsky.app/profile/chan...

Less than a week left to apply to present your work in our Fall 2025 season. Don't miss this opportunity of getting feedback from the APSG community!

The Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship program. Share this post! @apsa.bsky.social, @poscresearch.bsky.social

Emphasizing that democracy itself is at risk is quite ineffective in reducing support for undemocratic behavior - experimental evidence from 10 countries now open access in @polbehavior.bsky.social AND this adds a satisfying *The End* to my dissertation. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hey folks, would anyone know if/how one can access data on littering in Switzerland with some level of detail (ideally, at the municipal level and with time gaps smaller than one year)? Thanks so much in advance for any leads! 🙏

🇪🇺🇦🇫 Published Today in CPS 🇪🇺🇦🇫 “Stand by those who share our values” – how refugees fleeing the Taliban improved European attitudes toward immigration Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os... Thread: 1/8

📢📢📢 JOBS: 4 postdocs 📢📢📢 Uni Münster has opened a call for 4! postdoc positions. I'm involved in one hiring and really hope that suitable candidates (in particular quants) apply! Why would you apply? Check out @thiloalbers.bsky.social FAQ! sites.google.com/site/tnhalbe...

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

Only a few more days to submit papers for the @psaautocracy.bsky.social Awards 👇

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨 What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description? We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers. Two main contributions... 🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

You've (probably) got mail! ✉️ Heading to #EPSA2025 in Madrid? Consider signing up to our buddy/mentor scheme that the diversity committee has set up to help first-time attendees navigate Europe's biggest political science conference Questions? Send them over to @alonadolinsky.com or me 🙂

Call for papers🚨 The @nclpolitics.bsky.social is organising a workshop aiming at connecting voting behaviour scholars based on Northern England. Theme: Democratic Resilience in Challenging Times Date: 16-17/6/2025 Deadline for submissions: 19/5/2025 kerryrichmond.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

After the Canadian election earlier this week, another win for a left-of-center incumbent in #Australia today.

🚨 We are now accepting submissions for two of our Specialist Group’s Awards 🚨 - Best Paper Award 📄 - Best PhD Paper Award 📔 Rules: anyone can nominate – self-nominations are welcome! – a paper for these awards by emailing [email protected] Deadline: 19 May 2025 Details on the rules👇

🚨Last days to apply!🎉 summerschoolwpm.org

The Call for Papers for our Fall 2025 Workshop series is now OPEN! Polisky Dictatorsky To apply complete this form by May 31st: forms.gle/SvZv98ke4QUT... You can find more information here on the CfP: apsg.work/cfp/

From February 2025 - The Spillover of the US Capitol Insurrection: Reducing Expressed Support for Domestic Far-Right Parties - cup.org/3WZu4zf - @chankaming.bsky.social "...studies the spillover of a prototype of such coup attempts - the January 6th Capitol insurrection." #OpenAccess #Jan6

🧵 THREAD: Can a short online intervention help defend democracy against partisan polarization? In our new study - just published in the @bjpols.bsky.social - my colleagues and I tested this question across 33 countries 🌍 with over 41,000 participants 🧑‍🤝‍🧑. Here’s what we found 👇

Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: @chankaming.bsky.social & Laura B Stephenson use evidence from Canada to examine this subject. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/PVO8iuP @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

❗ FREE Summer School on 'Declining democratic health: Methods for diagnosis, treatment, and recovery' with us! 🗓️ June 23-24 📍 Southampton More details: www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/news/...

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: @chankaming.bsky.social & Laura B Stephenson use evidence from Canada to examine this subject. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/4O4quGY @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com