People favour politicians from modest backgrounds and perceive them to be better representatives of citizens' interests, more accessible, and more trustworthy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

✍️Avui escric a @ara.cat : Què fan els partits després que parli Sílvia Orriols? He buidat i analitzat totes les intervencions al Parlament de Catalunya per saber com reaccionen els partits cada cop que parlen AC i VOX. Què responen? O els ignoren? www.ara.cat/129_5770b2

Molt contents de la recepció que ha tingut l’Atles electoral de la Segona República. Gràcies a tothom🎉🥰 Gràcies a tots els que ens heu enviat comentaris i dades que no teníem. Per sort, bevem de la feina fantàstica de molta gent. Gràcies! www.tonirodon.cat/second-repub...

🗺️ Electoral Atlas of the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936) Today we are publishing, in beta version and as a first phase (1936 only), the database so everyone can explore it 👇 tonirodon.cat/second-repub... (1/n)

🗺️Atles electoral de la Segona República. Quin va ser el comportament electoral en les legislatives celebrades entre el 1931 i el 1936? Publiquem, en versió beta i en primera fase, els resultats de les legislatives del 1936 👇 tonirodon.cat/second-repub... @politiquesupf.bsky.social (1/n)

🗺️Molt aviat, i en format obert, posarem a disposició de tothom els resultats electorals de la Segona República Espanyola. Primer llençament (versió beta) i el resultat d'un projecte que ha durat anys. @politiquesupf.bsky.social @pauvallprat.bsky.social @diegomartin-916.bsky.social

🎉 Admissions obertes per a la 10a edició del Postgrau d’Analista de Dades de la UB @cpoliticaub.bsky.social Aprendreu R, visualització de dades, estadística bàsica, anàlisi causal, enquestes, mapes 📈 🚨 Fins el 31 de maig Més informació 👉 tuit.cat/k9202 Formulari d'admissions 👉 tuit.cat/iRwyh

Scandals are not equally costly for all women politicians. Ideology shapes how citizens judge women seeking a political comeback: right-wing women are evaluated more leniently than left-wing women, while men face similar evaluations across party lines link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Teaching polling literacy, especially informing, engaging and motivating individuals (an inoculation strategy), helps people better distinguish between robust and poorly designed surveys academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

Els Emirats Àrabs surten de l'OPEP: com afectarà el preu del petroli? www.3cat.cat/3cat/els-emi...

Economically right-leaning individuals are more likely to overestimate their relative income position, whereas culturally right-leaning individuals are more likely to underestimate it (and vice versa for left-leaning individuals) doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

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The gender of the interviewers caused minimal bias in the measurement of gender-based discrimination and gender attitudes and that GOI effects are consistent across societies with varying levels of gender equality academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

🚀 1st Edition UPF workshop on thematic publications! 🚨 3 spots for BCN PhDs Interested? 📩 [email protected] 📅 May 11-13 🎤 Mònica Clua, Toni Rodon & Simone Schneider Info 👉🏻 tuit.cat/N3Nno @tonirodon.bsky.social @simonemschneider.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Political science students are generally more tolerant of controversial conservative speech, far more tolerant of controversial liberal speech, and no different in professed willingness to disrupt controversial speech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hem sortit a caçar i hem recol·lectat #santjordi2026

🌹A les portes de Sant Jordi, avui m'endinso a l' @ara.cat en un patró detectat en d'altres llengües. Pel que he pogut veure, també aplica a la nostra. Per què els llibres en català cada cop són més llargs? www.ara.cat/1_573125

Parties that initiated electoral reforms gained no clear electoral advantage over others, suggesting electoral engineering is less common or less effective than often assumed doi.org/10.1111/polp...

Anem tard i no anem lluny, però a casa hem xalat molt amb les @portesdetroia.bsky.social sobre La literatura científica antiga amb @jaume-diadoc.bsky.social Només hi hem trobat a faltar algun acudit d'El Senyor dels Anells, això sí www.portesdetroia.cat/2025/11/16/5...

Avui hem parlat de la reproductibilitat i de la replicabilitat. S'ha millorat molt, però encara cal fer més feina. Recerca pura i dura avui a La Setmana Tràgica de Catalunya Ràdio www.3cat.cat/3cat/ens-pod...

Black Lives Matter protests did not lead to depolicing but pushed police towards fewer, more targeted stops, reducing stops of Black civilians. Delighted to see this article from my brilliant PhD student @emanuelemurgolo.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Sneak peek of a project we have been working on for a while 👀 ⏲️More soon! @politiquesupf.bsky.social @pauvallprat.bsky.social @diegomartin-916.bsky.social

Voters punish bad performance about 2-4 times harsher than they credit good performance www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Avui hem parlat d’això i de les fleques. www.3cat.cat/3cat/la-ia-e...

🎓 XIV Workshop on Empirical Political Science 📅 Save the date! July 3rd, 2026 • 10:00–13:30 📍 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Open to PhD students in political science & related fields doing empirical research sites.google.com/view/barcelo... @politiquesuab.bsky.social

Executives who combine electoral legitimacy (plebiscitary support) with emergency powers (exceptional authority) are more likely to entrench power and overcome democratic resistance www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Better-paid local politicians reduce corruption and increase procurement efficiency primarily through selection rather than electoral incentives doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Closed list PR can shield women from voter bias and even boost their incumbency advantage. In open list PR, where voters choose candidates, women may gain less from incumbency as they are more vulnerable to gender stereotyping doi.org/10.1086/735871

People who normatively endorse greater influence by ordinary citizens simultaneously show limited willingness to exercise such influence, posing significant democratic challenges journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

✍️ Avui escric a l’ @ara.cat Catalunya: secularització general i gir conservador evangèlic juvenil www.ara.cat/1_56ee4f

Per què els votants socialistes són els que tenen menys relacions sexuals? www.3cat.cat/3cat/per-que...

Good morning from Florence! Ready to start the 17th European Graduate Network Conference www.sns.it/it/evento/17... @politiquesupf.bsky.social #EGN2026

🚨Job Alert‼️ We are seeking an Assistant Professor in Public Administration www.upf.edu/web/politiqu... @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Party cues are not as useful for voters in multi-party systems or moderately polarized systems, and that voters rely on policy information to make electoral decisions link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Democratic backsliding, including political attacks on the state bureaucracy, alongside elite polarization, significantly and negatively affect job seekers' attraction to state government work onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A La Setmana Tràgica de Catalunya Ràdio avui hem parlat de Cruyff, d'Anthropic, de Claude Code i d'un menjaclosques (pac-man) versió Roger Escapa www.3cat.cat/3cat/quin-pa... #SuplementCatRàdio

🚨New article🔥 ▶️Conditional hospitality? How applicants’ backgrounds shape host support for refugees, at @migrationjrnl.bsky.social with Raül Tormos. We examine when and why citizens support hosting refugees in Catalonia doi.org/10.1093/migr... @politiquesupf.bsky.social

When the far right enters government, it is associated with ideological moderation and thematic diversification, but these effects are short lived and largely confined to cases where the far right parties serves as a junior coalition partner journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Great to see our research featured in Science News 📰 The article discusses our findings showing little evidence that experiencing climate-related weather events changes attitudes toward climate policies www.sciencenews.org/article/clim... @mguinjoan.bsky.social @celiaestruch.bsky.social

Avui hem parlat del model de governança del Barça (tot demanant que les eleccions no acabin mai!). www.3cat.cat/3cat/esta-en...

🚆Experiències en tren que et donen idees d'articles (o idees d'articles que veus plasmats en viatges en tren?) ✍️El meu article d'avui a l'@ara.cat: El jo guanya terreny: cada cop som més individualistes www.ara.cat/politica/gua...

Exposure to conspiracy theories reduces institutional trust but does not affect political hostility. However, the effects of conspiracy theories are not consistent across narratives, emerging more clearly in the one that blames the right for the event link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Identity appeals have strong effects on choosing a candidate, even rivalling those of our policy appeals. The effects are driven by appeals that emphasize out-group conflict rather than in-group solidarity www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Avui hem parlat de l’Iran i d’entrepans de sorra. www.3cat.cat/3cat/com-ser...

Foreign influencers help authoritarian regimes: while they may not sway domestic audiences already saturated with propaganda, they can reshape the perceptions of more credulous foreign publics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Participatory budgets are more likely to continue when left-wing parties (both radical left and social democratic) enter or remain in government, compared to scenarios in which right-wing parties either remain in power or take office journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Mainstream parties can successfully accommodate far-right parties only when they are internally unified, as intra-party divisions undermine the electoral benefits of accommodation on issues such as European integration and immigration www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Avui hem parlat de l’Iran. www.3cat.cat/3cat/atac-a-...

A brilliant defence by one of the stars of the new generation of Catalan political scientists. Congratulations, Irene 🎉 😊A very happy day for a very proud supervisor. Sort i fins aviat!