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!

Autocracies using educational indoctrination have weaker pro-democracy movements and fewer anti-system uprisings, while it fosters mobilization that supports and stabilizes authoritarian regimes journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Well... Apparently this is happening in three days. If you're in Barcelona and feel like hearing a bit about political behaviour, see you Friday at 11.00 am at UPF 🎉

This is tomorrow. Come along if you are around.

Adolescent residence in high-inequality areas is associated with decreased belief in the American dream upon entering adulthood www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Gent que es creu animal, l’extrema dreta i les psyops. La Setmana Tràgica d’avui a #suplementcatràdio www.3cat.cat/3cat/toni-ro...

The lower individuals place themselves in the economic hierarchy, the less likely they are to support a tax increase to finance spending on education, poverty assistance, and healthcare journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

There is no evidence that beach communities with large hotel industries imposed stronger electoral penalties on Wilson in 1916 following shark attacks than other beach or inland communities journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Across the EU, rising right-wing populism support is not driven by growing polarisation. Ideological extremism and system distrust have not increased, so polarisation has little effect on the surge www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Transformers, IA utilitat, els Sims, la distribució de Boltzmann i penalti pel Madrid. Poti poti marca de la casa de la Setmana Tràgica.👇 www.3cat.cat/3cat/moltboo...

Both politicians and citizens are strongly influenced in their electoral predictions by wishful thinking, often leading them to overestimate the likelihood of favourable outcomes for their preferred party www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨We are seeking a part-time research assistant with expertise on text analysis for our project on the Spanish Second Republic. Are you interested?👇 www.upf.edu/web/politiqu... @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Lost autonomy events, that is, sudden transformative shocks symbolizing a loss of autonomy for minorities, can be profoundly disruptive, eliciting pro-secessionist backlashes www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We have a winner! Congrats @erickpadilla.bsky.social 🥳

🌧️Som més proclimàtics quan hi ha més catàstrofes naturals? ✍️He escrit aquest article en el nou projecte de @laconversa.bsky.social theconversation.com/som-mes-proc... @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Political interest and confidence-in-knowledge increase emotional responses to politics. Fostering political interest and confidence may better promote active citizenship, albeit with potential risks if confidence is not rooted in accurate knowledge link.springer.com/article/10.1...

While media can influence the personalization of voting behavior, media use alone cannot explain the main changes in the relative importance of parties and leaders in voting decisions over the last six decades journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🎙️Avui hem parlat de premsa i política. Acomiadaments al Washington Post: "Trump va salvar el cul als grans diaris americans" www.3cat.cat/3cat/acomiad...

✍️Comparteixo el darrer article a l'@ara.cat A qui votarien els immigrants? www.ara.cat/1_560e2c

Mayors, especially those on the centre and left, prefer to form coalition governments with parties led by women. The analysis of the mechanisms suggests that women leaders are perceived as easier to communicate and more competent to govern www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @albahuidobro.bsky.social

Political trust has a positive effect on democracy, but only in countries that have already achieved high quality of democracy journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Democratic transitions in one country lead to a decrease in party polarisation over democracy in neighbouring countries journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The difference between winners and losers in their commitment to democratic norms of restraint and consent is relatively small, even in highly polarised contexts journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00104140251414013

Avui hem parlat dels pubs. www.3cat.cat/3cat/la-cult...

Governments with a large electoral margin can implement austerity and survive. Austerity increases votes for non-mainstream, often populist, parties among economically vulnerable voters because austerity magnifies rather than alleviates social risks www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Lijphart's idea that compulsory voting is a perfect antidote to the lack of electoral power of less-educated citizens, therefore, is not supported by the data www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Voters are not substantially better represented than nonvoters. However, people active in different types of nonelectoral political behavior, such as demonstrating, are better represented than the non-active link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ignorance helps avoid the psychological dissonance that awareness of vote inefficacy would create. If voters became consciously aware that their votes don’t matter, they would face both psychological discomfort and weakened participation incentives doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Avui, a La Setamana Tràgica, hem reflexionat sobre una política pública que ben aviat pot arribar a casa nostra. Prohibir les xarxes als menors de 16 anys: el model australià es pot replicar a altres països? www.3cat.cat/3cat/prohibi... #SuplementCatRàdio

When Spanish mayors are left-wing, far-right parties tend to benefit electorally. This is driven by a backlash effect: a shift in voter ideology towards the right doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Proportional representation enhances party control over individual legislators and reduces incentives for personal vote-seeking via speech-making onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...