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/...

Elite democratic defenders are effective if they are perceived to be politically impartial and perceived to have embedded knowledge doi.org/10.1080/1351...

Improving people’s feelings about opposing partisans (versus members of their own party) has no measurable effect on people’s intentions to share true news, false news, or the difference between them, known as discernment journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I l’obsessió del PIB. La Setmana Tràgica d’aquest diumenge. www.3cat.cat/3cat/leconom...

All political parties, regardless of type or ideology, engage with the non-electoral field, showing a greater tendency to express support for protests they agree with, rather than to criticise those they oppose, in their social media posts journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

It always surprises me how many PhD and master students never attend seminars. How are they supposed to learn? When I was one, I forced myself to attend at least one session a week. One of the most critical academic decisions I ever made.

Integrating this calendar has been a game-changer for staying up to date. 🫶Everything in one place! 🎓📅

The impact of wind turbine installation on incumbent regional coalitions' electoral support was mild and not statistically significant for right-wing regional coalitions, but positive and statistically significant for left-wing ones www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨New article🥳 ➡️The big ideological geographic sort? The role of ideological discrimination, social capital and social whispers in deciding where to live, at JEPOP with @sofiabrei.bsky.social & @griambau.bsky.social (1/n) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Això és greu. La comunitat politològica catalana estava orgullosa d'un CEO que s'adheria a estàndards moderns i de transparència. Dir "les estimacions es fan sense codi" crea la idea que la cuina (pública) és ciència infusa i no un procediment reproduïble i auditable (1/2) elmon.cat/politica/opa...

Informing people that the superrich pay lower total tax rates than other people not only increases support for raising taxes on the rich but also lowers support for taxing the middle class www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Un clàssic de la Setmana Tràgica: els pronòstics pel 2026! www.3cat.cat/3cat/els-vat...

📊Do you want to learn R?🧑‍💻 Join our R course at @recsm.bsky.social and build practical skills in data analysis & visualisation 📈 @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Wealthier voters respond more strongly to their perceptions of the economy. Lower-income voters may assign less weight to their more negative economic evaluations, possibly due to political alienation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Populists and socialists are more likely than other politicians to come from lower-class families, and social democrats to have less educated parents. Yet both groups are just as likely to have highly educated and higher class friends and partners journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🎙️Avui hem parlat dels escenaris que es poden obrir a Venezuela a partir d’ara. La clau de l'atac de Trump a Veneçuela: què és la doctrina Monroe i el corol·lari Roosevelt? www.3cat.cat/3cat/la-clau...

✍️El meu primer article del 2026 a l’ @ara.cat Passin i llegeixin. La dada que fa pensar que Sánchez podrà arribar al final de la legislatura www.ara.cat/129_558c92

Des de Molló estant, bona entrada d’any a tothom!

🚨New article🥳 ➡️ The Limits of Alarm: How Climate Scenarios Fail to Increase Willingness to Act and Pay for Climate Change Policies, published at @psrjournal.bsky.social co-authored with @mguinjoan.bsky.social & @celiaestruch.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/n)

Últim La Setmana Tràgica de l'any. Hem parlat dels centres de dades a l'espai 🚀 Ens retrobem al #SuplementCatRàdio l'any que ve! www.3cat.cat/3cat/la-ia-e...

Diada de Santa Esteve. Mentre mengeu potser avui podeu recordar la història dels canelons a casa nostra, tal i com ens explica Vicent Marqués en la seva obra magna.

Informació de servei: a molts llocs del País Valencià l’olla (l’escudella local) porta arròs. I també hem menjat blanquets o pastissets encarats. Bon Nadal!🥂

Over the last 10 years, politicisation of climate change increased mostly in Western Europe, where climate consciousness increased more on the left, and for left-wing party voters, than on the right www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are at @cpoliticaub.bsky.social today, attending this fantastic event. What started as a pilot has reached its XIIIth edition🥂🍾

As animals move into cities, conflicts grow but so does public engagement. Many residents are willing to pay higher local taxes to manage urban boars. Trust, fairness, and lived experience shape this support onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Politicians often overestimate citizen indifference to policies, likely reflecting scepticism about whether opinions are genuine or just survey responses link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨New article🎉 ➡️Could you please repeat it? The effect of language, and language variety on trust in multinational settings @electoralstudies.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... co-authored with @bernatpuertas.bsky.social @aflorsmas.bsky.social @nufranco.bsky.social S Morales (1/n)

Content de veure el naixement del @bcnpolisci.bsky.social Una iniciativa necessària i ambiciosa. Som-hi!

This is tomorrow!

GPT-4 outputs on Catalan independence avoid negative or vitriolic language. Catalan and Spanish texts emphasise the right of Catalans to decide their future through a democratic referendum. Spanish GPT mentions Madrid's prerogative about 17% of the time www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Partisan voters can reward candidates who stick to the party line even on unpopular issues. Under uncertainty, voters infer that ideologically rigid candidates are also more likely to back the party's other, more popular positions academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

A la Setmana Tràgica avui hem parlat d'això de Netflix i Warner. www.3cat.cat/3cat/netflix...

El meu article mensual a l’ @ara.cat Espanya, el país on el sistema electoral més beneficia la dreta www.ara.cat/129_553496

“Un dels avenços més rellevants és el de Ciències Polítiques de la UPF, que passa a la 42a posició mundial, fet que la converteix en una de les àrees de la Universitat amb millor evolució aquest any” @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social www.upf.edu/web/focus/w/...

Good morning from Berlin. Starting the final workshop of the COVIDEU project, a wonderful close to an inspiring journey. Grateful to have collaborated with such brilliant colleagues @heikekluever.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social (1/2)