State repression can convert latent criticism into tacit acceptance, showing how people can sometimes "turn a blind eye" to protester violence journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Experiencing an economic recession in early life reduces the ‘willingness to pay’ for environmental protection and weakens other pro-environmental attitudes, with effects being less pronounced when the recession occurs before or after the ages 18 to 25 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Confrontational protest does not directly reduce support for the policy goals advocated by the respective protesters, at least in the short run. These null effects are consistent across political orientations link.springer.com/article/10.1...

✈️En route to to the 1st @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast! #EPSS2026! I’ll be presenting joint work with @pisorribas.bsky.social & @mguinjoan.bsky.social on the (negative) effect of door-to-door waste management schemes on voting for mayors epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ See you in a bit!

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨 The 8th BANPS–JCPOP Annual Meeting 2026 is now accepting submissions! 🎉 📝 Submit your abstract 👉 tuit.cat/690ps @bcnpolisci.bsky.social ⏳ Deadline: 3 July 2026 📅 19 November 2026 📍 UOC

📊 I'll be teaching an Introduction to R course at the @recsm.bsky.social Summer Methods School. 🎓 A few spots are still available 👇 www.upf.edu/web/survey/r... @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Now @tonirodon.bsky.social presents our work with @cubel.bsky.social and @pauvallprat.bsky.social on the Tragic Week in Barcelona in 1909. #SPEIN

🗞️Happy to attend the I SPEIN conference. 👉 www.tonirodon.cat/spein-confer... I will be presenting "Igniting the Ballots: Political Violence and Its Impact. Lessons from the Tragic Week of 1909 in Catalonia", co-authored with @pauvallprat.bsky.social @sanpages.eurosky.social @cubel.bsky.social

Per què no puja més el preu del petroli? www.3cat.cat/3cat/per-que...

US threats of withdrawal from NATO make people significantly more willing to spend on defense, and less willing to support continued defense cooperation in NATO www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨New article🎉 ➡️ Parliamentary power in early representative assemblies: evidence from XVII century England, published at @JHPE_journal and co-authored with Tom Paskhalis www.emerald.com/jhpe/article... (1/n)

📢 XIV Barcelona PhD Workshop on Empirical PoliSci 🎉 Save the date for a day of discussion in political science by PhD researchers! Registration 👉 tuit.cat/4wFkI More info 👉 tuit.cat/25omg 📅 3 July 📍UAB @politiquesuab.bsky.social @politiquesupf.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social

Back in London after two fantastic days in Oxford at the workshop "Place-based identities and polarization". Thanks @sandraleon.bsky.social & @amuitz.bsky.social for the invitation!

Per què els votants d'esquerres toleren menys la corrupció naciodigital.cat/politica/per...

✍️Escric a l’ @ara.cat: Simular que ets un polític per acostar els joves a la democràcia www.ara.cat/129_57de79

If reaching a polling station takes more than 30 min, voters are already more likely to vote online. This effect is strong enough to offset the barriers associated with digital participation, such as low computer skills, lower education, and older age www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

While people with similar political views tend to grow closer over time, friendships between those who start out politically distant rarely shift opinions, suggesting social influence depends strongly on initial similarity in beliefs www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Opposition to climate policies in rural areas often stems from two interconnected grievances: perceptions of unfair material burdens, and misalignments between climate policies and rural identities and forms of belonging www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Because attitudes on immigration are systematically connected to education, an education-based cleavage in left-right positions emerges and has been increasing as views on immigration became more strongly connected to left-right identification journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Back to London after two days in a sunny Birmingham attending the workshop “Popular Memory and Cultures of Remembrance”. Really stimulating discussions.

🏛️Els adolescents que van al Parlament i fan una simulació experimenten un canvi en les actituds polítiques? ➡️Després d'avaluar el taller "Soc diputat/Soc diputada", la resposta és que... sí! Ahir vam presentar els resultats www.parlament.cat/web/actualit... @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social

📻Ahir vam parlar de la nova mesura que permet pagar amb Bizum a botigues i restaurants i dels patrons culturals a l'hora d'utilitzar bitllets o targetes. www.3cat.cat/3cat/desapar... #suplementcatràdio

🚨Actualització‼️ 🗳️Atles electoral de la Segona República espanyola ✍️Hem fet alguns canvis (més aviat menors). Gràcies a les desenes de comentaris que hem rebut. Els repassem (1/n) www.tonirodon.cat/second-repub... @pauvallprat.bsky.social @diegomartin-916.bsky.social @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Join us and cover the essentials of quantitative social research. Our Summer Methods School covers R, regression, factor & cluster analysis, and AI methods with @tonirodon.bsky.social, @buraksonmez.bsky.social, Daniele Toninelli & Marco Steenbergen. Online & on-site at @upf.edu

Democracies exposed to more frequent climate shocks are more likely to experience declines in democratic governance than otherwise similar democracies facing fewer shocks academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

⏰ Recordatori! Avui enviem una nova newsletter de BANPS 🎉 👉 Subscriu-t’hi aquí: tuit.cat/mVnFa @politiquesupf.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @politiquesuab.bsky.social @ibei.org

Leftwing citizens holding left-authoritarian-nativist, left-libertarian-nativist, and left-authoritarian-cosmopolitan attitudes have distinct and predictable partisan leanings. This complicates party entry into the left-authoritarian quadrant journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New doctor in town! L’enhorabona @emanuelemurgolo.bsky.social Orgull!🍾🎁 @politiquesupf.bsky.social @bcnpolisci.bsky.social His thesis: “Policing Race and Queerness in the U.S.: Discrimination and Prospects for Reform”

Populist governments (both left- and right-wing) avoid taking steps to restore legal rights to trade unions, while the laws they adopt in the corporate sphere have the effect of protecting pro-populist business elites academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

IN NEW ISSUE: Short-term rentals can disrupt urban life & influence the ballot box - @tonirodon.bsky.social, Raya & Llaneza link high Airbnb density in Barcelona to increased support for parties targeting home-sharing regulation: buff.ly/mB6zhbp @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsci #polsky

For first-generation immigrants, origin-country norms are sticky and slow to fade; for the second generation, local institutions and social environments dominate doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

⚠️ We are hiring a research assistant for the VEARLYDEM project. ➡️ The project studies political behaviour during the Spanish Second Republic (1931–1939). 🗓️ Deadline: May 26 www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...

#R is one of the most widely used tools for #QuantitativeResearch. Introduction to R, taught by @tonirodon.bsky.social at the 2026 RECSM Summer Methods School, covers data handling, visualization, and analysis, with no prerequisites. On-site & online at @upf.edu 🔗 www.upf.edu/web/survey/r...

Can polling literacy inoculate citizens against misinformation and bad polls? New research shows that short educational interventions, especially "inoculation" strategies, can boost people's ability to critically evaluate public opinion evidence academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

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/...

🎉 Our May 2026 BANPS Newsletter is cooking! 🧑‍🍳🍳 📢 We have big announcements! 👀 You don't want to miss it! 👉 Subscribe tuit.cat/v20FM

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