🆕 Does participation build legitimacy? 🧱 Nam Kyu Kim, Yunmin Nam, Joonseok Yang & Wonbin Cho examine how participatory processes enhance citizens’ legitimacy beliefs at the local level, using a survey experiments with 2083 adults in South Korea, extending previous research

🆕 Generations at the ballot box🗳️ Wouter van der Brug & Sylvia Kritzinger of @ecprpovb.bsky.social review recent literature covering generational differences in #ElectoralBehaviour, discussing overall patterns and highlighting some pitfalls for further research 👶 👱 🧓

🆕 Left out when it matters most?🆘 @williamhatu.bsky.social, Leeann H. Youn, Rigao Liu & Haruka Nagao analyse survey data across 14 African countries to work out whether vaccine hesitancy amongst ethnic & racial minority communities stems from a lack of #Trust in their governments💉

🆕 Ruling and reigning in? 👑 @sofiamarini.bsky.social looks at whether public perceptions of the moderation of #PopulistRadical parties change when in a #GovernmentCoalition and whether this is impacted by #Partisanship, allowing for better understanding of #PartyMainstreaming 🤷

🆕 Business versus citizens 🥊 @andduer.bsky.social, @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & Gemma Mateo use survey experiments from 47 countries across the globe to view how legislators consider the preferences of business or citizen when making #TradePolicy decisions🤔

🆕 Has security gone #FarRight?🛡️ @jeyalizade.bsky.social & Raquel Rego address concerns on the rising support for the #FarRight among security forces, using European Social Survey data to assess the drivers of this support 🪧 buff.ly/SmTpryY

Are you heading to Innsbruck #JointSessions26? Let’s chat! Book some time with @exadaktylos.bsky.social —we’d love to connect with you. 📅 Just make sure you’re booking in local time!

🌀 🌀 🌀 Be sure to check out our EPSR archive at @ecprtheloop.bsky.social site! And are you working on research you’re proud of? Exploring ideas, data, or discoveries that deserve a wider audience? Why not have a look at the 'Contribute' page while you are there ✍️

🌀 😱 Fear alone doesn’t make people follow rules! Ben Seyd shows, using research co-authored with Feifei Bu, that during the COVID-19 pandemic fear and trust worked together to shape compliance with coronavirus restrictions, meaning governments can’t rely on fear alone to elicit cooperation 🦠

🌀 🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.8 @mlewandowsky.bsky.social uses his & @cerpintaxt.bsky.social research to argue that scholars should study the “invisible coalition” of illiberal sentiments that help elect anti-liberal actors, paying more attention to democratic indifference & authoritarian orientations

Please join us in welcoming Alia Middleton to the EPSR team 💜 🤲 We’re delighted to have you, @aliamiddleton.bsky.social "I look forward to contributing to a journal that continues to lead the way with impactful EDI initiatives."

🌀 🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.48 ✅ #PopulistRadicalRight parties aren’t just reshaping domestic politics — their strategies can undermine liberal democracy and the very basis for international cooperation according to Motoshi Suzuki

💐 Today's the day! Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay with our journals and blog 🎀 Enjoy a round-up of curated #OpenAccess research exploring issues of gender and the representation of women in politics 📚 Drawn from the full span of our publications portfolio linktr.ee/ecpr.collect... #IWD2026

🌍✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day ✨🌍 This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics 📚 Explore the research and join the conversation buff.ly/9wGrwYE #IWD #WomenInPolitics

🌀 🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.55 Annika Lindholm & Lauri Rapeli argue that everyday unhappiness acts as a psychological cue shaping political preferences and should be a central focus in #Populism research

🎉 Get ready to mark #InternationalWomensDay with us! 🌟 Over the coming week, we're celebrating women shaping #PolSci – and reflecting on how supporting gender parity strengthens our global research community ✨ Expect exclusive insights, data, and special research collections #IWD2026 #GiveToGain

🌀 🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.84 ✅#Populist attitudes are responsive to perceived improvements in the democratic system Marie Theuwis & Rosa Kindt argue that this makes them a useful means to assess democratic quality using EPSR research by C. R. Kaltwasser & @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social

🌀 🌀 🌀 This month, we’re sharing some love with @ecprtheloop.bsky.social by spotlighting blog posts that connect directly with EPSR research. Keep an eye out for our 🌀 posts throughout March and check out our archive too!

That is all form the latest issue of European Political Science Research! Find papers 📰 covering #MiniPublics, #Trust, #Attitudes and more #OpenAccess now!

18.1🌹 Why do interest groups team up? 🧠 Andrea Pritoni, Alberto Bitonti & Giuseppe Montalbano show that coalition-building is driven more by shared beliefs and issue importance than by lack of resources 🌍️

18.1🌹 Why do different groups see the same political parties so differently? Ingrid Mauerer & M. Socorro Puy use evidence from the Basque Country to show that social identities, especially national identity and religion, strongly shape how people perceive where parties stand. 🧩

18.1🌹 Is public opinion turning reactionary? 🤔 L.J.Brunkert, B.Puranen, A.Turska-Kawa & C.Welzel find no evidence that #Voters in Europe have become more polarized or anti-democratic in ways that explain the rise of the far right using survey data

18.1🌹 Far-right against green 🌳 @dafnoukos.bsky.social @chvrakopoulos.bsky.social & C.Arndt find that rural groups are more likely to push back against green policy as they 'lose' compared to cities, highlighting how climate issues can/are creating new social & geographic divides

18.1🌹 @cvalebeek.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social use survery data from the Netherlands to find that #Trust variability may be just as strong a predictor as #Trust levels in #VotingBehaviour 🗳️

18.1🌹 How do we feel about #Bicameralism? 🤷‍♂️ By interviewing Czech senators and ordinary Czech citizens, @sgparliaments.bsky.social's Jan Hruška addresses how differently the upper and lower chambers are actually viewed and identifies influential factors

18.1🌹 Barbara Vis, from @ecprpublicpolicy.bsky.social, & Olaf van der Veen develop an 'uncertainty grid' to map phenomena, showing its application during the #COVID-19🦠 pandemic and highlighting how it can be used to guess the behaviour of political elites 🗺️

🔓 No paywalls. No barriers. 🌐 Just world-class political science research from ECPR, freely available to anyone, anywhere. 📘 @ejprjournal.bsky.social 🟪 @epsrjournal.bsky.social 📓 @pdyearbook.bsky.social 📗 @epsjournal.bsky.social 📙 @prxjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess #PoliSky

18.1🌹 The would-be #Autocrats’ toolkit 🛠️ @jmvanlit.bsky.social & Carolien van Ham analyse incumbent-led autocratization between 1990 & 2023, producing a toolkit allowing a ore systematic study of #Autocratization

18.1🌹 Who's there?! 👀 🔍️ Rodrigo Ramis-Moyano of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social, Emma Lancha-Hernández & Sara Pasadas-del-Amo look at conjoin evidence across 5 countries to see which #MiniPublics are favoured, showing preferences for mixed deliberation and concerns about scaling up buff.ly/WJ9EDmR

For a while now 🕰️ our latest articles have been open access on Cambridge Core — so they’re easy to share with students, incorporate into teaching, or circulate among colleagues, all fully peer-reviewed and free to read 🥳

18.1 🌹 What triggers secessionist waves? 🏄️ Using synthetic control models and process tracing, @felixschulte.bsky.social, @mscanti.bsky.social & Maria Ackrén show that sudden losses of autonomy were decisive in the Faroes (1992) and Catalonia (2010)

The latest issue of European Political Science Research is out now! With work from our authors covering #MiniPublics, #Trust, #Attitudes and more! Keep an eye out 👀 for more of 18.1💡

Wondering how Open Access can be funded? 🤔 Through the @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org & ECPR partnership, EPSR authors benefit from guidance on OA funding routes, including institutional agreements 💰️ buff.ly/e11eP6L

✔ Global reach ✔ Robust publishing infrastructure ✔ Proven Open Access expertise Our partnership with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org delivers all this—and more 👀

E.Holtmaat, @nives-dolsak.bsky.social & A.Prakash investigate response in the Netherlands when helping #GlobalSouth countries adapt to climate change, with contributing factors, including support for countries with strong trading ties 🤝 & a commitment to climate neutrality 🌈

2026 marks the start of a new chapter for ECPR 💜 We went Open Access with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org in 2024 — now other ECPR journals are following in our new strategic partnership. We’ll be sharing what this means for readers, authors, and the global political science community.

Why did countries back shared EU debt during COVID-19🦠 after rejecting it in the euro crisis? @tiagomramalho.bsky.social explains how a new “solidarity coalition” formed in 2020 and what it reveals about changing ideas of responsibility in the EU.

What happens when #Trust becomes volatile? 💥 @cvalebeek.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social use survey data from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 to analyse how #VotingBehaviour is impacted by three key components of #PoliticalTrust. Find out what they are 👉 📖 buff.ly/gT7AWxe

Does #PublicMoney level the playing field or change it in unexpected ways? 💸 Fernando Casal Bértoa, William Horncastle & @sergiulipcean.bsky.social examine the impact on competition, #PartyDevelopment, representation, and corruption. The findings are far from conclusive, raising key questions.

Why do different groups see the same political parties so differently? Ingrid Mauerer & M. Socorro Puy use evidence from the Basque Country to show that social identities, especially national identity and religion, strongly shape how people perceive where parties stand. 🧩

Why do some autonomy disputes suddenly turn into secessionist explosions?💥 @felixschulte.bsky.social, @mscanti.bsky.social & Maria Ackrén show that it is not just institutions or long-term grievances, but also triggering events that signal a loss of autonomy and change everything. buff.ly/FUSwtCq

But what happens next? 🫱 🫲 @lucascoutoz.bsky.social uses a cross-case analysis of Latin American 🌎 cases to question why some governments closely follow their pre-electoral #Coalition agreements while others do not. buff.ly/A8Z1B2c

🎄 Our team is taking a short break. We’ll be back in the New Year—refreshed and ready to read more great research 🥳

Politics runs on uncertainty yet the concept is fuzzy. 🤯 A new uncertainty grid by Barbara Vis & Olaf van der Veen helps map when phenomena are certain, workably uncertain, or radically uncertain with lessons from Covid-19 🦠

When does the #Economy affect #Trust in #Democracy? 🤔 Brandon Beomseob Park & @marystegmaier.bsky.social look at 30 democracies to find that it matters most where political responsibility is clear

📉 Is democratic #Backsliding driven by reactionary voters? A long-term analysis by L.J. Brunkert, B. Puranen, A. Turska-Kawa & C. Welzel across EU countries challenges this idea, questioning whether shifts in public opinion really explain the rise of right-wing #Populism

⚖️ What makes people #Trust constitutional courts? Using Spain after the Catalonia ruling, Pablo Castillo-Ortiz & @rosanavarrete.bsky.social show that judicial independence and technocratic qualities matter more for trust than how judges are politically appointed

Do #Voters feel better represented by politicians from modest backgrounds?🗳️ Caroline Hahn finds that Germany says #Candidates with working-class roots were seen as more trustworthy, accessible, and better at representing ordinary people. 👔 buff.ly/orYUP6C

🍂 The November Issue is all wrapped up! 🎁 Thank you for reading our latest edition! If you missed us, vol 17.4 is packed with the latest #PolSci research on topics like #Autocratization, #Polarization, #Populism, and much more #OpenAccess now (and forever 😱 )

🍂 17.4 Who really shapes #NationalPolicy? 🏛️ A deep dive into 📊 from Switzerland’s 🇨🇭 26 cantons by @rfrbrghs.bsky.social shows regional #Governments can punch above their weight but only when certain conditions align ⛓️