🧵📖 My first solo book – 'Varieties of Social Democracy in Western Europe: The Impact of External Constraints on Ideological Differences' – will be out in all formats over the next few weeks! Excited that this is finally real, as per its pretty cover & Palgrave Macmillan's website: bit.ly/4frmeqz 1/3

📢 Job opening The Cevipof is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Political Science in the field of political institutions and contemporary transformations of democracy @cevipof.bsky.social @sciencespo.bsky.social

A fun couple of weeks conferencing across Belgium and the UK! Especially so at the first-ever @epssnet.bsky.social in Belfast, which was an astounding success – adding myself to the long list of well-deserved congratulations and thank-yous to the organisers 🙏👇

🧵 Looking forward to Europe travels – and some of my favourite conferences – over the next couple of weeks! 🛣️🌙 1/4

Very excited to welcome @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in our team!!🥳🤗

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🧵🆕 A long overdue update after a few intense months to start off 2026. Incredibly grateful to be able to share that I was awarded a Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social. 1/11

65.1🦋 What issues matter most to #Voters? 😬 @gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups prioritise different issues. But are issue importance and personal attitudes driven by the same factors? 🧭🗳️

How to identify party families? @fedetrastulli.bsky.social advances a novel framework that shifts analytical focus from aggregate-level ideology to the bundles of historically rooted issues that define each family's ideological distinctiveness open.substack.com/pub/ipsrbrie...

Come riconoscere le famiglie partitiche? Secondo @fedetrastulli.bsky.social è meglio guardare ai temi di cui parlano, più che a un'ideologia strutturata. Ne parliamo qui 👇 open.substack.com/pub/ipsrdisc...

@gefjonoff.bsky.social & my "Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation" EJPR piece – now out in (a 2026) issue :-) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to start 2026 – the year of getting back into the political science job market – by sharing my new webpage! Hope this provides a helpful overview of my work & another way to get/stay in touch. federicotrastulli.github.io

Amazing to (belatedly) see our research on left governmental power and the reduction of inequalities being picked up by @elespectador.com, Colombia's oldest newspaper! 🇨🇴 Thanks to Tomás Molina for the coverage :) www.elespectador.com/opinion/colu...

Happy to share latest piece on Politics and Governance. @andreacapati.bsky.social & I argue that how social democrats (here, 🇮🇹 PD) react to large-scale crises in terms of positions on EU integration depends on the different policy implications of these crises. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

The Voting and Democracy Research Group welcomes Professor Rune Stubager (Aarhus University) for a keynote presentation. 🗓️ Friday 23 January 2026, 11h00 📍 Aula Emma Vorlat (campus Faculty of Social Sciences KU Leuven) ℹ️ Info: lnkd.in/dMvzG36U 📝 Registration (by 14 January 2026): lnkd.in/dZ3ZBSGh

What issues matter most to #Voters? 😬 @gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups care about different issues--and that what people care about isn’t the same as what they think about those issues. 🧭🗳️

🆕 Great to see our work on the determinants and measurement of individual-level issue salience now out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! If you haven't, check out my fantastic co-author @gefjonoff.bsky.social's thread below 👇 bsky.app/profile/gefj...

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New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 doi.org/10.1017/S147... We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?

Deadline for application to @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 conference is this Friday 7th of November. There's been an amazing response to the call for papers so far, we hope for even more great proposals this week. Here is the call for papers: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

NEW - Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - https://cup.org/47ifc4B "we show that educational divides are diminished in the presence of countervailing networks" - @davidattewell6.bsky.social & @dpzollinger.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🆕 Latest article out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣SAVE THE DATE 📣 📆 29-30 gennaio 2026 📍Dipartimento di Scienze Umane - Università di Verona Deadline: 31 ottobre 2025 La CfP è aperta al mondo dell’accademia, dell’attivismo e delle istituzioni, con l’obiettivo di stimolare un dialogo intersettoriale. sites.dsu.univr.it/politesse/wp...

Happy to announce the publication of my first article in @plc-journal.bsky.social! 👀 Interested in reading more about sibling parties and electoral behaviour in Belgium? Check out the post below 👇 Thank you to my supervisors @marchooghe.bsky.social and @dieterstiers.bsky.social for their guidance

📣Just issued on @poppublicsphere.bsky.social our article analyzing 🔴left #parties in #government and the reduction of inequalities 📉. @fedetrastulli.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We're looking forward to putting together a *fantastic* Electoral and Voting Behaviour section for the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 meeting in Belfast! ‼️ Make sure to submit your papers by 7 November 2025!

w/ @massimoprearo.bsky.social on @qoe-ijes.bsky.social, we introduce our 2024 Italian LGBTIQ+ Electoral Survey: the first large-N evidence on the political behaviour & attitudes of Italian LGBTIQ+ citizens. We discuss data, methodological challenges & relevance here: oaj.fupress.net/index.php/qo...

On Italian Political Science Review, an issue-level approach to conceptualising 'party family'. Glad to see this fun spin-off from my PhD thesis now out OA, honoured that it features in a ‘The Legacy of Giovanni Sartori’ symposium w/ many distinguished scholars! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1/2

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

🆕📔 – New book out with @massimoprearo.bsky.social ! 🇬🇧 below 👇 Da due sondaggi originali e inediti per l'Italia – sull'opinione pubblica sui temi LGBTQIA+ e sulla politica delle persone LGBTQIA+ –, un libro scientifico e divulgativo completamente OA per ETS. www.edizioniets.com/scheda.asp?n...

📊 Una parziale accettazione dei diritti LGBTQIA+ da parte dell’opinione pubblica e un deficit di cittadinanza che colpisce in particolare le persone trans e nonbinarie e quelle che subiscono più spesso violenze e discriminazioni. Con @fedetrastulli.bsky.social www.edizioniets.com/scheda.asp?n...

Happy to start @epsanet.bsky.social week with this just accepted work on determinants/measurement of voters' issue salience, with the amazing @gefjonoff.bsky.social! Details as soon as out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social :) 👇

We started June with a Research Seminar on Economic Evaluations and Political Sophistication by Chloé De Grauwe at the Faculty of Social Sciences, KU LEUVEN Great discussion and collaborative participation!🌟

Breve interruzione di un periodo di visita produttivo a KU Leuven per partecipare con grande piacere al FeltrinelliCamp "Questione di classe: l'Italia e le sue classi sociali", oggi a Milano. Grazie alla Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli per l'invito!

📣Are you working on the politics of LGBTIQ+ equality ? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Our @genere-politica.bsky.social panel 12.10 "LGBTIQ+ Equality between Advancements and Oppositions: Policies, Actors, Arenas" welcomes quant/qual papers! Join us in Naples! 🗓️ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 25.05 Info: www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...

We're super excited to welcome @fedetrastulli.bsky.social as a visitor to the Voting & Democracy group in the spring!

Excited to join KU Leuven's Voting & Democracy Unit between April and June! I will further my ongoing agenda on identity and voting behaviour through an economic and cultural group-based cross-pressure perspective. Huge thanks to @rdassonneville.bsky.social – old & new friends in Leuven, reach out!

🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨 Our latest issue of QOE-IJES is out! Discover insightful analyses of the 2022 Italian elections, the rise of populism, economic insecurity, gender politics, and more. 🔗 Read the full issue here: oaj.fupress.net/index.php/qo...

Proud of this piece of work! With the irreplaceable @fedetrastulli.bsky.social LGBT+ political representation involves critical factors like party ideology, activism, and visibility. We interviewed several Italian LGBT+ politicians to explore how they navigate these dynamics👇 t.co/wfOVpdOrMc

🆕 with @massimoprearo.bsky.social – very happy to see my first fully qualitative article on Social Politics! We provide evidence on the determinants of inequality in the career paths of Italian LGBT+ politicians 👇 1/2 (including on full text) doi.org/10.1093/sp/j...

A Terni il voto regionale ha evidenziato delle differenze rispetto al resto dell'Umbria: qualche riflessione con Diego Ceccobelli 🤜🤛 Grazie a UmbriaOn! 🙏 www.umbriaon.it/terni-dopo-p...

Happy to start the BlueSky fun with a just-out publication! On Global Policy, we leverage Facebook data to analyse Italian parties' positional reaction after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, showing a decrease in anti-EU sentiment. W/ Andrea Capati, OA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...