📣 Open Call: Virtual Mobility – EUPopLink (CA23102) EUPopLink invites applications for Virtual Mobility (VM) Grants, supporting online collaborative activities that strengthen cooperation among partners and advance the implementation of the EUPopLink questionnaire across participating countries.

Do parties & voters agree on EU exit referendums? @acgoldberg.bsky.social & @alessandronai.bsky.social examine 10 countries, showing parties are more opposed than voters, with gaps narrowing as issue salience rises. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/eUxRCV1 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #EuropeanPolitics

Brexit put EU exit referendums on the agenda—but do parties and citizens agree on whether to hold one? In a new paper w @alessandronai.bsky.social in @polstudies.bsky.social, we find a clear party–voter gap and stronger polarization among citizens than parties #EUsky #Polisky doi.org/10.1177/0032...

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - The role of procedural fairness in EU legitimacy: Lessons from the Spitzenkandidaten process - https://cup.org/4s1LyaC - @pmeiners.bsky.social, @acgoldberg.bsky.social & @pieterdewilde.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

🆕 Playing fair and the key to EU legitimacy 😇 @pmeiners.bsky.social, @acgoldberg.bsky.social & @pieterdewilde.bsky.social use survey data to see how Europeans reacted when the #Spitzenkandidaten process was ignored in 2019, and how it could be salvaged to increase satisfaction

During the Easter break, our new article was published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social We examine the influence of citizen perceptions of procedural fairness in the context of the EU Spitzenkandidaten system. For more details see @pmeiners.bsky.social's summary below or here: doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Started my research visit at the University of Vienna (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) last week! I’ll be here during my sabbatical until the end of 2026. Happy to meet up to talk research, or just grab a coffee or beer ☕️🍻🙂

📢 New publication w Jonas Lefevere in @eupthejournal.bsky.social We examine how perceptions of issue competence shape vote choice in European Parliament elections, and how this depends on whether voters see the EU or the national level as responsible. #EUsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 Job Opportunity in International Relations! If you work in IR (broadly defined) and are searching for a permanent professorship, we have an opening you’ll want to see. 🗓 Deadline: 29 April 🔁 Please boost/RT! #Polisky #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📢 Job Opportunity in International Relations! If you work in IR (broadly defined) and are searching for a permanent professorship, we have an opening you’ll want to see. 🗓 Deadline: 29 April 🔁 Please boost/RT! #Polisky #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Earlier this week organized a workshop around my "The Future of EUrope" (TFoE) project (www.ntnu.edu/iss/tfoe). Grateful for all the insightful feedback, discussion and energy from the participants, among others @pieterdewilde.bsky.social @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social @romanpetroveulaw.bsky.social

Our last seminar of the year, with none other than @janabelschner.bsky.social visiting and presenting her research on attitudes towards gender inequality. Thank you for visiting us!

The 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop in Trondheim! @lchristensen.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @finseraas.bsky.social et al!

EASSH Director @gabilombardo.bsky.social moderated session on Community #ntnueuropeanconference in Brussels! Beyond Democratic Resilience in a Digital Society w/ speakers @ntnubrussels.bsky.social @acgoldberg.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu www.ntnu.edu/ntnu-europea... #knowledge4EU #ssh

Vice President of the @europarl.europa.eu Antonella Sberna with her opening adress for today's NTNU European conference @ntnubrussels.bsky.social Later on I will contribute with a presentation about democracy in the digital age based on research conducted at @ntnu-iss.bsky.social

Chaos at the Polls: How Electoral Disruptions Affect Voter Perceptions of Integrity and Democratic Satisfaction by @acgoldberg.bsky.social in The Challenges of Democratic Elections panel organized by @ecprpovb.bsky.social for 2025 ECPR General Conference.

‪Can one further improve the common (face-saving) turnout question in election surveys? Our new publication @electoralstudies.bsky.social tested this w three alternative wordings & validated turnout data. Short answer is that the current version works already pretty good! doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

PhD Candidate in Political Science/Sociology/Media & Communication Research - on energy and the green transition in Norway: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Communication/Political Psychology - on polarization and digitalization www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Our article (w @franzimarquart.bsky.social) about citizens' (in)ability to distinguish factual information from opinions was assigned to the newest issue of Communications doi.org/10.1515/comm...

✅ Voters often choose parties that share similar positions to them on certain issues. 🗳️ @acgoldberg.bsky.social and Jonas Lefevere (@ecprpovb.bsky.social) argue this behaviour is more prevalent among voters with more extreme issue positions. ➡️ bit.ly/4duf83e

🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨 Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥 @polcomm.bsky.social ➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu

🔥Exciting postdoc position in political communication @ascor.bsky.social starting 1 Sep! The postdoc will work w/ @lindabos.bsky.social, @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social & me on media-politics relations + framing effects in the aftermath of elections. Interested?😀Apply by 5 May⬇️ tinyurl.com/4wz3u5vn

*CALL FOR PAPERS* We are happy to invite proposals to the 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop at NTNU Trondheim, Norway, October 2-3. See mikaelpersson.org/workshop for more information and how to submit your proposal (deadline May 10). Please distribute to people that might be interested

📢New publication w J. Lefevere in PRX @ecpr.bsky.social In a comparative setup w 4 issues & 10 countries, we examine proximity voting w a focus on the moderating role & interplay of party polarization and voter extremity. TLDR: Both aspects matter, but not their interplay. doi.org/10.1080/2474...

New publication in European Union Politics! Sina Özdemir, @pieterdewilde.bsky.social and I have examined how tweets by EU executives appeal to legitimacy beliefs – we find that they are more opinionated than we'd expected! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

⚠️ Six-year position at our department - work in lovely Vienna with a friendly team, 2 classes a term, and follow/develop your own research agenda. Feel free to ask me questions you might have. Deadline 24/01/25 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Working on our interdisciplinary competency for our Christmas party 🎉

#Polisky folks: Bocconi University is looking for AP in Environmental Politics & Policy 🌏 Offer: Great group of political scientists working at awesome social science university in a fabulous city 🙌 🚨 Deadline: 30th of November Please share 🔁 Apply 🔗 & ℹ️ : jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?type=&dep=SPS

📢🎓 PhD position in my new "The future of EUrope" project 💶 Good salary & project money for data collections, travels, etc. 📝 International supervision team 🌍 Trondheim 🇳🇴 lively student city with great nature 🗓️ DL 10.12. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Thanks for sharing and RT! polisky EUsky

With only a couple of days left until the EP2024 elections 🇪🇺, we (w E van Elsas & @claesdevreese.bsky.social) have a new article examining the impact of multidimensional EU attitudes on party choice in 2019 tldr: EU attitudes matter across all party groups Polisky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Fully funded PhD position in Political Communication @ascor.bsky.social ! Looking for a PhD candidate for a 4-year project on the communication roots of #AffectivePolarization in NL Could this be you? Deadline May 20 Plz retweet for N & diversity! tinyurl.com/3kvwby55

📢New article w C. Plescia in EPSR We examine people's perceptions of #electoralintegrity in the 2019 #EPelections 🇪🇺 & underlying ext. and int. factors (e.g. EU & populist attitudes). We also test for mediating role of beliefs on #fakenews influence. polcom polisky EUsky doi.org/10.1017/S175...

We wrote a blog post for the LSE EUROPP blog about our recent article that examines citizens' preferences for the "future of EUrope": blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2... polisky EUsky

In a new article, we show that citizens struggle to correctly identify both factual information and opinions, which may cause political misperceptions and “fake news” susceptibility. Pre-existing opinions facilitate the dismissal of facts as "mere" opinions. doi.org/10.1515/comm... polcom

🚨JOB OFFER🚨 Post Doc position in democracy studies at my chair at Kiel University. Starting date (ideally): 1 April 2024. Deadline: January 26, 2024. Job ad (in German) below. I am happy to answer questions! Don´t hesitate to get in touch. Please share! Polisky

I am very proud to announce my first journal publication. @acgoldberg.bsky.social and I examined how citizens in five EU (DE, DK, HU, NL, ES) and three European non-EU countries (CH, NO, UK) imagine the future of EUrope - the future relationships between EU countries and European non-EU countries.

Did you ever wonder what people think about the future of EUrope? Or whether they have any preferences at all? Then @lukashoffmann.bsky.social and I have you covered in our new article, in which we manually coded and analyzed open answers: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... EUsky

@peterla.bsky.social presenting his new book about party families in Western Europe in our EVPOC seminar at NTNU today. www.routledge.com/Party-Famili...

🚨Publication alert: Our study on 10 EU countries about perceptions on AI on societal processes and on the media sector is now out at IJoC: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Trying out this new environment here, I am happy to share my article on exposure to the Eurovision TV debates 🇪🇺 & its influence on voting behaviour, which was assigned to the latest issue of JEPP. Maybe some things to learn for candidates and/or TV stations. polisky polcom