Panel sessions (and coffee) underway at #EPOP2025! @psaepop.bsky.social @psaecn.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Came back from my first EPOP conference @psaepop.bsky.social in Exeter. Great people, great ideas. Can‘t wait to be back ✨

„Hans Kelsen ist der, der das echte long game gespielt hat, nicht Herbert Kickl“ overcast.fm/+ABGwdsuo4xE

Wenn nach den gescheiterten #Koalitionsverhandlungen wieder von einem Kurz-Comeback gesprochen wird:

🌟 Ihre Meinung zählt! 🌟 Wie beeinflussen politische Kommunikationsstrategien die Zufriedenheit der Wähler:innen? Teilen Sie Ihre Perspektive in meiner Umfrage! 📝 Umfrage-Link: samgu.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... ⏱️ Dauer: 7-10 Minuten Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung! 🙏

Gary Langer, President of Langer Researchers, sat down with Jon Krosnick to talk about public opinion research. Watch now: youtu.be/w3NqdR0JgZ4

when survey item auto-phrasing in qualtrics goes wrong…

Are you interested in political trust but think 'actually, it's a bit more complicated than that'? You'd be right! In a draft paper, we use original data from 13 surveys across 11 countries & 52 focus groups w/ 311 participants in 8 countries, arguing that trust, mistrust, & distrust are distinct:

excited to get started in qualtrics. gonna be testing how to set up survey experiments with vignettes and stuff 👌🏼

Yesssssss. Here's my favorite text on why "organic dictionaries" are good, actually. Via @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social, @shannimcg.bsky.social & @taliastroud.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Die FPÖ beherrscht das Spiel der Narrative meisterhaft – aktuell das der 'Ausgrenzung durch VdB'. Dieses wird nun auch bereitwillig von Politiker*innen untersch. Couleur aufgegriffen um Verantwortung von sich selbst abzuweisen. Doch eines sollte mittlerweile relativ klar sein: 1/4

Judging by the license plate, probably not a meme stock investor

Ist der Bund Schuld am Ergebnis der steirischen Landtagswahl? Ein 🧵 ...

Voter: I'm tired of being kicked in the nuts Pollster: Are you in favor of or do you oppose nut kicking Voter: in Favor of Pollster: um ok Do you think it will hurt Voter: oh yeah

Optimist: The cup is ½ full. Pessimist: The cup is ½ empty. 🗳️📊 Researcher A: But is the cup representative of the population? 🗳️📊 Researcher B: I’m excluding that cup—it wasn’t drawn from a probabilistic sample. 🗳️📊 Researcher C: Let’s weight the cup to correct for over-representation of mugs.

Populist radical right parties are often said to predominantly attract poor 'losers of globalization', and to benefit from economic crisis. However, when studying populist voting patterns longitudinally it becomes clear this is a (very pervasive) myth. #Populism #TheWealthParadox

For anyone interested in replication, this is a really amazing thread. Bravo Laura and colleagues. You have set a new standard for honesty and transparency.

*hey siri, add this to my reading list*

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

Cool! The new POPPA (Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey) data are out! Very useful for those who are interested in the levels of populism of European parties. Congrats to Andrej Zaslove, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social and @robert-a-huber.bsky.social. dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Doing a course in multivariate regression analysis allows you to produce all sorts of funny submission papers... stefanhoeller.blogspot.com/2024/11/sell...