📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Papers 🗳️ Voting Advice Applications in Times of Democratic Backsliding and Polarisation 🪑 Stefan Marschall & @mathiastromborg.bsky.social ⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/Wb0ERxg #AI #Governance #PoliticalParties #CallforPapers

🌅📙 64.3 The Personalisation of Politics 📚 @mathiastromborg.bsky.social & @mvinaes.bsky.social look at local elections in 🇩🇰 to find whether making party lists more open has little effect on how voters or politicians focus on individuals. 🔗

When I studied economics I remember wishing I could march in the streets for the cause of free trade. Now I can say that if only in that one way, Donald Trump has made a dream of mine come true. #HandsOff Frederick

We don’t need better stories. We need to be humble. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join our team! 🚨 We are hiring 2 postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University. We are looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies. Feel free to share!👇🏾 bss.au.dk/en/about-aar...

Here's a provocative new paper "Confronting the New Gatekeepers of Experimental Political Science" doi.org/10.33774/aps...

Why did Trump beat Harris? Anti-incumbency bias: People voted against the incumbent party in every part of American and every country in the world this year--for the first time in 70+ years! This global trend was a tsunami that swamped ideology, gender, race, age, etc.

Turns out, using simple language in politics helps people understand issues better and even shapes how they see politicians - but it doesn't directly sway votes. Excited to share that our study (w/ @danbischof.bsky.social) is conditionally accepted at JOP! Link: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Vi har fået de første data ind fra det store projekt med Aarhus Universitet, der skal gøre os klogere på kandidattest, der kan flytte magt og mandater, når der er valg. De foreløbige resultater tyder på, at valgtest påvirker EU-valg endnu mere end folketingsvalg. jyllands-posten.dk/politik/ECE1...

Do you think Europeans are getting increasingly fed up with their democracies? Not really! New 2024 Eurobarometer data reveals 50 years of democratic resilience. Top-3 in 2024: 🥇 Denmark 🥈 Luxembourg 🥉 Sweden Here are the numbers you usually don’t see.

Promising news for the EU electoral connection! 🗳️🇪🇺 Our study on the 2024 EP election shows that voters are engaging with information relevant to the European Parliament's actual powers.