Pretty Cluj-Napoca hosting this year’s conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Central and East European Politics

We're hiring a Post-Doc (3 years) at the @hertieschool.bsky.social for a @scripts-berlin.eu project on authoritarian influence in the video games industry (I am soooo excited about this project)! More details here (deadline 31 May): hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

📢 Postdoc opportunity at @UB-IPERG (University of Barcelona) 1-year position in Historical Political Economy. 💶 €35–40k | Start: Fall 2026 🗓️ Deadline for Expressions of Interest: June 5, 2026 All the info: 🔗 www.ub.edu/iperg/postdo...

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Come join us! #MSCA

⏰ ICYMI ⁉️ We are excited to have Charlotte Cavaillé presenting tomorrow in our joint seminar with @dec-gr.bsky.social. See the details below 👇

📣 Join us for the launch of the IPSA Companion to Political Science! IPSA’s new open-access book, IPSA Companion to Political Science: A Practical Introduction to the 200 Most Important Concepts, will be launched on 18 March 2026 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. 📍 University of Ottawa go.ipsa.org/BS3s7a

One week left to apply! We are looking to hire a research assistant on the project ‘The antiprejudice norm in times of growing immigration’ at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Short (2.5 months, mid-April to end-June) part-time (10h/week, in-person) position to provide support during (1/2)

🆕 Mainstream or normalised? 🤷‍♀️ @asheinze.bsky.social & @gefjonoff.bsky.social look at the meaning of mainstreaming and normalisation in existing literature on the #FarRight and discuss an expanded framework for future research

🌀 👣 @alinavranceanu.bsky.social & @bpetrova.bsky.social show that in Western Europe, generous #welfare systems – perhaps counterintuitively – make natives more favourably inclined toward #immigrants. 💸Indeed, cutting benefits risks exacerbating anti-immigrant sentiment 👇🏾

Don't forget to apply until the end of the week! 🚨

🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social): We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys. Short version: It mostly doesn’t. w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social URL: osf.io/preprints/os...

📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣 This does NOT happen everyday. THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n

On culinary sovereigntism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In line with the 'credibility revolution', we are thinking about research designs that allow us to get closer to causal effects. Those who use surveys have often turned to survey experiments. At the same time, survey response rates have dropped considerably. Below are the figures for the ESS.

Curriculum shapes more than skills as taking STEM in high school boosts tech careers—but also shifts politics as boys grow more conservative and girls more progressive, from Robert Ainsworth, Rajeev H. Dehejia, Andrei Munteanu, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Miguel Urquiola www.nber.org/papers/w34502

New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies. Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇

Postdoc call‼️ I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT. Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community. Application deadline: December 10th. Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9m

Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @ispp-pops.bsky.social

Yesterday I attended the Workshop on #Immigration and #Democracy at Leiden University, organised by Steven Denney. Lots of interesting discussions on civic fairness, authoritarianism, national identity, welfare chauvinism, NIMBY-ism, depopulation and immigration politics in Europe and East Asia.

Always fun to share the election ballot for international audiences

⚠️New paper fothcoming in POQ! ⚠️ With @marcjacob.bsky.social and @seanjwestwood.bsky.social, we worried about norm-violating local politicians rising to higher office. We tested when voters defect from such politicians in local, state and federal races. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵...

We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

📢📢We’re hiring - Postdoc position Political Science @uab.cat Barcelona Project PEUTRANSP 12 months, full-time, starting 2025 Advanced quantitative methods + survey / experimental design 📆 Deadline: 23/10 Details + submissions: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380176 + info [email protected]

A EU politics tenure track position at Ghent university 👇 #polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs

Japan set for first female PM after Sanae Takaichi - a hardline conservative who favours tighter restrictions on immigration - wins LDP leadership race www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Hard to think of anyone more deserving of this important award - congratulations on this well-earned recognition @ehernandez.bsky.social!

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!

🧲 We are hiring! ✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social 🏁 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English 📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to [email protected] 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2

Our article is out now in the latest issue of the EJPR. Available Open Access:👇

Our first panel starts on Tuesday, 26 August 2025, at 08:30, and our last panel starts on Friday, 29 August 2025, at 13:30. First we have In person icon Building: Explaining Populist and Radical Right Support (Law Building, Floor: 2, Room: 212)Tuesday 08:30 - 10:15 EEST (26/08/2025)

Did you know we do a Best Paper Award at each General Conference?! 🏆🚨‼️ To be considered for the 2025 POVB Best Paper Competition, you must upload your paper to the ECPR platform or email it to the chairs/discussants before your presentation. 🏆 #ecprgc25

Very grateful to the ECPR political theory jury for this wonderful news!

Bookmarked! Good to see renewed attention to the topic of ambivalence in immigration attitudes

Excited to have signed an editor contract with Oxford University Press for a volume on Voting Behaviour planned to come out in December 2027! We really hope this book will spark social science student interest in the discipline, especially at a time when democracy faces major challenges.

Big news: Imperial Borderlands is now out in paperback @universitypress.cambridge.org James Robinson (2024 Econ Nobel) calls it "pathbreaking." Empire + institutions + data science—same frontier, softer cover. www.amazon.com/Imperial-Bor...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025). If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31

🔍 Interested in poverty, stats & “invisible” populations? We're hiring a PhD researcher to re-examine how poverty is measured across Europe. Join our friendly interdisciplinary team at UAB @igopbcn.bsky.social 📍3-year funded post | Starting late 2025 📎 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/356896

Upper House elections today in Japan, with 125 seats up for grabs out of 248. After a campaign dominated by inflation, taxes and immigration, the ruling coalition (Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito) looks set to suffer losses asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Jap...

Ahead of Sunday’s Upper House elections in Japan, Sanseito’s hardline immigration rhetoric appears to be gaining salience www.reuters.com/world/japane...

Kirill Zhirkov & Robert H. Brehm find that calling immigrants “illegal” or “undocumented” doesn’t affect perceptions in experiments. However, people’s preferences for these terms do reflect their broader attitudes toward immigration policy. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The first plenary speech at IPSA 2025 - delivered by former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon - centred on current challenges to liberal democracy and the interconnectedness of today’s (global) crises

Heading to @ipsa.org in SKorea? I’ll be there representing the @ejprjournal.bsky.social editorial team. Join the Meet the Editors session on July 13th, 12:45 PM. Whether you’re curious about publishing in EJPR, about the review process, or just want to say hello, you are welcome! Info www.ipsa.org

Super important new research on the underrepresentation of rural areas in national parliaments. Check it out! 👇

The connections between IMMIGRATION and AUTHORITARIANBISM are becoming more obvious and tragic by the day. Our latest issue of Democracy & Autocracy @umichDemocracy tackles these connections head-on, from multiple comparative angles: 1/6 ii.umich.edu/emerging-dem...

On my way to EPSA 2025! Very much enjoying the train 🚆 journey from Barcelona to Madrid. What a stunning landscape!

Today, we concluded our two-day workshop on Political Behaviour and Public Opinion. Many thanks to all presenters and participants for the inspiring discussions and contributions!

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

In Portugal, anti-immigration party Chega comes first by a long stretch among Portuguese emigrants abroad.

Very much looking forward to this seminar 👇