The myth of an EU-hating #countryside may be overstated. Research by @pmaneuvre.bsky.social, @leoazzollini.bsky.social & Anne-Marie Jeannet in @electoralstudies.bsky.social shows that #EU structural funds investment has nurtured trust in the Union across #Europe's rural areas doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Our latest @chesdata.bsky.social dataset on party positions was announced in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. They have a great dataset section.

👉Check out our new publication in @electoralstudies.bsky.social (with Toth & Chytilek)! Using eye-tracking and surveys, we test whether framing political issues in moral terms attracts more attention than presenting them with facts. Surprisingly, facts hold a slight advantage doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Why do some people keep voting throughout their lives while others drop out? And how do authoritarian elections - even uncompetitive ones- shape citizens’ habits? Ksenia Northmore-Ball and I tackle these questions in my new paper, now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

New Publication 📖 with @aikowagner.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social "Issue congruence outweighs geography: Understanding the appeal of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) in east and west Germany" Full paper (open access)👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... What did we find? 🧵

My experiment on election outcomes, partisan identity & affective polarization is now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Puzzle: From a group ID lens, outcomes could shift both perceived out-party threat & in-group status → ambivalent predictions for affective polarization.

New research alert 🚨 Check out this recent publication by @tiemanng.bsky.social on the impact of certainty, risk, and uncertainty on voters' choices. Available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el... Here’s a summary thread: 1/

‪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...

In this video, I talk about a really neat study recently published in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. I recommend reading it! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

4/6 🧵In @electoralstudies.bsky.social Brännlund &‬ @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social investigate causal effect of wealth on participation. Use twins & wealth registers in 🇸🇪. Results from twin pair FE models do not show effect on voting & effect on civic participation closer to negative doi.org/pz68

Very happy to share our new publication with João Guedes-Neto in @electoralstudies.bsky.social! In this study we analyze inter- and intra-party differences and strategic salience in US representatives' tweets on immigrants and refugees in the 2020 election campaign. 🧵 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Does prepaid postage on ballot return envelopes increase voter turnout? In our new paper in @electoralstudies.bsky.social @pierre-lue.bsky.social and I analyse all Swiss municipalities (2005 to 2023) and find that the increase in turnout lags several years behind and depends on the municipal context

🚨 New research! 🚨 Check out this recent article by @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social and Wouter van der Brug on place-based resentment and populist voting in the Netherlands. Free to read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New research alert! 🚨 Check out this recent paper by Johannes Bergh, Dag Arne Christensen and @finseraas.bsky.social on the impact of early voting on partners mobilisation. Available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Publication alert: Our paper "Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes" - with @tonirodon.bsky.social, @griambau.bsky.social, ‬ and Andreu Rodilla - is now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

New paper @electoralstudies.bsky.social With @gricoc.bsky.social and @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social we study the presence of legislators with urban and rural backgrounds in national parliaments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵

🚨 New research alert 🚨 1/2 Check out this new publication by Christoph Koenig on election forensics to identify electoral manipulation.

Check out this recent article, “Elite party disunity negatively predicts mass partisan-ideological sorting,” published @electoralstudies.bsky.social by Joshua Robison👇https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379423000811 #polisky

(1/4) Do evaluations of party leaders impact individual vote choice? Check out this @electoralstudies.bsky.social article by Oľga Gyárfášová and Roman Hlatky: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #polisky

New paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social where I look at the impact of parties’ age-targeted group appeals on age gaps in voting🧵

📣 New article 🌟 👤 Alexander Verdoes 👉 Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments 📗 Open Access in Electoral Studies @electoralstudies.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

If you like the piece below, check out our other piece in @electoralstudies.bsky.social on how wishful thinking shapes coalition expectations! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our paper "Wishful Thinking in Response to Events" is now out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! w/ @polpsychjoe.bsky.social @florianstoeckel.bsky.social @vittoriomerola.bsky.social @benlyons.bsky.social @jasonreifler.bsky.social et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New research spotlight 🚨 Check out this note by @arothers.bsky.social on how to measure affective polarization in multiparty systems. Available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New research alert! 🚨 Check out this paper by Jakoob De Haan, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Shu Yu on the impact of elections on fiscal policy across emerging market and developing economies. Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Out now (OA) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Do people in rural areas want politicians offering stronger representation to rural areas - as opposed to just their local area? Yes - based an original conjoint experiment in the UK (1/5) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵 Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin

New paper out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with Michael Lewis-Beck. We show that political economy models - based on inflation rate, government/prime minister approval, and the number of terms in office - performed well in forecasting CON vote share ahead of the 2024 GE doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

The first piece of the “dark leaders” trilogy was the @electoralstudies.bsky.social piece below on the driving role of dark leader evaluations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social w/ @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jwfurlong.bsky.social What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have a new paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social with @christopherojeda.bsky.social and Paul Weingärtner. 🎉 Using data from @ess-survey.bsky.social and @gesis-panel.bsky.social, we explore the relationship between depressive symptoms and evaluations of democracy.

🚨How does rurality affect campaigning? In a new study, Charles Pattie, Luke Temple, Kate Dommett, and I explore how rurality affects campaign activity. @electoralstudies.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gender, ethnicity, or incumbency: While they affect how many votes candidates get in open list PR, they don't necessarily determine who wins a seat. 📣 My new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social tackles this discrepancy by studying counterfactual scenarios. 👉 Full paper shorturl.at/0QRZ7

Canada's snap election is just a few weeks away and there have been some striking shifts in vote intention polls. Take a look at this 2018 article by @bittner.bsky.social examining whether leader effects might have something to do with it... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social w Patrick van Erkel & @lindabos.bsky.social What drives changes in radical partisanship over time? TLDR: #NeedforChaos and #ExpressivePartisanship drive radicalisation & slow down de-radicalisation Paper tinyurl.com/mr46r35u Data 🇳🇱 osf.io/ma6u7

Could voting for a minor party help your major party win? Hear UCR Professor Marissa Brookes describe a recent study in @electoralstudies.bsky.social by Lachance on strategic voting. Here’s a link to the study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #polisky www.youtube.com/shorts/scC33...

It's well known that politicians take more extreme positions during primaries. In @electoralstudies.bsky.social, we find this shift is much more likely when incumbents in safe seats face a well-funded primary challenger. 🧵👇 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kn5KxRaZn...

It has been a pleasure to participate and learn from the co-authors in this project, where we propose a 16-items battery for measuring rural/urban consciousness in 5 West European democracies. Happy to see this article led by @chrisclaassen.bsky.social published in @electoralstudies.bsky.social!

Can rural and urban #consciousness be measured in #Europe? New publication in @electoralstudies.bsky.social from our project on the Rural-Urban Divide in Europe #RUDE www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hear UCR Professor Jennifer Merolla describe a recently published study in @electoralstudies.bsky.social by Seljan and colleagues on the hidden downsides of Automatic Voter Registration. Here’s a link to the study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.youtube.com/shorts/fUad9... #polisky

✋A joint project to #measure #rural and #urban #consciousness in #Europe has now been published in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the talented colleagues👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ec.europa.eu

🗳️IT’S ELECTION DAY IN GERMANY! 🇩🇪 here are some articles we have published in recent years on all things German elections ⬇️

As Germany heads to the polls on Sunday, here are some articles we have published on German elections that can guide you through what to expect… 🗳️ 📊

Hear UCR Professor Marissa Brookes describe a recently published study in @electoralstudies.bsky.social on how radio can change elections. Here’s a link to the study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.youtube.com/shorts/iYkvq... #polisky

I have a new article in @electoralstudies.bsky.social 🎉 It uses conjoint experiment in the UK to test how important the culture war (statues, LGBT+ representation in pop culture, DEI, transwomen athletes, curriculum diversity, and university free speech) is to voters Link👇 & results 🧵

🚨 New report! 📊 Last week we published our 2024 annual journal summary with data on acceptance rates and average review and publication timings. Here are some highlights.

Hear UCR professor Jennifer Merolla describe a recently published study in @electoralstudies.bsky.social on the absence of youth in the U.S. Congress. Here’s a link to the study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.youtube.com/shorts/PFduY... #polisky