New analysis published by @electoralstudies.bsky.social focuses on gender differences in attitudes towards the #environment. Ingvild Zinober (@eui-eu.bsky.social 🇮🇹) examined data from our survey (2002-24) to establish that 'women consistently express greater concern... than men'.

4/6 🧵 In @electoralstudies.bsky.social Fonseca, @deborathome.bsky.social & @guedesneto.bsky.social use DiD with 🇧🇷 reform to answer: do party funding incentives help promote underrepresented groups? No, as parties seek to secure rewards by investing in non-competitive candidates doi.org/qzkw

We often ask who wins elections. But who decides to run? New @electoralstudies.bsky.social w/@mhayes.bsky.social: Multi-member districts ⬆️ Black candidate emergence—and political empowerment matters. We revisit assumptions about US electoral design and show who enters the pipeline—not just who wins.

New piece out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social w @ealasaid.bsky.social @havlikv.bsky.social @alenakluknavska.bsky.social TLDR: incivility from populists marginally increases support for political violence among their followers Data: 🇦🇷🇨🇿🇩🇪🇮🇹 Paper: tinyurl.com/2yhj43pm Open data: osf.io/9m7zu

🚨 New paper by Philippe Mongrain, @anamkuraishi.bsky.social, Karolin Soontjens, and Stefaan Walgrave finds that even politicians fall for wishful thinking. Their study of Belgium’s 2024 elections shows both politicians and voters overestimate their preferred party’s chances.

Very interesting new publication by Leonie Rettig and @lukasisermann.com on descriptive attributes as voting heuristics - specifically age and gender: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New study by @ingvildzinober.bsky.social on the “green gender gap” in Europe finds women are more supportive of green policies and parties than men. This gap persists even after controlling for education, occupation, and location – pointing to deeper gendered value differences.

New paper out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social. I show that - contrary to claims that personalised electoral systems are good for participation - Open Lists have no effect on turnout relative to Closed Lists; in fact, they increase rates of voter error. 🗳️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New paper by @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social & @maarja.bsky.social on women in politics. Drawing from Germany (1976–2025), they show that local party control over nominations means even mixed electoral systems struggle to get women elected, especially in rural or safe seats.

Conflict on the campaign trail? How campaign effort and electoral competitiveness shape affective polarization doi.org/10.1016/j.el... Paper in @electoralstudies.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow Justin Robinson and Ruth Dassonneville

🚨New article in @electoralstudies.bsky.social🚨 New method using open-text survey, parliament speech analysis & conjoint experiment to detect policies/issues where all of: 1) bottom-up public demand 2) elites are neglecting it 3) would motivate vote choice if party adopt it tinyurl.com/44ryyybc 🧵

New paper with Justin Robinson @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Our starting point is the observation that there is much variation in affective polarization across the UK. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have an article just out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social which shows how voters’ preferences over clientelistic candidates are shaped by their trust in political institutions. Read it here ➡️ authors.elsevier.com/c/1mQ6AxRaZr...

📢 New publication out in Electoral Studies! Do voters care about ideology in local elections? Studying the 2012 & 2018 Flemish local elections, @dieterstiers.bsky.social and I find they do. A little thread 🧵

Does party switching pay off for MPs? Not really, but... For details see our #instaparty paper w @sonagolder.bsky.social, @ibenskasr.bsky.social & @paulinasl.bsky.social just out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

‼️ New paper out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with the fantastic Valentin Pautonnier, Michael Lewis-Beck and Richard Nadeau! doi.org/10.1016/j.el... A short 🧵 on what it's about and what we find

Happy to share our new paper in Electoral Studies. We show how electoral setbacks reshape candidate lists and women’s representation, using data from Turkey’s 2015 back-to-back elections. Joint w/Elif Erbay & Konstantinos Matakos. @electoralstudies.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New article 🎉 Could you please repeat it? The effect of language, and language variety on trust in multinational settings @electoralstudies.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @politiquesupf.bsky.social With @tonirodon.bsky.social @aflorsmas.bsky.social @nufranco.bsky.social SMorales 🧵👇

🚨New article🎉 ➡️Could you please repeat it? The effect of language, and language variety on trust in multinational settings @electoralstudies.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... co-authored with @bernatpuertas.bsky.social @aflorsmas.bsky.social @nufranco.bsky.social S Morales (1/n)

1/ Does growing up poor always lead to political apathy? Very happy to share my first paper published (open access) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social, where I show that parents' influence mitigates the poverty gap in participation, while economic mobility does not. 🔗 shorturl.at/p5Bac

Really excited to share my new article published in @electoralstudies.bsky.social! 1/7

🎉🚨 Super happy to see our article “Burdens and Gains. The Association Between House Rent Increases and Voting in the City of Madrid” (w/ Marcos-Marne) now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. We examine how rising rental prices in Madrid are linked to voting. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today is the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Disability shapes people’s lives in many ways — including how they participate in elections. To mark the day, here’s a selection of our research on this important topic.

New from me in @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Across municipalities (🇲🇽), more incidents of political violence lead to more invalid voting — a form of protest. But more so in tight elections, where the protest can be more effective. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New research spotlight! 🚨 Check out this paper by Andrew Saab, which finds that candidates who narrowly lose to political allies are more likely to withdraw from future municipal races, renounce party memberships, and switch party affiliations. Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2/6 🧵In @electoralstudies.bsky.social, @fedetrastulli.bsky.social argues while left parties lost working-class votes between 2002-2020, those emphasizing cultural issues still attract working-class voters. Culture but not class explain workers’ support for the left. doi.org/qcs2

🔍How does a prime minister’s popularity affect party support in the UK? 🗳️ A new blog on @3streamsblog.bsky.social explains research from @electoralstudies.bsky.social, finding that PM approval correlates with vote intentions for the governing party across four decades. medium.com/3streams/how...

In this @electoralstudies.bsky.social piece, @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social examines the causality between education and voter-turnout, finding that education does not affect voter turnout in Swedish elections but does matter for the #Europeanelections. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Per Adman uses Swedish panel data to examine whether poor #health causes political passivity, even in a Scandinavian #welfare state. @electoralstudies.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new paper from @fedetrastulli.bsky.social published in @electoralstudies.bsky.social comes to an important conclusion: "[...] workers’ electoral support for left parties is higher when they put greater emphasis on cultural issues [...]" See here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🆕 Latest article out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨🚨🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨🚨🚨 Preaching to the converted: Misinformation and voter preferences in election campaigns, co-authored with U Daxecker, and published in the @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Is misinformation an effective campaign tool — or just noise? See 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@electoralstudies.bsky.social If you’re interested in academic studies of political polarisation we have loads of great papers at Electoral Studies. Check out this one by Joseph Phillips www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today is #WorldPostDay, marking the establishment of the Universal Postal Union—a UN agency coordinating postal policies globally. The post revolutionised communication and is an increasingly common voting method, so to mark the occasion, here are some of our recent articles on postal voting... 📫 ✉️

New research spotlight! 📢❗🚨 Check out this paper by Michael Herron & @electionsmith.bsky.social on disability and voter turnout. Drawing on Florida administrative data, they find that voters needing assistance are more likely to both abstain and have their postal ballots rejected.

New research spotlight! 🚨 Check out this recent paper by José Pedro Lopes on educational expansion, (the lack of) upward mobility, and radical left support in Europe. Available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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