🚨 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

🚨 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