New blogpost (in Dutch) @stukroodvlees.bsky.social about this study with @lisajanssen.bsky.social! ⬇️👇 stukroodvlees.nl/polarisatie-...

🌅📙 64.3 Is #AffectivePolarization harming democratic support? 💭 @lisajanssen.bsky.social & @turkenburgemma.bsky.social instead suggest an inverted U-shape pattern of #ModeratrePolarization & #ExtremePolarization using data from 🇩🇪🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸 🔗

Only a few days left to register to the Amsterdam Replication Games on July 19. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted. Register: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

🚨 We have two vacancies for PhD fellows: - on ideological stereotypes supervised by me and @robindevroe.bsky.social www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... - on losers' consent supervised by @annakern.bsky.social www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... Join research group @gasparugent.bsky.social in beautiful Ghent

🚀 Kicked off Day 1 of our #OpenScience Summer School at @gasparugent.bsky.social ! We explored what triggered the replication crisis & how it reshaped research across the social sciences. 🧪🔍 Thread ⬇️ #PhDlife #OpenScience #Reproducibility

What a pleasure to direct this amazing @ecpr.bsky.social Joint sessions workshop on citizens democratic commitment with Hannah Werner - thanks to all participants for the exciting papers and stimulating discussions!

What an amazing @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions edition! Many thanks to the directors @lisajanssen.bsky.social and Hanna Werner, for a wonderfully organised workshop, and to all participants for great papers followed by even greater discussions! 🍒 on top of the 🍰: all of this in beautiful Prague 🇨🇿

New paper out in @bjpols.bsky.social, co-authored with Emilien Paulis. Using survey data from 13 European democracies, we show that electoral winners are less supportive of referendums, especially when they are affectively polarized. 1/6 Paper: doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425000365

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

New publication with @lisajanssen.bsky.social in PolBeh: Political distrust pushes people away from the status quo, representative democracy. But distrusters are mostly critical citizens: Rather than technocracy or authoritarianism they pull towards direct democracy link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1/7 First paper of my dissertation now out in EJPR with @bnbakker.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social Can we measure affective polarization in systems with 6, 10, or even more parties without overburdening respondents or compromising validity? We show how. Paper: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

🚨 New open-access publication out in the European Journal of Political Research! @markuskollberg.bsky.social and I examine how coalition government performance shapes affective polarization between coalition partners—and find that it matters. 🧵 1/6 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

❗️Short notice❗️ This Friday, Joep van Lit (Radboud University) will present key insights on democratic decay and the difficulties of democratic defence in our times. Everyone's welcome - no registration required! ➡️John Vincke room, T1 (Ghent) 🕒 11:00 - 12:00

‼️ New paper out in EJPR! With @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, we use a new survey item that we fielded in surveys in five countries to examine who accepts party policy change. Check out the 🧵 by Maurits below for an overview of our findings!

Excited and grateful that FWO (Flemish Research Fund) has awarded us (me, @robindevroe.bsky.social and C. Devos) a 4year-research project grant to study ideological stereotypes on the basis of gender, age and ethnic origin of politicians 🥳

Amazing people, great discussions, and even better scenery! Really grateful to have joined this wonderful workshop at Villa Vigoni 🏞️

Here is the second starter pack on researchers working on Political Behavior. The first pack filled up quickly. If you requested to be included and don’t see your name here, please reach out again—I might have missed your message go.bsky.app/CAMXbym

Gisteren besteedde Eva Jinek een hele uitzending aan polarisatie in politiek en samenleving. Dankbaar dat ik een wetenschappelijke bijdrage mocht leveren. Oa over affectieve polarisatie en de rol van politieke elites. Aflevering hier terug te kijken eva.avrotros.nl/artikel/de-u...

Better late than never: 📢Can moderate levels of affective polarization actually be beneficial for citizens’ democratic attitudes? shorturl.at/MQ1fY In EJPR, @turkenburgemma.bsky.social and I show that the relationship between AP and democratic support is more nuanced than previously assumed

📢🚨APPLICATIONS CLOSING SOON🚨📢 Do you work on citizens' democratic commitments? Join our workshop at the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social Joint Sessions in Prague!! Deadline: November 21st ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

High and low levels of affective polarization (dislike of out-partisans) is connected to low support for democracy, but moderate amounts of it relate to high levels of democratic support, suggesting a silver lining, finds @lisajanssen.bsky.social & @turkenburgemma.bsky.social osf.io/5nhtg/

🚨 preprint alert 🚨 In this note with @turkenburgemma.bsky.social , we document a non-linear relationship between affective polarization (AP) and democratic support. These results can explain previous mixed findings and emphasize a potential silver lining of AP 👇 osf.io/5nhtg/

📢 Join us for a course on 'Causality in Quantitative Research' by Daphne van der Pas, organized by @gasparugent.bsky.social & Doctoral Schools. We will learn about various quantitative methods that attempt to uncover causal relationships (panel data, instrumental variable approaches, and more)

The NotLikeUs research project just launched its website! 🧑‍💻 notlikeus.be   This project is a collaboration of Political Science researchers from seven Belgian universities (KULeuven UAntwerpen, UCLouvain, UGhent, ULBruxelles, UNamur, VUBrussel).

Evidence that affective polarization has an inverted U-shaped relationship with support for democracy from @lisajanssen.bsky.social & @turkenburgemma.bsky.social osf.io/5nhtg/ Helps explain lack of relationship between aff pol and antidemocratic attitudes in papers assuming a monotonic relationship

Really nice to be back at the UvA for a workshop on affective polarization and democracy. I am very inspired by the great papers and an amazing keynote by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social. Thanks for organizing @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social & Eric Schliesser 🙏

The Call for Papers for my favourite political science conference #EPSA2024 is now open! EPSA, July 4-6 2024, Cologne epsanet.org/epsa2024-gen...

🚨Read my blog on how polarisation influences citizens' response to election results. I show that the democratic satisfaction of polarized voters plummets after an electoral loss 👇 theloop.ecpr.eu/losing-the-v... The blog is based on my recent article in the European Journal of Political Research

Our research group @gasparugent.bsky.social has now also found its way to bluesky polisky

For anyone looking for a postdoc, I could not recommend this position enough! A unique opportunity to study the highly relevant topic of political trust, whilst working with a brilliant, kind, and thoughtful supervisor @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social 👇 And who does not love Amsterdam? 🤩

We are very much looking forward to the talk given by @markuswagner.bsky.social on “Party leaders and partisan stereotypes” next week at Ghent University. You are welcome to join us!   ⏰ Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 10 am ➡️ Auditorium D, Technicum 2, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41