Building 👏 more 👏 housing 👏 reduces 👏 housing 👏 prices 👏 Even when the new housing is more expensive, it lowers the cost of the pre-existing housing, as richer people move out of older housing into the new ones.

Political campaigns worldwide experiment with AI. But how do people see different electoral uses of AI and with what consequences? In a new study in @polcommjournal.bsky.social with @adrauc.bsky.social and @kunkakom.bsky.social, we address these questions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/

February’s JOP Article of the Month asks if campaign donors are simply affluent people who happen to give to campaigns, or if donors and the affluent differ in their policy views. #JOP #PoliticalScience #Donors #Policy #Affluence @thejop.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🤖NEW POST ON AI🤖 Perhaps you're thinking like Brenda from Bristol, 'not another one!' but... I felt that lots of writing about Claude Code doesn't really show you how it works. So I thought well, why not? And along the way some bad literary allusions. 1/n benansell.substack.com/p/the-appren...

The @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar continues today at 4pm GMT with @sirianned.bsky.social presenting “Elites as Democratic Gatekeepers”. Join us in London or on Zoom, co-organised with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social ✍️

Today at 4pm GMT: @thchau.bsky.social is presenting "More than Tolerance" at the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar, organised together with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us in London or on Zoom!

🚨📄 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...

IN NEW ISSUE: How do UK political elites reconcile with a low trust environment? @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social & Gerry Stoker examine this question in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/3E6DkuS (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #polsky

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

We’ve just released the Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ha... It’s the largest comparative study of party youth wing members ever conducted, with survey responses from over 5,000 members of 12 centre-left and centre-right youth wings in 6 countries. 🧵

Today at 4pm GMT: Elisa Wirsching (@lsegovernment.bsky.social) is presenting "The Political Consequences of Police Slowdowns" at our Political Behaviour Seminar, organised together with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us in London or on Zoom!

The latest episode, hosted by Sarina Sharma-Welsh in conversation with @miguelpereira.bsky.social, is about how politicians learn what voters want, why elite blind spots persist, and how representation can get distorted. Listen here: pod.link/1851725697/e...

The third episode features @sarahobolt.bsky.social in a discussion of political entrepreneurs such as Farage and Trump and how they are disrupting traditional party system. Listen here: pod.link/1851725697/e...

The second episode is with Dr Elisa Wirsching, discussing power struggles between politicians and public servants and explore how everyday decisions — and even elections — can be shaped by the clash between them. Listen here: pod.link/1851725697/e...

The first episode is a discussion on the effect of campaigns with @florianfoos.bsky.social. They discuss how the relationship between political elites and citizens is evolving, whether persuasion still happens, and how it might happen. Listen here: pod.link/1851725697/e...

We’re delighted to announce that the Politically In/Sane podcast is now part of POAL! Hosted by Marc Bokobza, the podcast dives into Political Behaviour, exploring how people think, feel, and act politically with insights from prominent experts. Find it here: www.poal.co.uk/events/

After a short hiatus, Respect the Marble is back: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/introducin... Introducing a new series The Long Carve: about how to decide which ideas deserves our long-term writing attention, & how we learn to keep writing when the outcome is unknown and uncertain. 🧵

⬇️ Please repost in your networks, thank you! @csmapnyu.org @jatucker.bsky.social @solmg.bsky.social @henryhenryhenry.com @benansell.bsky.social @nachristakis.bsky.social @dingdingpeng.the100.ci @claesdevreese.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @fil.bsky.social

I am chairing the Emerging Scholar Award committee for the APSA EPOVB section this year. Send in your submissions (self-nominations welcomed!) with a cv to me and the committee (@wzcmarsh.bsky.social and Holli Semetko) by March 1 for consideration! More info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

#OpenAccess from @polanalysis.bsky.social - Potential and Pitfalls of Audio as Data for Political Research: Alignment, Features, and Classification Models - https://cup.org/4t9JG1r - @r-mestre.bsky.social#OpenAccess& Matt Ryan #FirstView

PEEP is back this year🤌 ! The 4th Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference will be hosted at Harvard on Sept 2, the day before APSA. We welcome observational, experimental and formal theory work focused on Europe. Deadline: March 1st. forms.gle/V6NEy4AfnSs7...

Excited about chairing @bogatyrev.bsky.social in the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar at 4pm today. Konstantin will present his paper "Shifting Ground". Come along if you are in London, or join us on Zoom: www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...

Excited to welcome Kenneth F. Greene at the LSE Latin American Politics Seminar series today *12:00 - 1:30 pm UK time* (in-person and online). He will present parts of his new book “Against the Machine: Why Party Competition Disrupts Vote Buying” @lsegovernment.bsky.social

If someone paid you $4.75 every night you slept 7+ hours, would you sleep more? And--more importantly--would that increase in sleep change your behavior in other meaningful ways? This new paper ran an experiment to find out.

New Swingometer! The Gorton and Denton By-election: A tale of Two Manchesters open.substack.com/pub/swingome...

This is just ridiculous. There is no political space for a party that has the same positions as Reform. This space is taken. There is a space for a centre-right political party in the UK, but it’s currently vacant: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

📢 JOB ALERT! Postdoc opportunity in Political Behaviour & Political Economy (UKRI‑funded) - Please do share with anyone who might be a great fit. If you’re interested or would like to know more, please feel free to get in touch!! jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!

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We’re excited to invite researchers, postdocs, PhD students, and professors to the Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop at LSE, taking place this Friday afternoon (30th January). Full details can be found in the programme below. We would be delighted to see you there!

RLP, schon wieder? 😂

Thanks a lot for the useful comments on our paper yesterday. Really enjoyed being back and meeting everyone! Thanks, @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social for a very engaging day across Aldwych.

I get the impression that press conference in Downing Street could have been a press release. What's new? Just more of the same balancing act.

How to analyse audio, text, and video data for more than 15,000h of German parliamentary speech? For our #DFG project, we spent last year building compute infrastructure. Pushing ▶️ on the server soon. First results in summer #PoliticalScience #ComputationalSocialScience #sciencerocks #watchthisspace

🔍 Can you help? Looking for everyday examples of misinformation We’re working on an experimental project on media literacy and civic reasoning with @shoutoutuk.bsky.social and are looking for real-world examples of misinformation to use in a training intervention.

We’re organizing a workshop at Aarhus University. Please share and consider submitting! 🗓️ 13–14 April 2026 | 📝 Deadline: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 (extended abstract) — junior scholars prioritized 🎤 Keynotes: @stefwalter.bsky.social (Univ. of Zurich) & @hhuang.bsky.social (Ohio State)

Interested in the intersection between policymaking, especially in the UK, and academic research? Come work with us! The @mileendinstitute.bsky.social at @qmulsse.bsky.social is advertising for a new Policy Partnerships Officer. Details and application here: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

To be fair, Badenoch's move against her rival has almost Merklian qualities in its ruthlessness and execution. Maybe she will be around for a little bit longer than everyone here expected.

Under-appreciated: If this continues and all the worst Tories defect to Reform, maybe there is a small chance, we can have a smaller, but more "normal" Conservative party back? Reverse 2016-19 when many centrist Tories left/were kicked out, wouldn't be the worst thing to happen to British politics.

Think of this plan what you want, but with a majority this large, a government needs to get its central element through the Commons: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... What‘s the point of having national digital id if it’s not compulsory?

Delighted to have had the opportunity to discuss challenger parties, political entrepreneurs and populism with Marc Bokobza in the latest episode of the 📻 podcast Politically In/sane 📻 Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1pf4...

🥳 New year, new publication 📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.

Very good news that the UK and France have jointly committed to deploying ground troops to Ukraine in the event of a peace deal. In theory, that's what's needed. But isn't there a huge potential problem: France has a Presidential election in May next year ...

🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science ⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026 🙋‍♀️ Any questions, please reach out 👇

✖️Who produces most online hate speech and how effective is counterspeech? ➡️ @gloriagennaro.bsky.social et al. find that hate speech is concentrated among a few users and that counterspeech on X mostly fails to curb prolific offenders www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Our 32-country conjoint study on which societal characteristics citizens prioritize is now published at @bjpols.bsky.social w. excellent @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @aykutozturk.bsky.social

Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)

🚨 Excited to share that my job market paper is now online at @thejop.bsky.social! "When Do Citizens Resist the Use of AI Algorithms in Public Policy? Theory and Evidence" shorturl.at/hHoxw 1/6