The call for papers for #EPOP2026 in Liverpool (17–19 September) is now open! We welcome submissions across all areas of research on elections, public opinion and parties. Deadline: 26 April Submit your proposals here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/eve... @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026. international.au.dk/about/profil...

A rare good news story about our MPs!

There is a rare permanent job in the UK - assistant prof (lecturer) in political science with a focus on quant methods www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...

Very happy to have this null finding conditionally accepted in @bjpols.bsky.social. Check out Daniel’s 🧵👇 The project is also an attempt to find design-based answers to some of the ethical Qs raised about political audit experiments. Thoughts on ethics are here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New paper accepted at the @bjpols.bsky.social: we were in the field while Brexit dominated British politics. Do MPs respond differently when constituents disagree with the party line? What we find surprised us: a null! url: osf.io/preprints/os...

New in Nature Human Behaviour: How Deceptive Online Networks Reached Millions in the US 2020 Elections www.nature.com/articles/s41... -Reached at least 37M Facebook and 3M Instagram users -3 networks out of 49 responsible for >70% of users reached -Exposed users older, more conservative

Today at 4pm BST: @simonhix.bsky.social (EUI) presents his new work on the Méline Tariff and the Rise of Socialism in 🇫🇷 at the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar (hybrid), co-organised with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us!

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

This is an unusually interesting profile/interview: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

AJPS article from @kenbenoit.bsky.social, Scott de Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, and Jinshuai Ma on using LLMs to analyse political texts. 🧵 1/8 Social science research requires reliable extraction of information from texts to identify authors' preferences on various policies and issues.

🔺We're #hiring. We are recruiting four #research #officers who will be part of the research project “Popular Government in Global Perspective” (POPGOV) co-led by Assistant Professor @brunoleipold.com. The positions are full time for a period of four years.👇🏾 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ727/r...

10 Things to Know About Pilot Studies buff.ly/wBH0Gtw #EGAPMethodsGuide

🚨Call for papers We invite submissions for the 2nd Workshop for Scholars of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties (EPOP) based in Northern UK 🏛️ University of York, 8-9 June 2026 Theme: Inequality, Authoritarianism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

End of an era in Rhineland-Palatinate today. Since I can think, the state has been governed by social democrats. It’s the way things were. It runs in my family, too. My grandad was the social democratic mayor of the little village I grew up in.

RHEINLAND-PFALZ | 18 Uhr Prognose Landtagswahl Forschungsgruppe Wahlen/ZDF CDU: 30,5% (+2,8) SPD: 26,5% (-9,2) AfD: 20,0% (+11,7) GRÜNE: 8,5% (-0,8) LINKE: 4,5% (+2,0) FW: 3,5% (-1,9) FDP: 2,0% (-3,5) Sonstige: 4,5% (-1,2) Änderungen zum Wahlergebnis von 2021 #ltwrp #ltwrlp

Re ideal conditions for strategic voting: 1) Clear 2 horse race for state PM between centre-left and centre-right 2) one centre-left party is much larger than the other 3) the second party has no chance to govern = I expect to see a canibalisation of the Green vote in RLP today.

Today there are state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate, one of the last electoral bastions of the German Social Democratic Party (and which also happens to be my home state). The social democrats have governed here for more than 3 decades, dating back to Rudolph Scharping and Kurt Beck.

Today at 4pm GMT: Anna Clemente (@lsegovernment.bsky.social) is presenting “World War II Memories and Authoritarian Attitudes in Germany” at the Political Behaviour Seminar, organised with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social, & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us in London & online!

Looking forward to talking about how we can strengthen democracies and the role that citizens, journalists, and politicians can play in that. You can still sign up to the symposium. 👇

Today at 4pm GMT: @gaetanoinglese.bsky.social is presenting “The Political Consequences of AI‑driven Employment Threats” at the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar (hybrid), organised with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us!

Pary Baban has her first cook book out. Hers is an incredible story. From fleeing Sadam in 1988, to coming to London as a refugee, running a kiosk & starting Nandine 10 yrs ago. Her food is delicious & I always look fwd to new dishes from the ever changing menu www.waterstones.com/book/nandine...

Overhearing job interviews in the cafe I'm working at is like "although our business is incredibly AI driven, we really believe in that special human connection" ... 🤷‍♂️

Who produces hate speech? And how does that matter for content moderation? We show that across different countries and platforms, a relatively small share of users are responsible for a very large share of hate - overall, 5% write 83-100% of hateful content. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The effects of Facebook and Instagram political advertisements on the 2020 US election

This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.

EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference: PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT. More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London! Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU) No fee, travel grants might become available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026

Science communication has never been more important. In this animation, @yamilrvelez.bsky.social, Donald Green and I break down our research exploring whether AI chatbots can increase political engagement among young, politically unaligned voters. Link to animation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCuX...

YouGov has the Greens in second place for the first time

For colleagues in the London area: next week (6-7 March), we're hosting the annual LSE Behavioural Political Economy Workshop at @lsegovernment.bsky.social together with @florianfoos.bsky.social and @thchau.bsky.social. If you'd like to come, please sign up here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/uxaAx17DHq

"Extremes of the left" ... Spencer didn't sound extreme to me (and I doubt she sounded extreme to most observers). Instead of insulting her and her party, Labour would do well asking themselves, why someone as talented and interesting as Spencer isn't standing for Labour.

Great new paper in The Review of Economic Studies using randomized incentives to detect non-response bias, using administrative data to provide ground truth for comparison. While incentives increased participation, they didn't reliably reduce NR bias academic.oup.com/restud/advan...

You are interested in survey experiments or plan to do your own (first) survey experiment? I offer a class at @methodsnet.bsky.social in Vienna this summer (6 - 10 July) that might be interesting for you! 👇 methodsnet.org/course/d10-d...

Great PhD position with the amazing @dianebolet.bsky.social in her ERC project. Apply!

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...