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Just over 2 weeks to go until the deadline for #EPOP2026 abstract submissions.
We are pleased to announce that there'll be limited:
- fee waivers for PhD/ECR (within 3 years of PhD) members
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The Royal Liver Building, Liverpool
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...
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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.
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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 🧵
Amazing- so glad you enjoyed it!
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.
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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.👇🏾
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10 Things to Know About Pilot Studies buff.ly/wBH0Gtw #EGAPMethodsGuide
I just think if they wouldn't exist, Polanski would need to create them. Too incompetent to pose any electoral threat to his left, but a great vehicle for keeping everyone they might not be overly keen on having in the Green Party occupied forever and three days.
🚨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...
Good result: www.vg-kandel.de/vg_kandel/Ve...
Still waiting on the count..
a good education for many kids, and relative prosperity for many.
Of course, we all saw this coming. You can’t buck a national trend at regional level forever. But I would lie if there wasn’t a bit of sadness in this, too. Social democratic government has had its issues in RLP, including clientelism and some bad policy decisions, but it has also delivered…
I met many of the old guard when I was a child... the state MPs, Beck. Election night after election night somehow the social democrats here bucked the national trend, coming back to win unwinnable elections…until it stopped today.
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.
Overall, the result is probably just in line with what you‘d expect from federal polls though and BW was an outlier.
So it’s either programmatic as you say, or the prospect of a CDU government wasn’t mobilizing enough, or the SPD party brand is so bad at this point that even regionally popular leaders can‘t succeed.
Might also be that 8% is the Green‘s core vote in RLP, given that this might have been squeezed previously by multiple close elections. But a bit of a pattern also in the UK that the Labour vote is easier to squeeze than the Green vote, but Schweizer was to the left of Özdemir.
Not quite a mirror image of the SPD in BW
Based on exists, the Greens are predicted to do about as well as you’d expect them to do on their current national polling in RLP..
