🆕 Why do junior coalition parties sometimes dodge voter anger? 😤
Lasse Aaskoven & @shane-martin.bsky.social study 36 🇪🇺 & OECD countries to show how strong legislative committees help smaller parties protect their policy brand and navigate electoral costs
Wonderful to see ten like-minded universities including @universityofessex.bsky.social come together as researchplusunis.bsky.social to amplify our voice and maximise our impact across research and education - including for our postgraduate researchers @ukcge.bsky.social
Halloween began as Samhain in Ireland, when the veil between this world and the "otherworld" thinned. In Co. Roscommon, this cave 👇 called Uaimh na gCat was said to open on Samhain allowing the spirits to walk freely among the living. 👻
📷 my own
Delighted that my paper with @lukefield.ie and @shane-martin.bsky.social has been published in @psaireland.bsky.social Irish Political Studies. This article uses data from a recent survey of Dáil deputies to examine how electoral change has impacted on TDs' representative behaviour
Me, in the FT, on the problem politicians - and especially this government - have with short and long term demand of voters... www.ft.com/content/820c...
I passed my Ph.D. viva! Thank you so much for everything, Wolfgang Rüdig and @zacdgreene.bsky.social! And a big thank to my examination committee — Prof. Bob Mattes, Dr. Eftichia Teperoglou, and Dr. Gabriela Borz — for such a thoughtful, constructive, and genuinely enjoyable discussion!
A disaster on top of a catastrophe in Burma/Myanmar. Visited before the coup and damage from previous earthquakes was ubiquitous.
With Jon Slapin's impactful term as Co-Editor for the Comparative Politics book series coming to an end, the @ecpr.bsky.social is now inviting applications for a new Co-Editor
A really important role and I hope relevant colleagues will consider applying.......
IPU's Guidelines for #AI in #parliaments offer a comprehensive framework for parliaments to understand and implement artificial intelligence responsibly and effectively.
Read 📖
The role of AI in parliaments
ipu.org/ai-guidelines/role-ai-in-parliaments
Wishing everyone who celebrates a very happy Christmas 2024 (pic = Bariloche, Argentina - where our holiday adventures continue)
Did you know that a group of owls is called a “parliament of owls”? Some argue this name derives from owls being associated with wisdom. Others argue, perhaps less charitably, that it is because owls rarely meet in groups - and historically, parliaments were rare, too. 🦉
Those intra- party transfers are fascinating. Intra-party loyalty is gone. These are two parties in a de facto merger
What an exciting day to be at the WTO. Congratulations to Dr. Ngozi on her reappointment as DG!
Scatter-plot showing constituency support for assisted dying on the horizontal axis, and MPs' vote on the vertical axis. The trend line slopes gently upwards, from predicting low probability of voting 'Yes' at 50% support, to around two-thirds probability of voting 'Yes' at 80% support.
Quick analysis of today's division suggests that MPs from areas more supportive of assisted dying were more likely to vote in favour
Division list from votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...
Constituency opinion from Electoral Calculus estimates for Humanists UK humanists.uk/2024/10/16/n...
↔️ What does the polarisation of immigration in Europe mean for democracy?
🎙️ Join us FREE on Tue 3 Dec at the University of Essex or online!
💥 Gain Insights from the #ActEU project with Laura Morales
🪑 Chaired by @shane-martin.bsky.social
🤝 Partnership with @universityofessex.bsky.social
The bar chart illustrates the proportion of political legacies (nonlegacy, noncabinet legacy, and cabinet legacy) among candidates, TDs (Teachtaí Dála), government-party TDs, and cabinet ministers in Ireland from 1944 to 2016. Cabinet ministers have the highest proportion of cabinet legacies, while nonlegacy representation decreases progressively from candidates to cabinet ministers.
I guess that’s a question for @profdansmith.bsky.social and @shane-martin.bsky.social, who’ve worked extensively on dynasties in Ireland and abroad:
– onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
– journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Really relevant graph from their LSQ paper. ⤵️
Join @ecpr.bsky.social and University of Essex for the second Annual Blondel Lecture: The Polarisation of Immigration in Europe: What Does it Mean for Democracy?
ecpr.eu/Events/306
Save the Date! 🚨 Our next annual conference will take place in Barcelona on 2-4 July 2025! We will send out further details via our newsletter in due course - please message us if you have questions. 🦉
Cambridge University Press and ECPR Strapline Logo Lockup
📯 ECPR and Cambridge University Press join forces 🤝
🔓 We're taking a big step towards an open future in #PolSci research, through a NEW partnership with
Cambridge University Press
🔜 From 2026, we'll work with Cambridge to publish our journals portfolio in Open Access 👉 ecpr.eu/News/News/De...
I was delighted to be in Strasbourg earlier this week to speak with MEPs from the European People's Party Group, offering reflections on navigating the challenges affecting the core of parliamentary democracy. Thanks to François-Xavier Bellamy MEP and Group Vice Chair for the opportunity.