📢Open call for applications.

DEC welcomes expressions of interest for the 2026 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Applicants interested in developing a proposal with us are encouraged to get in touch before 15 May.

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First page of the article "Measuring issue salience for political parties using LLMs" by Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver, published online first in West European Politics. Shows the title, authors, and abstract.

Box plots showing the distribution of 'budgeted' issue salience scores across six policy dimensions (economic, social, environment, EU, decentralization, immigration), comparing expert surveys, Manifesto Project codings, and LLM-based estimates.

🎉 Online first:

LLMs estimate party positions well. How about issue salience?

@kenbenoit.bsky.social and Michael Laver show its harder: salience is inherently relative and more implicit. LLM's salience estimates are usable but track experts less closely than positions.

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Hitler's NSDAP never gained the support of more than one-third of voters in free and fair elections!

Just like far-right leaders today, Hitler came to power because of the collaboration of right-wing elites, who either wanted to "fight off the left" or thought they could play the far right.

No somos libres mientras nuestra vida dependa del capricho de un jefe, de un casero o de un mercado que te obliga a aceptar cualquier cosa para llegar a fin de mes.

La libertad exige no tener que agachar la cabeza para sobrevivir.

✍️ Junto a Daniel Raventós

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Presentació de tesi Tesi

Aquest divendres a les 11h defenso la meva tesi doctoral a la UAB: www.uab.cat/ca/escola-do...

I look grumpy but it was such a pleasure chatting to @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social about polarisation hype

In particular, we took our cue from the paper @juanroch.bsky.social @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I co-authored

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨CALL for papers AECPA 2026.

📍Granada: 9 al 11 de septiembre de 2026.

Algunos de los grupos de trabajo coordinados por miembros del DEC (🧶)

How Group Appeals Shape Group–Party Linkages in Two Political Systems | The Journal of Politics To attract voters, politicians can appeal to their interests and attitudes through policies. They can also appeal to their identities by supplying candidates that belong to their social group or by se...

Identity appeals have strong effects on choosing a candidate, even rivalling those of our policy appeals. The effects are driven by appeals that emphasize out-group conflict rather than in-group solidarity www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Ahir el CEO va publicar la tercera onada de l'enquesta longitudinal. Com a participant en la seva elaboració, he de dir que m'ha fet il·lusió veure-la sortir.

How to Measure Public Support for Political Violence Abstract. With low but rising levels of violent political threats and violent acts by civilians in the United States, researchers increasingly want to meas

After nearly a decade measuring American public support for political violence, @nathankalmoe.bsky.social and I have published a somewhat comprehensive guide to measuring these attitudes. This includes historical comparisons and responses to common critiques. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

‼️📆 Call for papers – The politics of place: geographic divides in contemporary democracies (AECPA, Granada, 9-11 Septiembre)

Con @asanchezgarcia.es @aldeleon.bsky.social @juanperezrajo.bsky.social te invitamos a que nos envíes tu propuesta antes del 31/03 👇

www.aecpa.es/es-es/the-po...

📢Next seminar: Next Tuesday (3rd March), Luca Bernardi (@lbernardi.bsky.social) from the University of Liverpool will present his work "Public Perceptions of Politicians with Mental Health Problems in the UK"

📍Sala de Juntes

🕐13:00

Join us!

Does political trust strengthen democracy? A cross-national longitudinal analysis - Marta Kołczyńska, Paul-Christian Bürkner, 2026 Political trust is widely considered essential for democracy, but empirical evidence testing this hypothesis remains limited. Drawing on research that connects ...

Political trust has a positive effect on democracy, but only in countries that have already achieved high quality of democracy journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Why does mainstream accommodation of far-right and Eurosceptic parties often electorally backfire? In my 3rd dissertation paper, just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social, I argue that voters specifically punish internally divided parties for accommodation: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
1/13 🧵

¿Aceptan igual la democracia quienes ganan y quienes pierden las elecciones? El aumento de la polarización y de opciones políticas autoritarias podría generar una brecha en el compromiso democrático entre ganadores y perdedores electorales. No obstante, datos de elecciones rec...

📝Escriben en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social @damjantomic.bsky.social @sergiferrer.bsky.social Enrique Prada y @ehernandez.bsky.social sobre su investigación publicada en @cpsjournal.bsky.social. ¿Aceptan igual la democracia los ganadores y perdedores de elecciones?
www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

Sin médico, sin escuela, sin autopista, así surge el resentimiento rural Las "opciones políticas antisistema, populistas y de derecha radical" suelen recibir "más apoyos" electorales en "entornos rurales", observa el investigador Rubén García del Horno. Tratando de buscar ...

📝Artículo de @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social en @agendapublica.es que recoge los resultados de su investigación sobre el resentimiento rural.

agendapublica.es/noticia/2068...

🏛️ IV Catalonia Workshop in Political Theory

📢 Call for Abstracts
📍 University of Girona (UdG) @univgirona.bsky.social
🗓 11 June 2026

📚 Identity, self determination, justice, crisis, solidarity, equality, freedom, protest, conflict, war...

⏳ Deadline to submit an abstract: 31 March 2026

New publication in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social!

Who perceives feminism as a threat, and why do a lot of women perceive feminism as threatening?

With @evaanduiza.bsky.social, we explore these questions in the context of Spain.

We find: ⬇️
doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢Next seminar: Next Tuesday (17th February) @rdassonneville.bsky.social (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) will present "Rural Sympathy rather than In- and Out-Group
Dynamics: How Voters Respond to Place-Based" co-authored with Richard Nadeau.

📍Sala de Juntes

🕐13:00

Join us!

Last night I could not sleep so I created a taxonomy of people who work on inequality/redistribution. For each of these groups I have names of economists but it could be too controversial. So I decided to stay with the taxonomy only. (You can fill in the names.)

🎉 Congratulations to Erick Padilla @erickpadilla.bsky.social (UB)
@cpoliticaub.bsky.social

🏆🥇Winner of the 1st Edition of the Best JCPOP Junior Paper Award for his paper "Working Alone? Working from Home and Political Participation" 📜✒️

👏🏻 Well deserved!

🚨New publication! Thrilled to finally see this paper out in @psrm.bsky.social 🎉

📊I study how gender shapes coalition preferences among politicians. Turns out mayors prefer forming governments with women-led parties, perceiving them as better communicators and more competent governors.

El científico Me-Lo I Nvent O y los números primos de las embarazadas: un matemático expone la estafa de las revistas depredadoras El español Pascual Diago ha publicado un delirante estudio para denunciar la invasión de editoriales fraudulentas en la ciencia

🧑‍🏫 "El fraude no es un accidente, sino un subproducto lógico de cómo evaluamos y comunicamos la investigación en un sistema papercentrista absurdo en el siglo XXI."

elpais.com/ciencia/2026...

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There is nothing here! Unequal access to services and rural resentment in Spain The rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behaviour has gained increasing attention in recent years. One of the key unresolved debates in this…

🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social !

It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment

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🎉 We're excited to share that "Winners’ Restraint or Affective Majoritarianism? Elections, Polarization and Political Support," co-authored with @sergiferrer.bsky.social, Enrique Prada and @ehernandez.bsky.social, is now published in CPS! You can access it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Do not miss our article published at @politicsgenderj.bsky.social Using content analysis and survey data, we show how generalist influencers in consumer markets produce anti-feminist content and how it can shape, reinforce, or shift public attitudes toward feminism

Las interrupciones en el empleo de las mujeres persisten pese a la equiparación de las bajas paternales con las maternales Solo las madres que ganan lo mismo que sus parejas se benefician de la mayor implicación de los hombres en el cuidado de los hijos

📢 Nuevo artículo en @elpais.com que recoge el artículo publicado por @petroleuse-sbd.bsky.social y @pedromaaa.bsky.social

elpais.com/economia/202...

📢 Big news: After decades at the Ohio State University, CNEP is now based @upf.edu with big changes:

👥New Principal Investigators @marianotorcal.bsky.social (UPF) and Robert Mattes (Strathclyde University)

🎯 Renewed Research Focus

🌐 New Website

📊 Methodological Innovations

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