Shaping the Bench: The Effect of Ideology and Influence on Judicial Reappointments | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

📢 New article 🌟
👥 Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen @silje-hermansen.bsky.social & Daniel Naurin @dnaurin.bsky.social (ISV)
👉 Shaping the Bench: The Effect of Ideology and Influence on Judicial Reappointments
📗 Published in The Journal of Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1086/740169

🚨 VACATURE Het Instituut Politieke Wetenschap van Uni Leiden is op zoek naar twee UD2s met expertise in één of meer van de volgende gebieden: de Europese Unie-politiek, politieke economie, milieupolitiek, beleid en/of de Nederlandse politiek.

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Unequal treatment perceptions and rural backlashes against carbon taxation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Unequal treatment perceptions and rural backlashes against carbon taxation

🆕 When carbon taxes feel unfair 💸

David Hope, @julianlimberg.bsky.social & Yves Steinebach carry out a survey in the UK to provide observational and experimental evidence to highlight the impacts of rural resentment on support for carbon taxation

Happy to see our @ejprjournal.bsky.social article on political representation on policy issues across European countries cited in this piece in @economist.com

Article link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

With fantastic co-authors: @stefaniereher.bsky.social @dtoshkov.bsky.social

📢 Are women MPs better at estimating their party voters’ preferences on women’s issues? In our new paper (with @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and @breunig.eurosky.social), we analyze whether and under which conditions women MPs assess these preferences more accurately.

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🗓️ Book a 15-minute slot and discuss your article idea with one of our editors:
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Social media users experience more political hostility in less economically equal and less democratic societies - Nature Human Behaviour Drawing on survey data from 30 countries, Bor et al. find that online political hostility is higher in more unequal and less democratic societies.

🚨 New in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Many prior accounts of social media hostility focus on algorithms. With @boralexander.bsky.social, @a-marie-sci.bsky.social & @leapradella.bsky.social, we use data from 30 countries to focus on the role of societal conditions.

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Happy to have my first paper published in @govjournal.bsky.social
In the paper, I map and analyze the pre-appointment careers of Danish ministerial advisors. Political parties are central in most advisor careers. But over time, i observe fewer journalists and more policy professionals.

Our new article on gender differences in why young people join political parties is now out, open access, in @ejprjournal.bsky.social ✨

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@duncanmcdonnell.com @profannikawerner.bsky.social @rheinisch.bsky.social Marco Valbruzzi @cwegscheider.bsky.social

Wonderful news Julia. Congrats!! 👏

The Myth That Lobbying and Campaign Giving Are the Same - ProMarket In new research, Alexander Furnas, Timothy LaPira, and Clare Brock find that most politically active organizations engage in either campaign contributions or lobbying, but rarely both.The findings hav...

Lobbying ≠ campaign contributions.
Treating them as the same isn’t just wrong—it distorts how we understand influence in American politics.

New piece w @clarebrock.bsky.social & @alexanderfurnas.com: why the overlap is smaller than most think and why that matters.
www.promarket.org/2026/03/20/t...

Find out more and nominate Stein Rokkan Prize | European Consortium for Political Research

📚 Do you know of an outstanding published work in comparative #SocialSciences research?
🌟 Nominations are now OPEN for the 2026 Stein Rokkan Prize
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Conditionally accepted at the APSR (w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social & @patrickpliu.bsky.social):

Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.

🧵 Excited to share my new book w/ @hildecoffe.bsky.social : "Different and Unequal? Gendered Political Participation in European Democracies" — with @universitypress.cambridge.org Elements in Gender and Politics (open access!)

TLDR? Women don't just participate less. They participate *differently*

📢 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!

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6/6 🧵Can MPs read “the public”? In @thejop.bsky.social, @simonotjes.bsky.social & @annerasmussen.bsky.social compare MPs' estimates of public opinion with actual opinion on policy. They find reps project their own views onto the public, while business ties have little effect. doi.org/qm5q

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Breaking:

Danish elections March 24, 2026

This is the message from PM Mette Frederiksen to the leader of Danish Parliament. To make an announcement of special nature: calling elections 🗳️

#BorgenMoment for those following 🇩🇰 politics.

Time to reassess.

At the time of the Brexit vote, I thought that (at the aggregate level) the UK would be a little poorer but a little more sovereign. It’s now clear that the UK is quite a lot poorer, and only marginally more sovereign …

The impact at the individual level is much worse, too

Hartelijk gefeliciteerd, Tom! Happy to see this - also for 'Leiden' :-)

De symfonie van onvrede - Singel Uitgeverijen Catherine de Vries groeide op op een boerderij in Overijssel die al generaties in de familie was. Eind jaren tachtig veranderde dat leven ingrijpend: dalende prijzen, Europese regels en terughoudende ...

Precies over een maand, op 12 maart verschijnt mijn boek De symfonie van onvrede: De opmars van radicaal-rechts in Europa bij Querido:

www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/querido/boek...

Dit boek gaat me aan het hart en ik kom graag een lezing geven.

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Many congrats Tom! Happy to see this! 👏👏👏

📢 The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Tom Louwerse as Professor of Political Behaviour and Research Methods at the Institute of Political Science. 🔎

Read more: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...

📣 Call for Nominations: Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award
⏳ Deadline: February 27
📧 Email nominations to:
@jmcrosson.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @garlicksauce.bsky.social @shamiragelbman.bsky.social @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social

Do you know an emerging scholar who studies political organizations and parties who you think merits an award?

If so, send us your nominations!

Are the Politically Active Better Represented? - Political Behavior Political participation is considered an important path for people to influence politics. However, whether those who participate actually see more of their preferred policies implemented remains an op...

🧵I am happy to announce a new article in Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social, “Are the Politically Active Better Represented?”, co-authored with @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, and Anders Sundell.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover? A TikTok outage more likely explains recent anomalies – there’s no evidence of larger platform changes so far.

🌐 📲 With international collaborators, the Observatory’s director @andreucasas.bsky.social revisited recent “TikTok censorship” claims after the TikTok USDS takeover

➡️ Detailed information about the analysis available: goodauthority.org/news/was-the...

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🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs"
We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large
Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment - Volume 65 Issue 1

65.1 🦋

Who runs for political office and who doesn’t? 🤷

These authors 🧵👇️ show how personality traits, especially honesty and humility, shape citizens’ political ambition, answering why recruitment matters in cross-national study ✍️

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Anticipating nightmare issues: explaining the timing of negative agenda-setting by interest groups This paper investigates the timing of interest groups’ negative agenda-setting efforts. Some organizations lobby proactively to prevent their ‘nightmare’ issues from reaching the formal policy agen...

⏱️ @frederikstevens.bsky.social examines when interest groups mobilise to keep “nightmare” issues off the EU agenda.

⏳ Survey data on 485 EU-level groups shows negative agenda-setting is about timing, not just mobilisation 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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