🆕 Who gets a say in genomic revolution? 🧬
@andreafelicetti.bsky.social & Federica Frazzetta compare two public engagement processes addressing new genomic techniques (NGTs) in France and the UK to propose remedies to enhance NGTs governance efforts
🆕 Religious minorities under secular pressure 🪨
Nilay Saiya & Stuti Manchanda use cross-national data from European states, 2003-2017, to argue that discriminatory #Secularism fosters a culture of hostility towards religious minority communities and increases chances of violence
🆕 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
Robert Huber discussing publishing in EJPR with an early-career scholar. Photo credit: ECPR
At the #ecprjs26, I had the pleasure of meeting early-career scholars to discuss publishing in @ejprjournal.bsky.social. One rewarding part of being an editor is learning about the incredible research taking shape. I look forward to seeing these projects develop. Photo: @ecpr.bsky.social
🆕 Putting #Populism to the test?📝
Or Dar critically examines the concept of #Populism, using a comparative analysis of Tony Blair, Emmanuel Macron, Jeremy Corbyn, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon to challenge definitions, & highlight the importance of relationships between actors and elites
🆕 Who gets blamed for industrial decline? 🏭️ 📉
Søren Frank Etzerodt proposes three mechanisms to link industrial decline to #VotingBehaviour leveraging a difference-in-difference design with national election data from 2001 to 2019 in Denmark
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@emmavandergoot.bsky.social, @lcjacobs89.bsky.social, @pbundi.bsky.social, Frederic Varone , @tonivdmeer.bsky.social, @rensvliegenthart.bsky.social, @liorsheffer.bsky.social, @jmfernandes86.bsky.social
🆕 Citizens vs politicians: The conflict gap 🙍 🥊 🧑💼
These authors 🧵 use survey experiment data among citizens and politicians in Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland to examine how different types of political conflict are perceived by the public and political elites
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🆕 Global pressures and local strikes 🌐 🪨
Melle Scholten shows that labour strikes in the OECD are generally less intense with higher representation of left-wing parties in government, offering comment on how government #Partisanship impacts strike intensity
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@dahoehmann.bsky.social, @stefaniebailer.bsky.social & @breunig.eurosky.social
🆕 Vulnerability and Voice 🔇
These authors 🧵 investigate how the gender of representatives influence their ability to estimate party voters' policy position when electorally vulnerable, using original survey data from Germany and Switzerland 👩💼
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@pieterdewilde.bsky.social, @andreavik.bsky.social, @leneaaroe.bsky.social
& @olivertreib.bsky.social
🆕 Unelected and untrusted? 🦹♂️
These authors 🧵 use a preregistered vignette experiment in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Romania to assess whether citizens satisfaction with democracy is impacted by unelected representatives voicing political demands on behalf of constituencies
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@ammassarisofia.bsky.social, @duncanmcdonnell.com, @profannikawerner.bsky.social, @rheinisch.bsky.social,
Marco Valbruzzi & @cwegscheider.bsky.social
🆕 The ties that bind young women and #PartyMembership 🪢
These author 🧵 use YOUMEM survey data to see whether young women are more attracted to political parties by family ties and social incentives then men and whether these ties will moderate the gender gap in incentives
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🆕 Playing fair and the key to EU legitimacy 😇
@pmeiners.bsky.social, @acgoldberg.bsky.social & @pieterdewilde.bsky.social use survey data to see how Europeans reacted when the #Spitzenkandidaten process was ignored in 2019, and how it could be salvaged to increase satisfaction
🆕 From school track to the ballot box 🏃➡️ 🗳️
@marcusosterman.bsky.social & Jonas Larsson Taghizadeh show how taking an academic or vocational route in upper secondary school can influence how people participate in elections using a regression discontinuity design
Slots are booking up fast! ⏱️
Book now to meet with @robert-a-huber.bsky.social at #ecprjs26
🆕 Financing the state
Per F. Andersson introduces the Government Revenue Dataset, which provides information on central government revenues in 31 countries in Europe from 1800 to 2012 to reanalyse the relationship between elite competition + taxation.
🆕 Crisis management + territorial preferences
Using #Covid19 data, @sandraleon.bsky.social & @amuitz.bsky.social argue that citizens in multilevel democracies prefer to centralise authority when they are exposed to unsuccessful intergovernmental coordination in response to a crisis.
🆕 One-dimensional, multidimensional, or non-dimensional?
💻️ Using data from Belgium’s Voting Advice Application, Philippe Mongraine & Stefaan Walgrave examine the correlations among citizens’ answers + assess the dimensionality of the opinion landscape.
🆕 How do democratic institutions develop during episodes of liberalisation in autocracies?
Kelly Morrison, Martin Lundstedt, Yuko Sato, Klas Markström & @silindberg.bsky.social introduce a new methodology, Analysis of Chains (AOC), that allows for such analysis.
🆕 Beyond Policy: Identity in Party Competition 🗳️
Christina Zuber, of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social, @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social & Edina Szöcsik rethink how parties win #Elections arguing that success depends not only on policy preferences, but on linking preferences to #GroupIdentities
🆕 Rethinking Democratic Stability 🏛️
@swegmann.bsky.social spotlights a neglected pillar of democracy, the opposition, & explores how institutionalised opposition power reflects mutual toleration and shapes democratic stability
🆕 #Propaganda & #Authoritarianism 💭
Philipp M. Lutscher, Jonas Bergan Draege & @chknutsen.bsky.social
explore how government propaganda shapes political behaviour in polarized electoral authoritarian regimes using preregistered survey data from Turkey
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🆕 Navigating the Blueprint 🧭
@lindestals.bsky.social & @cvalebeek.bsky.social look into the origins of #InstitutionalTrust in young adults using data from the Dutch Adolescent Panel on Democratic Values to see how important early political sophistication is
