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📢 BJREPS Seminar | Apr 10, 16:30–17:30

🎤 Clara Brügge (ETH) presents
📄 Opportunity or Constraint for Viable Climate Policy? Support for Green Protectionism amid Trade offs between Energy Sovereignty and Climate Ambition

📍 Campus de la Ciutadella, UPF (Room 13.004) www.banps.cat/bj-reps

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science.

Here’s what we found 👇

EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference:

PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend

Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf
Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT.

More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR

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📢 New BJREPS tomorrow!

🎤 Jelle Willem Van Der Wal @politiquesuab.bsky.social presents
📄 Micro Foundations of Street Level Policy Entrepreneurship in Migration Policy

🗓 Fri, March 6 | ⏰ 17:00–18:30
📍 Can Jaumandreu Building, Room U1.4 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social www.banps.cat/bj-reps

🏅 Premi al Millor Article de Recerca Junior a la 8a JCPOP

Erick Padilla (UAB) ha estat guardonat pel millor article a l’JCPOP 2025, celebrat el 10 de novembre a l’IBEI.

El workshop continua sent un espai destacat per a investigadors en comportament polític i opinió pública.

Congrats Nadja!! 🥳Totally deserved!! @na-wehl.bsky.social

🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We usually think that social identities precede preferences

We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences

Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹

Thanks Roberto! Happy you like the paper!!

Thanks to all of you for the great initiative and the award!!

🎉 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!

📢 Busquem Assistent de Recerca!

Projecte comparat sobre discurs polític, nacionalisme i immigració (@autogoverncat.bsky.social )

Tasques: recopilació de dades digitals, codificació i anàlisi de textos, visualització de resultats.

20h/setmana · 10 mesos

Més info: seu.ub.edu/ofertaPublic...

🚨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.

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🎤 @arnaubteros.bsky.social presents
📄 Is Social Policy Generosity Associated with the Disability Turnout Gap?

🗓 Fri, Feb 6, 2026 | ⏰ 16:30–17:30
📍 Faculty of Law, @cpoliticaub.bsky.social

www.banps.cat/bj-reps

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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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Who wants to accelerate digitalization? Evidence from the next generation EU program Post-industrial governments around the world are increasingly prioritizing policies to accelerate digitalization, but despite the growing literature on technological change and the knowledge econom...

📢 Publication alert: Governments are investing in digitalization intensively, but we know little about who supports this policy. We investigate this question in this new article with Alex Kuo, @retobuergisser.bsky.social, and @siljahausermann.bsky.social published at JEPP
doi.org/10.1080/1350... 🧵

🔥🎉 very happy to see this paper finally out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social! Together with @damjantomic.bsky.social, Enrique Prada, and @ehernandez.bsky.social, we analyze how winner-loser dynamics may shape citizens' support for norms of restraint and consent!

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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/...

🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social)

⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*?

doi.org/10.1017/S147...

🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉

Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access)

The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social

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🎤 @erickpadilla.bsky.social (@cpoliticaub.bsky.social) presents “Working Alone? Working from Home and Political Participation”

🗓 Fri, Jan 16, 2026 | ⏰ 16:30–17:30
📍 Room 20.283

An interuniversity space for PhD students to share work, get feedback & connect www.banps.cat/bj-reps

📰 Escribimos en @agendapublica.es sobre los efectos de la equiparación del permiso del permiso de paternidad sobre la penalización por maternidad.

“La ampliación del permiso funciona especialmente bien en hogares donde ya existía una cierta igualdad previa”

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agendapublica.es/noticia/2048...

Amb les piles carregades després de l'esmorzar🔋🥐

📢 Comencen les següents presentacions!

Consulta el programa 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/barcelo...

Very happy to receive the prize for the best federalism article, awarded by @autogoverncat.bsky.social . Sharing it with great friends Sergi Morales and Jorge Fernandes makes it even better. Our @jeppjournal.bsky.social article highlights the key gap between legal decentralization and resources.

Fins aquí el JCPOP 2025! 🎉

Moltes gràcies als presentadors, discussants i chairs per una gran jornada, a @evaanduiza.bsky.social per una gran keynote, i a @politiquesupf.bsky.social i @ibei.org per organitzar-ho.

Atents a les xarxes per futures novetats de BaNPS! 👀

Fina l'any que ve! 👋🏻🎆

L'aula plena per la presentació de la Barcelona Network of Political Science (BaNPS) per part de Jordi Muñoz @jordimunoz.bsky.social i Marc Guinjoan @mguinjoan.bsky.social

👉🏻 www.banps.cat

💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior?

🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left.

👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65

BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamic between knowledge economy migration and political shifts in Germany, specifically addressing urban versus rural opportunities and its implications on political perspectives and migration trends.

NEW -

Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos

"moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties"

- @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the shift in globalization's emphasis towards developing market skills and its implications on higher education.

NEW -

Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values: Evidence from the Bologna Process - https://cup.org/3LG3lVj

- @mgiani.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

I'm excited to teach my course on longitudinal data & analysis in the context of #KOMEX2026 again.

For me, the first iteration of this earlier this year was a lot of nerdy 🤓 fun, and the participants agreed - even anonymously in the evals 😜

Let me know if you have any questions!
More info ⬇️

"Public Perceptions of Corporate Position-Taking on Abortion and Transgender Rights" by Wayde Z. C. Marsh and Jordan Carr Peterson. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...