The European Political Science Review (EPSR) has published my solo-authored paper on Affinity Voting in Europe 🤓
In it, I ask:
Do voters prefer in-group politicians?
Answer:
Sometimes, sometimes not. Minorities prefer their in-group less often than majorities do.
🧵
doi.org/10.1017/S175...
Very happy to be presenting some work in progress today at the EUI in beautiful Florence 🇮🇹☀️
In my paper Who’s Asking? Interviewer Gender and the Expression of Sexist Attitudes, I treat interviewer effects as a window into how social norms shape the expression of sexist attitudes.
👍Very excited to see that my solo-authored article:
"Surveying Minoritized Citizens:
A Quantitative Study of Identification versus Categorization"
has been published in Survey Research Methods✨
I hope survey researchers to reconsider how they survey group membership💪
doi.org/10.18148/srm...
What a wonderful moment to experience. I lived under Orbán 1, working at CEU… it was nothing compared to what was to come under Orbán 2. So many friends were impacted.
Now, many years too late, it is finally the end of Orbán 2. Tomorrow we can talk about the challenges. Today we celebrate!
Keeping this for the future: Orbán on TV saying that the election results are painful but clear. This feels momentous. #Hungary
There are crucial elections in #Hungary 🇭🇺 this weekend. If you are looking for sharp and well-informed commentary on Hungarian politics, make sure you follow these excellent women!
@veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social
@gabrielagreilinger.com
@zecsaky.bsky.social
@eublogo.bsky.social
As everyone focuses on Trump and the U.S., Israel just continues committing war crimes with impunity.
📢 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.
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
🚨 New paper with great co-authors (@oguzhan-alkan.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @zeynsom.bsky.social) in Political Behavior!
How well do citizens perceive where parties stand? 🤔
Open access: rdcu.be/fb83Z
This figure shows weekly advertised jobs in politics in UK HEPs from 2012-2025. It reveals a clear decline in advertising from 2024 onwards: the average weekly number of advertised jobs is currently around half what it was in 2021. Note that in this figure a point represents an observation of a captured url and the trend line is estimated using a generalised additive model.
This figure presents the same data but allows for easier comparison across years by presenting the cumulative jobs advertised for each calendar year in our sample. This indicates again that both 2024 and 2025 have seen significantly fewer Politics and Government jobs advertised, with 2025 being the worst year on record with only 469 jobs advertised, compared to a mean of 836 jobs advertised a year between 2012 and 2024.
2025 was the worst on record in terms of new advertised jobs. Using jobs.ac.uk email alert data courtesy of @peterallen.bsky.social, we found 469 jobs compared to a mean of 836 between 2012-24.
Nature research paper: Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences
go.nature.com/3OhvkfP
In the April @apsa.bsky.social ejobs release, we're still tracking a 30% decline in political science tenure track jobs since 2023-24.
Big deliveries today @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Elements by @ladyprofessor.bsky.social and @fthames.bsky.social; @yesolakweon.bsky.social & @jeonghyunkim.bsky.social; and @lizziebrannon.bsky.social & Jakana Thomas arrived in my mailbox!! 💌📥📚
@dzobrien.bsky.social & I love these deliveries 📬
Plus, Jimmie Åkesson's takes on being Swedish have moved from nationalist ("everyone should adhere to Swedish values") to nativist ("you need to have Swedish ancestors to be Swedish"). Very very dangerous move! SD is not deradicalizing anymore, rather the opposite.
Det finns en naivetet i Sverige att våra högerpopulister är mer demokratiska än i andra länder. Det stämmer inte. SD-väljare straffar politiker med antidemokratiska tendenser i lika låg grad som väljare för PiS i Polen.
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/in-...
Auf jeden Fall! :)
So great to have @asheinze.bsky.social close-by! Welcome to the North, @leuphana.bsky.social is lucky to have you 🤗
Our new article on gender differences in why young people join political parties is now out, open access, in @ejprjournal.bsky.social ✨
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@duncanmcdonnell.com @profannikawerner.bsky.social @rheinisch.bsky.social Marco Valbruzzi @cwegscheider.bsky.social
The workshop brought together researchers from Korea University, Sungkyunkwan University, Gothenburg University (& me) to discuss avenues for future joint research on Gender and Politics in Korea and Sweden. There is lots to explore! Thanks to @riksjubileumsfond.bsky.social for funding this!
Super happy about this very productive and inspiring workshop in wonderful Seoul! This week ranks very high on the why-I-love-my-job-list :)
Also finding it hard to keep up with new research? I built something to fix this.
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I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social
Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments.
📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026
Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)
Really enjoyed speaking with @plosclimate.org about my journey into the PhD, my current research, and where I see work on climate opinion heading. Give it a read and be sure to check out the other inspiring interviews in this series featuring PhD students in climate research!📖🌱🌍
V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025.
Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius.
Largest declines came, by far, in the US.
This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index.
Amazing!! Good luck Marta!! 🤩🤞
Check out this interesting issue of European Public Mosaic where I contribute with the article: “Neosexism: old ideas in new forms” (gencat.cat/eapc/epum/N2...). Happy to share this issue with the great
@galais.bsky.social
☀️Sonnenschein am Wahltag = höhere Wahlbeteiligung? Wie das Wetter mit den Wahlen in BaWü & RLP zusammenhängt, darüber durfte ich mit SWR1 Sonntagmorgen sprechen
www.swr.de/kultur/gesel...
In ihrem Beitrag zu Normalisierung und mainstreaming der extremen Rechten strukturieren @asheinze.bsky.social und @gefjonoff.bsky.social vorhandene Literatur und fordern darüber hinaus u.a. eine stärkere Differenzierung diesseitiger politischer Akeur*innen: doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Logo for the European Journal of Political Research displaying the text "EJPR European Journal of Political Research" in cream letters on a blue background, accompanied by the hashtag "#OpenAccess".
#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -
Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right - https://cup.org/3NbC12s
- @asheinze.bsky.social & @gefjonoff.bsky.social
#FirstView
Happy International Women's Day 2026 💐
Grateful for all the female researchers, writers, thinkers, friends, colleagues, and role models who inspire me every day.
Here are some of my favourite books on the far right by female authors. #iwd26