These findings extend beyond just the Netherlands. A new working paper by @morganlcj.bsky.social, @markuswagner.bsky.social and @danbischof.bsky.social also shows that climate activists face greater intolerance than farmers for identical protests actions in Germany 🇩🇪
🌱 How do environmental protests affect public option? And what if they are disruptive? We have a 💫 new study 💫 out in the BJPS about public support for environmental protests. (cc @catherinedevries.bsky.social , @simonvanteutem.bsky.social ) Summary below 👇
📄 New WP version out - full overhaul!
The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social )
Comments welcome!
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
Worth translating: interview w/ @valentimvicente.bsky.social on a very plausible explanation for the rise of the radical right in Europe:
Norms that made voting far-right parties socially undesirable have eroded - and the availability of far-right parties met a certain "demand" that already existed
How do contemporary challenges of backsliding and war interact? We show that interstate conflict boosts support for undemocratic candidates, especially among Republicans who *do not prefer democratic Rs over undemocratic Rs* during interstate conflict.
Out in @bjpols.bsky.social with Lasse Laustsen
We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous.
There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!
'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone.
This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
Alongside @psaepop.bsky.social , EPSA is the best conference I've been to. And that's due to the people, and the people deserve that their fees go back to improving their work.
Unlike the last 6 or so years, I'll not be at EPSA, but instead EPSS. Even though I love Prague.
Back to preparing my "Qualitative Methods in International Affairs" graduate course (INTL 8500).
I remain shocked by how little theoretical and empirical work is done on the fundamental questions of classification and categorization. 🤯
This is an important opportunity for European poli sci: contribute
to getting EPSS off to a fantastic start by submitting your work to next year’s conference. I’m section chair for Migration Politics together with @aalrababah.bsky.social and can’t wait to see the cool mig research you have for us 🔥
Want to work for CSES, or know someone who does?
GESIS (@gesis.org) is hiring a full-time Senior Researcher, based in Germany, in the area of International Electoral Research.
The application deadline is August 15, 2025.
For more information, see: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
📝Why has a Bukele-style far-right party emerged in Spain—even though VOX already exists?
In our new paper, @javierpadilla.bsky.social, @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social and I explain the unexpected rise of SALF ("Let the Party Be Over") in the 2024 EP elections:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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🚨New publication!!
😶🌫️ Wait for a little summary by @bertous.bsky.social in the coming days
👇 ...or just click to learn about the new radical right party -SALF- that shocked Spanish politics in the last EP elections
🎓📢 We’re hiring!
Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)
💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025
jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...
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How does polarization influence voter turnout? 🤝
@morganlcj.bsky.social uses two studies 📊 to determine whether #Polarization brings forward more voters by giving them clearer choices ⚖️
Are #EuropeanPolitics shifting? 🇪🇺
🔗 buff.ly/SZi2lfa
This is the kind of article APSR used to be famous for. The ones that make your brain explode, that challenge you, confuse you, test your patience, and make you smarter by making you realize your limitations. Well done Erica Simmons and @nickrushsmith.bsky.social 👏
Congrats Sergi! Such great news!!!
Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues.
We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!
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🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
He's right, and it's not just Brazil.
Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
📣 Call for Applications 📣
3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀
Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social
Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!
🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
Amazing to see this in print, now with an issue number: ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... Do check out this issue's other contributions on polarization and going beyond left-right issue dimensions!
I recently presented at INAS2025 in NYC:
“Why women leave academia? A longitudinal study of the leaky pipeline in German sociology”
Thanks to @womensforuminas.bsky.social and the INAS attendees for the inspiring exchange, and @europeatharvard.bsky.social for their support!
📝 Preprint👇
“The gender-equality paradox entails that countries with more equality have larger gender differences in behavior. Positive associations between equality & gender differences disappear or reverse when accounting for cultural clusters of countries. The paradox appears to be a methodological artifact”
🥳We got page nrs!
🤓In this CPS article, Rosie Shorrocks and I test mechanisms that according to modernization theory can explain modern gender gaps.
🧐Our results imply that women with different political views select into different life trajectories - in education, work, out of marriage.
#polisci
Title page of the preprint
🤔 How much do politicians engage with academic researchers online?
In my latest paper, I find that politicians from 12 countries rarely engage with researchers on social media, but this can change when expertise gains salience
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/osf/wqbe4_v1
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My most personal post yet, a response to so many messages after launching Respect the Marble
“Breaking the Intellectual Doom Loop: How to Write While the World Burns”
ft. anxiety, a doom-containment protocol & heroic attempts to write offline
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catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/breaking-t...