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What issues matter most to #Voters? 😬
@gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups prioritise different issues. But are issue importance and personal attitudes driven by the same factors? 🧭🗳️
How to identify party families? @fedetrastulli.bsky.social advances a novel framework that shifts analytical focus from aggregate-level ideology to the bundles of historically rooted issues that define each family's ideological distinctiveness
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Come riconoscere le famiglie partitiche? Secondo @fedetrastulli.bsky.social è meglio guardare ai temi di cui parlano, più che a un'ideologia strutturata. Ne parliamo qui 👇
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@gefjonoff.bsky.social & my "Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation" EJPR piece – now out in (a 2026) issue :-)
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Excited to start 2026 – the year of getting back into the political science job market – by sharing my new webpage! Hope this provides a helpful overview of my work & another way to get/stay in touch. federicotrastulli.github.io
In the paper, on @poppublicsphere.bsky.social, @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social and I show that, historically (1870s-2010s), left parties in Western Europe have reduced inequalities when in government, but that their equalising effect has become null since the 1980s. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Amazing to (belatedly) see our research on left governmental power and the reduction of inequalities being picked up by @elespectador.com, Colombia's oldest newspaper! 🇨🇴 Thanks to Tomás Molina for the coverage :) www.elespectador.com/opinion/colu...
Happy to share latest piece on Politics and Governance. @andreacapati.bsky.social & I argue that how social democrats (here, 🇮🇹 PD) react to large-scale crises in terms of positions on EU integration depends on the different policy implications of these crises. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
The Voting and Democracy Research Group welcomes Professor Rune Stubager (Aarhus University) for a keynote presentation.
🗓️ Friday 23 January 2026, 11h00
📍 Aula Emma Vorlat (campus Faculty of Social Sciences KU Leuven)
ℹ️ Info: lnkd.in/dMvzG36U
📝 Registration (by 14 January 2026): lnkd.in/dZ3ZBSGh
Amazing!! Congrats Stu :) 🎉
What issues matter most to #Voters? 😬
@gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups care about different issues--and that what people care about isn’t the same as what they think about those issues. 🧭🗳️
🆕 Great to see our work on the determinants and measurement of individual-level issue salience now out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! If you haven't, check out my fantastic co-author @gefjonoff.bsky.social's thread below 👇
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New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉
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We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?
Deadline for application to @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 conference is this Friday 7th of November.
There's been an amazing response to the call for papers so far, we hope for even more great proposals this week.
Here is the call for papers: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
BJPolS Abstract discussing educational attainment, social networks, and political behavior in Germany, the UK, and Switzerland.
NEW -
Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - https://cup.org/47ifc4B
"we show that educational divides are diminished in the presence of countervailing networks"
- @davidattewell6.bsky.social & @dpzollinger.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Grazie Gregorio! 🙏
🆕 Latest article out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📣SAVE THE DATE 📣
📆 29-30 gennaio 2026
📍Dipartimento di Scienze Umane - Università di Verona
Deadline: 31 ottobre 2025
La CfP è aperta al mondo dell’accademia, dell’attivismo e delle istituzioni, con l’obiettivo di stimolare un dialogo intersettoriale.
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Happy to announce the publication of my first article in @plc-journal.bsky.social!
👀 Interested in reading more about sibling parties and electoral behaviour in Belgium? Check out the post below 👇
Thank you to my supervisors @marchooghe.bsky.social and @dieterstiers.bsky.social for their guidance
📣Just issued on @poppublicsphere.bsky.social our article analyzing 🔴left #parties in #government and the reduction of inequalities 📉. @fedetrastulli.bsky.social
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We're looking forward to putting together a *fantastic* Electoral and Voting Behaviour section for the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 meeting in Belfast!
‼️ Make sure to submit your papers by 7 November 2025!
w/ @massimoprearo.bsky.social on @qoe-ijes.bsky.social, we introduce our 2024 Italian LGBTIQ+ Electoral Survey: the first large-N evidence on the political behaviour & attitudes of Italian LGBTIQ+ citizens. We discuss data, methodological challenges & relevance here: oaj.fupress.net/index.php/qo...
Thank you! 🙏
i.e.: 'Party families are groups of parties whose patterns of issue salience ideologically reflect their historical origins. More specifically, parties belonging to a party family will historically be the most consistent emphasisers of their core issues* within their party system' 2/2
* see paper
On Italian Political Science Review, an issue-level approach to conceptualising 'party family'. Glad to see this fun spin-off from my PhD thesis now out OA, honoured that it features in a ‘The Legacy of Giovanni Sartori’ symposium w/ many distinguished scholars! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1/2
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
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Our Element is out! 🎉
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
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Very pleased w/ this book, taking forward our Italian LGBTIQ+ politics agenda with @massimoprearo.bsky.social: a general-audience, evidence-based work on LGBTIQ+ public opinion and general population pubop on LGBTIQ+ issues from 2 novel surveys. 🇮🇹 only, but more to come from this data in the future!