Thanks, Claudia!

@mbusemeyer.bsky.social @cdiehl.bsky.social @evaanduiza.bsky.social @gricoc.bsky.social @hildecoffe.bsky.social @weissju.bsky.social @nennstielr.bsky.social @hudde.bsky.social and others.

Could be interesting for @sgarritzmann.bsky.social @na-wehl.bsky.social @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social @ggalbacete.bsky.social @ellclaes.bsky.social @franziskaveit.bsky.social @anjaneundorf.bsky.social

Gender differences are strongest among younger cohorts and diminish with age, while prestige-seeking is more evenly distributed.
These findings suggest that antagonistic moralized discourse is shaped less by ideology than by underlying status competition dynamics.

I distinguish between two motivations:
• Prestige-seeking (seeking admiration)
• Dominance-seeking (seeking to shame/outcompete others)
Results show a clear demographic pattern: young men (18–35) report the highest levels of dominance-oriented grandstanding—independent of party affiliation.

The age of virtue signaling: Moral grandstanding as competitive display among young men Moral grandstanding—the use of moral discourse to enhance one's status—has become a central feature of contemporary political expression. Drawing on representative survey data from Germany, France, G...

New paper in Political Psychology:
The age of virtue signaling: Moral grandstanding as competitive display among young men
This study examines moral grandstanding (i.e., using moral discourse to enhance status) across 4 European countries (N=8,420). 🧵
doi.org/10.1111/pops...

A week ago, we - the PerFair project - celebrated the successful data collection among 7th graders in Germany 🎉funded by @excinequality.bsky.social! 🙏 to a bunch of great colleagues from political science and sociology for coming all the way to Konstanz, inspiring comments and impressive talks! 🙏🤓👍

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Sequence analysis helps distinguish temporary apathy from lasting disengagement, revealing whether political involvement is stable or precarious. Looking beyond short-term fluctuations puts trajectories in perspective, showing that delayed engagement can be very different from permanent withdrawal.

Sequence analysis is rarely used in political science so far and we extensively discuss its advantages and empirical application. Conventional methods either look at states (cross-sections), differences between time-points (fixed-effects), or mean development across time (growth curve models).

Finally, we show that parental (education and political interest) and individual level predictors (education, vocational training, social participation) predict the pathways to political involvement of adolescents.

Importantly, we find that these patterns already exist at an even younger age (age 11-15). This uncovers an underexplored section of adolescents who were involved in politics at the age of 11/12 but lost interest again by the age of 14/15 (so called “teen apathy”).

We then cluster these sequences into four typologies: stable apathy, stable involvement, late involvement, and independents.

In this paper, we use sequence analyses to identify prevailing trajectories of political involvement (and apathy) from adolescence to young adulthood in Germany and the United Kingdom. This figure shows the fluctuation of political apathy and involvement between age 17-25.

Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement Understanding inequality in political involvement is a core goal of political science. Previous research has examined specific life-course influences, but there is limited knowledge about the diver...

New paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social‬: Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement (open access)
doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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IN NEW ISSUE: The US 2020 Elections - @sjungkunz.bsky.social, @robfahey.net & A Hino investigate the dynamics of political violence justification & its connection with populist attitudes & conspiracy beliefs: buff.ly/6JplH9f

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs @sagepub.com

We crowdsourced 85 teams to indep. computationally reproduce results from a single study in randomized conditions. Reproducibility:

• depends heavily on the transparency of materials
• high (~95%) for same sign/sig, but low (btw. 48-77% depending on transparency) when requiring within 0.1 effects

The relationship between economic hardship and political violence is the focus on this note by @sjungkunz.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This study suggests that the income gap in political participation cannot be fully understood without accounting for life cycle processes and genetic background.

Family fixed-effects models among early adults further show no significant effect of income differences on political interest after controlling for family background and genetic influences.

While 30–40% of the total variance in political interest of twin adolescents (age 10–18) can be attributed to genetic influences, a gene–environment interaction model shows that this share is much lower among poor compared to rich families.

This study investigates whether high parental income creates an enhancing environment that increases the influence of genetic dispositions on political interest using the German TwinLife study (2014–2020, age 10–29, n = 6,174).

New Paper out in Politics and the Life Sciences (@cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social): “Parental income moderates the influence of genetic dispositions on political interest in adolescents” (doi.org/10.1017/pls....).

【Waseda University Podcasts: Rigorous Research, Real Impact】Democratic Backsliding and the Role of Populism Waseda University released the third episode, “Democratic Backsliding and the Role of Populism”, of its English language podcast series “Rig...

I've been interviewing researchers from various departments at Waseda for our university podcast series, and my first episode, with Prof. Marisa Kellam, was published last week. Hopefully my dulcet tones are more soothing than the grim topic of democratic backsliding.
www.waseda.jp/top/en/news/...

@robfahey.net

The US 2020 Elections - @sjungkunz.bsky.social, Robert A Fahey & Airo Hino investigate the dynamics of political violence justification & its connection with populist attitudes & conspiracy beliefs: https://buff.ly/3ZidmeI

@uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs