📕📕Reversing the political donations gender gap in federal systems: The role of issue salience and financial equality📕📕 By @amandafriesen.bsky.social Jesse Mehravar, Chris Alcantara and Jason Roy Read (Open Access) article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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#OpenAccess from Politics and the Life Sciences - Rethinking masculinity in politics: Measuring what matters - https://cup.org/4y2k1tO - Claire Gothreau & @amandafriesen.bsky.social #FirstView

Submissions are open for our special issue on Sports and American Politics, with guest-editors @amandafriesen.bsky.social and Christopher Dawes. Deadline is 12/1. See flyer below for more details! mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgforum

#OpenAccess from Politics and the Life Sciences - Rethinking masculinity in politics: Measuring what matters - https://cup.org/4y2k1tO - Claire Gothreau & @amandafriesen.bsky.social #FirstView

Chris Dawes (NYU) and I are editing a special issue of The Forum on Sports and American Politics. Deadline for full papers is December 1. We welcome a variety of methods and levels of analysis! Happy to answer questions.

Looking for something to do Friday morning at APSA? @amandafriesen.bsky.social & I put together a panel on mental health, wellbeing, & political behavior! 10am at the Westin.

New in @ispp-pops.bsky.social: “Waking up to politics: How sleep quality relates to political participation”: doi.org/10.1111/pops... With @nmicatka.bsky.social & @aleksks.bsky.social, we examined how sleep quality relates to voter turnout & non-electoral participation across multiple countries.🧵1/8

🔍How does young people's anxiety about the future relate to their political attitudes? Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...

Facing a dark future: Young people’s future anxiety and political attitudes in the UK and Greece

Study finds future anxiety linked to more conservative views among young men, but not young women, in the UK and Greece.

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As project director for my lab’s sport and politics theme, Noah Vanderhoeven is doing cool work on fandom as social identity. He’s been on a media run talking about Bluejays as Canada’s team. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Political science PhD candidate Noah Vanderhoeven on the Blue Jays as a unifying force for Canada

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Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism. What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections? My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social! 1/7

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

Now on FirstView ft. @pauldjupe.bsky.social and @amandafriesen.bsky.social! Political scientists are active in politics, but primarily in ways that share research findings and tend to avoid visible partisan politics. doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky #academisky #politics #research

Ever wondered how politically active political scientists are? Well, we did and asked a sample of us how much and what their beliefs are about being overtly, wear-it-on-your-sleeve active. The dominant perspective is that partisan politics tarnishes our credibility for the public. (1/2)

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · last yr.

#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social - The Political Engagement of Political Scientists: Partisans, Public Scholars, and Teachers/Pedagogues - https://cup.org/4pLx0Mn - @pauldjupe.bsky.social, @amandafriesen.bsky.social & Jacob R. Neiheisel #FirstView

In 2024, we surveyed US scholars about how, when, why they do (or don’t!) personally participate. We find a few patterns, some differences by subfield and variation in our attitudes toward the place of personal politics in our work, especially the impacts on our credibility with the public.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · last yr.

#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social - The Political Engagement of Political Scientists: Partisans, Public Scholars, and Teachers/Pedagogues - https://cup.org/4pLx0Mn - @pauldjupe.bsky.social, @amandafriesen.bsky.social & Jacob R. Neiheisel #FirstView

*Readers should be extremely careful about accepting claims that worship attenders are actually more liberal.* Those findings are usually an artifact of stat modeling decisions. Excited to see this posted in Sociology. While it may seem like inside baseball, the public implications are important.

Contexts Magazine@contexts.org · last yr.

New on the blog! Political scientists @pauldjupe.bsky.social @amandafriesen.bsky.social @aesokhey.bsky.social and Jacob R. Neiheisel do some debunking: "Attending Church Encourages Acceptance of Atheists? No, It's a Suppression Effect" contexts.org/blog/atheist... #polisci #religion #sociology

New on the blog! Political scientists @pauldjupe.bsky.social @amandafriesen.bsky.social @aesokhey.bsky.social and Jacob R. Neiheisel do some debunking: "Attending Church Encourages Acceptance of Atheists? No, It's a Suppression Effect" contexts.org/blog/atheist... #polisci #religion #sociology

Don’t miss the spotlight on Professor @amandafriesen.bsky.social's "300 Words on Political Stress" >> magazine.westernu.ca/political-st... <<

Western Alumni@westernualumni.bsky.social · last yr.

Have you read the newest issue of the Western Alumni Magazine? It shares the bold, forward-thinking work happening at #WesternU and across our alumni community. Browse the issue: magazine.westernu.ca?utm_source=s...

Come work with me/us!!! Happy to answer questions about our dept, Western, and Canadian academia. I absolutely love it here and highly recommend. Several of us will be at APSA and happy to meet. 🇨🇦

We are very excited to have the brilliant @blairwelsh.bsky.social joining the Dept of Political Science @westernu.ca! Look for big things and important work in empirical IR; great for us and great for Canada! politicalscience.uwo.ca/about_us/new...

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New at Pol Behavior, our crew of R&P scholars uncover suppression effects in extant Christian nationalism studies. In sum, consistent relationship between religious behavior and conservative views stands.

Paul Djupe@pauldjupe.bsky.social · last yr.

We saw research showing Christian nationalism promoted anti-immigrant views but more frequent church attendance promoted pro-immigrant views and thought that finding was implausible. The same method showed that attendance promoted more positive feelings toward atheists. And that's bonkers. 1/4

New study from @pauldjupe.bsky.social et al. out in @polbehavior.bsky.social. We've often found Christian nationalism & churchgoing are signed in opposite directions in regressions. Authors propose viewing such findings as suppression effects & explore implications. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Attending Church Encourages Acceptance of Atheists? Suppression Effects in Religion and Politics Research - Political Behavior

A proliferation of religion variables presents opportunities for those studying religion and politics in the U.S. However, many studies in this growing subfield demonstrate the pitfalls of reporting t...

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Excellent and very important work on understanding self reported emotions. People do not mean what we think they feel when it comes to politics! Special shout to @isabellareb.bsky.social - it’s been incredible to see her line of inquiry develop over the years!

Gijs Schumacher@gijsschumacher.bsky.social · last yr.

Are we good at describing our feelings about politics? In our new preprint @mrooduijn.bsky.social @isabellareb.bsky.social we show this is not the case: osf.io/preprints/os... [1/6]

With upcoming 🇨🇦 election and a lot on voters’ minds, check out our new pub that assesses the most important issues and affective language from the last two Canadian elections in 2019, 2021.

Melissa Baker@melissabaker.bsky.social · last yr.

Publication day 🎉 We find that people use more affective language to describe important political issues during times of crises & controversy. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 @erincassese.bsky.social & @amandafriesen.bsky.social outline the major contributions to the literature on women voters published by P&G over the last 20 years and suggest future research agendas. gendersky polisky buff.ly/4hDqyIU

Canadians also get stressed, albeit politely, of course. Here is my take on how to handle political information anxiety: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Managing the stress of news overload in a time of political unrest and global conflict

The news is coming at us hard and fast these days. But is all this information helping us stay informed—or is it just overwhelming? Amanda Friesen, the Canada Research Chair in Political Psychology an...

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📢 New Publication: @jedinger.bsky.social and I have explored the relationshop between need for closure, political trust and COVID conspiracy beliefs using data from the @gesis-panel.bsky.social . Open access: www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

New article out today celebrating the 20th anniversary of Politics & Gender! -Over the past two decades, about 18% of PAG’s articles focused on gender and voting. -This work has been cited about 6700 times, with an average citation count of 48 per article! Open Access at doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Subfield and topical journals are so important for advancing and holding space for research often out of the mainstream. Here @erincassese.bsky.social and I review 20 years of gender and voting published in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy New Year! Our Cambridge Element is now available! In it, @hondercin.bsky.social, Jordan Randall, and I use data from the ANES @electionstudies.bsky.social to glean new insights into how the American public thinks about abortion rights. Free downloads til Jan 31st doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Abortion Attitudes and Polarization in the American Electorate

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Abortion Attitudes and Polarization in the American Electorate

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theconversation.com/benevolent-s... Kate Hunt and I try to apply our Irish SMO research to the recent US campaigns. In sum, is appealing to the protection of women relatives a good way to mobilize men?

Benevolent sexism competed with hypermasculinity in high-stakes campaigns in the U.S. and Ireland

The U.S. presidential election campaign and the Irish referendum on abortion in 2018 raise questions about whether a political messaging strategy focused on ‘real men’ is effective.

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