Three weeks ago, the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference took place in Belfast. The enthusiasm, active participation and support from the community made this conference a huge success.
Anne Rasmussen
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Prof of Pol Science @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social University of Copenhagen. Lobbying | Political Representation | Public Opinion & Policy | Gender | Social Media | EIC @igajournal.bsky.social | PI ADVODID ERC Grant |ECPR ExecComm https://annerasmussen.eu
🚨 New partnership 🚨 King's has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a 1+1 Master’s programme between King’s College London and the University of Barcelona. Students will study in Barcelona and London - bringing together two fantastic academic environments. ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/political-ec...
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Citizen–Elite #Toxicity & #Political #Equality Online By @janabelschner.bsky.social & Linn Sandberg doi.org/10.1017/S153...
🥪Starting soon - EPSS Diversity Lunch Roundtable: Tackling Barriers in the Discipline: Disability, Chronic Illness, Neurodivergence, and Mental Health 12:30-13:30 | Bar 2, with Andrej Cvetić, Catherine de Vries, Amélie Godefroidt, Anne Rasmussen, Stefanie Reher and Timon Scheuer
Great conversations and excellent turnout at the Diversity Panel at the EPSS General Conference today.
Why do arguments often change people’s beliefs without changing their attitudes? In a new APSR with @scottclifford.bsky.social and @patrickpliu.bsky.social, we point to belief relevance: arguments are more persuasive when they grapple with the idiosyncratic reasons people hold their political views.
Now out in @igajournal.bsky.social: my review of 2 recent books -- 📖 @ejfagan.com's The Thinkers (Oxford UP, 2024) 📖 @zalbert.bsky.social's Partisan Policy Networks (Penn, 2025) Read the review here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Think tanks' role in polarization politics - Interest Groups & Advocacy
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Danbischof@danbischof.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨 What happens with voters when politicians use simpler language? New @thejop.bsky.social paper with @rsenninger.bsky.social: simple language changes not just what citizens understand, but who they think politicians are. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Come do a British Academy Post-Doc at King's! The deadline for our internal check is 15th May 2026. Information here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/fun...
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📢 New article 🌟 👥 Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen @silje-hermansen.bsky.social & Daniel Naurin @dnaurin.bsky.social (ISV) 👉 Shaping the Bench: The Effect of Ideology and Influence on Judicial Reappointments 📗 Published in The Journal of Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/740169
Shaping the Bench: The Effect of Ideology and Influence on Judicial Reappointments | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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🚨 VACATURE Het Instituut Politieke Wetenschap van Uni Leiden is op zoek naar twee UD2s met expertise in één of meer van de volgende gebieden: de Europese Unie-politiek, politieke economie, milieupolitiek, beleid en/of de Nederlandse politiek. careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Universi...
Universitair Docenten Politieke Wetenschap
Universitair Docenten Politieke Wetenschap
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🆕 When carbon taxes feel unfair 💸 David Hope, @julianlimberg.bsky.social & Yves Steinebach carry out a survey in the UK to provide observational and experimental evidence to highlight the impacts of rural resentment on support for carbon taxation
Unequal treatment perceptions and rural backlashes against carbon taxation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Unequal treatment perceptions and rural backlashes against carbon taxation
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Happy to see our @ejprjournal.bsky.social article on political representation on policy issues across European countries cited in this piece in @economist.com Article link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... With fantastic co-authors: @stefaniereher.bsky.social @dtoshkov.bsky.social
The opinion‐policy nexus in Europe and the role of political institutions
A strong link between citizen preferences and public policy is one of the key goals and criteria of democratic governance. Yet, our knowledge about the extent to which public policies on specific iss...
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School of Politics and Economics@kcl-spe.bsky.social · 4mo agoResearch by Professor Anne Rasmussen on the misalignment of policy and public opinion in the UK features in a new article by @economist.com Read more here 👇 www.economist.com/britain/2026...
📢 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...
Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues
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⏳ Last few spaces remaining for Meet the Editors at #ecprjs26 🗓️ Book a 15-minute slot and discuss your article idea with one of our editors: 🔵 EJPR @robert-a-huber.bsky.social 🟣 EPSR @exadaktylos.bsky.social 🟠 PRX @mlorimer.bsky.social
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🚨 New in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Many prior accounts of social media hostility focus on algorithms. With @boralexander.bsky.social, @a-marie-sci.bsky.social & @leapradella.bsky.social, we use data from 30 countries to focus on the role of societal conditions. 🧵1/7
Social media users experience more political hostility in less economically equal and less democratic societies - Nature Human Behaviour
Drawing on survey data from 30 countries, Bor et al. find that online political hostility is higher in more unequal and less democratic societies.
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Happy to have my first paper published in @govjournal.bsky.social In the paper, I map and analyze the pre-appointment careers of Danish ministerial advisors. Political parties are central in most advisor careers. But over time, i observe fewer journalists and more policy professionals.
Governance Journal@govjournal.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew Article: A Certain Set of Skills? Pre-Appointment Careers of Danish Ministerial Advisors From: @haraldbroend.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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
More social, less material, more influenced by family ties: Why young women join political parties | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
More social, less material, more influenced by family ties: Why young women join political parties
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Lobbying ≠ campaign contributions. Treating them as the same isn’t just wrong—it distorts how we understand influence in American politics. New piece w @clarebrock.bsky.social & @alexanderfurnas.com: why the overlap is smaller than most think and why that matters. www.promarket.org/2026/03/20/t...
The Myth That Lobbying and Campaign Giving Are the Same - ProMarket
In new research, Alexander Furnas, Timothy LaPira, and Clare Brock find that most politically active organizations engage in either campaign contributions or lobbying, but rarely both.The findings hav...
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📚 Do you know of an outstanding published work in comparative #SocialSciences research? 🌟 Nominations are now OPEN for the 2026 Stein Rokkan Prize 🏆 Presented by @sciencecouncil.bsky.social, @sampol.bsky.social & ECPR 💰 £4,300 prize fund ⏰ Fri 1 May buff.ly/PFwkwVx #ECPRPrizes #ComparativeResearch
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Conditionally accepted at the APSR (w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social & @patrickpliu.bsky.social): Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.
🧵 Excited to share my new book w/ @hildecoffe.bsky.social : "Different and Unequal? Gendered Political Participation in European Democracies" — with @universitypress.cambridge.org Elements in Gender and Politics (open access!) TLDR? Women don't just participate less. They participate *differently*
📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London! Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU) No fee, travel grants might become available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026
6/6 🧵Can MPs read “the public”? In @thejop.bsky.social, @simonotjes.bsky.social & @annerasmussen.bsky.social compare MPs' estimates of public opinion with actual opinion on policy. They find reps project their own views onto the public, while business ties have little effect. doi.org/qm5q
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Breaking: Danish elections March 24, 2026 This is the message from PM Mette Frederiksen to the leader of Danish Parliament. To make an announcement of special nature: calling elections 🗳️ #BorgenMoment for those following 🇩🇰 politics.
Time to reassess. At the time of the Brexit vote, I thought that (at the aggregate level) the UK would be a little poorer but a little more sovereign. It’s now clear that the UK is quite a lot poorer, and only marginally more sovereign … The impact at the individual level is much worse, too
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew data shows #Brexit has lowered UK GDP by 6-8% over the past decade. Investment down 12-18%, employment down 3-4%. It's even worse than economists had predicted pre-referendum, because they thought there would be a bounce-back long term. "Economists were roughly right on the
Precies over een maand, op 12 maart verschijnt mijn boek De symfonie van onvrede: De opmars van radicaal-rechts in Europa bij Querido: www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/querido/boek... Dit boek gaat me aan het hart en ik kom graag een lezing geven. 🧵
De symfonie van onvrede - Singel Uitgeverijen
Catherine de Vries groeide op op een boerderij in Overijssel die al generaties in de familie was. Eind jaren tachtig veranderde dat leven ingrijpend: dalende prijzen, Europese regels en terughoudende ...
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Many congrats Tom! Happy to see this! 👏👏👏
Insitute of Political Science Leiden@polscileiden.bsky.social · 6mo ago📢 The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Tom Louwerse as Professor of Political Behaviour and Research Methods at the Institute of Political Science. 🔎 Read more: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...
📢 The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Tom Louwerse as Professor of Political Behaviour and Research Methods at the Institute of Political Science. 🔎 Read more: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...