🚨Out now 🚨 The second DeVOTE policy brief "Sticking to Eighteen: Status Quo and the Politics of Lowering the Voting Age" provides a concise analysis of public preferences on the franchise question of lowering the voting age. @carolinaplescia.bsky.social @callegall.bsky.social

Happy that our article is now available online at JEPOP! Using German data, @salvabarbaro.bsky.social, Maike Roth and me illustrate how voter preferences are translated into electoral outcomes, challenging common narratives about declining support for social democrats and rising right-wing support.

New study showing that online hatred is worse in countries with higher economic and political inequality. www.nature.com/articles/s41... By @m-b-petersen.bsky.social et al.

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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Popular attitudes are often seen as a safeguard against democratic backsliding: if citizens don’t oppose lib democracy, politicians have little incentive to erode it. In @cpsjournal.bsky.social I argue that, while intuitive, this reasoning conflates two states of the world: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

My latest with Christina Zuber and Edina Szöcsik, finally out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We outline an emerging new paradigm in the study of parties and elections. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Notre liste « Union de gauche Écologique et Solidaire » a été officiellement déposée au Consulat de Vienne. Elle est menée par Armelle Hammoumi Müller (@armellemuller.bsky.social) Vérifiez dès maintenant et jusqu’au 24 avril 2026 que vous êtes bien inscrit-e sur la liste électorale consulaire !

From our FirstView article: Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems DANIEL M. SMITH, @AliCirone.bsky.social, @teele.bsky.social, GARY W. COX and JON H. FIVA. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

When the far right enters government, it is associated with ideological moderation and thematic diversification, but these effects are short lived and largely confined to cases where the far right parties serves as a junior coalition partner journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Policy Diversification without Ideological Attenuation: The Programmatic Changes of Western European Far-Right Parties (1990–2025) - Belén Fernández-García, 2026

This research examines the programmatic transformations of the far right in Western Europe through two hypothesized mechanisms: the diversification of their age...

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📄 New WP version out: revised text, tightened argument, and new analysis. The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social) Grateful for the helpful comments and presentation opportunities. Further feedback welcome! 🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...

Really thrilled to announce the publication of what I consider to be the most important article of my academic career in the journal West European Politics: "The Ecologism/Productivism cleavage: reassessing the transformation of cleavage politics in Western Europe", co-authored with Florent Gougou.

📝Inattentive respondents are a growing concern in online surveys. ➡S Blatte & @bfschaffner.bsky.social that 4 to 6% of respondents pass attention checks yet remain inattentive, biasing public opinion estimates for small subgroups www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

Why are cities and rural areas drifting apart politically? 🌄🌆 @indubioproreto.bsky.social & @lhaffert.bsky.social conducted a long-term Swiss study to find the biggest divide is amongst younger generations who hold very different views depending on where they grew up 👶 🔎

How generational replacement feeds the urban-rural divide: Evidence from Switzerland (1995–2023) | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

How generational replacement feeds the urban-rural divide: Evidence from Switzerland (1995–2023)

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🥊 Who contests the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and its Deforestation Regulation? And why? 🤔 👉 @alexboegner.bsky.social shows it’s not just affectedness — allies are far more forgiving 👇 📕 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Do policy preferences of voters and non-voters differ in European democracies? My new article in @ejprjournal.bsky.social finds: Yes, sometimes, but this is not the norm. Let's break it down. 🧵 1/10

Now out @apsrjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! 🫒 We advance a new argument on how economic crises fuel support for far-right parties in left-behind places by tapping into long-standing community narratives shorturl.at/bA55v @catherinedevries.bsky.social

🚨 New paper with Maria Grasso on generational shifts in political values. Despite talk of rising age polarisation, we show that gaps in attitudes are stable or even narrowing. Economic attitudes move in cycles, while social values have become more liberal – mainly due to generational replacement.

Political Socialisation in the UK: Describing Generational Changes of Values - International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society

A growing bulk of research examines intergenerational shifts in attitudes and the extent to which they are attributable to new cohorts of voters being socialised under different socioeconomic and cult...

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🆕 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...

Left parties’ strategies and working-class vote in contemporary Western Europe (2002–2020)

What should the left do strategically to retain workers' vote? This paper provides extensive empirical evidence on the relationship between left parti…

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When do liberal orders become self-undermining? @cknill.bsky.social, Andreas Kruck, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf & Bernhard Zangl provide answers to this timely question! Check out the introduction to their new Special Issue in @jeppjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

💥OUT NOW! "Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions. Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Just out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with @dschraff.bsky.social, I ask: Is the urban–rural divide in Europe affectively polarised? 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 1/7 🧵

Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised? Comparative Evidence from Nine European Countries - Sven Hegewald, Dominik Schraff, 2025

Recent studies in the United States and Europe have documented a growing divergence in voting behaviour and political attitudes between cities and the countrysi...

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📬🚩 Our article on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out in APSR! Here is the @excinequality.bsky.social working paper: kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/4... with @klueserthan.bsky.social & Martin Haselmayer 🧗🙏

New publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social : “Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?” @polstudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0032... A short 🧵:

Some papers are a long time in the making. This one, written with the excellent @iguinaudeau.bsky.social, took long and I am incredibly grad to see it published. 1/8 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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...

Economic crises tend to favour the right. Voters tend to assign greater importance to issues owned by the right. When center-right parties preside over a crisis, voters often drift further rightward to nationalist parties rather than defect to the left onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

How do voters respond to economic crises: Do they turn against the incumbent, reward a certain political camp, polarize to the extremes, or perhaps continue to vote much like before? Analyzing extens....

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Returning from vacation and looking for a late summer read? @ivobantel.bsky.social and I got you covered! In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Seems like a good time to read this beautiful paper! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....