NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Elections, Government Turnover, & Citizen Acceptance of #Political #Violence: Evidence from Election Panel Surveys in #Zambia & #Kenya By @borzyskowski.bsky.social & Michael Wahman www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This thread by @erickpadilla.bsky.social summarises our latest published paper at the EJPR 📑 Check it out if you're interested in political elites, elections and democratic attitudes! 👇👇👇

Erick Padilla@erickpadilla.bsky.social · 4w ago

New paper with @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social in EJPR: Does the "winner-loser gap" in democratic attitudes also apply to politicians? We extend some previous insights from recent literature on the topic by looking at 27 elections across 15 European countries. 🧵 buff.ly/UarD6eC

A summary of what I understand and do not understand about the way democracy works: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7269378

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - The winner–loser gap in democratic attitudes among politicians: Individual and collective outcomes - https://cup.org/45h6bH4 - Erick Stivens Padilla-Galviz & @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social #FirstView

Does losing an election affect politicians' democratic attitudes? A large literature documents a winner–loser gap among voters, but evidence on political elites was long scarce. A series of recent studies has narrowed this gap. A thread on the state of the evidence. 🧵

Latest publication with the great @erickpadilla.bsky.social 🎉🎉 A summary thread will follow soon. In the meantime, you can find the paper below 👇

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And how are the politicians doing? 🏛️ 🥉 @ub.edu's Erick Stivens Padilla-Galviz & @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social asks whether the winner-loser gap in democratic attitudes extends to politicians, addressing both theoretically and empirically buff.ly/UarD6eC

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We're hiring a six-year Postdoc @stawi-univie.bsky.social, starting in Oct 2026 (or thereafter). Research: political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅 Deadline: 20 Aug 2026 Apply here: tinyurl.com/dyf9bt7h

#OpenAccess from @epsrjournal.bsky.social - Blinded by out-group hatred: why does radical party entry fail to boost its voters’ satisfaction with democracy? - https://cup.org/4yy4vGG - @morganlcj.bsky.social & @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social #FirstView

Banger title, banger paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Communities Without Credit: The Political Implications of Deprivation in Access to Banking Services - Pedro Martín-Cadenas, 2026

A growing body of research links public service provision to political geographies. Yet an increasing share of services in Western countries is delivered by pri...

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Blinded by out-group hatred 👀 🤬 @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social & @morganlcj.bsky.social look at studies satisfaction and French #RadicalRight voting, to understand why voters of radical parties are not more satisfaction with democracy after their party enters parliament 🔓️ buff.ly/m1ZmHWo

Blinded by out-group hatred: why does radical party entry fail to boost its voters’ satisfaction with democracy? | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Blinded by out-group hatred: why does radical party entry fail to boost its voters’ satisfaction with democracy?

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From May 2026 - Love Blinds? Winners, In-Party Favoritism, and Support for Violations of Democratic Norms - https://cup.org/4njqsE4 - Yu-Shiuan Huang #OpenAccess

🗳️ Radical parties have institutionalized and entered political competition and democratic institutions. Yet their voters do not seem to become more satisfied with democracy after this inclusion. Why is this the case? In a newly published paper with @morganlcj.bsky.social we propose a response 🧵

New working paper w/ @denis-cohen.bsky.social @rantuna.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com! *Does publicly refusing to cooperate with the far right only strengthen it?* A widespread belief says yes. In this paper, we test it based on a natural experiment from Spain. tinyurl.com/5azkfnas [1/6]

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

2 three-year postdocs in political communication and political psychology at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Out in POQ -- Mind the Gap: Partisan Bias in Justifying Political Violence in the United States academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

Mind the Gap: Partisan Bias in Justifying Political Violence in the United States

Abstract. Political polarization in America has intensified beyond mere disagreement to what scholars characterize as sectarianism—a condition where partis

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Lars Erik Berntzen@leberntzen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Do Americans judge acts of partisan political violence impartially? No. We show that Democrats and Republicans exhibit clear partisan bias: both see the same violent act as more justified when it targets the other party than when it targets their own side. osf.io/preprints/so... #polisky

New paper, with Patrick Fournier & @zeynsom.bsky.social, out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social! 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... a brief 🧵

Do Citizens Perceive an empty Left-Authoritarian Quadrant? Citizen Perceptions of Parties’ Positions in a Multi-Dimensional Space - Ruth Dassonneville, Patrick Fournier, Zeynep Somer-Topcu, 2026

Given that there are few parties in the left-authoritarian quadrant of a two-dimensional ideological space, citizens that combine economically left and sociocul...

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📢 My Bluesky-less colleague Lena Schaffer is advertising one PhD and one Postdoctoral position in her new SNF project on climate politics at @uniluzern.bsky.social Here is the link with info about the postdoc position and instructions to apply 👇: www.unilu.ch/en/universit... Please share! 🔁

Postdoctoral Researcher (80%) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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#OpenAccess from @epsrjournal.bsky.social - Priming common European and democratic values does not reduce affective polarization - https://cup.org/4fpJPtl - @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social, Lorenzo Cicchi, @fredericofs.bsky.social, Diego Garzia, Andres Reiljan & Alexander Harald Trechsel #FirstView

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? Our new paper at @thejop.bsky.social documents exactly this, and the dynamics are more complex than "mothers are busier." Full paper, open access: doi.org/10.1086/736550 @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social @gendersky.bsky.social #politicalscience

Making Time to Be Informed: The Child Penalty in Political News Consumption | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No 0

Women consume less media than men and are more likely to avoid political news. This gender gap in media consumption is frequently attributed to women’s time constraints resulting from the combination ...

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New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🚨 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/...

Can Simple Language Affect Voters’ Political Knowledge and Their Beliefs About Politicians? | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No 0

How does the level of sophistication in political messages affect citizens? While research has examined how politicians use this element to distinguish themselves, little is known about how it resonat...

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📢 Happy to share our new paper, just out in the European Political Science Review! 🎉 "Priming common European and democratic values does not reduce affective polarization" cambridge.org/core/journal... Short thread 🧵👇

Here are remarks I gave at the Keeping the Republic Conference at Notre Dame. If you’ve followed me over the past decade or so, my skepticism toward the field’s fixation on polarization likely won’t come as much of a surprise. But here they are, for what they’re worth. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond Polarization

My Remarks at Notre Dame's "Keeping the Republic" Conference

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⏳ One week left to apply! 📅 Deadline: June 7, 2026 🔗 Apply here: tinyurl.com/394fuxrk

Post-doctoral Researcher and Lecturer in Political Science 50% (Oberassistent*in) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

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Álvaro Canalejo-Molero@canalejoalvaro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧵 1/3 The Department of Political Science at the University of Lucerne 🇨🇭 is hiring a postdoc (Oberassistent*in, 50%, up to 5 years) at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Alexander H. Trechsel! Focus: political behaviour, public opinion, and/or political communication.

✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇

New piece out at @jepopy.bsky.social with the wonderful @cvargiu.bsky.social & Diego Garzia We use an experiment to test whether musical preferences and political attitudes influence each other. We find effects in both ways! Paper ungated: tinyurl.com/rpau9eyb Open data: osf.io/7vqgn

Excited to be teaching this one! Come with a rough research idea and leave with a complete, ready-to-field Pre-Analysis Plan. Five half-days, fully applied, no frontal lecturing — just you, your RQ, and a solid experimental design. See you in Krakow 🎉

European Consortium for Political Research@ecpr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Are you looking to turn a rough research idea into a fully designed, publishable study? 🔥 Join our NEW 🚀#ecprms course 📆 8-11 Sep, Jagiellonian University & 14–15 Sep, Online 👨‍🏫 @emmahoes.bsky.social 🔐 Get FREE observer access to #ecprgc26 🐦️ Save £55 by 2 Jun 💰️ Funding open until 13 May

Does affective polarization itself actually threaten democracy? Recent experiments from the US suggest maybe not. In our new @ejprjournal.bsky.social paper, we revisit this question comparatively with a survey experiment in 9 democracies (18,000 respondents). #polisky

🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student for a new project on Parties' social group ownership, based in the @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social research group at KU Leuven! Deadline for applying is 26 June, estimated starting date is 1 Oct 2026. All info is here 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Share widely!

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1 PhD position to research how parties build connections with social groups

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Wanna talk about the cordon sanitaire (the "Brandmauer"?) 🚨We (@christinajuen.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I) have a new paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010... What do we do in the paper? A 🧵: 1/7