This is not a picture of a democratic election. It's a "free but unfair" election, on a playing field systematically tilted towards a wealthy ultraminority. This one campaign saw about as much spending as the entire '24 UK general election. Money in politics is an existential threat to democracy.

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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/...

🆕 Upsetting the apple cart 🍎🍏 @dawso.bsky.social uses a novel Swedish survey experiment to find out what increases a politician's willingness to blow the whistle on fellow party members and how this helps us understand organisational cultures and accountability 😮‍💨

When do politicians choose to upset the apple cart? The fairness-loyalty trade-off in whistleblowing | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

When do politicians choose to upset the apple cart? The fairness-loyalty trade-off in whistleblowing

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#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - When do politicians choose to upset the apple cart? The fairness-loyalty trade-off in whistleblowing - https://cup.org/4djO2vJ - Stephen Dawson (University of Gothenburg) #FirstView

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 “When do politicians choose to upset the apple cart? The fairness-loyalty trade-off in whistleblowing” is now out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S147... #openaccess #polsci #polsky Summary thread 👇

If I had to say what I think is the most important thing happening in British politics right now, I’d say it’s the following phenomenon, explained here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvhI... With huge thanks to @yougov.co.uk @martamiori.bsky.social and @itvnews.bsky.social Please share! Thank you!

How the May elections could overthrow Britain’s two-party system forever

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🚨 New working paper! Excited to share my new 'labour of love' working paper published in @qoginstitute.bsky.social WP series: 'The development of the winner-loser gap: Institutional decline, polarization, and satisfaction with democracy around the world 1995-2024' tinyurl.com/2s7fpcc4