Inheritance taxation is unpopular, even amongst people who are unlikely to ever have to pay it. Why? In four different studies - experiment! panels! behaviour! - @cvalebeek.bsky.social and I show political trust is a strong predictor for support for the tax. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Political trust and inheritance taxation: evidence from four studies

Inheritance (estate) taxation is a potentially powerful instrument for reducing inequality and raising state revenues, yet it attracts opposition well beyond the small minority who will ever pay it...

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Something bugs me about Italian opinion polls. There's not enough variance: FdI has been at 27-and-a-bit in 12 of the last 13 polls. My suspicion was herding, so I went down a statistical rabbit hole, which involved inventing a new measure of herding (which may have picked up a different issue!). 🧵

Debates about the EU budget are intensifying. Using @chesdata.bsky.social data, @jlattmann.bsky.social and I examine how countries’ financial contributions to and receipts from the EU budget relate to parties’ positions on European integration journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Party Politics (oa)

🚨New Paper in @polbehavior.bsky.social! Julia Leschke and I ask: What works against populist rhetoric? We find: Advocating for pluralist ideals can mitigate the negative effects of populist rhetoric. link.springer.com/article/10.1... More details below ⏬

From July 2026 - The Equality Positions and Policies of Governments, 1970–2020: How Egalitarian Parties Evoke Equality While Evading Real Redistribution - https://cup.org/3TLOKfb - @alexanderhorn.bsky.social & @leoahrens.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Happy to see our new paper on mainstream-to-challenger defection in print! w/ @denis-cohen.bsky.social & @aigneranna.bsky.social Check out Denis' summary below! Thanks to @nilssteiner.bsky.social, @conradziller.bsky.social & @ackermannk.bsky.social for organizing this SI! tinyurl.com/5aa9wrmb

Denis Cohen@denis-cohen.bsky.social · 2w ago

📄 New paper in @electoralstudies.bsky.social: “From the center to the fringes: A comparative test of attitudinal explanations for mainstream-to-challenger defection” 👥 with @krausewe.bsky.social and @aigneranna.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Happy weekend! This Saturday brings you the rare joy of a 🙌job🙌 in: surveys! democratic attitudes! experiments! three years!! research only (if you want)!!!! with @rikkidean.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social !!!!!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTB393/r...

Research Fellow - Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) project at University of Southampton

Apply now for the Research Fellow - Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) project role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Our colleague and friend Philipp Köker has left us and i can't begin to order my thoughts. I hope I can express to his family the feeling of loss we can't beginn to understand, but attempt to share. rundblick-niedersachsen.de/politikwisse...

Politikwissenschaftler stirbt überraschend mit 40 Jahren

Philipp Köker, habilitierter Politikwissenschaftler und Experte für die Erforschung politischer Institutionen, ist im Alter von 40 Jahren überraschend gestorben. Die Nachricht hat in Kreisen der Unive...

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Having a job in a workplace with a considerable proportion of university-educated coworkers is associated with an increase in culturally liberal attitudes www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ideas at Work: Educated Colleagues Shape Political Attitudes | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

Ideas at Work: Educated Colleagues Shape Political Attitudes - Volume 56

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Die Landtagswahlen zeigen, dass die ehemaligen Volksparteien kein programmatisches Angebot mehr haben, das Wähler:innen anspricht. Sind sie nicht mehr im Rennen um das Amt der Ministerpräsident*in, erhalten sie kaum noch Stimmen. Übrig sind dann nur noch wenige eher ältere Stammwähler:innen.

Gern noch mal in einfachen Worten für Union und FDP: Wenn man fünf Jahre lang so tut, als habe die AfD im Grunde Recht (“Migration=größtes Problem”, “Grüne=sozialistische Deutschlandhasser”), dann hilft man damit der AfD und schadet sich selbst. Es ist wirklich nicht schwer.

Es gibt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Aber es gibt auch Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Wie wir heute Abend voraussichtlich wieder sehen werden, unterscheiden sich beide Regionen deutlich in ihrem Wahlverhalten. Woher kommen diese Unterschiede? Ein Thread mit Daten aus dem Kaiserreich bis heute. 🧵

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

🧵 Just accepted @thejop.bsky.social, with @tswalve.bsky.social "What's in a name? Name recognition, place-based identities, and candidate success" Voters prefer local candidates. But how do they know who's local? Often simply from the name on the ballot👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

📣 Call for papers now open! The next Annual Conference of the European Political Science Society will take place in Copenhagen, 24–26 June 2027. Submission deadline: 13 November 2026 (23:59 CET) Looking forward to it! #EPSS2027 @epssnet.bsky.social

En lille forsmag på onsdagens udgave af Makropuls.

There are many factors, of course, but a big part in my opinion is the sense among voters that elections have gotten somewhat meaningless. You vote and vote and vote, but you won't ever actually get what you want because it has become almost impossible to form coherent coalitions

Steffen Mau@steffenmau.bsky.social · last mo.

The landslide victory for a far-right party marks a profound turning point. The traditional party system is no longer able to bind people to it or absorb the prevailing public mood. The AfD is winning support with ethnonationalist and chauvinistic positions that exclude large sections of society.

A few things (international) commentatoes should remember. Only 2 million people live in Sachsen-Anhalt. Half of Berlin, a tenth of NRW. Around 400k will vote AfD. Even with this strong result, 80% of people living in S-A will not have voted for the AfD. In a state that is a far-right stronghold.

Germany: Saxony-Anhalt regional elections 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 Notable facts • Lowest turnout of any German regional election: 44.4% (2006) • First German state government to rely on a LINKE (then PDS) majority (1994) • Far-right DVU's best-ever result in any German regional election: 12.9% (1998) #Sachsen-Anhalt

1/5: How does the development of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia compare to Western Europe? My new Cambridge Element, How Settlers Shaped Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, is out. Chapter 2 compares three transformations in the East with the West: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Germany: Is Saxony-Anhalt's economy really struggling? Demographic challenges, relative deprivation, status threat… a lot of what the research says could be at play here www.dw.com/en/a-7886714...

Germany: Is Saxony-Anhalt's economy really struggling?

Germany's far-right AfD party has long claimed that the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt has been left behind. Is that really the case? A closer look at the data offers some interesting insights.

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New working paper. We propose a theory of dynamic identity-based linkages between voters and parties. We base this theory on models of expressive voting where voting signifies joining a community of social groups of voters. People have a sense of which parties are associated with which groups.

Iceland votes 53-47 to reject re-starting negotiations to join EU. Result driven by desire to maintain control over fishing, which makes up 40% of Iceland’s exports. Reflected in geographic results. Capital Reykjavik voted around 55-45 in favour, while rest of country clearly voted against.

Christian Christensen@chrchristensen.bsky.social · last mo.

This has probably fallen under news radar for many but referendum in Iceland today on whether or not country should re-start negotiations to join the EU (process that ended over a decade ago). Independence and right to control own fishing waters key issues for Iceland. www.bbc.com/news/article...

How do individuals normatively assess changes to the social order and what does this tell us about electoral realignment? New publication with @dpzollinger.bsky.social and Tabea Palmtag out now in the Journal of European Public Policy 😊 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Hvor polariseret er europæisk politik? Svaret afhænger af alder, køn og geografi #dkvid #dkforsk

Hvor polariseret er europæisk politik? Svaret afhænger af alder, køn og geografi

Politik deler vandene i Europa, men ikke helt så gennemgående som man måske skulle tro.

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What effect sizes can a design reliably detect, and how does that compare to the smallest effect size of interest? These questions are rarely pondered outside of experiments. I (with assistance from Claude) wrote an R package, "simpower", that helps with this: github.com/faranordk/si....

An American interviewer asked Count Binface where he stands on the political spectrum.

That many of our colleagues still post on X is one thing (mostly disappointing). But that our universities, professional associations, journals etc. still use a platform whose purpose it is to destroy the very basis of what science is and needs is really beyond my comprehension. Simply a disgrace.

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote this for @theobserveruk.bsky.social last October. The argument is even stronger today. It's also extremely easy now to tell which commentators have remained signed up to Musk's echo chamber.

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And fiscally impossible www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/nich...

„Nicht finanzierbar“: Wirtschaftsforscher sehen Milliarden-Lücke im AfD-Programm für Sachsen-Anhalt

Mindestens 2,2 Milliarden Euro pro Jahr fehlen im Haushalt Sachsen-Anhalts für die Pläne der AfD. Das zeigt eine neue Studie des Leibniz-Instituts IWH.

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