🧵📖 My first solo book – 'Varieties of Social Democracy in Western Europe: The Impact of External Constraints on Ideological Differences' – will be out in all formats over the next few weeks! Excited that this is finally real, as per its pretty cover & Palgrave Macmillan's website: bit.ly/4frmeqz 1/3

📢 Job opening The Cevipof is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Political Science in the field of political institutions and contemporary transformations of democracy @cevipof.bsky.social @sciencespo.bsky.social

Recruitement : Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science

CEVIPOF / Sciences Po is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Political Science, Topic Immigration and Democracy / Political Theory. The application deadline is 18 September 2026.

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A fun couple of weeks conferencing across Belgium and the UK! Especially so at the first-ever @epssnet.bsky.social in Belfast, which was an astounding success – adding myself to the long list of well-deserved congratulations and thank-yous to the organisers 🙏👇

🧵 Looking forward to Europe travels – and some of my favourite conferences – over the next couple of weeks! 🛣️🌙 1/4

Very excited to welcome @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in our team!!🥳🤗

Federico Trastulli@fedetrastulli.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧵🆕 A long overdue update after a few intense months to start off 2026. Incredibly grateful to be able to share that I was awarded a Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social. 1/11

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Ruth Dassonneville@rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Super excited that @fedetrastulli.bsky.social will be joining the team of the @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social next academic year as an FWO postdoctoral fellow!!

🧵🆕 A long overdue update after a few intense months to start off 2026. Incredibly grateful to be able to share that I was awarded a Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social. 1/11

65.1🦋 What issues matter most to #Voters? 😬 @gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups prioritise different issues. But are issue importance and personal attitudes driven by the same factors? 🧭🗳️

Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation - Volume 65 Issue 1

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How to identify party families? @fedetrastulli.bsky.social advances a novel framework that shifts analytical focus from aggregate-level ideology to the bundles of historically rooted issues that define each family's ideological distinctiveness open.substack.com/pub/ipsrbrie...

Come riconoscere le famiglie partitiche? Secondo @fedetrastulli.bsky.social è meglio guardare ai temi di cui parlano, più che a un'ideologia strutturata. Ne parliamo qui 👇 open.substack.com/pub/ipsrdisc...

@gefjonoff.bsky.social & my "Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation" EJPR piece – now out in (a 2026) issue :-) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to start 2026 – the year of getting back into the political science job market – by sharing my new webpage! Hope this provides a helpful overview of my work & another way to get/stay in touch. federicotrastulli.github.io

Amazing to (belatedly) see our research on left governmental power and the reduction of inequalities being picked up by @elespectador.com, Colombia's oldest newspaper! 🇨🇴 Thanks to Tomás Molina for the coverage :) www.elespectador.com/opinion/colu...

No creamos en la propaganda: la izquierda sí disminuye la desigualdad

“La Venezuela de Maduro no es representativa de la izquierda global. En general, la izquierda sí trabaja para la gente”: Tomás Molina

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Happy to share latest piece on Politics and Governance. @andreacapati.bsky.social & I argue that how social democrats (here, 🇮🇹 PD) react to large-scale crises in terms of positions on EU integration depends on the different policy implications of these crises. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Large‐Scale Crises and Variation in Social Democratic Europeanism: The Italian Democratic Party | Article | Politics and Governance

Andrea Capati, Federico Trastulli

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The Voting and Democracy Research Group welcomes Professor Rune Stubager (Aarhus University) for a keynote presentation. 🗓️ Friday 23 January 2026, 11h00 📍 Aula Emma Vorlat (campus Faculty of Social Sciences KU Leuven) ℹ️ Info: lnkd.in/dMvzG36U 📝 Registration (by 14 January 2026): lnkd.in/dZ3ZBSGh

What issues matter most to #Voters? 😬 @gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups care about different issues--and that what people care about isn’t the same as what they think about those issues. 🧭🗳️

Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation

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🆕 Great to see our work on the determinants and measurement of individual-level issue salience now out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! If you haven't, check out my fantastic co-author @gefjonoff.bsky.social's thread below 👇 bsky.app/profile/gefj...

Gefjon Off@gefjonoff.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 doi.org/10.1017/S147... We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?

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Gefjon Off@gefjonoff.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This collaboration w/ Federico came about after we met at the 2022 PhD School on Elections in Leuven. Not only did we have a great time at the summer school – it also ended in a friendship, collaboration and now a joint publication! 😊

New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 doi.org/10.1017/S147... We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?

Deadline for application to @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 conference is this Friday 7th of November. There's been an amazing response to the call for papers so far, we hope for even more great proposals this week. Here is the call for papers: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

NEW - Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - https://cup.org/47ifc4B "we show that educational divides are diminished in the presence of countervailing networks" - @davidattewell6.bsky.social & @dpzollinger.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🆕 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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📣SAVE THE DATE 📣 📆 29-30 gennaio 2026 📍Dipartimento di Scienze Umane - Università di Verona Deadline: 31 ottobre 2025 La CfP è aperta al mondo dell’accademia, dell’attivismo e delle istituzioni, con l’obiettivo di stimolare un dialogo intersettoriale. sites.dsu.univr.it/politesse/wp...

Happy to announce the publication of my first article in @plc-journal.bsky.social! 👀 Interested in reading more about sibling parties and electoral behaviour in Belgium? Check out the post below 👇 Thank you to my supervisors @marchooghe.bsky.social and @dieterstiers.bsky.social for their guidance

Politics of the Low Countries@plc-journal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📢 New #openaccess publication 📢 📝 Party Families as a Cross-Cutting Cleavage on the Individual Level: The case of Belgium 👤 By Steven De Keyser (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, Voting and Democracy Research Group) 🔗 plc-journal.eu/article/view...

📣Just issued on @poppublicsphere.bsky.social our article analyzing 🔴left #parties in #government and the reduction of inequalities 📉. @fedetrastulli.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We're looking forward to putting together a *fantastic* Electoral and Voting Behaviour section for the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 meeting in Belfast! ‼️ Make sure to submit your papers by 7 November 2025!

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 11mo ago

👉🏽 Section chairs: @siljahausermann.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social 📢 Our section welcomes work on elections, referenda & political decision-making, from participation & opinion formation to social cleavages, mobilization, institutional effects & more. 1/

w/ @massimoprearo.bsky.social on @qoe-ijes.bsky.social, we introduce our 2024 Italian LGBTIQ+ Electoral Survey: the first large-N evidence on the political behaviour & attitudes of Italian LGBTIQ+ citizens. We discuss data, methodological challenges & relevance here: oaj.fupress.net/index.php/qo...

On Italian Political Science Review, an issue-level approach to conceptualising 'party family'. Glad to see this fun spin-off from my PhD thesis now out OA, honoured that it features in a ‘The Legacy of Giovanni Sartori’ symposium w/ many distinguished scholars! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1/2

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...

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...