Three long-running, gold standard, nonpartisan, publicly available social science surveys are on chopping block: GSS, ANES, & PSID. These surveys are public goods. They help policymakers make better decisions, journalists write evidence-based stories, and academics understand the social world.

US social sciences face existential crisis after NSF cuts

The US National Science Foundation is a major funder of economics and archaeology research but in 2026 awarded no new grants in those disciplines.

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What a massive blue wave among young US voters:

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These charts show how various demographic groups voted in the midterm election. The data comes from a poll of tens of thousands of voters, conducted by the firm SSRS for a number of news outlets. n.pr/4yVAnUF

Wishful thinking is a major driver of electoral expectations. But how much of this wishfulness comes from how we measure expectations? In my new @electoralstudies.bsky.social paper, I show that incentivized respondents become more accurate and less wishful. doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

I am truly honoured to receive the 2026 #Elizabeth #Meehan #Prize for the best conference paper from the Political Studies Association of Ireland (@psaireland.bsky.social)! 😊

The University of Mannheim invites applications for an Assistant Professor in International Political Economy and Development (W1, non-tenure track). A research focus on European integration and/or European Union politics is welcome. More details here: www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job...

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📣 Call for abstracts: Panel “Causal Inference with Observational Data” @dvpwkongress.bsky.social #dvpw2027 in Leipzig, 7–10 Sep 2027. ▶️ Submit your abstract by 31 Oct 2026: www.dvpw.de/dvpw2027/en/... ℹ️ Panel organized by SekMethoden. Thanks to Susanna Wirthgen for serving as discussant 🙌

A serious weakness in this paper by King and Worthington: The judges for the AI peer reviews are *not* experts in the field. They are former journal editors but no claim is made to substantive expertise in the reviewed papers. AI-generated reviews sound good *if you don't know the substance well.*

New working paper with Matt Blyth, Marco Aviña, and @semrasevi.bsky.social ! paper: alexandercoppock.com/coppock_etal... shiny: anonymouspoliticalscientist.shinyapps.io/afcp-explorer/ Answer to the title question: effects of partisanship and policy are much bigger than demographics or experience

Excited about this new publication with a great team of co-authors! We investigate the consequences of radical right accommodation on the potential coalition partners of mainstream parties.

Jasmin Rath@jasminrath.bsky.social · 2w ago

📝 New paper in Party Politics (open access) with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @janberz.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social @sarahwagner.bsky.social 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... When a mainstream party accommodates the radical right, do its potential coalition partners pay too? 🧵

📝 New paper in Party Politics (open access) with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @janberz.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social @sarahwagner.bsky.social 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... When a mainstream party accommodates the radical right, do its potential coalition partners pay too? 🧵

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Our AK Wahlen special issue on the 2025 German election closes with another excellent article: Krause, Thomeczek & Wagner find that small polling shifts around the 5% threshold influenced support for The Left and BSW.

Werner Krause@krausewe.bsky.social · 3w ago

New paper in @electoralstudies.bsky.social! “Polling and parliamentary representation” with @drphilphil.bsky.social & @aikowagner.bsky.social We ask whether voters systematically responded to public opinion polls during the 2025 election campaign in Germany. doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

New in Electoral Studies w/ Eric Linhart & @cerpintaxt.bsky.social: How do voters weigh proportional representation against clear majorities? Our survey experiment in DE, NL & UK finds that voters favor proportionality, esp. when trade-offs are explicit. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How do voters deal with the uncertainty which coalition government the party they vote for might ultimately join? Excited to see our paper on this question typeset in @thejop.bsky.social We show that voters are risk-averse and value less uncertain government prospects.

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

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📄 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...

1/5 How costly are inappropriate emotional displays by leaders? @wurthmann.bsky.social and I examine Armin Laschet’s laughter during a speech by the German president after the 2021 July floods in our new Electoral Studies article. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2026.103143

How we speak shapes how we feel represented - using original survey data from Germany, @martingross.bsky.social & @wurthmann.bsky.social show dialect speakers feel less politically represented & prefer politicians who speak their dialect. OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/iVEXmZv @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

‼️ Only 10 days left to apply for the PhD position in my group! All info below 👇

Ruth Dassonneville@rdassonneville.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 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!

New publication with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org: In “Crises and Electoral Accountability” I ask how voters evaluate governments after different exogenous crises - and which crisis characteristics affect performance & responsibility judgments by voters. OA: doi.org/10.1017/gov.... 1/9

#OpenAccess from @govandopp.bsky.social - Crises and Electoral Accountability: How Do Individual Characteristics of Crises Affect Performance and Responsibility Evaluations among Voters? - https://cup.org/4g3GAYI - @janberz.bsky.social #FirstView

Looking for an apartment to rent in Berlin. Ideally around Pankow, flexible on move-in date. If you know of anything or have a lead, please email me at wohnungberz@posteo.de. Grateful for any help or reposts!

Last week, I defended my PhD dissertation at Trinity College Dublin. I am happy to say that I have joined the esteemed ranks of Dr. Dre, Dr. Pepper, and Dr. Seuss! 😁🎉 Thanks so much to family, friends, colleagues, and especially my PhD supervisors, @cboussalis.bsky.social and @janberz.bsky.social!

Do interpersonal relations affect coalition bargaining? @hannaeback.bsky.social, @michaelimre.bsky.social and I argue that when the Prime Minister is replaced, the incumbency advantage of a coalition will be weakened because of reduced familiarity and trust journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2

In the coming months, I'll be recruiting two PhD students to work with me as part of the Voting & Democracy research group at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social. So watch this space if you want to join the team and work on this lovely campus!

I'm very proud of Lucas, who just published his second single-authored paper! A great track-record since the start of his PhD in 2021.

Lucas Paulo da Silva@lucas-p-dasilva.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thrilled that my paper is now published by @polbehavior.bsky.social! Using a natural experiment—the Sun boycott—I show how media may shape our voting mostly by changing our perceptions of party positions. Media matters! 🗳️ Read here: doi.org/10.1007/s111... @tcddublin.bsky.social #mediabias #vote

As speakers of the @dvpw.bsky.social's working group Elections and Public Opinion, we invite proposals for a special issue on the 2025 German federal election (to be submitted to Electoral Studies). See: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a... Also see the previous SI: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

As @cpsjournal.bsky.social editor I read about 100 peer-reviews per month. A 🧵 on what makes a great review: 1.) Succinct summary of the contribution (puzzle, argument, data, evidence) 2.) State clearly in your first paragraph whether the evidence supports the argument.

Very happy to share our new article in JoP @thejop.bsky.social, where we explore how parties forge links with social groups (here: social classes) through different appeals and how citizens respond to such appeals. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

My article on voter support for disabled candidates is now published at doi.org/10.1086/732994. I find that left-wing voters in UK+US favour disabled candidates, while right-wing voters prefer non-disabled candidates - but only because voters assume disabled candidates to be more left-wing. [1/2]

Voting for Disabled Candidates | The Journal of Politics

Despite important advances in the rights of disabled people, stigma and prejudice remain widespread. Meanwhile, disabled political representatives are few and far between. This raises the question: do...

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As Germany heads to the polls on Sunday, here are some articles we have published on German elections that can guide you through what to expect… 🗳️ 📊