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Intra-EU migration has positive fiscal effects on the net fiscal position, while extra-EU migration has a negative effect when background characteristics are controlled for. This is the main result of a new comparative study of the net fiscal position of migrants in Europe. doi.org/10.1007/s107...

Decomposing the net fiscal position of migrants in Europe - International Tax and Public Finance

In this study, we examine differences in the net fiscal positions of migrants and native-born individuals across 15 EU countries between 2007 and 2018. To do so, we combine EU-SILC cross-sectional dat...

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Our article with @honoratam.bsky.social on ✨motivated causal judgements✨ is out in @polpsyispp.bsky.social! When something bad happens, whose actions produced the outcome and who bears responsibility? It depends much more on the identity of the actors than on the details of the situation.

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa@sanjanah.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Is this a joke 🤡? The sweeping claims are based on a sample of 813 self-selected responses on a survey posted on the author's feeds. Respondents *self-declared* to be scientists 😉and were *required* to have a bluesky account. The 'survey' was open for one month (it doesn't say in which year 🤷).

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our study of the impact of policy on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic is out @plosone.org. We find that the policy measures saved lives. They did so by reducing mobility (in addition to people's direct reactions to the pandemic) and other channels. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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The European Parliament voted yesterday to refer the MERCOSUR deal to the European Court of Justice. The two biggest party groups were quite split: - 28% of the present European Socialists (S&D) voted in favor of this motion; - 24% of the present European People's Party (EPP) MPs voted in favor.

Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 8mo ago

well, well, well if it isn't the book I started working on in 2017: academic.oup.com/book/61769

Contested Competences in the European Union: The Law and Politics of Institutional Choice

Abstract. What role do rules really play in shaping the behaviour of legislative actors? In theory, competences and procedures provide a framework within w

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The Bulgarian government resigns in the wake of the mass protests. Now the current parliament will fail to form another government, the president will appoint an interim cabinet and schedule new elections, which - most likely - will lead to another stealmate. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Bulgarian government resigns after weeks of street protests

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov handed in his government's resignation on Thursday following weeks of street protests over its economic policies and its perceived failure to tackle corruptio...

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It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social. A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:

Dimiter Toshkov@dtoshkov.bsky.social · last yr.

My study of 🇪🇺 public opinion is now published! Check it out if you want to know how attitudes towards European integration really covary with political ideology, which policy views predict EU support, and how party positions structure public opinion. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Political Ideology, Policy Attitudes, and Public Support for European Integration | Article | Politics and Governance

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How do attitudes to 🇪🇺 European integration relate to political ideology and policy preferences? A major update of my study: - I added the latest 2023 ESS data for citizens and 2024 CHES data for parties - I built an app to explore these relationships across datasets, indicators, years & countries

Average support for further European integration of citizens (blue line, based on GAM with cubic regression splines) and positive orientation towards European integration of political parties (black dots and red line, based on a local polynomial regression) as functions of left-right self-placement of the citizens and general left-right party positions as estimated by experts. Originally, party positions on European integration are scored on a 1-to-7 scale, which has been rescaled from 0 to 10 to match the public opinion data. Data: ESS Wave 11 (2023), CHES (2024).

ECPR Standing Group on the European Union 🇪🇺@ecprsgeu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Deadline extended until 14 December (Sunday) ⌛! You can still apply to the ECPR SGEU 2026 conference (1 – 3 July 2026) until the end of thes week! Join us in sunny Sicily, in the air-conditioned rooms of Università di Catania! ecpr.eu/Events/341

Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New work on on Immigration attitudes, out in @irpp.org with @natashagoel.bsky.social We show dramatical increase in anti-immigration opinion in Canada over the past couple of years. Its very different than previous shifts like in 1990s...

IRPP@irpp.org · 8mo ago

In 2015, only 16% strongly agreed Canada had too much immigration. By 2024, that number doubled to 33%. This IRPP paper by @randybesco.bsky.social and @natashagoel.bsky.social reveals a striking reversal in Canadians’ views on immigration: centre.irpp.org/research-stu...

European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 Today in #ECPRSeminars on the EU from 15:00 @ecprsgeu.bsky.social Our speakers argue that climate disasters can push voters 🗳️ away from mainstream parties, shaped by local economic conditions 🎙️@lisadellmuth.bsky.social @evemariejon.bsky.social @tntounias.bsky.social @cjschneider.bsky.social

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Thomas M. Meyer@thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's quite absurd that there is no funding to keep ParlGov updated: this is essential data infrastructure for political science! No funder is interested in keeping the data backbone of comparative politics alive, while millions get spent on all kinds of BS. Ridiculous!

Just learned that Holger Döring retired from ParlGov in October. If I'm not misreading his message, then this great resource will not be updated anymore 🖤 parlgov.org/2024/10/01/r...

ECPR Standing Group on the European Union 🇪🇺@ecprsgeu.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The deadline (10 December) for the call for papers and panels for the 13th biennial SGEU conference (1-3 July 2026, Università di Catania) is approaching fast! Submit your panels and papers to one of 18 sections via the @ecpr.bsky.social webpage: ecpr.eu/Events/341.

13th Biennial Conference of the SGEU, Università di Catania, 1 – 3 July 2026

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Philipp Lutz @lutzphilipp.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🤩 Party positions in the 2024 European Parliament 🇪🇺! I merged the CHES expert survey with EP composition data to visualize the political space of the current EP. The graphs make the center of gravity in the EP quite clear, on multiple dimensions and policy issues. dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/

Party positions in the European Parliament 2024. Based on the CHES expert survey. Political space in the European Union 2024.

Our study on public immigration misperceptions is out! Prior research overstated their prevalence due to flawed measurement. Our new approach separates real misperceptions from uninformed guessing — showing they’re less common than widely assumed and ideologically motivated. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Beyond innumeracy: measuring public misperceptions about immigration | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Beyond innumeracy: measuring public misperceptions about immigration

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Reviewer 2: You have no definition of 'sanctions'. Also, I don't like your definition of 'sanctions'. 😂😡🥹

It is truly disappointing how small-minded some political scientists can be 😮‍💨. For a recent study on enforcement in the EU, we dug deep into the general literature on enforcement, which spans evolutionary psychology, anthropology, economic behavior, etc. Here is what Reviewer 2 has to say:

This is some very thorough empirical work on judicial bias in Germany 👏

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ECPR Standing Group on the European Union 🇪🇺@ecprsgeu.bsky.social · 9mo ago

For my course on Conflict and Representation in the EU, I made an interactive Shiny app that plots CHES party positions, for all countries, years (1999-2024) and (most) dimensions in the dataset. Enjoy! dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/ #polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky

An interactive Shiny app on party positions using the CHES (Chapel HIll expert survey dataset).

Planning a panel related to the EU 🇪🇺 or European integration for the next @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference (8-11 September 2026 in Krakow 🇵🇱)? The section proposal on the EU is prepared by Adam Holesch (IBEI) and @nathaliebrack.bsky.social. Get in touch with them before 7 November to co-ordinate!

Pedantic point, but the reported increases/decreases are not in % (percentages), as suggested by this @nieuws.nos.nl table, but in percentage *points*. NSC lost 97% of its vote share, not 12.5%.

Affective polarization (negative/positive feelings towards voters of different parties), for prospective voters of D66 and CDA, as of june 2025. Dots show the averages per groups of party voters. DD6 voters were much more negative towards JA21 than CDA voters were negative towards GL-PvdA voters.

Call me old-fashioned, but I find such open endorsement of political figures by university professors on professional social networks inappropriate. It is actions like this one that erode the credibility of social scientists as independent experts.