Featuring analysis by @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social from @exeterspspa.bsky.social www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The University of Exeter (@exeter.ac.uk) are looking to hire a new permanent full-time Lecturer in Criminology to join C2S2 (@c2s2exeter.bsky.social) and the wider SPSPA department (@exeterspspa.bsky.social). Full details available here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC992/l...

Lecturer in Criminology (Education and Research) at University of Exeter

An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Criminology (Education and Research) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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🚨 New paper with Maria Grasso on generational shifts in political values. Despite talk of rising age polarisation, we show that gaps in attitudes are stable or even narrowing. Economic attitudes move in cycles, while social values have become more liberal – mainly due to generational replacement.

Political Socialisation in the UK: Describing Generational Changes of Values - International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society

A growing bulk of research examines intergenerational shifts in attitudes and the extent to which they are attributable to new cohorts of voters being socialised under different socioeconomic and cult...

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For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

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What is the liberalizing potential of higher education? In this @bjsociology.bsky.social research, we show substantial variation in the association between field of study and anti-immigrant sentiment — a pattern most pronounced among those with tertiary degrees doi.org/10.1111/1468...

From today onwards, you can find me as a Lecturer in Politics at the beautiful University of Exeter @exeterspspa.bsky.social! Couldn't be a better time to start with EPOP coming up. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and (hopefully!) making some new ones later this week!

The London Mayoralty is 25 this year. As a birthday present, the Mile End Institute asked Londoners whether they feel politically empowered. In short, no. But why? For @theconversation.com, @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I dig into the clashing explanations. theconversation.com/its-25-years...

It’s 25 years since London got a mayor – and our polling reveals discontent

Even though the position is now coveted by politicians, Londoners don’t feel their mayors are delivering.

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After a fantastic few years, I'll soon be leaving @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social and the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social. I've been surrounded by inspiring and generous colleagues, had lots of time and freedom to pursue my own research agenda, and had the pleasure of running the Polling London project.

My most recent interview for the Dods Research Interview series is out, talking to @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social of @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social www.dodspoliticalintelligence.com/resources/in...

In conversation with Elizabeth Simon: the Red Wall, electoral behaviour and do universities make students woke? | Dods Political Intelligence

Welcome to Dods Conversations, an interview series featuring leading academics from Queen Mary University of London, where they talk about their area of expertise and what they can tell us about UK po...

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He always looks so worried. Perhaps he should be. Did this for The Standard off the back of @mileendinstitute.bsky.social's fab London polling.

London isn't a Labour city any more — the three key questions that new polling raises

“London is a Labour city” was always something of an exaggeration but it’s even more misleading today than it has been for quite a while. Polling just released by the Mile End Institute (MEI) at Queen...

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New @mileendinstitute.bsky.social and @savanta.bsky.social polling out today shows that a quarter of Londoners who voted Labour in the 2024 GE would not do so again if there was a GE tomorrow - with Labour losing voters to parties on the right and left in roughly equal measure in the capital

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Sir Keir Starmer’s party is on 32% - an 11 point drop since the general election last July, according to the new poll

New piece by @zoecrowther.bsky.social in @politicshome.bsky.social covering some of our ongoing research (w/ @karlpike.bsky.social @philipjcowley.bsky.social) into voters' time horizons and its implications for the current UK government's "politics of patience": www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Public Expects To See Improvements In NHS, Education And Housing Before The Next General Election

The public expects to see tangible improvements in this Parliament in the NHS, schools and housing, according to new polling.

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What better way to spend this sunny day than signing up to hear @timbale.bsky.social, @rmcunliffe.bsky.social and me discussing the state of the Conservative Party this coming Monday? www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/events/m...

Does the Conservative Party have a future?

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I may mention this, occasionally, over the next few months.

The Smallest Room in the House

The best politics “loo” book you will ever buy! Based on Philip Cowley’s fascinating column in The House magazine, this is a book perfect for multiple sittings, discussing the politi...

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NEW - Family Matters: How Concerns about the Financial Wellbeing of Young Relatives Shape the Political Preferences of Older Adults - cup.org/3Gny1bz - @zackgp94.bsky.social, @profjanegreen.bsky.social & Geoffrey Evans #OpenAccess

In the latest issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social, my article with Jonne Kamphorst in which we propose that educationally homogeneous social networks contribute to the stabilization of political conflict on the cultural dimension. A short thread on the main findings: Link: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

NEW - Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain - cup.org/42JWcZl - Justin Robinson, @pavlosvas1.bsky.social & @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social #OpenAccess

New paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social w/ @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jwfurlong.bsky.social What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change?

What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change? While research shows that obtaining a degree tends to make students more sociall…

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4/6 🧵 In @thejop.bsky.social‬ @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com do a meta-analysis of role of candidate education in conjoint experiments. More educated candidates preferred by all, but more so by more educated respondents, suggesting a possible in-group bias https://doi.org/pft8

A bump for this in case you missed it the other week... Any suggestions for my and @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social's meta-analysis much appreciated!

Ralph Scott@ralphscott.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 CALLING ALL QUANT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS! 📣 Do you know of causally identified research that estimates the effect of higher education on political attitudes? @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I are currently working on a meta-analysis on this question and we need your help!

📣 CALLING ALL QUANT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS! 📣 Do you know of causally identified research that estimates the effect of higher education on political attitudes? @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I are currently working on a meta-analysis on this question and we need your help!

My article with @robjohns75.bsky.social, "Hope, Optimism, and Expectations for the Political Future", is now out open access at @polbehavior.bsky.social. It's about the psychology of expecting good things to happen in politics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hope, Optimism, and Expectations for the Political Future - Political Behavior

Expectations of what the future holds are a significant driver of political behavior. It is therefore important to understand the sources of those expectations. In this paper, we explore the psycholog...

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Do we systematically prefer educated candidates? Or do educational groups select in ways that reward their own? This article by @turnbulldugarte.com and I suggests the answers are yes, and yes - but only for the graduate group. Huge thanks to all who shared their data with us!

Journal of Politics@thejop.bsky.social · last yr.

"Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments" by Elizabeth Simon and Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte.https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730745

🚨 EPOP 2025 Call for papers now open! 🚨 Please fill out this form before the end of April to submit your paper proposal forms.office.com/e/4wBNMq4qwi Accepting presentations on all aspects of elections, public opinion and parties using all methods.

The poisoning of minds through Higher Education, huh? www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

The Professor Will See You Now

In an occasional series, Professor Philip Cowley offers a political science lesson for The House readers. Here: the graduate voter. Illustration by...

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Our paper on global trends in trust is online! Led by @viktorv.bsky.social we use >3k surveys from ~50 projects in 143 countries, the paper provides a framework for understanding changes in trust and: (1) Trust in representative institutions is in decline (2) but stable in implementing institutions

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW - A Crisis of Political Trust? Global Trends in Institutional Trust from 1958 to 2019 - cup.org/4gCcLuT - @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, Gerry Stoker, @hannahbunting.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social & Andrew Klassen #OpenAccess

What do you think the government's average *actual* majority in the House of Commons has been...? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Starmer has a 'bigger majority than Blair' thanks to splintered opposition

Until the opposition groups can agree to join forces, any rebellion by unhappy Labour MPs is likely to be doomed, research shows

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Happy to share first paper of 2025! With @danjdevine.bsky.social we show that there are sig. distinctions in how resps. derive the class of MPs compared to regular folks We look at this in a conjoint that also randomized resps. into different information environments doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Daniel Devine@danjdevine.bsky.social · 2y ago

My paper (w/ @turnbulldugarte.com) is now out on: ❓How do people derive social class of representatives and the public? The headline is that working-class parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as such (compared to otherwise identical lay public) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My new article at JEPOP is out! In it, I examine what the differences are between men and women in their political discussants by age group. I find that there are differences between men and women in who they discuss politics with and argue this can help us to better understand the gender gap(s).

Latest piece for the House Magazine - looking at who thinks it's OK to abuse politicians. www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

The Professor Will See You Now: Scum

In an occasional series, Professor Philip Cowley offers a political science lesson for The House’s readers. This week: scum

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