My paper "Exodus and vote: Mass emigration and voter turnout in Honduras" is out in Electoral Studies doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
Francisca Castro
@fcastrog.bsky.social
Visiting professor at @uc3m.es Intrastate conflict, social movements, and political violence. https://francisca-castro.com/
Thrilled 2 share this co-authored article in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications w/ @jenny-oser.bsky.social & @ashoshan.bsky.social where we trace the evolution of scholarship at the intersection of social media and social movements in the age of datafication www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social movements and social media: the evolution of scholarship in the age of datafication - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Social movements and social media: the evolution of scholarship in the age of datafication
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This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.
kottke.org@kottke.org · 4mo agoHey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
💼 Oportunidad de empleo en la @uc3m.es Los grupos EPIC y ESPO, con apoyo del IJL, buscan un/a Gestor/a de Apoyo a la Investigación. 🔹 Contrato indefinido (inicio en agosto) 🔹 Jornada completa 🔹 2.025€ brutos/mes ⏳ Solicitudes hasta: 30/6/2026 Detalles aquí: aplicaciones.uc3m.es/atenea/publi...
I know teaching evals tend to penalize women and POC (www.cambridge.org/core/journal...) as well as methods courses (link.springer.com/article/10.1...), so I'm letting myself be pretty happy about the congratulatory letter I just got for my teaching evals this semester 🥳.
Excited to be in Belfast for the first time for #EPSS. Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting at two panels. One at 9am on citizens' evaluation of political representatives, and the second at 3.20pm on climate and security. Looking forward to connecting with old friends and meeting new colleagues!
💐 💐💐 Great to celebrate the creation of the Instituto with so many old and new friends from Madrid, Spain, and the world last week. Here are some photos! Stay tuned for more events in the coming academic year. We already have a great line-up for next year´s permanent seminar.
Instituto Juan Linz@institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨REMINDER: in exactly one week, the Instituto Juan Linz will hold its inaugural conference at the UC3M Puerta de Toledo campus ! Public event on June 10 :) Program here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... To register for the workshop (June 11 and 12): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Next week I'll be traveling to the UK to present some ongoing work at @uniofreading.bsky.social on the relationship of memory sites and far-right vote in Chile. I just uploaded the WP here, comments are welcome :-) francisca-castro.com/research/wor...
Join us for the UC3M Summer Course... "Amenazas, desafíos y resiliencia democrática" Deep dive into polarization, far-right, and AI with top experts. 📍 June 29 - July 3 / Madrid - Puerta de Toledo 🗣️ English Info & registration 👇 cursosverano.uc3m.es/cursos-de-ve...
Explaining this research in detail next time I have to teach quant methods to reluctant undergrads who don't want to learn statistics cddrl-impactoelectoral.com
Please join us for this!
Instituto Juan Linz@institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨 In less than 1 month (JUNE 10-12), the Instituto Juan Linz will hold its inaugural conference at the UC3M Puerta de Toledo campus ! Program here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Details and highlights to follow 1/n
🚨 In less than 1 month (JUNE 10-12), the Instituto Juan Linz will hold its inaugural conference at the UC3M Puerta de Toledo campus ! Program here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Details and highlights to follow 1/n
❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7
Really happy that our paper with @profejacevedo.bsky.social , "The Mobilizing Potential of Mass Emigration: Experimental Evidence from Honduras" received its final acceptance at the Journal of Politics 🎉 . You can check the accepted version here francisca-castro.com/research/art...
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📢 Funding opportunity for a top MA in Social Sciences (UC3M – IJL) 🏛️ Rigorous training, strong methods, and a direct path to top PhD programs • 3 full scholarships (Deadline: April 30) • 3 tuition grants (Deadline: May 31) Apply for full scholarships and tuition grants 👇 ijlinz.es/en/postgradu...
New paper out in IJPOR! 🎉 We study how cues from political elites and close friends shape policy preferences using a survey experiment. Trump cues move opinions even after his first term ended, but friend cues can backfire. 📄 academic.oup.com/ijpor/article/38/1/edaf066/8472064
External Cues and Policy Preferences: Rethinking the Drivers of Policy Positions
Abstract. At a time when the influence of external cues on opinion formation is gaining attention due to their relevance for preference formation, this res
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🧵I am happy to announce a new article in Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social, “Are the Politically Active Better Represented?”, co-authored with @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, and Anders Sundell. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Are the Politically Active Better Represented? - Political Behavior
Political participation is considered an important path for people to influence politics. However, whether those who participate actually see more of their preferred policies implemented remains an op...
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☀️☀️ Exciting news in Madrid! We are VERY happy to officially announce the creation of the Instituto Juan Linz (aka “IJL”). ijlinz.es The IJL ("Juan Linz Institute" in English) is dedicated to cutting-edge research and teaching in political science, sociology, economic history and more. thread 1/12
We recently got some seed funding to expand this project a little further. You can read about it here www.mvbz.fu-berlin.de/news/seed-mo...
Francisca Castro@fcastrog.bsky.social · 11mo agoA few weeks ago I arrived from fieldwork in Peru, where I was collecting archival data on the internal armed conflict. Today I finally have a new version of this paper examining how the conflict affected and continues to affect the success of female politicians francisca-castro.com/research/wor...
Started the year with an R&R and the publication of my first PhD paper 🥳 mobilization.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...
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📢 Exciting news! The Madrid Empirical Social Sciences Annual Conference (MESS 2025) takes place next week @ieuniversity.bsky.social (October 24-25) A joint effort by several Madrilean research institutions, MESS brings together top work in empirical social sciences. #MESS2025 #SocialScience
Currently in FirstView: In “Balancing Precision and Retention in Experimental Design,” @gustavodiaz.org and Erin Rossiter study how experimental design choices can increase precision when estimating treatment effects. Specifically, they examine block-randomized and pre-post designs.
The call for the 2026 Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference is now open and we're hosting it in Berlin! Please submit your abstracts by December 31st www.europeanpeacescientists.org/jan-tinberge...
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I am very excited that Fragile Lives 2025 is about to start at @humboldtuni.bsky.social! The programme is at zerohunger.de/fragile-live...
Happy to see our study out! Our main takeaway is that while poor voters vote less often, are less ideologically aligned with their preferred party, and see their preferred party less often in government - voting still does not seem to explain unequal representation.
European Journal of Political Research@ejprjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago📘 64.4 @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, W.Schakel & A.Sundell look at 🗳️ voters’ policy preferences often misalign with what they get in practice with the study showing how this “electoral connection” gap contributes to unequal outcomes #OA 🔗
I felt bad for never having been to Peru before, having lived so close by. But I can confirm that Peruvian food is indisputably the best cuisine in the world (I will not accept any arguments on this matter).
Francisca Castro@fcastrog.bsky.social · 11mo agoA few weeks ago I arrived from fieldwork in Peru, where I was collecting archival data on the internal armed conflict. Today I finally have a new version of this paper examining how the conflict affected and continues to affect the success of female politicians francisca-castro.com/research/wor...