EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

🏛️ @liserodland.bsky.social on which interest groups parties give access to

Some policies matter more: party salience and interest group access to political parties in Western democracies

Political parties and interest groups play important roles in incorporating societal interests into democratic decision-making. Recent studies have analysed the causes of interactions between indiv...

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📣Pub Alert! Here I causally identify (one of the only outside of the USA) a negative effect of a voter ID pilot scheme from 2018. This scheme was less restrictive than that used at the 2024 GE, implying a greater proportion of people were excluded from voting in June and a fairer system is needed.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · last yr.

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Understanding the impact of the 2018 voter ID pilots on turnout at the London local elections: A synthetic difference-in-difference approach - cup.org/420N1D4 "...more restrictive ID laws can meaningfully limit turnout..." - @tombarton.bsky.social #FirstView

How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out. doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵 1/9

Norwegian politics has been thrown upside-down in a couple of weeks. After 3,5 years, the unpopular Labour and rural party government broke down. The social democrats continued alone and now enjoy a massive and sudden boost of 6-10 percentage points. [1/4]

I dag fikk jeg gleden av å debutere på Ekko på NRK P2 for å snakke om den nye regjeringen (ja vi snakket mye om Stoltenberg, da)! Det var veldig morsomt å være med og jeg fikk beskjed av min far at jeg "ikke skjemte meg ut", selv om jeg (kvalitativt) bomma litt på hvem fra Time som er på Stortinget.

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Kampen om Panamakanalen Frå amerikansk imperialisme til dagens stormaktsspill: Kva betyr Panamakanalen no? Generasjonssamtalen Korleis og kva kan vi lære av kvarandre på tvers av generasjonar? Spør ...

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On Thursday last week I successfully defended my PhD thesis on Interest groups and political representation in long-established European democracies at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social 🎉 A 🧵 of appreciation dedicated to all who made the day so fun and memorable (and some words about my research 🤓) 1/n

So excited to see @vibekewoien.bsky.social's and my paper published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 Many thanks to Vibeke for an excellent collaboration and to everyone who gave us feedback on how to improve the paper along the way. Check out Vibeke's 🧵for a summary of our findings:

Vibeke Wøien Hansen@vibekewoien.bsky.social · 2y ago

So happy to see our paper on explaining interest group position-taking across partisan policy dimensions published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! By combining data on party, voter and interest group positions, @liserodland.bsky.social and I show that: 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....