🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.104 📉 @mebergman.bsky.social of @ecprpovb.bsky.social reveals how valence #populism has a potential electoral disadvantage. 🗳️ Non-ideological messages focussed on good governance may broaden appeal, but lacking an ideological core can also cost votes. 👉️ bit.ly/47zmQr0

🔮 Italy’s Five-Star Movement: a cautionary tale for valence populists in power

Matthew E Bergman reveals how so-called valence populism (populism focused on competence and good governance rather than ideology) has a potential electoral disadvantage. While non-ideological message...

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Honored to be asked to lead this workshop for OPUS (Young Scholars Initiative on Populism) Interested in populism but quantitatively anxious? Share with relevant PhD, MA, or other early career researchers Register here: forms.gle/tdw8Xn1QdGTd...

Perhaps a cautionary tale for valence populists entering government. I focus on the Italian case but (thnks 2 reviewers) include a discussion of other CEE and Southern European (valence) populists in power. TLDR: without an ideological core, such parties are more harshly judged on their performance

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 7mo ago

#OpenAccess from Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica - Deserting or disengaging with valence populists: the decline in 5-Star Movement partisan preference - https://cup.org/4pO8l8K - @mebergman.bsky.social #FirstView

🎄🌟 Exciting news! 📊🎉 The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩 Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹 Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU... #AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️

Ezra Klein loves to overintellectualize the far right, giving them mainstream coverage and legitimacy, while pretending to just wanting to "understand the other side." #usefulfools

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

Still using the party family approach to #nicheparty analysis? Don't worry, it is a valid approach when studying party issue responsiveness (but not the commies) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Who’s a part(y) of this family? Only noneconomic niche parties are still responsive to partisans

Foundational manuscripts examined whether niche parties and mainstream parties differed in their party-voter linkages. Specifically, they examine “mean electorate” and “partisan electorate” forms o...

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Finishing the issue diversification trilogy (center-right and nationalist parties can gain from a more diverse issue agenda; green and center-left cannot) 4 years later; Opposite effect for Ethno-Regional parties: issue diversification is not a successful strategy doi.org/10.1080/1744...

Ethno-Regional Parties Cannot Be Everything to Everyone: Electoral Risks of a More Diverse Issue Agenda

This note suggests that should ethno-regional parties broaden their agenda, they could be electorally punished. Literature suggests an electoral incentive to a broader party issue agenda, even for ...

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My first #ESPA2025 convinced me to get this app. So great catching up with former colleagues and making new connections. A wonderful introduction to the @epsanet.bsky.social @epssnet.bsky.social community. Looking forward to Belfast #EPSS2026 (paper pending, acceptance conditional)

Marta Vukovic@martav.bsky.social · last yr.

Doing important things at @epsanet.bsky.social …like locating the one veg canapé at the reception 👀 @stawi-univie.bsky.social @bseisl.bsky.social @mkaltenegger.bsky.social @alexanderdalheimer.bsky.social @marvins.bsky.social @elenaheinz.bsky.social @mascakir.bsky.social @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social

American moves to Europe, experiences labour policy (protection), cleans a dataset of thousands of reforms, can now explain where they come from: Parties campaigning on left-leaning economic policies are more likely to implement pro-worker policies, but only during non-crisis economic conditions.

JEPP Journal@jeppjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

⚙️ Matthew Bergman, Wolfgang C. Mueller and @hannaeback.bsky.social on how ideology and contextual factors shape labour market reform