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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 5d ago

☀️ We will be on summer hiatus from 1st to 31st August 2026. During this time, there won't be any social media posts and the editors won't be processing new submissions, but the platform will still be open: buff.ly/f5NUOnT See you in September!

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our August issue is now out! 📘 Read the latest research findings in all areas of #politics and #IR in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/3Q7MYjF The journal publishes rigorous & original work significant to the whole discipline. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsci #polsky @uoypolitics.bsky.social

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 6d ago

Do preferential voting reforms weaken gender quotas? @petrahrens.bsky.social & Sabine Lang examine German Länder reforms, arguing party culture shapes whether open lists help or hinder women’s rep. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/b93pYoc @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #GenderRep #ECRs #polsci

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Focusing on centrism as a purported set of ideas – a centre beyond left and right – @karlpike.bsky.social offers a new theory of centrism as a structure for political action: a politics which oscillates between left and right. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/fRxUuSv @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polisky

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Does social trust shape immigration policy views? @fqinya.bsky.social examines Swedish twin data, arguing trust, rather than prosociality, drives more inclusive attitudes toward immigrants. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/Tpaz3iD @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci #ImmigrationPolitics #ECRs

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What's wrong with the transition paradigm in environmental politics? Mathias Thaler argues A. Gramsci's concept of an 'interregnum' can help us better understand politics in the Anthropocene. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/VI3QsuB @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social #polsci #polsky

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · last wk.

Is meat consumption becoming political? @willemboterman.bsky.social & @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social examine Dutch surveys showing meat eating aligns with right-wing ideology & climate scepticism. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/pp6My7y @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #polisky #polsci

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

Is there a gender gap in satisfaction with monetary policy? @carogarriga.bsky.social examines attitudes towards the Bank of England, finding a small, but statistically significant, gender gap. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/ZLrcmYd @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

How do age & education shape non-institutional forms of #politicalparticipation? Oliveira, Ribeiro & Carvalho examine how self-rated health & civic engagement are moderated by age & education in South Europe. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/TvvRlTj @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

When Chile returned to compulsory voting in 2022, turnout surged. But so did invalid ballots. Gonzalo Contreras & Mauricio Morales Quiroga argue compulsory voting shifts political inequality from participation to vote validity. Read more: buff.ly/gZYDrA9 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #LatinAmerica

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Compulsory voting (CV) reliably raises turnout, but its effects on invalid ballots and the inequalities these produce are less well understood. Chile’s return to CV in 2022 provides a rare within-country test of how the shift from voluntary to compulsory participation reshapes invalid voting and what this produces in the context of shifting inequalities. We analyse the last local elections held under voluntary voting (VV, 2021) and the first under CV (2024) across all 345 municipalities, exploiting concurrent contests held under distinct electoral rules. Our central finding is that CV shifts inequality from participation to vote validity, with rates of invalid voting varying across majoritarian and proportional elections. Specifically: (1) invalid voting increased substantially under CV, though valid votes for parties and candidates also rose; (2) the entry of new voters is associated with a shift from abstention under VV to invalid ballots under CV; (3) ballot size is more strongly associated with invalid voting under CV in proportional than in relative-majority systems; (4) poverty is unrelated to invalid voting under VV but becomes significant under CV, especially in the capital; and (5) rurality is negatively associated with invalid voting under CV but not under VV. These results contribute to debates on whether CV corrects or displaces class bias in participation, on the structural determinants of invalid voting, and on how electoral system type conditions invalid ballot rates under compulsory participation.

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can the impact of economic crises on political trust be mitigated? @charlotteboucher.fr studies the effect of different measures of social support on trust during the #COVID19 pandemic in Europe. More: buff.ly/dgi0oe5 @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @eurofound.europa.eu @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

Does support for democracy increase losers’ consent? André Blais, @damienbol.bsky.social & @carolinaplescia.bsky.social find that strong democratic convictions don't necessarily increase acceptance of unfavourable results. Read more: buff.ly/es2bVZ5 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci

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Regime legitimacy and survival rely on citizens’ consent to election results, even when these results are unfavorable. Theories posit that individuals with pro-democratic attitudes are more accepting of electoral losses. We test this assumption by analyzing the empirical relationship between support for democratic principles, such as universal suffrage, and electoral consent to randomly generated, hypothetical but plausible electoral outcomes. Using data from a representative sample of Germans, we find a negative correlation between the two variables. Furthermore, those with the strongest democratic convictions are those most influenced in their consent by partisan preferences. Part of the explanation stems from reactions to the far-right, anti-democratic party Alternative for Germany, as many respondents strongly dislike this party and are unwilling to consent to outcomes in which it performs well. However, even among other respondents, democratic support does not correlate positively with losers’ consent.

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/LiQeuUq @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can discrimination information foster political solidarity? Michael Neureiter & Ida Nørregaard examine when shared grievances shift immigration attitudes, finding effects for some migrant groups but not others. More: buff.ly/C3EhEZc @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci #PoliticalSolidarity

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As Western democracies become increasingly diverse, political influence often depends on effective alliances and solidarity that cut across group boundaries. While the intergroup solidarity literature points to shared grievances as a central driver, it remains unclear exactly what kind of grievance information promotes political solidarity between which groups. To test this, we conducted a survey experiment in the United Kingdom among respondents from three distinct groups: migrants from Eastern Europe, migrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and natives. The treatments vary based on which immigrant group is described as experiencing discrimination, making potentially shared group grievances salient. We find that discrimination information increases support for prospective MENA immigrants among migrants from Eastern Europe, but not vice versa, and we find no effects among UK natives. Moreover, discrimination information is more effective among migrants without British citizenship. Importantly, discrimination information may not uniformly foster political solidarity or interest alignment across all population groups.

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

How do youth bulges reshape political participation in Africa? @michaelkumove.bsky.social & Karin Dyrstad examine age-period-cohort effects showing rising protest & declining turnout as youth ratios grow. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/kVjKwwi @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

When should immigrants gain voting rights? @alyssamtaylor.bsky.social & Mia K. Gandenberger examine how integration and psychological predispositions shape support for immigrant enfranchisement. Read more: buff.ly/sHJJA2s @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci #ImmigrationPolitics

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As democracies grow more diverse through immigration, a key question arises: when should immigrants participate in political decision-making? We examine citizens’ beliefs about when immigrants should vote in national elections (before citizenship, with citizenship, or never) and whether these views depend on immigrants’ integration markers. We assess how exclusionary worldviews and psychological predispositions—authoritarianism, social dominance orientation (SDO), and ethnocentrism—shape views of democratic membership and how malleable those views are. Using 2021 survey data from Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we find that integration criteria matter most to those who view citizenship as the primary gateway to political inclusion. High levels of SDO and ethnocentrism are associated with exclusionary preferences, though integration efforts reduce resistance among individuals high in SDO. Authoritarian-leaning individuals are simultaneously more willing to include immigrants pre-naturalization and more likely to support permanent exclusion. These findings highlight the conditional nature of political inclusion in diverse democracies.

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why do mafias vary between parasitic, collusive & adversarial strategies toward institutions? Francesco Niccolò Moro & Aldo Paparo examine how local political weakness & spending shape organised crime behaviour. Read more: buff.ly/tEzXQqc @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #italy

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

How do we stereotype our political opponents? @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social, @jnareal.bsky.social, @markuswagner.bsky.social & @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social argue political stereotypes are a blend of issues, traits & social groups rather than distinct categories. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/qlea7Vo

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Political stereotypes—beliefs about the attributes of politically defined groups—can deepen polarization by obscuring commonalities among citizens. Yet little is known about their nature outside the United States. Using open-ended survey responses from Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Poland (N = 5381), we analyze how citizens describe political adversaries in their own words—focusing on issues, social groups, and traits. Combining deductive and inductive coding, we uncover both cross-national patterns and context-specific dynamics. Our content analysis shows that issue- and trait-based stereotypes dominate, but boundaries between categories are blurred. Respondents often conflate politicians and voters, use group labels to suggest traits or views (and vice versa), and deploy trait language to express moral condemnation. These tendencies vary by country, reflecting salient debates and historical cleavages. Our findings suggest treating political stereotypes as webs of associations that go beyond discrete categories, with implications for the comparative study of stereotypes and polarization.

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why is the gendered performance of lament a powerful lens to understand politics, particularly in the context of the ongoing violence we are witnessing today? Shirin M Rai explores the layers of lament: buff.ly/BRSjV0I (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

What drives trust in civil servants across countries? Yuehong Cassandra Tai & Frederick Solt examine data from 98 countries and show economic performance boosts short-term trust while government quality has lasting effects. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/UhHfFu3 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky

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Trust in civil servants is essential for effective governance, enabling policy implementation, public service delivery, and compliance. However, the lack of comparable cross-national data on trust in bureaucracy has limited our ability to systematically examine these relationships. To address this gap, we develop the Trust in Civil Servants (TCS) dataset with an advanced latent-variable modeling technique, using 123 national and cross-national surveys from 98 countries (1986–2022). Our measures reveal variations in trust both within and between countries. We find that economic performance and public security enhance trust in the short term, whereas government quality and effectiveness have more enduring, long-term impacts on trust in civil service. The TCS dataset opens new avenues for examining connections between trust, governance quality, and complex policy challenges across different contexts.

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

Why do opposition parties in autocracies struggle to unite? Jonas Bergan Draege & @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social examine how resource asymmetry & high-pressure moments like protests deepen fragmentation. Read more: buff.ly/Rqil9gk @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

Do early elections give governments a financial campaign advantage? Lasse Aaskoven examines UK candidate spending, arguing governing parties outspend rivals in snap elections because they can better prepare. Read more: buff.ly/aAv0qhy @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci #ElectoralPolitics

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In many parliamentary democracies, incumbents can call early elections. This is thought to provide incumbent governments with an advantage due to the ability to time elections to favorable economic conditions. This article explores an additional incumbency advantage of early elections. Due to information asymmetry about election timing, government parties can better plan fundraising and campaign spending in early elections years compared to nongovernment parties giving government parties a relative financial advantage. This argument is tested on campaign-spending data from British parliamentary candidates 1950–2019. The results supports the argument. Government party candidates gain a relative financial advantage in early elections years compared to scheduled election years. The effect is found only for non-incumbent candidates and may have been eliminated by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act of 2011, which removed government election-calling power. The results suggest that government election-calling power provides incumbent parties with a relative financial advantage.

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/UnhXvNB @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

Is the ‘directional’ measure of negative campaigning really unreliable? @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maierjuergen.bsky.social & Michaela Maier examine evidence from nine studies, arguing the measure is reliable & robust. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/19BZgGn @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci

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The ‘directional’ definition of negative campaigning (i.e. when candidates leverage critiques against their political opponents) has been criticized for lacking reliability and validity. Does this critical assessment resist scrutiny? We propose, via nine different original studies, a full-scale reassessment of this critical assessment. Building on novel evidence from sources as disparate as expert ratings of elections across the world, automated and manual coding of social media posts, candidate self-ratings, cross-sectional surveys, experimental evidence, and more, we provide a much less pessimistic outlook. The evidence discussed in the nine studies showcases high levels of (self-)observer agreement (i.e. different people evaluate the same phenomenon similarly), situational consistency (evaluations are stable across time and space), convergent validity (different independent measures of the same phenomenon are strongly correlated), construct validity (measures can be used to provide empirical support for theoretically cogent hypotheses), and discriminant validity (proximate phenomena are perceived differently). The directional measure of campaign negativity is not perfect, but it is very much alive and kicking. The data and materials for all nine studies are open for replication and re-analysis.

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

Does partisanship explain policy preferences across the urban-rural divide? Kattalina Berriochoa shows rural Republicans especially are at odds with their party when it comes to #education funding. Read OPEN ACCESS buff.ly/B4hEyVv @excinequality.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

Why do some explanations for public budget cuts work better than others? @rtpedersen.bsky.social & Paw Hansen examine how justification-based strategies reduce citizen opposition to cuts. Read more: buff.ly/QrMw3DD @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

Do fiscal deficits threaten finance ministers’ survival equally across regimes? Jonas Willibald Schmid & Lasse Aaskoven argue deficits raise removal risks in democracies but not autocracies. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/840rF0P @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky

Constrainers vs Enablers? : Fiscal Deficits and the Political Survival of Finance Ministers Across Regime Types - Jonas Willibald Schmid, Lasse Aaskoven, 2025

We investigate how fiscal deficits affect the political survival of finance ministers in democracies and autocracies. While finance ministers occupy formally si...

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

How does migration diplomacy shape attitudes towards immigrants? Cameron Mailhot and @ninaobermeier.com explore a theory of bilateral reciprocity in the context of Kosovo. Read more: buff.ly/6ta3lEm @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

Is partner partisanship associated with vote choice? @cerifowler.bsky.social finds that it was for the 2016 Brexit Referendum & subsequent elections in the UK & argues that this can help us understand gender gaps in vote choice. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/E1gE9Pc @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky

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