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Ruth Dassonneville

@rdassonneville.bsky.social

Prof at KU Leuven CRC in Electoral Democracy at Université de Montréal https://ruthdassonneville.netlify.app/

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Leonardo Carella@leonardocarella.bsky.social · 3w ago

🗳️ Electoral Reform Alert 🗳️ Yesterday, the Italian Lower House approved a new electoral reform, now headed to the Senate. This would be the fifth major reform of the electoral system in Italy since 1993, and it could bring an even more radical right-wing party into the next government coalition. (1)

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PS: Political Science & Politics@pspolisci.bsky.social · 3w ago

Forecasters! Submit by July 17, 2026! Do you forecast House/Senate/state elections, predict turnout, describe emerging methods/tools to forecast; provide a comp. perspective on election forecasting, offer a critical analysis of forecasting/limitations/its affect on behaviors & attitudes? #polisky

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Ruth Dassonneville@rdassonneville.bsky.social · 4w ago

❗The @chesdata.bsky.social team paper on the global economic left-right scale is now out in print at the JoP! Super happy to have contributed a tiny little bit to this huge effort by @ndelacerda.bsky.social, @rbakker.bsky.social and others!

Ryan Bakker@rbakker.bsky.social · 4w ago

Several years of data collection, 2 editorial teams and a few rounds of R&R were all well worth it to finally see this paper in print. Thanks to all the survey teams and the many experts who helped make this possible. doi.org/10.1086/736578

Romain Lachat@rlachat.bsky.social · 4w ago

📢 Job opening The Cevipof is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Political Science in the field of political institutions and contemporary transformations of democracy @cevipof.bsky.social @sciencespo.bsky.social

Recruitement : Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science

CEVIPOF / Sciences Po is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Political Science, Topic Immigration and Democracy / Political Theory. The application deadline is 18 September 2026.

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Alexander Wuttke@kunkakom.bsky.social · 4w ago

Genuinely interested in your views: What is the future of teaching statistical programming language for data science in the age of AI? Will we even still teach programming R or Python?

Daan Delespaul@ddelesp.bsky.social · last mo.

In 2024 doorbraken MR en Les Engagés de hegemonie van PS. Is de Franstalige kiezer nu eindelijk verrechtst? En blijft Wallonië in 2029 een 'Gallisch dorp' tegen radicaal-rechts? Laatste Sampolcolumn voor het zomerreces! 🌞(www.sampol.be/2026/06/zijn...)

Zijn van alle Galliërs de Franstaligen de dappersten?

In 2024 doorbraken MR en Les Engagés de hegemonie van PS. Is de Franstalige kiezer nu eindelijk verrechtst? En blijft Wallonië in 2029 een 'Gallisch dorp'...

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Ruth Dassonneville@rdassonneville.bsky.social · last mo.

‼️ Last day to apply for the open PhD position in my group! Hurry and send in your application before it's too late!

Ruth Dassonneville@rdassonneville.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student for a new project on Parties' social group ownership, based in the @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social research group at KU Leuven! Deadline for applying is 26 June, estimated starting date is 1 Oct 2026. All info is here 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Share widely!

Ruth Dassonneville@rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Had a *great* time talking with @mascakir.bsky.social about our @cpsjournal.bsky.social paper on the behaviour of young voters!

Semih Çakır@mascakir.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🎙️ New Reasonably Political Podcast episode! @rdassonneville.bsky.social explains why younger voters are more likely to support left-wing parties in some elections, but not others, and how political parties shape age divides at the ballot box. Tune in for more👇 www.buzzsprout.com/2608748/epis...

Ruth Dassonneville@rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‼️ Only 10 days left to apply for the PhD position in my group! All info below 👇

Ruth Dassonneville@rdassonneville.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student for a new project on Parties' social group ownership, based in the @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social research group at KU Leuven! Deadline for applying is 26 June, estimated starting date is 1 Oct 2026. All info is here 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Share widely!

Wannes De Meyer@wannesdemeyer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to be at EPSS Belfast this week! Find me and @vojtechpohanka.bsky.social Thursday 9 AM in panel PO15 with our paper with @rdassonneville.bsky.social on perceived social similarity and affective polarization. I am very open to having chats, discussions or just a drink! See you there!

Voting & Democracy Research Group - KU Leuven@vd-researchgroup.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just days to go until #EPSS2026 We’re excited to have 8 colleagues attending and presenting new research, take a look at the overviews to find out what they will be presenting and where.👁️ We're happy to connect, so feel free to come over and chat!⭐

Sven Hegewald@svenhegewald.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Super happy to see the last paper from my dissertation published in @polbehavior.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 In this paper, I investigate stereotyping along the urban–rural divide using data from a conjoint experiment fielded in nine European countries. The paper is available here: doi.org/10.1007/s111...

The Urban–Rural Divide in People’s Minds: Stereotypes of Urbanites and Ruralites in Nine European Countries - Political Behavior

Recent scholarship increasingly views the reemergence of the urban–rural divide in political behavior through the lens of social identity theory. Given this understanding of political divisions between cities and the countryside, it is crucial to investigate how urban and rural social groups are perceived, specifically, to what extent these groups are associated with entrenched stereotypes. Examining the urban–rural divide in people’s minds through a conjoint experiment, this paper sheds light on stereotypes of urbanites and ruralites in nine European countries. The results indicate that rural residents are typically viewed as Eurosceptic, anti-immigrant, working-class, older, and less educated. By contrast, typical urbanites are perceived as Europhile, pro-immigrant, upper-middle-class, younger, and university-educated. These perceptions are not held uniformly, however. Individuals tend to project their own characteristics onto others, perceiving those similar to themselves as more typical members of their place-based in-group. Likewise, a similar logic emerges regarding the relationship between urban–rural stereotypes and affect. While individuals tend to express warmer feelings toward those they perceive as typical members of their place-based in-group, these affective evaluations critically depend on whether individuals themselves align with the stereotypes in question. Overall, these findings provide systematic evidence on stereotyping along the urban–rural divide. By way of that, they further underscore the importance of a social identity perspective to political divisions between urban and rural residents.

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Ruth Dassonneville@rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper, with Patrick Fournier & @zeynsom.bsky.social, out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social! 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... a brief 🧵

Do Citizens Perceive an empty Left-Authoritarian Quadrant? Citizen Perceptions of Parties’ Positions in a Multi-Dimensional Space - Ruth Dassonneville, Patrick Fournier, Zeynep Somer-Topcu, 2026

Given that there are few parties in the left-authoritarian quadrant of a two-dimensional ideological space, citizens that combine economically left and sociocul...

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Ruth Dassonneville@rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Great new work by @dieterstiers.bsky.social & Shane Singh on the effects of compulsory voting. Must read! 👇

Dieter Stiers@dieterstiers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨New publication (with Shane Singh) in @poqjournal.bsky.social! Proponents of compulsory voting often claim that obligatory turnout will increase citizens' political involvement, equalising levels of democratic attitudes and political engagement in the electorate. But does it? 👇

Christina Gahn@christinagahn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share our new paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @krausewe.bsky.social! Parties polling just below an electoral threshold are far less likely to clear it: a self-fulfilling prophecy that diminishes when polls communicate uncertainty. 🗳️📊 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Werner Krause@krausewe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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/...

Image showing the abstract of the paper "Self-Fulfilling Prophecies at the Voting Booth" by Werner Krause and Christina Gahn, published in the Journal of Politics. The abstract describes a quasi-experimental study across 25 countries finding that parties polling just below electoral thresholds are approximately 45 percentage points less likely to clear them, and that this effect diminishes when voters are informed about polling uncertainty.
EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Heading to the #EPSSBelfast conference next week? The EPSS Diversity Committee has organized several events to make this a welcoming space for everyone. Quick thread on what's happening and when 👇