Do campaign rallies move voters? Henrique Barros shows that 2016 rallies produced short-lived shifts in candidate support, fading within a week — with Clinton gains broadly consistent and Trump effects varying across urban/suburban counties. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Kiyoung Chang & Jeeyoung Park show East Asian publics don’t view U.S.–China rivalry through one threat lens: survey evidence from Japan, South Korea & Taiwan finds threats vary by issue domain and assigned responsibility. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Who fears which great power? Symmetric and asymmetric threat perceptions in East Asia - Kiyoung Chang, Jeeyoung Park, 2026

Public threat perceptions in East Asia do not map neatly onto aggregate power or generalized rivalry sentiment, yet their cross-domain structure has received li...

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Do prestigious offices make voters less likely to support women candidates? Nichole Bauer finds no direct “prestige penalty,” while showing how prestige and masculinity may shape women’s path through politics. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Does the perceived prestige of a political office affect support for women candidates? - Nichole Bauer, 2026

Research documents that women political leaders tend to be excluded from the highest and most prestigious political offices such as the presidency or gubernator...

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@rdassonneville.bsky.social & McAllister show that education divides voters less by changing opinions than by changing political labels, as immigration increasingly shapes how Europeans understand left and right. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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@rdassonneville.bsky.social & McAllister show that education divides voters less by changing opinions than by changing political labels, as immigration increasingly shapes how Europeans understand left and right. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Törnberg, Lundstedt, Vallström & Wahlström introduce a geocoded, nationwide dataset of Sweden’s police-reported xenophobic violence (2009–2022; N=2,522), enabling consistent longitudinal analysis beyond media or surveys. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Lisa Basil shows that not all conspiracy theory agreement reflects deep belief. She introduces a salience-based measure that separates fleeting endorsement from consequential belief—and suggests standard surveys may overstate it. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Yixuan Zhang shows that corruption scandals in nearby regions can boost trust in China. When nearby areas face investigations, people report more trust in local government—showing institutions are judged by comparison, not just performance. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Do alliance treaties sway public support for war everywhere? @smetanamichal.bsky.social, @mvranka.bsky.social @ondrejrosendorf.bsky.social find they do—but much less in non-Western, non-NATO countries. Alliance politics travels, but not evenly. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Gender shapes candidate choice in both directions. @atiradocastro.bsky.social & Susan Banducci find that women tend to prefer women candidates and men tend to prefer men—especially when gender identity is more strongly felt. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Why introduce bills that rarely pass? Eunseong Oh & @indridi.bsky.social show MPs use them less to win than to play party roles: government MPs stay cautious, opposition MPs signal credibility. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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How do you study political trust across countries and over time? Yuehong Tai introduces TrustGov, a new dataset covering 115 countries from 1973–2020—giving scholars a major new tool to track what shapes trust in government, and why it matters. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Introducing the trust in government (TrustGov) dataset: A new resource for cross-national time-series trust research - Yuehong Cassandra Tai, 2026

Although political trust is a long-standing interdisciplinary topic, the lack of com parable cross-national time-series data has limited scholars’ ability to an...

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Populist rhetoric may not win many votes—but it can get people to the polls. Alexander Kustov & Yaoyao Dai find that populist messaging has limited persuasive power, yet can slightly boost turnout, especially among already populist voters. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Do younger voters turn against older people when politics feels unfair? @alonsoroman.bsky.social & @scottrw630.bsky.social show that perceived age-based political exclusion is strongly linked to explicit ageism across Italy, South Korea, and the US. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Moniz, Endres & @professorcostas.bsky.social show a key weakness in political microtargeting: the most persuadable voters may be the hardest to predict. Cross pressured voters don’t fit neat party profiles—and campaign data often misses that. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Do prestigious offices make voters less likely to support women candidates? Nichole Bauer finds no direct “prestige penalty,” while showing how prestige and masculinity may shape women’s path through politics. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Does the perceived prestige of a political office affect support for women candidates? - Nichole Bauer, 2026

Research documents that women political leaders tend to be excluded from the highest and most prestigious political offices such as the presidency or gubernator...

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Törnberg, Lundstedt, Vallström & Wahlström introduce a geocoded, nationwide dataset of Sweden’s police-reported xenophobic violence (2009–2022; N=2,522), enabling consistent longitudinal analysis beyond media or surveys. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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🧩 Gocer & @polipsyprof.bsky.social: In a 2019 survey experiment, whites who feel like “political losers” oppose redistribution only when compared to non-whites—a subtle framing cue with big implications for status threat and right-wing populism. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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🚨 When does motivated reasoning break? Onishi shows that in Britain’s Partygate, clear misconduct + clear blame made even copartisans punish the governing party - lower ratings and vote intent. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Little room for motivated reasoning? How partisans respond to government misconduct with well-substantiated evidence - Wataru Onishi, 2026

How do voters respond to a political scandal? Previous studies emphasize partisan motivated reasoning as a key factor in shaping responses to political scandals...

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@makitotakei.bsky.social, Chanki Moon & @hirotakaimada.bsky.social test if target publics see audience costs. US survey (N=1,404): people infer domestic punishment for backing down; credibility is similar for democracies and autocracies. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Audience costs in the eyes of an adversary - Makito Takei, Chanki Moon, Hirotaka Imada, 2026

Audience cost theory suggests that as a country increases its audience costs, it can send a credible threat to an opponent and prevail in an international crisi...

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@lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social, @astroppe.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social & @msaeltzer.bsky.social use NLP+Wikidata: 50k tweets + 190k FB posts (Bundestag 2017–21). District MPs cite nearer places and deprived in-district areas more than list MPs. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Lisa Basil shows that not all conspiracy theory agreement reflects deep belief. She introduces a salience-based measure that separates fleeting endorsement from consequential belief—and suggests standard surveys may overstate it. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Yixuan Zhang shows that corruption scandals in nearby regions can boost trust in China. When nearby areas face investigations, people report more trust in local government—showing institutions are judged by comparison, not just performance. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Do alliance treaties sway public support for war everywhere? @smetanamichal.bsky.social, @mvranka.bsky.social @ondrejrosendorf.bsky.social find they do—but much less in non-Western, non-NATO countries. Alliance politics travels, but not evenly. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Gender shapes candidate choice in both directions. @atiradocastro.bsky.social & Susan Banducci find that women tend to prefer women candidates and men tend to prefer men—especially when gender identity is more strongly felt. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Why introduce bills that rarely pass? Eunseong Oh & @indridi.bsky.social show MPs use them less to win than to play party roles: government MPs stay cautious, opposition MPs signal credibility. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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How do you study political trust across countries and over time? Yuehong Tai introduces TrustGov, a new dataset covering 115 countries from 1973–2020—giving scholars a major new tool to track what shapes trust in government, and why it matters. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Introducing the trust in government (TrustGov) dataset: A new resource for cross-national time-series trust research - Yuehong Cassandra Tai, 2026

Although political trust is a long-standing interdisciplinary topic, the lack of com parable cross-national time-series data has limited scholars’ ability to an...

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Populist rhetoric may not win many votes—but it can get people to the polls. Alexander Kustov & Yaoyao Dai find that populist messaging has limited persuasive power, yet can slightly boost turnout, especially among already populist voters. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Do younger voters turn against older people when politics feels unfair? @alonsoroman.bsky.social & @scottrw630.bsky.social show that perceived age-based political exclusion is strongly linked to explicit ageism across Italy, South Korea, and the US. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Moniz, Endres & @professorcostas.bsky.social show a key weakness in political microtargeting: the most persuadable voters may be the hardest to predict. Cross pressured voters don’t fit neat party profiles—and campaign data often misses that. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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