💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 #OpenAccess #Turkey High affective polarisation in Turkey’s 2023 election boosted incumbent AKP loyalty, helping the party withstand severe challenges Read the article by @seaytac.bsky.social, @sedairmak.bsky.social, @busrask.bsky.social 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New research on Chinese economic statecraft, with David Steinberg (@johnshopkinssais.bsky.social) & @seaytac.bsky.social now out in World Development. We consider the question: do Chinese foreign bailouts increase public support for closer economic ties to China in recipient countries? A 🧵 (1/7)

‼️ There are not 1 but 2 CSES Awards now! Have you used CSES data in recent work or seen great work using the data? Nominate published work for the GESIS Klingemann Prize and conference papers for the brand new David Howell Award! And don't be shy to self-nominate!!

Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)@cses.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Call for Nominations: 2026 #CSES Awards 📢 Recognizing outstanding scholarship using CSES data: 🏆 GESIS Klingemann Prize 📄 David Howell Award We welcome nominations across regions, methods, & career stages. ⌛️Learn more & submit by April 22: cses.org/2026/03/06/2...

📌 Hiring one postdoctoral and two predoctoral researchers for the @erc.europa.eu project #COUNSTER, each position for up to 3 years to start on May 2026. Postdoc: stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/IR2... (Deadline Feb 20) Predoc: stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/IR2... (Deadline March 1)

Open access - observational evidence linking affective polarization to support for undemocratic practices from a context of high polarization & significant democratic backsliding

@busrask.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 How does affective polarization shape support for undemocratic practices in hybrid regimes? With @sedairmak.bsky.social and @seaytac.bsky.social, we explore this question in the Turkish context in our new open-access🔒 article published @MediterraneanPolitics

📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 #OpenAccess The polarised electorate: affective polarisation and electoral loyalty in #Turkey’s 2023 critical election 🔓 Read the article by @seaytac.bsky.social, @sedairmak.bsky.social & @busrask.bsky.social here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access! Part of a special issue on Turkey's 2023 general election. Thanks to special issue editors Berk Esen and @mertmoral.bsky.social.

@busrask.bsky.social · 8mo ago

How does affective polarisation impact electoral loyalty? With @seaytac.bsky.social and sedairmak.bsky.social, we have a new open access article out in @sespjournal.bsky.social rnal.bsky.social.

Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)

Announcement: The Second Advance Release of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) Module 6 dataset is now available for download! For more information, please see: cses.org/2025/12/16/m...

🚨Our department @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social is advertising three tenure-track Assistant Professor positions: 👉 Political Economy (joint with Economics): tinyurl.com/yc8jsct9 👉 International Politics: tinyurl.com/u94pv433 👉 Political Science: tinyurl.com/y8p967du Please repost/share! 🚨

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From October 2025 - Inflation and Incumbent Support: Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election - cup.org/3JaiZYj "priming Americans to think about inflation reduced support for the incumbent" - Selim Erdem Aytaç, @danielmcdowell.bsky.social & David A. Steinberg #OpenAccess

My department is hiring! A junior position in IR with a focus on IPE. Feel free to reach for questions. More info: jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...

S. Erdem Aytaç, David Steinberg and I have a new experimental study out now in @bjpols.bsky.social exploring the impact of inflation on support for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. TL;DR: price increases hurt Harris' popularity, especially among Ds and Is, and in regions hit hardest by inflation.

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 10mo ago

NEW - Inflation and Incumbent Support: Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election - https://cup.org/3JaiZYj "priming Americans to think about inflation reduced support for the incumbent party" - Selim Erdem Aytaç, @danielmcdowell.bsky.social & David A. Steinberg #OpenAccess

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

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🧵1/ 🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇 🔗 politicsexperiment.com

🚨 We're hiring! Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment. Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊 www.gesis.org/en/institute...

🧵 THREAD: Can a short online intervention help defend democracy against partisan polarization? In our new study - just published in the @bjpols.bsky.social - my colleagues and I tested this question across 33 countries 🌍 with over 41,000 participants 🧑‍🤝‍🧑. Here’s what we found 👇

Our article, "Populist Appeals, Emotions, and Political Mobilization," with Erdem Aytaç and Ali Çarkoğlu, now has volume and page numbers. It is also open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @seaytac.bsky.social @absjournal.bsky.social

Populist Appeals, Emotions, and Political Mobilization - Selim Erdem Aytaç, Ali Çarkoğlu, Ezgi Elçi, 2025

Populist politicians frequently employ anti-establishment appeals in their discourse by targeting an imagined or real power elite. Do such appeals have a mobili...

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Less than two weeks left to apply to the #ISPPAcademy in Prague! See link for more information: ispp.org/resources/ac...

Gizem Arikan@gizemarikan.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s that time of the year—applications for the 2025 ISPP Academy are now open! 🎉 Join us in Prague, Czech Republic, from 30 June–2 July 2025 for training, networking, and advancing your research in #politicalpsychology More information & application link: ispp.org/resources/ac...

CSES Announcement - The First Advance Release of CSES Module 6, containing seven election studies, is now available. The dataset and documentation may be downloaded from the CSES website for free. For more information please visit: cses.org/2024/12/17/m...

My department is hiring! This is a junior position, preferably, though not necessarily, with a focus on CP or IPE fields. I am not on the committee but feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...

My department is hiring! This is a junior position, preferably, though not necessarily, with a focus on CP or IPE fields. I am not on the committee but feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨1-year post-doc position available in my ERC project DEPOLARIZE to be based at the University of Chicago !!! Start date is January 2025 (with some flexibility), more information available at drive.google.com/file/d/1_xYS...

📢🚨 My department is hiring!! Assistant Prof. level, open to all subfields but IPE and Comparative Politics scholars are especially encouraged. Feel free to reach me for questions and please spread the word!! jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...

Check out this new special issue in Electoral Studies: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/elec... It contains 7 cool articles on the nature and causes of AP - using observational and experimental data, focusing on measurement, elites and ideology, and an important theoretical piece as well.