Should immigrants be allowed to vote? This is a highly politically charged question. In a new research paper and substack piece, me and @tarekjaziri.bsky.social test the biggest objection to letting foreign residents vote locally, and find it doesn't hold up. 🧵 simonhix.substack.com/p/why-not-gi...

Why Not Give Immigrants the Right to Vote?

The fear that allowing foreign residents to vote in local elections would benefit left-wing parties turns out to be wrong.

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Check out our new LSE blog post! @parliview.bsky.social @strathplacelab.bsky.social @strathpolir.bsky.social

LSE Blogs@lseblogs.bsky.social · 3w ago

Politicians are being caught using AI in campaigns. While voters accept politicians using AI to process data, they are not ok with its use to create images, videos & messages. @tbalogh.bsky.social @louiseluxton.bsky.social @elisefrelin.bsky.social @zdgreene.bsky.social @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

Earlier this year, we asked Scottish residents' opinions towards AI in politics. It turns out, they really don't like it when politicians use AI. Young people, the heaviest users, are most likely to distrust it. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... @strathplacelab.bsky.social @parliview.bsky.social

Voters don’t like politicians using AI | LSE British Politics

Politicians are using AI as part of their campaigns. But while voters are OK with AI use for data analysis, they disapprove of it for image and video creation.

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How do voters really feel about politicians using AI? Read about it in our new blog post @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social 🗳️🤖

LSE British Politics and Policy@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social · 3w ago

Voters (especially younger ones) don’t like politicians using AI 🖋️ @tbalogh.bsky.social, @louiseluxton.bsky.social, @elisefrelin.bsky.social and @zdgreene.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Come work with me! 12 days left to apply! 👇 And if you are at #EPSS, go see the presentations by @clint0475.bsky.social to get a taste of what we do.

Lucy Kinski@lucykinski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 Postdoc position in #EU politics & governance (100%, 3 years initially) @uni-freiburg.de w/ competence in computational methods ⏰Deadline: 30 June 2026 ⭐Start: 1 October 2026 👉Full job ad & application portal: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005... #EUsky #academicposition #jobs #hiring #polisci #CSS

@tbalogh.bsky.social Presents work from the @parliview.bsky.social project at our @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 panel. Check out parliview.org to sign up as an early test user of the platform! @strathplacelab.bsky.social @strathpolir.bsky.social

Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe they have in some other corner of the internet. But, I haven’t seen a longer treatment yet (here is a terrific one!),…

Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega

Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe they have in some other corner of the internet. But, I haven’t seen a longer treatment yet (here is a terrific one!), so I thought I’d have a go at a remembrance. Raúl lived his life…

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📣 New paper out in BJPolS 📣

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW - Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals https://cup.org/43fmXFj - @alonadolinsky.com, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & @rwillh11.bsky.social #FirstView

📢 Postdoc position in #EU politics & governance (100%, 3 years initially) @uni-freiburg.de w/ competence in computational methods ⏰Deadline: 30 June 2026 ⭐Start: 1 October 2026 👉Full job ad & application portal: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005... #EUsky #academicposition #jobs #hiring #polisci #CSS

New research from colleagues at UCD found that while AI chatbots can give useful information about upcoming elections, they sometimes return incomplete, inconsistent, or outright false answers & the choice of chatbot matters! See our full blog here: bit.ly/4dzKjvF 🧵 Below!

University College Dublin@ucddublin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🤖🗳️ A new study examining AI chatbots responding to questions ahead of Irish by-elections found some failed to answer basic questions about the contests, and that significant problems emerged when tasked with more complex political questions. @jamespcross.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social

"The British fixation on net migration...was constructed, socially and politically... The statistic became central not because it was the best way to understand migration, but because it was politically convenient." ✍️ @jdportes.bsky.social on net migration figures ukandeu.ac.uk/race-and-spa...

Race and space: the rise and fall of “net migration” - UK in a changing Europe

Jonathan Portes asks how useful a measure immigration statistics are and argues that they have served to legitimate politics of racialised grievance.

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🗳️🤖 “Broadly speaking, most of the answers were good. But when it goes wrong, it goes really wrong.” - Associate Professor James Cross, @ucdpolitics.bsky.social and Director, Connected Politics Lab. @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @jamespcross.bsky.social

AI tools gave wrong answers about byelection candidates and where to vote, new research shows

Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok are all returning different answers to voters’ questions

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Very excited to have been awarded a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant with @lottehargrave.bsky.social for a project I've been desperate to work on since my PhD. Look out for us presenting this at conferences soon!

Coming to @ecprgender.bsky.social #ECPG2026 and working with quant methods or curious about using them in gender & politics research? Come along & meet other researchers at the @strathplacelab.bsky.social pre-conference social 🍻 📍 Two by Two Brewery 🕡 18:30, 14 June RSVP here: bit.ly/4dPyr8F

Very excited that @louiseluxton.bsky.social & I have been awarded a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant! We’ll be fielding surveys in Britain, Germany & Denmark to examine which parties voters think “own” different gender issues & comparing this to the issues parties actually emphasise in manifestos

Louise Luxton@louiseluxton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very excited to have been awarded a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant with @lottehargrave.bsky.social for a project I've been desperate to work on since my PhD. Look out for us presenting this at conferences soon!

Very happy that our piece in Scottish Election Analysis 2026 is out bit.ly/49bWmww. Some interesting (& unsettling) insights into how voters are using AI to engage with elections. Thread from @strathplacelab.bsky.social | with @tbalogh.bsky.social @elisefrelin.bsky.social @zdgreene.bsky.social

strathplacelab.bsky.social@strathplacelab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

AI chatbots –ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc. – are becoming part of everyday life, but we know very little about whether & how citizens use these tools to gain political information. Ahead of Holyrood elections, we surveyed over 1,000 Scottish voters with @Survation.bsky.social. Here’s what we found 🧵

Excited to see our piece in Scottish Election Analysis 2026 out bit.ly/49bWmww! Our survey provides new (& unsettling) insight into how voters are using AI to engage with elections. Thread from @strathplacelab.bsky.social | with @tbalogh.bsky.social @elisefrelin.bsky.social @zdgreene.bsky.social

From chatbots to the ballotbox – how voters used AI to learn about the Scottish Parliament election - UK Election Analysis

AI chatbots – such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude – are fast becoming part of our everyday lives. Citizens turn to these online tools for private conversations about relation...

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strathplacelab.bsky.social@strathplacelab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

AI chatbots –ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc. – are becoming part of everyday life, but we know very little about whether & how citizens use these tools to gain political information. Ahead of Holyrood elections, we surveyed over 1,000 Scottish voters with @Survation.bsky.social. Here’s what we found 🧵

Worth reading! substack.com/home/post/p-...

What’s happened to the UK’s climate consensus?

Opposition, apathy and the voters in-between

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For all new SciLove authors: If you want your articles to get a little more engagement: Simply import publications via ORCID and then hit share. Shamelessly, this is what this looks like for a recent paper with @norawaitkus.bsky.social #openaccess www.scilove.app/article/10.1...

Undeserving heirs: how the origins of wealth shape attitudes towards redistribution (Becker, Waitkus, 2025)

Inherited wealth has often been accumulated under circumstances seen as undeserving by present-day standards. However, there is surprisingly little knowledge about the political consequences of wealth...

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New on my Substack: Political alienation matters. But we're looking for it in the wrong places. zeitzoff.substack.com/p/why-politi...

Why Political Alienation Matters (But Not the Kind You Think)

Sometimes I like to start my class with a provocative quote relevant to what we’ll be discussing that week.

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New piece from w/ @hannahbunting.bsky.social & @jess-smith.bsky.social on the Gorton & Denton byelection, and what it might tell us about British politics. We cover turnout, late-deciding voters, gender gaps & the continuing fragmentation of the party system 🧵 theconversation.com/late-decider...

Late deciders, higher turnout: what the Gorton and Denton byelection taught us about voters

High numbers of undecideds may partially explain the late swing to the Greens.

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This is a fantastic teaching resource for anyone covering Zaller (and I sincerely hope it still is many of us)

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 5mo ago

New post! Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies. Question wording effects can swing opinions by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who interpret polls for a living. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

#AffectivePolarization ≠ only #Partisanships 🎉 Ida Bæk Hjermitslev & @markuswagner.bsky.social widen the lens on political identity, looking in Germany, where ideological identities (left/right) are as strong as party IDs and shape how people judge others 🤔

Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations

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So proud of this paper, and super happy it found a great home at the Journal of Politics!! 🥳

Ana Catalano Weeks@anacweeks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“I am delighted to conditionally accept your article for publication in The Journal of Politics.” 🥳 We find that gender quota laws for legislatures also increase the share of women in cabinets. w @gventurini.bsky.social @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

@parliview.bsky.social is hosting a workshop on LLMs and Access to Political Information May 12, 2026 | University College Dublin Submission: forms.gle/KgaYVN42dGdg... For any inquiries, please contact: Dr Eoghan Cunningham <eoghan.cunningham@ucd.ie> @ucdcs.bsky.social @insightcentre.bsky.social

🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉 Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access) The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social (1/6)

Are you doing work on LLMs or conversational AI? Do you study questions related to political information and/or transparency? If so, please consider applying to this workshop, hosted by our lovely @parliview.bsky.social team members over @ucddublin.bsky.social. More info here - tinyurl.com/yc6m4mfk

Workshop on LLMs and Access to Political Information May 12, 2026 | University College Dublin Hosted by ParliView We invite submissions for a one-day in-person workshop on building and studying AI… ...

Workshop on LLMs and Access to Political Information May 12, 2026 | University College Dublin Hosted by ParliView We invite submissions for a one-day in-person workshop on building and studying AI s...

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