Will Daniel

@wdaniel127.bsky.social

Assoc. Prof. @nottspolitics.bsky.social I research gender ⚧️ and representation 🏳️‍🌈, the EU 🇪🇺, careers in legislative and party politics 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇧🇪, and social media 📱 Bio ⏩️ https://shorturl.at/XrwdF Views own and not those of my employer.

Only one week left to get us those proposals for ECPR SGEU! Have a paper on EU elections or legislative politics? We want to know about it. Details below ⬇️

Will Daniel@wdaniel127.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Delighted to co-convene the track on EU Elections and Legislative Politics with Lukas Obholzer at @ecprsgeu.bsky.social 2026, next July in Catania! 🇪🇺 Learn more about what we're looking for here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/Event... Submit your panels and/or papers by 10 December here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/341

Looks like Oxford snuck in the e-book publication day for our new gender quotas book without telling Andrea Aldrich or me! Time to request a copy of your libraries and reading lists :-)

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🔈Job Alert 🔈 I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.

Really delighted to see this all come together, albeit during a much happier and more productive time on that other platform. Thanks to our France 🇫🇷 team for doing such amazing work - and looking forward to diving in with the comparative data!

Digital Society Project@digitalsocietyproject.org · 2y ago

In 2022 & 2023 DSP collaborated with various scholars to collect data about candidates for national legislative (and sometimes subnational) elections in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Nepal, Philippines, Tunisia, and the USA. #polisky 1/4

Checking back in on Bluesky means finding your co-author’s been posting about your recent work. Give it a look, 🇪🇺 politics types! (Sorry, lawyers)

Steffen Hurka@steffenhurka.bsky.social · 2y ago

New article out in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with my great colleague William T. Daniel (University of Nottingham): Unpacking the European Commission: Cabinet Composition and EU Policy Making Check it out, it's open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What leads candidates to diverge from stated party messaging strategies during election campaigns? I examine the drivers of candidates' toxic campaign discourses during the 2022 🇫🇷legislative elections with Laurence Rowley-Abel, Elise Frelin, and Max-Valentin Robert. doi.org/10.1080/014023…

ABSTRACT
Most studies of political rhetoric examine only political leadership or treat parties as unified actors. However, what happens where electoral systems incen-tivise candidates to diverge from stated party messaging during campaigns?Figure 4 from the paper shows the increased incidence of toxic rhetoric from French far-right candidates, relative to mainstream ones.For some politicians, holding national office previously does decrease the level of toxic speech.The French far right is especially toxic when discussing its mainstay areas of law and order and attacking rival leaders.