Why do green parties struggle electorally despite widespread support for climate action? My new (first 😱) paper explores why green parties remain uniquely challenged in economic crisis & that the mechanism is not only about sociotropic concerns, but also voters’ pocketbooks 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Pocketbook politics and climate action: How economic strain reduces support for green parties | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Pocketbook politics and climate action: How economic strain reduces support for green parties

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I’m happy to share my research in JJPS, coauthored with Keisuke Ashitani and Ashu Okada. In this research, we examine whether politicians’ aggressive questioning style and cooperation with a left-wing party shape voters’ perceptions of politicians’ ideological positions using a conjoint experiment.

Japanese Journal of Political Science@jjps.bsky.social · 2w ago

#OpenAccess - Confrontation, cooperation, and perceived ideology: experimental research on voters’ perceived positions and political competition - https://cup.org/4y8zBmV - @hism.bsky.social, Keisuke Ashitani & Ashu Okada #FirstView

New paper in @jeppjournal.bsky.social! With @leandrebenoit.bsky.social, we find that mainstream parties become more Eurosceptic as radical right support rises (whether in past elections or opinion polls), but only when the radical right is in parliament. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Different signals, same message? Evidence of mainstream accommodation of the radical right on European integration using parliamentary speeches

What drives mainstream parties’ reactions to the success of the radical right? Existing research shows that mainstream parties respond by moving closer to the radical right but most studies focus o...

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🚨New publication out! If citizens have no trust in their political institutions, does that necessarily mean that they distrust them? Or does this assumption obscure aspects of how citizens judge and relate to their state? Very happy to see this one out! (1/) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Political trust revisited: theoretical and empirical insights into political distrust and mistrust

There remains a lack of clarity about what low political trust precisely entails. Based on long-standing discussions, recent works have sought to verify the existence of distinct political trust at...

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💬 Do intra-party procedures affect how voters evaluate policy repositioning? With Leen Lingier, @jasmienluypaert.bsky.social & @markuswagner.bsky.social, we show experimental evidence that more inclusive decision-making processes can increase approval of the repositioning and ptv for the party 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Voter reactions to party policy repositioning: The role of inclusive intra-party decision-making

Changes in position present opportunities and risks for political parties. Parties reposition themselves hoping that the new stance will prove more po…

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1/5 How do civil servants react when politicians aim to challenge democratic institutions? And what role does their manager play in this regard? I study these questions in a new article in academic.oup.com/jpart w @mpvluttervelt.bsky.social @mathiasoestergaard.bsky.social Zuzana Murdoch Benny Geys

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the Public Management Research Association. Publishes research with the aim to advance the organizational, administrative, and policy sciences as they apply to government and g...

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The introduction to “Youth Wings of the Populist Radical Right” is free to download! It begins with the story of Erwan Le Gouëllec, a Front National youth wing leader from 2000, whom I became mildly obsessed with. If you read the chapter, you’ll see why ;-) academic.oup.com/book/62992/c...

Introduction

Abstract. The first chapter introduces the main topics of the book, in addition to presenting the cases, methods, and key findings. Having discussed their

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What makes citizens engage with politicians on social media? Our new study shows that negativity, particularly personal attacks and incivility, gets attention, but not necessarily approval. Citizens comment and share more on such posts, but they don’t necessarily like them. ➡️ doi.org/10.1057/s412...

Engaging citizens? The role of negativity and incivility on politicians’ social media - Acta Politica

Studies show that negative social media posts by politicians generate higher levels of citizen engagement, yet not all forms of negativity have the same effects, nor do they operate uniformly across c...

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When politicians mock and insult each other, is this communication strategic OR is it simply reflective of who they are as people? Our new study shows that such communication is predominantly strategic, but how much politicians use it depends on their individual traits. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Incivility Among Politicians: Driven by Rational Minds or Personal Drives? - Željko Poljak, Bart Maes, 2026

There is growing concern about politicians engaging in incivility by mocking and insulting each other. While prior research often explains such discourse throug...

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Our paper on citizens' expectations for and evaluations of democratic representation is now out in Representation! Great pleasure working with David Talukder on this paper! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Expectation Gap: Citizens’ Expectations for and Evaluations of Democratic Representation

Concerns about a potential erosion of political support in established democracies have motivated scholars to study the failure of democratic institutions in realising democratic representation. Ye...

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📣 New paper (cond. accepted at CPS)! ⚡ What happens politically when household energy becomes more expensive? In our new paper (with bluesky-less Sophia Wang) we show that even before the energy crisis (2016–2021), increases in household energy burden erode SWD, particularly among renters. 🧵 1/4

Publication alert! Newly published paper from @respol.bsky.social . In this new paper, we used a survey experiment to examine effect of Nagoya High Court same-sex marriage ruling effect on Japanese LGBTQ attitudes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From the courtroom to the public: Judicial influence on People’s attitudes toward same-sex marriage in Japan - Robert Nordström, Sou Shinomoto, Antonio Benasaglio Berlucchi, 2026

Can judicial action change public attitudes? While most empirical studies on the societal impact of court rulings have focused on the United States, particularl...

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This paper is now online and #OpenAccess. While you are at @poqjournal.bsky.social, you can also check out our article with @marcjacob.bsky.social and @seanjwestwood.bsky.social on accountability for democratic norm violations in races for different political offices: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Political Science Department at Northwestern University@polisciatnu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New article out with @poqjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Not Your Mama’s Ideology (But Close): Modest Generational Differences in Ideological Alignment in Postcommunist Europe Ph.D. candidate Matej Jungwirth ( @matejjung.bsky.social ) @lenkahrbkova.bsky.social & @celytadeas.bsky.social

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

Assistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Out now! In this article that I wrote together with my former student, Wouter Nelen, we analyse how the Speaker of the Dutch parliament selects oral questions. We use unique data to add a genuinely new perspective on Speaker. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

2 three-year postdocs in political communication and political psychology at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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What drives legislators' emotional engagement with climate issues? I explore the role of their age and party affiliation and over-time developments in a new research note in European Journal of Political Research. (a thread)

New paper out in Nature Human Behaviour. "Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources" with @seramirezruiz.bsky.social DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Ungated: rdcu.be/fh0Ss

Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources - Nature Human Behaviour

This analysis of 1.2 million policy documents from 185 countries identifies global inequalities in whose knowledge is cited in policymaking. Governments in the Global South rely more on foreign source...

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IN NEW ISSUE: Who deserves representation, and when? August De Mulder, Ine Gevers & @zeljkopoljak.bsky.social unpack the temporal dynamics of politicians’ claims of representation on social media: buff.ly/wlfV2aF @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #ECRs #polsci #polsky

🚨 Entering the last 2 weeks to apply for one of these postdoc positions on children's political socialization in my team at Aarhus Uni 🚨 I'm looking for talented candidates w qual methods skills who want to understand the deep roots of political marginalization: international.au.dk/about/profil...

"Do Politicians Listen to Youth Wings? Evidence from an Elite Experiment" by Henrik Bech Seeberg. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jop/curr...

The Journal of Politics | Vol 88, No 2

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Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

📢 New publication! 📢 So happy to see this paper finally out @epsrjournal.bsky.social ! Looking at public perceptions of party positions in 29 elections across 20 European countries, I test whether populist radical parties are seen as more moderate when they are part of a government coalition. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

European Political Science Review@epsrjournal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🆕 Ruling and reigning in? 👑 @sofiamarini.bsky.social looks at whether public perceptions of the moderation of #PopulistRadical parties change when in a #GovernmentCoalition and whether this is impacted by #Partisanship, allowing for better understanding of #PartyMainstreaming 🤷

Who deserves representation, and when? August De Mulder, Ine Gevers & @zeljkopoljak.bsky.social unpack the temporal dynamics of politicians’ claims of representation on social media: buff.ly/F8kabYP @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #ECRs

Our new article on gender differences in why young people join political parties is now out, open access, in @ejprjournal.bsky.social ✨ www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @duncanmcdonnell.com @profannikawerner.bsky.social @rheinisch.bsky.social Marco Valbruzzi @cwegscheider.bsky.social

I am excited about this new paper, Negativity & Misinformation, just out with @cbwlezien.bsky.social in @polcommjournal.bsky.social: "durable biases in information processing, by media organizations and humans more generally, can produce misinformation and misperceptions..." doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Negativity and Misinformation

There are large and growing bodies of research highlighting inaccuracies in news coverage. In this paper, we suggest that negativity biases account for a substantial portion of longstanding inaccur...

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🗳️📊 Do Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) make young voters more politically literate? Our new @ejprjournal.bsky.social study with @jokematthieu.bsky.social & Stefaan Walgrave finds they boost ideological knowledge—more than previously documented. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to visit the University of Mannheim today to give a talk on the causes of online political incivility. Big thanks to @dienerjulius.bsky.social and @ortuttnauer.com for the kind invitation. @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social