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Belén Abdala

@beluabdala.bsky.social
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Political science postdoc at University of Salzburg/DEUDEM project. Previously at the University of Vienna. Research on political behaviour & quantitative methods. She/her.

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Jule Kegel @julekgl.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3 For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference: PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT. More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Uganda has shut down the internet again - ahead of tomorrow's elections. This is bad news for those monitoring the elections, it is bad news for the spread of rumours, and it is bad news for holding perpetrators of election-related violence accountable.
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Why is #Politics so negative right now? 🤔 Ming M. Boyer @carolinaplescia.bsky.social & André Blais finds two kinds of negativity: ⚡ #Voting against a candidate ⚡ Feeling like voting doesn’t matter at all Only one threatens #Democracy--and it’s not the one you think. 👀
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Voting against or against voting? | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Voting against or against voting?
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Belén Abdala @beluabdala.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Had a great time at the @zweitstimme.bsky.social Workshop on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behavior. I presented my work on why minority groups vote, and how these motivations relate to turnout among LGB and ethnic minorities. Amazing conversations and a very inspiring group!
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Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Although not yet available to read (January 2026!), very happy to see our book on political trust online. Co-edited with @mfair.bsky.social and available open access, we think it'll be a useful addition to the field. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-r...
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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
💥Online first: "How populist citizens see the people and their place in representative democracy" by Rosa Kindt @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & @kristofjacobs1.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Abstract of the article "How populist citizens see the people and their place in representative democracy" by Rosa Kindt, Robert A. Huber and Kristof Jacobs. Published online first in West European Politics.Figure 2, displaying the comparison of high and low populists' marginal means on whether politicians belong to the people.Figure 3, displaying the comparison of marginal means per attribute on the economical dimension in relation to 'belonging to the people'.Figure 4, displaying the comparison of marginal means per attribute on the cultural dimension in relation to 'belonging to the people'.
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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Join us next week! Anna Lia Brunetti (@univie.ac.at ) & @beluabdala.bsky.social (@unisalzburg.bsky.social) will be presenting their work on the moderating role of citizen's meanings of voting. Sarah Birch (KCL) and Carolien van Ham (@radboudpol.bsky.social) will discuss.
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Belén Abdala @beluabdala.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Check out these *amazing* papers on the adoption, use, and effects of postal voting! Including a little self-promo 🎉: my article on how the direct cost of voting shapes citizens’ preferences for postal, in-person, or internet voting. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 23/09/2025
Last Friday (Sept. 19), @andduer.bsky.social, @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social and I had the great pleasure of hosting an excellent workshop at @unisalzburg.bsky.social on how to use Large Language Models #LLMs to boost International Relations research. A short 🧵1/4
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇
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Belén Abdala @beluabdala.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Thrilled to share that "The Meanings of Voting for Citizens" is out with OUP! Loved working on this with brilliant mentors, co-authors, and friends 📘 The book (open access) explores how people think about voting and how these meanings influence participation 📊 And the data’s open too via AUSSDA
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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
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Marta Vukovic @martav.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Doing important things at @epsanet.bsky.social …like locating the one veg canapé at the reception 👀 @stawi-univie.bsky.social @bseisl.bsky.social @mkaltenegger.bsky.social @alexanderdalheimer.bsky.social @marvins.bsky.social @elenaheinz.bsky.social @mascakir.bsky.social @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social
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Damien Bol @damienbol.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🚨EPSA alert 🚨 @priera.bsky.social and I are organizing a pre-EPSA conference on political institutions on Wed 25 June. Same location as EPSA - Room 0.A.04. We've an amazing line-up of fantastic junior colleagues matched with more senior discussants. All EPSA attendees can attend and are welcome
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!
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2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior
2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices
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Belén Abdala @beluabdala.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Some exciting news! Today’s my first day at @unisalzburg.bsky.social, joining the DEUDEM team (sites.google.com/view/deudem) with @mblauberger.bsky.social to study democratic backsliding in the EU. Thrilled to be part of this project 💫 And what a view to kick things off! 🤩
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Systematic peer-reviewed assessment showing the fundamental flaws of the Cass Review. Many in politics and beyond have used the Cass report to justify the erosion of gender-affirming care. This study is a litmus test for those who claim to "follow the science" on the topic.
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Dan Pemstein @danpemstein.com · 30/04/2025
A few years ago, @danweitzel.net, John Gerring, @skaaning.bsky.social and I were curious how well one could predict subjective democracy measures using easy(ish) to code observables. Turns out, *quite* well, even out of sample. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Measuring electoral democracy with observables

Most cross-national indices of democracy rely centrally on coder judgments, which are susceptible to bias and error, and require expensive and time consuming coding by experts. We present an approach to measurement based on observables that aim to preserve the nuanced quality of subjectively coded democracy indices. Our observable-to-subjective score mapping is free of idiosyncratic coder errors arising from misinformation, slack, or biases. It is less susceptible to systematic bias that may arise from coders’ inferences about a country’s regime, for example, from the ideology of the ruler. The data collection procedure and mode of analysis are fully transparent and replicable, and the procedure is based on random forests and is cheap to produce, easy to update, and offers coverage for all polities with sovereign or semisovereign status, surpassing the sample of any existing index. We show that this expansive coverage makes a big difference to our understanding of some causal questions.
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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🎉 Das Warten hat ein Ende: Das Programm für das Pint of Science Festival 2025 in #Wien ist online! 🍻🧠 Vom 19. bis 21. Mai erwarten euch zahlreiche spannende Vorträge in gemütlicher Atmosphäre. Alle Details und Tickets findet ihr hier: pintofscience.at/events/wien #Pint25AT
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Pint of Science Vienna
Researchers across Vienna share their discoveries with you.
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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Call for Papers! 📢 6th Annual Digital Democracy Workshop 🏫 University of Zurich 📅 13-14 November 2025 ⏳ Deadline to submit paper abstracts: 31 May 2025 democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/app/uploads/...
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Belén Abdala @beluabdala.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is such an amazing opportunity to learn more about computational methods and connect with inspiring women*! Can't recommend it enough.
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Queer Politics Webinar @queerseminar.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🏳️‍🌈 Join us for our April webinar with @grahn.bsky.social this Thursday! 🧐 Michal will present his new insights on how negative messages affect support for trans rights in tolerant societies. 📆 Be sure to mark your calendars!
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Belén Abdala @beluabdala.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
✨Big news✨ I successfully defended my PhD last month! Still can’t quite believe it. So grateful to everyone who made it possible, especially my amazing supervisors @carolinaplescia.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social & committee @turnbulldugarte.com @zeynsom.bsky.social @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social
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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out. doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵 1/9
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Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life - Volume 55
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Belén Abdala @beluabdala.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Excited to share our new article, "Trust in Government or in Technology? What Really Drives Internet Voting," now out in Political Research Quarterly! With @carolinaplescia.bsky.social , Ming Boyer & Anna Lia Brunetti, we test the impact of (multidimensional) trust on i-voting likelihood.
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Trust in Government or in Technology? What Really Drives Internet Voting - M. Belén Abdala, Carolina Plescia, Ming M. Boyer, Anna Lia Brunetti, 2025
Internet voting is considered a crucial potential technological innovation, and scholars agree that trust plays a key role for its adoption and use by citizens....
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APSA- Political Organizations & Parties Section @apsa-pop.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
APSA's Political Organizations and Parties section is now on Bluesky! Follow us for section updates! @apsa.bsky.social
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Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Our new piece in Nature Machine Intelligence: LLMs are replacing human participants, but can they simulate diverse respondents? Surveys use representative sampling for a reason, and our work shows how LLM training prevents accurate simulation of different human identities.
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
‼️ New paper out in EJPR! With @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, we use a new survey item that we fielded in surveys in five countries to examine who accepts party policy change. Check out the 🧵 by Maurits below for an overview of our findings!
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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo
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Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging
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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍 🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations 📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p... Thanks for sharing! 🤝
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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Upcoming: Protests against a potential FPÖ-led government are set for tomorrow at 6 PM in Vienna, Ballhausplatz. #Donnerstagsdemo www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Nein zum "Volkskanzler": Demonstrationen gegen FPÖ-Regierungsbeteiligung
Bereits am Montag wurde vor der Hofburg gegen einen möglichen Kanzler Herbert Kickl demonstriert – weitere Veranstaltungen folgen
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Sophie Lecheler @solecheler.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
⭐ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 5 open PhD Positions at the newly founded Vienna Doctoral College for Digital Humanism, funded by the WWTF, @univie.ac.at , Technische Universität Wien and WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business). All information here: t.ly/836lz
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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🎄🌟 Exciting news! 📊🎉 The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩 Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹 Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU... #AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️
Screenshot of the AUSSDA page of the AUTNES Online Panel Study, including the AUTNES logo and some study details. 0 Downloads yet... Sankey diagram illustrating the patterns of vote switching across the parliamentary elections 2013, 2017, 2019, and 2024.
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Planning on attending the EPSA conference in June? Consider coming one day before and joining our (w/ @emmylindstam.bsky.social & Joan Ricart-Huguet) one-day workshop on Culture at @iepolisci.bsky.social. Deadline to apply is Feb 15th 2024. More info and submissions at forms.gle/S9id4GsVwokK...
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EPSA Pre-Conference on Culture
We invite submissions for a pre-EPSA workshop on the topic of “Culture”. The event will take place on June 25th, 2025 at IE University Madrid. The study of culture has a long-standing tradition in pol...
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Like many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research
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Belén Abdala @beluabdala.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Had the best time at the Future of Electoral Democracy conference at UdeM! It was such a privilege to connect with amazing people, learn about their work, and share my research. Huge thanks to @rdassonneville.bsky.social for organizing a great event and for the invitation :)
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Much looking forward to the Future of Electoral Democracy conference! Over the next two days, current and former students of the CRC in Electoral Democracy will be at UdeM to present their work, think about research, and recall memories of all the fun we had at the CRC over the last eight years!
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Michele Fenzl @mfenzl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Not that there aren’t many starter packs out there but here’s a list of LGBTQ+ voices in political science. You know the drill: self-nominations welcome :) go.bsky.app/4muosit
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
❗DO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW WANT TO DO A PHD? We have a PhD project on 'Democratic Resilience, Identities, and Geographical Imaginaries'. Fully funded ✅ Generous research support grant ✅ Supervised by me and a colleague in Geography. Details: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/irs/wp-conte...
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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I have added another 50 or so PhD researchers in political science to this starter pack, so check it again and hit the follow button royally.
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Laura Bronner @laurabronner.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A thread about being wrong: 5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong. This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...
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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇. t.co/aJ0SOwyCge
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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU
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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
🔔 Publication Alert: New Research Note Revisiting eligibility effects of voting at 16: Insights from Austria based on regression discontinuity analyses By @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, @laurabronner.bsky.social & S. Kritzinger Electoral Studies ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.el... 🧵1/5
Screenshot of an article titled "Revisiting eligibility effects of voting at 16: Insights from Austria based on regression discontinuity analyses" from the journal Electoral Studies.
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Chris Butler @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Delighted that our paper on who gets shortlisted and subsequently selected for winnable seats (with @robfordmancs.bsky.social @martamiori.bsky.social) is finally out journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... In short we found that selectorates still discriminate against women and ethnic minorities
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Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election - Chris Butler, Marta Miori, Rob Ford, 2024
Candidate selections are seen as the ‘secret garden’ of UK politics. Hundreds of parliamentary constituencies rarely change hands, meaning that the ‘real electi...
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Belén Abdala @beluabdala.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Thrilled to see my first single-authored publication out in Electoral Studies! 🎉 Check it out open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
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Belén Abdala @beluabdala.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
Very excited to be spending a research stay at the @ipz.bsky.social University of Zurich with @fgilardi.bsky.social and incredible group of researchers! If you are in Zurich during May, please reach out! :)
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