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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

📢 New paper out in Party Politics with Francesco Bromo, @paridecarrara.bsky.social, and @paologambacciani.bsky.social 📉 What happens when MPs lose their political incentives to be loyal to their party? 1/3 🔽

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MJ (Maryana) Balezina @mjbalezina.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My first dissertation paper is out in Sexuality Research and Social Policy — open access! 🎉 It's about trans inclusion in sports and what fairness concerns actually do to public support. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Short thread below 👇

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Felix Haass @felixhaass.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🚨 New article out! “Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000... We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany. Short summary thread below 👇

Abstract for the article: How does right-wing terrorism affect electoral support for populist radical right parties (PRRPs)? Recent research has produced contrary answers to this question. We argue that only high-intensity attacks, whose motives and targets mirror PRRPs’ nativist agenda, are likely to generate a media backlash that dampens electoral support for PRRPs. We test this argument by combining high-frequency survey and social media data with a natural and survey experimental design. We find that right-wing terror reduced support for the radical right party Alternative für Deutschland after one of the most intense nativist attacks in recent German history. An analysis of all ninety-eight fatal right-wing attacks in Germany between 1990 and 2020 supports our argument. Our findings contribute to an understanding of how political violence triggers partisan detachment and have important implications for media responsibility in the aftermath of terrorist attacks.

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

📢 My last PhD paper is out in Legislative Studies Quarterly 📢 📌 Main finding ➡️ Party control of speaking time in parliament limits MPs’ geographical focus ➡️ Open access increases constituency representation 🔗 Read it open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Neeraj Prasad @neerajprsd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

@eavigano.bsky.social, Bruno Della Salla, Stefan Stojkovic, & Nils-Christian Bormann: In interwar Italy, violence boosted Fascist support at the polls but weakened the radical left. Suggests violence asymmetrically empowers nationalist, radical-right parties. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Political violence and anti-system voting in interwar Italy - Edoardo Alberto Viganò, Bruno Della Sala, Stefan Stojkovic, Nils-Christian Bormann, 2025

What is the effect of political violence on electoral support for anti-system parties? We argue that the effect of violence is asymmetric and predominantly bene...

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Neeraj Prasad @neerajprsd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🚨🚨🚨Announcing a special issue on “Political Violence in Democracies” published by @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social and edited by @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, U Daxecker, and me. In this very long 🧵, I will introduce the special issue with its 14 articles. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

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Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025

It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

⛏️ After a LOT of digging, here's what I found: 🚩 5 estimates outside their CI 🚩 46 estimate-CI duplicates 🚩 20+ cases of asymmetric CIs 🚩 17 values rounded to 4 decimal places (all others 3dp) 🚩 >50% of all estimates and confidence intervals are multiples of 0.008 (???) (CI = confidence interval)

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🚨 Very happy to have a new paper out in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social‬ with @bdellasala.bsky.social‬, Stefan Stojkovic & Nils-Christian Bormann Using data from interwar Italy, we show that political violence has asymmetric effects: it benefits the radical right while weakening the radical left ⬇️

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Together with @paugrau.bsky.social, we have just posted our first Substack, which is our quick take on the outcome of the labour rights and citizenship referendums in Italy on 8-9 June 1/ open.substack.com/pub/simonhix...

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Divide and Lose

One Reason Why Italy’s Progressives Lost the June 2025 Referendums

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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Our newest piece on BSW is now published. We show that when attitudes toward Wagenknecht come into the game, policies are no longer that meaningful in predicting behaviour. Personalisation in a personalised party! What a surprise! 😀 @sarahwagner.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I missed this last month, but the Golder/Bormann Democratic Electoral Systems dataset has an update to v5.0, and now includes democratic elections from 1919 to 1945 mattgolder.com/elections

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DES Version 5.0 (1919-2020) Nils-Christian Bormann and I are releasing version 5.0 of the Democratic Electoral Systems (DES) dataset. The new dataset is the same as DES 4.2 but expands the time per…

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Mathias Kruse @matkruse.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

🚨New article🚨 Why does the ethnic majority expect that ethnic minorities "free ride" and contribute less to the collective? In a new article in @bjpols.bsky.social, I show that negative expectations are driven by the correlates of ethnicity rather than ethnicity itself 🧵👇 OA-link: cup.org/4lOX7jN

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🚨 We’ve released the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data and Assemblies (AIEEDA) 🗳️ 25 European democracies, 1919–1939: party positions, cabinet formation, elections (and subnational geo-coded data for 6 countries) 1/2 ⬇️

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData

Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python

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Solveig Bjørkholt @sunny369.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Happy to announce that my first article is finally in print in Political Science and Research Methods (PSRM).

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Dr. Sarah Wagner @sarahwagner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Why would the CDU accommodate AfD policies, despite a plethora of research telling them not to? My brilliant friend @philswatton.bsky.social wrote a fantastic, easy to understand piece on measurement: dysfunctionalprogramming.substack.com/p/measuremen...

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Measurement Makes Communicating Political Science Hard

Imagine you are a political practitioner for a social democratic party.

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨 Happy to see one of my PhD papers out at JEPOP 📚 I examine whether MPs' attention to local issues in parliamentary activities affects their re-election chances in party-centred contexts www.tandfonline.com/eprint/G2HVG... Ungated version here: eavigano.github.io/papers/jepop...

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🚨 Out now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social : "Citizens' Preferences for Multidimensional Representation". Jack Blumenau, Fabio Wolkenstein & I investigate citizens' preferences regarding 6 dimensions of representation using surveys conducted in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪. Short 🧵(1/10) doi.org/10.1017/S15375

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Lucilla Losi (she/her) @lucillalosi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

With #Trump soon in office, #science #skepticism is reaching new heights. 🤔But is science skepticism really about science?🔬🧪 In our new paper on Science and Public Policy, me and Simon Fuglsang investigate this question, focusing on 🌦️climate change and 🐒evolution. academic.oup.com/spp/advance-...

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

🚨 PhD position in political science at Witten/Herdecke University 📌 Possibility to work on the project 'Democracy, Anger, and Elite Responses' www.erc-danger.de ⏰ Deadline: 15 May. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. More info here: uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/44051262...

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Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (Doktorand/innen) (Doctoral student) (w/m/d) am Lehrstuhl für International Political Studies

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Journal of Public Policy @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

“The policy agenda effects of problem indicators: a comparative study in seven countries” by Thomas A. Kristensen, Peter B. Mortensen, Christoffer Green-Pedersen and @henrikseeberg.bsky.social has received the Peter John Prize for the best article in Volume 43. Enjoy the paper here: t.ly/csf4e

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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Online first: "Where do parties talk about what? Party issue salience across communication channels" by Christoph Ivanusch doi.org/10.1080/0140... Polisky

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Troels Bøggild @tboeggild.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 I'm hiring two postdocs (2-3 years) for a research project on political polarization hosted at @aarhusuni.bsky.social Application deadline August 15, starting date October 1 or later. Please help share widely! polisky #AcademicSky #PhDChat international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Two postdoctoral positions in research project on political polarization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Lukas Stoetzer @lstoetze.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

🚨Job Alert 🚨 We are looking for a Post-doc to help us forecast the next German federal election, zweitstimme.org! 3-year position at University Witten/Herdecke. Application deadline: 04 April 2024. Please apply and reach out for questions uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/42530117...

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Post-Doc (m/f/d) in the Project 'Election Forecasts for the German Federal Election 2025'

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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Just out @thejop.bsky.social. The study questions a common mechanism used to explain gender differences in elite behavior: the idea that women are more averse to risk than men. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

My paper "Civil war and state support for conventional arms control" is now available at @conflictmanagement.bsky.social. It explores the relationship between, well, civil war and state support for conventional arms control. See below for the abstract and here for the paper: doi.org/10.1177/0738...

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Tom Louwerse @tomlouwerse.nl · 23/01/2024

🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL ON PARLIAMENTS This is a great place for PhD students and early career scholars working on topics related to the legislature. Many excellent scholars cover topics ranging from representation to polarization, from government to opposition. ecpr.eu/Events/265

Programme of the ECPR Summer School on Parliaments. Visit website for similar information.

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Morgan Le Corre Juratic @morganlcj.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

We now have a preprint!🥳 If you’re interested in understanding why radical voters’ satisfaction with democracy decreases even when they make an electoral breakthrough, we have a mixed-method paper for you with @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social Here is our draft: osf.io/7bfka 👀

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Conor Gaughan @conorgaughan.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

The political science network on Bluesky is now at just under 1,600 users with almost 74,000 unique connections! I've also published this network as an interactive graph so if anybody wants to find themselves, follow the link: conorgaughan2.github.io/polisky_netw... (*Not mobile-friendly)

A network graph of political scientists on Bluesky, connected by followers and coloured by community groups.

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Mariia Tepliakova @mtplk.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

hey gendersky polisky, @maryanab.bsky.social and I want to put together a QTA/text-as-data panel for #ecpg2024 methods section 🤓 if you apply methods like these to gender-related topics, or know someone who does, please reach out to us! the deadline is Dec 7 ✅

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

My paper is out at Legislative Studies Quarterly (open access). I look at whether electoral tiers in a mixed-member systems create different incentives for subnational legislators to try and run for higher office. This is, in fact, the case. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Online first: "Competing on competence: the issue profiles of mainstream parties in Western Europe" by Christoffer Green-Pedersen & @henrikseeberg.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... Polisky

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Kristian Frederiksen @kristianvsf.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Delighted that my paper Young People Punish Undemocratic Behavior Less Than Older People is now conditionally accepted at @bjpols.bsky.social. I show what the title suggests using a large amount of survey experimental evidence. Thread below.

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Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

📡The next term of the #TaDa Speaker Series starts next week!! We have six amazing speakers on all things #TextAsData/#NLP lined up for you 👇

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Which polisky journals, associations and other types of organisations have already landed here? I know of @ecpr.bsky.social @ecprinterestgroups.bsky.social @duckofminerva.bsky.social @europeanisa.bsky.social? Any others that you know of? Is there a list that is being updated?

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Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

📣I am happy to announce my new publication📄 on party leaders in Party Politics @SageJournals Now! Open access🔓at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

“Nostalgia in European Party Politics: A Text-Based Measurement Approach” (with Sven-Oliver Proksch) has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Political Science! Paper (PDF): muellerstefan.net/papers/bjps_... polisky cssky 1/5

Abstract: Traditional research on political parties pays little attention to the temporal focus of communication but usually concentrates on promises, issue attention, and policy positions. This lack of scholarly attention is surprising, given that voters respond to nostalgic rhetoric and may even adjust issue positions when policy is framed in nostalgic terms. This article presents a novel dataset, PolNos, which contains six text-based measures of nostalgic rhetoric in 1,648 party manifestos across 24 European democracies from 1946 to 2018. The measures combine dictionaries, word embeddings, sentiment approaches, and supervised machine learning. Our analysis yields a consistent result: nostalgia is most prevalent in manifestos of culturally conservative parties, notably Christian democratic, nationalist, and radical right parties. However, substantial variation remains in terms of regional differences and whether nostalgia concerns the economy or culture. We discuss the implications a

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Accepted last week at #APSR "Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters" (with Stephanie Zonszein). Ungated draft can be found at osf.io/w2dg8/.

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Troels Bøggild @tboeggild.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

🚨New pub on the legislative cost of ruling: Parties lose voters after entering government (the electoral cost of ruling) - we show this in turn adds legislative costs by making MPs vote against party policy to signal distance from the party ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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