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Frederik Hjorth

@fghjorth.bsky.social
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Associate Prof, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
FOUR GRAPHS ABOUT 🇩🇰'S GENERAL ELECTION My read of the election in four graphs. First: big urban-rural divide. The two big mainstream parties, Social Democrats and Liberals, are now mainly rural/suburban, with niche parties dominating in cities. (1/4) #polisky
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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🪙Do politicians signal partisan conflict through what they say? ➡️ Using Danish parliamentary debates, @mathiasoestergaard.bsky.social & @fghjorth.bsky.social show that vocal pitch signals partisan polarization, revealing the strategic use of nonverbal cues cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Political communication research overwhelmingly relies on text. But parliamentary speech is multimodal! In our new @psrm.bsky.social article, Mathias Rask and I show that legislators also signal partisan conflict nonverbally— through changes in vocal pitch during floor speeches. 🧵 1/11 #polisky
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
In *the annotated sample alone*, these proportions correspond to ~1500 published survey experimental papers yearly, rising sharply. I'm no stranger to survey experiments myself, but seems a bit much.
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Olivia V. J. Levinsen @olivialevinsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Why has women's representation in parliament been lagging? Can it be that party elites have penalized women candidates? Come find out tomorrow at "Primaries and Candidate Selection" at 8.00 am in West 215. @fghjorth.bsky.social @fkjoeller.bsky.social @annalund.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 04/07/2025
Liberal democracy is a fighting faith. Fight to defend it. Cynicism is an authoritarian government’s best friend.
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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
A magazine list showing #37, Zohran Mamdani, age 11, asked for Books, FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 video games.
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Pumped to be at #EPSA2025 in sunny Madrid, where my esteemed coauthors and I will present four papers. Quick 🧵 on the papers in chronological order 👇 1/5
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🚨 WP w/ @acalacino.bsky.social & @hayleypring.bsky.social It’s been a turbulent decade of globalization backlash. Populist projects wanna take back control everywhere. Focusing on the case of oil and Brexit, we offer a story of the danger of this narrative and concrete merits of multilateralism: 🧵
Abstract of "Offshore Outlaws: Brexit and Oil Spills in the North Sea" by Anthony Calacino, Federica Genovese, Hayley Pring (University of Oxford)
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Frederik Kjøller @fkjoeller.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Excited to be presenting in shorts on this years' EPSA! 🩳 I'll be presenting joint work w. @fghjorth.bsky.social about geographical representation and commute time's effect on candidate supply 🗳️🧭 📍Friday 16:50-18:30 in room 0A.01
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Alice el-Wakil @anewq.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
CfA: PhD scholarship in political theory @ucph.bsky.social Part of my project "Citizens' Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems," which will explore how citizens should participate in making political agendas Apply by Aug. 3, 2025 ➡️ employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie... #PolTheory #demoinno
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PhD Scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH): Citizens’ Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems (CASDS)
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Wiebke Marie Junk @wmjunk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The deadline is approaching (5 June)! So, I am just reposting this once more... Perhaps it can reach a few more junior scholars interested in lobbying?
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚨 New publication 🚨 : Happy to share that my paper, "Losing Touch: The Rhetorical Cost of Governing" is now forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Short 🧵 about the paper here 👇 1/10
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
So what happens to volunteer led sites like stackoverflow now? Do the companies that ate them make and release the labels they generate for new languages? Do we just hope and pray LLMs fill the gap? Something real has been lost.
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
“It’s an agent of stability until it becomes an agent of chaos.” Christopher Nolan screenplay or @robfordmancs.bsky.social about FPTP?
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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Today in #Lund is an academic celebration & I have the privilege to be part of examining committee for this timely PhD thesis defence by Esether ML Calvo of her work on ”rhetorical responses of mainstream parties towards a radical right party”; generous opponent is @fghjorth.bsky.social.
Front cover of thesis by Esther ML Calvo with an abstract figure conveying spatial movement among entities on a black background.
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 21/04/2025
A striking chart from @gelliottmorris.com: Trump's current unfavorable rating on the economy (orange line) is by far the lowest he's ever experience—and most of this polling came *before* the "Liberation Day" chaos www.gelliottmorris.com/p/chart-of-t...
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Tune in later today for this presentation by rising ⭐️ @chdausgaard.bsky.social 👇
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Henning Finseraas @finseraas.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
*CALL FOR PAPERS* We are happy to invite proposals to the 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop at NTNU Trondheim, Norway, October 2-3. See mikaelpersson.org/workshop for more information and how to submit your proposal (deadline May 10). Please distribute to people that might be interested
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
New type of NIMBYism just dropped
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
For veterans of the Eurozone crisis, this is quite incredible - today Greece has a lower borrowing cost than both the UK and the US for their 10 year bonds. I had to check, all of the previous so called 'PIIGS' (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) have lower borrowing costs than the US today.
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
How do challenger parties—those without prior governing experience—gain access to executive power? In our paper out now in @thejop.bsky.social, @mvinaes.bsky.social, @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, and I explore whether simply holding legislative office helps them join government. Brief 🧵👇 1/10
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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Join us for the first SODAS Lecture of the spring on March 21! 📅 Kevin Munger will kick off the lecture series with a talk on the effects of TikTok edits on evaluations of politicians📱 Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...
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SODAS Lecture with Kevin Munger
SODAS Lecture on the effects of TikTok on the evaluation of politicians with Kevin Munger.
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I had the pleasure of attending PEEP last year---top tier research and feedback throughout, very highly recommended. Apply if you're headed to APSA '25!
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Thomas Hegghammer @hegghammer.net · 09/03/2025
The thing about the big systems like the F-35 is this: smaller countries were buying them not because they were objectively much better than the competition, but because it bought goodwill in DC (or so they thought). There was a diplomatic premium. Good luck charging that now
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Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science. I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science. 📍 Start: flex summer 2025 📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...
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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The gender gap amongst young voters is very real
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Hvad mener danskerne om tilskud til 🇬🇱? I @altingetdk.bsky.social's måling relativt flertal bag at fortsætte "i nogle år" efter løsrivelse. I @jyllands-posten.dk's markant flertal for "omgående ophør". Typisk volatilitet for et nyt og komplekst emne. #dkpol
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Adventures with DeepSeek 🇨🇳
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This Politico article on the Biden-Pelosi rift is interesting throughout. One odd detail: when Nancy Pelosi breaks her hip in Luxembourg, she does not even entertain the idea of getting local treatment.
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Learned a lot from running this survey of (among other things) content moderation preferences in 🇩🇰. Read more from @claesdevreese.bsky.social 👇 Lots more to come!
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Christoffer H. Dausgaard @chdausgaard.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
In a new working paper, @fghjorth.bsky.social and I show that party elites have significant power to shape group linkages through their rhetoric, suggesting that such linkages are more dynamic and elite-driven than suggested by predominant structural accounts. 🧵
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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Danmarks udenrigspolitiske strategi i forhold til Grønland bør være at forklare Trump og amerikanerne, hvordan Mercatorprojektion fungerer geoffboeing.com/2015/08/map-...
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
New Gender Update out in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. With data from the new wave of the EES, I show a strong increase in support for the far right among young voters. Especially the share of young men who consider voting for the far right has exploded. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This Tyler Cowen post about a pro-Trump “vibe shift” seemed a bit premature at the time, but looks pretty accurate now marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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The changes in vibes - why did they happen? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Clearly it has happened, and it has been accelerated and publicized by the Biden failings and the attempted Trump assassination.  But it was already underway.  If you need a single, unambiguous sign o...
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Just published on APSR First View: "Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies" by Gregory Eady and Anne Rasmussen. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Carlisle Rainey 👨‍💻📊📚 @carlislerainey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Here's a provocative new paper "Confronting the New Gatekeepers of Experimental Political Science" doi.org/10.33774/aps...
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Giving a talk at 3:00 at the university of Copenhagen in the department of psychology on “Why does science often fail and sometimes succeed?” (Meeting room 309 in the unlikely event someone would want to attend in person)
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Excellent title for what looks to be a super interesting book
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Cool work from @fresejoris.bsky.social et al: ~one third of rising Brexit regret is cohort replacement! As generational opinion divides increase, cohort replacement will play a bigger role in mass opinion change.
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Dominik Schraff @dschraff.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The polarization of European politics:
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
My favourite piece of academic prose. So lucid. So powerful.
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Marc Sabatier Hvidkjær @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
OK, now I've also made a "starter pack" for Danish Political Science! Don't know why this ≠ lists, but alas bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The “science is always political” trope is very frustrating—at some level it is trivially true, but we can make science less political and that would be good! Highly recommend this essay by @stuartjritchie.bsky.social on this: open.substack.com/pub/stuartri...
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Science is political - and that's a bad thing
People who say “science is political” usually aren’t just stating facts - they’re trying to push something on you. Don’t let them
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
What counts as an election win? Anglo media frame Wilders' plurality in 🇳🇱 as an "election victory", but multiparty systems are tricky. Take 🇩🇰 in 2015: the plurality winner lost government control, and the biggest loser by vote share formed a single party government instead 🙃
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