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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Do elites need to calm down? 😡😠 💡Elite affective polarization hinders government coalitions even when parties want similar things. ➡️ @hannaeback.bsky.social @roycecarroll.bsky.social @johanhellstrom.bsky.social & Lindahl in @ejprjournal.bsky.social

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

📣 Is it the summer of affective polarization research? In July, three political science papers topped the list of most-saved papers on SciLove. @sirianned.bsky.social @saengler.bsky.social @hannaeback.bsky.social All papers trending in June 2026: scilove.app/trending/all... @scilove.bsky.social

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 23/12/2025

#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social - From crisis to commitment: How empowerment and threat perceptions influence individuals’ defence willingness - cup.org/3LhKFLT - @hannaeback.bsky.social, Amanda Remsö, Emma Renström & Roxanna Sjöstedt #FirstView

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🌀 💡 Are parties wasting time negotiating coalition deals? 🤝 @mebergman.bsky.social, @hannaeback.bsky.social & Wolfgang C Müller looks at whether prolonged coalition talks actually deliver better outcomes — or if they just cost parties (and voters) precious time.

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Are parties wasting time negotiating coalition deals?

Recent elections in several countries have produced inconclusive outcomes. This has resulted in extended periods of bargaining between parties to determine the next government. Matthew E Bergman,…

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European Journal of International Security @ejisbisa.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🚨💣 "From crisis to commitment: How empowerment and threat perceptions influence individuals’ defence willingness" from @hannaeback.bsky.social, Amanda Remsö, Emma Renström & Roxanna Sjöstedt. 👉 Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

▶️ Political Representation 👉🏽 Section chairs: @hannaeback.bsky.social & @sopro.bsky.social 📢 Our section welcomes work that addresses representation, legislative politics, or electoral institutions, esp. research advancing our theoretical understanding + offers new empirical evidence. >>> 3/

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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Let’s make next year’s EPSS Political Representation section a space for rigorous scholarship, vibrant exchange, and new collaborations! 📅 EPSS 2026 submission deadline: November 7, 2025 📎 Submit here: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... /end

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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference

Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.

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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

📢 EPSS 2026 Call for Papers! @hannaeback.bsky.social and I are excited to invite submissions for the Political Representation section at EPSS 2026 in Belfast. EPSS has some exciting new panel formats this year - read on! 🧵

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Hanna Bäck @hannaeback.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Do consider joining the new EPSS conference in Belfast next year! I will be chairing the section on Political Representation with Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Shreyas Meher and Patrick T. Brandt demonstrate how state-of-the-art language models can be efficiently adapted for political event classification, achieving up to 1400% improvement in accuracy while remaining computationally accessible. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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ConflLlama: Domain-specific adaptation of large language models for conflict event classification - Shreyas Meher, Patrick T. Brandt, 2025

We present ConflLlama, demonstrating how efficient fine-tuning of large language models can advance automated classification tasks in political science research...

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Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Looking forward to present new research (with @hannaeback.bsky.social and @michaelimre.bsky.social) on the relationship between ideological polarization, coalition governance and the number of party members in the German states at the Sogang Conference on Party Activism and Democracy next week 😊

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Royce Carroll @roycecarroll.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

My ESS course 'Ideal Point Estimation, IRT, and Scaling Methods for Surveys and Behavior' returns this summer -- online and in-person, 21 July - 1 August. essexsummerschool.com/summer-schoo...

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Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Do interpersonal relations affect coalition bargaining? @hannaeback.bsky.social, @michaelimre.bsky.social and I argue that when the Prime Minister is replaced, the incumbency advantage of a coalition will be weakened because of reduced familiarity and trust journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2

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Hanna Bäck @hannaeback.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Join us for the Annual Meeting of the Swedish Political Science Association (SWEPSA), October 1-3 in Växjö! See the call for papers here (deadline June 13): lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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SWEPSA 2025

Welcome to SWEPSA 2025 conference, hosted by the Department of Political Science at Linnaeus University

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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.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The supervisory team to be commended for their careful support & critique guiding Esther on her intellectual journey consisted of @hannaeback.bsky.social and Jonathan Polk

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Alexander Tripp compares GenAI models (ChatGPT & Claude) with undergraduates in classifying Spanish immigration media frames. While undergraduates outperform AI by a small margin, the results show how researchers can effectively apply these tools and illustrate their pros and cons. Read more here:

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A major challenge in performing text analyses on open-ended responses is potential measurement error in the form of misspellings. This paper provides evidence that large language models (LLMs) offer a solution to correcting misspellings in open-ended responses. Read more: doi.org/10.1177/2053...

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Jonathan Polk @jonathanpolk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

CHES estimates of party positions in Europe for 2024 are now available! Big thanks to all respondents that have helped us build 25 years of CHES data on party positioning in Europe!

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J. Rodríguez Teruel @jrteruel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Are unexperienced politicians more likely to become polarizers? MPs with less parliamentary experience, and with less prior political experience are more likely to express negativity toward outparties in their legislative speeches, by @hannaeback.bsky.social

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Diana O'Brien @dzobrien.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Finally posting to promote some excellent short monographs from the @cambridgeup.bsky.social Elements in Gender & Politics Series! My co-editor @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social and I are proud of these books, which are FREE TO DOWNLOAD until Jan 22. Get your copy today! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

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Elements in Gender & Politics

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

What are language models doing when prompted to label documents by sentiment? @mlburnham.bsky.social finds that language models generally understand sentiment in terms of emotional valence rather than opinion. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

@janschwalbach.bsky.social asseses which theoretical considerations need to be thought through preceding any (legislative) text analysis & discusses how the nested structure of legislative behavior & the data generating process influence theoretic assumptions about parliamentary behavior. Read more:

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

R&P editors' collection 2024 (3/4) Are digital campaigns effective in registering voters? @aslunn.bsky.social, P. John, @florianfoos.bsky.social & V. Cheng-Matsuno find digital campaigns didn't affect under-registered groups’ registrations raising questions about widely-used advertising strategies.

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The editorial team of Research & Politics is excited to share the editors' collection of 2024:

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Welcome to the Research & Politics Bluesky page! Please spread the word and follow us for updates on the latest articles published in R&P.

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

LEGISLATURES @hannaeback.bsky.social & @marcdebus.bsky.social provide a compelling overview of the current research on the role of Ls. Starting from the principal-agent framework, they present key findings on legislative behaviour (e.g. legislative voting, speech) www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

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Daniel Höhmann @dahoehmann.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

If you are interested in coalition cabinets and mutual monitoring of governing parties, you should read @heikekluever.bsky.social , @hannaeback.bsky.social , and @svenjakrauss.bsky.social new book "Coalition Agreements as Control Devices". I wrote a short 📗 review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Klüver, Heike, Hanna Bäck and Svenja Krauss. 2023. Coalition Agreements as Control Devices –...

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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

💥OUT NOW: Vol. 47, Issue 1, 2024 The Special Issue "Coalition Dynamics: Advances in the Study of the Coalition Life Cycle" Guest Editors: @hannaeback.bsky.social , Johan Hellström and Wolfgang C. Müller www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/4...

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West European Politics

Coalition Dynamics: Advances in the Study of the Coalition Life Cycle. Guest Editors: Hanna Bäck, Johan Hellström and Wolfgang C. Müller. Volume 47, Issue 1 of West European Politics

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Florence So @floriso.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

One week ago, these amazing scholars gathered at our gender politics workshop at Lund University to discuss the importance of gender equality (w/ @hannaeback.bsky.social @bcegerod.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social Julie Hassing Nielsen). Social sci folks, gender is not just a control variable! polisky

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Tack 🙏 to @floriso.bsky.social and the wonderful group at Lund poli sci for hosting an inspiring gender & politics workshop!

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Florence So @floriso.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Once in a while, a department is lucky enough to welcome a stellar group of scholars discussing a theoretically and normatively important topic. Well, this week, our poli sci dept at Lund University has the privilege of doing so! Stoked to learn about the new frontiers of gender politics research!

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

After 15 years in the discipline post-PhD, I sometimes feel so discouraged due to the lack of progress..... In political science journals, male authors dominate. Anna Bosco and Susannah Verney show that this gender gap applies at every career stage theloop.ecpr.eu/career-stage...

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Pedro Magalhães @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

The 5th Conference of the European Social Survey will be held in Lisbon, 8-10 July 2024. The deadline to submit a substantive or methodological session proposal is next Monday (2 October). Click here for more info: www.europeansocialsurvey.org/about/ess-co...

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Maurits Meijers @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Pre-print alert ⚠️ In our study "Don't Budge! The Reputational Cost of Political Compromises", @MarikenVelden and I examine how citizens respond to accepting compromises during coalition negotiations. A brief thread 👇 osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xyfzq 1/7

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