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Henrik Serup Christensen

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Klodsmajor | Senior lecturer in Political science at Åbo Akademi University | research.abo.fi/en/persons/henrik-s… |Political participation | Political trust | Political behaviour |

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know those (rare) papers that really make you proud? In new piece out at APR, we show that #AffectivePolarization likely spills onto other types of non-political polarization - notably, PREFERENCES FOR CATS VS. DOGS (aka “affective PAWlarization”) paper: tinyurl.com/jn48bypp data: osf.io/4p2zu
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy weekend! This Saturday brings you the rare joy of a 🙌job🙌 in: surveys! democratic attitudes! experiments! three years!! research only (if you want)!!!! with @rikkidean.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social !!!!!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTB393/r...
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Research Fellow - Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) project at University of Southampton
Apply now for the Research Fellow - Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) project role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PhD position? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social and @markuskollberg.bsky.social in #STATEWORK at Humboldt University and join our @dynamics.bsky.social PhD programme Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 13 October 2026
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Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dear colleagues/friends, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org has just notified me that ‘Empathy and Political Reasoning’ is free to read and hopefully enjoy, until September 14th, 2026, for the APSA @apsa.bsky.social conference this year. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Empathy and Political Reasoning
Cambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - Empathy and Political Reasoning
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A nice surprise today. My book is now out! One week ahead of schedule! Thanks to the European Research Council you can even download it for free. Here's what the critics are saying... bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/democracy-pa...
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Democracy, Participation and Public Administration
Democracy, Participation and Public Administration - A Systems Approach; A novel democratic systems theory that puts public administration at the heart of democracy. The new approach is applied to the...
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Felix Lehmann @felixlehmann.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What do parties do after severe and persistent electoral defeat? In a new paper recently published in Party Politics, I find that parties tend to focus more on their core issues but do not necessarily adopt more extreme positions: doi.org/10.1177/1354....
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Arndt Leininger @aleininger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
 📢 A new resource for referendum research is now online! We're excited to launch RefSurv – an infrastructure for facilitating comparative research on referendum voting. 🔎📊 Explore it here: referendumsurveys.org 1/
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Welcome to RefSurv! - RefSurv
This website presents RefSurv - an infrastructure for facilitating comparative research on voting in referendums. RefSurv is short for referendum surveys and made for scholars who want to research re…
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Beyond excited to announce that the newest edition of PUBLIC OPINION, written by Rosalee Clawson, Zoe Oxley, and ME(!!) is available now! This book is filled with lots of cool material geared towards undergrads, super proud! Find the book here: collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/pub...
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Sofia Marini @sofiamarini.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In this article, recently out for @wepsocial.bsky.social, @henrikseeberg.bsky.social and I present key findings from our coding of party youth wing statutes in 11 countries. Bonus: data available here! 👇🏼 dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
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Politics Journal @politicsjournal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
1/4. New article published: Can AI support Citizens' Assemblies? Jäske, Kulha, Leino, Setälä & Wessman tested GPT-4o in Finland's 2025 Energy Assembly. They identify 6 deliberative functions & tested AI in 3: inquiry, co-creation & integration @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com
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Korinna Lindemann @korinlind.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Big news for political science in Europe!
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Are preferences for authoritarian rule individual predispositions—or can they spread socially? Using field + survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we show that openness to strongman rule can spread socially. American Journal of Political Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
The increasing popularity of strongman rule in democratic societies underscores the need to explore how authoritarian regime preferences might spread socially. We assess the role of social influence ...
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
How much do experts really shape public trust in policy decisions? Ilkka Koiranen & @henriksc.bsky.social argue university researchers can enhance perceived legitimacy, but their impact varies by issue, outcome favorability & perceived importance. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/w30Ilia #polsky #polsci
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Andrew Martin @andrewmartin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.
plot predicting messi-ronaldo preference
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Ceri Fowler @cerifowler.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Also, from me and @profsob.bsky.social : new article at @electoralstudies.bsky.social is out! We argue that the material (safety/security) v postmaterial distinction between sets of values falls differently for women & minorities. We use the example of women to demonstrate how this skews measurement
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Henrik Serup Christensen @henriksc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This article is the first of hopefully many more, where we examine the role of different types of expertise for legitimising democratic and undemocratic decisions.
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Eftichia Teperoglou @efteperoglou.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What do the 2024 European elections reveal about changes in Greece’s party system? Part of the Special issue @sespjournal.bsky.social on 2024 EP elections in Southern Europe. Many thanks to Silvia and @gotinakos.bsky.social for the fantastic collaboration! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FSWPC...
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The 2024 European Parliament elections in Greece: blues of an incipient predominant-party system?
The 2024 European Parliament elections in Greece tested both New Democracy’s (ND) trajectory towards predominant party status and the second-order election (SOE) model’s relevance. Drawing on aggre...
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Taking a stand ✋️🧍 These authors 🧵 use survey data across 9 countries to assess the downstreams consequences of #AffectivePolarization & intervene to successfully reduce participants #AffectivePolarization in 6 of the 9, improving interpersonal relations and social norms buff.ly/tHRWa65
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The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies
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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🚨New publication (with Shane Singh) in @poqjournal.bsky.social! Proponents of compulsory voting often claim that obligatory turnout will increase citizens' political involvement, equalising levels of democratic attitudes and political engagement in the electorate. But does it? 👇
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Does Compulsory Voting Improve Democratic Attitudes and Engagement? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Belgium
Abstract. For over a century, scholars, policymakers, and advocates have argued that compulsory voting not only boosts turnout but also promotes prodemocra
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Markus Freitag @freitagmarkus.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
❗ New paper out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social ❗ @lizsuhay.bsky.social @mjbsp.bsky.social Depressive symptoms and populism👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Depressive symptoms and populism: Evidence from European countries
In recent years, depression has entered the research agenda of political psychology, emerging as a meaningful psychological correlate of diverse political attitudes and behaviors. Surprisingly, howev...
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Lars Erik Berntzen @leberntzen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Does affective polarization itself actually threaten democracy? Recent experiments from the US suggest maybe not. In our new @ejprjournal.bsky.social paper, we revisit this question comparatively with a survey experiment in 9 democracies (18,000 respondents). #polisky
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The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies
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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🇪🇺 Do populist MEPs walk their anti-corruption talk? @nuriafontb.bsky.social & @cristinaarescc.bsky.social: populist MEPs ask more ethics questions in opposition but not once their party governs. Mainstream MEPs barely move in comparison. Anti-elitism cools fast in office. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
First page of "Populism in the EU and the trade-off between ethical claiming and mainstreaming" by Nuria Font and Cristina Ares, published online first in West European Politics.
Horizontal bar chart titled "Ethical questions, by actors targeted and categories (%)". The article reports that ethical questions about EU targets are dominated by conflicts of interest, while questions about national and international targets are dominated by corruption.
Two-panel point-and-CI plot titled "Marginal effects of national government on ethical questioning, by populism: EU-level targets". The article reports that populist MEPs ask about 1.2 EU-targeted ethics questions when their party is in opposition but only about 0.1 once their party governs; mainstream MEPs (left panel) ask comparatively few in either condition.
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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
6 years ago, I started asking a question that political science had largely ignored: how & why do women get involved in PRR parties as grassroots members? Today, my 1st book proposes an answer. Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right is now out online with OUP: academic.oup.com/book/62754
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Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right
Abstract. This book investigates women’s involvement as members of populist radical right (PRR) parties. The latter have long been characterised as ‘men’s
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student for a new project on Parties' social group ownership, based in the @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social research group at KU Leuven! Deadline for applying is 26 June, estimated starting date is 1 Oct 2026. All info is here 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Share widely!
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1 doctoraatspositie in kiesgedrag
1 PhD position to research how parties build connections with social groups
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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🚨 Stellenausschreibung 🚨 Promotionsstelle zu Parteien in ländlich-peripheren Räumen (4 Jahre, 75 %) Das Projekt verbindet qualitative Interviews, die Analyse lokaler Parteistrukturen und Inhaltsanalysen von Wahlprogrammen. 🗓️ Bewerbungsschluss: 31.05.2026 www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet...
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in - Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Gesundheitsmanagement 26/Op09
Stellenausschreibung Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My new OA book with Tim Monteath "Doing Open Social Science: A Guide for Researchers" is out from @LSEPress on *14 May* See press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... It covers how 'open science' approaches can now be fully implemented by both qualitative & quantitative researchers in practical ways
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Sofia Vasilopoulou @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I am looking for a PhD student to support my ERC Consolidator project INEQCHANGE: Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe. ⏰ deadline: 31 May
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PhD Project to support ERC Consolidator grant INEQCHANGE Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe led by Prof Sofia Vasilopoulou at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD Project to support ERC Consolidator grant INEQCHANGE Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe led by Prof Sofia Vasilopoulou at King’s College London, listed...
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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🚨 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...
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Ole Ryborg @oleryborg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Only two percent of Danes believe that the United States would come to Denmark’s rescue if a military threat against Denmark were to arise. 1/
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Arndt Leininger @aleininger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📢 We're hiring for my project RESPOL on residential mobility & electoral realignment 📍 University of Hamburg 📅 4y, 75% FTE 🔍 pol behavior, comp politics, regional inequalities 📊 quant, administrative & survey data Please share with talented MA students! 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
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Hufvudstadsbladet [Unofficial] @hbl.fi.web.brid.gy · 26/04/2026
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Rolf Sebastian dissar Spotify och ger ut musik på t-tröjor
Åbobandet Rolf Sebastian har kommit på ett sätt att kringgå Spotify och sprida sitt album på ett alternativt sätt. – Vi vill göra nånting som känns etiskt vettigt och visa att man inte behöver gå in i den här förödande strukturen, säger bandets frontfigur Sebastian Bergholm.
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🗽💜 @chips1955.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Jonas W. Schmid @jonaswschmid.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Very happy that my article "Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?" won the Frank Cass Prize for the best young scholar article in @democratization.bsky.social in 2025! Read it here or check the thread below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New study showing that online hatred is worse in countries with higher economic and political inequality. www.nature.com/articles/s41... By @m-b-petersen.bsky.social et al.
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Social media users experience more political hostility in less economically equal and less democratic societies - Nature Human Behaviour
Drawing on survey data from 30 countries, Bor et al. find that online political hostility is higher in more unequal and less democratic societies.
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇
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Linde Stals @lindestals.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📢 Our article on institutional trust development during adolescence is now also featured in ECPR's The Loop! Check it out if you want to know the main findings and their implications for democratic accountability. With @cvalebeek.bsky.social
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 20/02/2026
Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects doi.org/10.1177/2515...
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Lisa Dellmuth @lisadellmuth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
📚 2 PhD positions in International Relations at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social! The positions are linked to my ERC-project about local change and public support for protectionism #academicsky #polisky Deadline April 10, 2026, apply here! 👇 su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... - su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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PhD student in International Relations
The Department of Economic History and International Relations is a dynamic and strong education and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. Its International Re
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Watching the news on television or social media, Europe seems a polarised landscape, where citizens no longer trust politicians. 🧐 What can we do to recover political trust? Find out in our #ActEU animated video 👉 youtu.be/ksOPxCG0TSQ @csic.es @cchscsic.bsky.social @univcatholille.bsky.social
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How can we recover political trust? | TEPSA Animated Explainer
YouTube video by Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New paper this week by V-Dem's director, @silindberg.bsky.social, on the the current wave of autocratization: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... Including this important statement: "...it is by my own analysis no question that the USA no longer qualifies as a democracy."
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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 11/02/2026
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
It must be very hard to publish null results
Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New article and special issue! Just out in Comparative Political Studies: “Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Information, Legacies, Temporalities", the intro to a special issue on countering illiberalism in liberal democracies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Thread 🧵1/7
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Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Information, Legacies, Temporalities - Giovanni Capoccia, 2026
The article lays the foundations of a research agenda on the conditions favoring short-term success against emerging illiberal challenges—necessary for democrat...
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
📢 New article🌟 👥 Sofi Granö (ISV) & Johannes Bergh @johannesbergh.bsky.social 👉 Does local context matter for individual level turnout? Analysing the effect of the social context in the neighbourhood, in Norwegian elections 📖 Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...
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Does local context matter for individual level turnout? Analysing the effect of the social context in the neighbourhood, in Norwegian elections
The purpose of this paper is to study how the social composition of a neighbourhood affects an individual’s propensity to vote. Numerous studies have looked at aggregate level contextual effects on...
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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🚨 Deadline Soon (***February 5, 2026***): 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science 🚨 I am seeking applicants for a 3-year postdoc related to my @erc.europa.eu research project EQUILIBRIUM that focuses on state-citizen interactions. The application link and further information are in the post below. ⬇️
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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
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