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Nathalie Brack @nathaliebrack.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New paper, out today in @commssustain.nature.com : politicians are far more polarized on climate change than the citizens they represent. Study in 8 countries, with 714 politicians and 18,281 citizens in open access: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I genuinely think this emerging body of research on perceptual biases of public opinion among elected officials is some of the most important in political science. (There's some democratic theory to be done here as well)

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

New preprint: Jack Lucas, @breunig.eurosky.social and I reanalyze 70,470 assessments made by 12,860 politicians about their constituents' public opinion and demographics, sourced from every available published study of elite perceptual accuracy, and our own original data. /1 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🧠 Do politicians misread their constituents' preferences? ➡️Using a new method where politicians draw preference distributions, N Dias, @jacklucas.bsky.social & @liorsheffer.bsky.social show that conservative overestimation is smaller than assumed www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

New and open access, in @psrm.bsky.social: What happens when we make politicians draw distributions? Nic Dias, @jacklucas.bsky.social and I explore whether the large errors politicians make about public opinion are artificially inflated by how researchers ask them to estimate it /1 cup.org/4kltoyE

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I should also have mentioned this paper by @noamgidron.bsky.social et al. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Noam Gidron @noamgidron.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Who protests against democratic backsliding? A new working paper with Margalit, Sheffer and Yakir examines this issue and finds that people’s conceptions of what democracy means play a crucial role in predicting whether they engage in active opposition to backsliding efforts. osf.io/preprints/so...

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🆕 What kind of personalities are drawn to politics? 🗳️ This cross-national study across 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇮🇱🇳🇱🇨🇭 explores #Representation and how honesty-humility and other HEXACO personality traits shape people’s ambition to run for office 🧵1/2 buff.ly/xk4qMa3

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Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 13/10/2025

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment - cup.org/4ncO4c0 - Marc van de Wardt, P.Bundi, P.J.Loewen, @annerasmussen.bsky.social, @liorsheffer.bsky.social & F.Varone #FirstView

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Now in @ispp-pops.bsky.social: what type of personality do citizens want their leaders to have? In a series of studies conducted in Belgium, Canada, and Israel, we present citizens with profiles of potential leaders with different personality configurations drawn using the Big Five traits /1

Screen shot of the title, author list, and abstract of the Political Psychology paper "What Personality Traits do Citizens Want Politicians to Have?"

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

From February 2025 - Do Political Leaders Understand Public Opinion Better than Backbenchers? - cup.org/3CNR4dt - Stefaan Walgrave, Julie Sevenans, Frédéric Varone, @liorsheffer.bsky.social & @breunig.bsky.social #OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing politicians' perceptions of public opinion accuracy regarding leadership performance, featured on a green background with white text.

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Dylan Connor @lifechances.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The most important paper on democratic backsliding I've read this year

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Noam Gidron @noamgidron.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Now in @bjpols.bsky.social: Are leaders really better at reading public opinion? In a large-scale study led by Stefaan Walgrave and Julie Sevenans, we test the assumption that politicians in leadership positions have more accurate knowledge of public opinion than others. /1 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

This paper joins a couple of others demonstrating that politicians have a conservative bias in their expectations of public opinion. This work is hugely illuminative of elite attitudes and so is of vital interest to activists pursuing progressive change

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Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Very cool paper! Well worth your time if you study elite decision-making or elections and accountability.

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Now in APSR: What do politicians think about their voters? Fielding face-to-face surveys to 982 sitting politicians in 11 countries, and accompanying surveys of 12,000 citizens, we find that politicians have remarkably consistent - and cynical - theories of voters: /1 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Now in Political Psychology: Why are some politicians more hostile than others? Do politicians as a group feel more partisan animosity than citizens? @lucasjacklucas and I report results from a study of 850 politicians and 28,500 citizens to provide first answers: /1 doi.org/10.1111/pops.12974

What explains elite affective polarization? Evidence from Canadian politicians

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Ayala Panievsky @panievsky.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Excited to share my new publication in the International Journal of Press/Politics with my brilliant friends Yossi David, @noamgidron.bsky.social & @liorsheffer.bsky.social! Imagined audiences have been studied for decades - but what do we know about imagined journalists? >> shorturl.at/klovF

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Now in @EJPRjournal: Are Politicians Democratic Realists? Social scientists debate whether citizens are competent participants in the political game, but where politicians stand on this question is far more consequential, and yet we know virtually nothing about their views. /1

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Now in EJPR: Can elections reduce partisan hostility? @noamgidron.bsky.social and I tracked 1,000 voters throughout the 2021 election in Israel, in which Netanyahu was temporarily ousted by a short-lived, improbable coalition whose member parties were highly hostile to each other. /1

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Noam Gidron @noamgidron.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Check out this great special issue on comparative affective polarization -- including my paper with @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Guy Mor: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Israel's democratic crisis provides us with an opportunity to explore, in real time, who supports democratic backsliding. Our new working paper (w\ Noam Gidron, Yotam Margalit and Itamar Yakir) examines this issue using original pre- and post-reform panel data. Here's what we find: osf.io/zxukm/

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