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Want a sneak peak into our survey results on Europeans' political AI usage? You can read about it in this new @euractiv.com article featuring our work! @parliview.bsky.social @louiseluxton.bsky.social www.rapporteur.com/news/europea...

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European voters turn to AI for election information | Rapporteur

A survey finds those most likely to use AI for politics are also those most likely to trust traditional news

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🆕 in @bjpols.bsky.social: "Thinly Veiled: The Use of Femonationalist Speech in European Parliaments" We describe the ⬆️ of femonationalist speech over time & across party families in Europe We find the far right use it esp when other parties converge on their anti-immigration position Open access!

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⭕⭕⭕ Zoë Greene ⭕⭕⭕ @zdgreene.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

@tbalogh.bsky.social Presents work from the @parliview.bsky.social project at our @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 panel. Check out parliview.org to sign up as an early test user of the platform! @strathplacelab.bsky.social @strathpolir.bsky.social

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Ceri Fowler @cerifowler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Three (gendered!) things I think are important to understanding Labour support. 1) Their "core voter" for the last few elections is female, young, has a degree 2) Especially in seats where the Greens/other left options are viable, this vote is splitting, with the youngest women going Green...

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm delighted to be co-editing a Research Topic in Frontiers in Political Science with Zoe Lefkofridi and Vera Beloshitzkaya on gender backlash, public opinion, and institutional responses in Europe. We're now inviting abstracts. Deadline: September 6. bit.ly/4uZeDGh

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Frontiers | Contemporary attacks on democracy and gender equality in public opinion and institutional agendas in Europe

Attacks on gender equality and democracy have intensified in recent years in Europe and the U.S. This anti-gender backlash has shaped democratic politics. De...

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Some v. interesting patterns in our pre-2026 locals data e.g., the share of younger women saying they would vote Green appears considerably higher than the share reporting a Green vote in 2024. Lots more to dig into, but it's one of several changing dynamics on the left that we explore here 👇

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 03/06/2026

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Lotte Hargrave @lottehargrave.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

In which I discuss Makerfield, what it means nationally, and my ever favourite topic - gender gaps in undecided voters! 👇

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

New research from colleagues at UCD found that while AI chatbots can give useful information about upcoming elections, they sometimes return incomplete, inconsistent, or outright false answers & the choice of chatbot matters! See our full blog here: bit.ly/4dzKjvF 🧵 Below!

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Very excited to have been awarded a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant with @lottehargrave.bsky.social for a project I've been desperate to work on since my PhD. Look out for us presenting this at conferences soon!

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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 PhD position to research how parties build connections with social groups

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Very happy that our piece in Scottish Election Analysis 2026 is out bit.ly/49bWmww. Some interesting (& unsettling) insights into how voters are using AI to engage with elections. Thread from @strathplacelab.bsky.social | with @tbalogh.bsky.social @elisefrelin.bsky.social @zdgreene.bsky.social

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Coming to @ecprgender.bsky.social #ECPG2026 and working with quant methods or curious about using them in gender & politics research? Come along & meet other researchers at the @strathplacelab.bsky.social pre-conference social 🍻 📍 Two by Two Brewery 🕡 18:30, 14 June RSVP here: bit.ly/4dPyr8F

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Ceri Fowler @cerifowler.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Delighted to say I'm chairing a section at ECPG 2026 with @jess-smith.bsky.social @rosieshorrocks.bsky.social @gefjonoff.bsky.social and @liranharsgor.bsky.social on Elections, Parties, and Voters! Please send your abstracts in - full info here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @ecprgender.bsky.social

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We welcome diverse quant, qual & mixed methods approaches and particularly encourage intersectional analyses & perspectives from beyond Western Europe & the US. Submit your papers/panels here: ecpr.eu/Events/343 @ecprgender.bsky.social

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European Conference on Politics and Gender, Newcastle University, 15-17 June 2026

European Consortium for Political Research

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We invite empirical research on: 🔹 Communication by political actors 🔹 Communication about political actors 🔹 Communication about gender(ed) issues

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🔔 Call for papers for ECPG 2026 is now open! 🔔 Submit your empirical gender & political communication papers/panels to our section by Nov 7th. Full info here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

A screenshot of the overview of the ‘Gender and Political Communication: Empirical Perspectives’ section. The image shows the section title, section chairs - Louise Luxton and Daphne van der Pas - and a few lines do the section abstract.

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James David Griffiths @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Interested in Labour's lost voters since the 2024 UK GE? Want to get a sneak peak at some of the results from wave 30 of the BESIP before it is released? Then we have a new blog for you! 👇👇

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 "School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support" Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/0140... 🧵👇

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The educational cleavage is restructuring electoral competition in many democracies, yet there has been insufficient attention on how variation in educational content affects this. In order to address this, this article combines English administrative school records with a unique representative panel of adolescents to estimate the within-individual effect of studying different subjects at school on political party preference. This analysis finds that studying arts and humanities subjects leads to greater support for socially liberal parties, whilst studying business and economics increases support for economically right-wing parties. Students who study technical subjects become more likely to support socially conservative and economically right-wing parties. These relationships between particular subjects and party support also persist into adulthood. As such, this article provides new evidence on the importance of subjects taken in secondary school for political socialisation, during the impressionable years of adolescence.

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

These findings: 🔹Provides a foundation to assess women’s parties’ impact on party competition over gender issues 🔹Highlights how different visions of SRW translate into substantive policy agendas & raises important Qs of challenges women’s parties face in consolidating an electoral base

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Key finding: Contemporary feminist parties uniquely emphasise transnational concerns: 🔹Frame gender equality as a global structural issue 🔹Promote intersectional feminism incl. LGBTQ+ rights, anti-racism & economic justice 🔹Efforts to org. a unified European movement to counter the far-right

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

These distinctions are empirically evident in parties’ platforms: 🔹Essentialist women’s parties = higher emphasis of democratic & civil rights & economic redistribution 🔹Feminist parties = greater emphasis on gender-based violence & transnational issues e.g., climate, asylum & foreign policy

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Building on theoretical literature, I distinguish two types of women’s parties that emphasise different issues: 🔹Essentialist women’s parties - emphasise women’s dem rights & material conditions 🔹Feminist parties - emphasise structural gender inequalities & broader cultural/political concerns.

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

First, I find common ground. Across diverse contexts, women’s parties’ manifestos consistently emphasise: 🔹 Gender equality 🔹 Social justice 🔹 Childcare and social policy However, there is significant variation in how these issues are framed and which additional issues are prioritised.

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

In this article, I address that gap by analysing 45 manifestos from 20 women’s parties in 18 countries, 1990–2020. Using a mixed-method design (topic modeling + thematic analysis), I examine both commonalities and differences in issue salience and framing.

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Women’s parties have consistently emerged across European democracies to improve women’s political representation and politicise gender issues. Despite their potential influence we lack systematic knowledge of what these parties actually emphasise in their platforms.

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

What do women’s parties want? And how do their platforms differ? Very happy to share the first paper from my PhD out now in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social! In it, I present a comparative empirical analysis of European women’s parties’ issue concerns in 30yrs of party manifestos. 🧵⬇️

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Really enjoyed this! It’s a quick read but with some brilliant deep insights on gender and the 2024 UK GE.

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Parties’ stances on trans rights have shifted too. Tory manifestos 2015-19 only mention tackling trans hate crime. By 2024, they propose banning puberty blockers, mandating single-sex spaces & amending the Equality Act. I wrote about this for the Elections Analysis Report: shorturl.at/aonwe

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GenElect Network @genelectnet.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

🎓✨Here’s your starter pack for experts on gender and its intersections in elections, public opinion, political parties, and the women in the EPOP discipline. 💡📚 Nominate yourself and others! 📣 📣 go.bsky.app/HC7Pvbd

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