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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Do women candidates help the far right? Not in Britain, finds @turnbulldugarte.com in #EJPG. In 2024, Reform UK's women candidates won no more votes than men, and the gender gap in Reform support was, if anything, wider where it ran a woman.

Banner from the European Journal of Politics and Gender (EJPG), Bristol University Press. New research: "Far-right women do not win more votes: descriptive evidence from Britain" by Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte, University of Southampton. Average Reform UK vote share at the 2024 general election: 15.6% for its 513 men candidates and 14.4% for its 96 women candidates.

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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Say hello to our incoming Editors in Chief @grahn.bsky.social and @maarja.bsky.social at #ecpg2026! Michal and Maarja will lead our new Editorial Team from July 2026

Two people standing in from the Bristol University Press exhibition stand. Michal Grahn (left) is holding a copy of the European Journal of Politics and Gender. Maarja Lühiste (right) is holding a sign with the text Meet the new EJPG editorial team.

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Edwina Thorn @edwina-thorn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The European Journal of Politics and Gender's incoming Lead Editors @maarja.bsky.social and @grahn.bsky.social are at #ECPG2026 and looking forward to getting started as editors next month. @ejpgjournal.bsky.social

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Liza Mügge @lizamugge.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Congrats to incoming editors @grahn.bsky.social and @maarja.bsky.social! Go, go, go! #ecpg2026

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

There's a survey for interested participants to fill out; I ask about hill preferences 😉

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'll post some strava routes :)

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

#ECPG2026 is less than a week away!! If you take your running shoes with you to conferences, join me for a morning fun run on June 16 (9am). The pace will be relaxed and no one gets left behind, I promise. To register, please fill in this form: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

📣📣📣 We are hiring @nclpolitics.bsky.social 📣📣📣 Fixed-term Lecturer in Political Philosophy (1 Sep 2026-31 Aug 2027) Don't hesitate to get in touch with any questions about this post. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

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Lecturer in Political Philosophy (T&S)

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Amazing to see my favourite brewery featuring in the pre-ECPG programme 🤩

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Extremely happy - and even more honoured - to be trusted with one of the most exciting journals @ejpgjournal.bsky.social to co-edit with such an amazing team, starting July 1 2026! We'll celebrate already next month at #ecpg2026newcastle 🥳 @nclpolitics.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

So grateful for the most amazing joint sessions workshop! Heartful thanks to everyone for their incredible papers, presentations & extremely constructive feedback & suggestions. A special shout-out to the amazing @mtplk.bsky.social - job-share dream! Was well worth coming down the mountains for ⛷️

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Very excited to discuss my research on candidate selection and gender next week @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social! @nclpolitics.bsky.social

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Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🚨Call for papers We invite submissions for the 2nd Workshop for Scholars of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties (EPOP) based in Northern UK 🏛️ University of York, 8-9 June 2026 Theme: Inequality, Authoritarianism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Call for papers- Inequality, Authoritarianism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy

Call for papers: Inequality, Authoritarianism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy University of York, 8-9 June 2026 The workshop, supported by the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties’ (EPOP) Anth...

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Ever wondered why Germany, in 2001 only the seventh country in the world after the Nordic ones and Netherlands to have more than 30% of MPs female, has since completed stagnated and been overtaken by 50-odd countries? In this newly published paper, @maarja.bsky.social and I try to explain that.

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The myth of compensatory effects: How party organisation shapes women's representation in dual-candidacy mixed electoral systems

Electoral systems are widely recognised as important institutional determinants explaining women's political representation. Mixed-member proportional…

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Paper proposals for the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions, taking place in beautiful Innsbruck, April 7-10 2026, are now open. If you're working on an exciting gender paper using quants methods, please apply to our workshop: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @mtplk.bsky.social @sgparliaments.bsky.social

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🏅In one of our most read articles this week, "When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians’ Social Media Experiences", @maarja.bsky.social & co-authors explore the dynamics of gender-based online incivility. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/bGmLoKw

Research article entitled "When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians' Social Media Experiences" by Maarja Lühiste, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Yannis Theocharis, Pablo Barberá, Zoltán Fazekas and Joshua A. Tucker

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/120... EPL published a leading article based on my research ahead of Estonia's local elections. Disheartening that parties still disadvantage women candidates with nominations & list placement, but after 10+ years researching this, nice to see it break into mainstream media.

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Politoloog: naisi on poliitikas nii vähe, sest neid pelgavad teised poliitikud, mitte Eesti valijad

Kandidaati, keda nimekirjas ei ole, valida ei saa. Asjaolu, et Eestis ikka veel märksa vähem naisi poliitikas ilma teeb ei tulene valijate eelistustest, vaid erakondade poolt ette antud valikutest.

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Celebrating 10 years in @nclpolitics.bsky.social (Newcastle) with a new staff card. Still can't believe I didn't lose it in all those years 😅

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Feministeerium @feministeerium.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Politoloog @maarja.bsky.social kirjutab, et Eesti naiste vähene esindatus poliitikas ei tulene valijate eelistustest, vaid erakondade pakutud menüüvalikutest. Sest nagu restoranis ei saa tellida rooga, mida menüüs pole, nii ei saa ka valida kandidaati, keda nimekirjas ei ole.

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Naisi pelgavad erakonnad, mitte Eesti valijad - Feministeerium

Politoloog Maarja Lühiste kirjutab, et Eesti naiste vähene esindatus poliitikas ei tulene valijate eelistustest, vaid erakondade pakutud menüüvalikutest

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

📣Out on #FirstView 📣 In "When Does Fame Not Matter?" @maarja.bsky.social, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, Pablo Barberá, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social & @jatucker.bsky.social conduct a cross-national study on online incivility. polisky gendersky buff.ly/vkcPI2Y

Research article "When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians’ Social Media Experiences" by Maarja Lühiste, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Yannis Theocharis, Pablo Barberá, Zoltán Fazekas and Joshua A. Tucker,
Abstract begins: Past research alerts to the increasingly unpleasant climate surrounding public debate on social media. Female politicians, in particular, are reporting serious attacks targeted at them. Yet, research offers inconclusive insights regarding the gender gap in online incivility. This paper aims to address this gap by comparing politicians with varying levels of prominence and public status in different institutional contexts. Using a machine learning approach for analyzing over 23 million tweets addressed to politicians in Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we find little consistent evidence of a gender gap in the proportion of incivility.

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle Uni @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Research led by @nclpolitics.bsky.social's @maarja.bsky.social reveals female politicians receive more identity-based attacks on social media than others in the profession. Read the full article article here >> bit.ly/3GOr97K

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Women politicians receive more identity-based attacks on social media

Women politicians in Europe receive uncivil tweets regardless of how known they are, new research led by Newcastle University has found.

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Mariia Tepliakova @mtplk.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

We (@matildecer.bsky.social @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social and I) pulled off our small but mighty workshop, bridging boundaries between gender x politics subfield and quantitative methods 👧🏻📊 So grateful to @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for making it possible 🤓

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This paper tested my resilience in ways I can't quite remember (or I have given up). Massive thanks to the amazing co-authors Stiene Praet, Sebastian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social, Pablo Barbera, @jatucker.bsky.social and to the many dedicated reviewers!!

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Political culture and electoral rules may matter, too: German & Spanish politicians in our sample receive less incivility than their UK and US counterparts. And the incivility in less personalised systems - especially in Germany - is relatively 'polite' compared to the other countries in our sample.

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We also find that women receive more identity-based attacks than male politicians.

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Super excited (and relieved!) to see this paper finally published. Both men and women politicians experience incivility and, overall, the more famous they are, the more abuse they receive. BUT women in Europe receive uncivil tweets even when they're not well known www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians’ Social Media Experiences

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

“Democratic Resilience in Challenging Times” workshop - connecting Northern UK scholars of Elections, Parties and Public Opinion (EPOP) and hosted by the Governance and Political Organisations research cluster in Newcastle University - is in full swing @nclpolitics.bsky.social

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

@nclpolitics.bsky.social Research Seminar series had the great pleasure to host the amazing @anjaneundorf.bsky.social yesterday with an extremely timely talk about how we can "sell" democracy better

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

My favourite part of the job also happened this week. Huge congratulations to @jihedncib.bsky.social for an outstanding viva and excellent thesis!!! Very much looking forward to the publication that will follow ☺️

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

When we distinguish between parties with different ideological positions, the data do not support our expectation that centrist parties should be more responsive. Traditionalist parties seem to nominate fewer women when attitudes become more progressive. Yet, the placebo tests point to problems.

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

For countries with some form of candidate voting (flexible lists, fully open lists, or Single Transferable Vote), the effects are positive (11 percentage points) but estimated with a large degree of uncertainty. So, hard to say that change in public attitudes towards gender equality changes much.

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🎉🎉🎉 Super excited that our paper -- on how changing public attitudes on gender equality don't seem to affect parties' candidate selection strategies -- with the amazing @ThomasDäubler and @mihailchiru.bsky.social is now accessible OnlineFirst at the EUP: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

A quick interview at Estonian Public Broadcasting Service's breakfast program early morning yesterday on the (potential) reaction of UK parties and public on Starmer's statement of potentially sending British troops to Ukraine jupiter.err.ee/1609609172/b...

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This is probably my most preferred way to get back to work from a holiday. Thank you so much @clint0475.bsky.social & @unibas.ch for hosting us and for all the insightful comments and questions. @nclpolitics.bsky.social

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If you're looking for more morale-boosting and inspiring posts, make sure to follow us @nclpolitics.bsky.social

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

What a start to the week! Huge congratulations to Rob for a great thesis and an excellent viva! @nclpolitics.bsky.social

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

📣Announcement📣 Politics & Gender Conference 2025 A conference celebrating 20 years of P&G for scholars working on all aspects of women, gender, & politics. 📅 May 28-29, 2025 📍 Rutgers University CFP: mlkrook.org/PAGC_CFP_202... Website: www.pagconference.org Submit: forms.gle/nc6ZpaEX7qnz...

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Dates May 28-29, 2025 (with graduate student pre-conference reception on May 27) Location Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA Contact pag@apsanet.org Conference Website http://pagcon...

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

A focus on electoral system components such as districting, quotas, and election administration are additionally welcomed. Diverse methodological perspectives are encouraged.

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

We especially welcome papers that take a comparative perspective as well as those examining the intersection between electoral systems and social structures and how electoral systems shape the representation of women, minorities, and other historically underrepresented groups.

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Today's the deadline to submit your new exciting research to #MPSA2025. I'm delighted to chair Section 2 on Representation and Electoral Systems and can't wait for your submissions!! www.mpsanet.org/conference/

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About Conference - Midwest Political Science Association

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Newcastle is not just a home to an amazing University with an excellent Politics department but is also a wonderful, green and lively city to live in, with easy access to the beautiful North East coast and Northumberland countryside; and a lot of good restaurants, bars, culture!

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