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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza

@mattgiulp.bsky.social
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Did a master in Social Sciences at UC3M. Now doing a PhD at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Trying to figure out something about political parties, referenda, national identities... that kind of stuff. A chess player by passion, not by talent or skill.

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For me, the most telling figure from this election: parties of the center and to its left mostly traded votes among themselves. At the same time, they suffered a net loss of over 100,000 votes to the AfD and came nowhere close to matching its mobilization of former non-voters.
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
How we speak shapes how we feel represented - using original survey data from Germany, @martingross.bsky.social & @wurthmann.bsky.social show dialect speakers feel less politically represented & prefer politicians who speak their dialect. OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/iVEXmZv @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Language is central to political representation, yet the role of dialects remains understudied. This study examines how dialects are associated with citizens’ feelings of and preferences for political representation. We argue that dialect use can be a part of social identity: politicians who share their constituents’ dialect may signal local attachment and social proximity. However, dialects also carry social stigma, potentially leading to underrepresentation in a political sphere dominated by standard language. Using original survey data from Germany, we test whether dialect-speaking citizens (1) feel less represented and (2) prefer politicians who speak a dialect. We find support for both: dialect speakers feel less represented and have stronger preferences for dialect-speaking representatives. These results suggest that dialects can serve as a subtle but meaningful form of descriptive representation. Our findings underscore the role of linguistic identity in political inclusion and call for greater attention to language in research on political behaviour.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Now, the Peruvian election is extremely close to providing a new example that first year political science students will have to hear whenever they are told about the Irrationality of voting. Extremely close.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Yeah... Once again, I would consider Rf8 to be the polite thing to do. If you are lost, you should provide the chance to do the most beautiful continuation available. Either way, really enjoyable positions. Thanks for sharing.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Qf8. So elegant... and I'd I say it counts as smothered.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Beautiful either way, but I'd say it should be chess etiquette that whenever this comes up they should let you do the coolest sequence and mate with the knight.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I had two opportunities to do this in my whole life, one in a league OTB game and the other in a random online game ten years ago. I still remember and treasure each of those mates.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Declaring that a technology "is the future" does not necessarily imply that the future in question is desirable
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Just stumbled upon this very cool thing. From time to time, one gets to read things as a scholar that help make sense of the chaos one is living through as a citizen. Congrats to the authors!
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This is a brilliant piece on the restructuring of political competition in Western Europe and goes far beyond the question of populism. Great also for teaching.
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies. Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🚨 New publication: “The Wages of Ethnic Power: Socioeconomic Status, Group Threat, and Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Western Europe” 🚨 Just published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology with Charles Seguin and Brandon Gorman. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The wages of ethnic power: Socioeconomic status, group threat, and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2025
Group threat theories explain anti-immigrant attitudes as emerging from threats to the perceived or actual power of one’s ethnic group. Studies also show that i...
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The Italian right-wing coalition has two clear advantages over their opponents. They agree on who constitutes the bulk of their electorate -- to whom they need to throw some bones. And they have found a simple system to select their PMs, which everybody within it has shown they will respect.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
Excited to share a glimpse of my book on party families via LSE European Politics and Policy! The book delves into the heart of what constitutes a party family, offer updated categorisations, contemporary descriptions, and an insight into their supporters. #polisky blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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Why we should rethink how we categorise party families in western Europe
It is common to refer to party families such as “social democrats” and the “radical right” when discussing European politics. Drawing on a new book, Peter Egge Langsæther writes that while th...
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Javier Lorente @jlorentef.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
La identificación partidista es un concepto que se inventó en los años cincuenta del siglo pasado. Su modo de funcionar tiene problemas, pero su ausencia tiene más problemas. Y, sin ese tipo de mecanismos de identificación grupal, que ahorran costes de información, la democracia no sería posible.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Somehting like that, in the early 1850's he worked at Meucci's candle stick factory, in Staten Island. It was indeed a weird turn in his career, because he was already a famous general in both South America and Italy, but from what I've read of his memories, he regards it as the most normal thing.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 13/10/2025
New blog post! Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis? (I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler) www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...
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If you have two measures of the same confounder, you can just include both of them in your regression model
Sometimes, researchers worry about multicollinearity in situations where it’s actually a non-issue. Here’s one such scenario. Imagine a situation where you are interested in the effect of X on Y (X...
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A small detail I like about that story is that among the reasons Garibaldi considered joining the union's army was that he wrongly believed that had become a US citizen when he lived in New York.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Not a very sophisticated solution, but maybe just graphing the 'live' rating at the end of each chapter or book (or however you call the parts the illiad is divided in, I don't know the word in English). That way one could easily see where each hero ranked at the time of his death.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Enhorabuena Tarek!!
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Really good and really really interesting. To a large extent, it goes against my expectations, and yet it does cover it's bases well enough that I may have to accept that maybe norms are a bigger part of the far right story than what I initially thought.
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 05/09/2025
Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 31/08/2025
Ada: Somehow I always hurt only my most sensitive body parts! Me: Okay kid, it’s time we have The Talk—
Selection bias plane.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Et voila! Case proven. #solar
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Congratulations! I truly enjoyed the reading. I do hope that the final plea for further research gets followed up, it looks like lots of interesting things may come out of this.
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Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Absolutely, I am ready even to buy some story closer to the original claim. Maybe Democrats are actively doing something that creates that perception, I just need to see some evidence to support that claim. And them some more showing that this supposed halo of wokness is bad at the ballotbox.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It is amazing how often "bad things are the fault of the left for being too woke" is presented as a default truth, with out need for any logical or empirical support.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Of course, the good bigot knows how to use any small and apparently neutral cognitive bias such this in order to build his castle of biggotry. 🧵2/2
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I do not remember who I read saying that humans only understand three probabilities: 0%, 50% and 100%. This statement (I don't know how well founded) is consistent with the anecdotal evidence I have encountered ever since. I believe it also applies to fractions and continous distributions. 🧵1/2
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Does reasoning well entail being a basically pleasant bureucrat?
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It's quite funny that fairly early in its history philosophy invented writing well (Plato) and reasoning well (Aristotle) and made it clear you can only do one; subsequently clarifying that we'll typically do neither.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I think I have access, which article do you need?
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David Karpa @dkarpa.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"Overall, our findings suggest a “ratchet-effect” heuristic: left parties may still push back against rising disparities but have given up on lowering existing levels of inequality. To us, the findings imply lock-in effects [...]"
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Federal court refuses to block Alabama’s “divisive concepts” law, says university faculty classroom speech is government speech with no First Amendment protection. This dangerous development allows lawmakers to dictate what professors say in class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Done it! It is impossible to do it without developing hypotheses. My siblings and I have a whole set of theories for the interaction between gender, cat-dog feelings, and self reported cookie eating capacity. Your students will have so much fun!
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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮 epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Deadline: 7 November 2025
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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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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The old party is dying. The new party struggles to be born. Now is the time of Schumers.
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Delia Zollinger @dpzollinger.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Even in times of sociocultural conflict, a progressive left electorate is more averse to sociocultural *and* socioeconomic inequalities than (far) right voters. New paper with @siljahausermann.bsky.social Palmtag @tabouchadi.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social Berkinshaw tinyurl.com/d42wyb79 1/n
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I like the metaphor, but a difference, which gives me hope, is that the kind of products AI seeks to replace are not consumed by use. You may drink a good coffee and the next guy may chose to make insta coffee to save time. But when you read a good book, the book is still there for the next reader.
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Chess Olympus @chessolympus.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Marcel Duchamp, born July 28, 1887, loved chess as much as he loved art. My favorite thing about this photo (by Mark Kauffman for Life magazine) is that Duchamp has a modernist chess set for show, but you can see over his shoulder that he has a Staunton set for business.
Marcel Duchamp lounges in an easy chair behind a modernist chess set, smiling at the camera and holding a cigar.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
If this is true (I don't think we fully know if the EU public feels humiliated by this deal - also partly because we just don't know much about it! - but happy to entertain): let's then remind the public that they voted for people that wanted the European leaders to get to that.
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Tom Lehrer would have been intensely amused that he outlived the author of his NYT obituary.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Well, my perception as an observer, not as researcher, was that this kind of illiberal discourse has become quite common in the media post COVID, so I am preemptively convinced by your hypothesis :). Either way, thankyou for the great work, and congrats. Looking forward to that next episode.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This is very interesting, and intuitively (and retrospectively) quite reasonable. I mean, it people who reject democratic partisan conflict, and thus democracy, may view themselves as centrist (legend has it that Franco used to tell his cabinet "Do like me, do not get into politics").
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Javier Lorente @jlorentef.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Diffuse support for democracy has usually been understood as a stable attitude, key for democracy to work. Now, @irenejbravo.bsky.social‬ and I observe a notable shift among Spanish youth. Here, we post the main findings a recent article that can be read here: doi.org/10.3389/fpos...
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Frontiers | A future of authoritarian citizens? Explaining why Spanish youth are losing faith in democracy
This article examines why Spanish young people support democracy to a lesser extent than younger generations decades ago: while youth in previous decades sho...
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Álvaro Sánchez-García @asanchezgarcia.es · 28/09/2024
I take this opportunity today to make my debut in Bluesky by sharing my latest article with @tonirodon.bsky.social and Maria on a very special day. A few months ago we published "Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour" in EJPR. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour in Spain
In many European countries, people increasingly leave rural or small municipalities to live and work in urban or metropolitan environments. Although previous work on the ‘left behind’ places has exam...
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
1.Qh7+ - Kf8 2. Qh8+-Bxh8 3. Rxh8+ - Kg7 4.Nf5++ Took me a bit to realize that you could do the las move with double check so that the bishop could not be captured.
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