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I can't think of anything that could go wrong if a company known for making cars that spontaneously catch fire is allowed to add high pressure air canisters into the mix.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 16h

Not a bad cycle home from work. Sunset and moonrise on Southampton Common.

Photo of a pale sunset reflecting off a shallow lake ringed by trees on Southampton Common, UK. A crescent moon is also visible low in the sky and reflected in the lake.

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felixhoffmann.bsky.social @felixhoffmann.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

📢 New publication (open access) on coupling mini-publics and direct democracy. I develop a processual typology identifying six empirical variants, including underexplored contestatory and channelling couplings, and distinguishing designed from reactive forms. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Coupling Democratic Innovations: Interactions of Mini-Publics and Direct Democratic Instruments in Germany and Beyond

Policy-making increasingly combines democratic innovations, most prominently deliberative mini-publics (DMP) and direct democratic instruments (DD). Yet systematic understanding of their coupling, ...

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Lisa Janssen @lisajanssen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

📢New paper in @thejop.bsky.social on the reciprocal nature of citizens’ support for democratic transgressions. Together with Hannah Werner & @annakern.bsky.social , we show that when confronted with violations by political opponents, citizens’ support for transgressions by their own side doubles!

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Paul Kindermann @paul-kindermann.net · 13/10/2026

One more week to apply and join our research project at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social 3-year postdoc: working on a multi-method project, the position will focus on the design, implementation, and analysis of survey experiments. Application deadline: 20 October

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Citizen Participation @oliverescobar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🗞️ October's Citizen Participation Network newsletter is out! 🌐 ✅ Research, practice guides, open access books and events on democratic innovation, participatory governance and more Read here 👉🏼 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There are other studies that demonstrate a broad link between quality of govt and satisfaction with democracy, which might suggest it goes both ways - e.g these examples (from a chapter of my book on democracies as political-administrative systems: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monochap-oa/...)

The picture is of a paragraph of text. The text reads: "If the reader thinks I am extrapolating too far from just one or two anecdotal examples, there are several larger scale studies from across the world that demonstrate this connection between experience of public administration and democratic attitudes and behaviours. Jamila Michener (2018) has shown how, in the US, experiences of Medicaid conditioned people’s perceptions of the state and whether it cared for them, their feelings about their own political efficacy and their political participation. Welfare states are often the mediator, as Steven Klein (2022) has described it, between the economic rationality of calculation of individual needs and collective political action. In addition, a large cross-country comparison, conducted by Jonas Linde and Stefan Dahlberg (2021), demonstrated that differences in the quality of public administration is a much better predictor of variation in support for democracy across countries than differences in the quality of the electoral regime."

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

'Translation' is quite a kind way of it referring to Ed Miliband as Ed Davey 😂

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Super excited to see this article in print in the APSR: 📚 “Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right: Evidence from England’s National Health Service” - with the brilliant @zachdickson.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social @simonecremaschi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The deadline to apply for the PoPPiE Research Fellow position is on Friday. With wonderful timing, the PoPPiE website is down. If you are looking for more info on the project, then I have added the six-page project description to my own website: rikkidean.com/poppie_annou...

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Political Process Preferences in Europe: Rethinking Conceptual, Ontological and Methodological Foundations – A New Project - Rikki Dean

My project Political Process Preferences in Europe: Rethinking Conceptual, Ontological and Methodological Foundations (or PoPPiE for short) has been funded as one of the 2024 European Research Council...

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've seen visiting families have breakdowns when they see the prices at the Gatwick express machine. Always think that it is such a shame that the first intro to England is to get ripped off for the train. Price to East Croydon swiping with credit card is only a few pounds though. It's mad.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Congrats Ian! Very timely for the present moment.

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Lukas Stoetzer @lstoetze.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ever wondered what attributes are relevant in your conjoint experiment? And what assumptions you need to estimate it? Asya and I got you covered. In a new working paper we propose the APNS: the probability that an attribute's level change is necessary and sufficient for the selection of a profile.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/10/2026

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - How Do Voters Reason about Intraparty Democracy? Constraints Rather than Influence - cup.org/4hyGoRK - @annkristinkolln.bsky.social & Helene Helboe Pedersen #FirstView

The image features the text "Perspectives on Politics" in bold, blue letters on a white background, with an illustration of a person holding a megaphone in the background. The bottom section reads "#OpenAccess" in white on a blue background.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Had a request from a journal today to be handling editor for a single article. What fresh new hell is this?Are the journals not even going to employ editors anymore?

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Franziska Maier @franziskamaier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The 🇪🇺 has been trialing participatory democracy - but do those who support supranational institutions want that? In this article, I show that they do not, instead preferring representation and technocracy. But: moral and cultural cosmopolitans 💜participation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a pretty good example of what my ERC project, PoPPiE, is about. Much political theory implicitly teaches us that we, as individuals, should have a single abstract procedural ideology that applies across contexts. But why should we? The world is complex and our response to it should be too.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Recently started getting the strangest emails through the contact forms of my project websites that I presume are from 'lonely' LLMs. Here's today's from Liam Miller Liam Nelson, complaining that his clothes no longer match his greying hair. That's it. No link or attempt to sell me anything.

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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People don’t realize how serious the situation is.

A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨Come work with us! 🚨 We're hiring a postdoc for Stanford's AI for Public Benefit Lab (ai4pb.stanford.edu), in partnership with @stanfordhai.bsky.social Open to PhDs from psych, poli sci, sociology, CS, econ, HCI, data science, etc. Please share! Position: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Permanent political theory jobs at a fantastic university! Interesting, at least to me, that academic salaries seem to be notably higher in Ireland than in England.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interesting study, showing 'synthetic samples' are wildly inaccurate. Though, to be honest, I've always been a bit confused about what a synthetic poll would even be as an epistemological object. They seem like the polling equivalent of NFTs.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watching the news last night, it felt like Britain was a serious country, where the media can talk sensibly about important and complex policy issues, rather than the usual 'updates from fascist island' of the last couple of years. That has to be good for Labour.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Burnham, unlike Starmer, seems to recognise that the PM has considerable agenda setting power - he doesn't have to simply react to the agenda of the right; he can reshape the terrain.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As expected the right-wing papers hammer Burnham on ending the pensions triple lock: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... But, it feels like the first time in a long time (since 2008?) that Labour is setting the terms of the public debate, directing it onto terrain where it is comfortable fighting.

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Newspaper headlines: 'Burnham's triple shock' and 'City face expulsion'

Every front page on Wednesday is dominated by Prime Minister Andy Burnham's speech at the Labour Party conference.

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW - When, Where, and Why Might Elected Political Elites Reach for Democratic Innovations? - cup.org/4hxykPY - @suleyaylaci.bsky.social, Mark Waren & Edana Beauvais #OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the challenges of electoral democracies and the potential of democratic innovations such as deliberative minipublics to enhance or compete with traditional electoral methods...

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So, in a finding that would not surprise many economists, it seems there is not much interest in paying even half price for something you can get for free. But, for those like me who still like to read physical books, then discount codes are still available...

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I spent quite a bit of my time doing research comms for a big ESRC programme on public service reform during late New Labour, so know there were definitely some people making effort to ensure access to latest research. Also know that CASE had a lot of involvement in the social exclusion strategy.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is a great time to be joining @sotonpolitics.bsky.social too. Dan will also be establishing his CONTRUST research group & Will Allen his VISUALIZE group, so there's going to be loads of new people doing innovative research on political attitudes, alongside all the great colleagues already here.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who could have predicted that selling all England's biggest football clubs to oligarchs and autocratic regimes would lead to massive corruption and undermine the integrity of the league?

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

P.S. I think you may have been joking @amwellstead.bsky.social, but this is Bluesky, so naturally I gave an earnest response.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Though I haven't tried it myself, there is maybe a possibility that you could do legitimate, careful scholarship with an AI co-author that is qualitatively different from "ChatGPT write me a paper that I will submit for review without even checking the citations".

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But it all turned out fine when we realised that, if we put yellow discs around the frog faces, they became human again 😃. If medieval people had known this trick, it would have saved a lot of princesses a lot of trouble.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would add to this that the whole point of an academic publications is that they are supposed to be records of things you have learned through careful scholarship. If they contain non-existent references, they are a misrepresentation of what is assumed to be the process behind the product.

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The BBC are consistently referring to Danny Tommo as an "anti-migrant activist". Bizarre how they would invent a new, more legitimising term (anti-migrant activist is not a commonly used term) rather than describe his politics. Even the Telegraph refers to him as a far-right activist.

Screenshot of a BBC headline that reads, "Anti-migrant activist charged after dinghy slashed in the Channel"

Screenshot of a Telegraph headline that reads, "Far-right activist Danny Tommo arrested after slashing migrants boat"

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Still nowhere near as bad as West Virginia (489 per million) but worse than most US states, which I am pretty surprised about. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

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United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time - Wikipedia

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you take out 2nd place Estonia's 14 hypothetical deaths (should hypothetical deaths count?) it looks even worse for Scotland as the only country to in reality break three figures per million.

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Paul Kindermann @paul-kindermann.net · 19/09/2026

Great postdoc opportunity at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social ! Speaking from experience

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Will Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's been quite the ride, with lots of supporters: I've received a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship to examine how data visualization matters for what people know, think, and want on climate change, migration, and economic development and inequality. For details, see www.visualizer.org.uk #flf

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VISUALIZER

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Carmen van Alebeek @cvalebeek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📢 New publication out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: Who endorses disruptive and intimidatory political protest? I show that endorsement is not driven by political distrust per se, but by the fundamental rejection of political authority. 🧵

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Remember when emojis had a nose, like this :-) Then at some point, somehow everyone collectively decided that it was too time consuming to type the nose, so we cut the noses off and all the emojis looked like frogs :(

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To spread the word about the release of my book, @brisunipress.bsky.social are offering 50% off the paperback, making it a very reasonable £15. I have 20 discount codes to DM to the first people to share this post. Or read open access at: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/democracy-pa...

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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1/ After the elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, we will hear a lot about “the extremes”: Die Linke in Berlin and the AfD in MV. A good moment for some conceptual housekeeping. Radicalism, extremism and populism are not synonyms.

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 20/09/2026

All this just goes to show that the time wasn't ripe yet for a male Bundeskanzlerin #Germany

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