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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 22h

Postdoc position within my group 3 years (100% TVl-13): stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/2... ⏱️ 06.11.2026 If you have questions: get in touch!

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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, salary level E 13 TV-L)

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Department of Government, Essex @uniessexgov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📣📣📣 Does the liberal peace remain relevant in an era of democratic decline? Join us for the Regius Lecture at 6:15pm Thurs 22 Oct in Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall. Regius Professor Kristian Skrede Gleditsch leads the discussion, with Professors Philip Cunliffe, Faten Ghosn, and @shane-martin.bsky.social.

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Sick of work this Monday lunchtime? Or perhaps hungover from one too many on the first night of Labour Conference? If so, distract yourself with ✨ 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗥𝗣 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 ✨ Full interactive at: jack-bailey.co.uk/ward2024

Screenshot showing interactive ward level MRP estimates at the 2024 UK general election.

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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Interesting new paper in @wepsocial.bsky.social by Yoda&Atsumi showing that "the positive association between pro-redistribution and pro-immigration attitudes is weaker among earlier cohorts." In other words: the number of left-authoritarian voters decreases across generations.

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Time dilation: the temporal structure of elite–voter incongruence on redistribution and immigration

While immigration and redistribution issues have increasingly converged at the elite level in Western Europe, they remain less correlated among voters, leading to significant elite–voter incongruen...

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EPOP @psaepop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are delighted to announce that Paul Whiteley of @uniessexgov.bsky.social has been awarded the 2026 Sir David Butler Prize for his lifetime contribution to the study of elections, public opinion and parties. The prize was presented at #EPOP2026 last week.

Paul Whiteley announced as winner of 2026 Sir David Butler Prize

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Miriam Sorace @miriamsorace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Delighted to be co-chairing the Electoral and Voting Behaviour section @epssnet.bsky.social with the brilliant @carolinaplescia.bsky.social! We welcome papers on the themes below. Have an idea for a Roundtable or Authors Meet Critics session? Contact us! ⏰ 13 Nov. 2026 👉 Call: shorturl.at/CB8Lr

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

ברכות לעופר וינטר על הקמת המפלגה. נאחל לו שלושה אחוזים שלמים מקולות הבוחרים.

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In some cases both sides are wrong.

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One of the things I like about reviewing/grading papers is that I get to see how AI interpret my (or others') work. It is mostly funny, and I get to ask myself if I ever wrote anything like that (the answer is almost always no).

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don't know who needs to hear that, but it is ok not to have an opinion on some things.

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DrMaxPolitics @drmaxpolitics.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hi, I'm being made redundant by the University of Southampton at the end of this month. I'm desperately looking for work. I'll consider all offers but have particular skills in policy, strategy and research. I also have a consultancy service I offer. Please let me know if you hear of anything

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What on earth is going on with AI teaching at Uni Newcastle

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I spent some time in Clacton this morning and came back with three thoughts regarding the elections: 1. Some of us forget the poll respondents are real people with real problems. The ppl of Clacton deserve a real representative that cares for them.

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Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Happy to answer questions folks have!

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Unbelievably, there are *two* academic jobs at Cardiff University. One in British politics (seemingly broadly defined) cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/53... One in political behaviour/opinion 🙌 cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/52...

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Lecturer in Politics - Teaching and Research in Law Building | Internal & External Website

View details and apply for this Lecturer in Politics - Teaching and Research vacancy in Law Building. Lecturer in Politics - Teaching & Research School of Law and Politics The School of Law a...

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Italy is changing its electoral system (again): the fifth reform since 1993. I wrote for @laderafrutal.bsky.social's Fruits & Votes blog on how the new bonus-adjusted system works, why the government wants it, and its political implications. fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/i...

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Italy is changing its electoral system (again)

Nicknamed the “Stabilicum” by the right-wing coalition government that introduced it, this would be the fifth major electoral reform in Italy since 1993.

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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

New publication out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social! We know young voters vote for different parties and hold different attitudes than older citizens. What we know less about: whether they also care differently about political issues. Using novel experimental survey data, I show: they do! 👇

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“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

קולגות התלוננו לאחרונה שמאמרים על פוליטיקה ומפלגות בישראל נדחים על בסיס הטענה שאי אפשר להשוות את ישראל לדמוקרטיות אחרות (גם אם ישראל היא רק מקרה אחד במאמר). במאמר הזה אנחנו מראים (בין היתר) שזו טענה שגויה, לפחות כשמדובר על איפה המפלגות עומדות במרחב הפוליטי. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

❗The @chesdata.bsky.social team paper on the global economic left-right scale is now out in print at the JoP! Super happy to have contributed a tiny little bit to this huge effort by @ndelacerda.bsky.social, @rbakker.bsky.social and others!

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Ryan Bakker @rbakker.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Several years of data collection, 2 editorial teams and a few rounds of R&R were all well worth it to finally see this paper in print. Thanks to all the survey teams and the many experts who helped make this possible. doi.org/10.1086/736578

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Today we launch the new version of The PopuList! The PopuList provides an overview of far-left, far-right and populist parties in 31 European countries from 1989 until 1 May 2026. Explore the new website here: popu-list.org

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Home - The PopuList

The PopuList Interactive Version 4.0 Static Version 4.0 CSV Version 4.0 What is the PopuList? The PopuList offers researchers, journalists, […]

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Odelia Oshri @odeliaoshri.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

🚨 New paper! Does social integration change how minorities vote? Classic theories say yes: voting patterns should converge with the majority. But looking at Muslim Turks in Germany, we found the exact opposite. A thread on the integration puzzle 👇

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Regulation of social media is increasingly a public safety issue.

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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

6 years ago, I started asking a question that political science had largely ignored: how & why do women get involved in PRR parties as grassroots members? Today, my 1st book proposes an answer. Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right is now out online with OUP: academic.oup.com/book/62754

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Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right

Abstract. This book investigates women’s involvement as members of populist radical right (PRR) parties. The latter have long been characterised as ‘men’s

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Great work and a cool dataset 👇🏼

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Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I’m pleased to see people realising this morning that a Lab>Reform seat change can happen because Lab>others and Con>Reform. The underlying vote flow evidence has been screaming this since autumn 2024 😎.

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Florian G. Kern @floriangkern.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🌍🌐 @mcchacha.bsky.social and I are happy to welcome all the participants arriving for our "International Politics in Africa" workshop this week in Nairobi. Everyone has been working hard to submit full papers for the workshop (see attached list) + keynote by Gilbert Khadiagala! #africanpolitics

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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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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Dear reviewer, may I remind you that the plural of anecdote is not data? Your stories are interesting, but the data disagree.

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Emilie van Haute @emilievh.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I’m delighted to share a special milestone in the life of Party Politics 🎉 To mark the journal’s 30th anniversary, I had the pleasure of co-ed a Symposium with Paul Webb The symposium revisits the journal’s origins, intellectual trajectory, and its role in shaping the field over the past 3 decades.

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Florian G. Kern @floriangkern.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Upping this: in case people are interested in submitting papers to the African Studies Association of the UK conference this year, @mcchacha.bsky.social and I are convening the International Politics in Africa stream. Looking for abstracts at intersection of comparative and IR in Africa. See below.

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Lukas Warode @lwarode.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard. install.packages("partycoloR")

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I'm very excited to start a short visit in the Department of European & International Studies at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. I'll be in London (mostly) on Wednesdays this semester, so drop me a line if you want to meet.

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

May you find the brightest light at the darkest times. Happy Chanukah!

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social. A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:

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Political Data Yearbook @pdyearbook.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The year 2024 confirmed a global environment defined by: ↔️ pronounced political fragmentation 🗳️ heightened electoral activity 📈 + a deepening wave of autocratisation that continued a 25-year trajectory. ⬇️ Read the 2025 yearbook now! buff.ly/lSheCuB

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Ben Yoel @benyoel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Now that it's up online, I guess it's official: I'm on the job market! I study democratic backsliding, authoritarianism, and nonviolent resistance. My dissertation focuses on the nexus of domestic and international factors in shaping opposition to democratic erosion: polisci.msu.edu/graduate/hir...

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Benjamin Yoel | Department of Political Science | Michigan State University

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Department of Government, Essex @uniessexgov.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Join us for “Populism: On the Rise” — a student-organised panel exploring a most pressing challenge in politics. 📅 Wednesday 29 October 🕒 15:00–16:00 📍 EBS 1.1 Ft. Professor Natasha Lindstaedt, Dr. Roi Zur, and Dr. Rafael Tauil, moderated by Professor Faten Ghosn. #EssexGov #EssexPoliticsSociety

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

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Welcome! – VARICRIS

VARICRIS research project

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025

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Political Data Yearbook @pdyearbook.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

💻 Attending the @ecpr.bsky.social webinar on #Israel's domestic political landscape after the #Gaza war tomorrow? 📘 Get up to speed on Israel's political developments + data in the latest report for PDY from @liranharsgor.bsky.social and @roizur.bsky.social. ➡️ bit.ly/48uS83v

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Marius Sältzer @msaeltzer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Job Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Hard to explain the elated feelings today in Israel, at least those who are not far right: the hostilities are back, and this damn war is so over.

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Liran Harsgor @liranharsgor.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Writing a report about Israeli politics in 2024 for @pdyearbook.bsky.social was quite a challenge. Luckily, I had @roizur.bsky.social as a collaborator. We hope this report helps make sense of an extremely difficult period in the country’s history. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Israel: Political Developments and Data in 2024

In 2024, Israel faced profound political and military upheaval. The Gaza war persisted throughout the year, expanding to direct confrontations with Hezbollah and Iran, while Houthi attacks intensifie...

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

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LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

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