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Ronja Sczepanski

@ronjasczepanski.bsky.social
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Assistent Professor for European Politics at Sciences Po Paris I European and National Identity, Stereotypes l Experiments, NLP, etc. sites.google.com/view/ronja-sczepan…

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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The (probably) least economically left-behind place in entire Europe votes... more far-right than ever!
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Markus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do you want to understand whether investments in public services can make democracies more resilient? Come and do your PhD with @heikekluever.bsky.social and me! We offer great conditions, a supportive team, and lots of room to develop your own ideas. Any questions? Please, do reach out!
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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
👥 Do we back our class — or where we think it stands? In a UK experiment, @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social & Geoffrey Evans find working-class Britons feel closer to an immigration or environment camp — pro or anti — once told their class is the majority there. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Title and abstract page of the article “Perceived class positions and opinion-based polarisation: experimental evidence from the UK” by Ronja Sczepanski and Geoffrey Evans, published online first in West European Politics. The abstract’s two findings sentences are highlighted.
Four-panel plot (Figure 5) of predicted values from linear regression models, with 95% confidence intervals, showing how telling working-class respondents that the working class leans pro- or anti-immigration or pro- or anti-environment shifts their closeness to the corresponding opinion-based groups relative to a control condition.
Four-panel plot (Figure 6) of predicted values from linear regression models, with 95% confidence intervals, showing how the same treatments shift the closeness that pro- and anti-immigration and pro- and anti-environment supporters feel toward the working class.
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
„Working class support for X is up by Y%“. What does this information do to polarization between groups? In a new paper w/ Geoffrey Evans: Perceived working-class alignment with pro/anti camps on immigration & environment shifts identification and sympathy doi.org/10.1080/0140...
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Perceived class positions and opinion-based polarisation: experimental evidence from the UK
Class divisions over emerging policy issues are well-documented, yet the mechanisms driving these divisions remain underexplored. This article argues that perceptions of how the working class posit...
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Theodore Tallent @theodoretallent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉 Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access) The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social (1/6)
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome? politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
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Delia Zollinger @dpzollinger.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations? In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer. tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp
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Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - Volume 55
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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Eva Krejcova @evakrejcova.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Thank you Magnus!
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Thank you Chris for your kind words :)
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!
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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
New publication, out in Political Analysis: There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually? I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.
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Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🚨New article🔥 Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes, at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with @sofiabrei.bsky.social @griambau.bsky.social @arodilla.bsky.social 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social (1/n)
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Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes
The resurgence of the rural–urban divide as a factor shaping political attitudes has gained increasing attention in both public and academic discourse…
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
How are the classic social identities (urban-rural, education, etc. ) and perceptions about those groups related to a persons own European and national identity? Read it here (in fantastic company) in print
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
For the first time ever I gave a - very short - TV interview about EU identity. Have a look
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Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I cannot recommend this summer school enough!
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
What do the results tell us for the academic debate? Even in situation that could be wake-up calls and might be the once were we might expect people to get high knowledge other factors such as cueing, party discourse are still an important source for opinion formation
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Even though attitudes change I do not find any evidence that the EU Constitution referendum in France has changed the knowledge of the EU Constitution for EU citizens despite high visibility in the news for everyone but even for the likely cases (French, Dutch and Constitution interested people)
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Why does the question matter? Especially as other research from @giorgiomalet.bsky.social or @dschraff.bsky.social has shown: referendums shift attitudes. and there is often the public call for a stencils referendum (after Brexit and in the EU on treaties) tinyurl.com/sbczufmh tinyurl.com/2jsjk9m9
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Citations: Asymmetric ratification standards and popular perceptions of legitimacy
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Do referendums lead citizens to know more about the issue of the referendum after it was shockingly defeated by the public? I answer this question based on the EU Constitution referendum here: doi.org/10.1080/0703... a short thread below
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Do citizens know more about political issues after failed referendums? Evidence from the EU Constitution referendum
When citizens use a referendum to vote down a government-backed proposal on the European Union, it constitutes an unusual event that attracts interest from both the public and researchers. However,...
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Violeta Haas @haasvioleta.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 19/03/2025
Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There's a golden job to join us as a research fellow with @rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic process preferences in Europe, funded by the ERC ✅ 3 years 📊 Mixed methods 💰 Resources for data & conferences 👥 Good group of people working on similar things www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI418/r...
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Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) at University of Southampton
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) on jobs.ac.uk!
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Filip Kostelka @filipkostelka.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Call for scholars in political behavior (broadly understood) studying Central & Eastern Europe: workshop hosted by @eui-eu.bsky.social, June 19-20. 2nd edition. Participants from the region can have their travel & accommodation fully covered. Apply by 28/3. More info: www.eui.eu/en/projects/...
The Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) at the European University Institute is pleased to announce the second edition of the workshop on political behaviour in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The workshop understands political behaviour broadly and is open to papers studying public opinion and attitudes, voting, elections, political parties, inter-group relations, and political participation. The goal of this event is to bring together scholars, both from the East and the West, who empirically study political realities in CEE through within-country, between-country, or between-region (e.g., East-West) comparison. Papers investigating general research questions that are not specific to CEE are also very welcome as long as they comprise a significant empirical component from the region (e.g., half of the studied cases are from CEE). The workshop embraces all methodological approaches, but submissions that employ quantitative or mixed methods will be given priority. Each accepted paper will be thoroughly discussed, and the workshop will offer ample opportunities for establishing professional connections and collaborations. @eui-sps.bsky.social‬
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Grateful for lots of great feedback today at the @ethzurich.bsky.social European Politics Colloquium!
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Alberto López Ortega @bertous.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A majority of citizens stereotype Muslims as inherently homophobic. Our new paper (w/ @turnbulldugarte.com & @michaelhunklinger.bsky.social) shows this across four countries 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇳🇱, published in @bjpols.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
With the amazing Jana Lipps and @giorgiomalet.bsky.social we have a new publication in ISQ! We explore and theorize citizens’ preferences for border securing policies using open-ended survey responses and a conjoint experiment academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
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Understanding Preferences over Borders
Abstract. The governance of international borders has evolved into a contentious issue of political competition along the cosmopolitan-nationalistic divide
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
An amazing article by @valentindaur.bsky.social about how mainstream parties can (de-) legitimize pariah parties! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond
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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
In Merz‘ lautesten Forderungen der letzten Monate zeigt sich eine fatale Linie: Eine (un)gewollte Zerstörung der europäischen Integration. Wer Grenzkontrollen & -Schließungen fordert, Regierungsparteien zum Europarechtsbruch aufruft & Vorrang von EU-Recht gg. nationalem Recht einreißen will 🧵 1/6
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Catarina Leão @catarinaleao.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
It is a great honor to receive the prestigious 2025 Portuguese Political Science Association Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation, especially given the excellence of this year’s jury. I deeply appreciate the trust placed in my work!
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Theres Matthieß @theresmatthiess.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Welche Bedeutung haben Versprechen im Wahlkampf? Darüber durfte ich heute mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur sprechen 🎧 👉🏻 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/versprechen-...
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Versprechen im Wahlkampf - wie gewinnt man Wählerinnen und Wähler?
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Congrats :)
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Thank you so much Stuart! It’s an honor to be part of this group :)
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Read our preprint at doi.org/10.31219/osf... and try out open-source machine translation in #Python with our Colab-based online App: colab.research.google.com/drive/1quRuH...
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
But would it negatively affect measurement reliability if you used an open-source instead of a commercial translation model in your quantitative text analysis? Our analyses focusing on LDA topic modeling and Transformer classifier fine-tuning suggest that the answer is No! 📊
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Open-source machine translation has become a viable alternative to Google Translate or DeepL for quantitative text and #TextAsData analysis. Models like OPUS-MT and M2M are freely available and easy to use (e.g., with easyNMT in #Python:  (github.com/UKPLab/EasyNMT)
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Do you want to translate texts for a quantitative analysis, but using Google Translate & Co. is too expensive? Then use an open-source translation model instead – @haukelicht.bsky.social , Moritz Laurer, Ayjeren Bekmuratovna, and I show that they are a good alternatives: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
🚨🚨Two tenure-track positions in the European Institute @LSE: 1. European Politics and Policy jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... 2. Political Economy jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... It's a really great place to work. Consider applying! I won't be in the search committee but happy to chat. 1/2 polisky
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Assistant Professor in European Politics and Policy
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Thank you Jochen!
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Thank you so much Marvin!
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Mange tak, Kristina! :)
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
❤️❤️❤️
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Thank you Ala!
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Ganz, ganz lieben Dank Jasmin :)
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Thank you very Markus!
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Thank you so much Stuart! :)
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Thank you very much Carl!
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