Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiReto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The (probably) least economically left-behind place in entire Europe votes... more far-right than ever! 3203 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiMarkus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Do 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! 03722 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiWest 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... 082 0
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...doi.orgPerceived class positions and opinion-based polarisation: experimental evidence from the UKClass 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... 04113 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiTheodore 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) 49735 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025With 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-... 112653 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiDelia Zollinger @dpzollinger.bsky.social · 06/11/2025How 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/49cs8jwptinyurl.comEducational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge CoreEducational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - Volume 55 16632 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiAla 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... 1526988 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiEva Krejcova @evakrejcova.bsky.social · 12/09/20251/ 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... 57727 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiLSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 11/09/2025We'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 🌎 04856 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Thank you Chris for your kind words :) 120 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Ever 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! 29431 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiMarvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 19/08/2025New 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.cambridge.orgMoral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos | Political Analysis | Cambridge CoreMoral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos 33414 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiEPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 07/08/2025EPSA 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 🧵 1183145 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiToni 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)sciencedirect.comUnpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypesThe resurgence of the rural–urban divide as a factor shaping political attitudes has gained increasing attention in both public and academic discourse… 1265 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 30/06/2025How 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 25916 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 22/04/2025For the first time ever I gave a - very short - TV interview about EU identity. Have a look 071 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiMagda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I cannot recommend this summer school enough! 083 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025What 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 020 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Even 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) 120 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Why 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/2jsjk9m9tinyurl.comCitations: Asymmetric ratification standards and popular perceptions of legitimacySubscribe to citation updates from Asymmetric ratification standards and popular perceptions of legitimacy 130 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Do 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 belowdoi.orgDo citizens know more about political issues after failed referendums? Evidence from the EU Constitution referendumWhen 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,... 2377 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiVioleta Haas @haasvioleta.bsky.social · 27/02/2025New 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 315560 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiStuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 19/03/2025Who 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... 1225494 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiDaniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025There'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...jobs.ac.ukResearch Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) at University of SouthamptonLooking 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! 13231 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiFilip Kostelka @filipkostelka.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Call 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/... 02926 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiRoman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Grateful for lots of great feedback today at the @ethzurich.bsky.social European Politics Colloquium! 1131 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiAlberto López Ortega @bertous.bsky.social · 14/02/2025A 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... 14713 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 12/02/2025With 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/...academic.oup.comUnderstanding Preferences over BordersAbstract. The governance of international borders has evolved into a contentious issue of political competition along the cosmopolitan-nationalistic divide 35214 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 26/01/2025An amazing article by @valentindaur.bsky.social about how mainstream parties can (de-) legitimize pariah parties! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgLegitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond | American Political Science Review | Cambridge CoreLegitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond 1159 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiChristopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 25/01/2025In 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 2117 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiCatarina Leão @catarinaleao.bsky.social · 16/01/2025It 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! 7322 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiTheres Matthieß @theresmatthiess.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Welche Bedeutung haben Versprechen im Wahlkampf? Darüber durfte ich heute mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur sprechen 🎧 👉🏻 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/versprechen-...deutschlandfunkkultur.deVersprechen im Wahlkampf - wie gewinnt man Wählerinnen und Wähler? 0111 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 26/08/2024Thank you so much Stuart! It’s an honor to be part of this group :) 110 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Read 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... 011 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 12/02/2024But 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! 📊 120 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Open-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) 120 0
Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Do 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... 12312 0
Reposted by Ronja SczepanskiMiguel 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 poliskyjobs.lse.ac.ukAssistant Professor in European Politics and Policy 14245 0