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Will Daniel

@wdaniel127.bsky.social
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Assoc. Prof. @nottspolitics.bsky.social I research gender ⚧️ and representation 🏳️‍🌈, the EU 🇪🇺, careers in legislative and party politics 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇧🇪, and social media 📱 Bio ⏩️ shorturl.at/XrwdF Views own and not those of my employer.

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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
‼️JOB ALERT‼️ @nottspolitics.bsky.social is recruiting a PERMANENT Assistant Professor in Political Science (R&T Level 5) to start this autumn. 🧑‍🏫 Substantive area of expertise is open, but the successful candidate must be able to teach in R Studio. 📈📉📊
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Only one week left to get us those proposals for ECPR SGEU! Have a paper on EU elections or legislative politics? We want to know about it. Details below ⬇️
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Delighted to co-convene the track on EU Elections and Legislative Politics with Lukas Obholzer at @ecprsgeu.bsky.social 2026, next July in Catania! 🇪🇺 Learn more about what we're looking for here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/Event... Submit your panels and/or papers by 10 December here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/341
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13th Biennial Conference of the SGEU, Università di Catania, 1 – 3 July 2026
European Consortium for Political Research
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Cheers to 10 great days of political science conferencing in Spain 🇪🇸 After all the sun ☀️ I’m looking forward to a cooler Belfast for next year’s @epssnet.bsky.social already. Thanks to @marcgeddes.uk and the organisers of @sgparliaments.bsky.social for a great conference in Barcelona!
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ECPR Parliaments Standing Group @sgparliaments.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
It’s the final day of our conference but the fun isn’t over - here are our morning panels starting at 9.30am #sgop25
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Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) @jcms-eu.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🌟 Scholar Spotlight 🌟 @wdaniel127.bsky.social & @steffenhurka.bsky.social reveal how changes in #EuropeanCommission cabinets impact #EU policy-making. More diverse cabinets boost legitimacy but don’t affect proposal quality or political processing. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
How do politicians campaign on social media? @wdaniel127.bsky.social & Lukas Obholzer explore campaign data from the 2024EP elections on Facebook, Instagram & TikTok, showing party-based differences. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of the Symposium: European Parliament Elections 2024
Abstract of the article "Social media campaigning across multiple platforms: evidence from the 2024 European elections" by William T. Daniel and Lukas Obholzer.

Published online first in West European Politics.Figure 1, displaying the shae of MEPs using six different social media platforms, per party group.Figure 2, displaying the predicted numbers of accounts.Figure 3, displaying predictive margins for the effect of candidates' national party's EU position and left-right position on a number of posts.
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🚨New Elections Article Alert!🚨 Lukas Obholzer and I have been writing about online campaigning in European elections 🇪🇺 since 2014. This past year, we broadened our focus from Twitter (now X) to see where else Members of the @europarl.europa.eu were campaigning.
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Quite pleased to see that my new book with Andrea Aldrich is now hot off the (physical) presses and ready to ship across the US, UK, and Europe.
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nottspolitics.bsky.social @nottspolitics.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
▫️ Research with Impact series ▫️ Read more on how @wdaniel127.bsky.social advised the Welsh government on its plans to promote gender equality under the expanded Senedd 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/366u6vfe @uonresearch.bsky.social @uoninstitute.bsky.social
School of Politics and International Relations - Research with Impact Series - Dr William Daniel - Gender quotas and the reform of the Welsh legislature
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Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen @silje-hermansen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A well-resourced European Parliament is so vital for democracy! But MEPs often blur the line between parliamentary work and campaigning. Some go too far: Le Pen today, Farage during Brexit, Bayrou in his post-election blues. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
News of 🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen's temporary barring from seeking public office for diverting of 🇪🇺 European Parliament funds to national work, reminds me of an article that I wrote for the @jei-publication.bsky.social about a decade ago.
Screenshot of the article abstract, which is linked at the bottom of the thread.
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
@nottspolitics.bsky.social is hiring! We are seeking to appoint a Teaching Associate in Political Science (with a focus on quantitative methods). This full-time, fixed-term post is available from 1 September 2025 until 30 June 2027.
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Looking forward to discussing this work, later today!
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Looking forward to this next week!
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Looks like Oxford snuck in the e-book publication day for our new gender quotas book without telling Andrea Aldrich or me! Time to request a copy of your libraries and reading lists :-)
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Proud brother alert, loading. as.virginia.edu/recent-grad-...
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Recent A&S Grad Wins 2024 National Distinguished Dissertation Award
For building a better mathematical model to understand human behavior, a recent UVA graduate student’s dissertation was recognized as a significant contribution to the social sciences.
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
And all the people said, Amen.
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Really looking forward to this, as always! We could especially use a few more submissions for our Gender & Sexuality track, which I am co-convening. Find out more and propose your paper here! www.uaces.org/liverpool
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55th UACES Annual Conference in Liverpool, UK | UACES
We are delighted to welcome you to Liverpool for the 55th UACES Annual Conference 2025.
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
One more week to get your applications in!
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Great to chat about my ongoing research on cross-platform social media campaign strategies with @zoecrowther.bsky.social in @politicshome.bsky.social
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🔈Job Alert 🔈 I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
British politics in 2024: American public services with Scandinavian taxes Dutch electoral fragmentation with Westminster majoritarianism
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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🗳️ Women are not a demographic minority, but they are a minority in politics. Laura Sudulich, Siim Trumm & @makropoulos.bsky.social of @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social @strathpolir.bsky.social show how a significant gender resource gap remains a feature of contemporary parliamentary campaigns bit.ly/498OFWA
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The gender gap in campaign financing: an uphill struggle
Women are not a demographic minority, but they are certainly still a minority in politics. Laura Sudulich, Siim Trumm, and Iakovos Makropoulos show that a significant gender resource gap continues to ...
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Very happy to be co-convening the Gender and Sexuality track again for #UACES both panel and individual paper proposals for inclusion on to its Gender and Sexuality track. We are keen on developing a space for feminist and queer approaches to European Studies (broadly defined). /1
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Really delighted to see this all come together, albeit during a much happier and more productive time on that other platform. Thanks to our France 🇫🇷 team for doing such amazing work - and looking forward to diving in with the comparative data!
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Not me clicking “follow all” to dozens of interesting starter packs, like a first year signing up for clubs and societies during a freshers fair.
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Want to follow experts on European politics, check out this starter pack ⤵️ Big thanks to @tiagomramalho.bsky.social for putting it together!
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Checking back in on Bluesky means finding your co-author’s been posting about your recent work. Give it a look, 🇪🇺 politics types! (Sorry, lawyers)
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
What leads candidates to diverge from stated party messaging strategies during election campaigns? I examine the drivers of candidates' toxic campaign discourses during the 2022 🇫🇷legislative elections with Laurence Rowley-Abel, Elise Frelin, and Max-Valentin Robert. doi.org/10.1080/014023…
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Most studies of political rhetoric examine only political leadership or treat parties as unified actors. However, what happens where electoral systems incen-tivise candidates to diverge from stated party messaging during campaigns?Figure 4 from the paper shows the increased incidence of toxic rhetoric from French far-right candidates, relative to mainstream ones.For some politicians, holding national office previously does decrease the level of toxic speech.The French far right is especially toxic when discussing its mainstay areas of law and order and attacking rival leaders.
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Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Delighted to see my new article with Andrea Aldrich out @thejop.bsky.social We use new data on >6k EU🇪🇺 legislators to combat stigma that gender quotas lead to a reduction in quality, showing those elected via quotas have higher degree qualifications than those who were not. doi.org/10.1086/727603
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Gender Quota Adoption and the Qualifications of Parliamentarians | The Journal of Politics
Gender quotas in legislative elections are a central component of institutional reform to foster women’s inclusion in politics. However, stigma remains that women elected under quotas may be of lower ...
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