Virginia Rocha

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An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment

Needed - larger samples, more realism about (the lack of) heterogeneous treatment effects:
-"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size"
-"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant"
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research | PNAS The advancement of large language models poses a severe, potentially existential threat to online survey research, a fundamental tool for data coll...

Many have asked for the LLM Survey paper. The release was bungled a bit by PNAS, but it is live now: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Huge congrats, Emil!!

BJPolS abstract of a study on bias in judicial decisions affecting juvenile criminal offenders, emphasizing the impact on immigrant offenders and suggesting reforms for a more equitable justice system.

NEW -

Anti-Immigrant Bias in the Choice Between Punitive and Rehabilitative Justice - https://cup.org/49vUfVa

- @riazsascha.bsky.social & @mhamjediers.bsky.social

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If you know anyone considering doing a PhD in political science or sociology, encourage them to apply to the EUI PhD program and join the institute's landmark 50th cohort of PhD researchers in the SPS Department! Applications from Central and Eastern Europe are particularly welcome!

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference.

🔝 This week: Electoral + Voting Behaviour & Climate Politics

▶️ Electoral + Voting Behaviour

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Change in migrants’ political attitudes: Acculturation and cosmopolitanization is now available in Early View. @evakrejcova.bsky.social @filipkostelka.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/09/12/c...

Fantastic work, congratulations! @emilkamalov.bsky.social @vetasergeeva.bsky.social @erendiraleonsa.bsky.social it could be interesting to your projects.

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...

Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized?

In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

🚨 New working paper: War, Propaganda, and Russian Fatalities in Ukraine

@ifomichev.bsky.social and I study how Russian fatalities in the Russia–Ukraine war affect engagement with propaganda on social media in soldiers’ hometowns. Here's what we find 🧵

#workingpaper #ukraine #russia #propaganda

🇪🇺🇦🇫 Published Today in CPS 🇪🇺🇦🇫

“Stand by those who share our values” – how refugees fleeing the Taliban improved European attitudes toward immigration

Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os...

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#MyEUIResearch with Virginia Rocha | When democracy becomes a family affair YouTube video by EUI TV

When democracy becomes a family affair... 🧐 Our Max Weber Fellow @virginiarocha.bsky.social dives into how political elites and non-professional actors influence policy outcomes and polarisation.

A must-watch for political science enthusiasts!

#MyEUIResearch #EUISPS

youtu.be/MjftCEmnUvk

Our article on how elites manage the human resource task of party building is out open access today in @apsrjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Thread below on the main findings 👇

Deadline next week! Apply for the 2025 APSA Fund for #Latino Scholarship by June 15th! The fund encourages and supports the recruitment, retention, and promotion of Latino/a political scientists. politicalsciencenow.com/apsa-2025-fu...

Workshop: Elections and Political Parties in Africa and Latin America Workshop Event: 19 June 2025 Research on elections and political parties in the Global South often takes place within continental silos. Yet, scholars have much to gain by engaging in conversations around thes...

🚨 Workshop alert! 🚨
Working on elections or parties in Africa or Latin America? Let’s break the silos!
Join us at Reading on 19 June 2025 to share research & build cross-regional links.
Submit by 19 May 👉 forms.gle/HFDebZLAoRCS...
#GlobalSouth #PoliSci #Africa #LatinAmerica

Excited to share some of my research through the #MyEUIResearch series!

Big fan of Paper Picnic 🧺
Every Friday night, it pulls new articles from over 60 political science & economics journals.
If you sign up to the mailing list, you receive a weekly email with a list of all new papers, sorted by journal.

Excellent work, @moritzmarbach.bsky.social!

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After being an editor for 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA), I have accumulated a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary rejections.

BJPolS abstract describing the Global Legislators Database, which includes demographic and biographical data on legislators from nearly 100 parliamentary democracies worldwide.

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The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies - cup.org/4hMcJCi

- @carnes.bsky.social, Joshua Ferrer, @mgoldenprof.bsky.social, @esmelillywhite.bsky.social, @noamlupu.bsky.social & @eugenian.bsky.social

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