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🎉Congratulations to @sabinedvolk.bsky.social on winning the 2025 Rising Star Award, praised by the jury for her exceptional academic achievements in #PolSci
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#ECPRPrizes @ameliahadfield1.bsky.social
I'm very excited to see our paper on group appeals finally formatted and published online with the JoP! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Paper w/ @carogarriga.bsky.social: Academia’s Class Problem. PoliSci is dominated by the upper middle class / people with parents who went to university – unlike society as a whole.
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
😯 Join us today for @seangivnish.bsky.social presentation!
🧑💻 Send us a DM if you don't have the Zoom link.
Just a week left to apply!
British Academy response to the Department for Education's technical consultation on the Interational Student Levy 18 February 2026 Background The Department for Education is consulting on the proposed levy on international student income, due to be introduced in England in August 2028.
‘We remain deeply concerned that universities will be unable to absorb the cost of the levy’s
introduction. The loss of cross-subsidy for domestic teaching & research will harm
universities’ ability to deliver their core functions’
Our response to the levy
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...
📢 We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at SOFI, Stockholm University.
Interested in research on the causes and consequences of social policy for individuals and society?
Apply by 13 April 2026.
More information and application:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
#postdoc #sociology
🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇
Congrats Marta! Enjoy a break when you get the chance too :) 🍾
My first dissertation paper is out in Sexuality Research and Social Policy — open access! 🎉 It's about trans inclusion in sports and what fairness concerns actually do to public support.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Short thread below 👇
Last week: “Hooray, we ran some experiments and it turns out social desirability doesn’t really have much of an impact on how people answer survey questions!”
This week: “We regret to inform you…”
Another day, another publication: Our new paper introduces a transformer-based approach to measure how parties talk about each other, capturing who talks about whom and with what stance, with applications to coalition signals in Germany and negative campaigning in Austria. Out now, open access!
📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September.
The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe.
🗓 Deadline: May 17
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
☀️Our article 'Sticky feeling politics: affective feminist resilience to anti-gender politics in the Spanish Parliament' out @ejpgjournal.bsky.social! 👉🏽https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/ejpg/aop/article-10.1332-25151088Y2026D000000131/article-10.1332-25151088Y2026D000000131.xml
Very happy to see our new article “Reference groups and electoral behavior” (coauthored with Rune Stubager, Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard & Michael Lewis-Beck) published!
Using ANES, DNES and AUTNES data, we show that liking or disliking social groups shapes vote choice.
🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
We usually think that social identities precede preferences
We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences
Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹
With all due respect to the authors (the study raises a “potential” concern), but its framing overstates that concern imo. A few things worth flagging before everyone panics 1/
🔥 The title that never was.
🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social):
We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.
Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.
w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social
URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
Gender Quota Laws and Women in Cabinets 36 Pages Posted: 16 Dec 2024 Last revised: 11 Feb 2026 Tiffany Barnes University of Texas at Austin Giulia Venturini University of Strathclyde Ana Weeks University of Bath Date Written: December 06, 2024 Abstract Do legislative gender quotas increase women’s presence in cabinets? Women remain underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. As a remedy, over 80 countries have adopted gender quotas, requiring parties to nominate or elect a minimum share of women. But can quotas have effects beyond the positions they directly target? We argue that quotas increase the presence of women in executive cabinets by expanding the pool of experienced female legislators. Using a global dataset (168 countries) from 1990 to 2021, we find gender quotas increase the share of women ministers by 15 percent relative to the average baseline–including increases in both high- and lowprestige portfolios. Consistent with a supply-side mechanism, effects are largest in parliamentary democracies—where ministers are often selected from parliament—and in countries that experienced the greatest increases in women’s legislative representation post-quota. The findings suggest quotas can generate meaningful spillover effects at the highest levels of government.
“I am delighted to conditionally accept your article for publication in The Journal of Politics.”
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We find that gender quota laws for legislatures also increase the share of women in cabinets.
w @gventurini.bsky.social @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social
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Will start including this reference in the cover letter to editor and front-page disclaimer to reviewers when trying to publish the (many) null results I have floating around.
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social
Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout?
We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out
doi.org/10.1086/740816
Take home message? Geography *still* matters, even in a digital age.
Living near people who share your identity strengthens political engagement.
Full paper here: doi.org/10.1086/740816
Some nice (we think) causal evidence that spatial concentration mobilizes voting among sexual minorities.
"Gaybourhoods" aren't just cultural spaces — they're politically consequential. Being embedded in spatially concentrated queer spaces can rally you to the ballot box.
Keep in mind: Sweden already has ~87% voter turnout 🤯, and LGB Swedes vote at even HIGHER rates than counterfactual straight peers (~93% vs ~89% in 2022).
So we're finding mobilization effects even at the ceiling. In lower-turnout countries, the effect could be much larger.
The result: a 1 percentage-point increase in LGB neighbors boosts LGB voter turnout by 1.56 pp MORE than it does for their straight neighbors.
That's a causal effect — and it holds up across multiple robustness checks (different neighbourhood sizes, controls for income/education, etc.).
The challenge: neighborhoods with more LGB residents also tend to be richer and more educated. So is it the *LGB neighbors* driving turnout, or just living in a "nice" area?
Our fix: a triple-difference design (DiDiD).
We used Swedish population registers covering nearly 8 MILLION people across 4 elections (1994–2022).
Sweden tracks *validated* voter turnout at the individual level + precise geolocation data
This let us build a "neighbourhood" around every single person & measure how many LGB neighbours they had
We know that minority neighbourhoods -- "gaybourhoods," ethnic enclaves -- can foster community and political identity.
But does living near other people from your group actually *cause* higher voter turnout? Or is that just correlation?
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social
Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout?
We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out
doi.org/10.1086/740816
