Paper w/ @carogarriga.bsky.social: Academiaβs Class Problem. PoliSci is dominated by the upper middle class / people with parents who went to university β unlike society as a whole.
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
Hey people, stop using Claude to code or write your next paper for you. Be more imaginative. Here is what Claude did when I asked it to turn one of my recent columns into a standup comedy routine. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Peep this from @anthlittle.bsky.social & @tompepinsky.com. We CAN learn even from biased estimates if we do exactly what @stablemarkets.bsky.social is saying.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Logo for the European Journal of Political Research displaying the text "EJPR European Journal of Political Research" in cream letters on a blue background, accompanied by the hashtag "#OpenAccess".
#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -
Reference groups and electoral behavior - https://cup.org/46neAJZ
- Rune Stubager, Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck
#FirstView
"But at the beginning of the period of my investigation, it was actually possible to disappear on Danish soil and become someone else. And by the end of the period in 1850, that became almost impossible" Johan Heinsen.
ML showing it's possible power as a tool in research.
#skystorian #skystorians
π¨π¨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. π§΅
www.politico.eu/article/icel...
Perhaps a good time to bring up again our proposal with @dimitrispieker.bsky.social and Ulrich Karpenstein on how to suspend Hungaryβs voting rights based on a breach of solidarity in CFSP: www.delorscentre.eu/en/publicati...
This would be quite an escalation by OrbΓ‘n - as he promised at the European Council in December to exactly not veto this, as long as Hungary was not part of the Enhanced Cooperation. This would make it a huge breach of trust (if there is any left).
This Hungarian veto is poised to trigger outrage because:
- The loan was agreed at the highest level by EU leaders
- Hungary secured an opt-out through enhanced cooperation
- Ukraine needs the money no later than April
- Von der Leyen and Costa will be in Kyiv next week for the fourth anniversary
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Resentment and democracy under strain β
@mfilsinger.bsky.social & Steffen Wamsler of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social show how #SGRD shapes not only radical political support, but also citizensβ commitment to democracy ποΈ drawing on survey data π across six European countries
1/ Sorry for double-posting from X. Sharing a new working paper for the Year of the Horce π:
"An AI-assisted workflow that scales reproducibility in empirical research" (bit.ly/repro-ai) w/ Leo Yang Yang
π 2 PhD positions in International Relations at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social! The positions are linked to my ERC-project about local change and public support for protectionism #academicsky #polisky
Deadline April 10, 2026, apply here! π
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#AffectivePolarization β only #Partisanships π
Ida BΓ¦k Hjermitslev & @markuswagner.bsky.social widen the lens on political identity, looking in Germany, where ideological identities (left/right) are as strong as party IDs and shape how people judge others π€
As expected, all three votes today on the aspects of the 'safe third countries' list at EU level were carried by the EPP with the three far-right parties.
Each of the votes looked like a variation of this (data via @howtheyvote.eu):
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Do campaigns matter? π€
Denmarkβs 2022 EU defence opt-out vote show that #Campaign information matters. While fear-based messages influences #Voters at the start, their effect declines as voters learn more.
@rsenninger.bsky.social, J.Fenger & D.Beach of @ecprsgeu.bsky.social
π§΅I am happy to announce a new article in Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social, βAre the Politically Active Better Represented?β, co-authored with @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, and Anders Sundell.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Today in @theguardian.com, I argue that Donald Trumpβs foreign-policy playbook is increasingly about attention capture, or what I call geopolitical clickbait.
Plus I outline why this matters for Europe & what to do about it.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard.
install.packages("partycoloR")
Germany seems to have an issue here as well: βThis means that, on average, ten out of every 100 children of academics obtain a doctoral degree, compared to only one out of every 100 children of non-academics.β www.hochschulbildungsreport2020.de/chancen-fuer...
π¨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social)
βοΈ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*?
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
How can stable personality traits explain less stable PRR voting? Daniel Komaromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social, @mrooduijn.bsky.social and I test whether negative contact with immigrants 'activates' these traits. Mostly, it doesn't. But: initial exposure and out-group definition may matter.
Why did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes?
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
@kanol.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de @politikuhh.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social
π Chart of the week: EU allowance allocation and verified emissions by sector, 2005-2024
β The 2026 review of the EU ETS must be anchored in facts and focus on the potential benefits of the system to EU competitiveness
ποΈ Thomas Mramor and @tagliapietra.bsky.social
π buff.ly/43w2vgH
#EconSky
Friendly reminder: "If one side says it's raining and the other says it is dry, it is NOT your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the window and see which is the truth." β 101 Journalism
See through the lies. You're the watchdog. Bark. Bark as loud as you can.
Today, the European Parliament voted to put the Mercosur trade agreement to the European Court of Justice for review.
It was a politically momentous decision, very tight and carried by an unusual majority, so it is worth looking a bit deeper into it.
We hear it all the time:
Since the turn of the 2010s, thanks to the rise of tech, the US has pulled ahead economically.
This idea is everywhere from Washington to Davosβand it's paralyzing Europe
But it's simply not true!
Let's look at what's really happening, with chartsπ§΅
πOur findings suggest that the perception of scientific integrity is severely threatened during crisis β right when expertise and guidance may be needed the most.π
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
BREAKING: Germany now on board with readying the anti-coercion instrument against πΊπΈ
βThere is a legally established European toolbox for responding to economic blackmail...we should now consider using these measures,β π©πͺfinance minister and vice chancellor Lars Klingbeil just said in Berlin.
Good timing for this @kiel.institute study on who is actually paying for Trump's tariffs (short answer: not the exporters):
While some in Europe still wonder whether Trump's US would honour Art. 5 of the NATO treaty, he is arguably breaking Art. 2 with little regard by employing conflict in international economic policy to blackmail allies:
