I've just come back from my leave to learn that my @cpsjournal.bsky.social article on women's activism in populist radical right (PRR) parties has now page numbers ๐ค you can find it open access at the link below:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This is more of an indictment of what has been considered good research than a revelation that AI can do good social science.
I'd like to see Claude go build a relationship with members of a former autocracy and then generate a clear theory to explain something no one had caught before
IN NEW ISSUE: Gen-Z Compulsory Turnout: @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & @duncanmcdonnell.com examine what drives Gen-Z electoral behaviour by surveying them on their '22 AU federal election choices. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/3CAvTvp
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com
ICYMI: in the past week, we released the YOUMEM dataset โ with survey responses from 5000+ members of 12 youth wings.
It is the largest comparative study of youth wing members to date.
It is also, we believe, the largest comparative party membership survey dataset ever made publicly available.
I guess this means we're having pierogi, @benstanley.eu.
Finally, I think itโs worth noting that โ apart from Sweden, where Niklas & Ann-Cathrine secured some funding โ YOUMEM was conducted without big financial support. It was a huge effort, done largely โfor freeโ.
We're very pleased to be making it freely available.
And we hope youโll find it useful!
Then this (plus another forthcoming):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
And 3 articles in @ejprjournal.bsky.social.
This:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The project has already produced a number of articles, including the overview piece in Party Politics:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
By then, โIโ had become โwe,โ with @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, @niklasbolin.bsky.social, @rheinisch.bsky.social, Ann-Cathrine Jungar, Marco Valbruzzi, @profannikawerner.bsky.social & @cwegscheider.bsky.social coming on board.
After that, I figured: "Why not try this elsewhere?"
So things snowballed againโฆ Covid delayed plans a bit, but we ultimately fielded surveys with the major centre-left and centre-right youth wings in Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden.
This project has had a decade-long gestation...it began when I got some money in 2016 to interview youth wing leaders in 3 Australian cities and then thought "I could ask them to circulate surveys to members".
Things snowballed...and in 2018 I ran surveys in every Australian state & territory.
YOUMEM provides a wealth of information about:
โข Who joins youth wings
โข When they join
โข Why they join
โข The issues they care about
โข The extent to which they align with the party
โข Their aspirations
โข Their activism in & out of campaigns
โข Why they stay
โข Perceived costs/benefits of membership
Weโve just released the Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) dataset:
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ha...
Itโs the largest comparative study of party youth wing members ever conducted, with survey responses from over 5,000 members of 12 centre-left and centre-right youth wings in 6 countries. ๐งต
Our study of Gen-Z voters and non-voters in ๐ฆ๐บ has finally got an issue number in @polstudies.bsky.social!
It's great to see that it has remained in the top-10 most read articles in the journal since online publication a year ago. You can find it OA here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
What Sofia is too modest to explicitly say in her post below, is that - in addition to our PRR youth wings book - she has a solo one coming out with OUP in June on grassroots women in the PRR:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Coming out in June.
(when @casmudde.bsky.social & I will be presenting it at the @ces-europe.bsky.social conference in Dublin)
๐ฅ NEW ARTICLE ALERT ๐ฅ
The five spatial political logics of populism: An analytical framework and research agenda for studying the populist politicisation of space from the local to the transnational
in @bjpir.bsky.social with Benjamin de Cleen & Panos Panayotu
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The January AFR/RedBridge/Accent Research poll is out now. It shows that since December, the vote share of the former Coalition parties has collapsed further.
The Liberal, LNP and National vote is less than half of their pre-election high.
"Northern Queensland sovereignty has always been a passion of mine".
Given recent trends, I'm presuming @benstanley.eu is in talks with Law & Justice about running at the European elections, @benmoffitt.bsky.social is lobbying for a One Nation senate spot in Victoria, while @sldelange.bsky.social has her eye on a technocrat appointment in a future PVV government?
My cold has passed, so we are finally celebrating the acceptance at @ejprjournal.bsky.social with a White Lady ๐ค
Recipe for 2 from The Cocktail Codex (Death & Co, NY):
4 oz gin
1 oz Cointreau
1.5 oz fresh lemon juice
0.5 oz simple syrup
2 egg whites
Garnish with a lemon peel
#poliscicocktail
๐ฅ And since 2026 also wants to start with some great news, โจ the ๐๐๐๐๐ผ๐ team just received this acceptance from the ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก. We are super proud of this work on the gender dimension in party youth wings.
๐ฃ Stay tuned for more details soon.
For more details about the project, see our overview article published in Party Politics:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Another score for the YOUMEM team!
This article, led by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, is the third from our YOUMEM project on youth wings to be accepted for publication in European Journal of Political Research. Thanks to the @ejprjournal.bsky.social editors for their continued support!
Not to mention South Australia, NT, and Western Australia!
You mean 'Happy New Year New South Wales and Victoria"...
Thanks Hugo. Same to you!
