@alinavranceanu
Political scientist @ Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Previously @ European University Institute and UPF. Voters, political parties, political representation, radical right politics, public opinion about immigration. https://alinavranceanu.github.io
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👣 @alinavranceanu.bsky.social & @bpetrova.bsky.social show that in Western Europe, generous #welfare systems – perhaps counterintuitively – make natives more favourably inclined toward #immigrants.
💸Indeed, cutting benefits risks exacerbating anti-immigrant sentiment
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Don't forget to apply until the end of the week! 🚨
🚨📄 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...
📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣
This does NOT happen everyday.
THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n
This plot shows average response rates of the European Social Survey. Between 2002 and 2023 the have fallen from 61 to 41 per cent.
This plot breaks down ESS response rates by country. In almost all countries, the rate has gone down over time - in some cases, like Sweden, quite dramatically so.
In line with the 'credibility revolution', we are thinking about research designs that allow us to get closer to causal effects. Those who use surveys have often turned to survey experiments. At the same time, survey response rates have dropped considerably. Below are the figures for the ESS.
Curriculum shapes more than skills as taking STEM in high school boosts tech careers—but also shifts politics as boys grow more conservative and girls more progressive, from Robert Ainsworth, Rajeev H. Dehejia, Andrei Munteanu, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Miguel Urquiola www.nber.org/papers/w34502
New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social!
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
Postdoc call‼️
I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT.
Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community.
Application deadline: December 10th.
Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9m
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
Yesterday I attended the Workshop on #Immigration and #Democracy at Leiden University, organised by Steven Denney.
Lots of interesting discussions on civic fairness, authoritarianism, national identity, welfare chauvinism, NIMBY-ism, depopulation and immigration politics in Europe and East Asia.
Always fun to share the election ballot for international audiences
Preprint: Levels of Office and Voter Accountability for Democratic Norm Violations
⚠️New paper fothcoming in POQ! ⚠️
With @marcjacob.bsky.social and @seanjwestwood.bsky.social, we worried about norm-violating local politicians rising to higher office. We tested when voters defect from such politicians in local, state and federal races.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions.
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
📢📢We’re hiring - Postdoc position
Political Science @uab.cat Barcelona
Project PEUTRANSP
12 months, full-time, starting 2025
Advanced quantitative methods + survey / experimental design
📆 Deadline: 23/10
Details + submissions: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380176
+ info nuria.font@uab.es
A EU politics tenure track position at Ghent university 👇
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs
Japan set for first female PM after Sanae Takaichi - a hardline conservative who favours tighter restrictions on immigration - wins LDP leadership race www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
Hard to think of anyone more deserving of this important award - congratulations on this well-earned recognition @ehernandez.bsky.social!
We're looking forward to putting together a *fantastic* Electoral and Voting Behaviour section for the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 meeting in Belfast!
‼️ Make sure to submit your papers by 7 November 2025!
🧲 We are hiring!
✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social
🏁 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English
📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to gr.dec@uab.cat
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2
We offer further details in our blogpost at ECPR’s TheLoop theloop.ecpr.eu/how-welfare-...
Read an older post to learn more about what we ask, what we do and what we find: bsky.app/profile/alin...
Our article is out now in the latest issue of the EJPR. Available Open Access:👇
Our first panel starts on Tuesday, 26 August 2025, at 08:30, and our last panel starts on Friday, 29 August 2025, at 13:30.
First we have In person icon Building: Explaining Populist and Radical Right Support
(Law Building, Floor: 2, Room: 212)Tuesday 08:30 - 10:15 EEST (26/08/2025)
Did you know we do a Best Paper Award at each General Conference?! 🏆🚨‼️ To be considered for the 2025 POVB Best Paper Competition, you must upload your paper to the ECPR platform or email it to the chairs/discussants before your presentation. 🏆 #ecprgc25
Very grateful to the ECPR political theory jury for this wonderful news!
Many congratulations, Bruno!
Bookmarked! Good to see renewed attention to the topic of ambivalence in immigration attitudes
Excited to have signed an editor contract with Oxford University Press for a volume on Voting Behaviour planned to come out in December 2027! We really hope this book will spark social science student interest in the discipline, especially at a time when democracy faces major challenges.
Big news: Imperial Borderlands is now out in paperback @universitypress.cambridge.org James Robinson (2024 Econ Nobel) calls it "pathbreaking." Empire + institutions + data science—same frontier, softer cover. www.amazon.com/Imperial-Bor...
