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Veikko Isotalo

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Project researcher in political science @UniTurku | intraparty competition | ideology | voting advice applications | FNES

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Autoin vielä Jussi Westistä karttakuvien kanssa, kun hän kirjoitti poliittisen edustuksellisuuden alueellisesta jakautumisesta. Analyysit tehtiin seutukuntatasolla. 4/4

05.03.2026 07:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Jussi Westisen ja Josefina Sipisen kanssa kirjoitimme ehdokkaiden poliittisista arvoista (vasemmisto-oikeisto ja sosiokulttuurilliset arvot). Tarkastelimme näitä erityisesti ehdokkaiden iän ja sukupuolen suhteen. 3/4

05.03.2026 07:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hanna Wassin kanssa kirjoitimme ehdokkaiden kohtaamasta vaalihäirinnästä. Lukumme selvittää 1) millaisia asenteita ehdokkailla on häirintään liittyen, 2) miten yleistä häirintä on ja keihin se kohdistui ja 3) millaisia ovat härinnän vaikutukset. 2/4

05.03.2026 07:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Vaalitutkimuksesta taas kuuluu! Vuoden 2023 eduskuntavaalien ehdokastutkimus "Tie Arkadianmäelle" on nyt ulkona.

Kokoelmassa monta kiinnostavaa lukua, itse olin mukana kolmessa.

Linkki tutkimukseen: doi.org/10.61201/ssz...

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05.03.2026 07:43 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

01.03.2026 05:41 👍 2284 🔁 947 💬 155 📌 392
Values and Political Preferences in Childhood
Christopher Johnston, Martín Opertti, Turgut Keskintürk
February, 2026

Studies of youth political development focus primarily on political socialization and salient events, while paying relatively less attention to important individual differences among children themselves, such as values. We administer an original survey to a sample of 10-to-12-year-olds and show that the distribution of their values is similar to that of their parents and a diverse sample of adults; that children's value priorities strongly predict their political preferences; and that one dimension of value priorities continues to predict political preferences even after adjusting for parental values and political preferences. Taken together, our findings suggest that pre-teens already use their own value priorities to organize their political attitudes, which emphasizes the importance of children's independent attributes in their political development, and lends support to the idea that personal values provide a foundation for political ideology.

Values and Political Preferences in Childhood Christopher Johnston, Martín Opertti, Turgut Keskintürk February, 2026 Studies of youth political development focus primarily on political socialization and salient events, while paying relatively less attention to important individual differences among children themselves, such as values. We administer an original survey to a sample of 10-to-12-year-olds and show that the distribution of their values is similar to that of their parents and a diverse sample of adults; that children's value priorities strongly predict their political preferences; and that one dimension of value priorities continues to predict political preferences even after adjusting for parental values and political preferences. Taken together, our findings suggest that pre-teens already use their own value priorities to organize their political attitudes, which emphasizes the importance of children's independent attributes in their political development, and lends support to the idea that personal values provide a foundation for political ideology.

estimated value positions in Schwartz value space.

estimated value positions in Schwartz value space.

the effects of conservation and self-enhancement values on political evaluations and issues.

the effects of conservation and self-enhancement values on political evaluations and issues.

a new working paper: osf.io/3dq2x_v1!

we administered an original survey to a sample of 10-to-12-year olds, their parents, and a national sample to assess the extent to which values can provide a foundation for political ideology.

we find that values structure political preferences among children.

05.02.2026 17:19 👍 36 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
OpenVAA v0.1 Shiba is out now!

OpenVAA v0.1 Shiba is out now!

Did you know there is an open-source framework for building Voting Advice Applications? OpenVAA (openvaa.org) offers a way to develop a VAA for any election. It is fully localisable, accessible, modular and free to use. 1/3

03.02.2026 17:33 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

Check it out, sign up for our newsletter and get in touch with the OpenVAA team if you have questions! 3/3

openvaa.org/about/newsle...

03.02.2026 17:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OpenVAA was built in Finland by coders and designers with the help of researchers. It is fully transparent, accessible, and research-friendly.

We provide ample documentation for developers and a guide on VAA design for publishers
(openvaa.org/publishers-g...) 2/3

03.02.2026 17:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
OpenVAA v0.1 Shiba is out now!

OpenVAA v0.1 Shiba is out now!

Did you know there is an open-source framework for building Voting Advice Applications? OpenVAA (openvaa.org) offers a way to develop a VAA for any election. It is fully localisable, accessible, modular and free to use. 1/3

03.02.2026 17:33 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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Energy Minister Shmyhal said Russia shelled CHP and thermal power plants that were operating only to heat residential areas in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro. He said the targets were purely civilian, leaving hundreds of thousands of families without heat in minus 25 C cold.

03.02.2026 07:05 👍 282 🔁 103 💬 10 📌 6
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🚨New Publication🚨
The role of the VAA VOTESWIPER in polarizing voter choices in the 2025 German Federal Election

@mariusfroehle.bsky.social @ronaldschleehauf.bsky.social @judithreinbold.bsky.social and Sebastian Jäckle
@pwunifreiburg.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/poi3...

A short 🧵on our findings

30.01.2026 13:24 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1

Viime vuonna tuli itsellekin fiilis, että ulkomaan uutisten taso/määrä on romahtanut ylellä ja kotimaisessa printtimediassa.

Ostin yhden economistin kokeiluun ja päätin pistää tilaukseen.

31.01.2026 09:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Abstract of "Homeownership and political efficacy: how housing wealth shapes whether people feel heard" by Matthias Haslberger and Mads Andreas Elkjær, published in West European Politics.

Abstract of "Homeownership and political efficacy: how housing wealth shapes whether people feel heard" by Matthias Haslberger and Mads Andreas Elkjær, published in West European Politics.

Predicted levels of external efficacy by housing tenure and age, with 95% confidence intervals. Covariates fixed at: Married male Conservative voter without university degree living in Southeast England, full-time employed with average income.

Predicted levels of external efficacy by housing tenure and age, with 95% confidence intervals. Covariates fixed at: Married male Conservative voter without university degree living in Southeast England, full-time employed with average income.

🎉 Online first:

How does owning a home change how people feel about politics?

In this article, @mhaslberger.bsky.social and @madselk.bsky.social find that owning a home is linked to feeling more politically included, especially for older people.

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

27.01.2026 20:16 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
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Agentic AI and Social Science Research Practice I’ve been exploring AI tools of various forms for more than a year now, mostly from a critical perspective of identifying things that they cannot do (such as draw maps), but also so that I can unde…

Claude Code is an amazing tool for social science researchers. It does not think and it does not interpret properly, but it generates and executes code with a speed and accuracy that I could never have anticipated.

23.01.2026 12:47 👍 47 🔁 3 💬 6 📌 1

I guess this means goodbye to the three hours of electricity per 24 hours i used to have, i will miss you
#UkrainianView

23.01.2026 23:42 👍 100 🔁 29 💬 9 📌 1

Super excited to be participating in this Una Europa project on "Democracy and AI" ! And looking forward to co-leading the Leuven team with @bzar.bsky.social !

22.01.2026 13:56 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Many social democratic parties have ignored this (and focused on winning back socially conservative voters from the radical right). It has turned them into (even more) lifeless bureaucratic cartel parties whose voters are predominantly pensioners and whose "activists" work for the party or the state

21.01.2026 16:07 👍 73 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 0
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Kaikille avoin verkkokurssi digitaalisesta yhteiskunnasta Rajapinta ry on ollut mukana kehittämässä kaikille avointa Digitaalisen yhteiskunnan rajapinnoilla -verkkokurssia, jolla käsitellään teknologiavälitteisen toiminnan ulottuvuuksia ja reunaehtoja yht…

Haluaisitko ymmärtää digitaalista teknologiaa yhteiskunnallisesta näkökulmasta? Nappaa kuunteluun Digitaalisen yhteiskunnan rajapinnoilla MOOC-kurssimme luennot! Myös opintopisteet tarjolla HY:n avoimen kautta jos suorittaa kurssiin littyvät tehtävät.

rajapinta.co/2024/05/21/k...

21.01.2026 08:49 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Suomen vaalidata siirtyy Amazonin pilveen – USA:n vaalivilppiepäilyjä tutkinut asiantuntija varoittaa riskeistä Ensimmäistä kertaa vaaleissa ehdokas- ja äänestäjätiedot sekä tuloslaskenta siirtyvät Suomen rajojen ulkopuolelle. Tutkija ei käyttäisi pilvipalvelua kansallisen turvallisuuden asioissa.

Viime päivien uutisen valossa olisikohan nyt niin että tätäkin päätöstä voisi harkita uudelleen.

yle.fi/a/74-20191502

18.01.2026 13:11 👍 313 🔁 71 💬 11 📌 9

Mut en tiedä saako tuollaisella aineistolla julkaisua kasaan. Itse näkisin tämän enemmänkin esivaiheena ennen kuin tehdään varsinainen kyselytutkimus edustavalla aineistolla.

17.01.2026 11:40 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mittarin validointiin aineisto kuin aineisto on ihan riittävä, kunhan on tarpeeksi populaa ja hajontaa. Sama juttu kun hesarilla on vaalikoneväittämät ennalta lukijoilla testattavana. Se antaa osviittaa, et toimivatko ne odotetusti.

Mut joo ei mitään populaatiopohjaisia päätelmiä voi tehdä.

17.01.2026 11:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Apologies for being self-referential but

15.01.2026 12:57 👍 262 🔁 85 💬 11 📌 5

Tähän liittyen ennakoidaan, että laitaoikeisto tulee viemään tilan maltilliselta oikeistolta, ellei ihmeitä tapahdu.

Voi olla, että maltillinen oikeisto tekee itse muodonmuutoksen tai sitten tulee vaaleissa syrjäytetyksi.

bsky.app/profile/tabo...

15.01.2026 13:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kaikki riippuu yhdenaikaisuudesta.

Instituutioita rakennetaan, jos vallassa perinteisiä keskusta-vas/oik puolueita yli Atlantin samaan aikaan.

Laitaoikeiston hallitessa symbolista tukea annetaan hengen heimolaisille, mutta varsinaisia liittokuntia vältellään ja instuutioista irtaudutaan.

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15.01.2026 13:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Tällaista maailmaa Trump todella tavoittelee

Oli kyllä hyvää pohdintaa.

Itselle jäi mieleen ennakointi uudesta maailman järjestyksestä, jossa jakolinja ei ole EU vs. USA, vaan maiden sisällä laitaoikeisto vs. perinteiset puolueet.

Lopputuloksena kaoottinen maailma.

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www.hs.fi/kuuntele/aud...

15.01.2026 13:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Within the next decade the radical right is going to be the main force on the right in Europe (national and EU level). This includes far-right parties and formerly centre-right parties shifting their position. Moderate conservatism and Christian democracy will largely disappear on the right. 1/

15.01.2026 12:35 👍 147 🔁 73 💬 2 📌 9
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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

This is a belated post about our paper in @poqjournal.bsky.social.

We analyzed 100 survey experiments fielded by TESS (tessexperiments.org), using only information from the proposals to identify intended hypotheses.

Here are some of the things we learned:

14.01.2026 19:17 👍 50 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 4
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Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread:

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...

08.01.2026 09:27 👍 124 🔁 45 💬 7 📌 0
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📣 Kicking off 2026 with a new article in @eepolitics.bsky.social!

When do voters with left-wing economic views support populist radical right parties?

Many supporters of 🇵🇱 PiS are left-authoritarians (left-wing econ & authoritarian socio-cult views)... 1/4 👇

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EISET...

07.01.2026 11:40 👍 30 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 2