European Political Science Review

🔮 Populist voters are unhappy – and this has consequences for populism research Do people support populism and nativism because they are simply unhappy with their lives? Annika Lindholm and Lauri Rapeli call for more overarching psychological approaches to understanding the…

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🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.55

Annika Lindholm & Lauri Rapeli argue that everyday unhappiness acts as a psychological cue shaping political preferences and should be a central focus in #Populism research

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🎉 Get ready to mark #InternationalWomensDay with us!

🌟 Over the coming week, we're celebrating women shaping #PolSci – and reflecting on how supporting gender parity strengthens our global research community

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🔮 Populist attitudes as thermometers of democratic quality 🌡️ Populist attitudes are responsive to perceived improvements in the democratic system. Marie-Isabel Theuwis and Rosa Kindt argue that this makes them a useful means to measure democratic quality

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🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.84

✅#Populist attitudes are responsive to perceived improvements in the democratic system

Marie Theuwis & Rosa Kindt argue that this makes them a useful means to assess democratic quality using EPSR research by C. R. Kaltwasser & @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social

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This month, we’re sharing some love with @ecprtheloop.bsky.social by spotlighting blog posts that connect directly with EPSR research.

Keep an eye out for our 🌀 posts throughout March and check out our archive too!

European Political Science Review: Volume 18 - Issue 1 | Cambridge Core Cambridge Core - European Political Science Review - Volume 18 - Issue 1

That is all form the latest issue of European Political Science Research!

Find papers 📰 covering #MiniPublics, #Trust, #Attitudes and more #OpenAccess now!

Lobbying coalitions and their determinants: a systematic literature review | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Lobbying coalitions and their determinants: a systematic literature review - Volume 18 Issue 1

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Why do interest groups team up? 🧠

Andrea Pritoni, Alberto Bitonti & Giuseppe Montalbano show that coalition-building is driven more by shared beliefs and issue importance than by lack of resources 🌍️

Ingroup and outgroup effects on party placement perceptions | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Ingroup and outgroup effects on party placement perceptions - Volume 18 Issue 1

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Why do different groups see the same political parties so differently?

Ingrid Mauerer & M. Socorro Puy use evidence from the Basque Country to show that social identities, especially national identity and religion, strongly shape how people perceive where parties stand. 🧩

The democracy falling narrative: debunking stereotypes about democratic deconsolidation in the EU | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core The democracy falling narrative: debunking stereotypes about democratic deconsolidation in the EU - Volume 18 Issue 1

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Is public opinion turning reactionary? 🤔

L.J.Brunkert, B.Puranen, A.Turska-Kawa & C.Welzel find no evidence that #Voters in Europe have become more polarized or anti-democratic in ways that explain the rise of the far right using survey data

Far-right against green: the re-emergence of geographically defined voting patterns and the new environment cleavage in Western Europe | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Far-right against green: the re-emergence of geographically defined voting patterns and the new environment cleavage in Western Europe - Volume 18 Issue 1

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Far-right against green 🌳

@dafnoukos.bsky.social @chvrakopoulos.bsky.social & C.Arndt find that rural groups are more likely to push back against green policy as they 'lose' compared to cities, highlighting how climate issues can/are creating new social & geographic divides

Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior - Volume 18 Issue 1

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@cvalebeek.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social use survery data from the Netherlands to find that #Trust variability may be just as strong a predictor as #Trust levels in #VotingBehaviour 🗳️

Perceived legitimacy as a third dimension of bicameralism: Czech senators versus the Czech general public | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Perceived legitimacy as a third dimension of bicameralism: Czech senators versus the Czech general public - Volume 18 Issue 1

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How do we feel about #Bicameralism? 🤷‍♂️

By interviewing Czech senators and ordinary Czech citizens, @sgparliaments.bsky.social's Jan Hruška addresses how differently the upper and lower chambers are actually viewed and identifies influential factors

Uncertainty and political elites’ behavior: introducing the uncertainty grid | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Uncertainty and political elites’ behavior: introducing the uncertainty grid - Volume 18 Issue 1

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Barbara Vis, from @ecprpublicpolicy.bsky.social, & Olaf van der Veen develop an 'uncertainty grid' to map phenomena, showing its application during the #COVID-19🦠 pandemic and highlighting how it can be used to guess the behaviour of political elites 🗺️

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The would-be autocrats’ toolkit: what do incumbents do when they undermine democracy? | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core The would-be autocrats’ toolkit: what do incumbents do when they undermine democracy? - Volume 18 Issue 1

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The would-be #Autocrats’ toolkit 🛠️

@jmvanlit.bsky.social & Carolien van Ham analyse incumbent-led autocratization between 1990 & 2023, producing a toolkit allowing a ore systematic study of #Autocratization

Which mini-publics do they favour? A European experiment on Politicians’ attitudes towards mini-publics’ design | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Which mini-publics do they favour? A European experiment on Politicians’ attitudes towards mini-publics’ design - Volume 18 Issue 1

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Who's there?! 👀 🔍️

Rodrigo Ramis-Moyano of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social, Emma Lancha-Hernández & Sara Pasadas-del-Amo look at conjoin evidence across 5 countries to see which #MiniPublics are favoured, showing preferences for mixed deliberation and concerns about scaling up

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ECPR's journals now Open Access with Cambridge University Press European Consortium for Political Research

For a while now 🕰️ our latest articles have been open access on Cambridge Core — so they’re easy to share with students, incorporate into teaching, or circulate among colleagues, all fully peer-reviewed and free to read 🥳

Lost autonomy triggers and the rise of secessionism | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Lost autonomy triggers and the rise of secessionism - Volume 18 Issue 1

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What triggers secessionist waves? 🏄️

Using synthetic control models and process tracing, @felixschulte.bsky.social, @mscanti.bsky.social & Maria Ackrén show that sudden losses of autonomy were decisive in the Faroes (1992) and Catalonia (2010)

European Political Science Review: Volume 18 - Issue 1 | Cambridge Core Cambridge Core - European Political Science Review - Volume 18 - Issue 1

The latest issue of European Political Science Research is out now!

With work from our authors covering #MiniPublics, #Trust, #Attitudes and more!

Keep an eye out 👀 for more of 18.1💡

Open research funding open access publication Welcome to Cambridge Core

Wondering how Open Access can be funded? 🤔

Through the @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org & ECPR partnership, EPSR authors benefit from guidance on OA funding routes, including institutional agreements 💰️

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ECPR's journals now Open Access with Cambridge University Press European Consortium for Political Research

✔ Global reach
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Our partnership with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org delivers all this—and more 👀

In situ or ex situ overseas climate adaptation? Public support for immigration and climate aid in the Netherlands | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core In situ or ex situ overseas climate adaptation? Public support for immigration and climate aid in the Netherlands

E.Holtmaat, @nives-dolsak.bsky.social & A.Prakash investigate response in the Netherlands when helping #GlobalSouth countries adapt to climate change, with contributing factors, including support for countries with strong trading ties 🤝 & a commitment to climate neutrality 🌈

ECPR's journals now Open Access with Cambridge University Press European Consortium for Political Research

2026 marks the start of a new chapter for ECPR 💜

We went Open Access with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org in 2024 — now other ECPR journals are following in our new strategic partnership.

We’ll be sharing what this means for readers, authors, and the global political science community.

The letter and the bond: coalitions, anti-coalitions, and the adoption of the coronabond in the European Union | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core The letter and the bond: coalitions, anti-coalitions, and the adoption of the coronabond in the European Union

Why did countries back shared EU debt during COVID-19🦠 after rejecting it in the euro crisis?

@tiagomramalho.bsky.social explains how a new “solidarity coalition” formed in 2020 and what it reveals about changing ideas of responsibility in the EU.

Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior

What happens when #Trust becomes volatile? 💥

@cvalebeek.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social use survey data from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 to analyse how #VotingBehaviour is impacted by three key components of #PoliticalTrust.

Find out what they are 👉 📖

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Blessing or curse? A critical review of the paradoxical consequences of direct public funding for political parties | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Blessing or curse? A critical review of the paradoxical consequences of direct public funding for political parties

Does #PublicMoney level the playing field or change it in unexpected ways? 💸

Fernando Casal Bértoa, William Horncastle & @sergiulipcean.bsky.social
examine the impact on competition, #PartyDevelopment, representation, and corruption. The findings are far from conclusive, raising key questions.

Ingroup and outgroup effects on party placement perceptions | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Ingroup and outgroup effects on party placement perceptions

Why do different groups see the same political parties so differently?

Ingrid Mauerer & M. Socorro Puy use evidence from the Basque Country to show that social identities, especially national identity and religion, strongly shape how people perceive where parties stand. 🧩

Lost autonomy triggers and the rise of secessionism | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Lost autonomy triggers and the rise of secessionism

Why do some autonomy disputes suddenly turn into secessionist explosions?💥

@felixschulte.bsky.social, @mscanti.bsky.social & Maria Ackrén show that it is not just institutions or long-term grievances, but also triggering events that signal a loss of autonomy and change everything.

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The drivers of resemblance in presidential regimes: explaining the conversion of pre-electoral coalitions into coalition cabinets | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core The drivers of resemblance in presidential regimes: explaining the conversion of pre-electoral coalitions into coalition cabinets

But what happens next? 🫱 🫲

@lucascoutoz.bsky.social uses a cross-case analysis of Latin American 🌎 cases to question why some governments closely follow their pre-electoral #Coalition agreements while others do not.

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🎄 Our team is taking a short break.

We’ll be back in the New Year—refreshed and ready to read more great research 🥳