Jana Belschner

Gen-Z Turnout in a Compulsory System: ‪@ammassarisofia.bsky.social‬, Ferran Martinez i Coma & @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social examine what drives Gen-Z electoral behaviour by surveying them about their '22 AU federal election choices. Read OPEN ACCESS: https://buff.ly/3CAvTvp

@uoypolitics.bsky.social

Young Voters, Abstainers and Unregistered: Generation Z Turnout in a Compulsory System - Sofia Ammassari, Ferran Martinez i Coma, Duncan McDonnell, 2025 While young people’s electoral behaviour in voluntary voting systems has been extensively studied, we know little about this in compulsory systems. To investiga...

Our article on Gen-Z turnout in Australia (w/ Ferran Martinez i Coma & @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social) is now out (open access) in Political Studies 🎉

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A quick thread 🧵:

Beyond Gender: Exploring the Intersectional Dynamics in Political Interest Among Youth | Article | Politics and Governance Gema García-Albacete, Lidia Núñez, David Sánchez, Simone Abendschön, Philipp Kleer

Our first publication from the @g-epicproject.bsky.social project is now available online, open access. Co-authored with a great team :) www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

- Dette er kommet for å bli Høyrebølgen blant norsk ungdom er viktig, sier forsker. Hun spår varig effekt for norsk politikk.

Høyrebølgen blant unge gutter har kommet for å bli sier Sampols @janabelschner.bsky.social til TV 2. Utviklingen er viktig, fordi de politiske grunnholdningene vi utvikler sent i tenårene, ofte varer livet ut. Høyredreiningen kan derfor få varig effekt for norsk politikk.
www.tv2.no/.../dette-er...

The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research - Nature Human Behaviour Across five pre-registered studies, Koetke et al. find that perceptions of scientists’ intellectual humility positively affect the perceived trustworthiness of scientists and their research.

We don’t need better stories. We need to be humble. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Representerer vi fremtiden? Generasjonskløfter i politisk deltakelse og representasjon" @janabelschner.bsky.social (@sampol.bsky.social) er gjest på #AkademiskMorgenkaffe på onsdag. Les mer og sjekk ut programmet for #AkademiskMorgenkaffe i ukene som kommer her: www.uib.no/svf/175014/a...

People worldwide tend to believe that their societies are more meritocratic than they actually are. We propose the belief in meritocracy is widespread because it is rooted in simple, seemingly obvious causal–explanatory intuitions. Our proposal suggests solutions for debunking the myth of meritocracy and increasing support for equity-oriented policies.

Why is the belief in meritocracy so pervasive?

New article argues that the dose–response schema for causes and effects may encourage us to believe that what we get out of life depends on what we put in:

"More effort = more success!"

doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

#SocialPsyc #CogPsyc #AcademicSky 🧪

People don't really think any of this! Overestimates of small proportions are a quirk of general innumeracy, not genuine misperceptions.

See research by @brianguay.bsky.social et al:
—PNAS forthcoming: www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2...
—Psychonomic Bulletin 2017: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Wealth Accumulation: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Has the wealth boom been good or bad news for economies and the rest of society?

While ‘Good’ wealth contributes to the common good, ‘Bad’ wealth occurs when disproportionate and unmerited power is used to seize a larger slice of the economic pie at the expense of others.

Stewart Lansley explores the impact of wealth accumulation.

♀️Do citizens evaluate quota and non-quota politicians similarly?

➡️Using a vignette experiment in Morocco, @cbarns.bsky.social A. Blackman @shalaby12.bsky.social find no evidence that quota-elected women are viewed as less competent than other politicians www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Picture of the main campus of the LMU Munich with students sitting on the grass and talking

Sociologists working on inequality:

Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)

EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...

Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

Public agreement with misinformation about wind farms - Nature Communications Six surveys show substantial public agreement with misinformation about wind farms. Agreement with diverse contrarian claims is best predicted by participants’ worldviews, most notably the tendency to...

Kärnten stimmt gegen Windräder, Weidel will sie alle abreißen... Warum soviel Ablehnung, obwohl Windkraft für die Klimaziele wichtig wäre? Eine kürzliche Studie zeigt: Dahinter steckt oft ein Mix aus Falschinformationen und Verschwörungsmentalität: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

5. Promovieren braucht Zeit. Erstverträge für Promovierende müssen deshalb eine Laufzeit von mindestens vier Jahren haben.

Und bitte: Schluss mit der Vollzeitarbeit auf Teilzeitstellen wegen "Wettbewerbssituation"! #IchBinHanna #HannaWählt2025

@amreibahr.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social

Glad to learn of this, & to see it refer to the classic Cook & Farewell paper on multiplicity in #ClinicalTrials. People need to know that corrections are sometimes appropriate for testing a union (H1 OR H2) but not for testing H1 just because you test H2 a minute later. #StatsSky #rct #Statistics

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📅 Deadline: 7 Feb 25
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Chart showing proportion of the population aged 65 and above, compared to the proportion of social care requests not resulting in a service (left panel) and social care spending per person aged 65 and above (right panel): England, 2023 and 2022-23.

It's fair to expect that places with more older people need more adult social care services to support them.

However, evidence suggests that social care spending on older adults isn’t evenly distributed across the country after accounting for age.

Maps of municipality-level election results

My fantastic co-author Julian Voss has meticulously compiled municipality-level election results for Post-WW2 Western German elections (1949-1969) from historical records. What a great resource! Read the paper, use the data: osf.io/preprints/os...

Great upcoming seminar on gender inequalities in Academia organised by @geypog.bsky.social !!
GenderSky Polisky

We have a forthcoming BJPS paper and a new dataset on the gender, education, and occupational backgrounds of lawmakers in the world's democracies!
Paper: www.noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf
Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Here's one application . . . (1/2)

Daily Caller says that BlueSky “has already devolved into a deranged playground for the terminally online, the kind of liberals who might actually be insane. The kind who identify as autistic, transgender, polyamorous allies to pedophiles.”

Cool stuff.

Btw: most CT children are in childcare deserts. Stay tuned as we (ie UConn group) finish up this paper.

Wrong Side of History | Ed West | Substack It's Ed West's sub stack. Click to read Wrong Side of History, by Ed West, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Follow me here for a more centre-left friendly version of my Twitter takes, the AJ+ to my Twitter account's Al Jazeera Arabic. My substack - sadly suppressed by King Elon - can be found at www.edwest.co.uk

Hi. We’re on Bluesky! Neil and Chris xx

CNN chart large differences in public support for mass deportation, depending on how the question is asked in surveys.

You probably already know that question wording matters a lot in polling. But this chart from @aedwardslevy.bsky.social at @cnn.com underscores the point: Public support for mass deportation varies from 62% to 33%, depending on how the question is asked. www.cnn.com/2024/11/17/p...

UK voters support reforms to make parliament more family friendly Parliaments often overlook MPs' family needs, and this poses challenges for recruiting and retaining diverse politicians. Yet, argues Jessica Smith, recent research in the UK reveals that voters don’t...

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parliaments often overlook MPs' family needs & this poses challenges for diverse recruitment & retention.
🤰 Yet, based on EJPR research, @jesssmith.bsky.social reveals that voters don’t penalise MPs for taking parental leave; women MPs even gain more support as mothers.
👉 bit.ly/4fSU6Ly

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Millennials and Gen Z less in favor of gender equality than older generations Ipsos’ annual International Women’s Day finds 60% of Gen Z men across 31 countries think women’s equality discriminates against men.

Back in March, Ipsos released its annual Women's Day poll, which showed that roughly half of American men--and even larger percentages of Gen-Z and Millennial men--are skeptical of women's rights and blame efforts toward gender equality for the struggles of men. 🧵1/
www.ipsos.com/en-us/millen...

Here's a list of the political scientists working on climate I could find on here. Let me know if I missed you!
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Research article entitled "When Councillors Sexually Harass: Legislative Sanctions and Gender-Based Violence in Canada’s Municipalities" by Tracey Raney, R. Michael McGregor and Cameron D. Anderson.

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 @traceyraney.bsky.social, Michael McGregor & Cameron Anderson look to non-partisan municipal elections in 🇨🇦 to understand the tolerance of sanctions for sexual harassment when partisanship is not at play.

🌟 #OpenAccess 🌟 polisky gendersky

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