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A blog post giving a more thorough take on survey experiments and the credibility revolution: cyrussamii.com?p=4168

This is an interesting paper.

I continue to sense that we as a field have concluded, either you have an identification strategy as defined here, or you don’t have a valid causal claim. And that is really not true.

When and why protests reinforce institutional politics on the far right? "Protests of the Far Right" ed. with @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it is under contract @oxfordunipress.bsky.social with a terrific lineup of contributors who helped us covering & comparing 14 countries.

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Studienzeit - Fadenzeit. Erst gilt das angesichts der historischen Bedeutung des heutigen Tages, denn heute vor genau 53 Jahren fand die erste vorgezogene Bundestagswahl EVER statt. Noch dazu waren erstmals auch 18-, 19- u 20-Jährige dabei. Grund genug für eine Jugendwahlstudie zur BTW25.

New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉

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We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?

The next green electoral wave in Europe will be powered by housing grievances. May this be one way in which European Greens shed some of their endemic NIMBYism.

I wish more schools had money to organize book workshops. I have attended one today that was intellectually so stimulating. As any good book workshop, it will not only make the manuscript that was being discussed better, but it will make the future work of all the participants better.

‼️Last chance to submit your paper or panel proposal to EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is TODAY!

Don’t miss out - it will be full of great political science and fun social events! 👩‍🏫🥳

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Congrats Nena!! I am very happy for you!

Precarity and political protest How does precarity in the labour market affect political engagement? Considering the negative impact of unemployment and atypical employment on turnout, existing research suggests that precarity de...

The mobilising effect of grievances outweighs the demobilising effect of scarce resources, and contradicts widespread assumptions about the limited electoral benefits of representing precarious workers www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you know anyone considering doing a PhD in political science or sociology, encourage them to apply to the EUI PhD program and join the institute's landmark 50th cohort of PhD researchers in the SPS Department! Applications from Central and Eastern Europe are particularly welcome!

This is very useful, thanks a lot! It's a small thing, but perhaps you could invert the scale for GAL/TAN so the TAN parties have smaller values. I am so used to seeing radical right parties at the bottom of the figure, rather than at the top, that it always takes me a minute to adjust.

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I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

Today is the day 🎁

The #dsa regime for researchers to get access to platform data to study societal impact and risks starts TODAY.

This has been a loooooong time coming. And the proof of the pudding will be in the eating …

#dataaccess #commsky

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Next week my partner, Lenka Vrablikova, will become a liver donor to her identical twin Katka. They are raising money to cover the costs this life-saving surgery . Please donate if you are able to:

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I'm very excited, extremely grateful and deeply honoured to receive the Best Dissertation Award from the German Political Science Association(DVPW)!

Civil Society, Cleavages, and Political Parties in Western Europe CDDRL Research-in-Brief [4-minute read]

Our recent paper on civil society and cleavage formation (w @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social) was featured in the Research-in-Brief series at @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social. Check out their summary of the project here 😊 cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/news/civil-s...

Analysis of references between 1990 to 2024 shows that there is a decline in book referencing (52% to 28%) in polsci journals 😮

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We see this with the Gen Z protests too: politicisation lowers participation

❗Takeaway for movements in hybrid/ non-democracies:
overt party alignment and nationalized conflict frames can backfire if they sap efficacy beliefs and signal thin public backing. Strategies that build solidarity and increase perceived efficacy may counteract this.

Why? 🤔
🔎 We examine this question with a causal mediation model.
⛔ It is not because people feel much riskier joining.
➡️ The demobilizing path runs mainly through lower perceived efficacy, especially identity-building/solidarity efficacy, and lower expected public support.

We find that more politicization 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 the willingness to protest.
👉 In the “highly politicized” condition, 48.0% were above the participation midpoint vs 57.8% under moderate politicization (−9.8 pp).
So, ramping up party cues and conflict can demobilize. 

We ran a pre-registered survey experiment (Aug 2024, N=1,004).

We vary protest politicization along three levers:
1️⃣ salience,
2️⃣ polarization, and
3️⃣ actors involved (parties/leaders).

Our outcome is the willingness to take part in protest actions.

The Effect of Politicization on Protest Participation in Non‐Democracies: The Case of Hungary Politicization—the expansion of conflict in the political system—is often assumed to be associated with high levels of participation. Yet, this is not necessarily the case, especially in contexts of.....

🔔 New paper with @susanszky.bsky.social in Social Science Quarterly: The Effect of Politicization on Protest Participation in Non-Democracies: The Case of Hungary 🔔

We test whether politicization mobilizes or demobilizes partization in an autocratizing context

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/ssqu...

Last week, I successfully defended my PhD thesis on "Dynamics of Far-Right Transnationalization" @sns.it.

Many thanks to my supervisors, Manuela Caiani and Hans-Jörg Trenz, and the members of the examination committee, Annett Heft, @aurelmondon.bsky.social, Andrea Salvini, and Marco Deseriis!

Congratulations!!! Very happy for you! :)

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