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Ryan Bakker

@rbakker.bsky.social

Comparative Politics at University of Sharjah. Surveyor of Experts: chesdata.eu. Ms. Winifred's valet.

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The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
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14.08.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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A global scale of economic left-right party positions: cross-national and cross-expert perceptions of party placements | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

With much thanks to @ndelacerda.bsky.social & a great @chesdata.bsky.social team, we have a new JOP article (early access) comparing expert evaluations of party positions from Europe to Israel to North America to Australia. doi.org/10.1086/736578

19.05.2025 13:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Thanks to @rdassonneville.bsky.social @jonathanpolk.bsky.social @rbakker.bsky.social @jellekoedam.bsky.social @jillesheppard.bsky.social @roizur.bsky.social and Patrick Leslie!

19.05.2025 13:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm excited to share these new data! CHES 2024 is live!

03.03.2025 13:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a great collection. Itโ€™s a real honor for our (@rbakker.bsky.social & @jonathanpolk.bsky.social) paper on multidimensional incongruence and political disaffection to be included alongside some modern classics!

30.01.2025 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The inverted U persists in Western Europe.

Also, new @chesdata.bsky.social coming to a website near you (www.chesdata.eu) soon!!

27.11.2024 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

โšกโœจNew expert survey data โšกโœจ We are very happy to finally publish the second wave of the Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey! The first wave was downloaded almost 7000 times, we hope the second wave will also be a success!

Please spread the word! Reposts are very much appreciated!

21.11.2024 12:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 75    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Bluesky is great, but I kind of miss being called 'cuck'.

21.11.2024 15:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If party positions are more your thing, come see me present on Thursday am the latest paper with @rbakker.bsky.social & @jonathanpolk.bsky.social on which dimension immigrations fits into (spoiler: it's all of the dimensions). #mpsa2024

02.04.2024 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine - Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Ryan Bakker, Seth Jolly, Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Ma... Support for Ukraine against Russian aggression has been strong across Europe, but it is far from uniform. An expert survey of the positions taken by political p...

The @chesdata.bsky.social ches_data
team is happy to present our newest paper in
EUP: The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine.

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

#polisky #EUsky

18.03.2024 11:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Polisky and others...

The 2024 Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis is now accepting applications. We have a great selection of classes ranging from introductory to cutting edge.

Come join us at the Best Nerdy Summer Camp!

See: www.essexsummerschool.com

#ESS2024 #WeAreEssex

06.03.2024 12:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The 2024 Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis will soon be open for applications. We've got a great program of classes and, of course, our world famous social program as well. Lots of new and exciting stuff going on. Watch this space for updates.

#ESS2024 #BestNerdySummerCamp

21.02.2024 12:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

If you use CHES data in your polisky research or public facing work, let us know and we will share it and repost it!

13.02.2024 12:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Speed CHES โ€” Chapel Hill Expert Survey

The 2023 @ches_data on political partiesโ€™ support for Ukraine after Russiaโ€™s full-scale invasion is freely available for download on our website at chesdata.eu/speedches. We thank the hundreds of respondents that provided their time and expertise, making this dataset possible.

05.02.2024 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Chapel Hill Expert Survey

We're new to bluesky! We will use this page to publicize our polisky work at chesdata.eu

12.02.2024 18:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
CHES-Israel โ€” Chapel Hill Expert Survey

The new @chesdata.bsky.social-Israel team,
@rbakker.bsky.social & @roizur.bsky.social, announce the release of the first CHES-Israel dataset at chesdata.eu/chesisrael. Their paper discussing the data is out now at Party Politics: orcid.org/0000-0003-19...

12.02.2024 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
The Israeli parties' positions in comparative perspective - Roi Zur, Ryan Bakker, 2023 The multidimensionality of the Israeli political system is expected given Israelโ€™s electoral system and cleavage structure. We introduce a new dataset and measu...

Ryan Bakker (@rbakker.bsky.social) and I are thrilled to announce the publication of the Israeli version of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey. We have two waves (post-21 & 22 elections) of party positions across all of your favourite CHES items plus a few Israel-specific ones.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...

29.11.2023 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Well, this is a more pleasant space.

28.09.2023 10:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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