Henrik Bech Seeberg

Thanks so much for coming and giving a great talk and great feedback on the dissertation. I much enjoyed it!

Link to the dissertation:

politica.dk/politicas-ph...

Such a pleasure and learning experience to have Federica in Aarhus yesterday to examine Karl Møller’s dissertation together with Wiebke Junk. Thanks for coming!

Great discussions on a great dissertation.

I special day for me as the main supervisor!

Figure A.1. Mean shares of Austrian parties (issues 1–6). Source: Own graph. Note: AEEC: agriculture, environment, energy, climate; DDFS: development, defence, foreign, security; DAI: domestic, asylum, immigration.

Figure A.3. Mean shares of German parties (issues 1–6). Source: Own graph. Note: AEEC: agriculture, environment, energy, climate; DDFS: development, defence, foreign, security; DAI: domestic, asylum, immigration.

Figure A.2. Mean shares of Austrian parties (issues 7–12). Source: Own graph. Note: ITD: infrastructure, transportation, digitization; WFH: welfare, family, health.

Figure A.4. Mean shares of German parties (issues 7–12). Source: Own graph. Note: ITD: infrastructure, transportation, digitization; WFH: welfare, family, health.

Subnational party organisations stick to the issue ownership of their national parties (we expand the data by @henrikseeberg.bsky.social to the subnational level).

For example, Greens devote more attention to the issue "agriculture, environment, energy, climate" than other parties in 🇦🇹 & 🇩🇪.

Great work!

Hope to see you in Konstanz for CAP and cold German beers!

That was on my wish list, and still is! Just had too much going on already.

Thanks European Inst at LSE @lse-ei.bsky.social for a great time!!

Above all, I enjoyed showing & sharing the city I love w my parents, kids & @mbechseeberg.bsky.social. It has a beer tap, coffee brewer & play ground on every corner not to mention its outstanding museums.

I was lucky to present my research at European Inst. LSE, Nuffield College in Oxford & Essex, & was spoiled w great feedback, coffees, lunch+dinners w @tabouchadi.bsky.social Rachel Bernard, Jane Green, Lawrence Ezrow, @dianebolet.bsky.social & @roizur.bsky.social.

What a community to be part of!

Such a privilege to be back as visiting fellow at the place I did my masters 15 years ago. 2/

A truly amazing time & research stay w my family in London is soon coming to an end. Incredibly grateful for warm hospitality & lots of fun lunches, coffees and discussions at LSE with @miguelpereira.bsky.social, @sarahobolt.bsky.social,
@florianfoos.bsky.social. 1/

Some thoughts and pointers on the upcoming German elections on Sunday. Nearly all polling institutes have released final polls in the last days that show a very similar picture. It is nearly certain that the CDU/CSU will come out on top and Friedrich Merz is going to be the next Chancellor. 1/

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Important position to fill at EJPR

This is a pretty cool study! 😉

Our article “Which Information Do Politicians Pay Attention To? Evidence from a Field Experiment and Interviews” (w/ @henrikseeberg.bsky.social ) is part of the latest @bjpols.bsky.social issue.

This was such a fun project to work on, and I learned a lot from it.

OA Link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Thanks for the kind words, Hugo.

Indeed very exciting to see this paper on youth wing influence in political parties online at Journal of Politics.

First output from the 4-year YOUTHPOL project on the same topic. Much more to come..

We all know the amazing work of Weber and De Sio on ‘Issue Yield’. But few use it concretely beyond the appealing logic of bridge issue to cater to core & potential voters. I provide a simpler & more applicable way forward on this logic by using a split in issue ownership to select campaign issue👇🏼

Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

On 8-9 April, I will be organizing LoPaPol, a conference specifically on Local Party Politics in Leiden. If you are working on research on the role of parties in local politics, please come and visit us! fd24.formdesk.com/universiteit...

Yet, only a minor part of issue ownership is endogenous & we gain analytical leverage by splitting issue ownership into an endogenous and non-endogenous part. See thread 👆👇

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Recent research questions political parties' issue ownership & its use to understand parties, voters & elections because a person's issue ownership choice correlates with his party preference..

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Thanks a ton to Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Rune Stubager, Rune Slothuus, Jonas Lefevere, Stefaan Walgrave, Rens Vliegenthart, Frederik Hjort, Sofia Marini, and Stuart Soroka for great comments on previous versions of the WP

Link to WP (in the working paper section): www.henrikbechseeberg.com/publications

Publications by Henrik Bech Seeberg Publications and research output by Henrik Bech Seeberg

This study might help scholars further push and sharpen our understanding of issue ownership, issue competition and parties issue strategies; provide a better understanding of elections and vote transfers between parties; and help parties pick the right campaign issues..

..much greater on the environment, families and the EU (core < potential) than on the economy & health.

Finally, issue competition is less dynamic in the US (core > potential) than in Western Europe.

Interestingly, the core-to-potential ratio differs substantially across issues, parties, and countries.

Social democrats e.g. generally have a firm hand on their voters, but limited growth potential.

The electoral growth opportunities for parties across issues is generally..

..in 14 countries over 50 years using 100+ national election studies.

This matters to parties' issue strategies:

Socialist parties e.g. should emphasize welfare, unemployment and the economy to target core voters, and housing, agriculture, and welfare to attract potential voters!

vote for the party, or 'issue potential' that consists of potential voters who find the party most competent but do not vote for the party.

So the party might emphasize an issue to attract new voters but in fact only talk to core voters.

I use 4,000,000 obs. to split issue ownership on 20 issues..

..parties pursuing their issue ownerships unknowingly often target either their core voters or their potential voters.

In almost half of the 4,500 issue ownerships in my data, issue ownership is either entirely 'issue core' & consists of core voters who find the party most competent &..