Mathilde M. van Ditmars

Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments Recent research shows a growing rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behavior, which has given currency to expressions like “places that don'…

New paper @electoralstudies.bsky.social

With @gricoc.bsky.social and @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social we study the presence of legislators with urban and rural backgrounds in national parliaments

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Looking back on an eventful and inspiring #EPSA2025 conference, enjoyed meeting old and new friends & colleagues! No conference without conference selfies! @bertous.bsky.social

Did you know that @epssnet.bsky.social will honor your #EPSA membership? Sign up today!

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That said, your membership dues are staying with EPSA & EPSS is starting with zero financial funds. So if you can, consider paying for an EPSS membership to help us get off the ground.

Madrid, I'm ready! #EPSA

Balance of my final day of teaching for this term:
- taught class with bird poo in my hair 💩
- at the end of the class got flowers from my students 😍

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"

And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

Croatia is officially joining the EUI! 🎉

Today, the EUI's High Council voted unanimously to approve Croatia’s accession as the 24th member of the EUI. ✅🤝

This milestone further strengthens the EUI’s mission of fostering academic excellence and #EuropeanIntegration through #research and #education.

I am incredibly proud that my book, co-authored with Andrea Aldrich, is published. Using an original party leadership dataset from 11 parliamentary democracies, Andrea and I show that women candidates face a glass ceiling for leadership and quickly sink once elected (the quicksand theory).

The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media - Volume 119 Issue 2

From our new issue: "The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment
Media " by EUNJI KIM (@eunjikim_media) and SHAWN PATTERSON Jr. #APSRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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***vacature voor promovendus***
We zijn gestart met een grootschalige studie naar burgerschapsonderwijs en burgerschapscompetenties van leerlingen in het po, vo en go (Peil.Burgerschap en ICCS2027). Binnen deze studie is er ook een plek voor een promovendus.

📄 @fgilardi.bsky.social created this template for writing abstracts several years ago, and I’ve tried to follow Fabrizio‘s suggestions ever since.

PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...

It's interesting how the First Gen freqs are the other way around compared to Gender. And of course key question to be answered in the next decade is whether those traditionally underrepresented will stay on in academia or not, contributing to more diversity also at higher positions.

Interesting!! I would have expected women to be more likely to have signed up for this but without population data we will never know... 🥲

📣 Political communication scholars: I need your recommendations !

🌎 Good textbook (accessible to 2nd year BA students) covering the main *Media & Politics* theories and concepts, ideally with a European focus?

🤡 This is remarkably hard to find, or I might be looking in the wrong places...!?

I really like this. I am curious about the gendered nature of responses of the buddies, if any. Do you know % of men & women who received the invitation to be buddy?

If you happen to have capacity for an extra first-time attendee do drop me a DM. :)

So everyone in my network has been already reposting this, and with good reason! Incredibly insightful and helpful.

Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Associate - Climate Politics (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)

🚨Climate politics job alert🚨

Interested in the opportunity to focus on your own climate politics research project for 1 year in a stimulating and supportive environment at a leading university in Berlin?

Open to postdocs & graduates.

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Dutch elections likely October 29 🗳️🇳🇱

Why only almost 5 months from today?

1. Dutch regulations allow for new parties still to register
2. Dutch abroad voters have a 75 day time period
3. 75 days are felt as too little for organising and staffing
4. Dutch parties take time to organise party lists

Kunnen we de duur inkorten voordat na de val van een kabinet verkiezingen worden gehouden?
stukroodvlees.nl/waarom-duurt...
Ja, maar niet kostenloos:
1 Minder rekening houden met nieuwe partijen die zich nog willen inschrijven
2 Minder rekening houden met kiezers uit buitenland
3 Meer ondersteuning

💅We do not find evidence that it is these direct experiences in education, work, or outside of marriage that drive women to supporting the left.

👭 Rather, women with different political views have different life trajectories in these social statuses.

#PoliSci #gendergap

🥳We got page nrs!

🤓In this CPS article, Rosie Shorrocks and I test mechanisms that according to modernization theory can explain modern gender gaps.

🧐Our results imply that women with different political views select into different life trajectories - in education, work, out of marriage.

#polisci

Here we go again, this is such a pervasive myth. It is not true, not for the PvdA and not for many other social democratic parties. On this topic there is so much reseach. I highly recommend the following reads in English and Dutch ….

And this one! TRANSFORMATION
OF THE LEFT
The Myth of Voter Losses to the Radical Right library.fes.de/pdf-files/id...

Do we know what left and right means in the South Korean context?

Uggghhh

2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior 2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices!

Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

Quick reminder of Wilders PVV electoral trajectory

look at the growth in Disney World ticket prices over time