Anne Rasmussen

📢 Call for papers!

We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London!

Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)

No fee, travel grants might become available!

Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026

6/6 🧵Can MPs read “the public”? In @thejop.bsky.social, @simonotjes.bsky.social & @annerasmussen.bsky.social compare MPs' estimates of public opinion with actual opinion on policy. They find reps project their own views onto the public, while business ties have little effect. doi.org/qm5q

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Breaking:

Danish elections March 24, 2026

This is the message from PM Mette Frederiksen to the leader of Danish Parliament. To make an announcement of special nature: calling elections 🗳️

#BorgenMoment for those following 🇩🇰 politics.

Time to reassess.

At the time of the Brexit vote, I thought that (at the aggregate level) the UK would be a little poorer but a little more sovereign. It’s now clear that the UK is quite a lot poorer, and only marginally more sovereign …

The impact at the individual level is much worse, too

Hartelijk gefeliciteerd, Tom! Happy to see this - also for 'Leiden' :-)

De symfonie van onvrede - Singel Uitgeverijen Catherine de Vries groeide op op een boerderij in Overijssel die al generaties in de familie was. Eind jaren tachtig veranderde dat leven ingrijpend: dalende prijzen, Europese regels en terughoudende ...

Precies over een maand, op 12 maart verschijnt mijn boek De symfonie van onvrede: De opmars van radicaal-rechts in Europa bij Querido:

www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/querido/boek...

Dit boek gaat me aan het hart en ik kom graag een lezing geven.

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Many congrats Tom! Happy to see this! 👏👏👏

📢 The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Tom Louwerse as Professor of Political Behaviour and Research Methods at the Institute of Political Science. 🔎

Read more: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...

📣 Call for Nominations: Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award
⏳ Deadline: February 27
📧 Email nominations to:
@jmcrosson.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @garlicksauce.bsky.social @shamiragelbman.bsky.social @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social

Do you know an emerging scholar who studies political organizations and parties who you think merits an award?

If so, send us your nominations!

Are the Politically Active Better Represented? - Political Behavior Political participation is considered an important path for people to influence politics. However, whether those who participate actually see more of their preferred policies implemented remains an op...

🧵I am happy to announce a new article in Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social, “Are the Politically Active Better Represented?”, co-authored with @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, and Anders Sundell.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover? A TikTok outage more likely explains recent anomalies – there’s no evidence of larger platform changes so far.

🌐 📲 With international collaborators, the Observatory’s director @andreucasas.bsky.social revisited recent “TikTok censorship” claims after the TikTok USDS takeover

➡️ Detailed information about the analysis available: goodauthority.org/news/was-the...

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🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs"
We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large
Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment - Volume 65 Issue 1

65.1 🦋

Who runs for political office and who doesn’t? 🤷

These authors 🧵👇️ show how personality traits, especially honesty and humility, shape citizens’ political ambition, answering why recruitment matters in cross-national study ✍️

🔗 buff.ly/Sc9yPf1

Anticipating nightmare issues: explaining the timing of negative agenda-setting by interest groups This paper investigates the timing of interest groups’ negative agenda-setting efforts. Some organizations lobby proactively to prevent their ‘nightmare’ issues from reaching the formal policy agen...

⏱️ @frederikstevens.bsky.social examines when interest groups mobilise to keep “nightmare” issues off the EU agenda.

⏳ Survey data on 485 EU-level groups shows negative agenda-setting is about timing, not just mobilisation 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨

7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).

Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky

My colleague Kevin Munger asked me and a bunch of editors to sit and think through AI and peer review. Our take:

osf.io/9sxnc/files/...

We envision an increased (!) involvement of humans in the evaluation of social science.

You need to follow the application requirements in the ad, that's all :-) Hope this helps

Tom Louwerse Tom Louwerse, political scientist at Leiden University

Congrats @stefanmueller.bsky.social @tomlouwerse.nl et al. Excellent (!) news. Happy to read this

PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Programme - PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨We have a set of very nice PhD scholarships available at King’s College London’s Department of Political Economy 👨‍🎓 👩‍🏫

Candidates free to develop their own proposal within political science, communication, Econ etc.

⁉️Questions welcome

Happy if you have the option to share the call 🙏

🌟 PHD FELLOWSHIP ALERT! 🌟

I’m hiring 1 PhD fellow for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting 09/26! Great PhD community + int'l & supportive environment + FUN city. 💰for conferences + workshops! Lots of mentoring & career development opportunities! Deadline Jan 29th. Please apply!

New article: "Legislative Control and Partisan Disparities in Dyadic Representation" in @lsqjournal.bsky.social w/ Dan Butler and @steverogersinfo.bsky.social. GOP leadership doesn't shy away from policies where GOP constituencies disagree with the party platform, impairing dyadic representation!

Are we trapped in a vicious cycle of political incivility on social media? 🤳 Our new study suggests that we are, but primarily as elections approach. The more we like, comment or share uncivil political content, the more politicians use such rhetoric close to elections.
➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1532...

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world

A very short 🧵

Key chemical in dark chocolate may slow down ageing | King's College London A chemical found in dark chocolate could slow the rate of biological ageing.

Some good news finally ;-) 🍫💝

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/key-che...

Political communication research overwhelmingly relies on text. But parliamentary speech is multimodal! In our new @psrm.bsky.social article, Mathias Rask and I show that legislators also signal partisan conflict nonverbally— through changes in vocal pitch during floor speeches. 🧵 1/11 #polisky

Her er de nye borgmestre Nogle borgmestre beholder de gyldne kæder, mens andre skal give stafetten videre.

KV2025: 16 ud af 91 optalte borgmestre er kvinder. Ved
KV2021 var 21 ud af 98 borgmestre kvinder. Lad os se hvad der sker med de sidste poster... #dkpol #KV2025

www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Stunning. I didn’t quite see those colours but still had an amazing stay..

Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over meaning - Impact of Social Sciences Has the fetishization of quantitative tools obscured the wider context and meaning of in political science?

Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does.

Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine.

Put the tools to the use of theory.

Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment

🆕 What kind of personalities are drawn to politics? 🗳️
This cross-national study across 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇮🇱🇳🇱🇨🇭 explores #Representation and how honesty-humility and other HEXACO personality traits shape people’s ambition to run for office 🧵1/2

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