Andrew Barclay

New article in @journalrep.bsky.social on British Ethnic Minority Brexit Voter Attitudes to Immigration

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

🚨 Job Opportunity! 🚨 Applications are now open for a new 2.5-year postdoc at @edinburghpir.bsky.social to examine how parliaments gather, analyse and use different types of knowledge - see the full job listing here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Following the success of our spring seminar series earlier this year, we @psapolpsychology.bsky.social are running an autumn/winter series, with four online presentations by great scholars.

Please do register and come along to hear about some really fascinating research!

Article - Nuffield Politics Research Centre

NEW!
In Liverpool for Labour Conference...

Starmer is concentrating on Reform but Labour shouldn't mistake their threat on the right, even in Leave voting heartlands.

Our new analysis w/ @martamiori.bsky.social explains:

politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🚨📢 I am hiring a PhD candidate /research assistant in Swiss Politics and/or Comparative Politics (100%)!

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It was really fun to talk to @matthewholehouse.bsky.social about our paper. Voters now separate political parties into left-liberal and right-conservative blocs, and most of the (extensive) vote switching that we saw in 2024 (and since) is within these blocs. This is really important going forward.

Is it rational to expect to win elections? @mbarnfield.bsky.social argues so-called "wishful thinking" about election outcomes is part of how voters make rational sense of their role in democracies. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/g5aHeG0

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

At #EPOP2025, we were delighted to award Pippa Norris the 2025 Sir David Butler Prize for Lifetime Contribution to the Study of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🚨New book alert!🚨

Thrilled to announce that my @britishacademy.bsky.social Monograph, 'Capital, Privilege, and Political Participation,' will be published via @livunipress.bsky.social later this month.

Find details and pre-order (with discount) here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Article abstract, which says: The educational cleavage is restructuring electoral competition in many democracies, yet there has been insufficient attention on how variation in educational content affects this. In order to address this, this article combines English administrative school records with a unique representative panel of adolescents to estimate the within-individual effect of studying different subjects at school on political party preference. This analysis finds that studying arts and humanities subjects leads to greater support for socially liberal parties, whilst studying business and economics increases support for economically right-wing parties. Students who study technical subjects become more likely to support socially conservative and economically right-wing parties. These relationships between particular subjects and party support also persist into adulthood. As such, this article provides new evidence on the importance of subjects taken in secondary school for political socialisation, during the impressionable years of adolescence.

📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨

"School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support"

Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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Happy to give him a pass for today's dismissal, but his record for the last 18 months or so is dire.

I can't see him losing his place until the Ashes have been decided, but you'd have thought he'd be on the thinnest of ice at that point if his form continues.

Jobs at the University of Leeds

JOB: Lecturer in the Politics of Climate Change

This is a permanent post, based here in the School of Politics and International Studies at Leeds.

Application deadline 30 June, so please spread the word!

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

@polisatleeds.bsky.social

❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗

📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣
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#Polisky
@epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

Call for proposals!

EPOVB Early-Career Fellowship

deadline: July 1, 2025

Submit to Melissa R. Michelson, at melissa.michelson@menlo.edu

dropbox.com/scl/fi/rcmsv...

The Brexit realignment amid electoral volatility: The role of party blocs in the 2024 General Election Abstract. Brexit accelerated the long-term realignment of how demographic groups vote in Britain. However, Europe is no longer salient to voters, support f

🚨NEW PUBLICATION 🚨

Though people have moved on from Brexit, they still vote in line with their Brexit preferences - with age/education still separating voters.

Voters now back party blocs, which matters greatly for Labour's current appeals to Reform voters.

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Out now (OA) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Do people in rural areas want politicians offering stronger representation to rural areas - as opposed to just their local area? Yes - based an original conjoint experiment in the UK (1/5)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

BJPolS abstract discussing the financial and political polarization, the support for government spending on welfare measures, and the struggles of younger individuals and families in managing economic hardships, possibly in the context of British assets and family-centric economical approaches.

NEW -

Family Matters: How Concerns about the Financial Wellbeing of Young Relatives Shape the Political Preferences of Older Adults - cup.org/3Gny1bz

- @zackgp94.bsky.social, @profjanegreen.bsky.social & Geoffrey Evans

#OpenAccess

What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change? What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change? While research shows that obtaining a degree tends to make students more sociall…

New paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social w/ @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jwfurlong.bsky.social

What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) We are delighted to welcome applications for the position of Research Fellow within a new ERC-funded research group on Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE): Rethinking Conceptual, Ontologi...

The ERC have given me 5 years to figure out what Europeans really think about democracy. If you would like to come and join me in the endeavour, then I am currently hiring a postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social.

Deadline: 30 April | Details here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #polisky

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline tomorrow! ⏰

👀 Just one day left to apply for this amazing opportunity with UKICE's @robfordmancs.bsky.social & @uniofmanchester.bsky.social 👇

Lecturer in Comparative Politics at University of Reading Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Come work with us!! We're a research-intensive department, investing heavily in political behavior research—and we're a super-friendly bunch 😊. Happy to answer any questions if you're interested, and if not, please help us spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK616/l...

Do we systematically prefer educated candidates? Or do educational groups select in ways that reward their own?

This article by @turnbulldugarte.com and I suggests the answers are yes, and yes - but only for the graduate group.

Huge thanks to all who shared their data with us!

One week until the deadline (7 March) to apply for this postdoctoral fellowship at the LSE:
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🚨 EPOP 2025 Call for papers now open! 🚨

Please fill out this form before the end of April to submit your paper proposal forms.office.com/e/4wBNMq4qwi

Accepting presentations on all aspects of elections, public opinion and parties using all methods.

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?

Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

🚨 Postdoc Fellow at LSE in Political Behaviour 🚨

We're hiring a 2-3 year postdoc fellow at the LSE to join our great department (with some teaching in political behaviour and comparative European or EU politics)

Please spread the word and reach out with questions!
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New paper on the most disproportionate UK election: how Labour doubled its seat share with a 1.6 point increase in vote share in 2024!

With @profjanegreen.bsky.social
Out now in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social

Link: doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Short thread below🧵

*Attention PhD students and Early Career Researchers* - Call for papers! With support from @ukandeu.bsky.social
I will be hosting a workshop event for PhDs and ECRs on April 23rd, just after Easter. A chance to present in a supportive environment & meet new colleagues. Details attached

Here's me and Ed Fieldhouse summarising our recent paper using @britishelectionstudy.com data to estimate the impact of the new voter ID requirements on the election.

In short, around 2m voters don't have appropriate ID, and this is concentrated among those who don't vote Conservative.

#polisky