Alberto López Ortega

Friday brought good news and bad news. Today I am now allowed to share the good.

Via the generous donation of the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I now have a few million euros to help understand more about the selective inclusion of LGBTQ+ citizens

📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database!

The data now covers

- > 3.000 parties
- 1.100 parliamentary elections
- 402 presidential elections
- 2.044 cabinets

across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31).

All info: ppeg.wzb.eu

We hope that data is helpful to the community!

"The Credibility Revolution in Political Science"

osf.io/preprints/so...

Great to see the record corrected, but I don't think Laura and David need to say "sorry."

The culture change I wish we could have: Understanding that we all make errors, and incrementally improving the processes of social science to make them rarer.

This doesn't happen through "blame and shame."

Europe’s housing crisis is fuelling the rise of the far right. Our research shows how to address it | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homes, say Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann and Björn Bremer

Europe’s housing crisis is worsening while progressives stay silent. DPIR's @tabouchadi.bsky.social argues in @theguardian.com that we need bold policies that make homes affordable, fair and a social right again:

🌈 Join us next Thursday December 4 for our last webinar of the year!

👉 @payoub.bsky.social and Samuel Whitt will present their amazing work on the Budapest Pride and how it impacted Hungary.

📆 Mark your calendars!

A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published.

Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response.

osf.io/rn6h3/files/...

Thank you for such beautiful words, Ely! :)

@naunovmartin.bsky.social @elystromberg.bsky.social @sbvanoosten.bsky.social @educampbell.bsky.social @marikenvelden.bsky.social @currikitaum.bsky.social @giuliaranzini.bsky.social

Friday’s workshop was a joy to host. ☺️

We brought together researchers and activists to talk about LGBTQ+ criminalization, discrimination at work and in parenting, dating bias, and how the far right weaponizes LGBTQ issues.

Grateful to everyone involved and to VU's VICES for the support. 🏳️‍🌈

Postdoc call‼️

I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT.

Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community.

Application deadline: December 10th.

Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9m

What a wonderful experience to present our book project on political talk, dating and gender w/ @bertous.bsky.social at @ipp-csic.bsky.social. Thanks to @martafraile.bsky.social & @ipp-csic.bsky.social for such a warm welcome & organization, despite an eventful fire drill in the building😀.

Don't miss my stellar coauthor presenting our book!

Seminario del IPP con Lala Muradova El Instituto de Bienes y Políticas Públicas (IPP) da la bienvenida a Lala Muradova, investigadora de la Universidad de Southampton, quien presentará su última charla: "Political Talk on Romantic Date...

¿Hablar de política en una cita romántica? ¿Algo incómodo… o una oportunidad para saber quién tienes delante?

Mañana nos visita @lalamur.bsky.social de la @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Acércate hasta el @cchscsic.bsky.social o sigue su charla en directo por aquí:

www.youtube.com/live/QactHQc...

I’m amazed by the quality of the feedback we’ve received from the reviewers of our book with @bertous.bsky.social. I don’t think we talk about this enough in academia, but we should recognize and celebrate those who genuinely engage with the work (it takes time, energy and ability). 💜

(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨

In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon.

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Left parties’ strategies and working-class vote in contemporary Western Europe (2002–2020) What should the left do strategically to retain workers' vote? This paper provides extensive empirical evidence on the relationship between left parti…

🆕 Latest article out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very excited about this today.

Laatste Peilingwijzer – Peilingwijzer De Peilingwijzer combineert de Tweede Kamerpeilingen van Ipsos I&O & Verian/EenVandaag

You think your elections are nail biters? In the last poll of the polls, the @peilingwijzer.bsky.social produced by @tomlouwerse.nl, before election day in the Netherlands tomorrow, three parties are tied for first place

peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl

congrats @nickdamico.bsky.social!!

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

You rock, friend and coauthor!

This was so much fun! Such a riveting audience! Thanks so much to @florianfoos.bsky.social and @bogatyrev.bsky.social for making it possible, @sarahobolt.bsky.social for the funniest anecdote on dating, and the audience for great questions! Shout out to the one and only @bertous.bsky.social!

Very excited about this project with @lalamur.bsky.social.

The Political Behavior Seminar at @lsegovernment.bsky.social is back at 4pm UK time today with @lalamur.bsky.social presenting her new book project, co-authored with @bertous.bsky.social. Join us in London or on Zoom 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...

Stellar track, Reto. Huge congrats!

A game of tariffs: is there demand for tariffs in Europe? In April 2025, the United States introduced sweeping tariffs on imports from the European Union and the United Kingdom, raising transatlantic tensions and prompting debate over Europe’s response. T...

Tariffs might be the word of 2025.

Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe?

@grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no
@jeppjournal.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Today I woke up thinking about this highlight of my life.

Short-term rentals can disrupt urban life & influence the ballot box - @tonirodon.bsky.social, Raya & Llaneza link high Airbnb density in Barcelona to increased support for parties targeting home-sharing regulation: buff.ly/gPwEQxf

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

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