Pavlos Vasilopoulos

In this new paper, we use open-ended survey questions to study how people perceive (changes in) social hierarchies. 

We show how and among whom status gains of women, ethnic minorities, or LGBTQ+ people are saliently perceived–namely among progressives, not just conservatives!

This is bad.

Exploring the intricacies of citizens' economic inequality perceptions and their redistributive correlates: Ill-informed, attitudinally incoherent, or predictably irrational? European Consortium for Political Research

🚨Working on economic inequality perceptions and support for redistribution? Sonja Zmerli and I are coordinating a Section about perceived economic inequality at the next @ecpr.bsky.social's General Conference.

👉 Do consider submit your paper! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

@vd-researchgroup.bsky.social

🚨 New working paper 🚨

We often see populist parties like Reform UK blame higher energy bills on climate change policies. What are the political consequences of this strategy?

Very early draft; comments and criticisms are welcomed!

full draft: z-dickson.github.io/assets/dicks...

Congratulations- this is fantastic work!!

💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior?

🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left.

👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65

This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour

Attentats du 13-Novembre : le mémorial du « Monde » aux victimes En 2015, « Le Monde » avait publié les portraits des hommes et des femmes tués dans les attaques afin de conserver la mémoire de ces vies fauchées.

Today marks 10 years since the 2015 Paris terror attacks. Le Monde published the life stories of 112 of the victims. It is such an overwhelming, heartbreaking read

www.lemonde.fr/attaques-a-p...

IPSA Companion to Political Science This open access companion is a comprehensive reference work for political science, detailing the 200 most central concepts of the discipline.

Useful undergrad resource: A brief overview of 200 important concepts in political science

link.springer.com/referencewor...

The book is real! To celebrate, I will give out five copies to interested early career folks. DM if you’d like one.

BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of anti-immigration sentiment on regional demographic changes and its economic implications, focusing on the German labor market and residential choices in the context of the Global Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) study.

NEW -

Regional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment - https://cup.org/3XiB6yD

- @denis-cohen.bsky.social & @sergipardos.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the relationship between asset accumulation and voting patterns in Britain, focusing on the Conservative Party and generational differences in political behavior.

From April 2025 -

Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain - cup.org/42JWcZl

- Justin Robinson, @pavlosvas1.bsky.social & @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

You don’t need a master’s degree to see Britain depends on foreign students Editorial: The government’s effort to drive down the number of student visas coming to study in this country is misguided and self-defeating – it will do untold damage to our universities and communit...

"Given that education represents one of the UK’s most formidable comparative advantages in a fiercely competitive world economy, it seems asinine to try and artificially restrict its growth, and, indeed, to push it into decline."

www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

Following this

Hi conflict scholars and/or political scientists. A question: what previously robust finding or conventional wisdom has been overturned using causal inference approaches? e.g., some finding was robust in various papers with vanilla regression, but diff-in-diffs say "no".

Thanks!

Far-right against green: the re-emergence of geographically defined voting patterns and the new environment cleavage in Western Europe | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Far-right against green: the re-emergence of geographically defined voting patterns and the new environment cleavage in Western Europe

🆕 🌍 #Climate backlash at the ballot box? 🗳️
A new study by @dafnoukos.bsky.social @chvrakopoulos.bsky.social & C.Arndt finds that resistance to #EnvironmentalProtection is fueling a divide between urban greens and rural #FarRight voters across #WesternEurope

‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government g... The platform has become a swamp of disinformation. Politicians should lead the way out of it

"It’s time the British government got off X"

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

France: P. Vasilopoulos, H. McAvay, and S. Brouard. “Residential Context and Voting for the Far Right. The Impact of Immigration and Unemployment on the 2017 French Presidential Election”. In: Political Behavior (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09676-z.

Congratulations Matthijs!!

Yes, but were they responding to working class concerns on immigration?

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Drawing on data from France, @pavlosvas1.bsky.social (York), @haleymcavay.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social & J. Robinson @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social suggest the solidification of an emerging cleavage based on race/ethnicity that is unlikely to be resolved by immigrant integration over time.

Very cool experiment on how different fact-checking labels on social media affect on-platform behaviours amongst a sample prone to encounter political misinformation, with important results by @lsegovernment.bsky.social PhD candidate @isoldehegemann.bsky.social 👇

Immigrants’ attitudes towards immigration: convergence towards majority views or ethnoracial polarization? After decades of research on attitudes towards immigration among the ethnic majority, scholarly interest has recently shifted to investigate these attitudes among immigrants themselves. Drawing on ...

New publication on immigrant attitudes toward immigration in 🇫🇷

We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hcafc

Is this just me or there was no paper picnic this week?

Immigrants’ attitudes towards immigration: convergence towards majority views or ethnoracial polarization? After decades of research on attitudes towards immigration among the ethnic majority, scholarly interest has recently shifted to investigate these attitudes among immigrants themselves. Drawing on ...

New publication on immigrant attitudes toward immigration in 🇫🇷

We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Green Party's proposal for a wealth tax on 1% of assets above £10m and 2% on assets above £1bn comes top of our list of tax reforms that Britons would support, with 75% giving it their backing

yougov.co.uk/economy/arti...

Immigrants’ attitudes towards immigration: convergence towards majority views or ethnoracial polarization? After decades of research on attitudes towards immigration among the ethnic majority, scholarly interest has recently shifted to investigate these attitudes among immigrants themselves. Drawing on ...

Thrilled to see our article on immigrant attitudes toward immigration (w @haleymcavay.bsky.social & Justin Robinson) published @ersjournal.com !

Drawing on 🇫🇷 we investigate the role of migration & ethnoracial variables in attitudes towards immigration

(1/5)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Finally, differences in educational attainment do not result in significant differences in levels of support for immigration for most non-European origins.

We attribute this again to solidarity ties that ethnoracial minorities maintain with immigrants

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8GJTK...

3.Perceived discrimination is positively associated with support for immigration among first and second generation immigrants.

Among the majority, the relationship between perceived discrimination and ethnoracial identity works in the opposite direction

(4/5)

www.tandfonline.com/cms/asset/5e...