Ronja Sczepanski

How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations?

In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.

tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space.
👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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Thank you Magnus!

Thank you Chris for your kind words :)

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

New publication, out in Political Analysis:

There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually?

I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes The resurgence of the rural–urban divide as a factor shaping political attitudes has gained increasing attention in both public and academic discourse…

🚨New article🔥

Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes, at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with @sofiabrei.bsky.social @griambau.bsky.social @arodilla.bsky.social

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social (1/n)

How are the classic social identities (urban-rural, education, etc. ) and perceptions about those groups related to a persons own European and national identity? Read it here (in fantastic company) in print

For the first time ever I gave a - very short - TV interview about EU identity. Have a look

I cannot recommend this summer school enough!

What do the results tell us for the academic debate? Even in situation that could be wake-up calls and might be the once were we might expect people to get high knowledge other factors such as cueing, party discourse are still an important source for opinion formation

Even though attitudes change I do not find any evidence that the EU Constitution referendum in France has changed the knowledge of the EU Constitution for EU citizens despite high visibility in the news for everyone but even for the likely cases (French, Dutch and Constitution interested people)

Why does the question matter? Especially as other research from @giorgiomalet.bsky.social or @dschraff.bsky.social has shown: referendums shift attitudes. and there is often the public call for a stencils referendum (after Brexit and in the EU on treaties) tinyurl.com/sbczufmh tinyurl.com/2jsjk9m9

Do citizens know more about political issues after failed referendums? Evidence from the EU Constitution referendum When citizens use a referendum to vote down a government-backed proposal on the European Union, it constitutes an unusual event that attracts interest from both the public and researchers. However,...

Do referendums lead citizens to know more about the issue of the referendum after it was shockingly defeated by the public? I answer this question based on the EU Constitution referendum here: doi.org/10.1080/0703... a short thread below

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia:
osf.io/preprints/os...

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Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.

In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others

doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) at University of Southampton Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) on jobs.ac.uk!

There's a golden job to join us as a research fellow with @rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic process preferences in Europe, funded by the ERC

✅ 3 years
📊 Mixed methods
💰 Resources for data & conferences
👥 Good group of people working on similar things

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI418/r...

The Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) at the European University Institute is pleased to announce the second edition of the workshop on political behaviour in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The workshop understands political behaviour broadly and is open to papers studying public opinion and attitudes, voting, elections, political parties, inter-group relations, and political participation. The goal of this event is to bring together scholars, both from the East and the West, who empirically study political realities in CEE through within-country, between-country, or between-region (e.g., East-West) comparison. Papers investigating general research questions that are not specific to CEE are also very welcome as long as they comprise a significant empirical component from the region (e.g., half of the studied cases are from CEE). The workshop embraces all methodological approaches, but submissions that employ quantitative or mixed methods will be given priority. Each accepted paper will be thoroughly discussed, and the workshop will offer ample opportunities for establishing professional connections and collaborations. @eui-sps.bsky.social‬

Call for scholars in political behavior (broadly understood) studying Central & Eastern Europe: workshop hosted by
@eui-eu.bsky.social, June 19-20. 2nd edition. Participants from the region can have their travel & accommodation fully covered. Apply by 28/3. More info: www.eui.eu/en/projects/...

Grateful for lots of great feedback today at the @ethzurich.bsky.social European Politics Colloquium!

A majority of citizens stereotype Muslims as inherently homophobic.

Our new paper (w/ @turnbulldugarte.com & @michaelhunklinger.bsky.social) shows this across four countries 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇳🇱, published in @bjpols.bsky.social.

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Understanding Preferences over Borders Abstract. The governance of international borders has evolved into a contentious issue of political competition along the cosmopolitan-nationalistic divide

With the amazing Jana Lipps and @giorgiomalet.bsky.social we have a new publication in ISQ! We explore and theorize citizens’ preferences for border securing policies using open-ended survey responses and a conjoint experiment academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

An amazing article by @valentindaur.bsky.social about how mainstream parties can (de-) legitimize pariah parties!

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In Merz‘ lautesten Forderungen der letzten Monate zeigt sich eine fatale Linie: Eine (un)gewollte Zerstörung der europäischen Integration. Wer Grenzkontrollen & -Schließungen fordert, Regierungsparteien zum Europarechtsbruch aufruft & Vorrang von EU-Recht gg. nationalem Recht einreißen will 🧵 1/6

It is a great honor to receive the prestigious 2025 Portuguese Political Science Association Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation, especially given the excellence of this year’s jury.

I deeply appreciate the trust placed in my work!

Versprechen im Wahlkampf - wie gewinnt man Wählerinnen und Wähler?

Welche Bedeutung haben Versprechen im Wahlkampf? Darüber durfte ich heute mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur
sprechen 🎧
👉🏻 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/versprechen-...

Congrats :)

Thank you so much Stuart! It’s an honor to be part of this group :)