Voting against or against voting? | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Voting against or against voting?

Why is #Politics so negative right now? 🤔

Ming M. Boyer @carolinaplescia.bsky.social & André Blais finds two kinds of negativity:
⚡ #Voting against a candidate
⚡ Feeling like voting doesn’t matter at all
Only one threatens #Democracy--and it’s not the one you think. 👀

Wirtschaftskammer und Co: Die geschützten Werkstätten der Macht Der Einfluss der dominanten Kräfte aus den geschützten Nischen ist zu groß. Und er fußt auf einem System, das kaum politischen Wettbewerb zulässt. Das muss sich ändern

Kommentar der Anderen von @gulp1959.bsky.social @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social und mir:

Wir brauchen mehr Wettbewerb in den geschützten Werkstätten der Macht: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Im Oktober erschien in den Salzburger Nachrichten (@sn.at) ein Artikel von @irisbonavida.bsky.social zu personalisierter Onlinewerbung mit Kommentaren von mir. Darin verweise ich auf aktuelle Forschung von Kolleg*innen sowie auf Ergebnisse meines eigenen Experiments: doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Interview: "Politik ist zu einem Mittel- und Oberschichtgewerbe geworden" Woher rekrutieren Parteien ihr politisches Personal? Eine neue Studie hat sich die Biografien von 2000 Regierungsmitgliedern angeschaut und liefert spannende Ergebnisse.

Der @juergenklatzer.bsky.social hat mich zu unserer (@manuelwagner.bsky.social) jüngsten Studie über Politiker:innen aus der Arbeiterklasse befragt:

www.falter.at/maily/202511...

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

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🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

Join us next week!
Anna Lia Brunetti (@univie.ac.at ) & @beluabdala.bsky.social (@unisalzburg.bsky.social) will be presenting their work on the moderating role of citizen's meanings of voting.
Sarah Birch (KCL) and Carolien van Ham (@radboudpol.bsky.social) will discuss.

Moreover, citizens with higher income, higher education, and more left-leaning views react most strongly to MPs who choose not to disclose their side income.

🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social

We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions.

Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Two award recipients stand smiling in front of an ÖGPW banner. Both hold rolled certificates. The banner reads “Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft – Das Netzwerk für Politikwissenschaft in Österreich. Vernetzen. Fördern.”

Slide projected on a screen with the heading “PhD Awards 2025.” On the left, text reads: Christina Gahn, Universität Wien. Supervisor: Thomas Meyer. Title: Debunking the Myth of Targeted and Tailored Political Advertising. On the right, a portrait of Christina Gahn smiling, wearing a dark blue top.

A large screen displays a slide titled “Master Awards 2025.” The slide shows a portrait of Benjamin Riesch smiling, with text: Benjamin Riesch, Universität Wien. Supervisor: Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik. Title: Negative Campaigning in the Austrian National Election. In the foreground, three people stand at a lectern in a lecture hall, with empty chairs and glasses on the table.

A large screen shows a slide titled “Bachelor Awards 2025.” The slide includes a portrait of Luca Conte smiling with arms crossed, and text: Luca Conte, Universität Wien. Supervisor: Katharina Pfaff. Title: How Experiencing Climate Change Affects Climate Change Attitudes in Austria. In the foreground, three presenters stand at a lectern in a lecture hall with chairs and glasses on a table.

Awards, awards, awards! 🏆✨

At the 11th Annual @oegpw.bsky.social Conference, three members of the Department of Government @univie.ac.at were among the awardees:

🎓 Best PhD – @christinagahn.bsky.social
📘 Best MA – Benjamin Riesch
📗 Best BA – Luca Conte

👏 Huge congrats to all! 🎉

#PoliSky 🧪

Fall 2025 schedule is out!
Remember to join our mailing list to join any or all of these great presentations!
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The expansion of voting rights beyond territory and citizenship marks a major democratic development of the last fifty years. Migrant suffrage has been mostly studied from a state-centric perspective. But the rights that migrants hold emerge from specific combinations of the country of residence and the country of citizenship. From this migrant-centric perspective, what is the diagnosis of the spread and status of global migrant suffrage? We present franchise constellations as a migrant-centric framework for studying voting rights. Drawing on the most comprehensive dataset on migrant electoral rights, combined with novel data on nationality-specific restrictions, we compute almost 1.3 million dyad-year observations based on 172 countries between 1960 and 2020. Using migrant stock data, we find that at least 74 million migrants remained completely disenfranchised in 2020. Bilateral and multilateral efforts emerge as a fruitful path for addressing global migrant disenfranchisement.

➡️📍📑 New Working Paper
with @sumpierrez.bsky.social and Rainer Bauböck

Work on migrant voting rights often has a state-centric perspective. We propose *migrant franchise constellations* as a migrant-centric approach.

A 🧵 with our argument and new data! 🗳️

preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

Perceptions of science and politics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria: technocratic overreach or blame deflection? - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie Science and politics function as distinct yet structurally interconnected social systems, creating a delicate need to balance expertise and democratic representation. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed ten...

📄 For more information, read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1007/s116...

Published in the @oezs.bsky.social article collection on #Wissenschaftsskepsis, edited by:
Arthur Buckenleib, Antje Daniel, Michaela Pfadenhauer & Anna Schwenck

10/10

Knowing without knowing: how false confidence shapes the world This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications collection explores the mechanisms and impact of false or misplaced confidence, and how it shapes the ...

Call for Papers: "Knowing Without Knowing: How False Confidence Shapes the World"

🗓️ Deadline: 23.4.2026
🔗 www.nature.com/collections/...

Co-Edited with: M. Adamus, S. Chen

#Misinformation #ConspiracyBeliefs #Polarization #ScienceDenial #Overconfidence 🧪

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EU ‘too little, too late’ on Gaza, NGOs tell von der Leyen Humanitarian groups are urging the EU to impose sanctions on Israel.

"Tweets don’t feed people."

EU pleas for aid to enter Gaza as Palestinians starve under Israel’s blockade count for little without sanctions, humanitarian organizations say.

Titelblatt eines Berichts des Instituts für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung (ITA) der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW). Der Titel lautet: „Wie lässt sich konstruktiv mit verhärteten Wissenskonflikten umgehen? Eine quantitativ-qualitative Studie zur Wissenschaftsskepsis“. Oben links sind das ÖAW-Logo und die Webadresse www.oeaw.ac.at zu sehen. Rechts unten steht das ITA-Logo. Erscheinungsort und -datum: Wien, Juli 2025, ITA-25-02.

📚 Neue Studie erschienen

"Wie lässt sich konstruktiv mit verhärteten Wissenskonflikten umgehen? Eine quantitativ-qualitative Studie zur Wissenschaftsskepsis"

Mit Alexander Bogner, Agnes Kirchner, Katharina Miko-Schefzig, Michaela Pfadenhauer & Markus Trimmel

🔗 epub.oeaw.ac.at?arp=0x00407b20

I can only echo this - very excited to finally see this out in print!

For anyone interested in (citizens' meanings of) voting, political participation, and the use of open-ended questions in public opinion research across countries 💡

Electoral input and political legitimacy Political legitimacy is of fundamental importance for democratic systems, as it ensures that citizens adhere to political rules and decisions peacefully and voluntarily. Recent research indicates a...

Can elections foster political legitimacy? In my new study @wepsocial.bsky.social I show that they can, depending on the level of participation, the congruence between the electorate and the parliament and government, and the reactiveness of the electoral result to past incumbent performance.

Doing important things at @epsanet.bsky.social …like locating the one veg canapé at the reception 👀
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The schedule of the presenters from the EPSA2025

From 26 to 28 June 2025, the 15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association will take place in Madrid, Spain. Many of our colleagues will attend the conference and present their research. #EPSA2025. The presenters are: 🧵 1/3

New book publication by @carolinaplescia.bsky.social et al.: What does #voting mean to citizens around the world? 🗳️
A new open access (via @oxunipress.bsky.social) explores answers from 25,000+ people in 13 countries. Read here: ⤵️
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#PoliticalScience 📚

Das Semester an der @univie.ac.at geht zu Ende. Hier einige Highlights aus meiner Vorlesung zum österreichischen Sozialstaat als 🧵 ...

🚨 My first publication, co-authored with Sylvia Kritzinger & Susanna Bastaroli, is out! In our chapter, we explore how Italians re-elaborate their country’s role in the WWII & the Holocaust.

Available online & in print (EN): www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383535866...

🧵 Some key findings: 👇

People often overestimate how many others share their views—a phenomenon known as the false consensus effect.

In a new article in @ispp-pops.bsky.social, @clandwehr.bsky.social, Philipp Harms and I show that this tendency is associated with stronger populist attitudes: doi.org/10.1111/pops....

Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction Social media platforms offer MPs the opportunity to directly signal attention to their local voters in the constituency. And while previous research has linked the strategic use of such local cues in...

📣 New research in EJPR together with the wonderful @nathaliegiger.bsky.social, @stefaniebailer.bsky.social, T. Turner-Zwinkels & S. Heller:

We find:
1) MPs use more constituency signals while campaigning,
2) voters notice the signals,
3) but don't reward that behaviour.

doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Pint of Science Vienna Researchers across Vienna share their discoveries with you.

🎉 Das Warten hat ein Ende: Das Programm für das Pint of Science Festival 2025 in #Wien ist online! 🍻🧠

Vom 19. bis 21. Mai erwarten euch zahlreiche spannende Vorträge in gemütlicher Atmosphäre.

Alle Details und Tickets findet ihr hier: pintofscience.at/events/wien

#Pint25AT

🚨 New open-access publication out in the European Journal of Political Research!

@markuskollberg.bsky.social and I examine how coalition government performance shapes affective polarization between coalition partners—and find that it matters.

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Trust in Government or in Technology? What Really Drives Internet Voting - M. Belén Abdala, Carolina Plescia, Ming M. Boyer, Anna Lia Brunetti, 2025 Internet voting is considered a crucial potential technological innovation, and scholars agree that trust plays a key role for its adoption and use by citizens....

Excited to share our new article, "Trust in Government or in Technology? What Really Drives Internet Voting," now out in Political Research Quarterly!

With @carolinaplescia.bsky.social , Ming Boyer & Anna Lia Brunetti, we test the impact of (multidimensional) trust on i-voting likelihood.