Daan Delespaul

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

How much competition within the right field?
❗Segmentation is eroding, especially among young voters❗
New article out by @siljahausermann.bsky.social ‪@dpzollinger.bsky.social
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself

@ipz.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social

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A short 🧵

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Congrats!

Congrats! 🎉

@elisabethgoemans.bsky.social with the great ge-daan pun

Finally time to get a haircut now

Submitted the thesis everybody

The "collar flip"....what if class politics shifted in the UK? Why the rise of AI, might change our politics in the UK (and US!)

Some afternoon thoughts on UK politics and AI exposure and how it’s so different by geography politicalwhiteboard.substack.com/p/the-collar...

Gefeliceerd Silke! Wat een prachtig beeld ☺️

I have a new paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The paper situates discussions about the Educational Cleavage in a longer temporal context (back to the Medieval time) to show that there have ALWAYS been conflicts between educational groups. (1/3)

Cannot stress enough how great this years’ #PolEtmaal2025 has been. Amazing people, warm (!) atmosphere and (as it turns out) great running trails 🤩 Thank you to all the organisers @rug.nl!

Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all.

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Uncorking Europeanisation: the resilient journey of small Georgian winemakers in the pursuit of the EU market This article examines how Georgian wine producers respond to EU export standards and how they perceive them. What role does the Europeanisation process play in shaping their resilience through adap...

💡New article: 'Uncorking Europeanisation: the resilient journey of small #Georgian winemakers in the pursuit of the #EU market' by Margherita Gobbat 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159... 🇬🇪🇪🇺 @adamfagan.bsky.social @lenkabustikova.bsky.social @andreapirro.it @petrkopecky.bsky.social

2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior 2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices!

Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

Een mooie toekomst tegemoet - Severine Vermeire De rectorverkiezingen zijn telkens weer een bijzonder moment van democratische reflectie, dialoog en engagement. Met trots en dankbaarheid kijk ik terug op een campagne waarin respect voor elkaars vis...

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The Social Study: de steekproef die steek houdt Er zijn voor politieke wetenschappers en nieuwsmedia geen excuses meer om te werken met slechte steekproeven. De nieuwe steekproef, The Social Study, toont hoe het wél kan.

Er zijn voor politieke wetenschappers en nieuwsmedia geen excuses meer om te werken met slechte steekproeven, aldus politicoloog @swyngedouwm.bsky.social.

De nieuwe steekproef, The Social Study, toont hoe het wél kan.
www.sampol.be/2025/05/the-...

Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions This study challenges the conventional conceptualisation of political space in European countries as a two-dimensional socio-economic and socio-cultural structure. Utilising data from the 2024 Euro...

Fresh from the press: "Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions" together with @nilsjungmann.bsky.social We challenge dominant assumptions about the structure of political conflict. a 🧵1/ x

How researchers at Bocconi guessed the Pope using network analysis ⬇️

www.unibocconi.it/en/news/netw...

1 more week to apply to one of 2 postdoc positions, 5-years each, in my @erc.europa.eu project!

I probably relate to this quote more than I should.

Technically speaking, VB received 34% in the 2004 Brussels Elections for the Dutch language group! But the comparison wouldn't be right

Knap werk! 👏

The Cost of Debating Harassment Against Politicians: Are Women and Men Affected Equally? - Political Behavior Harassment of politicians is a growing global phenomenon, which threatens to erode the quality of democracy and descriptive representation. Past research has examined gender patterns of this violence ...

🚨 Talking about harassment in politics hurts your political career.

Yes, even in 🇸🇪. And, yes, for both women & men.

Here’s what me and @sandrahkansson.bsky.social found in our Political Behavior paper using both experimental and descriptive approaches: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 👇

Two weeks left to apply for a post-doctoral position in my project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe.

Thanks for helping me alert interested researchers!

1/7. In case you haven’t been following, here is a short summary of the misnamed Russian-American "peace process" regarding Ukraine.

Blij dat iemand dit punt heeft gemaakt!

Super Ruth! Wat een fijn nieuws

In the coming months, I'll be recruiting two PhD students to work with me as part of the Voting & Democracy research group at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social. So watch this space if you want to join the team and work on this lovely campus!

The results are highly geographically clustered, even after accounting for demographics. Areas with a history of heavy industry or mining seem to be much more economically segregated than the rest of Britain: