Maxime Coulombe

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

Screenshot of the call for applications for MZES Visiting Fellowships, 22 September 2025. For the full text, please follow the link.

📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers!

❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊

💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas
💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance
📆 Deadline: 28 November

Full information:
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

Thrilled to share that "The Meanings of Voting for Citizens" is out with OUP!

Loved working on this with brilliant mentors, co-authors, and friends

📘 The book (open access) explores how people think about voting and how these meanings influence participation

📊 And the data’s open too via AUSSDA

‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇

Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Ever asked about your credit score on a date? This paper is for you: www.nber.org/papers/w33683

Based on Danish data: 1) don't use education to assess assortative mating, 2) high-income/-growth occupations are increasingly likely to marrying "their kind", explains a decent chunk of 📈 inequality

New publication in the Journal of European Public Policy together with @eliemichel.bsky.social.

We study public opinion toward supporting Ukraine in 6 European countries and ask whether citizens want to increase, sustain, or decrease support. 1/4

Paper (OA): doi.org/10.1080/1350...

The Direction and Meaning of Left-Right in Postcommunist Societies Abstract. Positioning on the left-right scale is often regarded as a heuristic that enables citizens to reduce the information costs involved in navigating

New paper out in IJPOR! We (w Ian McAllister) use @ess-survey.bsky.social and other survey data to examine East/West differences in the use and meaning of left-right.

academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

Félicitations Damien!!

📣 Le parcours Science des données : modélisation et prédiction est de retour pour la 5e édition de l’EIOM !

🗓 Du 25 au 29 août 2025
🎓 Formation intensive d’une semaine, avec ou sans crédits
🌐 Infos et inscription : eiom.ca

Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python

📚😅🎉

Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!

Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.

Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com

#RStats #PyData

Incredibly happy to share that I received funding through the FWO Odysseus program for the SOCIOVOTE project! Over the next five years, I’ll be examining how social groups think politically, and study the processes through which groups and group identities become politicized.

The next #CNES Seminar on May 13th will discuss #sampling in challenging circumstances 🤔💡and feature presentations by Laura Stephenson (Canadian Election Study) and @rdassonneville.bsky.social & @dieterstiers.bsky.social (Belgian election studies). Register now to attend this free online event!👇

💥Postdoc call 💥

Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University

🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)

❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth

🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)

Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

Evolution of voting intentions according to polls conducted during the pre-campaign period of the 45th Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2025. Trendlines are based on local regressions with 95% confidence ribbons. The most recent polls show a dramatic surge for the Liberal party, putting them on par with the leading Conservatives.

Campaign dynamics in Canadian elections are simply fascinating! 💫

Give researchers an observational dataset with no exo variation: you get more than one answer to a causal research question... and the answer is correlated with ideological priors 👇. Do results extend to an observational data with a plausibly exo variation (aka natural experiment)? Thoughts?

⚠️ Six-year position at our department - work in lovely Vienna with a friendly team, 2 classes a term, and follow/develop your own research agenda. Feel free to ask me questions you might have. Deadline 24/01/25 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Postdoctoral Researcher – Immigration, Information, and Technologies - Concordia University he postdoctoral researcher will work under the direction of Mireille Paquet (Department of Political Science and Institute for Research on Migration and Society) and her team, contributing to various ...

📣Job alert (postdoc): Immigration, Information, and Technologies @irms-concordia.bsky.social
Open to all #migration researchers, particularly those working with text-as-data, NLP or computational social sciences approaches.
www.concordia.ca/artsci/resea...

#Polisky #Migcitsky #poliscisky

🚨 Does elite ideological polarization lead to mass ideological polarization?

My latest article in European Journal of Political Research provides **limited** evidence that it is the case.

Let's break it down. 🧵

Screenshot of the AUSSDA page of the AUTNES Online Panel Study, including the AUTNES logo and some study details. 0 Downloads yet...

Sankey diagram illustrating the patterns of vote switching across the parliamentary elections 2013, 2017, 2019, and 2024.

🎄🌟 Exciting news! 📊🎉

The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩

Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹

Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU...

#AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️

A thread about being wrong:

5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong.

This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...

La langue française est encore trop rare sur le Ciel bleu. C’est pourquoi j’ai commencé une liste des politologues (non exhaustive).

go.bsky.app/SpRhEg1

Félicitations @alexjabbour.bsky.social, PhD et pour toujours assistante extraordinaire dans mon cours POL1000 @sciencepo-udem.bsky.social

Département de science politique de l'Université de Montréal (@sciencepoudem.bsky.social) Compte officiel du département de science politique d'@UMontreal. Page web officielle : https://pol.umontreal.ca/accueil/

Comme mes collègues @vincentab.bsky.social @pmartin10.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social et @julienrobin.bsky.social,
@sciencepoudem.bsky.social est maintenant sur le Ciel bleu!

Suivez-nous pour l’actualité de la science politique et des études internationales à l’Université de Montréal.

🚨Data expansion:
GLES Cross-Section 2009-2021, Cumulation
👥21,040 interviews
📅2009, 2013, 2017, 2021
🚀Several new topics in the cumulated dataset!
doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

How parties can shape their competence reputations: Issue attention, position and performance Issue ownership is an important determinant of the vote, and it is electorally beneficial for parties to build a strong reputation on their core issues. Even though issue ownership has already been s...

How can parties shape their competence reputations? In a new study, out in the European Journal of Political Research, @rdassonneville.bsky.social and I examine party-level sources of issue ownership using observational analyses and a pre-registered conjoint experiment.

What do we find? 👇

Table 1 An analysis of treatment effect heterogeneity. We conducted an omnibus test provided in the grf R package. We also compared the estimates among eager and NRFU respondents. Most studies show no statistically significant treatment effect heterogeneity in either test (Neither). Ten show evidence of heterogeneity using the omnibus test, but it is not driven by differences between eager and NRFU respondents (Omnibus Only). Two studies show no evidence using the omnibus test, but do display NRFU-specific heterogeneity (NRFU Only), and two others display both general and NRFU-specific effect heterogeneity (Both).

Figure 2 Standardized ATEs among reluctant and eager respondents closely resemble each other. Points show estimated treatment effects estimated separately among eager and reluctant respondents, with 95% confidence interval bars. Solid line shows Deming regression fit and shaded region shows its block-bootstrapped 95% confidence region.

Here's a nice new paper from the fully blueskyless author team of Philip Moniz, Rodrigo Ramirez-Perez, Erin Hartman, and Stephen Jessee, showing that survey exp. effects are similar for "eager" and "reluctant" respondents, with positive implications for generalizability

doi.org/10.1017/pan....

Do people vote to avoid disapproval? Do people vote to meet others’ approval or to avoid their disapproval if they were to abstain? We examine the role of injunctive norms on turnout by means of discussion network data from an origina...

I am thrilled to share this new paper on social norm perceptions and voter turnout with the amazing André Blais and @rdassonneville.bsky.social at JEPOP.

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

Now in @EJPRjournal: Are Politicians Democratic Realists? Social scientists debate whether citizens are competent participants in the political game, but where politicians stand on this question is far more consequential, and yet we know virtually nothing about their views. /1

We're new to bluesky! We will use this page to publicize our polisky work at chesdata.eu

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⏳ A few hours remaining to submit your Paper to our 2024 Joint Sessions of Workshops ⏳

❇️ 33 Workshops await contributions, offering fertile ground for your research to flourish 🌱 ecpr.eu/Events/Acade...

❌ Deadline midnight GMT, Thursday 23 November