Michał Gulczyński

Over the last decades, tertiary education has expanded rapidly - especially for women. They have overtaken men in all EU countries and the gaps keep growing in many of them.

In four countries, the gender gap is larger than 20 percentage points.

Are we ready for any egalitarian policies?

This headline is incredibly satisfying:
"The Ministry of Education wants to improve boys' education. It will appoint a representative."

After four years of my academic and public activity, the Ministry of Education now acknowledges a problem they denied as recently as 16 months ago.

How nuclear power hurts the Greens: Evidence from German nuclear power plants What are the electoral consequences of nuclear energy for Green parties? Despite the centrality of nuclear opposition to Green party platforms, and th…

1/ New paper out in Electoral Studies with @heikekluever.bsky.social and @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social
We show that nuclear power plants reduce electoral support for Green parties in Germany.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread on the paper:

90% of unaccompanied minors applying for asylum in the EU are boys.

Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind Abstract. In recent decades, there has been an increase in the share of males struggling in the labor market and education. We show in a set of large-scale

Link: ( @ranveigfalch.bsky.social )
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Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind Abstract. In recent decades, there has been an increase in the share of males struggling in the labor market and education. We show in a set of large-scale

Link:
doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

People are more likely to accept gender inequality if it is men who are worse off.

A new paper with experiments on 35k Americans shows that when men are worse off people are:
- more likely to attribute the inequality to a difference in effort
- less likely to support pro-equality policies.

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

❗Among their electoral potential, social democratic parties face very few strategic dilemmas. Left-progressive appeals resonate most strongly.

New study in @worldpolitics.bsky.social
with @tabouchadi.bsky.social , @indubioproreto.bsky.social, Nadja Mosimann, and @markuswagner.bsky.social

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Are more women elected in proportional elections than in majoritarian ones? @gulczynski.bsky.social, @monikaturyna.bsky.social & @jkantorowicz.bsky.social examine local Polish elections and find little evidence of that. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/UH5PdOR

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions.

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1. Who formed EPSS?

EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members.

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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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And here it is: introducing the European Political Science Society EPSS!

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Follow @epssnet.bsky.social on bsky, visit its website www.epssnet.org, and become a member!

As always, only a few scholars from Central and Eastern Europe come to the European Political Science Association conference.

@epsanet.bsky.social
#EPSA2025

How do parties tailor their campaign ads to women? 🗳️👩

Excited to share that my paper on how parties adapt their ads is out now at @thejop.bsky.social!

📖 Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A quick breakdown of the findings ⬇️🧵

I recently spoke at the Women in Tech summit in Warsaw, reportedly attended by 14k people.

We discussed men's issues in front of over 100 women. I am grateful to the organizers for the opportunity.

You can now watch watch the debate:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_C-...
(Foto: Marcin Runowski)

What a suitable place for a lecture on the Church and state formation by @annagbusse.bsky.social!

It's nice to be cited in a World Bank report.

Much of the gender gap in life expectancy isn’t natural.

Men shouldn’t have to die 6, 8, or 10 years earlier than women. In many countries, the gender gap is only 3-4 years.

We could have more grandpas and fewer widows if we start taking men’s health seriously.

The government talks a lot about gender equality. But it has not addressed any men's disadvantage and created new ones. It has not mobilized enough women and is not credible to men.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

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Trzaskowski's electorate is heavily feminised, with 40% more women than men (~58% of his voters are women).
Nawrocki won among men. But a similar number of women and men supported him.
Why? Because far more women voted than men - due to differences in longevity and turnout.

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Interestingly, the support for both candidates was close to 50-50 in all age groups. But the gender polarization is notable. Nonetheless, the deputy editor-in-chief of the main liberal newspaper Wyborcza says: "what I missed in Trzaskowski's campaign was a message to women".

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Trzaskowski lost by 370k votes. About 680k were up for grabs. These were men who didn’t want to vote for Nawrocki, but also didn’t vote for Trzaskowski.

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Turnout among women was 75.1% and among men 70.2%. If Trzaskowski (Civic Platform, EPP) had convinced/mobilised just over half of the 5% of men who did not vote, he would have won.

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Why has the right-wing candidate won the presidential election in Poland?

"The ruling, progressive-liberal side has let go of young men and this is something that cost the victory," - Dr Michał Kotnarowski said last night in the main liberal TVN24.

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Intergenerational Class Mobility among Men and Women in Europe: Gender Differences or Gender Similarities? Abstract. In this article, we address two inter-related questions. Are there gender differences in the level and the pattern of intergenerational class mob

Here is the most direct sociological answer to (a).
academic.oup.com/esr/article/...

The authors explain why they don't estimate mother-daughter and father-son mobility. But I believe such an estimation would make more sense for political behavior.

So, I guess (b) is an RQ up for grabs ;)

Isn't that quite simple? Intergenerational upward mobility is probably higher among women (mother-daughter) than among men (father-son).

Are more women elected in proportional elections than in majoritarian ones? @gulczynski.bsky.social, @monikaturyna.bsky.social & @jkantorowicz.bsky.social examine local Polish elections and find little evidence of that. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/UH5PdOR

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

Thanks!