Lucas Couto

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Crafting Policies Together: Citizen Preferences After Crisis - cup.org/4mm8b7m

- @paduis.bsky.social, Jennifer Cyr, Julieta Suárez-Cao & Matías Bianchi

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Does political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties? Research identifies numerous factors associated with citizens’ perceptions of party ideologies, including the Left-Right orientations of parties’ election manifestos, governing coalition arrangemen...

Our paper (w/ wonderful co-authors @rwillh11.bsky.social, @simonweschle.bsky.social, @cbwlezien.bsky.social, and Jim Adams) is now out in print! 🎉 May be of interest to those studying electoral behavior, party strategy, or how citizens use information!

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

That was a nice read! Really enjoyed the connection to Andrews-Lee's recent book. Congrats!!

Parabéns pela publicacao! Belo desenho de pesquisa!!!

Cool research and pretty alluvial plot! Congrats!!

Handbook on Coalition Politics

To be published this autumn 👇

Congrats!!

Normalise writing a nice quick note to scholars literally every time you read and like their work. Our world is small and getting smaller. We need encouragement.

Congrats!

Belo mapa!

🚨 We’ve released the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data and Assemblies (AIEEDA) 🗳️

25 European democracies, 1919–1939: party positions, cabinet formation, elections (and subnational geo-coded data for 6 countries) 1/2 ⬇️

Pretty cool research! Congrats!

Congrats!!

Congrats!!

Depressive to see some LatAm parties scoring highly on both dimensions; even more for Ecuador, where the current presidential run-off features two parties that that would likely rank high on these two factors as well 😵‍💫

Now, it's been attributed to an issue and has got its page numbers 😀

doi.org/10.1017/lap....

Some context for what that kind of drop looks like. That's the lowest US score since the Civil War + a 1-year drop of that size puts us in the same company as events like Belarus's 1995 coup (though not as bad as Gambia in 1994 or Thailand in 2006)

#rstats code here: gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...

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Thrilled to share my new publication w/ @morganwack.bsky.social & Kevin Aslett in Social Science Quarterly: “Silence in the Stands: Assessing the Impact of Russian State-Linked Sportswashing on Online Fan Behavior Following the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A top-notch research in the intersection of politics and sports!! Congrats to you and your co-authors! Glad to see it in print 🤩

Things will have to change? Analysing the Spanish transition to democracy from an elite perspective Authoritarian elites may play an essential role in transitioning democracies, but little is known about the fate of these elites beyond that of the top leaders. This article offers the first panel-...

Most Francoist elites remained in relevant positions after the Spanish transition to democracy. Neither 1982 nor 1978 fit as marking the end of the transition, at least from the perspective of elite replacement. Economic elites maintained their positions of power www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Certainly it didn't help to boost his credentials as a strongman 😅

I assume one doesn't have to deal with the "perils of presidentialism" when its lawmakers have extensive experience with fistfighting haha

I'd say Castillo was less "tense", especially as he was shaking while trying to close the legislature.

🇬🇧🇪🇺 Published Today in EJPR 🇬🇧🇪🇺

@simonhix.bsky.social @juhoharkonen.bsky.social and I find that 1/3 of the anti-Brexit shift in the UK can be attributed to the impact of cohort replacement (old voters dying, young people becoming eligible to vote)! 1/12
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thank you so much for your advice, Raul! Hopefully, you are way better off now!

Maybe, is there still hope? Jokes aside, no wonder why studying party politics and its follow-ups (such as coalition govts) is such a challenging endeavour in some Asian countries.

So, apparently, no coalition government on the horizon 🤖