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Interested in learning more advanced approaches to text analysis, machine learning or network analysis this summer? The University of Strathclyde @strathpolir.bsky.social is offering successive methods classes this June.

Quotas Unhinged? How the Change to Preferential Voting Impacts Women’s Representation in Two German Länder - Petra Ahrens, Sabine Lang, 2026 Proportional electoral systems, especially when coupled with voluntary party or legislative gender quotas, have been considered beneficial for advancing women’s...

Do preferential voting reforms weaken gender quotas? @petrahrens.bsky.social & Sabine Lang examine German Länder reforms, arguing party culture shapes whether open lists help or hinder women’s rep. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/LwD7aki

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #GenderRep #ECRs #polsci

UK Poll of Polls, 14 February 2026

Reform: 29% (27-31%)
Labour: 20% (18-22%)
Conservative: 19% (17-20%)
Greens: 14% (13-16%)
Lib Dem: 12% (11-14%)
Other: 3% (3-4%)
SNP: 3% (2-3%)

Nick Vivyan, Chris Hanretty (@chanret.bsky.social) and I have a new book out: “Idiosyncratic Issue Opinion and Political Choice”. The core of the book is making the argument that citizens’ views about political issues neither reduce to an ideological orientation nor to a lack of substance. (1/10)

Anger, Negative Partisanship, and Joy in the Suffering of Political Others

Forthcoming at JEPOP, w/ Mary Adams Plooster. Mary is a top-notch IU PhD candidate working on abstract mental representations and how they shape partisan animosity.

stevenwwebster.com/research/ang...

Does local context matter for individual level turnout? Analysing the effect of the social context in the neighbourhood, in Norwegian elections The purpose of this paper is to study how the social composition of a neighbourhood affects an individual’s propensity to vote. Numerous studies have looked at aggregate level contextual effects on...

📢 New article🌟
👥 Sofi Granö (ISV) & Johannes Bergh @johannesbergh.bsky.social
👉 Does local context matter for individual level turnout? Analysing the effect of the social context in the neighbourhood, in Norwegian elections
📖 Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...

Call for papers!

The call for our forthcoming summer conference is now, in collaboration with the Carter Center

This year we are teaming up with the journal Politics

As ever, it is free and runs across multiple time zones

Deadline: March 31

www.electoralintegrityproject.com/2026-virtual...

The APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award, jointly supported by APSA and @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social, recognizes collaborative and productive cross-national partnerships that make significant contributions to political science. $2,000 cash prize. Deadline: Feb 11, 2026. Details: buff.ly/N9u7wK7

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🚨New article🥳

➡️The big ideological geographic sort? The role of ideological discrimination, social capital and social whispers in deciding where to live, at JEPOP with @sofiabrei.bsky.social & @griambau.bsky.social (1/n) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

APSA-PSA International Partnership Award - Political Studies Association The APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award honours political scientists engaged in collaborative and productive cross-national partnerships that make a

*PSA PRIZES* APSA-PSA International Partnership Award
🏅 Awarding political scientists engaged in collaborative & productive cross-national partnerships in the areas of teaching, research, or civic engagement.
📆 Application deadline 11 February 2026
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Shades of green? Examining environmental and energy attitudes among far-right party supporters in Europe This study employs cluster analysis to examine the environmental and energy attitudes of far-right supporters using data from the European Social Survey.

#Research that examined our #data measuring attitudes towards climate change was published by the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

Pablo García-García (University of León 🇪🇸) assessed Round 11 (2023/24) respondents who recently voted for a far-right political party.

📝 What drives party support for deliberative democracy in Europe? Sergiu Gherghina & Bettina Mitru find support is shaped by left ideology, governing status, party novelty & manifesto length - not electoral strength or populism. OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/onjD7yS

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #PSNotes

Revealing long-term trajectories of public opinion and polling in Britain: a new resource of historical data from the Gallup Poll in Britain, 1955–1991 From the 1930s to early 2000s, the British affiliate and later subsidiary of the Gallup Organization conducted around three thousand surveys of public opinion in Great Britain. While the records of...

For the historical polling nerds out there, an article about our project with @ropercenter.bsky.social that digitised ~800 surveys by Gallup poll in Britain between 1955 and 1991 has been published in JEPOP. The merged dataset contains over three-quarters of a million respondents.

New article out in JEPOP with @eliemichel.bsky.social and @emilievh.bsky.social

We study how individual-level party-voter congruence shapes horizontal affective polarization (sympathy to other voters), using matched data of a Voting Advice Application in Belgium

Paper: tinyurl.com/4skwumdr

Deadline today!! :)

A reminder to get your abstracts in by December 5th. Any aspect of gender, elections, public opinion, parties, candidates etc. very welcome!
@uompols.bsky.social

@psaepop.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers: GenElect Annual Workshop on the Study of Gender and Elections
University of Manchester, Jan 12th-13th 26
Deadline: 5th Dec 25

Send us your papers on gender and elections, public opinion, parties, representation! @psaepop.bsky.social

Abstract submission here: lnkd.in/d2AQFYxN

Free eprints for my JEPOP article
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JN5C9...

IN NEW ISSUE: What’s driving the narrowing gender gap in party activism? Susan E. Scarrow, JeongKyu Suh & Jamie M. Wright find shifts in party participation aren’t all about women stepping up but also about men stepping back - buff.ly/xa7cPL9

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social

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In 2019 EP elections, environmental issues shaped voting across Western Europe. Silvia Bolgherini & Luca Carrieri examine how radical right parties benefitted more than Greens. Read more: buff.ly/XhtUF5z

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

Just 1 day left to submit a paper to #PSA26! Follow the link below for full details.

Is partner partisanship associated with vote choice? @cerifowler.bsky.social finds that it was for the 2016 Brexit Referendum & subsequent elections in the UK & argues that this can help us understand gender gaps in vote choice. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/eRDc16d

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky

Call for applications for new editorial team for JEPOP (1)

Call for applications for new editorial team for JEPOP (2)

We are now accepting applications for a new editorial team for #JEPOP, the official EPOP journal (www.tandfonline.com/journals/fbe...).

❗Closing date for applications: 21 Nov at 17:00 GMT❗

For further information/to get in touch with any informal enquiries, please see details in the call below.

A PDF version of the call can be found through the following link

Call for applications for new editorial team for JEPOP (1)

Call for applications for new editorial team for JEPOP (2)

We are now accepting applications for a new editorial team for #JEPOP, the official EPOP journal (www.tandfonline.com/journals/fbe...).

❗Closing date for applications: 21 Nov at 17:00 GMT❗

For further information/to get in touch with any informal enquiries, please see details in the call below.

I’d encourage all @psaepop.bsky.social members to apply!

Do UK voters see a trade-off between electoral integrity and turnout? Jeffrey A. Karp argues that beliefs about fraud and ideology, not turnout concerns, best predict support for photo ID. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/r2FnjwH

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky

British Eurosceptic voters before and after Brexit Introduction A decade ago, Brexit emerged as the most salient, divisive, and transformative issue in British politics. Having gathered strength since the early 1990s both within the Conservative pa...

Paolo Chiocchetti, “British Eurosceptic voters before and after Brexit”, Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique [Online], XXX-3 | 2025
doi.org/10.4000/14qkm

Join our team: We're recruiting 2 x 3-year post doc researchers for the Rural-Spatial-Justice project at Aberystwyth, to undertake fieldwork on rural discontent & support for disruptive politics in the UK, Europe & USA. Closing date: 19 Oct. Details: jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/p...