Maarja Lühiste

Celebrating 10 years in @nclpolitics.bsky.social (Newcastle) with a new staff card. Still can't believe I didn't lose it in all those years 😅

Naisi pelgavad erakonnad, mitte Eesti valijad - Feministeerium Politoloog Maarja Lühiste kirjutab, et Eesti naiste vähene esindatus poliitikas ei tulene valijate eelistustest, vaid erakondade pakutud menüüvalikutest

Politoloog @maarja.bsky.social kirjutab, et Eesti naiste vähene esindatus poliitikas ei tulene valijate eelistustest, vaid erakondade pakutud menüüvalikutest. Sest nagu restoranis ei saa tellida rooga, mida menüüs pole, nii ei saa ka valida kandidaati, keda nimekirjas ei ole.

Research article "When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians’ Social Media Experiences" by Maarja Lühiste, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Yannis Theocharis, Pablo Barberá, Zoltán Fazekas and Joshua A. Tucker, Abstract begins: Past research alerts to the increasingly unpleasant climate surrounding public debate on social media. Female politicians, in particular, are reporting serious attacks targeted at them. Yet, research offers inconclusive insights regarding the gender gap in online incivility. This paper aims to address this gap by comparing politicians with varying levels of prominence and public status in different institutional contexts. Using a machine learning approach for analyzing over 23 million tweets addressed to politicians in Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we find little consistent evidence of a gender gap in the proportion of incivility.

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In "When Does Fame Not Matter?" @maarja.bsky.social, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, Pablo Barberá, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social & @jatucker.bsky.social conduct a cross-national study on online incivility.

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Women politicians receive more identity-based attacks on social media Women politicians in Europe receive uncivil tweets regardless of how known they are, new research led by Newcastle University has found.

Research led by @nclpolitics.bsky.social's @maarja.bsky.social reveals female politicians receive more identity-based attacks on social media than others in the profession.

Read the full article article here >> bit.ly/3GOr97K

We (@matildecer.bsky.social @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social and I) pulled off our small but mighty workshop, bridging boundaries between gender x politics subfield and quantitative methods 👧🏻📊

So grateful to @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for making it possible 🤓

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.

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This paper tested my resilience in ways I can't quite remember (or I have given up). Massive thanks to the amazing co-authors Stiene Praet, Sebastian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social, Pablo Barbera, @jatucker.bsky.social and to the many dedicated reviewers!!

Political culture and electoral rules may matter, too: German & Spanish politicians in our sample receive less incivility than their UK and US counterparts. And the incivility in less personalised systems - especially in Germany - is relatively 'polite' compared to the other countries in our sample.

We also find that women receive more identity-based attacks than male politicians.

Super excited (and relieved!) to see this paper finally published.
Both men and women politicians experience incivility and, overall, the more famous they are, the more abuse they receive. BUT women in Europe receive uncivil tweets even when they're not well known
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“Democratic Resilience in Challenging Times” workshop -
connecting Northern UK scholars of Elections, Parties and
Public Opinion (EPOP) and hosted by the Governance and Political Organisations research cluster in Newcastle University - is in full swing @nclpolitics.bsky.social

@nclpolitics.bsky.social Research Seminar series had the great pleasure to host the amazing @anjaneundorf.bsky.social yesterday with an extremely timely talk about how we can "sell" democracy better

My favourite part of the job also happened this week. Huge congratulations to @jihedncib.bsky.social for an outstanding viva and excellent thesis!!! Very much looking forward to the publication that will follow ☺️

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When we distinguish between parties with different ideological positions, the data do not support our expectation that centrist parties should be more responsive. Traditionalist parties seem to nominate fewer women when attitudes become more progressive. Yet, the placebo tests point to problems.

For countries with some form of candidate voting (flexible lists, fully open lists, or Single Transferable Vote), the effects are positive (11 percentage points) but estimated with a large degree of uncertainty. So, hard to say that change in public attitudes towards gender equality changes much.

🎉🎉🎉 Super excited that our paper -- on how changing public attitudes on gender equality don't seem to affect parties' candidate selection strategies -- with the amazing @ThomasDäubler and @mihailchiru.bsky.social is now accessible OnlineFirst at the EUP: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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A quick interview at Estonian Public Broadcasting Service's breakfast program early morning yesterday on the (potential) reaction of UK parties and public on Starmer's statement of potentially sending British troops to Ukraine jupiter.err.ee/1609609172/b...

This is probably my most preferred way to get back to work from a holiday. Thank you so much @clint0475.bsky.social & @unibas.ch for hosting us and for all the insightful comments and questions. @nclpolitics.bsky.social

If you're looking for more morale-boosting and inspiring posts, make sure to follow us @nclpolitics.bsky.social

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Hi! Can I please be added?

What a start to the week! Huge congratulations to Rob for a great thesis and an excellent viva! @nclpolitics.bsky.social

Call for Participation Dates May 28-29, 2025 (with graduate student pre-conference reception on May 27) Location Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA Contact pag@apsanet.org Conference Website http://pagcon...

📣Announcement📣

Politics & Gender Conference 2025

A conference celebrating 20 years of P&G for scholars working on all aspects of women, gender, & politics.

📅 May 28-29, 2025

📍 Rutgers University

CFP: mlkrook.org/PAGC_CFP_202...

Website: www.pagconference.org

Submit: forms.gle/nc6ZpaEX7qnz...

A focus on electoral system components such as districting, quotas, and election administration are additionally welcomed. Diverse methodological perspectives are encouraged.

We especially welcome papers that take a comparative perspective as well as those examining the intersection between electoral systems and social structures and how electoral systems shape the representation of women, minorities, and other historically underrepresented groups.

About Conference - Midwest Political Science Association

Today's the deadline to submit your new exciting research to #MPSA2025. I'm delighted to chair Section 2 on Representation and Electoral Systems and can't wait for your submissions!!

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