📘 August issue What are the consequences of affective polarisation? Lars Erik Berntzen, Haylee Kelsall & Eelco Harteveld investigate the relationship between avoidance, intolerance & support for violence against party supporters in 🇳🇴 + 🇬🇧 #OA bit.ly/3Z0IcrS

🍀 We hope that you enjoyed #ecprgc24! 📘 Our Conference Collection, covering topics of #populism, voter turnout, and political representation, remains #OpenAccess + freely available to read for all Check it out now 👉 bit.ly/4fqNpks

🏆 Many congratulations to Richard Katz on his well deserved award & outstanding contributions to the #PolSci discipline 🌟📘 Richard served as an Editor of EJPR between 2006-2012

I'm happy to see that my paper on the sources of social status was published EJPR journal while I was on vacation 🏖️ Using a conjoint design, fielded in 🇨🇭, I show that economic and cultural sources shape social status. 1/4

📘 August issue How do legislators re-establish responsiveness? 🗣️ R Itzkovitch-Malka, Guy Mor-Lan, Odelia Oshri & S Shenhav argue that they use speaking time in parliament to pay attention to constituents who might be dissatisfied with how they voted #OA bit.ly/3TwJMRd

📘 August issue Still proud at the polls? 🏳️‍🌈 Using 🇸🇪 data, Michal Grahn finds evidence of a positive, sustained sexuality-driven voter turnout gap across multiple elections 🗳️ which manifests itself a decade after the enactment of same-sex marriage bit.ly/3RwO0aE #OA

📘 August issue 💭 Technocrat or partisan cabinet ministers: Does it matter? Using data from an experiment in 🇧🇷, M Batista analyses how bureaucrats evaluate the leadership of technocrat & partisan cabinet ministers in different roles of policymaking 👉 bit.ly/4aH1WpH

New paper with Peter Thisted Dinesen and Kim Sønderskov just published (open access) in EJPR journal: doi.org/10.1111/1475-6… We study the connection between local economic inequality and political system support - and find no systematic relationship. 1/3

Read more about our new article in EJPR journal “Does Economic Inequality Reduce Political System Support? Local-level Evidence from Denmark” in this thread👇 The article is available in Open Access here: doi.org/10.1111/1475-6… Many thanks to ROCKWOOL Fonden for funding🙏

🏆 Congratulations to Laia Balcells, Lesley-Ann Daniels & Alexander Kuo for being awarded the IEA 2024 Prize for their article 'Territorial disputes and affective polarization' Read their research #OpenAccess 🔓 bit.ly/3MP664l

📢 Making the case for democracy Using a field experiment in 🇩🇪 Alexander Wuttke, see: kunkakom.bsky.social & Florian Foos introduce ‘democratic persuasion’ as an actionable intervention to foster the resilience of citizens' commitment to liberal #democracy #OA 🔓 bit.ly/3XWGoRT

📘 Vol 63.3 Closed shutters or revolving doors? A S Binderkrantz, J G Christensen et al examine career trajectories 📈 & transfers across #PoliticalElite groups in 🇩🇰 & suggest that shutters between those sectors are relatively closed 🚪 #OA 🔓 bit.ly/45gvy9x

A highly relevant (and perhaps perpetually timely) piece of research on [political] leadership approval during crises: ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14… EJPR journal

🆕 Anne Rasmussen - @annerasmussen.bsky.social & Stefanie Reher use survey experiments in 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 to show how the ties citizens hold to different types of interest groups affect their perceived legitimacy of involving them in parliamentary hearings #OA 🔓 bit.ly/4cOUfxu

📘 Vol 63.3 Issue framing, political identities & #Covid Sabina Avdagic & U Sedelmeier conduct a 🇬🇧 survey experiment & analyse how frames in #PublicDiscourse influence support 📊 for multilateral vaccine cooperation during Covid-19 😷 👉 bit.ly/3ZKHJKH #OA

🆕 Dimensions of polarization, realignment & electoral participation 🔍 Through a study of 23 European countries Morgan Le Corre Juratic examines if party polarization in multiparty systems affects individuals’ propensity to turn out &, if so, who is mobilized #OA 🔓 bit.ly/3XfpGvn

👨‍💼👩‍💼 Does a leader's gender affect a country's performance during a health crisis? Amir Freund & Yael Shomer use evidence from four #COVID waves 🦠 over a period of two years to explore the impact of gender in leadership roles & the gendered performance gap bit.ly/3Xaej7V

🗣️ Rallying around the leader in times of crises By analysing 🇩🇪 panel data from the #COVID pandemic, Roni Lehrer Oke Bahnsen Klara Müller Marcel Neunhoeffer, T Gschwend & S Juhlexamine the 'rally effect' & crises politics in democracies #OpenAccess 🔓 bit.ly/4e4GUSE

📘 Vol 63.3 Fight or flight? Wiebke Marie Junk, Michele Crepaz & Ellis Aizenberg conduct a comparative survey experiment in 🔟 polities in #Europe to reveal how access barriers 🚧 & interest disruption ✋ affect the activities of interest organisations #OA 🔓 bit.ly/3F6Vslz

💭 Do people show a particular preference for policies that pay off within, rather than beyond, their own lifetime? 📊 Using a conjoint experiment in 🇬🇧, Matthew Barnfield investigates policy discounting across & beyond the lifespan 🔓 #OA bit.ly/4e4y0oo