We are looking for a new team to lead our journal Political Studies Review. This is an exciting opportunity for a new team of editors to build and develop both the journal’s reputation and their own research or scholarship profiles.

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🏆 Spotlight on our Academic Prize winners!

This year's Lord Bryce Prize for a dissertation in comparative politics was awarded to Dr Anne-Marie Houde (@BlavatnikSchool). Many congratulations!! 👏👏

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🔻New Release 🔻The authors 'introduce a novel experimental design involving an imagined conversation on #refugee policy in #Poland .'

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🚨2024 Student Blog Competition!

Students aged 16 to 19 are invited to submit a blog on the question, 'What are politicians able to deliver for the next generation of voters?'. The deadline is 19 May.

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Our brilliant American_Politics is hosting an event in their 'Unfolding Our Shared Future' Talk Series on 26 April. Don't miss it!

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great new paper out by our very own Anna Kyriazi and Joe Ganderson in Political Studies Review on Brexit and Euroscepticism! 🇪🇺🇬🇧

We are looking for a new team to lead our journal Political Studies Review. This is an exciting opportunity for a new team of editors to build and develop both the journal’s reputation and their own research or scholarship profiles.

Find out more: psa.ac.uk/psa/news/call-…

🚨2024 Student Blog Competition!

Students aged 16 to 19 are invited to submit a blog on the question, 'What are politicians able to deliver for the next generation of voters?'. The deadline is 19 May.

More info: ow.ly/TGJY50Qr1Ma

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS

Are you a PhD student or an early career academic? Then don't miss your chance to present at this year's PSA ECN Annual Conference!

The deadline to submit abstracts is TODAY!!

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Check out this new Political Studies Review symposium on conspiracism and democracy, centred around Nancy Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead's Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s book 'A Lot of People Are Saying'.
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In this article, Anna Kyriazi & I argue that referendum promises shouldn't just be seen as an outcome of Euroscepticism, but a cause of it. We retrace the road to Brexit, tracking why enough MPs made the fateful switch from 'EU brake' to 'EU exit' to force David Cameron's hand.

We do this by plotting thousands of mentions of 'EU referendum' or related terms by MPs between 2000 and 2015, then hand-coding the five most salient months that cluster around treaty debates. We think these episodes give us valuable insights into Eurosceptic thinking over time.

In the Eurosceptic press there's a secular uptick in referendum pressure, but in the Commons this process is episodic & escalatory. Leaders have incentives to make it go away, to play the 'referendum game', but this only has the effect of parlaying the pressure down the line.

After the perceived broken promise of a Lisbon referendum and the advent of the Euro crisis, it became riskier for Cameron to try and continue gaming away pressure than rolling the dice on his career and calling a vote. By then, 'in-out as a democratic necessity' was ascendant.

We think there are a few broader lessons about British and EU politics at play here! A big thank you to the supportive team Political Studies Review , Tom McCrae Hunter for his incredible dataset, Joris Frese for his help checking our coding, and Solid Research Project European Research Council (ERC) for their support.

We are looking for a new team to lead our journal Political Studies Review. This is an exciting opportunity for a new team of editors to develop the journal’s reputation and their own profiles.

Any questions? Contact our Publications trustee Nicholas Allen.

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