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🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP Science Magazine (🆕tinyurl.com/sdcsci🆕), PNASNews (2x), Nature Human Behaviour (2x).

How can we reduce partisan animosity? A massive new study Science Magazine tests 25 interventions (N = 32,059) and finds some key lessons: 1) Highlight positive intergroup contact 2) Emphasize common identities and shared norms science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

My first PhD paper is out! With @EAlbath and Rainer, we checked how the frequency of ostracism affects voting behavior in national elections across 11 European countries. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Sharp analysis of the rise of the far right: "Austria is a perfect example of the dangerous shortsightedness of normalising far-right parties – a process led in the 21st century by, above all, conservative parties." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

New paper out in Comparative Political Studies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… Can attitudes safeguard liberal democracy? Only if they are sincere, I argue. If they aren't, illiberal politicians may realize that some citizens are "staged democrats" & have an incentive to become more exclusionary. 1/9

🔥 We have a new article out in JEPP on far-right contentious politics. We tackle nativist mobilisation in the protest arena and its relationship with ‘crisis’ adopting short- as well as long-term perspectives. Here’s what we found. 🧵 1/7 doi.org/10.1080/135017…

🇺🇸Positive or negative ads, using humour or keeping things serious: the US presidential candidates have a lot of campaigning choices to make. Curious what science says about all this? ➡️Watch the full video with @GijsSchumacher and Alessandro Nai: go.uva.nl/3YdaU8F

Are you interested in the field of political psychology? And are you interested in doing a PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief)? Check out this great project on personality traits and political ambition by Marc van de Wardt. Supervision by Marc, Loes Aaldering, and me. werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/phd-…

♀️"More women in prominent leadership positions have fostered positive stereotype change." Together with researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief) and Boise State University University, political scientist Daphne van der Pas studied voters' attitudes towards female politicians⬇️go.uva.nl/40hwAD9

More than 1 million refugees migrated to Germany in 2015-2016. How did this affect Germans’ exclusionary beliefs & behaviors? New at American Journal of Sociology w/Giesselmann & Tabea Naujoks journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Does Mainstream Populism Work❓ Happy to see my paper on "Populist Rhetoric and the Electoral Fortunes of Mainstream Parties" being accepted (conditional on replication) at PSRM Journal❗️ Read the full 📰 here: osf.io/wb8ev A quick summary in the 🧵 below:

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. We carry out the first cross-national comparative study, examining 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not so much a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with Juliana Chueri

The US edition of “The Normalizaton of the Radical Right” is now out: global.oup.com/academic/produ… If you're interested in what the book is about, but are short on time, I uploaded two video presentations: - a 2 min one youtube.com/watch?v=bv3rB8… - a 40 min one youtube.com/watch?v=MW-lIs…

.Daniel Finkelstein is right. As someone once said, The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. thetimes.com/comment/column…

Worth remembering before the blame-game gets too personal: "Democrats join 2024’s graveyard of incumbents", John Burn-Murdoch ft.com/content/e8ac09… via @ft

How does populism drive participation patterns beyond turnout and vote choice? Robert A. Huber & Steven M. Van Hauwaert take a theory- and data-driven approach to examine this topic: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… (OPEN ACCESS) @SAGECQPolitics Political Studies Association Department of Politics and International Relations #polsci

Will the US negativity to immigration reverse now? Quite likely! Folks forget immigration backlash works both ways. Pro-immigration politics may be unpopular, but so is unnecessarily cruel anti-immigration politics. "Reverse Backlash" is open-access now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/nf…

How can we combat the #farright and safeguard democracy? Delighted to be organising the next 'Democratic Expeditions' workshop at CEU Democracy Institute with FES Democracy of the Future and Carlos Meléndez (@eljorobado.bsky.social) next September- info and call for papers below. Join us! democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP-d…