Finally, if you are interested in other papers from our YOUMEM project which are currently in progress, this thread by @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.socialbsky.app/profile/dunc...
I look forward to discussions about youth pol participation with @stefaniebailer.bsky.social@janabelschner.bsky.social@niklasbolin.bsky.social@zeljkopoljak.bsky.social@hferrinholopes.bsky.social@kirareneekurz.bsky.social Sofia Marini, Aksel Sundström and Clint Classen! And to visiting Aarhus 🙂
Drawing on data from >3,400 youth wing members in 🇦🇺🇦🇹🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇸, we find that: 1) women are more likely to join for social reasons & men for material ones; 2) this is partly because women are more likely to know someone close (family/friends) in a party/youth wing before joining.
On my way to Aarhus for a two-day workshop on Youth Politics organised by @henrikseeberg.bsky.social! I’ll be presenting a study from our Youth Wing Membership project (YOUMEM). My paper looks at gender differences in why people join youth wings.
There is a double marginalization of far-right women politicians in the European Parliament–as women and as far-right politicians–which results in women politicians lacking influence within their parties, and within the European Parliament more broadly journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Even as the far-right parties of Western Europe have made broad electoral gains, mainstream parties continue to enact a cordon sanitaire, effectively curtailing...
Another week, another list of new publications in the field. So much exciting scholarship has appeared. 1. Widmann & Simonsen show in PSRM that radical right challengers play an important role in shaping public discourse in a negative moral-emotional direction www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to share new research w @hildecoffe.bsky.social@sparshasaha.bsky.social@jeppjournal.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1080/1350...
While gender quota and parity laws are increasingly popular worldwide, their introduction often causes controversy. Thus far, we lack an understanding of how the framing of these measures affects p...
Hi #AcademicBluesky! Is there any research which argues that when people engage in 'countercultural' behaviour, we should expect them to have to show their commitment by being the most zealous? E.g. union members joining a libertarian political party. Many thanks in advance 😊
Thanks Marília!
Hi #AcademicBluesky! Is there any research which argues that when people engage in 'countercultural' behaviour, we should expect them to have to show their commitment by being the most zealous? E.g. union members joining a libertarian political party. Many thanks in advance 😊