@elizabethjevans.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1007/s111... Through survey experiments in UK+US we found: 🦾Disabled citizens feel better represented by disabled than non-disabled candidates. (1/3)

As we go into the semester and get already for big conferences, remember: bless the nodder and the joke laugher and the question asker

Very happy to see our work (with my PhD student Justin Robinson) on the causal effect of the psychological trait of authoritarianism on political attitudes & voting in Britain published in Political Behavior link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Authoritarianism, Political Attitudes, and Vote Choice: A Longitudinal Analysis of the British Electorate - Political Behavior

The nature, measurement, and correlates of the psychological trait of authoritarianism have spurred an intense and long-lasting debate in political psychology, dating back to the 1950s. This article a...

In light of the looming US elections, re-upping the thread below about our new book on DARK POLITICS (The thread includes a voucher to get 30% off the cover price 🙂🙂)

ANalessandronai.bsky.socialDec 26, 2023 2:51pm

🚨Dark Politics is now out at OUP in paperback, hardcover, ebook Feeling that politics is getting dark? We have a book for ya We investigate dark personality traits in politicians worldwide, and why they matter - for voters, elections, and democracy mini🧵(& voucher!)

🚨 pub day! we have a new paper out at the APSR on misinformation and vigilantism we show that debunking misinfo not only changes misinformed beliefs, but also reduces support for extra-judicial violence in both india & pakistan (joint work w @simonchauchard.bsky.social and Niloufer Siddiqui)

Wow - this is an amazing starter pack! Go check it out.

Excited to present more work with my (academic) boyfriend @bertous.bsky.social on the stigmatization of the far-right on the dating market

FSfloriso.bsky.socialAug 26, 2024 5:59am

August is ending. That means the Comparative Politics Group @comppollu.bsky.social is gearing up for an exciting seminar series, organized by the brilliant @jonathanpolk.bsky.social and Alex Ryan. Come join us! @hannaeback.bsky.social @robertklemmensen.bsky.social @agustingoenaga.bsky.social

In a nutshell, I argue that if we want to escape the cycle of disappointment that runs throughout the history of democratic innovation and reform, we have to stop thinking of democracy primarily as a way of making decisions together. Democracy is about the distribution of power.

New paper out on the sources of social status: doi.org/10.1111/1475... Using a conjoint design, fielded in 🇨🇭, I show that economic and cultural sources shape social status.

Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources

This paper applies a conjoint experiment to assess the sources of contemporary social status hierarchies in Western Europe. Social status has become a popular concept in political science to explain ....

In light of the UK extreme right riots & Tommy Robinson's role in them, our conditionally accepted @bjpols.bsky.social@florianfoos.bsky.socialhttps://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/urhxy (1/12) Polisky