Two positions as PhD fellow available in the project Representing the Future in an Aging Europe: The Politics of Demographic Change, PI @janabelschner.bsky.social - deadline 2nd August. Full call 👇
Job title: 2 PhD positions, Department of Comparative Politics (265493), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, August 2, 2024
We have 2 PhD positions in the project Representing the Future in an Aging Europe: The Politics of Demographic Change, PI @janabelschner.bsky.socialwww.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Job title: 2 PhD positions, Department of Comparative Politics (263562), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, August 2, 2024
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📢 New article 🌟 👥 Josefina Sipinen, Jana Belschner @janabelschner.bsky.social@britanlar.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1016/j.el...
New publication w @JosefinaSipinen & @britanlar.Drawing data from FIN,we show that young candidates are more likely to run & succeed in national than in local elections.1 explanation is local affinity voting by the many senior citizens.
This article compares the relationship between candidate age and political selection on the local and national level of politics. On which level are y…
📢New article out:Using data from the CompCandSurvey, I explore age-related electoral disadvantages across time and countries.Main finding: Core resources (💰⏰🕸️)are distributed on an inverted u-shape,favoring middle-aged over young & senior candidates.
Young people continue to be underrepresented in formal politics. Previous research indicates that being a non-middle-aged candidate negatively affects…
Our article “Party-interest group ties: The resource exchange model revisited” is published in the latest issue of European Journal of Political Research (Volume 63, Issue 1). #OpenAccessejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We examine the existence and strength of organizational ties between parties and interest groups by innovating on classic resource exchange theory. First, we propose that the nature of interest group....
"Substantial increases in poverty for working-age people on low incomes is overwhelmingly an issue of intra, not intergenerational inequality, as the data demonstrates – based on structural inequalities like gender and ethnicity" - @jdportes.bsky.social#pensions#UKpol
sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New publication out in Electoral Studies! In this study, I analyze generational voting differences in Western European multiparty systems - focusing on generational realignment *within* political blocs and using individual survey data spanning over 70 years.
Across Western Europe, the electoral base of formerly dominating parties on the left and the right has been eroding in the past decades. In contrast, …