I’m very excited to see our paper „Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety“ (with Roni Lehrer , @okuspokus.bsky.social, Marcel Neunhoeffer, Thomas Gschwend and Sebastian Juhl) now published in EJPR! Check it out, it‘s open access:

Rallying around the leader in times of crises: The opposing effects of perceived threat and anxiety

In times of crisis, citizens tend to increase their approval of the government and its leader which can shift the balance of power. This ‘rally effect’ is a persistent empirical regularity; however, ....