I'm travelling to Aarhus tomorrow for a fantastic "Youth Politics Workshop", hosted by @henrikseeberg.bsky.social. For the last year or so, the youth wings survey team I've been honoured to lead has been preparing a bunch of papers. We're presenting 4 of them at the workshop. (wee thread)
🚨New publication 🚨 "A Community of People Like Me. An Analysis of Members’ Perceptions of Their Engagement in Party Youth Wings" co-authored with Ann-Cathrine Jungar is now out in YOUNG. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This study investigates how members of party youth wings perceive their respective youth wings and identifies areas they believe require improvement. Empiricall...
🚨New publication 🚨 "The reality of representation in Europe: the mode of leader selection in political parties" co-authored with Nicholas Aylott is now out in Political Research Exchange. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Political parties's choices of who leads them can have a major bearing on politics. Recent research shows that selection procedures exhibit considerable variation, even among parties in broadly com...
🚨New publication🚨 Co-authored with Lars Nord: "Views from the other side. Party perceptions on news media in Swedish election campaigns 2010–2022" is now published in Journalistica tidsskrift.dk/journalistic...
Welcome to the not always easily navigable world of academic article revision: Reviewer 1: "...the work of Bolin is cited with excessive generosity." Reviewer 2: "...encourage engaging more with the literature by Bolin."
Igår lanserade Tankesmedjan Fores antologin "Vad hände?! Från engagemang till karriärister - en bok om partipolitikens förfall". Jag bidrar med ett kapitel om de politiska ungdomsförbunden. fores.se/publikation/...
Writing today on @ecpr.bsky.social blog The Loop about how the Sweden Democrats, despite electoral successes, still suffer from stigmatization.
Many right-wing populists are no longer considered outsiders, and are increasingly participating in or supporting governments. Yet many voters may still not perceive them as being similar to other par...
Almost like magic:Average marginal effects, marginal effects at the mean, and the margins command in #Statahttps://www.kai-arzheimer.com/me-at-the-margins-average-marginal-effects-marginal-effects-at-the-mean-and-statas-margins-command/
Stata's margins command greatly facilitates the interpretation of models. But what are average marginal effects and marginal effects at the mean?
I enjoyed writing this piece for The Loop on why people join PRR parties, based on interviews w/ 82 members of the BJP 🇮🇳, League 🇮🇹, & Sweden Democrats 🇸🇪. I discuss how PRR party members aren't just angry & disaffected; they also have a strong sense of pol efficacy. theloop.ecpr.eu/beyond-griev...
Sofia Ammassari argues that grievances are important in understanding why people join populist radical-right parties, but so is political efficacy – the belief that one can influence politics. We sh...