![[…] Party People makes important contributions to the political parties and party systems literature with a new measure of party change, an original party-candidates dataset that covers a long period across nine CEE democracies, and in-depth discussions of different parties/party systems in CEE. And, the contributions and implications of Party People are not unique to CEE. The convincing argument for studying candidate changes to better understand party change is generalizable to all other democracies with political parties and elections and makes this book a must-read for all political party scholars.
Zeynep Somer-Topcu, The University of Texas at Austin
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.@makeiev.bsky.social speaking with members of the 🇩🇪🇺🇦 historical commission in Heidelberg: Up until today you hear Germans stressing their responsibility towards Russia because of „27 million 🇷🇺 victims“. We Ukrainians are excluded from this history, our victims are forgotten. Spot on!
Delighted that our paper on who gets shortlisted and subsequently selected for winnable seats (with @robfordmancs.bsky.social@martamiori.bsky.socialjournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... In short we found that selectorates still discriminate against women and ethnic minorities
Candidate selections are seen as the ‘secret garden’ of UK politics. Hundreds of parliamentary constituencies rarely change hands, meaning that the ‘real electi...
Reminder to join us tomorrow! If you can’t join in person and would like a link to attend virtually, feel free to email me. Thanks again to everyone at IE University who helped organize this, and to Bonnie Meguid and Ignacio Sanchez Cuenca for accepting to discuss and chair.
End of an era. Gutted to have to announce this today. Proud of what @ukandeu.bsky.socialukandeu.ac.uk/announcement...
Back in London, still feeling 💡 by the feedback from critics and the audience at #APSA2024. Huge thanks to everyone for joining us!
Zum Wochenstart möchten wir noch einmal auf den verlängerten #CfP#Eigentumtinyurl.com/324hxnb5#Soziologie#SozMag
