📢I am thrilled that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for my project Intangible and Invisible Interests, Concealed Constituents and Excluded Electorates: Understanding the Politics of Absence (INCONEX) #ERCStG#EUsky#Polisky#representation#EUwww.plus.ac.at/news/lucy-ki...

Lucy Kinski erhält „ERC Starting Grant“ für Spitzenforschung zur Politik der Abwesenheit - Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg

Die Politikwissenschaftlerin Dr. Lucy Kinski vom Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS) der Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (PLUS) hat für ein innovatives Forschungsprojekt einen „ERC Sta...

Happy to announce that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for my project titled "Deception in Democracy: Political Lying Accusations and Their Effects on Democratic Citizenship" A huge thank you to everyone who has helped making this happen!

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, ....

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It’s us! It’s open access. It demonstrates that candidates like Harris may be getting a boost *because* of their race and ethnicity, not in spite of them.

BJbjpols.bsky.socialAug 15, 2024 8:25am

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Evaluating the Minority Candidate Penalty with a Regression Discontinuity Approach - cup.org/4f1E8zb - Ariel White, @pshah.bsky.social, @egojunk.bsky.social & Bernard L. Fraga

Important (and immensely readable!) piece on the current problems of UK HE.

EHellenhalliday.bsky.socialAug 15, 2024 2:09pm

“The real crisis is buried deep within the finance and organisation of our higher education sector. It is a tale of ideological over-commitment, unexpected consequences, economic misfortune and financial blunders.” wrote @gsoh31.bsky.social Read more: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

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"If climate policies want to be successful, they must be about more than climate". Study by Michaël Tatham & Yvette Peters reveals people may be willing to accept ambitious green policies if redistribution measures are also implemented. partner.sciencenorway.no/climate-poli...

Study reveals the key to successful climate policies

“If climate policies want to be successful, they must be about more than climate,” Michaël Tatham says.