🆕Does candidate gender matter for vote choice?

🇱🇹 Using data from >500,000 ballots in Lithuanian elections 🗳️, Jana Birke Belschner Raimondas Ibenskas & F Weiler show how voters' candidate #gender preferences are distributed & how they vary in size & direction

👉bit.ly/3QaKOQG #OA

Hot off the press! In our new paper in @ejprjournal, we show how threat language was used as a political communication element during the first phase of the COVID-19 crisis. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Sarah C Dingler Martin Senn Christian Schwaderer AMKx Nada Ragheb

Very glad to see it published! We provide experimental evidence supporting the findings of several observational studies: some consensual features improve citizens' satisfaction with democracy. There are also some innovative findings...the article is available in #openaccess

🆕 When are parties likely to make expansionary #ElectionPromises ?

Rory Costello University Of Limerick explores spending commitments 💰 in party manifestos from 20 countries 1945–2017 & finds that such promises 🤝 are made when ideological competition is more muted

👉 bit.ly/3vPjKzt #OA

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🌟 We're looking for a team of up to 5 scholars to join us as a new pre-formed Editorial Team!
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🆕 What influence do time constraints have on decisions of ministers in policy initiation?

Xiao Lu Peking University explores the strategic postponement of 🤝 #coalition #policy making in European Parliamentary #democracies 🇪🇺

👉 bit.ly/49BxT11 #policy #EU

Does studying at university make individuals less Eurosceptic?

A new EJPR journal study by Andrew McNeil and I finds that while university study does little to decrease Euroscepticism in the short-run, it has substantial long-run effects.

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

🆕 Who used threat language & when during the #C19 #Pandemic ?

Using data from 1108 press conferences 🗣️, Sarah C Dingler, Lore Hayek et al. analyse which factors influence the likelihood of threat language in the #CrisisCommunication of govts 😱

👉 bit.ly/4cTiXxZ #OA

The Easter basket wasn't empty.🐣🐰

Great to see our (w Dirk Leuffen & Julian Schuessler) article on the link between fairness and public support for (differentiated) EU integration published EJPR journal:
doi.org/10.1111/1475-6…
EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy Uni Konstanz Department of Politics & Public Admіn

🆕 Do crisis conditions mitigate the effects of heightened partisanship?

Using data from 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇭🇺 🇵🇱, Amanda Driscoll, J Krehbiel, M Nelson & Sangyeon Kim examine crisis perceptions, #Partisanship & public support for #DemocraticNorms

👉 bit.ly/4aHDLXk #C19 #Pandemic

🆕 What factors impact our satisfaction with democracy?

Z Papp, Julien Navarro, Federico Russo & L Nagy conducted conjoint experiments in 🇫🇷, 🇭🇺 & 🇮🇹 to explore patterns of #Democracy & democratic satisfaction 📊

👉 bit.ly/3xAcrvM #OA #PoliticalDecisions

🆕 Does studying at university make us less #Eurosceptic ?

Using BHPS and UKHLS data, Andrew McNeil & Elizabeth Simon explore the linkage 🔗 of #HigherEducation & British attitudes towards #EuropeanIntegration 🇪🇺

👉 bit.ly/3U6qy54 #OA #EU #Brexit

📢 EJPR is hiring! ⬇️

🆕 How does fairness affect our support of #EU policies?

Max Heermann, Dirk Leuffen & Julian Schuessler use #DifferentiatedIntegration to experimentally dissect 🔬 normative & utility-oriented considerations in the evaluation of #EU policies 🇪🇺

👉 bit.ly/4cF8UMO #OA

🆕 Does #StateViolence affect tax morale?

To explore this question, Vlad Surdea-Hernea uses an original dataset that geolocates 🌐 individuals who were seriously injured during the #AntiCommunist #RomanianRevolution of 1989 🇷🇴

👉 bit.ly/3VBSq28 ECPR SG Political Violence

Check out the 🆕 blog piece on The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR from Andreas Dür & Robert A. Huber, based on EJPR research

📘 Read the original article
👉 bit.ly/42JEmVP #OA

👏👏 Congratulations to Alina Vranceanu Elias Dinas Tobias Heidland, moving to heidland.bsky.social & Martin Ruhs

🚨New study in EJPR journal 🚨

We explore the EU Eastern Enlargement's effect on German immigration concerns due to the higher immigration levels. Results? No average effect, but higher concerns among materialist-valued Germans. Insights into backlash to EU free movement policy.

Tobias Heidland, moving to heidland.bsky.social and I show in EJPR journal that Merkel's famous 2015 decision NOT to close the border had no pull effect on #Migration in the following years. After a lot of data crunching and many rounds of review, I am thrilled to see this out today! ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

🆕 The cost of ruling from a new(s) perspective

G Thesen, C Green-Pedersen & P Mortensen argue that the #Incumbency bonus 📰 constitutes an electoral liability because it reflects the critical 🧐 approach of media to #GovernmentPower

👉 bit.ly/4clnBEB #OA