You Vs. the guy he told you not to worry about.

Next?

Was very happy to give this (early days) paper it's first public outing to staff and students at RHUL Politics and IR politics today.

Bringing the MCU/Disney/Game of Thrones in to test theories of social identity and partisanship in the world of affective polarisation 🤓

NEW - The Truss debacle (or how party selectorates are holding Britain hostage)

Whilst the recent disaster indicts Truss and colleagues, emphasis upon Truss is something of a red herring. 1/3

Retweets greatly appreciated 😊

thomasprosser.substack.com/p/the-truss-de…

Kwasi was Chancellor for five days less than David Blaine was in that box

'Recalibrating #populism measurement tools: Methodological inconsistencies and challenges to our understanding of the relationship between the supply- and demand-side of populism'

Article with Jose Rama finally out Frontiers in Sociology
#methodology #polisci frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Join us in just over an hour for a talk from Maryna Shevtsova on the Ukrainian crisis, transnational activism, and LGBTQ rights 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦

We are very excited to be welcome Maryna Shevtsova this week for a talk on:
'Solidarity test: on LGBTQ activism and transnational alliances in the times of the war in Ukraine'

Given ongoing developments coming out of Kiev today, this research has never been more important🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦

Or read the book by Jose Rama Lisa Zanotti Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte & Andres Santana Leitner — and follow them here!

routledge.com/VOX-The-Rise-o…

More evidence of the institutionally transnational nature of the far-right.

Parties and their voters not operating within limits of the state as Jose Rama and I argue here

doi.org/10.1016/j.elec…

Grateful to publish in Electoral Studies ! Greens have a strong appeal among West European LGBs compared to other party groups. LGBs & non-LGBs are more similar otherwise.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🧵 I’m thrilled to share my new article “Parties’ group appeals across time, countries and communication channels—examining appeals to social groups via the Parties’ Group Appeals Dataset” published in Party Politics!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

#OpenAccess thanks to University College Dublin

The level of active and aggressive transphobia in the UK is getting out of control.

This was a great start to the research season at Southampton!

🏳️‍⚧️ Spain's far-right party Vox, claiming that 'biology is real' and that it defends children, says the Spanish government's self-ID bill 'discriminates against people who might feel like a platypus or Lady Gaga'. #LeyTrans

Ni Freixas ni la autora del artículo aportan datos, así que toca ponerlos sobre la mesa.

Hace más de un año, el PSOE viene siendo el partido con mayor intención de voto en mujeres mes a mes, con la única excepción de julio 2022, pero volviendo a serlo en septiembre.

Abro 🧵

Here you go. Turmoil and transformation, plus thrills and spills aplenty. Out early next year from Polity (available to pre-order here amazon.co.uk/Conservative-P…).

'Truss has [...] said she was prepared to “be unpopular” to get her way. The reaction to her premiership so far at least indicates success on that front.' 🔥

Dr. Hannah Bunting and I wrote in The Conversation on Truss and the polling

👉 theconversation.com/liz-truss-how-…