@ejprjournal.bsky.social
Publishing original and substantial contributions to the study of comparative European politics.
A journal from @ecpr.bsky.social and @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialPocketbook politics and climate action 👛 🌳
@frederikthieme.bsky.social uses German panel data to ask why green parties continue to struggling electorally despite overwhelming public support for climate action, and shows what impact economic strain has
@scilove.bsky.socialReposted by @ejprjournal.bsky.social🔥 Trending on SciLove today 🔥
🔬 The democratic ideal under stress: Citizen commitment to democratic rights and procedures in challenging times
👤 Rauh et al., 2026
📖 European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social
🔗 https://www.scilove.app/article/10.1017/s1475676526101613
#PoliSci
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialOnline privacy protection 🦹♂️
@digitalaut-ecpr.bsky.social's Ahmed Maati & Stefan Wurster ask whether the quality of democracy affect how well citizens’ online privacy is protected, using data from the varieties of democracy to capture variation
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialShaping the left wing 🪽
@ecprpovb.bsky.social's D.Angelucci & @ecpr-migration.bsky.social's E.Flumeri analyse 19 Western European countries to suggest that the gender gap is stronger when left-wing parties have progressive policies on both economic and social/cultural issues
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialDiaspora diplomacy in the making 🏗️ 🌊
Inta Mieriņa & Baiba Bela study the important role that individual people living abroad can play in international diplomacy looking at a case of Latvian professionals in international organisations
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialDo voting advice applications have durable causal effects?
Micha Germann, @iuliacioroianu.bsky.social, Fernando Mendez & Constantinos Djouvas present new evidence to better under the causal effects of VAAs on political knowledge, preferences and behaviour
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialMapping public perceptions of politicians 🗺️
Mads Nørgaard uses Danish survey data to demonstrate that most citizens view politicians as both internally homogeneous and socially distinct from the general population
@ejprjournal.bsky.social#Gender in the face of #Terrorist threat 💪
Brian Littmann, Nadia Natasha James Nielsen & Lasse Laustsen compare citizens gender preference before and during the face of terrorist threat to better understand how threat decreases citizens’ relative preferences
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialWhy are women more supportive of the #WelfareState than men? 🚺️ 🆚 🚹️
@kaitlin-alper.bsky.social, @davidattewell6.bsky.social & Andreas Jozwiak address gender inequality, showing the connection between the wider political consequences and broader structures of income inequality
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialWhat is changing?
Our new #Reproducibility policy outlines the changes we are making across EJPR to strength #ResearchIntegrity within our community, including stronger data availability and code sharing
Read our news story here: buff.ly/rKpyo7y
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialShades of #Climate skepticism 🕶️ 🌳
@asheinze.bsky.social & @akueppers.bsky.social examine diverse climate attitudes of local political elites to develop an analytical framework, assessing the varying degrees of climate skepticisms in two eastern German states
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialDo emotions affect political trust judgments? 😌 🆚 😔
Camille Landesvatter & @gesis.org's Paul Bauer offer novel empirical evidence to show that in addition to informed and rational reasoning, emotional state plays a role in #Trust evaluations, looking at a U.S. sample
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialOverpromising populists 🤞
@ecprsgpp.bsky.social's Mathias Bukh Vestergaard explores whether the image of 'overpromising populists' is accurate, using a novel dataset to empirically demonstrate that established parties make substantially more promises
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialResearch is strongest 💪 when others can understand, evaluate, and build on it 🏗️
That's why our new Reproducibility Guidelines provide clear guidance on transparency, data, code, and research material requirements 🤩
Read the policy here:
@ejprjournal.bsky.socialWe will see you in an hour #ecprgc26! 🚨 ⏰️
Come see @alessandronai.bsky.social, @caterinafr.bsky.social
& @robert-a-huber.bsky.social today 📆 to chat about all things #ECRs! 👨🎓
@ejprjournal.bsky.social💥 In Wednesday's #ecprgc26 #PoliticalViolence EJPR panel
💻️ @audreyvdleene.bsky.social told us
👩💻 'Women running for office don't just face the same violence all candidates encounter, but #sexism too'
🪧 'This forces women candidates to self-censor the political issues they are prepared to discuss'
@leonhardschmidt.bsky.socialReposted by @ejprjournal.bsky.socialAbsolutely stoked to have received the Best Paper Prize 2025 from @ecpr-ead.bsky.social at #ecprgc26 🥳
You can read the published paper, co-authored with @bcastanho.bsky.social, in the EJPR: doi.org/10.1017/S147...
The pun in the title had to go, unfortunately...
@ejprjournal.bsky.social💥From yesterday's #ecprgc26 Panel on #PoliticalViolence & Radicalisation:
💻️ @markuswagner.bsky.social tells the room
'I don't believe political violence is ever legitimate against democratic actors. But political anger is a reasonable reaction to injustice, without which nothing would ever change!'
@ejprjournal.bsky.social💥 Thanks to everyone who attended today's #ecprgc26 Political Violence and Radicalisation panel featuring EJPR editors @alessandronai.bsky.social & @markuswagner.bsky.social alongside
@audreyvdleene.bsky.social, @tevoelker.bsky.social, @danschindler.bsky.social & Måns Lundstedt.
@ejprjournal.bsky.social🔊 Live from our Political Violence and Radicalisation panel at #ecprgc26.
🗣️ EJPR editor @markuswagner.bsky.social + panellists @tevoelker.bsky.social and @audreyvdleene.bsky.social discuss what political science has to say about the alleged rise in violence – and possible solutions to curb it.
