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Out now🎉 - Evidence (from distribution analyses and machine learning models on EES 2014-2024 data) of strong similarities and growing convergence in EU public opinion, particularly on economic issues. Common right-ward shifts on immigration, yes - but underlying drivers still vary. shorturl.at/KCx0S

Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions This study challenges the conventional conceptualisation of political space in European countries as a two-dimensional socio-economic and socio-cultural structure. Utilising data from the 2024 Euro...

Fresh from the press: "Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions" together with @nilsjungmann.bsky.social We challenge dominant assumptions about the structure of political conflict. a 🧵1/ x

📢New @jeppjournal.bsky.social publication w/ @elskevdhoogen.bsky.social & @claesdevreese.bsky.social studying “The role of far-right party performance in shaping disinformation concerns of European voters” in the #EP2024 elections using @eesresearch.bsky.social data 🧵 tinyurl.com/bdzn8jw3

Anyone else up for the #EES24challenge? @elskevdhoogen.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social & I study #disinformation concerns of EU citizens. Here are means & 95% CIs for item ‘There was a lot of disinformation in the media reporting of the EP election’ (1=fully disagree, 5=fully agree, N=22,009)

Delighted that the European Election Study (EES) 2024 🇪🇺 is released today! This is only possible thanks for the generosity of academic colleagues across Europe who funded it and the hard work of the EES exec and GESIS

Hope you enjoy the data!

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🚨 Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce the latest wave of the European Elections Voter Study! 📊🇪🇺 Check it out here: search.gesis.org/research_dat...
Join the #EES24challenge: reply with a plot created using EES24 data—we can’t wait to see your insights!

Polarisation in European Union politics: The 2024 European Parliament elections and beyond European Consortium for Political Research

Attention EES scholars: Consider submitting your study proposals to the @ECPR Joint Sessions workshop “Polarisation in EU politics: The 2024 EP elections & beyond” by 21 Nov. More info: tinyurl.com/25e44pav

@sarahobolt.bsky.social kicking off the discussion #EES24Premiere @eesresearch.bsky.social @rhulpirp.bsky.social @gbenedetto.bsky.social EES24 will be available to the community v soon - stay tuned!

EES24 Premiere: @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @miriamsorace.bsky.social will present evidence from our 2024 survey in this public event ahead of the data release on Nov 1st! Join them if you are around the London area: info to register in link below!

Only 1 month left to apply to a fully-funded (+ stipend) PhD position in my UKRI FLF grant. It comes with exciting secondment opportunities! To apply just send in a CV and detail your experience with quant methods and political economy/behaviour in your cover letter. Link to apply: rb.gy/pklmg1

The EES 2024 Voter Study will be released on November 1st. Info on the survey and questionnaire here: rb.gy/yracha

, @miriamsorace.bsky.social, Marco Steenbergen, @joostvanspanje.bsky.social, Đorđe Milosav, Theresa Kuhn, @ilketoygur.bsky.social, @alesojka.bsky.social

@markuskollberg.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, Jannik Jansen, @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social, @kgattermann.bsky.social, @elskevdhoogen.bsky.social, @claesdevreese.bsky.social, Sebastian Popa, Wouter van der Brug, @sarahobolt.bsky.social

We discussed great papers on the radical right, on disinformation, on climate policy preferences, and on the dimensionality of – and commonalities in – the European political space by:

And … it’s a wrap! A massive THANK YOU to all the participants to the EES24 Workshop and to ACES, Theresa Kuhn, @kgattermann.bsky.social and Wouter van der Brug for hosting!

The European Parliament Elections 2024 - SPUI25 The campaigns for the European Parliament elections are currently gaining momentum across Europe as 400 million voters will be heading to the polls between 6 and 9 June 2024. During this event, Wouter...

Want to know more about #EUelections2024 and the EES? Catch us at these upcoming events:

- 22/05: tinyurl.com/32cf3je3 @kgattermann.bsky.social
- 06/06: rb.gy/xi8aac @sarahobolt.bsky.social
- 10/06: rb.gy/z9vevk @sarahobolt.bsky.social
- 13/06: rb.gy/uhfgx2 @miriamsorace.bsky.social

The @eesresearch.bsky.social data will be available
@ GESIS by January 2025. Stay tuned!

Policy & Practice: What can we expect from the European Parliament elections? Citizens in the 27 EU member states will be voting to elect the next European Parliament in June. Much has been written about the recent rise of far-right parties in many parts of the continent - Italy, Sweden, Finland, Greece, and most recently the Netherlands, with Geert Wilders’ Freedom party becoming the biggest party in the Dutch parliament. And yet, a far right surge does not seem inevitable. For instance, Spanish voters delivered a hung parliament in July 2023, which led to a progressive coalition, and Polish voters ousted PIS in October. Join us for this Policy & Practice seminar, to hear our panelists share their thoughts on what we might expect from European voters in June. We will also discuss the implications of the elections for the politics of the EU, for the next Commission, and for the EU’s policies on Ukraine, migration, the climate crisis, and more. Meet the speakers Professor Sara Hobolt FBA is Sutherland Chair in European Institutions in the Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published extensively on elections, referendums, public opinion and European Union politics. She is the Chair of European Election Studies (EES), an EU-wide project studying voters, parties, candidates and the media in European Parliamentary elections. Her most recent book (co-authored with Catherine De Vries) is Political Entrepreneurs. The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020). Tony Barber is European Comment Editor of the Financial Times. He is a former foreign correspondent in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, the former Soviet Union, the US and the former Yugoslavia. In 2012 he was awarded the Medal of Gratitude by the Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk in recognition of his work in support of freedom and democracy in Poland. He wrote the introduction to Mud Sweeter Than Honey, a book on communist Albania by the author Margo Rejmer. Dr Heather Grabbe is a senior fellow at Bruegel, and visiting professor at UCL and KU Leuven. A political scientist, she researches the political economy of the European Green Deal and how the climate transition will change the EU’s international relationships and external policies. She was previously director of the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels, and earlier deputy director of the Centre for European Reform in London. Her columns appear in the Financial Times and Politico, among other leading publications. Chair: Dr Michal Ovádek is Lecturer in European Institutions, Politics and Policy in the UCL Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy. Recorded 14 March 2024 Co-organised with UCL European Institute: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/

A brilliant overview on what to expect from the next European Parliament elections from our very own @sarahobolt.bsky.social

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Curious about Europeans’ views on political parties, climate, geo-political threats, immigration, and liberal democracy? Our upcoming voter study will have it all and more! EES 2024 will be in the field soon. Stay tuned!