We’ve just released the Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) dataset:
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ha...
It’s the largest comparative study of party youth wing members ever conducted, with survey responses from over 5,000 members of 12 centre-left and centre-right youth wings in 6 countries. 🧵
Pau Marí-Klose: "Ha llegado el momento de la adaptación al cambio climático, y eso implica movilizar muchos recursos" www.eldiario.es/1_c05722?utm...
Spain Is an Example to the World
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Woody by Andy English
British, b. 1956 -
Wood engraving
Muere Jaime Miquel, el Luis Aragonés de la sociología www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...
Out now (OA) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Do people in rural areas want politicians offering stronger representation to rural areas - as opposed to just their local area? Yes - based an original conjoint experiment in the UK (1/5)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right.
It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵
Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆
He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."
Pati Manning, Barcelona. 14/05/2025
“Lo malo es que este libro no se venderá en España, y cuando pueda circular libremente nadie sabrá de qué estoy hablando”
New special issue on political mobilization @karinakosped.bsky.social @anika-gauja.bsky.social @kweissenbach.bsky.social
Here we observe which party activists are more inclined to get informed through party websites @pcorreavila.bsky.social & O.Barberà
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ppqa/31/2
Our book rethinks prime-ministerial performance by asking: What tasks must PMs fulfill in parliamentary democracies? Using a "delegation chain" framework, we identify 2 core tasks:
1️⃣ Running state affairs (e.g., cabinet conflicts, policies, crises).
2️⃣ Maintaining parliamentary & party support.
🎉 Excited to announce our book "Prime Ministers in Central and Eastern Europe: Careers, Context, and Performance" is out and published by Oxford University Press! Co-authored by the amazing Florian Grotz, @corinnakroeber.bsky.social, & Marko Kukec. More: academic.oup.com/book/59247
Oops! Sorry, I lost it in the copy & paste...
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Are unexperienced politicians more likely to become polarizers?
MPs with less parliamentary experience, and with less prior political experience are more likely to express negativity toward outparties in their legislative speeches, by
@hannaeback.bsky.social
El jefe de la Cancillería de Olaf Scholz @wolfgangschmidt.bsky.social en Agenda Pública: "La cooperación entre los socialdemócratas y el Partido Popular Europeo es clave"
agendapublica.es/noticia/1953...
Last summer I gave this interview on the far right in Spain and beyond to @jrteruel.bsky.social for @agendapublica.es
Isidre Molas és el fundador de la ciència política moderna a Catalunya, una font de renovació crucial per a la politologia espanyola, i l’inspirador intel.lectual de diverses generacions d’acadèmics, publicistes i polítics de tots colors.
Li han donat la Creu de Sant Jordi 👏
“Opinion polls are inaccurate, distort political debate and should be banned during the final weeks of an election campaign” www.politico.eu/article/ban-...
