🚨 What happens with voters when politicians use simpler language?
New @thejop.bsky.social paper with @rsenninger.bsky.social: simple language changes not just what citizens understand, but who they think politicians are.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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The Sound of Silence: #Championing #Democracy in an #Authoritarian #Society
By @hhuang.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
How does the level of sophistication in political messages affect citizens? While
research has examined how politicians use this element to distinguish themselves,
little is known about how it resonat...
Trying to understand why synthetic control is for a while. Comments are welcome!
yiqingxu.substack.com/p/what-is-sy...
New preprint: Jack Lucas, @breunig.eurosky.social and I reanalyze 70,470 assessments made by 12,860 politicians about their constituents' public opinion and demographics, sourced from every available published study of elite perceptual accuracy, and our own original data. /1
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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What the literature has converged to in the past 20 years.
Announcing WorldCups.ai — the most comprehensive database on the World Cup. 27 datasets. 31 tournaments. 1,312 matches. 10,912 players. Every goal, card, substitution, and penalty kick from every men's and women's tournament since 1930.
A fully funded 2-year postdoc for my ERC project on climate politics, comparative politics and political economy.
Deadline: 29 July 2026, 10am CET
Starting date: Jan 2027 (flexible)
Feel free to reach out next week at EPSS if you’d like to discuss the position
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍
📊 Survey Research & Political Participation
🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation
Part of “The New Climate Divide”
Deadline: 21 June 2026
Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/...
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Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams?
A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
Yiqing Xu
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2 Years - Postdoctoral Position Starting January 2027
We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply!
👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello
Excited to share our new paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @krausewe.bsky.social! Parties polling just below an electoral threshold are far less likely to clear it: a self-fulfilling prophecy that diminishes when polls communicate uncertainty. 🗳️📊
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social)
Do opinion polls shape election results?
Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
