Professor of Political Science @lund-university.bsky.social
Hanna Bäck
#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social -
From crisis to commitment: How empowerment and threat perceptions influence individuals’ defence willingness - https://cup.org/3LhKFLT
- @hannaeback.bsky.social, Amanda Remsö, Emma Renström & Roxanna Sjöstedt
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💡 Are parties wasting time negotiating coalition deals?
🤝 @mebergman.bsky.social, @hannaeback.bsky.social & Wolfgang C Müller
looks at whether prolonged coalition talks actually deliver better outcomes — or if they just cost parties (and voters) precious time.
Do consider joining the new EPSS conference in Belfast next year! I will be chairing the section on Political Representation with Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social
📢 EPSS 2026 Call for Papers! @hannaeback.bsky.social and I are excited to invite submissions for the Political Representation section at EPSS 2026 in Belfast. EPSS has some exciting new panel formats this year - read on! 🧵
🚨💣 "From crisis to commitment: How empowerment and threat perceptions influence individuals’ defence willingness" from @hannaeback.bsky.social, Amanda Remsö, Emma Renström & Roxanna Sjöstedt.
👉 Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
▶️ Political Representation
👉🏽 Section chairs: @hannaeback.bsky.social
& @sopro.bsky.social
📢 Our section welcomes work that addresses representation, legislative politics, or electoral institutions, esp. research advancing our theoretical understanding + offers new empirical evidence. >>>
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Let’s make next year’s EPSS Political Representation section a space for rigorous scholarship, vibrant exchange, and new collaborations!
📅 EPSS 2026 submission deadline: November 7, 2025
📎 Submit here: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1
Shreyas Meher and Patrick T. Brandt demonstrate how state-of-the-art language models can be efficiently adapted for political event classification, achieving up to 1400% improvement in accuracy while remaining computationally accessible.
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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