There are only a few days left to apply for the UNEQUALMAND workshop in Paris! If interested, make sure to send me your proposal by 31 May 🤗
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Final UNEQUALMAND workshop on social groups, mandate responsiveness & political (in)equality
📍 Sciences Po, Paris
📅 24–25 Sept 2026
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📝 Proposals due 31 May
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But in our experiment, targeted pledges produced lower average support than a broad-based pledge.
Why? We find little evidence of a strong ingroup bonus. Instead, support drops among outgroups: voters who are not part of the targeted group, do not identify with it, or see it as less deserving.
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Parties increasingly promise benefits to specific groups, (parents, pensioners, rural residents...) This may make promised benefits more visible, concrete and personally relevant – and thus mobilize beneficiaries more effectively.
Really interesting study!
The impact is probably even more crucial in countries using majoritarian systems such as France.