Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lucerne. PhD from the European University Institute.
Interested in elections, democratic attitudes and digitalization politics.
More on https://acanalejo.github.io/
Álvaro Canalejo-Molero
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Out in POQ -- Mind the Gap: Partisan Bias in Justifying Political Violence in the United States academic.oup.com/poq/article/...
New paper, with Patrick Fournier & @zeynsom.bsky.social, out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social!
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
a brief 🧵
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/...
📢 My Bluesky-less colleague Lena Schaffer is advertising one PhD and one Postdoctoral position in her new SNF project on climate politics at @uniluzern.bsky.social
Here is the link with info about the postdoc position and instructions to apply 👇: www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
Please share! 🔁
🚨 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/...
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? Our new paper at @thejop.bsky.social documents exactly this, and the dynamics are more complex than "mothers are busier."
Full paper, open access: doi.org/10.1086/736550
@institute-juanlinz.bsky.social @gendersky.bsky.social #politicalscience
📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk!
Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence.
Deadline: 31 August 2026
Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027
Please share widely! 🙏
#OpenAccess from @epsrjournal.bsky.social -
Priming common European and democratic values does not reduce affective polarization - https://cup.org/4fpJPtl
- @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social, Lorenzo Cicchi, @fredericofs.bsky.social, Diego Garzia, Andres Reiljan & Alexander Harald Trechsel
#FirstView
Given that there are few parties in the left-authoritarian quadrant of a two-dimensional ideological space, citizens that combine economically left and sociocul...
Abstract. Political polarization in America has intensified beyond mere disagreement to what scholars characterize as sectarianism—a condition where partis
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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...
Women consume less media than men and are more likely to avoid political news. This
gender gap in media consumption is frequently attributed to women’s time constraints
resulting from the combination ...
Do Americans judge acts of partisan political violence impartially? No. We show that Democrats and Republicans exhibit clear partisan bias: both see the same violent act as more justified when it targets the other party than when it targets their own side.
osf.io/preprints/so...
#polisky
