New research from colleagues at UCD found that while AI chatbots can give useful information about upcoming elections, they sometimes return incomplete, inconsistent, or outright false answers & the choice of chatbot matters!
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Some v. interesting patterns in our pre-2026 locals data e.g., the share of younger women saying they would vote Green appears considerably higher than the share reporting a Green vote in 2024.
Lots more to dig into, but it's one of several changing dynamics on the left that we explore here 👇
Very excited to have been awarded a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant with @lottehargrave.bsky.social for a project I've been desperate to work on since my PhD.
Look out for us presenting this at conferences soon!
I'm delighted to be co-editing a Research Topic in Frontiers in Political Science with Zoe Lefkofridi and Vera Beloshitzkaya on gender backlash, public opinion, and institutional responses in Europe.
We're now inviting abstracts. Deadline: September 6.
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Three (gendered!) things I think are important to understanding Labour support. 1) Their "core voter" for the last few elections is female, young, has a degree 2) Especially in seats where the Greens/other left options are viable, this vote is splitting, with the youngest women going Green...
Very happy that our piece in Scottish Election Analysis 2026 is out bit.ly/49bWmww. Some interesting (& unsettling) insights into how voters are using AI to engage with elections.
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Louise Luxton
Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work.
We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...
Coming to @ecprgender.bsky.social #ECPG2026 and working with quant methods or curious about using them in gender & politics research?
Come along & meet other researchers at the @strathplacelab.bsky.social pre-conference social 🍻
📍 Two by Two Brewery
🕡 18:30, 14 June
RSVP here: bit.ly/4dPyr8F
Louise Luxton
🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student for a new project on Parties' social group ownership, based in the @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social research group at KU Leuven!
Deadline for applying is 26 June, estimated starting date is 1 Oct 2026.
All info is here 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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