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Duncan McDonnell
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Professor of Politics | 🇮🇪🇦🇺| Australian Research Council Future Fellow | populism and party youth wings | https://duncanmcdonnell.com/

Political science 78%
Sociology 10%
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I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties".

(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).

Finally, I think it’s worth noting that — apart from Sweden, where Niklas & Ann-Cathrine secured some funding — YOUMEM was conducted without big financial support. It was a huge effort, done largely “for free”.

We're very pleased to be making it freely available.

And we hope you’ll find it useful!

The project has already produced a number of articles, including the overview piece in Party Politics:

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By then, “I” had become “we,” with @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, @niklasbolin.bsky.social, @rheinisch.bsky.social, Ann-Cathrine Jungar, Marco Valbruzzi, @profannikawerner.bsky.social & @cwegscheider.bsky.social coming on board.

After that, I figured: "Why not try this elsewhere?"

So things snowballed again… Covid delayed plans a bit, but we ultimately fielded surveys with the major centre-left and centre-right youth wings in Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden.

This project has had a decade-long gestation...it began when I got some money in 2016 to interview youth wing leaders in 3 Australian cities and then thought "I could ask them to circulate surveys to members".

Things snowballed...and in 2018 I ran surveys in every Australian state & territory.

YOUMEM provides a wealth of information about:

• Who joins youth wings
• When they join
• Why they join
• The issues they care about
• The extent to which they align with the party
• Their aspirations
• Their activism in & out of campaigns
• Why they stay
• Perceived costs/benefits of membership

Reposted by Niklas Bolin

We’ve just released the Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) dataset:
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ha...

It’s the largest comparative study of party youth wing members ever conducted, with survey responses from over 5,000 members of 12 centre-left and centre-right youth wings in 6 countries. 🧵
dataverse.harvard.edu

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Our study of Gen-Z voters and non-voters in 🇦🇺 has finally got an issue number in @polstudies.bsky.social!

It's great to see that it has remained in the top-10 most read articles in the journal since online publication a year ago. You can find it OA here:

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What Sofia is too modest to explicitly say in her post below, is that - in addition to our PRR youth wings book - she has a solo one coming out with OUP in June on grassroots women in the PRR:

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Coming out in June.

(when @casmudde.bsky.social & I will be presenting it at the @ces-europe.bsky.social conference in Dublin)
🔥 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🔥

The five spatial political logics of populism: An analytical framework and research agenda for studying the populist politicisation of space from the local to the transnational

in @bjpir.bsky.social with Benjamin de Cleen & Panos Panayotu
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The five spatial political logics of populism: An analytical framework and research agenda for studying the populist politicisation of space from the local to the transnational - Benjamin De Cleen, Be...
How does populism interact with space? While it is increasingly acknowledged that populism operates across geographical scales from the local to the transnation...
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The January AFR/RedBridge/Accent Research poll is out now. It shows that since December, the vote share of the former Coalition parties has collapsed further.

The Liberal, LNP and National vote is less than half of their pre-election high.

"Northern Queensland sovereignty has always been a passion of mine".

Given recent trends, I'm presuming @benstanley.eu is in talks with Law & Justice about running at the European elections, @benmoffitt.bsky.social is lobbying for a One Nation senate spot in Victoria, while @sldelange.bsky.social has her eye on a technocrat appointment in a future PVV government?

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My cold has passed, so we are finally celebrating the acceptance at @ejprjournal.bsky.social with a White Lady 🤍

Recipe for 2 from The Cocktail Codex (Death & Co, NY):

4 oz gin
1 oz Cointreau
1.5 oz fresh lemon juice
0.5 oz simple syrup
2 egg whites

Garnish with a lemon peel

#poliscicocktail

For more details about the project, see our overview article published in Party Politics:

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Another score for the YOUMEM team!

This article, led by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, is the third from our YOUMEM project on youth wings to be accepted for publication in European Journal of Political Research. Thanks to the @ejprjournal.bsky.social editors for their continued support!
Given the bad cold that I've had for the past few days (in the midst of the Australian summer 🤦‍♀️), waking up to this email was particularly sweet...

Coming soon in @ejprjournal.bsky.social: our YOUMEM study on gender differences in motivations for joining youth wings of young women and men ✨

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Given the bad cold that I've had for the past few days (in the midst of the Australian summer 🤦‍♀️), waking up to this email was particularly sweet...

Coming soon in @ejprjournal.bsky.social: our YOUMEM study on gender differences in motivations for joining youth wings of young women and men ✨

Not to mention South Australia, NT, and Western Australia!

You mean 'Happy New Year New South Wales and Victoria"...

Thanks Hugo. Same to you!

Skipped it this year in favour of local calamari.

The bugs have come out well.

Christmas Eve dinner.

Oysters, Moreton Bay bugs (like lobster, but nicer), and calamari.

Washed down with a fine Pinot Grigio from Victoria.

Happy Christmas/Buon Natale!
Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day.

"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
An old favourite - “I never truly feel the Christmas spirit until I see the "Tony Blair being held back from attacking you in the pub" card”

Bravo Matthijs!!