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Rosie Campbell
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Professor of Politics King’s College London

Rosie Campbell is professor of politics at King's College, University of London, and the director of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership until 2025. Previously she was a professor at UCL and Birkbeck College. She is a specialist in public expectations of politicians and voting behaviour. In 2018, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. .. more

Political science 74%
Communication & Media Studies 7%

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@politicalquarterly.bsky.social what would it take for a woman to become President of the United States? Joni Lovenduski and I outline 4/5 unlikely scenarios doi.org/10.1111/1467...
What Will it Take for a Woman to Become President of the United States?
In this article we consider what it will take for a woman to be elected President of the United States. We examine the available data from the 2024 election, in comparison to previous elections; we i....
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📊 now in English @fesonline.bsky.social:
Gender gap in voting behavior in Germany📊

It's about the “big picture” since 1953 & current trends 2021-2025.

The gender gap keeps growing, especially among the young.

-> Longer trends are continuing & partly accelerating.

library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

In our penultimate episode in this series David talks to writer @samfr.bsky.social about whether democracy can cope with the demands of the social media age. Is the bigger problem our ever-shrinking attention spans or our ever-divided politics?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Physics Paths

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"Exploring Gender Differences in Support for Rightist Parties: The Role of Party and Gender Ideology" by @profrosiecamp.bsky.social & Silvia Erzeel.

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@electoralstudies.bsky.social If you’re interested in academic studies of political polarisation we have loads of great papers at Electoral Studies. Check out this one by Joseph Phillips www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Affective polarization and habits of political participation
Affective polarization, or relative dislike of opposing partisans, is associated with several negative outcomes for democracy. However, a number of st…
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Was Gary Neville right- are middle-aged white men to blame for political polarisation? Adam Fleming asks me and @robfordmancs.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
AntiSocial - Angry middle-aged white men - BBC Sounds
Are they dividing the country?
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Today is #WorldPostDay, marking the establishment of the Universal Postal Union—a UN agency coordinating postal policies globally. The post revolutionised communication and is an increasingly common voting method, so to mark the occasion, here are some of our recent articles on postal voting... 📫 ✉️

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Heartbreaking & distressing testimony from children kidnapped by Russia as part of their genocidal acts in Ukraine but we must not look away.

I was kidnapped by Russia at 16 — like so many Ukrainian kids

www.thetimes.com/article/f8e4...
I was kidnapped by Russia at 16 — like so many Ukrainian kids
It’s estimated nearly 20,000 children in Ukraine have been abducted during the war and sent by Russia for ‘re-education’. A new documentary film reveals the horrors they face
www.thetimes.com

@iaindale.bsky.social out today with a chapter by yours truly on the Chesham and Amersham by-election. The first brick in the blue wall. Buy copies signed by Iain from Politicos www.politicos.co.uk/products/by-...

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IT'S PUBLICATION DAY

British By-Elections 1769-2025 is out today. 732 pages covering 88 by-elections. Thanks to all 87 contributors who wrote the essays.

Order your signed copy here
www.politicos.co.uk/products/by-...
I am concerned about silence of gvt ministers & others to defend basic anti-racism norms in last 6 weeks. They seem muted by their anxious inability to separate legitimate politics from prejudice & hate.

Anti-violence norms - civil war is inevitable, so support violence - really should be simpler.

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🔎 NEW INVESTIGATION 🔎

Reform has been exploiting fears around attacks on women to stoke hate against migrants. We investigated their flawed statistics and the group with far-right links that have helped spread its narrative.

https://bit.ly/4nmPpgA
Dodgy statistics and fringe beliefs: the groups behind Reform’s anti-migrant agenda
Reform has been exploiting fears around attacks on women to stoke hate against migrants. Good Law Project investigates the flawed statistics and the group with far-right links that have helped spread ...
goodlawproject.org
Great to see a really positive development in the UK’s social science data infrastructure.
Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years.

It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK.

Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social
UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years
A ground-breaking UK-wide scientific study will help improve the lives of future generations by studying 30,000 children born in 2026.
www.ukri.org
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com

So exciting!!!

Alas. Hopefully see you before then

Epop this week I hope!

Ahh thanks Joe. It’s always a pleasure to spend time with you and read your work!

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New book from Iain Dale on its way with a chapter by me on the Chesham and Amersham by-election, described at the time as the first brick in the blue wall. Buy it at Politicos signed by Iain.
British By-Elections 1769-2025 - The 88 By-Elections That Shook British Politics edited by Iain Dale COMING 18 SEPTEMBER
Biteback Hardback 18 September 2025 88 essays by 87 different politicians, historians, academics and journalists about 85 of the most important by-elections since thje John Wilkes by-election of 176...
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New book on its way with a chapter by me! ‘My’ by-election is a Labour breakthrough in the 1920s…

The tiny violin I was playing last year just shrank.
New post just out:

"The Great VAT Panic"

The claims made by the right-wing press about VAT on private school fees were wildly wrong.

Why? What are the lessons about about (how not to) run a lobbying campaign? And what can government learn?

(£/free)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The Great VAT Panic
Or how not to run a campaign
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I thinks weeks newsletter I breakdown why the data suggests that the 20mph limit in Wales wales actually an amazing idea.

willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/turns-out-...
Turns out the 20mph limit was great idea!
Two years on from the controversial policy, it's becoming increasingly clear that the doubters were wrong
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A lot of media are covering Europe’s heatwave 🔥 but few are connecting it to the climate crisis.

Tools like the Climate Shift Index show this heatwave is up to 5x 😱 more likely because of climate change. That context matters.

csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Even in the suburbs, within the m25, lukewarm would be an over statement. Although my neighbour’s black bin is missing.