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Ruth Dassonneville
@rdassonneville.bsky.social

Prof at KU Leuven
CRC in Electoral Democracy at Université de Montréal
https://ruthdassonneville.netlify.app/

Political science 67%
Economics 10%
📊 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-...

Excited to *really* start working on the SOCIOVOTE project with these brilliant researchers! During the next four years @vojtechpohanka.bsky.social, @wannesdemeyer.bsky.social and I will be collecting lots of data to improve our understanding of the role of social groups in politics!
🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨

Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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❗️Please share widely:

TT position in migration/citizenship/identity at IPW @univie.ac.at: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

Deadline: 10 Dec 2025
Tenure-Track Professorship in Migration, Citizenship, Identity
Tenure-Track Professorship in Migration, Citizenship, Identity
jobs.univie.ac.at
Now out in Party Politics 🎉

Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions.
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
www.eui.eu

Ik had het plezier voor het ABVV-Metaal magazine met Oskar Seuntjens in gesprek te gaan over de toekomst van de sociaal-democratie.

👉 Je leest het hele interview, dat door @wimcareel.bsky.social werd afgenomen, hier: www.flipsnack.com/5D595799E8C/...
MagMetal #03-2025
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❇️ Check out our new OA article in the BJPS!

You'll find everything you love (hate?) like public perceptions of climate policy risk, IO backlash, devolution concerns, and trust politics in the UK.

Tldr: climate blacklash should be read through regional lenses.

Past thread: bsky.app/profile/fgen...
NEW -

Climate Policy Costs, Regional Politics, and Backlash against International Co-operation - https://cup.org/47BYSeS

- @patrickbayer.bsky.social & @fgenovese.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

This we’’ll feature the last two sections today:

🔝 This week: Comparative Politics of Development & Political Representation

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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
epssnet.org

Congratulations!
🤖 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐀𝐈𝐠𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 🇳🇱

Less than one week before the Dutch elections, @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & I looked at over 20k posts to reveal patterns in the usage of AI-generated visuals across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. #tk2025

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💫💫💫 Great News: We are over the moon that our paper "Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment?" is now published in BJPS @bjpols.bsky.social 🍾 🤗

👉🏻 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

w/ Juha Ylisalo, Katrin Praprotnik & @laurenzennser.bsky.social

🧵1/5
Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment? | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment? - Volume 55
doi.org

J'ai discuté avec Vincent Brousseau-Pouliot de la montée de l’extrême droite en Europe et ailleurs. À lire ici 👉 www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...

@sciencepo-udem.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social
L’extrême droite gagne du terrain. On fait quoi ?
Il s’est passé quelque chose de lourd de sens à Londres le mois dernier : 115 000 personnes ont participé à une manifestation organisée par l’extrême droite britannique.
www.lapresse.ca
A EU politics tenure track position at Ghent university 👇

#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs
🚨 We’re hiring @giesugent.bsky.social:
Join us as TT Professor in "The EU in Global Politics".
Come research & teach in the heart of Europe 🇪🇺📍Ghent.
📝 Apply: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Do...
📅 Deadline: 27/11/2025
#AcademicJobs #EUStudies #GhentUniversity #TenureTrack #GlobalPolitics
Docent Tenure Track in The EU in Global Politics
Docent Tenure Track in The EU in Global Politics
jobs.ugent.be
🚨 We’re hiring @giesugent.bsky.social:
Join us as TT Professor in "The EU in Global Politics".
Come research & teach in the heart of Europe 🇪🇺📍Ghent.
📝 Apply: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Do...
📅 Deadline: 27/11/2025
#AcademicJobs #EUStudies #GhentUniversity #TenureTrack #GlobalPolitics
Docent Tenure Track in The EU in Global Politics
Docent Tenure Track in The EU in Global Politics
jobs.ugent.be

Congratulations Reto!!
🚨 New paper out!

Very happy to see our (Tom Arend, @fabioellger.bsky.social and mine) paper out at the @bjpols.bsky.social.

We explore how voters react to new, disruptive political actors.

1/3

Reposted by Ruth Dassonneville

Third dissertation paper is out now in @govandopp.bsky.social!

OA: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It studies the ideological structure of European electorates – finding broad similarities between countries, despite that party electorates and social groups remain structured nationally

Reposted by Frédéric Mérand

Great opportunity: A position in IR/Politics of China in a *fantastic* department @sciencepo-udem.bsky.social and wonderful city! 👇
🚀 And this marks our launch of the CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱!

@meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I are glad to finally publish our dashboard where we monitor the use of AI imagery in campaign messages, by parties, politicians & other actors during the election #tk2025

See here
www.campaigntracker.nl/en/

So great to see this paper out, congrats!!
Steffen Wamsler and I have a new paper in @ejprjournal.bsky.social !

We show that citizens who perceive their in-group to be disadvantaged express lower support for democracy and higher openness towards authoritarian alternatives!

tinyurl.com/y78hj253 @espol-lab.bsky.social @lifbi.bsky.social
Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support
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Very excited about the lineup for our #ComparativePolitics & #PoliticalEconomy colloquium in the winter @uni-konstanz.de !!

▶️Hannah Werner @ipz.bsky.social
▶️Fabio Franchino
▶️ @ashelshehawy.bsky.social
▶️Kevin Munger @eui-sps.bsky.social
▶️@rdassonneville.bsky.social
▶️@svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social
🆕 Deservingness perceptions & candidate support 👥

#GroupAppeals help connect #VoterIdentity 🧩 to voting choices 🗳️ – @rdassonneville.bsky.social, Rune Stubager & Mads Thau want to know if this appeals to other social groups 📣

📖 #OA
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions
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What a fantastic collection of papers! 👀
@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

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@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

🧵⬇️
Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

Reposted by Ruth Dassonneville

We zoeken een praktijkassistent Politieke Wetenschappen www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Praktijkassistent Politieke Wetenschappen
Klopt je hart voor politiek & onderwijs?
www.kuleuven.be

Nogmaals gefeliciteerd Daan, en wat een geweldige foto :D

🥹 Finally, we presented this paper, in different stages, at *lots* of different places. Thanks so much for everyone who gave us comments and suggestions!