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European Journal of Political Research
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Publishing original and substantial contributions to the study of comparative European politics.

A journal from @ecpr.bsky.social and @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
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European Journal of Political Research - Alessandro Nai, Isabelle Borucki, Nicole Curato, Caterina Froio, Emilie van Haute, Airo Hino, Markus Wagner
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February 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
65.1🦋

Do campaigns matter? 🤔

Denmark’s 2022 EU defence opt-out vote show that #Campaign information matters. While fear-based messages influences #Voters at the start, their effect declines as voters learn more.

@rsenninger.bsky.social, J.Fenger & D.Beach of @ecprsgeu.bsky.social
Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects - Volume 65 Issue 1
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February 9, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Impressionable years and lasting votes 👶

@leonardocarella.bsky.social & @fraraffaelli.bsky.social argue that people exposed to high #Immigration salience when young are more like to consider a party's standing later in life, highlighting generation difference in #Voting patterns

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From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization
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February 6, 2026 at 5:45 PM
What else is there to know? 💰️

@elenakanrez.bsky.social & Jaroslaw Kantorowicz test whether different ways of informing people change their perception and support of economic sanctions using German and Polish experiment data
Enhancing public support for international sanctions: An information provision experiment | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Enhancing public support for international sanctions: An information provision experiment
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February 6, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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That’s what @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org is bringing to EJPR in 2026 and on 🚀
ECPR's journals now Open Access with Cambridge University Press
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February 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM
65.1🦋

Sore losers 😤 🗳️

Einar Bäckström finds that #VoterSatisfaction does not change right after electoral decisions, but becomes more polarised over time ⏰

Long-term processes drive the winner-loser gap🏅
Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap - Volume 65 Issue 1
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February 6, 2026 at 9:12 AM
65.1🦋

Representation and resentment🙅

R. Hlatky of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social, @dramyhliu.bsky.social, Y. Li & A.Pitre-Young expand on how ethnic minorities succeed in #CEE

1️⃣ Types of #representation
2️⃣ #MinorityMobilization vs #AllyAdvocacy
3️⃣ Political activity or social marginalization
Representation and resentment: Explaining radical-right electoral success | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Representation and resentment: Explaining radical-right electoral success - Volume 65 Issue 1
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February 5, 2026 at 9:49 AM
📘 A new chapter begins in 2026 for EJPR!

Did you know? Our current issue is the first published with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org as part of our new partnership!

Stay tuned to see what this change means for readers, authors, and the global political science community 🤔
ECPR's journals now Open Access with Cambridge University Press
European Consortium for Political Research
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February 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
65.1 🦋

Democracy under pressure 🦠

@vinarceneaux.bsky.social, @catherinedevries.bsky.social, B. Bakker & S.Hobolt find that support in the US and UK remained strong for #Democratic rights during the first wave of the #Pandemic, valuing support in times of crisis🌦️
Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic - Volume 65 Issue 1
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February 4, 2026 at 9:54 AM
#AI to detect hate speech? 🤖

These authors 🧵 trained GPT-4o-mini with online hate speech labeled by various annotators to show that when asking #LLM's to perform judgement-based tasks , data quality matters more than quantity 🤬

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Improving hate speech detection with large language models | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Improving hate speech detection with large language models
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February 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
65.1 🦋

Who runs for political office and who doesn’t? 🤷

These authors 🧵👇️ show how personality traits, especially honesty and humility, shape citizens’ political ambition, answering why recruitment matters in cross-national study ✍️

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Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment - Volume 65 Issue 1
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February 3, 2026 at 9:05 AM
65.1 🦋

How does legislative organisation shape the electoral fortunes of coalition parties?

@shane-martin.bsky.social & Lasse Aaskoven show that strong parliamentary committees can help junior coalition partners avoid punishment, even when PM parties face steeper losses ⛰️

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Coalition government and the electoral consequences of legislative organization | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Coalition government and the electoral consequences of legislative organization - Volume 65 Issue 1
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February 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
We’re starting 2026 with new research 📘

The latest issue of European Journal of Political Research is now out!

Featuring work from authors across #ComparativePolitics, #Populism, #DemocraticRights and more!

Stay tuned 📻️ to see the highlights 💡
European Journal of Political Research: Volume 65 - Issue 1 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - European Journal of Political Research - Volume 65 - Issue 1
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February 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
MAGA & MAGYAR 🇺🇸🇭🇺

Christian Lamour examines how "common sense" language is used to challenge liberal democratic views, and similarities between Trump's and Orbán's speech styles used to promote ideas grounded in the radical right.
MAGA & MAGYAR: The strategic use of common sense by Trump and Orbán during their state addresses | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
MAGA & MAGYAR: The strategic use of common sense by Trump and Orbán during their state addresses
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January 28, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Conscription = Civic Engagement?🪖

@morten-jakobsen.bsky.social & @sorenserritzlew.bsky.social examine influences #Conscription in Denmark 🇩🇰 has on factors including:

National attachment
Prosocial motivation
#Trust
Political preferences
#PoliticalInterest &
#Authoritarian attitudes
Does universal conscription impose a civic penalty? Individual-level evidence from a randomized conscription lottery | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Does universal conscription impose a civic penalty? Individual-level evidence from a randomized conscription lottery
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January 26, 2026 at 9:51 AM
🛐 How is #Secularisation changing the way we vote?

@melff.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social & Kamil Marcinkiewicz examine patterns in Western Europe to find how the relationship between religion and vote choice have changed over time. 🗳️
After secularisation? A comparative analysis of religious cleavages in Western Europe | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
After secularisation? A comparative analysis of religious cleavages in Western Europe
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January 22, 2026 at 9:49 AM
The magic of unwaved flags 🪄🚩

Maria Nordbrandt, Gina Gustavsson & Karen N. Breidahl showed Swedes and Danes their national flags to ask whether subtle reminders of #NationalIdentity can reduce #Polarization.

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The unifying magic of the unwaved flag: Do national identity primes reduce affective polarization? | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
The unifying magic of the unwaved flag: Do national identity primes reduce affective polarization?
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January 20, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Why are some #Goverments appointing #NonPartisan ministers?

These authors 🧵👇 encourage a broader approach to this question, using a novel dataset across 30 European democracies, to ask are any non-party ministers appointed at all? And if yes, how many? 🗳️

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How constitutional and institutional rules affect non-partisan ministerial appointments: Europe 1945–2024 | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
How constitutional and institutional rules affect non-partisan ministerial appointments: Europe 1945–2024
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January 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Are #ConstitutionalCourts really neutral?🧑‍⚖️

These authors 🧵👇 look at Spain's Constitutional Court 🇪🇸 ⚖️ across 4 decades to see how judicial outcome is shaped by political alignment, institutional design , and cour ideology.

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Judicial review and territorial conflicts: Evidence from Spain | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Judicial review and territorial conflicts: Evidence from Spain
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January 13, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Check out Michael C. Zeller's piece on @ecprtheloop.bsky.social, which builds on his research 📑 published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, bringing a fresh clarity to the question of how #Democracies respond to #ExtremistOrganisations 💭
🪧 Many #extremist organisations operate in democratic societies. Some get banned; others don’t. Why?
📜 Using data from Germany, Michel Zeller of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social explains why governments ban only some of the organisations working to undermine constitutional democracy
#extremism
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Why democracies ban extremist organisations
Many extremist organisations exist and operate in democratic societies. Some get banned by democratic authorities; others don’t. Why? Using data on far-right organisations from Germany, Michael Zeller...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Why do some #Extremist groups get banned whilst others don’t? 🤔

Michael C. Zeller looks at Germany’s 🇩🇪 “militant democracy” & shows that bans are driven less by principle and more by visibility, strategy, and politics. 🔗
Pragmatic rather than principled – organisational bans in democracies | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Pragmatic rather than principled – organisational bans in democracies
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January 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Fear, anger, and populism on Twitter/X 😡

Using machine learning on 1M UK tweets, @giulianoformisano.bsky.social, Jörg Friedrichs, Florian S. Schaffner & Niklas Stoehr seperate #Populist from #Governmentalist rhetoric and track how emotions drive #PoliticalCommunication
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media
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December 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As the year wraps up 🎁 EJPR is taking a short winter break 🎄

Warm wishes for a restful holiday season to our authors, reviewers, and readers!
December 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🥗 What do politicians think voters believe about #ClimatePolicy?

Ingrid Faleide & @astanordo.bsky.social show that citizens, elected officials, and public administrators all underestimate #PublicSupport for meat-free days, with elected elites misreading voters the most
Second-order beliefs among citizens, elected political elites, and unelected political elites: Insights from Norwegian climate policy | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Second-order beliefs among citizens, elected political elites, and unelected political elites: Insights from Norwegian climate policy
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December 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🗳️ Does negative #Campaigning work?

British 🇬🇧 experiment by Alan Duggan, Caitlin Milazzo, Harry Applestein & John Barry Ryan shows that attacks on personal traits, even if paired with positive messaging, can backfire and hurt how #Voters view the sponsor
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging
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December 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM