👏 Congrats to Dr Laura Sudulich on completing her Parliamentary Academic Fellowship with @ukparliament.parliament.uk!

Outcome: a global map of parliamentary public engagement 🗺️

📅 Launch Event: 25 Sept, Westminster
🎙️ Chaired by @shane-martin.bsky.social

#EssexGov #EssexImpact #UKParliament

👏 Congratulations to our PhD candidate, Winifred Michael, on publishing her first article in Contemporary Politics! 🎉

Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1356...

#EssexGov

🚨New ‪paper from our colleague @dianebolet.bsky.social and co-author @florianfoos.bsky.social: Media interviews with extreme-right activists normalise their ideas.

👉 Uncritical interviews ↑ agreement & perceived support
👉 Critical interviews ↓ persuasion but still raise perceptions of popularity

Excited to have signed an editor contract with Oxford University Press for a volume on Voting Behaviour planned to come out in December 2027! We really hope this book will spark social science student interest in the discipline, especially at a time when democracy faces major challenges.

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Looking at data from 28 elections in 16 countries @laurasud.bsky.social. S.Trumm & @makropoulos.bsky.social found that women often receive smaller campaign budgets than men regardless of party of system affiliation ↔️

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I presented a paper at the Political Studies Association #PSA - Early Career Network Annual #ECN Conference 2025 and was awarded a 'Best Paper Prize'', sponsored by Princeton University Press, for my presentation on emotional electoral mobilisation in hybrid regimes using Georgia as a case study.

Thank you, Madrid! See you at EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social in Belfast!

Today was the last day of the EITM Summer School in Mannheim. I am so more knowledgeable, wise and much grateful to Prof. Thomas König for this opportunity, and to Prof. Thomas Bräuninger, Prof. Richard Traunmüller, Prof. @dzobrien.bsky.social & Prof. @fortunato.bsky.social for teaching all of us 🙏🏼

Well-deserved. theconversation.com/the-2024-sir...

I passed my Ph.D. viva! Thank you so much for everything, Wolfgang Rüdig and @zacdgreene.bsky.social! And a big thank to my examination committee — Prof. Bob Mattes, Dr. Eftichia Teperoglou, and Dr. Gabriela Borz — for such a thoughtful, constructive, and genuinely enjoyable discussion!

My article with @robjohns75.bsky.social, "Hope, Optimism, and Expectations for the Political Future", is now out open access at @polbehavior.bsky.social.

It's about the psychology of expecting good things to happen in politics.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎀💐 Happy #IWD2025! Celebrate with exclusive #FreeToRead articles from our 📚 journals and @ecprtheloop.bsky.social!

✨ Discover standout contributions of female authors and explore issues of gender and representation of women in politics

#Polisky #Gendersky #AccelerateAction #IWD2025

🎉 Get ready to mark #InternationalWomensDay with us as we champion women's achievements in #PolSci and take stock of the progress towards #GenderParity

👀 Watch this space for exclusive insights, data, and special collections #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction

#AcademicSky #Polisky #IRSky

The work of our dear departed friend and colleague André Freire published in @sespjournal.bsky.social. A beautiful tribute. www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...

🗳️ Women are not a demographic minority, but they are a minority in politics. Laura Sudulich, Siim Trumm & @makropoulos.bsky.social of @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social @strathpolir.bsky.social show how a significant gender resource gap remains a feature of contemporary parliamentary campaigns
bit.ly/498OFWA

A lot of discussion about incumbency effects at the moment.

The plot below maps the trend since 1937. In Irish general elections, around 8 in 10 TDs who choose to stand again are re-elected. This re-election rate ranks among the highest in the world.

www.rte.ie/news/electio...
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