Matthew E Bergman, PhD
@mebergman.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest; Former post-doc at UniWien Government and Director/Lecturer UCSD Law & Politics
📝 OECD Comp Institutions/PE/Voting/Parties & populi*
👨🏫Policy/Legal Analysis, Research Methods, PE, Electoral Systems
📝 OECD Comp Institutions/PE/Voting/Parties & populi*
👨🏫Policy/Legal Analysis, Research Methods, PE, Electoral Systems
Perhaps a cautionary tale for valence populists entering government. I focus on the Italian case but (thnks 2 reviewers) include a discussion of other CEE and Southern European (valence) populists in power.
TLDR: without an ideological core, such parties are more harshly judged on their performance
TLDR: without an ideological core, such parties are more harshly judged on their performance
#OpenAccess from Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica -
Deserting or disengaging with valence populists: the decline in 5-Star Movement partisan preference - https://cup.org/4pO8l8K
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Deserting or disengaging with valence populists: the decline in 5-Star Movement partisan preference - https://cup.org/4pO8l8K
- @mebergman.bsky.social
#FirstView
January 21, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Perhaps a cautionary tale for valence populists entering government. I focus on the Italian case but (thnks 2 reviewers) include a discussion of other CEE and Southern European (valence) populists in power.
TLDR: without an ideological core, such parties are more harshly judged on their performance
TLDR: without an ideological core, such parties are more harshly judged on their performance
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🎄🌟 Exciting news! 📊🎉
The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩
Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹
Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU...
#AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️
The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩
Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹
Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU...
#AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️
December 6, 2024 at 11:09 AM
🎄🌟 Exciting news! 📊🎉
The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩
Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹
Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU...
#AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️
The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩
Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹
Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU...
#AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️
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Ezra Klein loves to overintellectualize the far right, giving them mainstream coverage and legitimacy, while pretending to just wanting to "understand the other side." #usefulfools
August 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Ezra Klein loves to overintellectualize the far right, giving them mainstream coverage and legitimacy, while pretending to just wanting to "understand the other side." #usefulfools
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Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.
August 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.
Still using the party family approach to #nicheparty analysis? Don't worry, it is a valid approach when studying party issue responsiveness (but not the commies) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Who’s a part(y) of this family? Only noneconomic niche parties are still responsive to partisans
Foundational manuscripts examined whether niche parties and mainstream parties differed in their party-voter linkages. Specifically, they examine “mean electorate” and “partisan electorate” forms o...
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July 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Still using the party family approach to #nicheparty analysis? Don't worry, it is a valid approach when studying party issue responsiveness (but not the commies) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Finishing the issue diversification trilogy (center-right and nationalist parties can gain from a more diverse issue agenda; green and center-left cannot) 4 years later;
Opposite effect for Ethno-Regional parties: issue diversification is not a successful strategy
doi.org/10.1080/1744...
Opposite effect for Ethno-Regional parties: issue diversification is not a successful strategy
doi.org/10.1080/1744...
Ethno-Regional Parties Cannot Be Everything to Everyone: Electoral Risks of a More Diverse Issue Agenda
This note suggests that should ethno-regional parties broaden their agenda, they could be electorally punished. Literature suggests an electoral incentive to a broader party issue agenda, even for ...
doi.org
July 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Finishing the issue diversification trilogy (center-right and nationalist parties can gain from a more diverse issue agenda; green and center-left cannot) 4 years later;
Opposite effect for Ethno-Regional parties: issue diversification is not a successful strategy
doi.org/10.1080/1744...
Opposite effect for Ethno-Regional parties: issue diversification is not a successful strategy
doi.org/10.1080/1744...
My first #ESPA2025 convinced me to get this app. So great catching up with former colleagues and making new connections. A wonderful introduction to the @epsanet.bsky.social @epssnet.bsky.social community. Looking forward to Belfast #EPSS2026 (paper pending, acceptance conditional)
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June 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My first #ESPA2025 convinced me to get this app. So great catching up with former colleagues and making new connections. A wonderful introduction to the @epsanet.bsky.social @epssnet.bsky.social community. Looking forward to Belfast #EPSS2026 (paper pending, acceptance conditional)
American moves to Europe, experiences labour policy (protection), cleans a dataset of thousands of reforms, can now explain where they come from: Parties campaigning on left-leaning economic policies are more likely to implement pro-worker policies, but only during non-crisis economic conditions.
⚙️ Matthew Bergman, Wolfgang C. Mueller and @hannaeback.bsky.social on how ideology and contextual factors shape labour market reform
Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad
Which governments implement interventionist or liberalising labour policy reforms, and does the economic context matter? Drawing on the previous literature on government ideology and public policy,...
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June 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
American moves to Europe, experiences labour policy (protection), cleans a dataset of thousands of reforms, can now explain where they come from: Parties campaigning on left-leaning economic policies are more likely to implement pro-worker policies, but only during non-crisis economic conditions.