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Dr. Silke Goubin
@silkegoubin.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher @HIVA_KULeuven @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Working on Trust | Social Inclusion | Inequality | Democratic Engagement 🤿
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
📢 The Voting & Democracy Research Group is thrilled to invite you to a book talk by Professor Natasha Wunsch on her recent publication, “Democratic Commitment: Why Citizens Tolerate Democratic Backsliding”.

🗓️ 20 January 2026 at 2:00 p.m. in room FSW 03.155.
📝 Registration: lnkd.in/dQGFXSiJ
January 5, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Starting the new year with a new #openaccess #publication!

In our article, we explore why citizens oppose taxes while simultaneously demanding more redistributive social policies, aka want "something for nothing".

@olivierjacques.bsky.social @staffankumlin.bsky.social @dweisstanner.bsky.social
Why Some Want Something for Nothing: Three Explanations for Unfunded Spending Demand
Several studies have documented ‘something for nothing’ (SFN) attitudes among citizens: preferences for increased government spending and lower taxes. Such a demand for unfunded public spending may g...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:12 AM
🎁 Just got pre-Christmas academic gift from @electoralstudies.bsky.social. In our research note, Chloé de Grauwe and I document income-based differences in #economic voting. In a nutshell: the rich punish governments (somewhat) more for perceived economic downturns.

Free author copy 👇
authors.elsevier.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Don't generate your reference list with AI. It's really that simple!

retractionwatch.com/2025/12/19/w...

(ps: use Zotero, EndNote, Mendeley, do it manually...)
World Bank report ‘removed for review’ of nonexistent references after Retraction Watch inquiry
A World Bank report on obesity trends with at least 14 fake references in the text has been removed from the website and is being reviewed by the organization following a Retraction Watch inquiry.&…
retractionwatch.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
Immigration salience has less to do with aggregate Immigration numbers than
- visibility of boats & asylum > visas
- general vibes about integration
- elite cues from media & political discourse in shaping public perceptions

This is more true when immigration is falling then when it is rising
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Papers
💰 Exploring the Intricacies of Citizens' Economic Inequality Perceptions and Their Redistributive Correlates: Ill-Informed, Attitudinally Incoherent, or Predictably Irrational?
🪑 Sonja Zmerli & @silkegoubin.bsky.social
⌛ New deadline: 9 Jan buff.ly/XqoHXqe

#Polisky
Exploring the Intricacies of Citizens' Economic Inequality Perceptions and Their Redistributive Correlates: Ill-Informed, Attitudinally Incoherent, or Predictably Irrational?
General Conference 2026, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University
ecpr.eu
December 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Our paper on how the higher educated are more able to vote correctly just got a volume and issue number. Do check it out!

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

@dieterstiers.bsky.social @marchooghe.bsky.social and Richard Lau
December 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
🚨Working on economic inequality perceptions and support for redistribution? Sonja Zmerli and I are coordinating a Section about perceived economic inequality at the next @ecpr.bsky.social's General Conference.

👉 Do consider submit your paper! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

@vd-researchgroup.bsky.social
Exploring the intricacies of citizens' economic inequality perceptions and their redistributive correlates: Ill-informed, attitudinally incoherent, or predictably irrational?
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
@casmudde.bsky.social read the US National Security Strategy: "the current US government believes that its national security is best served by the destruction of liberal democracy in Europe. In other words, the US is not (just) an unwilling ally, it is a willing adversary."
The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde
Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
If a drug was having this societal effect it would be banned within a week. Across the world, politicians are - through their inaction - completely abdicating their responsibilities to civil democratic discourse.
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
We need to talk about this A LOT in Europe. Such a shocking illustration of how we are getting colonized by the Americans. Let's spread this widely so it helps galvanize public opinion.
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
Een ellendige novemberavond, met een motregen die de dappersten van de straat veegt.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
Do policy preferences of voters and non-voters differ in European democracies?

My new article in @ejprjournal.bsky.social finds: Yes, sometimes, but this is not the norm.

Let's break it down. 🧵 1/10
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🚨Working on economic inequality perceptions and support for redistribution? Sonja Zmerli and I are coordinating a Section about perceived economic inequality at the next @ecpr.bsky.social's General Conference.

👉 Do consider submit your paper! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

@vd-researchgroup.bsky.social
Exploring the intricacies of citizens' economic inequality perceptions and their redistributive correlates: Ill-informed, attitudinally incoherent, or predictably irrational?
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
📝 Nieuwe #column geschreven over democratic backsliding in de VS: de VS zijn géén volwaardige liberale democratie meer onder Trump II.
De Verenigde Staten zijn geen democratie meer
Volgens het gerenommeerde Varieties of Democracies-instituut (V-DEM) leeft voor het eerst sinds...
visie.net
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Academic publishing can be a #slow business: (finally) got a paper accepted today! In between the initial journal submission (rejects, and an R&R), I basically got #two kids...😄 #academichatter #momademia
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Ooit vatte een collega van me het als volgt samen "Je moet al een moord plegen om ontslagen te kunnen worden als prof". Waarom zijn we zo verbaasd - deze Pano-reportage had vooral nog veel meer lijken uit de kast kunnen halen... Soit, voor meer nuance 👇
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
📢 last day to submit your abstract to be part of our #PoliticalTrust panels at @epssnet.bsky.social

You'll be in good company 😎
@annakern.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social @cvalebeek.bsky.social @hannesbey.bsky.social
Shout-out to all #PoliticalTrust researchers interested in attending the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in #Belfast

@annakern.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @hannesbey.bsky.social and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!
October 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
Don't forget to submit your abstracts for our political trust panels at the 2026 EPSS conference in Belfast.

⏰️ Submission deadline closes tomorrow!
Shout-out to all #PoliticalTrust researchers interested in attending the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in #Belfast

@annakern.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @hannesbey.bsky.social and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!
October 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
Shout-out to all #PoliticalTrust researchers interested in attending the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in #Belfast

@annakern.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @hannesbey.bsky.social and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Shout-out to all #PoliticalTrust researchers interested in attending the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in #Belfast

@annakern.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @hannesbey.bsky.social and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Reposted by Dr. Silke Goubin
[Media] "Steden en gemeenten die hun best deden om inwoners te doen stemmen? Dat haalt niks uit", une interview de @bjarneck.bsky.social, researcher at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol), pour @demorgen.be
www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/a...
‘Alles wat in de plaats komt, is maar surrogaat’: waarom de afschaffing van de opkomstplicht kiezers weg houdt
Een gratis drankje aanbieden, een advertentie in de krant plaatsen of een debat organiseren? Alle moeite van lokale besturen ten spijt, lokt dit niet meer mensen naar het stemhokje. Dat blijkt uit ond...
www.demorgen.be
October 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This is fun, our research on political trust and social policy was featured at the Portuguese national news 😎 www.rtp.pt/play/p14263/...

(less fun, they didn't cite us properly, but hey)
#Hiva @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM