Toni Rodon
@tonirodon.bsky.social
Politòleg. Associate Professor. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Research Fellow LSE.
We have a winner! Congrats @erickpadilla.bsky.social 🥳
🎉 Congratulations to Erick Padilla @erickpadilla.bsky.social (UB)
@cpoliticaub.bsky.social
🏆🥇Winner of the 1st Edition of the Best JCPOP Junior Paper Award for his paper "Working Alone? Working from Home and Political Participation" 📜✒️
👏🏻 Well deserved!
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🏆🥇Winner of the 1st Edition of the Best JCPOP Junior Paper Award for his paper "Working Alone? Working from Home and Political Participation" 📜✒️
👏🏻 Well deserved!
February 11, 2026 at 11:51 AM
We have a winner! Congrats @erickpadilla.bsky.social 🥳
🌧️Som més proclimàtics quan hi ha més catàstrofes naturals?
✍️He escrit aquest article en el nou projecte de @laconversa.bsky.social theconversation.com/som-mes-proc... @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social
✍️He escrit aquest article en el nou projecte de @laconversa.bsky.social theconversation.com/som-mes-proc... @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social
Som més proclimàtics quan hi ha més catàstrofes naturals?
Poden els desastres climàtics empènyer un canvi de mentalitat? Múltiples estudis han estudiat la influència d'inundacions, huracans i sequeres en la nostra opinió climàtica. Aquest últim té la respost...
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February 11, 2026 at 11:47 AM
🌧️Som més proclimàtics quan hi ha més catàstrofes naturals?
✍️He escrit aquest article en el nou projecte de @laconversa.bsky.social theconversation.com/som-mes-proc... @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social
✍️He escrit aquest article en el nou projecte de @laconversa.bsky.social theconversation.com/som-mes-proc... @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social
Political interest and confidence-in-knowledge increase emotional responses to politics. Fostering political interest and confidence may better promote active citizenship, albeit with potential risks if confidence is not rooted in accurate knowledge link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Disentangling the Sophistication-Emotion Link: Political Interest and Confidence-in-Knowledge, but not Knowledge, Drive Emotional Responses - Political Behavior
Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? Past work suggests that political sophistication, consisting of knowledge and interest, is related to feeling strong emotions abou...
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February 10, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Political interest and confidence-in-knowledge increase emotional responses to politics. Fostering political interest and confidence may better promote active citizenship, albeit with potential risks if confidence is not rooted in accurate knowledge link.springer.com/article/10.1...
While media can influence the personalization of voting behavior, media use alone cannot explain the main changes in the relative importance of parties and leaders in voting decisions over the last six decades journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 9, 2026 at 8:43 AM
While media can influence the personalization of voting behavior, media use alone cannot explain the main changes in the relative importance of parties and leaders in voting decisions over the last six decades journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🎙️Avui hem parlat de premsa i política.
Acomiadaments al Washington Post: "Trump va salvar el cul als grans diaris americans" www.3cat.cat/3cat/acomiad...
Acomiadaments al Washington Post: "Trump va salvar el cul als grans diaris americans" www.3cat.cat/3cat/acomiad...
El suplement - Acomiadaments al Washington Post: "Trump va salvar el cul als grans diaris americans" - 3Cat
Amb en Jon Sindreu i en Toni Rodon analitzem la darrera onada d'acomiadaments al Washington Post i si respon a l'idil·li entre Jeff Bezos i Donald Trump.
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February 8, 2026 at 5:11 PM
🎙️Avui hem parlat de premsa i política.
Acomiadaments al Washington Post: "Trump va salvar el cul als grans diaris americans" www.3cat.cat/3cat/acomiad...
Acomiadaments al Washington Post: "Trump va salvar el cul als grans diaris americans" www.3cat.cat/3cat/acomiad...
Mayors, especially those on the centre and left, prefer to form coalition governments with parties led by women. The analysis of the mechanisms suggests that women leaders are perceived as easier to communicate and more competent to govern www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @albahuidobro.bsky.social
Partners in government: politicians’ gender preferences in coalition formation | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Partners in government: politicians’ gender preferences in coalition formation
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February 6, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Mayors, especially those on the centre and left, prefer to form coalition governments with parties led by women. The analysis of the mechanisms suggests that women leaders are perceived as easier to communicate and more competent to govern www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @albahuidobro.bsky.social
Political trust has a positive effect on democracy, but only in countries that have already achieved high quality of democracy journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Does political trust strengthen democracy? A cross-national longitudinal analysis - Marta Kołczyńska, Paul-Christian Bürkner, 2026
Political trust is widely considered essential for democracy, but empirical evidence testing this hypothesis remains limited. Drawing on research that connects ...
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February 5, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Political trust has a positive effect on democracy, but only in countries that have already achieved high quality of democracy journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 3, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Democratic transitions in one country lead to a decrease in party polarisation over democracy in neighbouring countries journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 3, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Democratic transitions in one country lead to a decrease in party polarisation over democracy in neighbouring countries journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The difference between winners and losers in their commitment to democratic norms of restraint and consent is relatively small, even in highly polarised contexts journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00104140251414013
Winners’ Restraint or Affective Majoritarianism? Elections, Polarization and Political Support - Damjan Tomic, Sergi Ferrer, Enrique Prada, Enrique Hernández, 2026
Research on the impact of elections on attitudes toward democracy has focused primarily on satisfaction with democracy. Building on this, we analyze how winning...
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February 2, 2026 at 8:22 AM
The difference between winners and losers in their commitment to democratic norms of restraint and consent is relatively small, even in highly polarised contexts journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00104140251414013
Avui hem parlat dels pubs.
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El suplement - La cultura de bar: "Els anglesos beuen tots de forma sostinguda, però hi ha catalans que beuen més" - 3Cat
Amb en Jon Sindreu i en Toni Rodon analitzem la cultura dels bars a Catalunya i al Regne Unit, ara que el govern de Keir Starmer ha de lidiar amb un sector al límit de la supervivència per les pujades...
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February 1, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Avui hem parlat dels pubs.
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Governments with a large electoral margin can implement austerity and survive. Austerity increases votes for non-mainstream, often populist, parties among economically vulnerable voters because austerity magnifies rather than alleviates social risks www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Austerity and Populism
A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...
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January 30, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Governments with a large electoral margin can implement austerity and survive. Austerity increases votes for non-mainstream, often populist, parties among economically vulnerable voters because austerity magnifies rather than alleviates social risks www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Lijphart's idea that compulsory voting is a perfect antidote to the lack of electoral power of less-educated citizens, therefore, is not supported by the data www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Abolishing Compulsory Voting: The 2024 Experience in the Flemish Region of Belgium | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Abolishing Compulsory Voting: The 2024 Experience in the Flemish Region of Belgium - Volume 58 Issue 4
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January 29, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Lijphart's idea that compulsory voting is a perfect antidote to the lack of electoral power of less-educated citizens, therefore, is not supported by the data www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Voters are not substantially better represented than nonvoters. However, people active in different types of nonelectoral political behavior, such as demonstrating, are better represented than the non-active link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Are the Politically Active Better Represented? - Political Behavior
Political participation is considered an important path for people to influence politics. However, whether those who participate actually see more of their preferred policies implemented remains an op...
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January 28, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Voters are not substantially better represented than nonvoters. However, people active in different types of nonelectoral political behavior, such as demonstrating, are better represented than the non-active link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ignorance helps avoid the psychological dissonance that awareness of vote inefficacy would create. If voters became consciously aware that their votes don’t matter, they would face both psychological discomfort and weakened participation incentives doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Ecological rationality and democratic ignorance: reconciling rational and radical accounts of voter behavior - Public Choice
This paper addresses a central debate in public choice theory between rational ignorance models, which view voter ignorance as strategic response to vote inefficacy, and radical ignorance models, whic...
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January 26, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Ignorance helps avoid the psychological dissonance that awareness of vote inefficacy would create. If voters became consciously aware that their votes don’t matter, they would face both psychological discomfort and weakened participation incentives doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Avui, a La Setamana Tràgica, hem reflexionat sobre una política pública que ben aviat pot arribar a casa nostra.
Prohibir les xarxes als menors de 16 anys: el model australià es pot replicar a altres països? www.3cat.cat/3cat/prohibi... #SuplementCatRàdio
Prohibir les xarxes als menors de 16 anys: el model australià es pot replicar a altres països? www.3cat.cat/3cat/prohibi... #SuplementCatRàdio
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Jon Sindreu i Toni Rodon analitzen la mesura pionera d'Austràlia, el primer país del món que ha prohibit l'accés a les xarxes socials als menors de 16 anys. També serà una realitat a casa nostra?
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January 25, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Avui, a La Setamana Tràgica, hem reflexionat sobre una política pública que ben aviat pot arribar a casa nostra.
Prohibir les xarxes als menors de 16 anys: el model australià es pot replicar a altres països? www.3cat.cat/3cat/prohibi... #SuplementCatRàdio
Prohibir les xarxes als menors de 16 anys: el model australià es pot replicar a altres països? www.3cat.cat/3cat/prohibi... #SuplementCatRàdio
When Spanish mayors are left-wing, far-right parties tend to benefit electorally. This is driven by a backlash effect: a shift in voter ideology towards the right doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Left-Wing Governments and Far-Right Success | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Left-Wing Governments and Far-Right Success - Volume 56
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January 23, 2026 at 7:47 AM
When Spanish mayors are left-wing, far-right parties tend to benefit electorally. This is driven by a backlash effect: a shift in voter ideology towards the right doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Proportional representation enhances party control over individual legislators and reduces incentives for personal vote-seeking via speech-making onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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January 22, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Proportional representation enhances party control over individual legislators and reduces incentives for personal vote-seeking via speech-making onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Elite democratic defenders are effective if they are perceived to be politically impartial and perceived to have embedded knowledge doi.org/10.1080/1351...
When elites defend democracy, do citizens listen? How elites alert citizens to democratic recession
In response to global trends of democratic recession, scholarship has increased its attention to defenders of democracy and actors who resist autocratization. In many cases, democratic defence is i...
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January 20, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Elite democratic defenders are effective if they are perceived to be politically impartial and perceived to have embedded knowledge doi.org/10.1080/1351...
Improving people’s feelings about opposing partisans (versus members of their own party) has no measurable effect on people’s intentions to share true news, false news, or the difference between them, known as discernment journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Reducing affective polarization does not affect false news sharing or truth discernment - Carter Anderson, Oliver Byles, Joshua Calianos, Sade Francis, Chun Hey Brian Kot, Bennett Mosk, H. Nephi Seo, ...
Why do people spread false news online? Previous studies have linked affective polarization with misinformation sharing and belief. Contrary to these largely ob...
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January 19, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Improving people’s feelings about opposing partisans (versus members of their own party) has no measurable effect on people’s intentions to share true news, false news, or the difference between them, known as discernment journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
All political parties, regardless of type or ideology, engage with the non-electoral field, showing a greater tendency to express support for protests they agree with, rather than to criticise those they oppose, in their social media posts journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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January 16, 2026 at 8:32 AM
All political parties, regardless of type or ideology, engage with the non-electoral field, showing a greater tendency to express support for protests they agree with, rather than to criticise those they oppose, in their social media posts journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
It always surprises me how many PhD and master students never attend seminars. How are they supposed to learn? When I was one, I forced myself to attend at least one session a week. One of the most critical academic decisions I ever made.
January 16, 2026 at 7:54 AM
It always surprises me how many PhD and master students never attend seminars. How are they supposed to learn? When I was one, I forced myself to attend at least one session a week. One of the most critical academic decisions I ever made.