Will Daniel
@wdaniel127.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. @nottspolitics.bsky.social
I research gender ⚧️ and representation 🏳️🌈, the EU 🇪🇺, careers in legislative and party politics 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇧🇪, and social media 📱
Bio ⏩️ https://shorturl.at/XrwdF
Views own and not those of my employer.
I research gender ⚧️ and representation 🏳️🌈, the EU 🇪🇺, careers in legislative and party politics 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇧🇪, and social media 📱
Bio ⏩️ https://shorturl.at/XrwdF
Views own and not those of my employer.
Delighted to co-convene the track on EU Elections and Legislative Politics with Lukas Obholzer at @ecprsgeu.bsky.social 2026, next July in Catania! 🇪🇺
Learn more about what we're looking for here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Submit your panels and/or papers by 10 December here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/341
Learn more about what we're looking for here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Submit your panels and/or papers by 10 December here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/341
13th Biennial Conference of the SGEU, Università di Catania, 1 – 3 July 2026
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
October 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Delighted to co-convene the track on EU Elections and Legislative Politics with Lukas Obholzer at @ecprsgeu.bsky.social 2026, next July in Catania! 🇪🇺
Learn more about what we're looking for here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Submit your panels and/or papers by 10 December here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/341
Learn more about what we're looking for here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Submit your panels and/or papers by 10 December here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/341
Cheers to 10 great days of political science conferencing in Spain 🇪🇸
After all the sun ☀️ I’m looking forward to a cooler Belfast for next year’s @epssnet.bsky.social already.
Thanks to @marcgeddes.uk and the organisers of @sgparliaments.bsky.social for a great conference in Barcelona!
After all the sun ☀️ I’m looking forward to a cooler Belfast for next year’s @epssnet.bsky.social already.
Thanks to @marcgeddes.uk and the organisers of @sgparliaments.bsky.social for a great conference in Barcelona!
July 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Cheers to 10 great days of political science conferencing in Spain 🇪🇸
After all the sun ☀️ I’m looking forward to a cooler Belfast for next year’s @epssnet.bsky.social already.
Thanks to @marcgeddes.uk and the organisers of @sgparliaments.bsky.social for a great conference in Barcelona!
After all the sun ☀️ I’m looking forward to a cooler Belfast for next year’s @epssnet.bsky.social already.
Thanks to @marcgeddes.uk and the organisers of @sgparliaments.bsky.social for a great conference in Barcelona!
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🌟 Scholar Spotlight 🌟
@wdaniel127.bsky.social & @steffenhurka.bsky.social reveal how changes in #EuropeanCommission cabinets impact #EU policy-making. More diverse cabinets boost legitimacy but don’t affect proposal quality or political processing.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@wdaniel127.bsky.social & @steffenhurka.bsky.social reveal how changes in #EuropeanCommission cabinets impact #EU policy-making. More diverse cabinets boost legitimacy but don’t affect proposal quality or political processing.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
June 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
🌟 Scholar Spotlight 🌟
@wdaniel127.bsky.social & @steffenhurka.bsky.social reveal how changes in #EuropeanCommission cabinets impact #EU policy-making. More diverse cabinets boost legitimacy but don’t affect proposal quality or political processing.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@wdaniel127.bsky.social & @steffenhurka.bsky.social reveal how changes in #EuropeanCommission cabinets impact #EU policy-making. More diverse cabinets boost legitimacy but don’t affect proposal quality or political processing.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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How do politicians campaign on social media? @wdaniel127.bsky.social & Lukas Obholzer explore campaign data from the 2024EP elections on Facebook, Instagram & TikTok, showing party-based differences.
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Part of the Symposium: European Parliament Elections 2024
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Part of the Symposium: European Parliament Elections 2024
May 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
How do politicians campaign on social media? @wdaniel127.bsky.social & Lukas Obholzer explore campaign data from the 2024EP elections on Facebook, Instagram & TikTok, showing party-based differences.
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Part of the Symposium: European Parliament Elections 2024
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Part of the Symposium: European Parliament Elections 2024
🚨New Elections Article Alert!🚨
Lukas Obholzer and I have been writing about online campaigning in European elections 🇪🇺 since 2014. This past year, we broadened our focus from Twitter (now X) to see where else Members of the @europarl.europa.eu were campaigning.
Lukas Obholzer and I have been writing about online campaigning in European elections 🇪🇺 since 2014. This past year, we broadened our focus from Twitter (now X) to see where else Members of the @europarl.europa.eu were campaigning.
May 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🚨New Elections Article Alert!🚨
Lukas Obholzer and I have been writing about online campaigning in European elections 🇪🇺 since 2014. This past year, we broadened our focus from Twitter (now X) to see where else Members of the @europarl.europa.eu were campaigning.
Lukas Obholzer and I have been writing about online campaigning in European elections 🇪🇺 since 2014. This past year, we broadened our focus from Twitter (now X) to see where else Members of the @europarl.europa.eu were campaigning.
Quite pleased to see that my new book with Andrea Aldrich is now hot off the (physical) presses and ready to ship across the US, UK, and Europe.
May 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Quite pleased to see that my new book with Andrea Aldrich is now hot off the (physical) presses and ready to ship across the US, UK, and Europe.
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▫️ Research with Impact series ▫️
Read more on how @wdaniel127.bsky.social advised the Welsh government on its plans to promote gender equality under the expanded Senedd
🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/366u6vfe
@uonresearch.bsky.social @uoninstitute.bsky.social
Read more on how @wdaniel127.bsky.social advised the Welsh government on its plans to promote gender equality under the expanded Senedd
🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/366u6vfe
@uonresearch.bsky.social @uoninstitute.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
▫️ Research with Impact series ▫️
Read more on how @wdaniel127.bsky.social advised the Welsh government on its plans to promote gender equality under the expanded Senedd
🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/366u6vfe
@uonresearch.bsky.social @uoninstitute.bsky.social
Read more on how @wdaniel127.bsky.social advised the Welsh government on its plans to promote gender equality under the expanded Senedd
🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/366u6vfe
@uonresearch.bsky.social @uoninstitute.bsky.social
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A well-resourced European Parliament is so vital for democracy! But MEPs often blur the line between parliamentary work and campaigning.
Some go too far: Le Pen today, Farage during Brexit, Bayrou in his post-election blues.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Some go too far: Le Pen today, Farage during Brexit, Bayrou in his post-election blues.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A well-resourced European Parliament is so vital for democracy! But MEPs often blur the line between parliamentary work and campaigning.
Some go too far: Le Pen today, Farage during Brexit, Bayrou in his post-election blues.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Some go too far: Le Pen today, Farage during Brexit, Bayrou in his post-election blues.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
News of 🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen's temporary barring from seeking public office for diverting of 🇪🇺 European Parliament funds to national work, reminds me of an article that I wrote for the @jei-publication.bsky.social about a decade ago.
March 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
News of 🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen's temporary barring from seeking public office for diverting of 🇪🇺 European Parliament funds to national work, reminds me of an article that I wrote for the @jei-publication.bsky.social about a decade ago.
@nottspolitics.bsky.social is hiring! We are seeking to appoint a Teaching Associate in Political Science (with a focus on quantitative methods). This full-time, fixed-term post is available from 1 September 2025 until 30 June 2027.
March 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
@nottspolitics.bsky.social is hiring! We are seeking to appoint a Teaching Associate in Political Science (with a focus on quantitative methods). This full-time, fixed-term post is available from 1 September 2025 until 30 June 2027.
Looking forward to discussing this work, later today!
Join us today at 4 pm (CET) for the @ecprsgeu.bsky.social online seminar.
Paper: From Constituency to Continent? Measuring the Shift of Territorial Representational Focus in MEPs' Parliamentary Activity (1994-2024)
ecpr.eu/Events/297
Paper: From Constituency to Continent? Measuring the Shift of Territorial Representational Focus in MEPs' Parliamentary Activity (1994-2024)
ecpr.eu/Events/297
Standing Group on European Union (SGEU) Seminar Series
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
March 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Looking forward to discussing this work, later today!
Looking forward to this next week!
Next week Tuesday: join us for the @ecprsgeu.bsky.social online seminar : Career Orientation and Legislative Behaviour in the European Parliament: How Institutional and Political Transformations Re-Shape MEPs’ Behaviour (1979-2024) with Jeremy Dodeigne, @frechelena.bsky.social
ecpr.eu/Events/297
ecpr.eu/Events/297
Standing Group on European Union (SGEU) Seminar Series
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
March 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Looking forward to this next week!
Looks like Oxford snuck in the e-book publication day for our new gender quotas book without telling Andrea Aldrich or me! Time to request a copy of your libraries and reading lists :-)
February 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Looks like Oxford snuck in the e-book publication day for our new gender quotas book without telling Andrea Aldrich or me! Time to request a copy of your libraries and reading lists :-)
And all the people said, Amen.
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
And all the people said, Amen.
Really looking forward to this, as always!
We could especially use a few more submissions for our Gender & Sexuality track, which I am co-convening. Find out more and propose your paper here!
www.uaces.org/liverpool
We could especially use a few more submissions for our Gender & Sexuality track, which I am co-convening. Find out more and propose your paper here!
www.uaces.org/liverpool
January 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Really looking forward to this, as always!
We could especially use a few more submissions for our Gender & Sexuality track, which I am co-convening. Find out more and propose your paper here!
www.uaces.org/liverpool
We could especially use a few more submissions for our Gender & Sexuality track, which I am co-convening. Find out more and propose your paper here!
www.uaces.org/liverpool
One more week to get your applications in!
🔈Job Alert 🔈
I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.
I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.
January 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
One more week to get your applications in!
Great to chat about my ongoing research on cross-platform social media campaign strategies with @zoecrowther.bsky.social in @politicshome.bsky.social
Will government accounts join Bluesky?
Might MPs spend more time on TikTok?
Will more campaigning happen on YouTube?
Could we see party leaders lean into podcasts?
@zoecrowther.bsky.social explores how the world of Westminster social media could evolve in 2025
Might MPs spend more time on TikTok?
Will more campaigning happen on YouTube?
Could we see party leaders lean into podcasts?
@zoecrowther.bsky.social explores how the world of Westminster social media could evolve in 2025
What Will The Westminster Social Media Landscape Look Like In 2025?
The interaction between Westminster politics and social media was a major talking point this year, with the dominance of X, formerly known as Twitt...
www.politicshome.com
December 29, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Great to chat about my ongoing research on cross-platform social media campaign strategies with @zoecrowther.bsky.social in @politicshome.bsky.social
🔈Job Alert 🔈
I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.
I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.
December 19, 2024 at 10:42 PM
🔈Job Alert 🔈
I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.
I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.
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British politics in 2024:
American public services with Scandinavian taxes
Dutch electoral fragmentation with Westminster majoritarianism
American public services with Scandinavian taxes
Dutch electoral fragmentation with Westminster majoritarianism
British politics is quietly going through an insane period. The main parties are *remarkably* unpopular
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
December 11, 2024 at 11:04 PM
British politics in 2024:
American public services with Scandinavian taxes
Dutch electoral fragmentation with Westminster majoritarianism
American public services with Scandinavian taxes
Dutch electoral fragmentation with Westminster majoritarianism
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🗳️ 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
bit.ly/498OFWA
The gender gap in campaign financing: an uphill struggle
Women are not a demographic minority, but they are certainly still a minority in politics. Laura Sudulich, Siim Trumm, and Iakovos Makropoulos show that a significant gender resource gap continues to ...
bit.ly
November 26, 2024 at 1:23 PM
🗳️ 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
bit.ly/498OFWA
Very happy to be co-convening the Gender and Sexuality track again for #UACES
both panel and individual paper proposals for inclusion on to its Gender and Sexuality track. We are keen on developing a space for feminist and queer approaches to European Studies (broadly defined). /1
both panel and individual paper proposals for inclusion on to its Gender and Sexuality track. We are keen on developing a space for feminist and queer approaches to European Studies (broadly defined). /1
The Call for Papers for the UACES 55th Annual Conference 2025 at Liverpool John Moores University is officially open!
Join us from 31 August to 3 September 2025, to explore Europe’s resilience in a changing world.
Submit your paper by 26 January 2025 👉 www.conftool.org/uaces2025/
#CfP #UACES2025
Join us from 31 August to 3 September 2025, to explore Europe’s resilience in a changing world.
Submit your paper by 26 January 2025 👉 www.conftool.org/uaces2025/
#CfP #UACES2025
November 18, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Very happy to be co-convening the Gender and Sexuality track again for #UACES
both panel and individual paper proposals for inclusion on to its Gender and Sexuality track. We are keen on developing a space for feminist and queer approaches to European Studies (broadly defined). /1
both panel and individual paper proposals for inclusion on to its Gender and Sexuality track. We are keen on developing a space for feminist and queer approaches to European Studies (broadly defined). /1
Really delighted to see this all come together, albeit during a much happier and more productive time on that other platform.
Thanks to our France 🇫🇷 team for doing such amazing work - and looking forward to diving in with the comparative data!
Thanks to our France 🇫🇷 team for doing such amazing work - and looking forward to diving in with the comparative data!
In 2022 & 2023 DSP collaborated with various scholars to collect data about candidates for national legislative (and sometimes subnational) elections in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Nepal, Philippines, Tunisia, and the USA. #polisky 1/4
November 15, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Really delighted to see this all come together, albeit during a much happier and more productive time on that other platform.
Thanks to our France 🇫🇷 team for doing such amazing work - and looking forward to diving in with the comparative data!
Thanks to our France 🇫🇷 team for doing such amazing work - and looking forward to diving in with the comparative data!
Not me clicking “follow all” to dozens of interesting starter packs, like a first year signing up for clubs and societies during a freshers fair.
a hand is pressing a red button with a silver rim
Alt: a hand is pressing a red button with a silver rim
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Not me clicking “follow all” to dozens of interesting starter packs, like a first year signing up for clubs and societies during a freshers fair.