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Anne Rasmussen
@annerasmussen.bsky.social
Prof of Pol Science @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
University of Copenhagen. Lobbying | Political Representation | Public Opinion & Policy | Gender | Social Media | EIC @igajournal.bsky.social | PI ADVODID ERC Grant |ECPR ExecComm
https://annerasmussen.eu
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Delighted that @gregoryeady.bsky.social and my paper "Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies" is now online @apsrjournal.bsky.social (Open access)

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Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does.

Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine.

Put the tools to the use of theory.

Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over meaning - Impact of Social Sciences
Has the fetishization of quantitative tools obscured the wider context and meaning of in political science?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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🆕 What kind of personalities are drawn to politics? 🗳️
This cross-national study across 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇮🇱🇳🇱🇨🇭 explores #Representation and how honesty-humility and other HEXACO personality traits shape people’s ambition to run for office 🧵1/2

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Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment
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November 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -

Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment - https://cup.org/4ncO4c0

- Marc van de Wardt, P.Bundi, P.J.Loewen, @annerasmussen.bsky.social, @liorsheffer.bsky.social & F.Varone

#FirstView
October 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Politicians don’t just care how many people hold an opinion — they care how good that opinion is. In our new (open-access) article in West European Politics, based on survey data from 900+ politicians across 11 countries, we show: quality > quantity. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
October 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social

Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?

@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions

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September 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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How do governments mobilise public opinion in times of uncertainty? Do they gauche public opinion systematically across policy domains or unevenly depending on the issue ?🧵

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Government polling in times of crises: when capacity meets incentives
How do governments mobilise public opinion in times of crises? While recent research examines the factors that determine the intensity of government polling at different points in the electoral cyc...
www.tandfonline.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Yesterday at #ecprgc25 👇

💡 Keynote speech by Margaritis Schinas, Vice President of the European Commission

📚 Publishing session @annerasmussen.bsky.social, @irobo.bsky.social, @mlorimer.bsky.social, @alessandronai.bsky.social, @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social

⭐ Thanks to everyone who participated!
August 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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In January 2026, Cambridge University Press joins forces with ECPR to publish the European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science, the European Political Science Review and the Political Data Yearbook.

Find out more - cup.org/3UG4RIB

#ecprgc25
August 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Headed to #ecprgc25? 🇬🇷☀️📝💻

Please join us for this roundtable on open science featuring editors from @prxjournal.bsky.social @mlorimer.bsky.social @stevenhauwert & from @ejprjournal.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social @isabelleborucki

The roundtable doesn’t overlap with any research panels 👏
📢 One week to go #ecprgc25

📊 Open Science in Political Research with @prxjournal.bsky.social & EJPR
📆 Thursday 28th August
⏰ 13:30 – 15:15 EEST
📌 Law Building, Floor: Ground Floor, Room: Amphitheatre B

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August 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Did you ever wonder why governments don’t do more to counteract wealth inequality? In our new @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, we seek to answer this question, studying the electoral politics of inheritance taxation muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 1/n
Project MUSE - Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the United Kingdom
muse.jhu.edu
August 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Headed to #ecprgc25? 🇬🇷☀️📝💻

Please join us for this roundtable on open science featuring editors from @prxjournal.bsky.social @mlorimer.bsky.social @stevenhauwert & from @ejprjournal.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social @isabelleborucki

The roundtable doesn’t overlap with any research panels 👏
📢 One week to go #ecprgc25

📊 Open Science in Political Research with @prxjournal.bsky.social & EJPR
📆 Thursday 28th August
⏰ 13:30 – 15:15 EEST
📌 Law Building, Floor: Ground Floor, Room: Amphitheatre B

➡️ buff.ly/xSvXWbU
August 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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🧡 And don't forget you can meet this wonderful bunch at the Meet The Editors session

📆 Thursday 28 August
⏰ 15:45 - 16:45
🫶 Come and say hello!

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August 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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📢 Call for Papers – London Experimental Seminar Series (LESS) in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social.
We are launching a new forum for experimental political science research: First seminar: 19/11/2025. Deadline: 31/08/2025. Submit here: forms.gle/ZUJcBbZoDoaY...
London Experimental Seminar Series in Political Science
We are inviting submissions for the London Experimental Seminar Series in Political Science (LESS), a new forum for discussing experimental political science research among researchers at London unive...
forms.gle
August 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Wahlkampf in den sozialen Medien: Lokale Posts wirken nicht - @ohuwyler.bsky.social, @nathaliegiger.bsky.social, @stefaniebailer.bsky.social

Parlamentsmitglieder sprechen ihren Wahlkreis mittels lokalen Posts direkt an, obwohl diese Strategie nicht belohnt wird.

www.defacto.expert/2025/08/19/w...
August 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Politicians are more susceptible to personal stories and experiences while ignoring statistical information when assessing a policy, demonstrating that episodic information is more influential than statistical information link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Influence of Episodic Information on Political Elites: Evidence from Chile - Political Behavior
Are politicians more influenced by anecdotal information than statistical data? While extensive research has explored the implications of this question for the general public, studies examining the ro...
link.springer.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🚨 New paper in Science Advances @science.org

Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get?

T HeideJorgensen, @gregoryeady.bsky.social & I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments

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July 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Congrats to Julia Schulte-Cloos and @robert-a-huber.bsky.social and especially to @ejprjournal.bsky.social for finding excellent #openscience editors - this is really great news!
July 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Welcome to the team! 🎉

We excited to introduce our 🆕 Open Science Editors, who will be leading an inspiring new initiative throughout the summer & autumn term! 📊

Stay tuned for exciting changes coming to EJPR in 2026! 📅

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EJPR welcomes new Editors of Open Science
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
July 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Heading to @ipsa.org in SKorea? I’ll be there representing the @ejprjournal.bsky.social editorial team. Join the Meet the Editors session on July 13th, 12:45 PM.
Whether you’re curious about publishing in EJPR, about the review process, or just want to say hello, you are welcome! Info www.ipsa.org
Meet the Editors: Publishing in Leading Journals
This interactive, café-style session is designed for scholars from the Global South seeking to enhance their engagement with leading international academic journals in political science, international...
www.ipsa.org
July 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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🆕 EJPR NEWS 📰

Find us here on Bluesky 🦋 @ejprjournal.bsky.social for original, peer-reviewed research on comparative European politics. Stay informed, stay connected. #PoliticalScience #EJPR #PoliSky
July 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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This is a fantastic development for European political science led by some very brilliant people focused on excellent research

A sea change. Bravo.

Help however you can

* join the mailing list by sending a message to epss-info-join@list.epssnet.org
* join *now* to show support
* spread the word
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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June 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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KCL's Department of Political Economy is advertising two permanent Academic Education Pathway (AEP) lectureships (grade 6/7) in politics - one in Research Methods, and one in Comparative Politics.

Hopefully, more AEP posts will follow in the next two years.

Links & further details are below.

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June 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-...

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-...

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...
AEP Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods
www.kcl.ac.uk
June 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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🚨 Come work with us at King's College London! 🚨

We're hiring two assistant professors (Education Pathway):
- Lecturer in Economics
tinyurl.com/aepecon

- Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods tinyurl.com/aepmethod

Amazing department, great colleagues, central London, what's not to like?
AEP Lecturer in Economics
tinyurl.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM