@callegall.bsky.social
Postdoc in Pol. Science at Uni Salzburg | elections | public opinion | EU | globalization | social media editor @politiqueue.bsky.social | Formerly Qualidem & DeVOTE | FR CZ BE AT
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🚨 New paper with Maria Grasso on generational shifts in political values. Despite talk of rising age polarisation, we show that gaps in attitudes are stable or even narrowing. Economic attitudes move in cycles, while social values have become more liberal – mainly due to generational replacement.
Political Socialisation in the UK: Describing Generational Changes of Values - International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
A growing bulk of research examines intergenerational shifts in attitudes and the extent to which they are attributable to new cohorts of voters being socialised under different socioeconomic and cult...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🚨 New paper with Maria Grasso on generational shifts in political values. Despite talk of rising age polarisation, we show that gaps in attitudes are stable or even narrowing. Economic attitudes move in cycles, while social values have become more liberal – mainly due to generational replacement.
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🆕 Latest article out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Left parties’ strategies and working-class vote in contemporary Western Europe (2002–2020)
What should the left do strategically to retain workers' vote? This paper provides extensive empirical evidence on the relationship between left parti…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🆕 Latest article out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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When do liberal orders become self-undermining?
@cknill.bsky.social, Andreas Kruck, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf & Bernhard Zangl provide answers to this timely question!
Check out the introduction to their new Special Issue in @jeppjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
@cknill.bsky.social, Andreas Kruck, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf & Bernhard Zangl provide answers to this timely question!
Check out the introduction to their new Special Issue in @jeppjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
When do liberal orders become self-undermining?
@cknill.bsky.social, Andreas Kruck, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf & Bernhard Zangl provide answers to this timely question!
Check out the introduction to their new Special Issue in @jeppjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
@cknill.bsky.social, Andreas Kruck, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf & Bernhard Zangl provide answers to this timely question!
Check out the introduction to their new Special Issue in @jeppjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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💥OUT NOW!
"Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social
Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
"Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social
Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
October 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
💥OUT NOW!
"Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social
Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
"Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social
Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
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🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social
We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions.
Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions.
Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
October 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social
We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions.
Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions.
Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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Just out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨
Together with @dschraff.bsky.social, I ask: Is the urban–rural divide in Europe affectively polarised?
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Together with @dschraff.bsky.social, I ask: Is the urban–rural divide in Europe affectively polarised?
👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised? Comparative Evidence from Nine European Countries - Sven Hegewald, Dominik Schraff, 2025
Recent studies in the United States and Europe have documented a growing divergence in voting behaviour and political attitudes between cities and the countrysi...
journals.sagepub.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Just out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨
Together with @dschraff.bsky.social, I ask: Is the urban–rural divide in Europe affectively polarised?
👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
1/7 🧵
Together with @dschraff.bsky.social, I ask: Is the urban–rural divide in Europe affectively polarised?
👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
1/7 🧵
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Our article on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out in APSR!
Here is the @excinequality.bsky.social working paper:
kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/4...
with @klueserthan.bsky.social & Martin Haselmayer 🧗🙏
Our article on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out in APSR!
Here is the @excinequality.bsky.social working paper:
kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/4...
with @klueserthan.bsky.social & Martin Haselmayer 🧗🙏
June 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Our article on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out in APSR!
Here is the @excinequality.bsky.social working paper:
kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/4...
with @klueserthan.bsky.social & Martin Haselmayer 🧗🙏
Our article on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out in APSR!
Here is the @excinequality.bsky.social working paper:
kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/4...
with @klueserthan.bsky.social & Martin Haselmayer 🧗🙏
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New publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social :
“Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?”
@polstudies.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0032...
A short 🧵:
“Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?”
@polstudies.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0032...
A short 🧵:
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September 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
New publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social :
“Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?”
@polstudies.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0032...
A short 🧵:
“Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?”
@polstudies.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0032...
A short 🧵:
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Some papers are a long time in the making. This one, written with the excellent @iguinaudeau.bsky.social, took long and I am incredibly grad to see it published. 1/8 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 28, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Some papers are a long time in the making. This one, written with the excellent @iguinaudeau.bsky.social, took long and I am incredibly grad to see it published. 1/8 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Economic crises tend to favour the right. Voters tend to assign greater importance to issues owned by the right. When center-right parties preside over a crisis, voters often drift further rightward to nationalist parties rather than defect to the left onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
How do voters respond to economic crises: Do they turn against the incumbent, reward a certain political camp, polarize to the extremes, or perhaps continue to vote much like before? Analyzing extens....
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September 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Economic crises tend to favour the right. Voters tend to assign greater importance to issues owned by the right. When center-right parties preside over a crisis, voters often drift further rightward to nationalist parties rather than defect to the left onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Returning from vacation and looking for a late summer read? @ivobantel.bsky.social and I got you covered!
In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Returning from vacation and looking for a late summer read? @ivobantel.bsky.social and I got you covered!
In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Seems like a good time to read this beautiful paper!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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February 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Seems like a good time to read this beautiful paper!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social!)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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August 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social!)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Yet more evidence that mainstream parties are crucial in stemming the success of the populist-right and the norm erosion that facilitates its rise - for better of worse.
NEW -
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD
"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"
- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD
"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"
- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
August 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Yet more evidence that mainstream parties are crucial in stemming the success of the populist-right and the norm erosion that facilitates its rise - for better of worse.
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Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
August 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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How are the classic social identities (urban-rural, education, etc. ) and perceptions about those groups related to a persons own European and national identity? Read it here (in fantastic company) in print
And (5) "Who are the Cosmopolitans? How Perceived Social Sorting and Social Identities Relate to European and National Identities" by Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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June 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
How are the classic social identities (urban-rural, education, etc. ) and perceptions about those groups related to a persons own European and national identity? Read it here (in fantastic company) in print
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Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on.
A quick 🧵:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on.
A quick 🧵:
June 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on.
A quick 🧵:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on.
A quick 🧵:
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Thrilled that our article is published open access @annualreviews.bsky.social!
We review recent strides in the study of lobbying & flesh out 1) transaction, 2) persuasion and 3) mobilisation mechanisms with @garlicksauce.bsky.social & @heathbrown.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We review recent strides in the study of lobbying & flesh out 1) transaction, 2) persuasion and 3) mobilisation mechanisms with @garlicksauce.bsky.social & @heathbrown.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
How Lobbying Matters | Annual Reviews
For decades, political scientists have struggled to provide empirical evidence that lobbying influences policymaking. A considerable gap arose between widespread public suspicions of lobbying and the ...
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June 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Thrilled that our article is published open access @annualreviews.bsky.social!
We review recent strides in the study of lobbying & flesh out 1) transaction, 2) persuasion and 3) mobilisation mechanisms with @garlicksauce.bsky.social & @heathbrown.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We review recent strides in the study of lobbying & flesh out 1) transaction, 2) persuasion and 3) mobilisation mechanisms with @garlicksauce.bsky.social & @heathbrown.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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New article from our latest issue (Issue 8, 2025): "In Search of the Causes of the Globalization Backlash: Methodological Considerations on Post-treatment Bias" by Paolo Agnolin @paoloagnolin.bsky.social , Italo Colantone, and Piero Stanig @pstanig.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
June 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
New article from our latest issue (Issue 8, 2025): "In Search of the Causes of the Globalization Backlash: Methodological Considerations on Post-treatment Bias" by Paolo Agnolin @paoloagnolin.bsky.social , Italo Colantone, and Piero Stanig @pstanig.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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New preprint w/ @grahn.bsky.social & @joenoonan.se
What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸
In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing.
📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...
What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸
In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing.
📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...
May 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New preprint w/ @grahn.bsky.social & @joenoonan.se
What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸
In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing.
📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...
What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸
In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing.
📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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Sexism isn't just driving support for the radical right — it shaped vote choice across the board in #btw21 🗳🇩🇪
Our new research shows how different forms of sexism influenced sympathy for chancellor candidates and party choice.
(Spoiler: not just the AfD!)
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new research shows how different forms of sexism influenced sympathy for chancellor candidates and party choice.
(Spoiler: not just the AfD!)
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Disentangling different types of sexist attitudes and vote choice in Germany
With a woman as head of German government for 16 years, many hoped (or feared) for significant progress in the areas of gender equality. Rather than progress, however, contributors have noticed a r...
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May 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Sexism isn't just driving support for the radical right — it shaped vote choice across the board in #btw21 🗳🇩🇪
Our new research shows how different forms of sexism influenced sympathy for chancellor candidates and party choice.
(Spoiler: not just the AfD!)
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new research shows how different forms of sexism influenced sympathy for chancellor candidates and party choice.
(Spoiler: not just the AfD!)
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Fresh from the press: "Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions" together with @nilsjungmann.bsky.social We challenge dominant assumptions about the structure of political conflict. a 🧵1/ x
Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions
This study challenges the conventional conceptualisation of political space in European countries as a two-dimensional socio-economic and socio-cultural structure. Utilising data from the 2024 Euro...
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May 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Fresh from the press: "Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions" together with @nilsjungmann.bsky.social We challenge dominant assumptions about the structure of political conflict. a 🧵1/ x
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▫️ "Perceived constraints from European and international integration: citizens’ feeling of being represented and turnout" by Cal Le Gall, Virginie Van Ingelgom, and Claire Dupuy
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Perceived constraints from European and international integration: citizens’ feeling of being represented and turnout
A burgeoning literature suggests that the loss of autonomy of national representatives induced by supranational integration – i.e. European integration and globalization, ultimately depresses turno...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
▫️ "Perceived constraints from European and international integration: citizens’ feeling of being represented and turnout" by Cal Le Gall, Virginie Van Ingelgom, and Claire Dupuy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Delighted that my paper with @kevincunning.bsky.social on "Still second-order national elections? Evaluating the classic model after the 2024 European elections" has just been published by @wepsocial.bsky.social
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May 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Delighted that my paper with @kevincunning.bsky.social on "Still second-order national elections? Evaluating the classic model after the 2024 European elections" has just been published by @wepsocial.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140... 1/
doi.org/10.1080/0140... 1/