🚨 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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This new study of transport poverty gives further support to the reverse causality hypothesis, which says that your travel situation comes first and your attitudes to travel are shaped by this. Implies: don't try to change everyone's mind first, change the game
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very happy to see this out as part of a great special issue on cleavage politics: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Building on studies on how (1) education, (2) generation and (3) gender structure voting on the GAL/TAN cleavage, we study how they interact.

Here’s a thread summarizing the paper👇

The Trump admin is causing chaos in transport research. Studies have been canceled, datasets have vanished, and experts have been fired.

The Nat'l Academies’ Transportation Research Board has caved to Trump’s demands for censorship, triggering upheaval. Its future is in doubt.

From me (w/scoops) 🧵

Looks like a great resource at the intersection of political science and transport policy!

www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

In Nov 2024, Swiss voters rejected a $5.6b motorway expansion at the ballot box. Even liberal pundits speculated the vote reflected anti-migration sentiment.

Yet exit polls *show*:

▪️73% of voters opposed the bill for environmental reasons

▪️Only 0.06% cited migration concerns as their motivation

Is your research in Historical Political Economy and are you based in Europe? @beckerbastian.bsky.social, @cathrinmohr.bsky.social and I seek to map the current state as well as the future potential of the field in Europe. Help us to do so by taking our 15-minute survey: forms.gle/kXXsGQZUVtrH...

New cars in Europe are getting 1 cm wider every two years. T&E says the trend will continue due to the rising sales of SUVs unless lawmakers take action.

50 % of new cars sold are already too wide for the minimum on-street parking space in many countries.
www.greencarcongress.com/2024/01/2024...

🚨 How are more ambitious climate policies feasible politically? We have published 4 new research briefs on the political viability of climate policies. You can find all the briefs on our website.
Here is a 🧵summarizing the briefs.
Please share.
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

I will be co-teaching a one-week class on survey experiments (mostly Conjoints) at the end of February in Konstanz. Happy to answer any questions!

New in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! Reviewing over 300 surveys, we provide a guide on navigating the many concepts measured in climate change public opinion research over 4 decades. It includes the resource of an over 200 page fully-searchable appendix with all questions!!
doi.org/10.1080/0964...

go.bsky.app/3i58yzC