Above all, I enjoyed showing & sharing the city I love w my parents, kids & @mbechseeberg.bsky.social. It has a beer tap, coffee brewer & play ground on every corner not to mention its outstanding museums.

I was lucky to present my research at European Inst. LSE, Nuffield College in Oxford & Essex, & was spoiled w great feedback, coffees, lunch+dinners w @tabouchadi.bsky.social Rachel Bernard, Jane Green, Lawrence Ezrow, @dianebolet.bsky.social & @roizur.bsky.social.

What a community to be part of!

A truly amazing time & research stay w my family in London is soon coming to an end. Incredibly grateful for warm hospitality & lots of fun lunches, coffees and discussions at LSE with @miguelpereira.bsky.social, @sarahobolt.bsky.social,
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Interestingly, the core-to-potential ratio differs substantially across issues, parties, and countries.

Social democrats e.g. generally have a firm hand on their voters, but limited growth potential.

The electoral growth opportunities for parties across issues is generally..

..in 14 countries over 50 years using 100+ national election studies.

This matters to parties' issue strategies:

Socialist parties e.g. should emphasize welfare, unemployment and the economy to target core voters, and housing, agriculture, and welfare to attract potential voters!

vote for the party, or 'issue potential' that consists of potential voters who find the party most competent but do not vote for the party.

So the party might emphasize an issue to attract new voters but in fact only talk to core voters.

I use 4,000,000 obs. to split issue ownership on 20 issues..

..parties pursuing their issue ownerships unknowingly often target either their core voters or their potential voters.

In almost half of the 4,500 issue ownerships in my data, issue ownership is either entirely 'issue core' & consists of core voters who find the party most competent &..

Parties emphasize issues on which they have ownership to mobilize core voters and appeal to potential voters.

..But who do parties actually target via their issue ownership?

In an new WP (link below), I split issue ownership into 'issue core' & 'issue potential' and show that..

Chasing water falls in the weekends w our 🛸 amidst piles of exam papers to grade. January is surely a little more fun down under 🦘

But first family time at K’Gari far from 🖥️🎮🔌, but high on 🌊🩴🕶️

Thrilled to kickstart my project on youth politics and 2024 w a stay at Griffith Uni to visit @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social & @ammassarisofia.bsky.social 💫🇦🇺🦘. So far spectacular welcome to Brisbane ⚡️🌈

Thanks Or Tuttnauer @ortutt.bsky.social for travelling all the way from Mannheim to the Party Politics Speaker Series @AarhusUni to give a fascinating talk on opposition/government conflict+cooperation across Western parliaments & its impact on voter satisfaction w democracy. Truly inspiring!

The nice office view is the same, the shitty weather in Denmark too, but I am thrilled to be promoted to full professor!

Throwback to Thursday where @peterla.bsky.social gave a fascinating talk in Aarhus on his forthcoming book "Party Families in W. Europe". Much prominent party-voter research relies on the classification across countries of the greens, socialists etc. But do such families exist at all?

I brought my daughter to work today. Today she will nanny our nephew baby-August while I do a training session for the Sapere Aude public lecture series on my youth politics project. Tomorrow we will interview MPs. She gets 💉of the 🦠 that bit me 🎯😁

Waiting for people to start following my wife @mbechseeberg.bsky.social so that it does not look weird that I follow her to get the latest on African elections and female candidate roadblocks (w 4 kids at home I rarely get to talk non-practical w her, so I really rely on SoMe!) [pic from Sat night]

Beautiful morning on the ferry leaving Aarhus and a special day in the office for sure. First interviewing parliamentarians and then attending an award ceremony where I will officially receive my Sapere Aude grant from the head of the Danish Research Council 🕺🍾