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- on ideological stereotypes supervised by me and
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- on losers' consent supervised by @annakern.bsky.social
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🚨 New open-access publication out in the European Journal of Political Research!

@markuskollberg.bsky.social and I examine how coalition government performance shapes affective polarization between coalition partners—and find that it matters.

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ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 preprint alert 🚨

In this note with @turkenburgemma.bsky.social , we document a non-linear relationship between affective polarization (AP) and democratic support.

These results can explain previous mixed findings and emphasize a potential silver lining of AP 👇

osf.io/5nhtg/

Spoiler alert & sneak peak into the results: In the Flemish context, results of an experiment suggest that if the N-VA includes Vlaams Belang, this results in a higher propensity to vote for VB.