Why do some explanations for public budget cuts work better than others? @rtpedersen.bsky.social & Paw Hansen examine how justification-based strategies reduce citizen opposition to cuts. Read more: buff.ly/siVcxu3

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

🆕 Do Respectful Politicians Make Less Polarized Citizens? 🤝

@rtpedersen.bsky.social @julianchr.bsky.social & Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen use survey data to test whether politicians’ positive rhetoric 🗣️ ✅ can reduce #polarization in the same way negative rhetoric 🗣️ ❎ increases it

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#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -

Congenial messages from politicians reduce affective polarization among citizens - https://cup.org/46JRPk3

- @rtpedersen.bsky.social, Julian Christensen & Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen

#FirstView

People are more likely to act against online abuse of politicians if you tell them that such comments 1) hurt individual politicians, (2) violate social norms, and (3) undermine democracy.
New article in R&P by Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen, Mads Thau and Myself:

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Check out @rtpedersen.bsky.social, Petersen, and Thau’s open access paper, “Online Abuse of Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Politicians’ Own Perceptions.” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Update: We submitted the comment to the Journal of Population Economics, and today we got a desk reject with this motivation. However, we do not know their conclusion about the main results and why the paper was not retracted. Clearly, they do not hold. 1/4

Former commander of Pituffik Susan Meyers must have known that she would be fired for this.

But apparently she found there are bigger considerations at stake than keeping her command.

Question is if we'll see more of this sort in coming months?

Berlingske has obtained her leaked email

#Defence

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The Gendered Cost of Politics - cup.org/42favop

- Frederik Klaaborg Kjøller & @leneholmp.bsky.social

"the conjoint experiment reveals that women candidates state stronger preferences for equal working environments in politics than men..."

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🧵 Who enters politics? Are politicians different from the general population? In our @jeeanews.bsky.social paper (M. Jokela, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social, Å. von Schoultz), we study Finnish politicians’ cognitive and personality traits using military conscription test data. 📊

Denmarks Radio reports that many of the Greenlanders who participated in Donald Trump Jr.’s PR stunt are homeless people, who got “bribed” with a nice dinner in return for being a part of it

New article in @jepsjournal.bsky.social. We show (to our own surprise) that exposure to online abuse of politicians does not decrease citizens’ prospective political participation. If anything, it may in some cases mobilize citizens politically!
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Next time you enjoy a craft beer, remember to thank President Carter. In 1978 he legalized homebrewing of beer in the US, paving the way for the craft beer revolution
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I'm pretty sure that ChatGPT isn't sentient, but I still can't help think that after a day of helping me debugging code, it somehow appreciates the tasks given by my youngest kid more

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1) Online abuse of politicians
2) Political discontent and populism is, to a large extent, driven by “good-old-days-bias”

My and @johannarickne.bsky.social 's paper on the ”Class Ceiling in Politics” is now out in the APSR with open access! We describe the key findings below. 1/9

What do ordinary people think about online abuse of politicians? In a new paper, we show how citizens perceive criticism, insults, threats and sexist remarks directed at politicians on social media (open access link: ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...). Surprisingly... (1/n)

Non-correlation of the day. Among Danish voters, willingness to run for political office is correlated with the usual suspects: political interest (duh!), gender and age - But not with political trust. Don't even know if I expected pos or neg, but no correlation somehow seems odd.
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Today also: nothing makes the intentional murder and kidnapping of children and unarmed civilians legitimate or understandable.