Simon Gren
simongren.bsky.social
Simon Gren
@simongren.bsky.social
Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. simongren.github.io
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🧵 How does education shape political behavior?
@professormpersson.bsky.social and I contribute with two chapters to the new Research Handbook on Education and Democracy👇
June 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Our new open access article, “Outcome Isn’t Everything”, by @simongren.bsky.social and @elenaleuschner.bsky.social shows that voters punish incumbents for unpopular policy decisions even if they never take effect. Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Outcome Isn’t Everything: Electoral Consequences of Implementing or Withdrawing Unpopular Policies - Political Behavior
Incumbents often make unpopular policy decisions. But can they remedy their negative electoral consequences? We extend the wide literature concerning retrospective voting to the case of unpopular poli...
link.springer.com
May 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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New research alert!

Wind turbine construction has been a subject of heavy debate in Swedish politics, but does it impact political behavior? That's what @simongren.bsky.social and I investigated in our latest article by combining data on every wind turbine in Sweden with detailed electoral data.
Political expectations and electoral responses to wind farm development in Sweden
Wind energy expansion has influenced electoral behavior by decreasing support for incumbents, primarily explained by not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) argume…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 16, 2024 at 7:59 AM