One of my favourite events in the conference season: young scholars sharing their superexciting research with us. Please, do apply and visit us at @kingsqpe.bsky.social
This is spot on
#BaromรจtreConfiance
@luc-rouban.bsky.social @damienbol.bsky.social et Bruno Cautrรจs proposent leur synthรจse des rรฉsultats de la vague 17 du Baromรจtre de la confiance politique CEVIPOF dans @lemonde.fr
Demande de protection et recherche d'une dรฉmocratie qui fonctionne.
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
Has someone studied this? It seems eminently feasible!
I wonder whether there is a study estimating the causal effect of grade scales on strategic choice made by students like extra curricular activities
Agree but this ceiling effect only occurs in the final stage of grade inflation. In UK (and other countries like France), there has been grade inflation, but weโre still far from the ceiling. Today, 20% of students get a First (70-80%) but they can still work harder to get a better grade
Yeah but the font is terrible ;)
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BJPolS abstract of an academic article discussing how democratic institutions prioritize citizen preferences regarding economic and physical security, with a focus on varied democratic features across thirty countries.
NEW -
Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World - https://cup.org/49auQPf
- @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @sirianned.bsky.social, Kristian Vrede Skaaning Frederiksen & @aykutozturk.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper โFraming Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backslidingโ is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)
Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...
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This does NOT happen everyday.
THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n
Super thread. Pour ceux qui veulent une quantification du vote pour les รฉlections de 2024, on a รฉcrit un papier lร dessus pour les RFSP avec @jfdaoust.bsky.social shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...
Oui La Rage, probablement dans le top. Dans les trucs rรฉcents, probablement ceci malgrรฉ tout youtu.be/oJ5PfRQB93o?...
It has to be French. This is often considered as the best 90sโ rap song in France youtu.be/s8mGJbvfw24?...
This paper is personal. I wrote it on my own (no RA, no fund), and it grew out of my own experience as a teenager in Belgium in the 1990s. I also had the chance to cite my PhD supervisor, Andrรฉ-Paul Frognier, who isnโt in great health and was truly pivotal for me and my career.
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Implications:
- Elections do more than picking a winner, they make citizens.
- A reason why the youth is not be super on board with democracy is because they haven't had a chance to experience it fully yet.
- Some governmental instability can be good to renew democratic mood.
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Coefficient estimates of regressions estimating the effect of the number of turnovers to which one has been exposed over their lifetime, depending on type of political institutions.
The effect is as strong in presidential, parliamentary, proportional and non-proportional countries. But it's stronger in liberal democracies.
It's also stronger for those who have never experienced anything else than democracy, that is, those who might take democracy for granted.
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Coefficient estimates of regressions estimating the effect of the number of turnovers to which one has been exposed over their lifetime, and the number of elections not leading to a turnover, on their support for democracy.
Finding: Cohort analysis shows that being exposed to an extra elections increases support for democracy, but being exposed to an election leading to a turnover even more so.
The effect doesn't fade away and is particularly strong after a long period of incumbency (like after 20 years)
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Histogram showing number of elections and turnovers experienced by survey respondents in the dataset.
Data: I merged a range of international survey data (N=350,000) and trace the elections to which respondents have been exposed in their country since they were young. Descriptive statistics are interesting I guess
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The argument: I test whether elections experienced by people over their lifetime can boost their support for democracy in the long run. And crucially: elections leading to government turnovers, because they showcase what democracy is about.
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Title and abstract of the accepted paper.
Over the moon ๐. My paper "Renewing Democracy:
How Exposure to Electoral Turnovers Reinforces Citizensโ Democratic Support" is accepted in World Politics. LINK: osf.io/preprints/os....
First paper fully conceived since my second child was born 4 years ago. For those who know, big milestone.
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๐ป Great new podcast on political behaviour - the last episode features my @lsegovernment.bsky.social colleague Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social on whether campaigns matter, Mamdaniโs victory and the Dutch elections -
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Take-aways: (i) support for violence against politicians is low (phew), (ii) largely unrelated to affective polarization, and (iii) we can reduce it with simple and scalable interventions.
A paper that gives us some hope
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Results of vignette experiment showing that the interventions decreased milder forms of violence against politicians.
We've also a vignette experiment where we test whether a simple intervention can decrease support for violence: encouraging people to consider politicians' perspective and reminding them about the importance of pluralism. It does for the most pervasive form of violence
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Results of conjoint analysis showing that the socio-demographic background of respondents shapes support for violence.
Conjoint shows that support is lower when the politician is a woman (fits stereotypical views), but partisanship don't. Negative correlation disappears when controlling for individual variables. The profile of violent citizens are low-educated young men who dislike all parties
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Histogram showing that most people don't support violence against politicians, although support is higher for milder forms line online insult.
Similar to other studies using these types of survey questions, we find that people don't support the most extreme forms of violence (physical assault), but they do support "milder" forms like online insult. Though, overall support is rather low, no more than 10% support.
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We rely on latest recommendations (@seanjwestwood.bsky.social and colleagues) and survey citizen support for concrete violence forms against (hypothetical) politicians using a conjoint in France (very high polarization, think about US) and french-speaking Belgium (much much lower).
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