Anne Rasmussen

Delighted that @gregoryeady.bsky.social and my paper "Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies" is now online @apsrjournal.bsky.social (Open access) More in this [1/14]

#OpenAccess - (Inequality in) Interest Group Involvement and the Legitimacy of Policy Making - https://cup.org/4gSAbzM - @annerasmussen.bsky.social & @stefaniereher.bsky.social #epop2026

🚨New paper🚨 Very pleased that “Using Gender to Choose: Voter Decision-Making in Low-Information Elections”, coauthored with Ellie Woodhouse, is now out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social. In it, we ask: when voters know very little about candidates, how do they use gender when deciding who to vote for? 🧵👇

Delighted that @stefaniereher.bsky.social & my article got selected for @bjpols.bsky.social ‘s Special #EPOP2026 collection Along with work by many other great colleagues. Sad to miss #EPOP2026 but hope everyone will have a great time! 🕺💃 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🏆Really delighted & honored to receive this best paper price #ecprgc26 from the interest group section together with our amazing team 🙏Heartfelt thanks to @eliseantoine.bsky.social @tombarton.bsky.social @liserodland.bsky.social for being part of this sometimes somewhat challenging journey🚀

V. happy to recieve certificates from last years ECPR conference, Best Paper in the Interest Groups Standing Group. A great paper led by @eliseantoine.bsky.social and co-authored by @annerasmussen.bsky.social, @liserodland.bsky.social and myself. Part of the ERC ADVODID project we are all a part of🎉

Three weeks ago, the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference took place in Belfast. The enthusiasm, active participation and support from the community made this conference a huge success.

🚨 New partnership 🚨 King's has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a 1+1 Master’s programme between King’s College London and the University of Barcelona. Students will study in Barcelona and London - bringing together two fantastic academic environments. ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/political-ec...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Citizen–Elite #Toxicity & #Political #Equality Online By @janabelschner.bsky.social & Linn Sandberg doi.org/10.1017/S153...

🥪Starting soon - EPSS Diversity Lunch Roundtable: Tackling Barriers in the Discipline: Disability, Chronic Illness, Neurodivergence, and Mental Health 12:30-13:30 | Bar 2, with Andrej Cvetić, Catherine de Vries, Amélie Godefroidt, Anne Rasmussen, Stefanie Reher and Timon Scheuer

Great conversations and excellent turnout at the Diversity Panel at the EPSS General Conference today.

Why do arguments often change people’s beliefs without changing their attitudes? In a new APSR with @scottclifford.bsky.social and @patrickpliu.bsky.social, we point to belief relevance: arguments are more persuasive when they grapple with the idiosyncratic reasons people hold their political views.

Now out in @igajournal.bsky.social: my review of 2 recent books -- 📖 @ejfagan.com's The Thinkers (Oxford UP, 2024) 📖 @zalbert.bsky.social's Partisan Policy Networks (Penn, 2025) Read the review here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Come do a British Academy Post-Doc at King's! The deadline for our internal check is 15th May 2026. Information here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/fun...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen @silje-hermansen.bsky.social & Daniel Naurin @dnaurin.bsky.social (ISV) 👉 Shaping the Bench: The Effect of Ideology and Influence on Judicial Reappointments 📗 Published in The Journal of Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/740169

🚨 VACATURE Het Instituut Politieke Wetenschap van Uni Leiden is op zoek naar twee UD2s met expertise in één of meer van de volgende gebieden: de Europese Unie-politiek, politieke economie, milieupolitiek, beleid en/of de Nederlandse politiek. careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Universi...

🆕 When carbon taxes feel unfair 💸 David Hope, @julianlimberg.bsky.social & Yves Steinebach carry out a survey in the UK to provide observational and experimental evidence to highlight the impacts of rural resentment on support for carbon taxation

Happy to see our @ejprjournal.bsky.social article on political representation on policy issues across European countries cited in this piece in @economist.com Article link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... With fantastic co-authors: @stefaniereher.bsky.social @dtoshkov.bsky.social

📢 Are women MPs better at estimating their party voters’ preferences on women’s issues? In our new paper (with @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and @breunig.eurosky.social), we analyze whether and under which conditions women MPs assess these preferences more accurately. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

⏳ Last few spaces remaining for Meet the Editors at #ecprjs26 🗓️ Book a 15-minute slot and discuss your article idea with one of our editors: 🔵 EJPR @robert-a-huber.bsky.social 🟣 EPSR @exadaktylos.bsky.social 🟠 PRX @mlorimer.bsky.social

🚨 New in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Many prior accounts of social media hostility focus on algorithms. With @boralexander.bsky.social, @a-marie-sci.bsky.social & @leapradella.bsky.social, we use data from 30 countries to focus on the role of societal conditions. 🧵1/7

Happy to have my first paper published in @govjournal.bsky.social In the paper, I map and analyze the pre-appointment careers of Danish ministerial advisors. Political parties are central in most advisor careers. But over time, i observe fewer journalists and more policy professionals.

Our new article on gender differences in why young people join political parties is now out, open access, in @ejprjournal.bsky.social ✨ www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @duncanmcdonnell.com @profannikawerner.bsky.social @rheinisch.bsky.social Marco Valbruzzi @cwegscheider.bsky.social

Wonderful news Julia. Congrats!! 👏

Lobbying ≠ campaign contributions. Treating them as the same isn’t just wrong—it distorts how we understand influence in American politics. New piece w @clarebrock.bsky.social & @alexanderfurnas.com: why the overlap is smaller than most think and why that matters. www.promarket.org/2026/03/20/t...

📚 Do you know of an outstanding published work in comparative #SocialSciences research? 🌟 Nominations are now OPEN for the 2026 Stein Rokkan Prize 🏆 Presented by @sciencecouncil.bsky.social, @sampol.bsky.social & ECPR 💰 £4,300 prize fund ⏰ Fri 1 May buff.ly/PFwkwVx #ECPRPrizes #ComparativeResearch

Conditionally accepted at the APSR (w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social & @patrickpliu.bsky.social): Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.

🧵 Excited to share my new book w/ @hildecoffe.bsky.social : "Different and Unequal? Gendered Political Participation in European Democracies" — with @universitypress.cambridge.org Elements in Gender and Politics (open access!) TLDR? Women don't just participate less. They participate *differently*

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London! Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU) No fee, travel grants might become available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026

6/6 🧵Can MPs read “the public”? In @thejop.bsky.social, @simonotjes.bsky.social & @annerasmussen.bsky.social compare MPs' estimates of public opinion with actual opinion on policy. They find reps project their own views onto the public, while business ties have little effect. doi.org/qm5q

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Breaking: Danish elections March 24, 2026 This is the message from PM Mette Frederiksen to the leader of Danish Parliament. To make an announcement of special nature: calling elections 🗳️ #BorgenMoment for those following 🇩🇰 politics.

Time to reassess. At the time of the Brexit vote, I thought that (at the aggregate level) the UK would be a little poorer but a little more sovereign. It’s now clear that the UK is quite a lot poorer, and only marginally more sovereign … The impact at the individual level is much worse, too

Precies over een maand, op 12 maart verschijnt mijn boek De symfonie van onvrede: De opmars van radicaal-rechts in Europa bij Querido: www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/querido/boek... Dit boek gaat me aan het hart en ik kom graag een lezing geven. 🧵

Many congrats Tom! Happy to see this! 👏👏👏

📢 The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Tom Louwerse as Professor of Political Behaviour and Research Methods at the Institute of Political Science. 🔎 Read more: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...

📣 Call for Nominations: Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award ⏳ Deadline: February 27 📧 Email nominations to: @jmcrosson.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @garlicksauce.bsky.social @shamiragelbman.bsky.social @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social

Do you know an emerging scholar who studies political organizations and parties who you think merits an award? If so, send us your nominations!

🧵I am happy to announce a new article in Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social, “Are the Politically Active Better Represented?”, co-authored with @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, and Anders Sundell. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌐 📲 With international collaborators, the Observatory’s director @andreucasas.bsky.social revisited recent “TikTok censorship” claims after the TikTok USDS takeover ➡️ Detailed information about the analysis available: goodauthority.org/news/was-the... 🧵[1/5]

🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs" We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

65.1 🦋 Who runs for political office and who doesn’t? 🤷 These authors 🧵👇️ show how personality traits, especially honesty and humility, shape citizens’ political ambition, answering why recruitment matters in cross-national study ✍️ 🔗 buff.ly/Sc9yPf1

⏱️ @frederikstevens.bsky.social examines when interest groups mobilise to keep “nightmare” issues off the EU agenda. ⏳ Survey data on 485 EU-level groups shows negative agenda-setting is about timing, not just mobilisation 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

My colleague Kevin Munger asked me and a bunch of editors to sit and think through AI and peer review. Our take: osf.io/9sxnc/files/... We envision an increased (!) involvement of humans in the evaluation of social science.

🚨We have a set of very nice PhD scholarships available at King’s College London’s Department of Political Economy 👨‍🎓 👩‍🏫 Candidates free to develop their own proposal within political science, communication, Econ etc. ⁉️Questions welcome Happy if you have the option to share the call 🙏

New article: "Legislative Control and Partisan Disparities in Dyadic Representation" in @lsqjournal.bsky.social w/ Dan Butler and @steverogersinfo.bsky.social. GOP leadership doesn't shy away from policies where GOP constituencies disagree with the party platform, impairing dyadic representation!

Are we trapped in a vicious cycle of political incivility on social media? 🤳 Our new study suggests that we are, but primarily as elections approach. The more we like, comment or share uncivil political content, the more politicians use such rhetoric close to elections. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1532...

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

Some good news finally ;-) 🍫💝 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/key-che...