European Journal of Political Research

We’ve introduced our new reproducibility guidelines to fuel transparency and strengthen #PoliSci research! 📊 Over the coming weeks, we want to share more about the guidelines, what they mean for authors, and what’s changing 🆕 Why not have a look here first 📰 👉️ buff.ly/W91rjHA

💡 Knowledge is better when it travels! 🌍 📚 #OpenAccess means research that moves beyond journal pages, reaches new audiences & sparks fresh ideas without paywalls getting in the way! 🔓✨ 🤝 This #OpenAccessWeek, explore what’s possible with EJPR! buff.ly/NhOvwMe

EU democracy assistance on levels of democracy 🆘 @stevebmann.bsky.social, Sonja Grimm & @karinashyrokykh.bsky.social conduct a time-series cross-sectional analysis across the EU to explore the nexus between democracy assistance and administrative state capacity buff.ly/zJXaR5N

🚀 Big news for open research! 👀 🔓 No paywalls, no barriers, just great research ready to be read, shared & explored by everyone. 📚✨ 🤝 Thanks to our partnership with @universitypress.cambridge.org, we’re taking accessible scholarship further this #OpenAccessWeek! 💡

Does politics drive cultural preferences? 🎤 👩‍🎤 Estelle E. Brun & Taylor C. Boas examining voting behaviour in the #EurovisionSongContest, using individual-level data to allow to distinguish political influences on ESC voting behavior from cultural attitudes and song quality buff.ly/ZcqurjZ

🤔 Did you know all our articles are Gold Open Access? 👀 📚 Every article is peer-reviewed, high quality & free to read from day one. No paywalls, no barriers! 🙌 ✨ This #OpenAccessWeek, discover research that’s open to everyone, everywhere 📖 #OA2026

Liberal self-determination ✊️ @heikogiebler.bsky.social, L.Antoine & R.Ollroge draw from liberal theory to identify five enabling conditions for self-determination, and use original survey data to understand how #Authoritatian orientations relate to support for those conditions buff.ly/4MLX3kw

Strategic alienation ♟️ 🛸 @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & Martin Haselmayer examine how political parties use social group appeals in negative campaigning, using a UK dataset, and asks when strategically targeted attacks are more likely to occur buff.ly/C2JclBd

Romania’s immigration debate under neoliberal hegemony 🤬 Luis Escobedo & Tamás Kiss argue that the ‘Ditrău incident’ was vital for Romania ‘the incident’ was fundamental in the silencing, individualisation, and invisibilisation of working-class voices buff.ly/o443EFx

Strange bedfellows 🤝 🤷‍♂️ Gissur Ó Erlingsson, Emanuel Wittberg, @hannaeback.bsky.social & Assar Wixe advance research on why political adversaries might choose to govern together, looking at cooperation in Swedish local government buff.ly/Lcu8aK3

Pocketbook politics and climate action 👛 🌳 @frederikthieme.bsky.social uses German panel data to ask why green parties continue to struggling electorally despite overwhelming public support for climate action, and shows what impact economic strain has buff.ly/oAUgCbo

🔥 Trending on SciLove today 🔥 🔬 The democratic ideal under stress: Citizen commitment to democratic rights and procedures in challenging times 👤 Rauh et al., 2026 📖 European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social 🔗 https://www.scilove.app/article/10.1017/s1475676526101613 #PoliSci

Online privacy protection 🫆 🦹‍♂️ @digitalaut-ecpr.bsky.social's Ahmed Maati & Stefan Wurster ask whether the quality of democracy affect how well citizens’ online privacy is protected, using data from the varieties of democracy to capture variation buff.ly/tQr8eoA

Shaping the left wing 🪽 @ecprpovb.bsky.social's D.Angelucci & @ecpr-migration.bsky.social's E.Flumeri analyse 19 Western European countries to suggest that the gender gap is stronger when left-wing parties have progressive policies on both economic and social/cultural issues buff.ly/XCIARvT

Diaspora diplomacy in the making 🏗️ 🌊 Inta Mieriņa & Baiba Bela study the important role that individual people living abroad can play in international diplomacy looking at a case of Latvian professionals in international organisations buff.ly/LtTxCJO

Do voting advice applications have durable causal effects? Micha Germann, @iuliacioroianu.bsky.social, Fernando Mendez & Constantinos Djouvas present new evidence to better under the causal effects of VAAs on political knowledge, preferences and behaviour buff.ly/2unu58F

Mapping public perceptions of politicians 🗺️ Mads Nørgaard uses Danish survey data to demonstrate that most citizens view politicians as both internally homogeneous and socially distinct from the general population buff.ly/iwvPSAJ

#Gender in the face of #Terrorist threat 💪 Brian Littmann, Nadia Natasha James Nielsen & Lasse Laustsen compare citizens gender preference before and during the face of terrorist threat to better understand how threat decreases citizens’ relative preferences buff.ly/LYi7Q1Z

Why are women more supportive of the #WelfareState than men? 🚺️ 🆚 🚹️ @kaitlin-alper.bsky.social, @davidattewell6.bsky.social & Andreas Jozwiak address gender inequality, showing the connection between the wider political consequences and broader structures of income inequality buff.ly/IFgBfeo

What is changing? Our new #Reproducibility policy outlines the changes we are making across EJPR to strength #ResearchIntegrity within our community, including stronger data availability and code sharing Read our news story here: buff.ly/rKpyo7y

Shades of #Climate skepticism 🕶️ 🌳 @asheinze.bsky.social & @akueppers.bsky.social examine diverse climate attitudes of local political elites to develop an analytical framework, assessing the varying degrees of climate skepticisms in two eastern German states buff.ly/Ris4NIw

Do emotions affect political trust judgments? 😌 🆚 😔 Camille Landesvatter & @gesis.org's Paul Bauer offer novel empirical evidence to show that in addition to informed and rational reasoning, emotional state plays a role in #Trust evaluations, looking at a U.S. sample buff.ly/Gz5F61w

Overpromising populists 🤞 @ecprsgpp.bsky.social's Mathias Bukh Vestergaard explores whether the image of 'overpromising populists' is accurate, using a novel dataset to empirically demonstrate that established parties make substantially more promises buff.ly/id9zk49

Research is strongest 💪 when others can understand, evaluate, and build on it 🏗️ That's why our new Reproducibility Guidelines provide clear guidance on transparency, data, code, and research material requirements 🤩 Read the policy here: buff.ly/SdtAPcB

We will see you in an hour #ecprgc26! 🚨 ⏰️ Come see @alessandronai.bsky.social, @caterinafr.bsky.social & @robert-a-huber.bsky.social today 📆 to chat about all things #ECRs! 👨‍🎓 buff.ly/7lzB8BY

💥 In Wednesday's #ecprgc26 #PoliticalViolence EJPR panel 💻️ @audreyvdleene.bsky.social told us 👩‍💻 'Women running for office don't just face the same violence all candidates encounter, but #sexism too' 🪧 'This forces women candidates to self-censor the political issues they are prepared to discuss'

Absolutely stoked to have received the Best Paper Prize 2025 from @ecpr-ead.bsky.social at #ecprgc26 🥳 You can read the published paper, co-authored with @bcastanho.bsky.social, in the EJPR: doi.org/10.1017/S147... The pun in the title had to go, unfortunately...

💥From yesterday's #ecprgc26 Panel on #PoliticalViolence & Radicalisation: 💻️ @markuswagner.bsky.social tells the room 'I don't believe political violence is ever legitimate against democratic actors. But political anger is a reasonable reaction to injustice, without which nothing would ever change!'

💥 Thanks to everyone who attended today's #ecprgc26 Political Violence and Radicalisation panel featuring EJPR editors @alessandronai.bsky.social & @markuswagner.bsky.social alongside @audreyvdleene.bsky.social, @tevoelker.bsky.social, @danschindler.bsky.social & Måns Lundstedt.

🔊 Live from our Political Violence and Radicalisation panel at #ecprgc26. 🗣️ EJPR editor @markuswagner.bsky.social + panellists @tevoelker.bsky.social and @audreyvdleene.bsky.social discuss what political science has to say about the alleged rise in violence – and possible solutions to curb it.

🔊 Live from our Political Violence and Radicalisation panel at #ecprgc26. 🗣️ EJPR editor @alessandronai.bsky.social chairs the discussion covering questions such as: to what extent are we witnessing a radicalisation of politics across the world, and what are its drivers and pathways?

1 hour to go ⌛️ We are here at #ecprgc26, come and join @alessandronai.bsky.social & @exadaktylos.bsky.social for 'Political violence and radicalisation: Diagnostics, causes, and interventions' 🔍️ buff.ly/dJnInAU

Want to chat with us at #ecprgc26? Book a meeting with our editors to talk about all things EJPR! 💬 Slots are booking up fast, so schedule it now whilst there is still time!⏳️ 👉️ buff.ly/OpbYZqu

Are you traveling to meet us in Kraków at #ecprgc26? 🚄 🛫 🚃 Need something to read for the ride? 📖 Why not take a look over our Conference Collections for your journey! buff.ly/dJnInAU

We can't wait to see you all at #ecprgc26! Come chat with @alessandronai.bsky.social, @caterinafr.bsky.social & @robert-a-huber.bsky.social about all things #ECRs! 👨‍🎓 buff.ly/7lzB8BY

Get out to deliberate 💭 @unisouthampton.bsky.social's Katy Tabero, Zohreh Khoban, @pspada.bsky.social, @r-mestre.bsky.social & Matt Ryan conduct a GOTV-style field experiment to better understand the impact these campaigns have on different kinds of #CivicEngagement buff.ly/NvSqjAb

It is almost here! Will you be joining us next week at #ecprgc26? Why not take a look at our Conference collection ahead of time! ⏰️ buff.ly/dJnInAU

☀️ Enjoy a seamless #ecprgc26 experience with our ✨️ improved ✨️ ECPR Event App ecpr.eu/app New features: 📅 Smart schedule 📃 Upload your Paper 👥 Connect with peers 🏡 Personalised home 🛎️ Real-time alerts 🎨 Customise display Drop by the ECPR Hub for an app demo with our IT team Tue-Thu, 15:45–16:15

Whose fault is it really? 👉️ 👈️ Andrea Ceron of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social and @scopelliti.bsky.social analyse responsibility rhetoric to suggest that it is used by parties moderating their policy positions to explain shifts from tradition buff.ly/wd9dZCs

Going to #ECPR in Krakow new week? Are you an early-career researcher? Wanna have a chat about negativity, personality, violence, the dark side of politics - or simply abt your work? I have a handful of slots in the agenda, feel free to reach out (a.nai@uva.nl) if you feel like grabbing a coffee!

💡Do populism and protest go hand-in-hand? Maybe not. ➡️ @leonhardschmidt.bsky.social & @bcastanho.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social

While I can’t make #ecprgc26 this year, I love these events because they usually reveal practical things people do to manage their academic careers *beyond* research. At least at my institution, education and service makes up 60-70% of a standard assistant professor’s time, never mind life stuff!

Are you coming to #ecprgc26? Come see @robert-a-huber.bsky.social, @caterinafr.bsky.social & @alessandronai.bsky.social as they jump into the unknowns of starting a career in academia! 👨‍🎓 buff.ly/7lzB8BY

Want to chat with us at #ecprgc26? Book a meeting with our editors to talk about all things EJPR! 💬 Slots are booking up fast, so schedule it now whilst there is still time!⏳️ 👉️ buff.ly/OpbYZqu

Thats all from us on our 🐟️ 65:3 August Issue! Be sure to stick around for more high quality academia and find the full issue here 👇️ 👇️ 👇️

#ecprgc26 in Kraków is fast approaching! Will you be there? Why not have a peek at our Conference Collection 👀 👉 tr.ee/ecprgc26-col...

European party protests 💢 🪧 @leonhardschmidt.bsky.social & @bcastanho.bsky.social audit the Facebook posts of MPs to identity protest-related posts and evaluate a much-touted theoretical connection between #Populist parties and #Protest mobilization buff.ly/vX8Ml71

65:3 🐟️ Formateur expectations & #VotingBehaviour Looking at #CSES and German 🇩🇪 pre-election surveys Reut Itzkovitch-Malka, @liranharsgor.bsky.social & @ortuttnauer.com discuss "formateur optimization" – when voters back parties likely to lead