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Guillem Rico
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political scientist at UAB | gricoc.github.io
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alinavranceanu.bsky.social
📢 Call for expressions of interest for a 4-years PhD position within my research project ‘Minority rights in an age of immigration: democracy, deservingness and elite influences’. ⏳ Deadline: 9 October.

Questions welcome!
September 17, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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mguinjoan.bsky.social
📣 Big news!

🗓️ Today, @tonirodon.bsky.social and I we are releasing the first version of the ATTCLIMATE panel dataset!

➡️ 4 waves of panel survey data (2023–2025) on citizens' attitudes toward climate change and support for mitigation policies.

🔗 attclimate.net
September 16, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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polstudies.bsky.social
IN NEW ISSUE: The Case of VOX in Spain: Josep Maria Comellas Bonsfills & Mariano Torcal Loriente examine the dynamic relationship between affective polarization and radical right’s emergence: buff.ly/tB5a8HS

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsci #polsky
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May 22, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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wepsocial.bsky.social
🇪🇺 Do populist MEPs walk their anti-corruption talk?

@nuriafontb.bsky.social & @cristinaarescc.bsky.social: populist MEPs ask more ethics questions in opposition but not once their party governs. Mainstream MEPs barely move in comparison. Anti-elitism cools fast in office.

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
First page of "Populism in the EU and the trade-off between ethical claiming and mainstreaming" by Nuria Font and Cristina Ares, published online first in West European Politics. Horizontal bar chart titled "Ethical questions, by actors targeted and categories (%)". The article reports that ethical questions about EU targets are dominated by conflicts of interest, while questions about national and international targets are dominated by corruption. Two-panel point-and-CI plot titled "Marginal effects of national government on ethical questioning, by populism: EU-level targets". The article reports that populist MEPs ask about 1.2 EU-targeted ethics questions when their party is in opposition but only about 0.1 once their party governs; mainstream MEPs (left panel) ask comparatively few in either condition.
May 20, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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ejprjournal.bsky.social
65.2 🫐

But who is getting what? 🎁😌

@petroleuse-sbd.bsky.social & Timothy Hellwig show that economic security shapes welfare preferences, linking policy design directly to voter approval and electoral incentives, using evidence from Europe
Welfare by design: Public responses to the distribution of old-age pensions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Welfare by design: Public responses to the distribution of old-age pensions - Volume 65 Issue 2
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May 19, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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dec-gr.bsky.social
🚨 @eupoplink.bsky.social lanza una gran encuesta sobre el futuro de Europa para todos los países miembros y candidatos a entrar en la UE.

Respóndela en el siguiente enlace: get.epoll.eu/index.php/48...

@juanperezrajo.bsky.social @gricoc.bsky.social
May 15, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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lawrencemckay.bsky.social
⏰ CALL FOR PAPERS - EPSS PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON PLACE, POLITICS AND EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY ⏰
Submit by Weds 20 May!
For all those interested in politics of geographic divides and keen to explore impact potential of their work.
More info/submit here: shorturl.at/xS0iS
@twanhuijsmans.bsky.social
EPSS pre-conference: “Place, Politics, and Evidence-Based Policy”
In this pre-conference workshop we bring together researchers who study the role of place in politics, and we want to focus particularly on how we (can) make impact on policies and public debates with...
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May 8, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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evaanduiza.bsky.social
We are hiring! 👇 www.uab.cat/ca/ciencia-p...
UAB Opens 2026 Call for Tenure-Track Lecturer Positions
UAB Opens 2026 Call for Tenure-Track Lecturer Positions
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April 23, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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sjungkunz.bsky.social
New paper in Political Psychology:
The age of virtue signaling: Moral grandstanding as competitive display among young men
This study examines moral grandstanding (i.e., using moral discourse to enhance status) across 4 European countries (N=8,420). 🧵
doi.org/10.1111/pops...
The age of virtue signaling: Moral grandstanding as competitive display among young men
Moral grandstanding—the use of moral discourse to enhance one's status—has become a central feature of contemporary political expression. Drawing on representative survey data from Germany, France, G...
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March 26, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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evaanduiza.bsky.social
It has been great to navigate this paper with amazing @gefjonoff.bsky.social . Started expecting angry right-wing men to feel threatened by feminism and found out more than one surprise 👇
gefjonoff.bsky.social Gefjon Off @gefjonoff.bsky.social · Feb 16
New publication in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social!

Who perceives feminism as a threat, and why do a lot of women perceive feminism as threatening?

With @evaanduiza.bsky.social, we explore these questions in the context of Spain.

We find: ⬇️
doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Perceptions of Feminism as a Threat | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Perceptions of Feminism as a Threat
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February 16, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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tonirodon.bsky.social
🚨New article🥳

➡️ The Limits of Alarm: How Climate Scenarios Fail to Increase Willingness to Act and Pay for Climate Change Policies, published at @psrjournal.bsky.social co-authored with @mguinjoan.bsky.social & @celiaestruch.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/n)
December 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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martavallve.bsky.social
New publication! I wrote a conceptual paper reflecting on how to study the material roots of socio-ecological conflicts using a metabolic rift approach. This is the story of how this paper came to be 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0486...
The Materiality of Socio-Ecological Conflicts: A Revised Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift - Marta Vallvé, 2025
In the context of ecological crisis and ecological transitions, socio-ecological conflicts are increasing. While their material causes are often attributed to s...
doi.org
December 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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joanfontfab.bsky.social
Which can of deliberative Minipublics are preferred by political representatives? My colleagues show that they care more about of sits on the table than about being or not binding www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@rodrigoramis.bsky.social
Which mini-publics do they favour? A European experiment on Politicians’ attitudes towards mini-publics’ design | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Which mini-publics do they favour? A European experiment on Politicians’ attitudes towards mini-publics’ design
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November 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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robpannico.bsky.social
From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT).

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The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)
Scientific Data - The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)
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September 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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martafraile.bsky.social
The gender gap in radical right support isn’t about women versus men, it’s about sexism. Do not miss this great piece of @evaanduiza.bsky.social @gricoc.bsky.social. The insights go well beyond Spain.
September 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
Interesting new study showing that sexism, rather than gender per se, explains gender differences in voting for the radical right in Spain.*

(* although gender, again, is correlated with sexism)
September 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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dec-gr.bsky.social
📢New publication alert: "Sexism and the Gender Gap in Support for the Radical Right" by @evaanduiza.bsky.social and @gricoc.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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evaanduiza.bsky.social
We have a new paper out with @gricoc.bsky.social in @jwpp.bsky.social (this time I swear I am going to post the right link): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sexism and the Gender Gap in Support for the Radical Right
Using survey data from Spain we show that the gender gap in the probability of voting for the radical-right party Vox is mainly due to men having higher levels of modern sexism than women. We find ...
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September 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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evaanduiza.bsky.social
🧲 We are hiring!
✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social
🏁 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English
📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to [email protected]
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Call for expressions of interest for a PhD scholarship within the project GPOL – Democracy, Elections and Citizenship
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September 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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New OA paper🧵 @buzogany.bsky.social
and I just published a paper titled 'Democratic Backsliding in the Shadow of Crises: How Pandemics, War, and Democratic Regression Impact Attitudes towards Democracy in Georgia' Check it out in Contemporary Politics.
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
Democratic backsliding in the shadow of crises. How pandemics, war and democratic regression impact attitudes towards democracy in Georgia
This study explores the impact of crises on democratic support in Georgia by analyzing how external and domestic challenges – including the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and internal democ...
doi.org
September 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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tonirodon.bsky.social
🚨New article🔥

Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes, at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with @sofiabrei.bsky.social @griambau.bsky.social @arodilla.bsky.social

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social (1/n)
Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes
The resurgence of the rural–urban divide as a factor shaping political attitudes has gained increasing attention in both public and academic discourse…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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sofiabrei.bsky.social
📢 Publication alert:
Our paper "Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes" - with @tonirodon.bsky.social, @griambau.bsky.social, ‬ and Andreu Rodilla - is now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.
July 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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ehernandez.bsky.social
3. And a clear (descriptive) underrepresentation of rural areas
July 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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ehernandez.bsky.social
2. Some variation across party families
July 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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ehernandez.bsky.social
We find:

1. A wide variation in the rural and urban backgrounds of members of parliament.
July 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM