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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 21m

We --including my coauthors @sumpierrez.bsky.social and Rainer Bauböck-- very much hope that this will be a useful resource for anyone interested in non-resident citizen and non-citizen resident electoral rights.

Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 21m

Findings?

1️⃣ Preprint on voting/candidacy rights discrepancy: doi.org/10.33774/aps...

2️⃣ Preprint offering a dyadic perspective on migrant electoral rights: doi.org/10.33774/aps...

3️⃣ Article on special representation: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

4️⃣ Data descriptor forthcoming.

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 27m

Migrant Electoral Rights Dataset (1960-2020)

📊 Link to dataset: hdl.handle.net/1814/93661

📕 Link to codebook: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

💼 Link to 400 page documentation: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

MER Migrant Electoral Rights dataset

Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 31m

Finished the virtual dataset launch! 📊

Grateful to see that there was so much interest. Thanks to everyone who joined. 🙏

Special thanks to @luicypedroza.bsky.social and Antonio Spinelli for a very thoughtful discussion. 🙏

And big thanks my co-authors @sumpierrez.bsky.social & Rainer Bauböck. 🙏

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Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero @sumpierrez.bsky.social · 8h

⏰ Last call to register!

In a few hours, with @wegschaider.bsky.social and #RainerBauböck, we’ll dive into our global dataset of migrant electoral rights — exploring its #importance, #questions, and #key #findings.

More info: 👇👇👇

GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 20d

Explore the new GLOBALCIT Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset ❗🌐

🌍 165 countries (1960–2020)
📊 488 indicators
🗳️ voting & candidacy rights of non-citizen residents + non-resident citizens
🏛️ Differentiates election type (legislative, executive, referendum) & level

📥: tinyurl.com/yv37nj7m

Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset - Globalcit

Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...

tinyurl.com

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Briitta van Staalduinen @briittavs.bsky.social · 5d

1st article from my dissertation is out in Perspectives today!!

two takeaways: a) knowledge economy 'winners' may not be subject to status loss but they sure care about status preservation & b) this is consequential for their attitudes re: immigration & diversity.

Thnx 2 all along this journey!!

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 5d

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -

The Politics of Status Preservation: Immigration and the Knowledge Economy Class - https://cup.org/3VYHxGx

- @briittavs.bsky.social

#FirstView

Banner image featuring the title 'Perspectives on Politics' over a city skyline, with a prominent graffiti quote about free speech and journalism, hashtagged #OpenAccess.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 1d

Yet, we don’t train young scholars to fail well.
 We praise resilience, but rarely explain how to build it.
 Rejection is part of the scientific method.
 It’s the friction that refines our thought.

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 New Working Paper with R.Bauböck + @sumpierrez.bsky.social

We introduce the concept of incongruent suffrage.

This describes when there are voting rights but no candidacy rights for a group. Or vice versa.

The paper includes descriptive data & exploratory case studies.

doi.org/10.33774/aps...

Title: Incongruent Suffrage
Authors: Klaudia Wegschaider, Rainer Bauböck, Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero
Abstract: Candidacy rights and voting rights are not always congruent. Although voting rights are extensively studied, historical and contemporary incongruencies in suffrage have been widely overlooked. We propose a typology of suffrage incongruency that we apply to the enfranchisement of non-citizen residents and non-resident citizens—two categories recently at the center of enfranchisement scholarship and reform efforts. Using an original dataset that covers 165 countries and 61 years (1960-2020), we identify past and present voting-only incongruencies and candidacy-only incongruencies. Existing theories of suffrage extension focus on the voteshare maximizing logic of incumbents. However, these explanations cannot account for why only one part of suffrage is extended. With two exploratory case studies of Switzerland and the United Kingdom, we inductively arrive at potential explanations for why voting-only and candidacy-only incongruencies arise and resolve in democracies. We conclude with a research agenda on the causes and consequences of suffrage incongruencies.

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, good example. For executive positions, we frequently found that migrant candidacy rights were withheld while voting rights were extended. Holds for noncitizens and nonresidents.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 8d

My department is hosting a workshop on democracy and social media (12-13 March, 2026).

Papers are welcome covering comparative regulation of social media, empirical papers on the effects of social media, and work on democratic theory and social media. Deadline: Nov 1st.

www.su.se/english/rese...

Call for papers: Workshop on Democratic Political Orders & the Governance of Social Media Platforms - Stockholm University

www.su.se

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 3d

Want to know more about migrant voting?

Join upcoming @globalcit.bsky.social webinar on migrant electoral rights: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Migrant electoral rights

Join this webinar to explore the most comprehensive dataset on migrant voting and candidacy rights worldwide, covering 165 countries from 1960 to 2020.

www.eui.eu

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 5d

If you want to learn more about our Migrant Electoral Rights dataset, please register for our launch event next week:

migcitsky

bsky.app/profile/glob...

GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 Webinar Alert 🚨

Join us for the online launch of the new Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset, the most comprehensive global dataset on migrant suffrage to date 🌐

📅 Oct 15 | 17:00 CEST
📍 Online
🔗 Register www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 5d

We close with a research agenda on suffrage incongruency:

1) documenting: how common are divergences in voting + candidacy rights across demographic groups?
2) explaining: why do they arise?
3) what is the impact of incongruency on existing and new voters?

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 5d

Why did non-citizen residents of the canton of Geneva gain voting but not candidacy rights?

The existing electorate was more supportive of immigrant enfranchisement excluding voting rights.

Public support is crucial in direct democracies, but it is also relevant in representative settings.

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 5d

Why did non-resident citizens of the UK have candidacy rights before voting rights were added?

This suffrage incongruency was an unintended consequence of an electoral law written before the idea of non-resident candidates was meaningful. It is an example of policy drift.

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 5d

With the help of two case studies, based on in-depth archival fieldwork, we explore why incongruency arises.

🇬🇧 UK: only candidacy rights for non-residents until mid 1980s

🇨🇭Switzerland, canton Geneva: only voting rights for non-citizens

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 5d

For non-citizen residents, we find that slightly more than half of countries with local suffrage provide both voting + candidacy rights.

The remaining cases only offer voting rights but not candidacy rights.

There are no cases of candidacy-only incongruencies.

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 5d

For non-resident citizens, we find that almost two thirds of countries that provide suffrage have extended both voting + candidacy rights at the national level.

But there are still many cases--across regimes types--where non-resident citizens can only vote OR only run for office.

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 5d

So how common is a discrepancy between candidacy and voting rights? And why does it occur? 🧐

With MER data, we address this for non-citizen residents and non-resident citizens (often migrants).

But, historically, there are many examples of incongruency beyond migrants.

bsky.app/profile/glob...

GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 20d

Explore the new GLOBALCIT Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset ❗🌐

🌍 165 countries (1960–2020)
📊 488 indicators
🗳️ voting & candidacy rights of non-citizen residents + non-resident citizens
🏛️ Differentiates election type (legislative, executive, referendum) & level

📥: tinyurl.com/yv37nj7m

Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset - Globalcit

Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...

tinyurl.com

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 5d

Suffrage incongruency represents an empirical and normative puzzle.

🧩 Empirically, existing theories of suffrage expansion struggle to explain incongruency.

🧩 Normatively, incongruency sits unwell with the idea of suffrage equality.

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 New Working Paper with R.Bauböck + @sumpierrez.bsky.social

We introduce the concept of incongruent suffrage.

This describes when there are voting rights but no candidacy rights for a group. Or vice versa.

The paper includes descriptive data & exploratory case studies.

doi.org/10.33774/aps...

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 7d

Our future depends on who can coordinate best and how Americans answer the two most urgent questions in our politics: Will the administration succeed in picking off enough of the opposition such that resistance seems useless?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 7d

Prevalence varies sharply across platforms. Our most conservative estimate shows:

- 1.7 % of Facebook respondents are professionals
- 7.6 % on YouGov
- 34.7 % on Lucid

Professionalism is a real phenomenon, but it varies widely across samples!

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 7d

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 8d

This is your heads up that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast is a month from now (Nov 7)! I'm chairing the Migration Politics section w/ @aalrababah.bsky.social and we're excited to receive contributions from across the discipline🕺🏻

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 13d

▶️ Migration Politics

👉🏽 Section chairs: @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social & @aalrababah.bsky.social

📢 Our section section brings together research on the politics of migration, including migration flows, government policies to manage mobility, and the politics of forced displacement. >>>

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