Duncan McDonnell

@duncanmcdonnell.com

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Professor of Politics | 🇮🇪🇦🇺| Australian Research Council Future Fellow | populism and party youth wings | https://duncanmcdonnell.com/

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Oct 28

I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties".

(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).

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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 6d

My cold has passed, so we are finally celebrating the acceptance at @ejprjournal.bsky.social with a White Lady 🤍

Recipe for 2 from The Cocktail Codex (Death & Co, NY):

4 oz gin
1 oz Cointreau
1.5 oz fresh lemon juice
0.5 oz simple syrup
2 egg whites

Garnish with a lemon peel

#poliscicocktail

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 13d

For more details about the project, see our overview article published in Party Politics:

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 13d

Another score for the YOUMEM team!

This article, led by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, is the third from our YOUMEM project on youth wings to be accepted for publication in European Journal of Political Research. Thanks to the @ejprjournal.bsky.social editors for their continued support!

Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 14d

Given the bad cold that I've had for the past few days (in the midst of the Australian summer 🤦‍♀️), waking up to this email was particularly sweet...

Coming soon in @ejprjournal.bsky.social: our YOUMEM study on gender differences in motivations for joining youth wings of young women and men ✨

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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 14d

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 22d

Happy New Year/Buon Anno/Athbhliain Faoi Mhaise Daoibh!

If you're an academic, may your year be filled with journal acceptances, grant victories, and the least amount of interaction possible with deans.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 22d

Not to mention South Australia, NT, and Western Australia!

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 22d

You mean 'Happy New Year New South Wales and Victoria"...

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 29d

Thanks Hugo. Same to you!

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 29d

Skipped it this year in favour of local calamari.

The bugs have come out well.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 29d

Christmas Eve dinner.

Oysters, Moreton Bay bugs (like lobster, but nicer), and calamari.

Washed down with a fine Pinot Grigio from Victoria.

Happy Christmas/Buon Natale!

Reposted by Duncan McDonnell, Aidan O’Sullivan

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Dec 19

Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day.

"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".

Reposted by Kai Arzheimer, Duncan McDonnell

Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · Dec 19

An old favourite - “I never truly feel the Christmas spirit until I see the "Tony Blair being held back from attacking you in the pub" card”

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 9

Bravo Matthijs!!

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 9

Thanks Joni!

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Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social · Dec 9

Very cool article

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

🎁 Christmas has come early for @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me with the publication of our article "The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century" in @politicalgeography.bsky.social:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century

The idea that the presence of Western European political parties at grassroots level rose and fell in the twentieth century is central to some of the …

www.sciencedirect.com

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 9

Cheers Ben!

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

Thanks Luis!

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

Thanks Nacho! Your comments were particularly helpful with this paper.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

Thanks David!

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

Secondly, and much more importantly, I want to thank @ammassarisofia.bsky.social and my old friend Marco Valbruzzi who in recent years insisted it was not a dumb idea and that it was worth trying.

Seems they were right 😀

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

Finally, I personally want to first thank a senior party scholar who, at a 2012 workshop in honour of Peter Mair at the EUI, told me in front of everyone that looking at phone directories was a dumb idea. I also want to thank them for then adding "sorry, what is your name?" (they had met me before).

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

@karinakosped.bsky.social, @ignaciolago.bsky.social, @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social, @casmudde.bsky.social, & @fravittonetto.bsky.social.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

We need to thank so many people who gave feedback. On bluesky, these are: @henrikseeberg.bsky.social, @niklasbolin.bsky.social, @sofiabrei.bsky.social, @pcorreavila.bsky.social, @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social, @jholloway.bsky.social, @leoniedejonge.bsky.social,

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

Our study underscores the value of "bringing territory in" to the study of party organisations, and adds nuance to the "rise & fall of the party on the ground" story. For example, in Italy, the extent to which you saw that rise & fall depended on where you were - it was not geographically uniform.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

(3) In Sweden 🇸🇪, where politics was much more nationalised, party investment and then withdrawal was uniform across the country, with few differences among the major parties.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

(2) All major parties, to varying extents, neglected the national periphery in the South. Parties on the left invested more in big cities & towns close to regional capitals than Christian Democrats did.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

(1) In Italy 🇮🇹, where politics was less nationalised, the rise and fall of the party on the ground largely followed two geographically-based cleavages: centre vs periphery and urban vs rural.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

By accessing historical phone directories, we were able to track the presence of local branches of the three major parties in Italy & Sweden in all general election years from the 1960s to the early 2000s.

Using spatial lag regressions, this is what we found:

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Dec 8

And, if branches had a telephone, every year its number, along with the branch's exact address, would be listed in telephone directories.

This means we can find out not only *how many* functioning branches there were, but *where* they were across the country & *when* they were present.

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