Prof at KU Leuven
CRC in Electoral Democracy at Université de Montréal
https://ruthdassonneville.netlify.app/
Reposted by Ruth Dassonneville, Scott Clifford, David Darmofal
We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.
Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.
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URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
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And now Gallup ends the longest-running pres. approval series.
Striking – esp. from the institution that helped institutionalize representative sampling in modern public opinion research
Reposted by Brian A. Nosek, Brendan Nyhan, James P. Collins , and 28 more Brian A. Nosek, Brendan Nyhan, James P. Collins, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Ruth Dassonneville, Alistair Munro, Jörg Peters, Brian Schaffner, Caroline Krafft, Philip N. Cohen, Alexander Wuttke, John Holbein, Chris Hanretty, Scott Clifford, Valerie Mueller, Michael Kevane, Flávio Azevedo, Max Nathan, Veli‐Matti Karhulahti, Philip Cowley, Julia Lynch, Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Patrick Präg, Marcus Credé, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte, Tom Louwerse, Aleksandra Urman, Samuel Coavoux, Jake Anders, Roman Senninger, Joan Dudney
Really *excited* about this course, in which we'll be covering a lot of ground!
Course syllabus 👉 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vs9id...
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@gasparugent.bsky.social
Reposted by Ruth Dassonneville, Anne Rasmussen
⏳ Deadline: February 27
📧 Email nominations to:
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Reposted by Mikael Persson
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We ask whether the politically active (in terms of electoral or other forms of participation) are better represented? See Jesper's detailed 🧵 below for more info on the paper! 👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Thanks much to the NDL staff and Airo Hino for the warm welcome!
Ik heb het over de uitdagingen waar groene partijen voor staan. Ze hebben het moeilijk om bezorgdheid voor het klimaat om te zetten in stemmen. Hoe dat komt lees je hier👇
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It turns out to be very revealing about how the demographic coalitions of the Democratic and Republican parties have completely rearranged themselves...
"Beyond the Two-Party Divide" examines how affective polarization works in Europe, and when it matters for democracy.
Short answer: Europe's multiparty systems have particularly good "safeguards" to prevent polarization from spiraling out of control like in the U.S.
Check out Jochem's thread for a summary of his main findings and access to the full (fantastic!) dissertation 👇
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"Beyond the Two-Party Divide" examines how affective polarization works in Europe, and when it matters for democracy.
Short answer: Europe's multiparty systems have particularly good "safeguards" to prevent polarization from spiraling out of control like in the U.S.
Reposted by Stefan Müller
Our project establishes a network of 25 researchers from six Una Europa institutions: University of Zurich, KU Leuven, University of Edinburgh, FU Berlin, Leiden, UCD.
➡️ www.una-europa.eu/stories/10-n...
Reposted by Fabrizio Gilardi, Ruth Dassonneville, Tom Louwerse
Our project establishes a network of 25 researchers from six Una Europa institutions: University of Zurich, KU Leuven, University of Edinburgh, FU Berlin, Leiden, UCD.
➡️ www.una-europa.eu/stories/10-n...
Reposted by Ruth Dassonneville, Robert Huber
@melff.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social & Kamil Marcinkiewicz examine patterns in Western Europe to find how the relationship between religion and vote choice have changed over time. 🗳️
Follow their account to stay updated on the excellent work CNES is doing in terms of information sharing about election studies, data harmonization, and the CNES knowledge bank!!
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Reposted by Ruth Dassonneville
In "Winning with equality", we show "how left-wing parties attract votes but [in doing so] amplify electoral cleavages"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Key points in 📈👇
It is a fairly unusual one, which is representative of how much the political landscape has changed in the country.
Here is some quick context about it, in case that is of interest:
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CEE party systems are famously volatile, but does that mean that they are unstructured?
❓I ask whether competition has become programmatically organized around enduring cleavages
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1354...
Thread 👇
1️⃣ The results indicate that voting differences between religious Christian and non-religious citizens in Western Europe are not declining, they even increase!