Alina Vranceanu
@alinavranceanu.bsky.social
Political scientist @ Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Previously @ European University Institute and UPF. Voters, political parties, political representation, radical right politics, public opinion about immigration.
https://alinavranceanu.github.io
https://alinavranceanu.github.io
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Curriculum shapes more than skills as taking STEM in high school boosts tech careers—but also shifts politics as boys grow more conservative and girls more progressive, from Robert Ainsworth, Rajeev H. Dehejia, Andrei Munteanu, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Miguel Urquiola www.nber.org/papers/w34502
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Curriculum shapes more than skills as taking STEM in high school boosts tech careers—but also shifts politics as boys grow more conservative and girls more progressive, from Robert Ainsworth, Rajeev H. Dehejia, Andrei Munteanu, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Miguel Urquiola www.nber.org/papers/w34502
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New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social!
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social!
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
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Postdoc call‼️
I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT.
Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community.
Application deadline: December 10th.
Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9m
I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT.
Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community.
Application deadline: December 10th.
Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9m
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November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Postdoc call‼️
I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT.
Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community.
Application deadline: December 10th.
Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9m
I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT.
Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community.
Application deadline: December 10th.
Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9m
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Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
Yesterday I attended the Workshop on #Immigration and #Democracy at Leiden University, organised by Steven Denney.
Lots of interesting discussions on civic fairness, authoritarianism, national identity, welfare chauvinism, NIMBY-ism, depopulation and immigration politics in Europe and East Asia.
Lots of interesting discussions on civic fairness, authoritarianism, national identity, welfare chauvinism, NIMBY-ism, depopulation and immigration politics in Europe and East Asia.
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Yesterday I attended the Workshop on #Immigration and #Democracy at Leiden University, organised by Steven Denney.
Lots of interesting discussions on civic fairness, authoritarianism, national identity, welfare chauvinism, NIMBY-ism, depopulation and immigration politics in Europe and East Asia.
Lots of interesting discussions on civic fairness, authoritarianism, national identity, welfare chauvinism, NIMBY-ism, depopulation and immigration politics in Europe and East Asia.
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Always fun to share the election ballot for international audiences
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Always fun to share the election ballot for international audiences
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⚠️New paper fothcoming in POQ! ⚠️
With @marcjacob.bsky.social and @seanjwestwood.bsky.social, we worried about norm-violating local politicians rising to higher office. We tested when voters defect from such politicians in local, state and federal races.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧵...
With @marcjacob.bsky.social and @seanjwestwood.bsky.social, we worried about norm-violating local politicians rising to higher office. We tested when voters defect from such politicians in local, state and federal races.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧵...
October 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
⚠️New paper fothcoming in POQ! ⚠️
With @marcjacob.bsky.social and @seanjwestwood.bsky.social, we worried about norm-violating local politicians rising to higher office. We tested when voters defect from such politicians in local, state and federal races.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧵...
With @marcjacob.bsky.social and @seanjwestwood.bsky.social, we worried about norm-violating local politicians rising to higher office. We tested when voters defect from such politicians in local, state and federal races.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧵...
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We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions.
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
www.eui.eu
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions.
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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📢📢We’re hiring - Postdoc position
Political Science @uab.cat Barcelona
Project PEUTRANSP
12 months, full-time, starting 2025
Advanced quantitative methods + survey / experimental design
📆 Deadline: 23/10
Details + submissions: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380176
+ info [email protected]
Political Science @uab.cat Barcelona
Project PEUTRANSP
12 months, full-time, starting 2025
Advanced quantitative methods + survey / experimental design
📆 Deadline: 23/10
Details + submissions: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380176
+ info [email protected]
Postdoctoral researcher (2025DILIFRUA132)
Job position Postdoc Researcher Job position requirements (skills/languages/required experience)
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
October 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
📢📢We’re hiring - Postdoc position
Political Science @uab.cat Barcelona
Project PEUTRANSP
12 months, full-time, starting 2025
Advanced quantitative methods + survey / experimental design
📆 Deadline: 23/10
Details + submissions: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380176
+ info [email protected]
Political Science @uab.cat Barcelona
Project PEUTRANSP
12 months, full-time, starting 2025
Advanced quantitative methods + survey / experimental design
📆 Deadline: 23/10
Details + submissions: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380176
+ info [email protected]
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🚨 We’re hiring @giesugent.bsky.social:
Join us as TT Professor in "The EU in Global Politics".
Come research & teach in the heart of Europe 🇪🇺📍Ghent.
📝 Apply: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Do...
📅 Deadline: 27/11/2025
#AcademicJobs #EUStudies #GhentUniversity #TenureTrack #GlobalPolitics
Join us as TT Professor in "The EU in Global Politics".
Come research & teach in the heart of Europe 🇪🇺📍Ghent.
📝 Apply: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Do...
📅 Deadline: 27/11/2025
#AcademicJobs #EUStudies #GhentUniversity #TenureTrack #GlobalPolitics
Docent Tenure Track in The EU in Global Politics
Docent Tenure Track in The EU in Global Politics
jobs.ugent.be
October 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Japan set for first female PM after Sanae Takaichi - a hardline conservative who favours tighter restrictions on immigration - wins LDP leadership race www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
Takaichi to become Japan’s first female prime minister | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
Japan is set to have its first female prime minister after Sanae Takaichi won the leadership election of the Liberal Democratic Party on Oct. 4.
www.asahi.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Japan set for first female PM after Sanae Takaichi - a hardline conservative who favours tighter restrictions on immigration - wins LDP leadership race www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
Hard to think of anyone more deserving of this important award - congratulations on this well-earned recognition @ehernandez.bsky.social!
I’m very happy and honored to receive the National Research Award for Young Researchers in Social Sciences. Many thanks to everyone who has supported me along the way
October 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Hard to think of anyone more deserving of this important award - congratulations on this well-earned recognition @ehernandez.bsky.social!
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We're looking forward to putting together a *fantastic* Electoral and Voting Behaviour section for the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 meeting in Belfast!
‼️ Make sure to submit your papers by 7 November 2025!
‼️ Make sure to submit your papers by 7 November 2025!
👉🏽 Section chairs: @siljahausermann.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social
📢 Our section welcomes work on elections, referenda & political decision-making, from participation & opinion formation to social cleavages, mobilization, institutional effects & more.
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📢 Our section welcomes work on elections, referenda & political decision-making, from participation & opinion formation to social cleavages, mobilization, institutional effects & more.
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September 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
We're looking forward to putting together a *fantastic* Electoral and Voting Behaviour section for the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 meeting in Belfast!
‼️ Make sure to submit your papers by 7 November 2025!
‼️ Make sure to submit your papers by 7 November 2025!
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🧲 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]
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2
✨ 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]
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2
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
🧲 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]
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2
✨ 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]
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2
Our article is out now in the latest issue of the EJPR. Available Open Access:👇
📘 64.4
How do welfare systems shape views on immigration?
A 🇪🇺 study from @alinavranceanu.bsky.social
& @bpetrova.bsky.social finds:
Generous welfare → more positive attitudes toward immigrants
Welfare cuts → increased hostility (evidence from 🇩🇰)
Read more:
How do welfare systems shape views on immigration?
A 🇪🇺 study from @alinavranceanu.bsky.social
& @bpetrova.bsky.social finds:
Generous welfare → more positive attitudes toward immigrants
Welfare cuts → increased hostility (evidence from 🇩🇰)
Read more:
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe
ALINA VRÂNCEANU, BILYANA PETROVA
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Our article is out now in the latest issue of the EJPR. Available Open Access:👇
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Our first panel starts on Tuesday, 26 August 2025, at 08:30, and our last panel starts on Friday, 29 August 2025, at 13:30.
First we have In person icon Building: Explaining Populist and Radical Right Support
(Law Building, Floor: 2, Room: 212)Tuesday 08:30 - 10:15 EEST (26/08/2025)
First we have In person icon Building: Explaining Populist and Radical Right Support
(Law Building, Floor: 2, Room: 212)Tuesday 08:30 - 10:15 EEST (26/08/2025)
August 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Our first panel starts on Tuesday, 26 August 2025, at 08:30, and our last panel starts on Friday, 29 August 2025, at 13:30.
First we have In person icon Building: Explaining Populist and Radical Right Support
(Law Building, Floor: 2, Room: 212)Tuesday 08:30 - 10:15 EEST (26/08/2025)
First we have In person icon Building: Explaining Populist and Radical Right Support
(Law Building, Floor: 2, Room: 212)Tuesday 08:30 - 10:15 EEST (26/08/2025)
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Did you know we do a Best Paper Award at each General Conference?! 🏆🚨‼️ To be considered for the 2025 POVB Best Paper Competition, you must upload your paper to the ECPR platform or email it to the chairs/discussants before your presentation. 🏆 #ecprgc25
August 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Did you know we do a Best Paper Award at each General Conference?! 🏆🚨‼️ To be considered for the 2025 POVB Best Paper Competition, you must upload your paper to the ECPR platform or email it to the chairs/discussants before your presentation. 🏆 #ecprgc25
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Very grateful to the ECPR political theory jury for this wonderful news!
🎉 Congratulations @brunoleipold.com (@lsepoltheory.bsky.social) for winning our 2025 Political Theory Prize
⭐ Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought (@princetonupress.bsky.social)
👉 More about the winner buff.ly/TweS2Bw #ECPRPrizes
⭐ Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought (@princetonupress.bsky.social)
👉 More about the winner buff.ly/TweS2Bw #ECPRPrizes
The 2025 Political Theory Prize is awarded to Bruno Leipold
European Consortium for Political Research
buff.ly
August 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Very grateful to the ECPR political theory jury for this wonderful news!
Bookmarked! Good to see renewed attention to the topic of ambivalence in immigration attitudes
✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social !
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
1/8 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
1/8 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Bookmarked! Good to see renewed attention to the topic of ambivalence in immigration attitudes
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Excited to have signed an editor contract with Oxford University Press for a volume on Voting Behaviour planned to come out in December 2027! We really hope this book will spark social science student interest in the discipline, especially at a time when democracy faces major challenges.
August 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Excited to have signed an editor contract with Oxford University Press for a volume on Voting Behaviour planned to come out in December 2027! We really hope this book will spark social science student interest in the discipline, especially at a time when democracy faces major challenges.
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Big news: Imperial Borderlands is now out in paperback @universitypress.cambridge.org James Robinson (2024 Econ Nobel) calls it "pathbreaking." Empire + institutions + data science—same frontier, softer cover. www.amazon.com/Imperial-Bor...
August 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Big news: Imperial Borderlands is now out in paperback @universitypress.cambridge.org James Robinson (2024 Econ Nobel) calls it "pathbreaking." Empire + institutions + data science—same frontier, softer cover. www.amazon.com/Imperial-Bor...
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025).
If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31
We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025).
If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31
EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium
Please fill in the details below to submit your proposal.
Kindly provide the title and abstract of your paper, as well as your availability to present. The Colloquium is held every Tuesday from 17:00 ...
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August 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025).
If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31
We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025).
If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31
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🔍 Interested in poverty, stats & “invisible” populations?
We're hiring a PhD researcher to re-examine how poverty is measured across Europe.
Join our friendly interdisciplinary team at UAB @igopbcn.bsky.social
📍3-year funded post | Starting late 2025
📎 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/356896
We're hiring a PhD researcher to re-examine how poverty is measured across Europe.
Join our friendly interdisciplinary team at UAB @igopbcn.bsky.social
📍3-year funded post | Starting late 2025
📎 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/356896
Predoctoral Researcher (2025DILIFRUA84)
Job position Predoctoral Researcher
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
August 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🔍 Interested in poverty, stats & “invisible” populations?
We're hiring a PhD researcher to re-examine how poverty is measured across Europe.
Join our friendly interdisciplinary team at UAB @igopbcn.bsky.social
📍3-year funded post | Starting late 2025
📎 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/356896
We're hiring a PhD researcher to re-examine how poverty is measured across Europe.
Join our friendly interdisciplinary team at UAB @igopbcn.bsky.social
📍3-year funded post | Starting late 2025
📎 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/356896
Upper House elections today in Japan, with 125 seats up for grabs out of 248. After a campaign dominated by inflation, taxes and immigration, the ruling coalition (Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito) looks set to suffer losses
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Jap...
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Jap...
Japan election live: LDP slumps as Sanseito, DPFP make gains
PM Ishiba vows to stay on; Opposition parties rule out coalition
asia.nikkei.com
July 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Upper House elections today in Japan, with 125 seats up for grabs out of 248. After a campaign dominated by inflation, taxes and immigration, the ruling coalition (Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito) looks set to suffer losses
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Jap...
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Jap...
Ahead of Sunday’s Upper House elections in Japan, Sanseito’s hardline immigration rhetoric appears to be gaining salience
www.reuters.com/world/japane...
www.reuters.com/world/japane...
'Japanese First' party shakes up election with alarm over foreigners
An upstart party is gaining support ahead of elections in Japan by railing against a 'silent invasion' of immigrants, pushing the government to tackle fears about foreigners as it drags into the mainstream rhetoric once confined to the political fringe.
www.reuters.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Ahead of Sunday’s Upper House elections in Japan, Sanseito’s hardline immigration rhetoric appears to be gaining salience
www.reuters.com/world/japane...
www.reuters.com/world/japane...