Hanna Bäck
@hannaeback.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science @lund-university.bsky.social
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Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1
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▶️ Political Representation
👉🏽 Section chairs: @hannaeback.bsky.social
& @sopro.bsky.social
📢 Our section welcomes work that addresses representation, legislative politics, or electoral institutions, esp. research advancing our theoretical understanding + offers new empirical evidence. >>>
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👉🏽 Section chairs: @hannaeback.bsky.social
& @sopro.bsky.social
📢 Our section welcomes work that addresses representation, legislative politics, or electoral institutions, esp. research advancing our theoretical understanding + offers new empirical evidence. >>>
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October 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
▶️ Political Representation
👉🏽 Section chairs: @hannaeback.bsky.social
& @sopro.bsky.social
📢 Our section welcomes work that addresses representation, legislative politics, or electoral institutions, esp. research advancing our theoretical understanding + offers new empirical evidence. >>>
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👉🏽 Section chairs: @hannaeback.bsky.social
& @sopro.bsky.social
📢 Our section welcomes work that addresses representation, legislative politics, or electoral institutions, esp. research advancing our theoretical understanding + offers new empirical evidence. >>>
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Let’s make next year’s EPSS Political Representation section a space for rigorous scholarship, vibrant exchange, and new collaborations!
📅 EPSS 2026 submission deadline: November 7, 2025
📎 Submit here: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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📅 EPSS 2026 submission deadline: November 7, 2025
📎 Submit here: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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August 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Let’s make next year’s EPSS Political Representation section a space for rigorous scholarship, vibrant exchange, and new collaborations!
📅 EPSS 2026 submission deadline: November 7, 2025
📎 Submit here: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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📅 EPSS 2026 submission deadline: November 7, 2025
📎 Submit here: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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📢 EPSS 2026 Call for Papers! @hannaeback.bsky.social and I are excited to invite submissions for the Political Representation section at EPSS 2026 in Belfast. EPSS has some exciting new panel formats this year - read on! 🧵
August 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
📢 EPSS 2026 Call for Papers! @hannaeback.bsky.social and I are excited to invite submissions for the Political Representation section at EPSS 2026 in Belfast. EPSS has some exciting new panel formats this year - read on! 🧵
Do consider joining the new EPSS conference in Belfast next year! I will be chairing the section on Political Representation with Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social
The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!
📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
📍 ICC Belfast
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025
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📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
📍 ICC Belfast
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025
🧵
August 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Do consider joining the new EPSS conference in Belfast next year! I will be chairing the section on Political Representation with Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social
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Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.
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Shreyas Meher and Patrick T. Brandt demonstrate how state-of-the-art language models can be efficiently adapted for political event classification, achieving up to 1400% improvement in accuracy while remaining computationally accessible.
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
ConflLlama: Domain-specific adaptation of large language models for conflict event classification - Shreyas Meher, Patrick T. Brandt, 2025
We present ConflLlama, demonstrating how efficient fine-tuning of large language models can advance automated classification tasks in political science research...
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July 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Shreyas Meher and Patrick T. Brandt demonstrate how state-of-the-art language models can be efficiently adapted for political event classification, achieving up to 1400% improvement in accuracy while remaining computationally accessible.
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Looking forward to present new research (with @hannaeback.bsky.social and @michaelimre.bsky.social) on the relationship between ideological polarization, coalition governance and the number of party members in the German states at the Sogang Conference on Party Activism and Democracy next week 😊
July 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Looking forward to present new research (with @hannaeback.bsky.social and @michaelimre.bsky.social) on the relationship between ideological polarization, coalition governance and the number of party members in the German states at the Sogang Conference on Party Activism and Democracy next week 😊
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⚙️ Matthew Bergman, Wolfgang C. Mueller and @hannaeback.bsky.social on how ideology and contextual factors shape labour market reform
Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad
Which governments implement interventionist or liberalising labour policy reforms, and does the economic context matter? Drawing on the previous literature on government ideology and public policy,...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
⚙️ Matthew Bergman, Wolfgang C. Mueller and @hannaeback.bsky.social on how ideology and contextual factors shape labour market reform
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My ESS course 'Ideal Point Estimation, IRT, and Scaling Methods for Surveys and Behavior' returns this summer -- online and in-person, 21 July - 1 August. essexsummerschool.com/summer-schoo...
May 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
My ESS course 'Ideal Point Estimation, IRT, and Scaling Methods for Surveys and Behavior' returns this summer -- online and in-person, 21 July - 1 August. essexsummerschool.com/summer-schoo...
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Do interpersonal relations affect coalition bargaining? @hannaeback.bsky.social, @michaelimre.bsky.social and I argue that when the Prime Minister is replaced, the incumbency advantage of a coalition will be weakened because of reduced familiarity and trust journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2
May 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Do interpersonal relations affect coalition bargaining? @hannaeback.bsky.social, @michaelimre.bsky.social and I argue that when the Prime Minister is replaced, the incumbency advantage of a coalition will be weakened because of reduced familiarity and trust journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2
Join us for the Annual Meeting of the Swedish Political Science Association (SWEPSA), October 1-3 in Växjö! See the call for papers here (deadline June 13):
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
SWEPSA 2025
Welcome to SWEPSA 2025 conference, hosted by the Department of Political Science at Linnaeus University
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May 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Join us for the Annual Meeting of the Swedish Political Science Association (SWEPSA), October 1-3 in Växjö! See the call for papers here (deadline June 13):
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
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Today in #Lund is an academic celebration & I have the privilege to be part of examining committee for this timely PhD thesis defence by Esether ML Calvo of her work on ”rhetorical responses of mainstream parties towards a radical right party”; generous opponent is @fghjorth.bsky.social.
April 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Today in #Lund is an academic celebration & I have the privilege to be part of examining committee for this timely PhD thesis defence by Esether ML Calvo of her work on ”rhetorical responses of mainstream parties towards a radical right party”; generous opponent is @fghjorth.bsky.social.
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The supervisory team to be commended for their careful support & critique guiding Esther on her intellectual journey consisted of @hannaeback.bsky.social and Jonathan Polk
April 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The supervisory team to be commended for their careful support & critique guiding Esther on her intellectual journey consisted of @hannaeback.bsky.social and Jonathan Polk
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Alexander Tripp compares GenAI models (ChatGPT & Claude) with undergraduates in classifying Spanish immigration media frames. While undergraduates outperform AI by a small margin, the results show how researchers can effectively apply these tools and illustrate their pros and cons.
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April 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Alexander Tripp compares GenAI models (ChatGPT & Claude) with undergraduates in classifying Spanish immigration media frames. While undergraduates outperform AI by a small margin, the results show how researchers can effectively apply these tools and illustrate their pros and cons.
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What do Germans of Russian & Turkish migration background think about sanctions against Russia? @marcdebus.bsky.social, @himmelrath.bsky.social , @dienerjulius.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social find that respondents with a Russian or Turkish ethnic background are less in favour of sanctions.
What do Germans of Russian and Turkish migration background think about sanctions against Russia? - Marc Debus, Julius Diener, Noam Himmelrath, Christian Stecker, 2025
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has significant implications not only for foreign, defence, economic and energy policies of European democracies, but also for t...
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March 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
What do Germans of Russian & Turkish migration background think about sanctions against Russia? @marcdebus.bsky.social, @himmelrath.bsky.social , @dienerjulius.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social find that respondents with a Russian or Turkish ethnic background are less in favour of sanctions.
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A major challenge in performing text analyses on open-ended responses is potential measurement error in the form of misspellings. This paper provides evidence that large language models (LLMs) offer a solution to correcting misspellings in open-ended responses.
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April 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
A major challenge in performing text analyses on open-ended responses is potential measurement error in the form of misspellings. This paper provides evidence that large language models (LLMs) offer a solution to correcting misspellings in open-ended responses.
Read more: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Read more: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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CHES estimates of party positions in Europe for 2024 are now available!
Big thanks to all respondents that have helped us build 25 years of CHES data on party positioning in Europe!
Big thanks to all respondents that have helped us build 25 years of CHES data on party positioning in Europe!
We are thrilled to anounce the release of the 2024 CHES-Europe at chesdata.eu/2024-chapel-.... As always, the data are freely available on the website.
Thank you to the hundreds of experts who share their expertise to make these data possible!
Thank you to the hundreds of experts who share their expertise to make these data possible!
2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) — Chapel Hill Expert Survey
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March 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
CHES estimates of party positions in Europe for 2024 are now available!
Big thanks to all respondents that have helped us build 25 years of CHES data on party positioning in Europe!
Big thanks to all respondents that have helped us build 25 years of CHES data on party positioning in Europe!
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Are unexperienced politicians more likely to become polarizers?
MPs with less parliamentary experience, and with less prior political experience are more likely to express negativity toward outparties in their legislative speeches, by
@hannaeback.bsky.social
MPs with less parliamentary experience, and with less prior political experience are more likely to express negativity toward outparties in their legislative speeches, by
@hannaeback.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Are unexperienced politicians more likely to become polarizers?
MPs with less parliamentary experience, and with less prior political experience are more likely to express negativity toward outparties in their legislative speeches, by
@hannaeback.bsky.social
MPs with less parliamentary experience, and with less prior political experience are more likely to express negativity toward outparties in their legislative speeches, by
@hannaeback.bsky.social
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Finally posting to promote some excellent short monographs from the @cambridgeup.bsky.social Elements in Gender & Politics Series! My co-editor @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social and I are proud of these books, which are FREE TO DOWNLOAD until Jan 22. Get your copy today! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
Elements in Gender & Politics
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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January 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Finally posting to promote some excellent short monographs from the @cambridgeup.bsky.social Elements in Gender & Politics Series! My co-editor @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social and I are proud of these books, which are FREE TO DOWNLOAD until Jan 22. Get your copy today! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
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What are language models doing when prompted to label documents by sentiment? @mlburnham.bsky.social finds that language models generally understand sentiment in terms of emotional valence rather than opinion. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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December 29, 2024 at 2:08 PM
What are language models doing when prompted to label documents by sentiment? @mlburnham.bsky.social finds that language models generally understand sentiment in terms of emotional valence rather than opinion. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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@janschwalbach.bsky.social asseses which theoretical considerations need to be thought through preceding any (legislative) text analysis & discusses how the nested structure of legislative behavior & the data generating process influence theoretic assumptions about parliamentary behavior. Read more:
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January 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
@janschwalbach.bsky.social asseses which theoretical considerations need to be thought through preceding any (legislative) text analysis & discusses how the nested structure of legislative behavior & the data generating process influence theoretic assumptions about parliamentary behavior. Read more:
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R&P editors' collection 2024 (4/4)
Can AI accurately label open-text survey responses? @jonmellon.bsky.social, @jack-bailey.co.uk, @ralphscott.bsky.social, @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social, @martamiori.bsky.social & P. Schedemann's results suggest LLMs may allow for greater use of open-ended questions.
Can AI accurately label open-text survey responses? @jonmellon.bsky.social, @jack-bailey.co.uk, @ralphscott.bsky.social, @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social, @martamiori.bsky.social & P. Schedemann's results suggest LLMs may allow for greater use of open-ended questions.
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January 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
R&P editors' collection 2024 (4/4)
Can AI accurately label open-text survey responses? @jonmellon.bsky.social, @jack-bailey.co.uk, @ralphscott.bsky.social, @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social, @martamiori.bsky.social & P. Schedemann's results suggest LLMs may allow for greater use of open-ended questions.
Can AI accurately label open-text survey responses? @jonmellon.bsky.social, @jack-bailey.co.uk, @ralphscott.bsky.social, @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social, @martamiori.bsky.social & P. Schedemann's results suggest LLMs may allow for greater use of open-ended questions.
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R&P editors' collection 2024 (3/4)
Are digital campaigns effective in registering voters? @aslunn.bsky.social, P. John, @florianfoos.bsky.social & V. Cheng-Matsuno find digital campaigns didn't affect under-registered groups’ registrations raising questions about widely-used advertising strategies.
Are digital campaigns effective in registering voters? @aslunn.bsky.social, P. John, @florianfoos.bsky.social & V. Cheng-Matsuno find digital campaigns didn't affect under-registered groups’ registrations raising questions about widely-used advertising strategies.
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January 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
R&P editors' collection 2024 (3/4)
Are digital campaigns effective in registering voters? @aslunn.bsky.social, P. John, @florianfoos.bsky.social & V. Cheng-Matsuno find digital campaigns didn't affect under-registered groups’ registrations raising questions about widely-used advertising strategies.
Are digital campaigns effective in registering voters? @aslunn.bsky.social, P. John, @florianfoos.bsky.social & V. Cheng-Matsuno find digital campaigns didn't affect under-registered groups’ registrations raising questions about widely-used advertising strategies.
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The editorial team of Research & Politics is excited to share the editors' collection of 2024:
January 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The editorial team of Research & Politics is excited to share the editors' collection of 2024: