Does crime mobilize or demobilize? Scholarship disagrees, partly because studies measure crime and participation differently. In our new @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper, we test 3 measures of crime exposure against both electoral and non-electoral participation using validated turnout data.

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📢 We're hiring! 3-year postdoc position, starting Feb/March 2027 We're looking for someone with: - research agenda on political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior or related fields - ability to teach Austrian politics Please share widely!

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👇🎯🧵 I'd go further. There is a deep faith that 🇺🇸 democracy even really existed for more than ~50 years, starting in ~1965 & ending sometime around 2013. The idea that we should value restoring the pre-2017/pre-2025 status quo is a category error. Per @cwolbrecht.bsky.social's essential chart:

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🚨Excited to share my new paper with Jessica Gottlieb and Damien Kelly! Everyone is worried about POLARIZATION. But are we all experiencing it the same way? 👉 We argue that to understand polarization, we need to bring POWER back into the conversation /1

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📢New paper in @thejop.bsky.social on the reciprocal nature of citizens’ support for democratic transgressions. Together with Hannah Werner & @annakern.bsky.social , we show that when confronted with violations by political opponents, citizens’ support for transgressions by their own side doubles!

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