Marc Jacob

marcjacob.bsky.social

20 October 2026 05:20

Voters may be reluctant to hold elites accountable for transgressions because they may, in fact, endorse those transgressions (low democratic support) or because they are unwilling to vote for a different party to do so (high partisan cost of switching).

Richard Nennstiel

nennstielr.bsky.social

16 October 2026 10:55

🎉 Happy to share that our new paper, "Do They Really Not Know? Survey Mode and Left-Right Self-Placement Responses," is out in @pvs-journal.bsky.social! 💡 Together with @hudde.bsky.social, I investigated how survey mode is associated with left-right self-placement. 🧵👇

Nils Steiner

nilssteiner.bsky.social

16 October 2026 10:55

Cool research note (says the handling editor)! “Don’t know” responses to left–right self-placement vary sharply by survey mode in the Eurobarometer. Broader lessons: (1) Be careful when comparing nonresponse across modes. (2) Making “don’t know” equally available and salient across modes is hard.

Teresa Völker

tevoelker.bsky.social

16 October 2026 10:55

𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀? 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁-𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 New paper out in European Societies @mitpress.bsky.social 🔓 doi.org/10.1162/EUSO... This paper has been a long time in the making & benefited a lot from feedback at @wzb.bsky.social&@europeatharvard.bsky.social.

Rebecca Solnit

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

08 October 2026 05:10

Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).