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🆕 FROM EPSR. When do voters 🗳️ reject power-hungry leaders?. New research from Erin Hern shows citizens do punish autocratizing incumbents—but only when they can see it happening. Making big theoretical and empirical contributions. 🔎

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🆕 🛣️ How do disruptive tactics affect support for climate activism?. This new study examines how mass obstruction and vigilantism influence public backing for climate activists. 🔗 #ClimateActivism #PublicSupport #OA.

📔 Thanks for reading our May issue. 📖 Volume 17, Issue 2 of EPSR presents the latest #PolSci research covering topics including #Covid, women in the #EuropeanParliament, eco-social attitudes in #Sweden and much more!. Available #OpenAccess:

📔 Vol 17.2. 🇪🇺 What determines women’s electoral success in the #EPelections?. @Ale_Polak & Marcin Lewandowski find that incumbency rates, party size, and ideological orientations all play a key role in shaping women’s #representation 🙋‍♀️. 📖 #OA

🆕 🗳️ Does polarization drive political participation?. A systematic review and meta-analysis by @MartaKolcz examines 25 studies since 1990 to find the impact of #Polarization on #Participation. 🔗 #OA.

📔 Vol 17.2. 🇮🇹 Does it matter that an ally is democratic during crises?. @aruggeri_eui and colleagues explore if public diplomacy in times of crisis can shape citizens’ attitudes towards #InternationalPolitics, using survey data from #Italy. 📖 #OA

📔 Vol 17.2. 🇮🇹 Term limits in parliament & electoral disconnection. F Bromo, @paologamba10 & @mimprota95 examine the 5 Star Movement party in #Italy, which imposed a limit of 2 terms for affiliates seeking to gain or retain a parliamentary seat🪑. 📖 #OA

📔Vol 17.2. 🇧🇪 Two worlds, one nation?. Using an innovative methodology of class-specific multiple correspondence analysis, .@DDelespaul @CecilMeeusen Koen Abts & @swyngedouwm compare the political spaces of #Flanders and #Francophone #Belgium. 📖 #OA

🌟 Greetings from #ecprjs25 🇨🇿. Meet our Editors today!📆. Ask @EUforeignpolicy & Catherine Moury all about EPSR 💜.

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📔 Vol 17.2. 🇫🇷 Echoes from the trenches. Using data that identifies & geolocates all 🪖 French soldiers who died during WWI, @vlad_surdea.examines the relationship b/w community-level exposure to war losses & long-term electoral behaviour. 📖 #OA

🆕 Participatory democracy and participatory research 🔄🗳️🔬. 🧠 @HansAsenbaum, @Dr_Bussu, @OliverEscobar & @clharris_ucc explore the how they can inform each other offering a new research agenda. 👉 #OA #ParticipatoryDemocracy #ResearchMethods.

🆕 What about elite manipulation in deliberative mini-publics? 🗣️. 🔍 @NinoJunius investigates the Ostbelgien model, examining how vulnerable citizen assemblies are and see what makes them resilient. 👉 #OA #DeliberativeDemocracy #PoliticalScience.

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🆕 🚨Widespread, but also popular? How do people feel about diversity policies?. 📊 @NicolasFliess & Schönwälder explore public attitudes across Europe, revealing nuanced support and resistance towards diversity measures. 🔗#OA #Diversity #PublicOpinion.

📔 Vol 17. 🔒 The lockdown paradox. Using data from 7 European countries 🌍, @NenaOana, A Bojar & C Wang show that people with positive evaluations of their govt’s #Covid response are more likely to maintain support for the democratic system. 📖 #OA

📔Vol 17.2. 😷 Fighting collective threats. Focusing on the role of socialism & the existence of long-term regime-driven legacies, @eledece investigates why some countries were more successful in containing the death toll than others during #Covid . 📖 #OA