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Take a break! 🏖️ Our editors are taking some well deserved rest over the next few weeks, but don't worry, the editorial office is still here for all your EJPR questions! And keep an eye out, we will still have plenty of fresh research coming out! 👀 Thank you for your patience and enjoy the sun! ☀️

How does political power shape tax collection? 🏹 💰️ Guy Heilbrun looks at literature on policy economy to test whether governments with strong legislative support are raising more revenue from tax in the short term

Political power and the global expansion of the value-added tax | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CorePolitical power and the global expansion of the value-added taxbuff.ly

And how do they see it? 👑 Tiphaine Le Corre, @profjanegreen.bsky.social & Alexander Yeandle review evidence to examine how elite discourse impacts #PublicOpinion about #Immigration

To what extent do political elites influence public opinion about immigration? | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreTo what extent do political elites influence public opinion about immigration?buff.ly

Going beyond 🌐 🎓️ William L. Allen, @mfreino.bsky.social & Isabel Ruiz argue that citizens evaluate immigrant workers not only on sociotropic economic and fiscal reasons, but also formal skills, educations and their contributions, using 2 UK studies buff.ly/UUrE63P

Beyond skills: How occupational essentiality and social value relate to attitudes toward immigrant labor | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreBeyond skills: How occupational essentiality and social value relate to attitudes toward immigrant laborwww.cambridge.org

Fight or spite? 🥊 🖋️ David Scholz & Benjamin Hilbig conduct 4 German and English studies to test who and why some people are more drawn to peaceful #PoliticalActivism, and others are drawn to extreme or violent activism, finding out how much of a role personality plays

Sign a petition or storm the parliament? Aversive personality differentiates normative vs. nonnormative political activism | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreSign a petition or storm the parliament? Aversive personality differentiates normative vs. nonnormative political activismbuff.ly

#AffectivePolarization in all forms 👑 @hannaeback.bsky.social, @roycecarroll.bsky.social Johan Hellström & Jonas Lindahl, both of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social use Swedish survey data to show that barriers are heightened when political elites are highly polarized along affective lines

Elite affective polarization and government formation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreElite affective polarization and government formationbuff.ly

Place, education and voting 🗺️ 🏫 🗳️ @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social, @theresakuhn.bsky.social & @bramlancee.bsky.social assess the degree of overlap between urban-rural and educational differences in voting for parties at the opposite ends of the transnational cleavage

Place, education, and voting along the transnational cleavage in Europe | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CorePlace, education, and voting along the transnational cleavage in Europebuff.ly

We didn't see that coming 👀 😪 @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social, @jfdaoust.bsky.social & Piret Ehin look at the 2016 surprise Estonian government shift to better understand how changes in government, seperate to elections, alter #DemocraticSafisfaction when winner/loser status changes

Satisfaction with democracy after winning and losing without elections | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreSatisfaction with democracy after winning and losing without electionsbuff.ly

Where is the confidence? 🧭 Sivaram Cheruvu & Jay Krehbiel use Hungarian survey data to better understand how government supporters are influenced by law decision from the European Court of Justice compared to the Hungarian Court, with opposition #Paritisans withdrawing when local buff.ly/fmfOIw7

Can domestic courts erode confidence in international law? Evidence from Hungary | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreCan domestic courts erode confidence in international law? Evidence from Hungarywww.cambridge.org

Represented by proxy? 🧒 🤜🏽 🤛🏾 @janabelschner.bsky.social, @aaronjohnspitzer.bsky.social, @ecprpovb.bsky.social's Ingrid Faleide & Josefina Sipinen draw on survey data to focus on the political inclusion of underages youth and migrants buff.ly/2gkzofA

Representation by proxy? The democratic inclusion of youth and migrants | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreRepresentation by proxy? The democratic inclusion of youth and migrantswww.cambridge.org

Who's talking now? 🙋‍♀️ 🔊 Laura Chaqués-Bonafont & Xavier Fernández-i-Marín use a Spanish dataset to construct a framework that helps distinguish between structural and strategic #Representation, looking for #Gender patterns across various policy domains

Who speaks for whom? Gendered representation in interest group advocacy before parliament | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreWho speaks for whom? Gendered representation in interest group advocacy before parliamentbuff.ly

Dog-whistling for the #FarRight 🐕️ Armin Langer, Florian Hartleb & Christoph Schiebel complete a content analysis of Sellner's 2024 book to understand which 'neutral' terms act as linguistic vehicles for exclusionary, racist and antisemitic messaging buff.ly/4dRWIqO

Dog-whistle politics in far-right discourse: Analyzing ethnonationalism in Martin Sellner’s book ‘remigration’ | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreDog-whistle politics in far-right discourse: Analyzing ethnonationalism in Martin Sellner’s book ‘remigration’www.cambridge.org

Gendered public tolerance 👩‍⚖️ 💢 @reedmwood.bsky.social, @syysr.bsky.social, @robjohns75.bsky.social & Graeme Davies of @york.ac.uk analyse data of the British electorate to evidence that the sexist beliefs of audiences is increasing the tolerance for and driving political violence

Understanding (gendered) public tolerance of violent threats against politicians | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreUnderstanding (gendered) public tolerance of violent threats against politiciansbuff.ly

Following voters ⛓️ @ecprsgpp.bsky.social's Mathias Bukh Vestergaard, Carsten Jensen & @tboeggild.bsky.social use 2019 Danish national election data to better understand how #VoterAwareness pre-election relates to awareness and policy fulfilment after elections

Following voters in the chain of representation: The important role of pre-election pledge awareness | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreFollowing voters in the chain of representation: The important role of pre-election pledge awarenessbuff.ly

🧑‍🌾 The undemocratic mind @vanessaschwaiger.bsky.social uses data across Germany and the US to understand how social marginalisation relates to #DemocraticAttidues when considering traditional socio-economic factors to understand why the 'left behind' are turning away from democracy🫰

‘Left behind’ and an undemocratic mind? The link between perceived marginalization and democratic orientations | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core‘Left behind’ and an undemocratic mind? The link between perceived marginalization and democratic orientationsbuff.ly

Taking accountability 🙇 Marko Kukec of @ecpr-logopol.bsky.social, uses a data set across 10 countries of Central and Eastern Europe to link the frequency with which various constellations of MPs initiate parliamentary investigative committees (ICs)

Party systems and executive accountability: The politics of investigative committees in Central and Eastern Europe | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreParty systems and executive accountability: The politics of investigative committees in Central and Eastern Europebuff.ly

Growing together or growing apart? 🌱 @dschraff.bsky.social use surve experiments from France and Germany to find whether absolute regional income creates stronger disagreements about sharing resources between regions when income inequality is increasing 💰️

Growing together or apart? Regional inequality and preferences for inter-territorial redistribution | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreGrowing together or apart? Regional inequality and preferences for inter-territorial redistributionbuff.ly

Speaking your mind 🗣️ 🧠 @fggaleiden.bsky.social's Wouter Nelen & @simonotjes.bsky.social answer under what conditions are Speakers more likely to select an oral question by examining a unique data set from the Netherlands

Neutral arbiter, partisan speaker, or asset of the coalition? Patterns of Oral Question Selection by the Speaker of the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreNeutral arbiter, partisan speaker, or asset of the coalition? Patterns of Oral Question Selection by the Speaker of the Lower House of the Dutch Parliamentbuff.ly

Social projection and political behaviour 👀 @alexyeandle.bsky.social & @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social's Johan Ahlbäck use survey data from Malawi to find that respondents often see greater levels of local support for their own party & higher presence of their own ethnic group

Social projection and political behaviour in low-information environments | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreSocial projection and political behaviour in low-information environmentsbuff.ly

Tentative support for preconceptions 🤔 These authors 🧵 look at variations in mass attitudes towards the Russo-Ukrainian War using two types of survey data, finding that top-down models of #PublicOpinion may better explain variations of attitudes across a country buff.ly/j12fNJ5

Mass attitudes towards Russia’s aggression against Ukraine: Tentative support for top-down opinion formation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreMass attitudes towards Russia’s aggression against Ukraine: Tentative support for top-down opinion formationwww.cambridge.org