Zeljko Poljak
Postdoc @ Aarhus University
Party Politics | Political Communication | Political Competition
www.zeljkopoljak.com
- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🚨 So excited about our new paper in @BJPS: h7.cl/1iliZ! We (Corinna, Lena, Camila, Sarah) analyze how gender shapes the extent to which ministers are scrutinized by parliament.
- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakWe’re organizing a workshop at Aarhus University. Please share and consider submitting! 🗓️ 13–14 April 2026 | 📝 Deadline: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 (extended abstract) — junior scholars prioritized 🎤 Keynotes: @stefwalter.bsky.social (Univ. of Zurich) & @hhuang.bsky.social (Ohio State)
- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🫵WE WANT YOU 🎓 Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes? Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas
- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakNew article with @corinnaoschatz.bsky.social and @jenniferbast.bsky.social in Party Politics on the perceived costs and benefits of negative campaigning for male and female candidates and its impact on attack behavior doi.org/10.1177/1354...
- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakAnd more job opportunities: @univie.ac.at aims to fill 40 (!) doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
- I am thrilled to announce that as of January, I have started a new postdoctoral position at Aarhus University. I will be working on the YOUTHPOL project, led by @henrikseeberg.bsky.social , where we study political parties’ youth wings and youth representation.
- Are we trapped in a vicious cycle of political incivility on social media? 🤳 Our new study suggests that we are, but primarily as elections approach. The more we like, comment or share uncivil political content, the more politicians use such rhetoric close to elections. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1532...
- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakAfter 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵
- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨 I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions. Link and more information in second post. Position Start: Fall 2026 Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️
- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨 AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp 🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK 🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks) 🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy 🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate
- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🤖 AI chatbots can persuade voters 🗳️ @cvargiu.bsky.social and I were recently asked to review a piece for @nature.com, now out, and wrote a short digest about it TLDR: chatting with a LLM can change your mind, even if facts provided are not always accurate check it out 👇 #chatbots #persuasion
- How can politicians make citizens more accepting of costly climate policies? Our new study shows that people are more likely to support policies, even if they involve personal costs (!), when diverse stakeholders are actively included in decision-making. doi.org/10.1057/s413...
- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakSeveral recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question rdcu.be/eQGm4
- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakDo policy preferences of voters and non-voters differ in European democracies? My new article in @ejprjournal.bsky.social finds: Yes, sometimes, but this is not the norm. Let's break it down. 🧵 1/10
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- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
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- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakPoliticians don’t just care how many people hold an opinion — they care how good that opinion is. In our new (open-access) article in West European Politics, based on survey data from 900+ politicians across 11 countries, we show: quality > quantity. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakLooking forward to seeing your paper, panel, roundtable etc. proposals for the Party Politics section of EPSS. Don't forget: submissions are due on November 7, and the conference will take place in Belfast on June 18-20. @epssnet.bsky.social @sarahwagner.bsky.social
- ▶️ Party Politics 👉🏽 Section chairs: @zeynsom.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social 📢 This section welcomes work on party organizations, party electoral strategies, parties in government, as well as electoral and behavioral consequences of parties’ strategies & their organizational changes. 1/
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- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak1/4 Download our new book for FREE! Thiago, Laron, and I explain why studying whether and how voters know what parties want (and who goes with whom) is important and layout a framework for how to do this better. Check out the cover, promotional comic, and abstract cup.org/4mkBibw
- In our new study, @rozemarijnvandijk.bsky.social and I looked at who gets interrupted during debates in the parliaments of 🇦🇺🇭🇷🇬🇧. We find that women and men get interrupted just as often. Yet, when more women join the debate, politicians interrupt less. ➡️ Read the full study: doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...
- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakNew paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social! 🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result. Read full 🧵 below:
- Great to attend IPSA's World Congress in the fantastic city of Seoul! 🇰🇷 I had the chance to present ongoing research and engage with impressive work from fellow political science colleagues. Seoul was an incredible place to visit, truly a memorable experience!
- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakThrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:
- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakOur new book THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ATTACK POLITICS is out next month! 🔥📚 We offer a new look at negativity effects, via perceptions & evaluations🤔😱👿🤣 You can pre-order it with a nice 20% discount on the cover price (for paperbacks this makes it £32 or so) Check out discount code & link in the flyer 👇
- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🎉 New Special Issue out in Swiss Political Science Review! Together with @christinajuen.bsky.social @martingross.bsky.social @simonotjes.bsky.social & Michael Jankowski, I co-edited a collection of articles on party politics at the local level. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16626370... 🧵👇
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- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakI am incredibly proud that my book, co-authored with Andrea Aldrich, is published. Using an original party leadership dataset from 11 parliamentary democracies, Andrea and I show that women candidates face a glass ceiling for leadership and quickly sink once elected (the quicksand theory).
- New Cambridge Element 'Glass Ceilings, Glass Cliffs, and Quicksands: Gendered Party Leadership in Parliamentary Systems' by Andrea S. Aldrich & @zeynsom.bsky.social is now free to read for 2 weeks. cup.org/3HqJXty #cambridgeelements #politics
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- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🚨 We have two vacancies for PhD fellows: - on ideological stereotypes supervised by me and @robindevroe.bsky.social www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... - on losers' consent supervised by @annakern.bsky.social www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... Join research group @gasparugent.bsky.social in beautiful Ghent
- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakI'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!
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- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🚨 New publication 🚨 : Happy to share that my paper, "Losing Touch: The Rhetorical Cost of Governing" is now forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Short 🧵 about the paper here 👇 1/10
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- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨 Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥 @polcomm.bsky.social ➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu
- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakThrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been conditionally accepted in @cpsjournal.bsky.social! Drawing on membership surveys of the League 🇮🇹 and the Sweden Democrats 🇸🇪, I show that women members are *more active* than men because they are more embedded in party networks.
- Now officially published in the latest volume of Political Research Quarterly! We show that citizen engagement on politicians’ own social media not only influences what they talk about, but also shapes what they act on—whether in parliament or through legislation. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1065...
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- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🚀 Our paper (with @eliaskoch.bsky.social) on ‘The Politics of Seeking and Avoiding Discourse in Parliament’ is finally out as EarlyView at the EJPR!
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- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak🚨 New open-access publication out in the European Journal of Political Research! @markuskollberg.bsky.social and I examine how coalition government performance shapes affective polarization between coalition partners—and find that it matters. 🧵 1/6 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Zeljko Poljak💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
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- Our new study shows how politicians claim to represent diverse groups. 🗣️ Yet some, like migrants or the rich, face explicit exclusion, while others, like men or sexual minorities, are ignored. Interestingly, these gaps shrink closer to elections and during crises. Read more👇 doi.org/10.1177/0032...
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- Reposted by Zeljko PoljakExciting news for legislative scholars! We're thrilled to announce the release of #ParlLawSpeech, featuring full texts of parliamentary speeches and corresponding bills & laws in 7 parliaments + in the EP. Access full texts via @gesis.org & check out www.parllawspeech.org for R tutorials. (1/2)
- 🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky
