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Sara Hobolt

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Professor of European politics, LSE ‪‪| Head of the Department of Government | President of EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social | Chair of EES @eesresearch.bsky.social‬ | Co-Director of POAL @poalab.bsky.social‬ | Fellow of the British Academy

  1. We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous.

    There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com

    www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

    Exclusive: the first survey before and after the immigration speech reveals a drop in Labour support.

    It’s official – Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech has backfired

    Exclusive: the first survey before and after the immigration speech reveals a drop in Labour support.

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  2. I am proud to be part of this project - led by the brilliant @turnbulldugarte.com - which has an important take-away for mainstream left parties

    We show that when Labour adopts exclusionary rhetoric on immigration, it can backfire: core supporters feel alienated and Reform UK gains legitimacy

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  3. Congratulations to our brilliant colleague in the LSE Government Department @lsegovernment.bsky.social Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on being awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project "Border Change and Local Development in Europe and Beyond"! 🎉🎉 www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...

    Three LSE academics win prestigious ERC Starting Grants for research on growth externalities, multinational linkages and border change, joining 478 early-career grantees across Europe.

    ERC Starting Grants | Academic Grant Awards

    Three LSE academics win prestigious ERC Starting Grants for research on growth externalities, multinational linkages and border change, joining 478 early-career grantees across Europe.

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  4. Excited about the very first EPSS conference in Belfast next year!🤩 @kenbenoit.bsky.social & I co-chair the Political Communication Section and invite submissions on contents & effects of political communication, broadly conceived, and media-politics relations⬇️Please reach out in case of questions

    The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

    📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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  5. 📢 Call for Papers – London Experimental Seminar Series (LESS) in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social. We are launching a new forum for experimental political science research: First seminar: 19/11/2025. Deadline: 31/08/2025. Submit here: forms.gle/ZUJcBbZoDoaY...

    We are inviting submissions for the London Experimental Seminar Series in Political Science (LESS), a new forum for discussing experimental political science research among researchers at London unive...

    London Experimental Seminar Series in Political Science

    We are inviting submissions for the London Experimental Seminar Series in Political Science (LESS), a new forum for discussing experimental political science research among researchers at London unive...

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