Lotte Hargrave
@lottehargrave
Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science at The University of Manchester. Research gender, political behaviour, elections, and representation Otherwise lover of: Hiking 🥾 Wild swimming 🌊 Pub going 🍺 Football ⚽️
Delighted to say our flight to Slovenia wasn’t delayed and we have arrived in our tiny mountain village and found a bar. Let’s go England 🏴❤️🙏⚽️
Then @cerifowler.bsky.social is presenting our ongoing work on how survey non-response varies by what is being asked about, how we ask it, and who answers We find that who says DK, and to what/when, is very much non-random, which matters given we all tend to just drop the DKs from our analyses
First, bright and early after the dance party, @jess-smith.bsky.social is presenting our ongoing systematic review examine what the literature tells us about gender bias in candidate evaluations (Preview: “null” and “positive” results are more common in experiments than in observational work…)
Share a photograph of a mountain that you’ve taken (Pico do Arieiro, Madeira - a place I think about almost daily)
🧵 Thread on new research on gender gaps in “don’t know” responses Some of you will know that my stellar coauthors @hannahbunting.bsky.social @cerifowler.bsky.social @jess-smith.bsky.social @annasanders.bsky.social & I have been working on a large-scale project on “don’t know” responses in surveys.
Given how hard it is to provide direct evidence of the role of sexism in election outcomes (& not to mention the wider patriarchal structures that led to the wider electoral circumstances), it seems an incredibly simplistic take to conclude sexism didn't matter www.economist.com/united-state...
Very pleased to say I have a new paper, "Earning Their Stripes? How Political Experience Shapes Gendered Policy Prioritization", out today in (bsky-less) Legislative Studies Quarterly Paper (🔓): doi.org/10.1111/lsq.... polisky