Main Research Interests: Political Behaviour, Comparative Politics, Quantitative Methods
Wivenhoe, England
Joined November 2013
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Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
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Looking at data from 28 elections in 16 countries @laurasud, @SiimTrumm & @IAMakropoulos found that women often receive smaller campaign budgets than men regardless of party of system affiliation ↔️
🔗 ow.ly/CQZh50WxSsW
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
The Essex Summer School is more than just methods.
🗣️ Speaker series
🧑🤝🧑 Global connections
🎓 Transferable academic credit
🗓 July 7 – Aug 15
🔗 essexsummerschool.com
#EssexSummerSchool #AcademicTwitter #QuantMethods @EssexSumSchool
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
🥳 Join us in celebrating International Women's Day this week & check out our #IWD2025 collection
📘 Featuring 8 articles chosen by our Editors
🔓 All articles are #OpenAccess
👉 bit.ly/3DrIy4i #OA
#InspireInclusion @WileyPolitics
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
🗳️Women face an uphill battle to get elected:
@SiimTrumm of @NottsPolitics, @laurasud of @uniessexgovt, @IAMakropoulos of @QMPoliticsIR & @StrathPolIR show how a significant gender resource gap remains a feature of contemporary parliamentary campaigns
👉bit.ly/498OFWA
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
Interested in campaigns? Gender? Both? Take a look at this work with @SiimTrumm and @IAMakropoulos. We are grateful to @EJPRjournal editors and reviewers. Running uphill: A comparative analysis of the gender gap in campaign financing shorturl.at/EF5PF
I thank you so much for everything @SofiaColMar!🙏
Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week! @SofiaColMar @QMPoliticsIR
ALT "To: Dr Iakovos Makropoulos (SPIR) Hi Iakovos! I want to send a message to thank you for all the hard work you have been doing with the project. It really means a lot that you are prt of the team. From: Dr Sofia Collignon (Line Manager, SPIR) @SofiaColMar @QMPoliticsIR"
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Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
🔍 Do citizens respond to parties’ issue emphasis?
@henrikseeberg & J Adams explore the relationship between public issue attention, parties’ issue emphases & objective national conditions across 7️⃣ issue areas in 13 western publics from 1971-2021
#OA 🔓 bit.ly/3TcKkuQ
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
We are happy to announce the call for papers for the 4th European PolMeth meeting, co-organised by the London School of Economics and University of Essex. The meeting will be held 7-8 April 2025 at the LSE. Please submit at polmeth.eu see you in London! @nosnibor_mot
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
Despite setbacks in France and Germany, #GreenParties 🍃 remain key players after the 2024 European Parliament elections 🇪🇺
Mitya Pearson @wrudig @MakroBehaviour and @TomasMaltby for @LSEEuroppblog 👇
ow.ly/qCNa50SHfwy
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
Why Green parties remain key players after the 2024 European Parliament elections blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2…
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
Are you a politics & gender scholar who fancies working with @nihaarikaan @RainbowMurray @PaulCinnam0n @hannahlwright @StoffelAlex @SofiaColMar Kim Hutchings, Nivi Manchanda, & other brilliant colleagues & students @QMPoliticsIR (+ fab faculty feminists)?
jbs.ac.uk/job/DHI796/lecture…
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
New article at @po_qu #Gender disparities persist in candidate selections, with #Tories nominating more men. A gender-sensitive party culture audit is urgent to address barriers to women's political participation. #GenderEquality #PoliticalReform
doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13…
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
Somehow managed to summarise my entire PhD thesis on the growing UK voting age gap in 1000 words for the @PolStudiesAssoc blog. Give it a read! ⬇️
psa.ac.uk/psa/news/widening-…
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
Our #EP2024 Voter-Advice-Application is now live (w/ @EumatrixEu). You vote on 20 issues and we "match" you to the MEPs & national/Euro parties based on how they voted. Currently in English, but available next week in all official EU languages. Have fun!
eurompmatch.eu/
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
My latest on migration as an issue of contestation in Europe, out now with @WilsonCenterGEP
OUT NOW | As Europe descends into campaign mode, our Global Fellow @dimitsar writes for @TheWilsonCenter about the role of the #migration debate in the upcoming @EUparliament #elections. Read the full article⤵️
@EPWashingtonDC
wilsoncenter.org/article/sig…
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
One final call to apply for our two postdoc positions with @MCCRA_Essex @uniessexgovt and @EssexLang_Ling; 24-months with generous fieldwork and conference funding, and you get to work with a super friendly and experienced team, including @ODI_Global (deadline April 5)
Same jobs, different advertisement - apply for one of the two postdocs (1 in political science and 1 in linguistics) on multilingualism in Africa with us @MCCRA_Essex
jobs.ac.uk/job/DGN222/post-d…
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
With interesting chapters written by @ProfRosieCamp @philipjcowley @ProfTimBale @wrudig, other amazing authors and me :-) #Campaign #Elections2024
@QMUL_HSS
This year, the UK is preparing for a #generalelection.
Prepare yourself by revisiting the 50 general election campaigns that shaped our modern politics with @IainDale’s latest book.
Available for pre-order: bitebackpublishing.com/books…
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Wivenhoe has been crowned the best place to live in the east in this year’s Sunday Times Best Places to Live guide
gazette-news.co.uk/news/2418…
Iakovos Makropoulos retweeted
With @alexinafrica @uclspp, I am teaching fieldwork preparation, organisation, logistics, budgets, funding, ethics and different methodologies again this year @EssexSumSchool. BYOP (Bring your own projects!). We basically run this as a workshop to get your projects field-ready.
Have you decided what classes you plan to take at #ESS2024 this year? Visit our website bit.ly/3SS5FJ3 to see the course schedule and start planning now!. Applications are due to open soon! #BestNerdySummerCamp #WeAreEssex
