Aske Halling

I am happy to share our new paper just published in @journal_pa. We ( @julianhupka @FrederikGodt @Niels_Bjorn ) ask: How do frontline workers react to health-related responsibility cues? A short threat with some key insights 👇(1/9) doi.org/10.1111/padm.1…

🇬🇧 We are switching to English! At the same time, we are launching the largest update to Prestigelisten.dk to date. Please help us spread the word. 🙏 --- 🇩🇰 Vi skifter sprog til engelsk! Samtidig lancerer vi den hidtil største opdatering af sitet. Del gerne nyheden!

"Acceptable or Not? Understanding Attitudes Toward Citizens' Discrimination Against Frontline Workers" by @askehalling, Mathilde Cecchini, & Benedicte Gronhoj shows that language-based requests are viewed as more acceptable than religious ones. doi.org/10.1111%2Fpadm…

🚨 Just out in @PNASNews 🚨 Combining administrative registers and individual Twitter behavior among Danes, we show that multiple offline indicators predict online hostility: Having many more criminal verdicts increase the likelihood of being hostile online. But - against common stereotypes of online haters - so does having high school grades when you grew up. The reason: Hostility is about politics and those from an affluent background are much more likely to tweet about politics. All in all, hostility is not just about algorithms and the features of online discussions. Individual offline dispositions matter too. Thank you for another great collaboration to @stighebbelstrup and @boralexander1!

🚨Very excited to share that my first solo publication "Testing the social pressure hypothesis: Does in-party social pressure reduce out-party empathy?" is out in @PNASNexus 🚨 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnasne… Here’s what I find 🧵1/6

Nimbyism is often explained through property values or exclusion. But in recent work with @NNyholt, we explore a different perspective—local preservationism. It’s less about keeping people out and more about preserving neighborhood character. Read more: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Interested in administrative burden, social equity, and digital governance? Consider joining our panel (w. @donmoyn and @MariaTiggelaar at the 2025 IRSPM Conference in April in Bologna: Panel description: irspm.org/panels-pages-2…, call for abstracts: irspm.org/conference-202…

Jeg vil gerne slå fast, at det er fuldstændig tilfældigt, at begge mine barselsorlover overlappede perfekt med Tour de France.

Open access: Anders Barslund Grøn & Christian Bøtcher Jacobsen introduce transversal leadership - meaning a leader's attempts to direct, align, and commit staff towards collective efforts with actors outside their own managerial jurisdiction tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New research on the policy influence of political parties' youth wings: In a new elite survey experiment of ~700 Danish politicians (2020) across 9 issue and 8 parties, I show that: 🧵..

New administrative burden paper out in Early View @PSJ_Editor We looked at whether benefit type or beneficiary contributions affect respondents' attitudes towards burden reducing and burden increasing policies Details in thread > doi.org/10.1111/psj.12… #OpenAccess

Excited to share that my article on democracy's consequences for socioeconomic inequality between ethnic groups is now online at @democ_journal. Through five case studies, I examine how and why democratic transitions sometimes lead to more equality and sometimes do not. 🧵👇

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - How Government Efficiency Shapes Political Trust: Evidence from the Case of #Brexit - cup.org/3Wp4LXo - @FrederikGodt

🚨New article🚨 out in @AJPS_Editor w @Carsten80554073. We analyze downstream consequences of rising incivility between politicians and find adverse effects on citizens' political trust, satisfaction w democracy, and intentions to comply w policies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

New paper paper out w/ @donmoyn in @PAReview about administrative burdens and the ending of the Public Health Emergency >> Assessing burden tolerance amid the #Medicaid Great Unwinding doi.org/10.1111/puar.1…

New #openaccess article in PAR: Burden tolerance: Developing a validated measurement instrument across seven countries by Martin Baekgaard, Aske Halling, Donald Moynihan: buff.ly/4cGAB7A

Open access: @OestergaardM finds a positive relationship between how affected departments were by the COVID-19 crisis and how much frontline professionals were involved in operational decisions about how to solve problems in the organization tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New publication from PIREAU member @FrederikGodt. Using a pre-registered vignette survey experiment among 1,050 caseworkers, the study examines whether frontline workers treat clients who are responsible for their own sickness more harshly. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa…

Come work with us! Together w @henrikseeberg and @helene_helboe I will examine how party leaders explain election losses and how it matters for democracy and party leader support. We are looking for a postdoc who will work with us (deadline: Sept. 15): au.dk/om/stillinger/…

Out now 🚨Together with Yves Steinebach & @mattiacasula1 we look at bureaucratic overload in media coverage and describe the associated drivers, including the growing number and complexity of policies and external shocks. ➡️onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

📢New open-access article alert 📢 @lexa_lenz, Steinebach, and @MattiaCasula1 map the prevalence of bureaucratic overload in Italy, Ireland, and Germany between 2003 and 2022 and describe its internal and external drivers bit.ly/4bbSppN #RegGov @WileyPolitics