Roland Kappe

Anyone still here, come on over! Everyone else is already there: bsky.app/profile/roland…

ABC / Ipsos US (Jul 19-20, 2024) Trump Favourable 40% Unfavourable 51% No opinion 7% DK 2% Harris Favourable 35% Unfavourable 46% No opinion 13% DK 5% Trump and Harris both net -11. Biden was -23 ipsos.com/sites/default/…

The APSA education section is hosting a fantastic online spring conference. Registration is free for section members and $25 for non-section members. Please register if you are interested. Link and program below!

@GH_Schneider Meine Güte, das ist ja furchtbar! Gute Besserung an Merete!

Meiner Frau wurden am vorletzten Mittwoch beim Einstieg in den Bus Nr. 4 beide Hände zertrümmert. Die Operation dauerte Stunden. Hier endlich ein wichtiger Zeugenaufruf in dieser Sache. Die Polizei ermittelt. presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/1…

Congratulations to Roland Kappe (University College London, @rolandkappe) for receiving a Best Paper Award from the Education Politics and Policy Section of APSA for his paper "The Causal Effect of Foreign Language Learning on Political Attitudes."

New @IpsosUK polling shows public instinctively in favour of public ownership of utilities. Short 🧵 1/ In principle 6 in 10 think utilities such as electric, gas, water and trains should be publicly owned. 4 in 10 think this should be in all circumstances!

@DrOrlySiow @NclPolitics @lunduniversity wow, so exciting, congratulations!

📢Big news!📢 Today was my last day as part of the wonderful @NclPolitics team 🥲 Next week me and my family begin exciting new adventures in SWEDEN!🇸🇪 Honoured to be taking up a permanent position amongst incredible colleagues @lunduniversity Department of Gender Studies🍾

@ChRauh @unipotsdam @WZB_Berlin Ah wow - super, Chris! 🥳🎉 so well deserved! Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Herr Professor!

📣Now official: I’m excited to take up a professorship on the ‘politics of multi-level governance’, a joint appointment by @unipotsdam and @WZB_Berlin. Very much looking fwd to working with the Potsdam colleagues and students! And super grateful to those who supported this! 🙏

Like to play with data? Check out the Shiny App of our new V-Indoc Data. Explore here 160 countries, 1945-2021, 27 original indicators on the politicisation of education and the media, 11 indoctrination indices, over 200 other variables. shiny.cent.gla.ac.uk

@KGattermann @UvA_ASCoR @aces_for @Polcomm @MundusJourn Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Katjana! 🥳

Education is one of the UK's few genuinely world leading economic sectors. It's time for the government and university leaders to wake up and consider whether they really want to risk damaging it further. (4/4)

Our pension has been cut by a third under the preposterous pretense of a made-up universities pension fund deficit due to a valuation in the middle of the pandemic (3/4)

Massive protest march in London today! I am on strike, together with many other lecturers, university staff, teachers, and other public sector workers in Britain. #ucuRISING #TeacherStrike Here is why... (1/4)

Working with the @EurobarometerEU? We made it easier for you! At @gesis_org you can now download an open access harmonized 2004-2021 EB including 147 variables (EU policies, attitudes, identity, pol institutions, socio-pol characteristics etc) ➡️ doi.org/10.7802/245

We are excited to have @rolandkappe today with “The causal effect of foreign language learning on political attitudes: Scottish education reforms reduced support for Brexit”. Find all the details below: eui.eu/events?id=5531…

My paper on the language that the European Commission uses for public communication finally found a good home @JEI_Publication. Thanks to all who supported and provided input on the way! (1/3) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Leader satisfaction ratings Truss Satisfied 16% (-11 from Sept) Dissatisfied 67% (+38) Net -51 (down from -2) This is: - worse than lowest scores for Johnson (-46), May (-44), Cameron (-38) & Blair (-44) - not as bad as Major (-59) or Thatcher’s worst (-56).

@mvanhulten House Oranje-Nassau re-establishing control of the southern provinces?

@caprosser There is also this classic of the genre:

The slides for my new quant methods course are starting to come together...