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Piping ggplot2 objects into plotly

While working on a Shiny app to analyse data on political participation, I wanted to use the pipe operator (|>), to pass a ggplot2 object directly into ggplotly() from the plotly package. This resulted in an error and took longer than expected to resolve, which prompted this blog post explaining the issue and its solution. The pipe operator passes the output of the left-hand side expression as the first argument to the function on the right-hand side.

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Review articles in political science journals

Review articles remain an important part of academic publishing, offering overviews of the current state of knowledge, synthesising research trends, or critically engaging with key debates. Political science journals feature a variety of article types that fall under this broad category, including state-of-the-field reviews, literature surveys, and review essays. These formats provide scholars with an opportunity to summarise key developments, highlight gaps in the literature, and propose directions for future research.

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Latest publications

  • Elodie Thevenin, Resul Umit (2026) European Parliament groups’ perspectives on the future of Europe: In the European house of conflicting ideas. In M. Góra, E. Thevenin, & K. Zielińska (Eds.), Political actors’ narratives on the reforms of the European Union: Future visions of Europe? (1st ed., pp. 207–224). Routledge. Abstract DOI  pdf
  • Pasi Pohjolainen, Iida Kukkonen, Pekka Jokinen, Wouter Poortinga, Charles Adedayo Ogunbode, Gisela Böhm, Stephen Fisher, Resul Umit (2024) The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans' climate perceptions. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 37(2), 515–533. Abstract DOI  pdf
  • Resul Umit, Asimina Michailidou, Hans-Joerg Trenz (2024) Translating the complexity of EU differentiation: A comparative analysis of news coverage in Germany, Denmark, and the UK. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 32(4), 1273–1290. Abstract DOI  pdf

Unpublished research

  • Resul Umit (2019) Unfulfilled winning expectations decrease voter satisfaction with democracy. Abstract DOI  pdf
  • Resul Umit, Melek Zağralı (2015) The Turkish repeat elections of November 2015. Abstract  pdf