🚨 New article out today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social ! 📄 “Strategic Inclusion Without Transformation: How Populist Radical Right Parties Engage With Women’s Interests” With Bonnie Meguid, @hildecoffe.bsky.social & Miki Kittilson 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

The Strange Death of Conservative England

📢 My last PhD paper is out in Legislative Studies Quarterly 📢 📌 Main finding ➡️ Party control of speaking time in parliament limits MPs’ geographical focus ➡️ Open access increases constituency representation 🔗 Read it open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This blog and article perhaps raises some interesting questions about how we can think about the Scottish devolution settlement 👇

Devolving powers on paper is only half the story — the real challenge is implementation. In this post, I discuss my recent @jeppjournal.bsky.social article with @jmfernandes86.bsky.social on when decentralization actually works in practice. Thanks @ccc-research.bsky.social y.social for the invite!

We are hiring! We are looking for a prospective PhD student to work at the Department of Political Science of the University of Barcelona and the Institutions, Politics and Economics Research Center in connection to a research project on Backlash. More details here: sites.google.com/view/jordi-m...

Hoy me estreno en el blog @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social , analizando entre qué grupos de españoles ha aumentado más la percepción de la inmigración como problema, usando datos del CIS. ¡Gracias por la invitación!

Today, we lost one of the greats. One of my favorite actors. Rest in peace. youtu.be/Cv8ZahFALTk?...

The seat projections are pretty dramatic. Allowing for movement of a few points in many directions: Plaid Cymru ~38 seats, Reform UK ~35 seats, Labour ~11 seats, Conservatives ~6 seats, Lib Dems ~3 seats, Greens ~ 1 🧵

⚠️La política anunciada por el Gobierno de conceder 30.000€ para jóvenes que alquilen vivienda con opción a compra es mera propaganda: sólo aplica a viviendas protegidas, que en los últimos diez años han sido solamente 1.182 viviendas en todo el territorio nacional‼️

Please consider signing this petition and supporting the great political science research and teaching at the University of Cologne!

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Signage around the Department of Defense offices were quickly changed to “Department of War” to match President Donald Trump’s rebrand of the organization, including Secretary Pete Hegseth’s nameplate.

📣 Manifesto Project Data & Corpus Update 2025 is here! What's new? 🧵:

Call For Papers - Special Issue: "War and the State in Latin America" with the Journal of Latin American Studies 📢 please retweet! The deadline for proposals is October 30, 2025. Invited proposals must be submitted next year by January 30.

Anke Hoeffler, Tanja Kupisch, and I are happy to announce three doctoral positions in the project "Lifting the Veil of Violence: Inequality and Representation after War” (LiVV) at ‪the Cluster of Excellence @excinequality.bsky.social‬ at @uni-konstanz.de‬. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...

🚨 New in Journal of Politics! 🚨 Do radical right parties need to cut ties with old dictatorships to succeed? 👉 @sergipardos.bsky.social and my study of Spain’s VOX says: ❌ Not necessarily.

Winning elections is the only curb against strongmen on.ft.com/4mxBcNL | opinion

Just got round to watching Mario Draghi's speech in Rimini in the original Italian. It is easily the most important speech on Europe so far this year and I hope someone (@grandcontinent.bsky.social?‬) publishes it in English and other EU languages soon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMME...

Incredible growth in the scale of devastating Iberian Peninsula #wildfires through mid-August reflected in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS estimated fire emissions with Spain reaching it's highest annual total of past 23 years (& Portugal's since 2017) @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int #IIFF

If you can't trust official US data, you can't invest or list there. It's as stark as that. 🇺🇸

ChatGTP updates starts to feel like an average iPhone update.

Just read @adambonica.bsky.social 's latest deep dive into the Democratic Party's campaign finance spamming. Wow! data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

Ukraine’s top general, Valeriy Zaluzhny, just gave a hard-hitting interview, and it’s a wake-up call for the West. The war has changed. If NATO doesn’t adapt, Russia could grind on until 2034. Here’s what you need to know:

💥New paper💥 1)LLMs achieve superb accuracy detecting negative campaigning ACROSS languages and countries - enabling a new paradigm of comparative political research 2)We use this to carry out the largest cross-country study to date: 18M tweets from MPs across 19 countries arxiv.org/abs/2507.17636

on.ft.com/3IFDLyc Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

This was great! I really enjoyed it! Thanks to everyone who joined us at #sgop25 last week, and specially the organisers at @dretub.bsky.social!

González y Rajoy ya cayeron, directa o indirectamente, por la corrupción. Sacar a colación cómo la globalización ha cambiado al electorado socialdemócrata me parece errar bastante el tiro. t.co/wDR06gscON

New article from our latest issue (Issue 8, 2025)! "The Myth of the Middle Class Squeeze: Employment and Income by Class in Six Western Countries, 1980–2020" by Jad Moawad and Daniel Oesch journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky #socialscience #ComparativePolitics #academicsky

🚀 New dataset & working paper out! I’m thrilled to share “The Extended Ethnographic Atlas” --> an open, massively expanded version of Murdock’s classic Ethnographic Atlas (EA). What’s new?

📣 Happy to announce the publication of our article (w @sharonbaute.bsky.social & @leuffen.bsky.social) on democratic backsliding and public opinion @jeppjournal.bsky.social! 📌https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2503973 Study funded by @excinequality.bsky.social

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

¿Es una comisión de investigación del congreso o su podcast?

As I said earlier, Simion and AUR spending the last few years criticising the UDMR and ethnic Hungarians at every opportunity doesn't seem to have proved electorally viable. With c90% counted, Transylvania has gone overwhelmingly to Dan.

💥Viktor Orbán made one of his biggest mistakes by praising anti-Hungarian far-right candidate George Simion. 🇭🇺 In Hungary, he hurt his “nationalist” credibility, angering many right-wing voters. 🇷🇴 In Romania, the Orbán-loyal Hungarian diaspora voted most heavily against Simion. 👎And Simion lost.

Wow! Check out this cool working paper. "War Causes Religiosity" The authors scraped web images of hundreds of thousands of gravestones of deceased Americans. They found that people who were randomly drafted into war are at least 20% more likely to have religious gravestones.

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been conditionally accepted in @cpsjournal.bsky.social! Drawing on membership surveys of the League 🇮🇹 and the Sweden Democrats 🇸🇪, I show that women members are *more active* than men because they are more embedded in party networks.

If Popes pick names based on who inspires them, Leo XIII is a bold choice — the Pope of Rerum Novarum and Christian Democracy.

No lleva ni 3 horas en el cargo y ya sabemos porque pasará a la historia. 🤣🤣 Un poco menos de clickbait, por favor.

‼️JOB ALERT‼️ Come join the team 😊 Open Postdoc position at the Chair of Sociology, Family & Work 100%, 3 years, extension possible. Research interest in life course, gender inequality, pension, income/wealth, attitudes etc. Apply by 31 May DM me for questions👨‍💻👩‍🏫🦸 tinyurl.com/y6as7nxy

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆 He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

Name recognition?

El Paralelo 38 en el Mar Negro.

The zero-sum mindset seems more and more relevant in the current environment. Thank you @harvardmagazine.bsky.social for the video where I explain our research on why zero-sum thinking is so important and where it comes from. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e16o...

Zero-sum thinking is a key mindset that shapes how we view the world. A little thread to highlight our work on its roots with @sahilchinoy.bsky.social, @nathannunn.bsky.social, Sandra Sequeira.🧵1/23 scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantc...

Using Larry, Downing Street’s official cat, as a metaphor for the state of the UK is brilliant!

Funded PhD in labour unions and democracy 👇 www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3507...