‼️Last chance to submit your paper or panel proposal to EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is TODAY! Don’t miss out - it will be full of great political science and fun social events! 👩‍🏫🥳 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Haben Menschen früher rechter gedacht, als sie gewählt haben? Der Forscher Vicente Valentim sagt, dass wir eine Ursache für den Erfolg extrem rechter Parteien übersehen.

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations? In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer. tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp

Crazy support numbers for Zohran Mamdani among young women: 84% (!) of women aged 18-29 voted for Mamdani in the NYC Mayoral Election. But also important: young men voted MUCH MORE STRONGLY (67%) for Mamdani than old men (37%).

Crazy support numbers for Zohran Mamdani among young women: 84% (!) of women aged 18-29 voted for Mamdani in the NYC Mayoral Election. But also important: young men voted MUCH MORE STRONGLY (67%) for Mamdani than old men (37%).

Share widely with your students in Switzerland 🇨🇭thinking about a PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 🇨🇭 21 Nov 2025 | 2:30pm CET @alissasiara.bsky.social introduces the program & life at EUI, I share my experience, and we answer your questions. 👉 Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Mamdani's selection of Ja Rule's "New York" as his victory walk-out song fully targets my inner Millennial www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKco...

While everybody is busy talking about Mamdani, New York, New Jersey, or Virginia, most analysts miss out on another important election campaign ending yesterday:

Immer, wenn jemand schreibt, der SPD helfe keine linkere Politik, denke ich an diese Studie, in der das Gegenteil steht und die quasi vorausgesagt hat, dass insb. junge Wähler*innen bei der nächsten BTW die Linke wählen würden. library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

Wie stark sich die Sozialstruktur der Schweizer Gesellschaft in den letzten Jahrzehnten verändert hat, ist wirklich beeindruckend: In der Stadt Zürich hat sich beispielsweise der Anteil der Menschen mit Universitätsabschluss seit 1990 mehr als verdreifacht (von 19 auf 63%).

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now. Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia. A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today. (🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 The Hannah-Arendt Institute in Dresden is looking for an Assistant Director. (In German)

"Yes, but what about Denmark?"

A new paper from @fedetrastulli.bsky.social published in @electoralstudies.bsky.social comes to an important conclusion: "[...] workers’ electoral support for left parties is higher when they put greater emphasis on cultural issues [...]" See here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW - Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos "moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties" - @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social #OpenAccess

D66 clearly has made its largest gains in bigger cities, particularly in places with many university students, such as Groningen, Utrecht, or Amsterdam:

With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.

Fun fact: You could form a coalition with 12 out of 15 parties that will enter parliament and still not get a majority 🫠

The key to D66's success tonight: winning voters from two camps - the left and the center.

You just have to love the talent Dutch voters have for driving political scientists insane

Crazy exit poll in the Netherlands. D66 almost certainly the biggest party. PVV the big loser but other far right wins bit back (FvD & JA21). Terrible night for the Dutch left and particularly GL/PvdA and Frans Timmermans.

It's election day in the Netherlands 🇳🇱🗳 While I am certainly not a fan of early elections, they at least allow me to cook accordingly on a regular basis. However, my favorite dutch deep fried stuff you cannot buy in Germany - so I made vegetarische Bitterballen myself. #tk2025

+ Dutch voters' electoral volatility remains unmatched...

@ipsosnl.bsky.social published an age breakdown of the results of the election polls regarding tomorrow's Dutch elections. Young Dutch voters are leaning more towards the centre-left (D66, PvdA-GL, PvdD, Volt), and are less likely to vote for both the far-right and the center-right.

youtu.be/htQBS2Ikz6c?... Finally a new anthem for Berlin

Verlieren Mitte-Links-Parteien Stimmen, wenn sie sich gesellschaftspolitisch zu progressiv aufstellen? Für @derstandard.at berichte ich über eine Studie, die nahelegt, dass es sozialdeokratischen Parteien eher schadet, wenn sie sich rechten Forderungen anbiedern: www.derstandard.de/story/310000...

Lol the Germans truly can’t stop writing this one weird book 😂

Werden sie bald den "Führer" zu rehabilitieren versuchen? Roger Köppels Weltwoche lässt Nazi-Grössen verharmlosen. 2016 Hermann Göring (www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/roge...). Jetzt scheint Köppel offenbar die Zeit reif, solche Dienste am Rechtsextremismus wieder aufzunehmen: Mit Ribbentrop.

We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Am Wochenende findet in Cottbus der diesjährige CSD statt. Gestern Nachmittag hat es am Kulturzentrum "Bunte Welt" gebrannt. Dort sitzt auch der Verein, der den CSD organisiert. www.queer.de/detail.php?a...

I am really happy to share this year's prize for the best dissertation at the @ipz.bsky.social with @reidingerve.bsky.social! This is an exciting end to an intense but also joyful dissertation journey.

Very proud of our @ipz.bsky.social students who celebrated their graduation tonight. Congratulations to all, especially our prize winners! The prizes for best dissertation go to @reidingerve.bsky.social and @indubioproreto.bsky.social - Congrats! 🎉🥂🍾

Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fragt gezielt nach Listen postkolonialer Seminare und Lehrstühle. Wie die Universitäten beginnen, sich gegen die Angriffe zu wappnen.

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. 
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. 
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

The UK Greens are polling at 15%, only 2% behind the Conservative Party. Stunning.

Die Linke Sprachpolizei mal wieder 😔

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

Nach über 10 Jahren von diesem Quatsch denken wir immer noch, dass virale Videos in denen jemand neurechte talking heads "demaskiert", es ihnen so richtig zeigt, irgendetwas helfen. Stattdessen sind Reichweite, Legitimierung und Normalisierung durch geteilte Räume genau das, was diese Leute wollen.

The latest polls in Switzerland show a slight increase in support for the left, a further decline for the centre-right FDP and a sharp rise in support for the far-right, with them polling at 30.4%. This is remarkable, as no Swiss party has ever received more than 30% of the vote share since 1919.

Looking forward to have your submissions of gender-related papers to our section on elections, parties and voters at the #ECPG26. Deadline: November 7 💪

Pretty brilliant political campaigning.

Die geplanten massiven #Ausgabenkürzungen #EP27 bei #Bildung 🧑‍🎓 und #Forschung 👩‍🔬 sind schlecht für #Innovation und #Wachstum 📈 Die Schweiz🇨🇭 sägt damit am Ast, auf dem sie sitzt. Anstatt Insel des Wohlstands werden wir zum Altersheim für Reiche.

POTUS telling his Generals to prepare for shooting on the opposition should top the news over one of these ritual shutdown dramas, I think

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

It's a small step from here to prohibiting professors from teaching about climate change, slavery, colonialism, racial discrimination, evolution, and the efficacy of vaccines.

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...