Soll sich die Schweiz am EU-Solidaritätsmechanismus in der Asylpolitik beteiligen? – www.defacto.expert/2026/05/18/s...

La Suisse doit-elle participer au mécanisme de solidarité du pacte de l’UE sur la migration et l’asile ? – @lutzphilipp.bsky.social, @maudbachelet.bsky.social Une revue des données sur le partage des responsabilités dans le régime d’asile commun pour y répondre. www.defacto.expert/2026/05/18/l...

New article out 📘 How do Dublin transfers redistribute asylum responsibility across the EU? Our findings challenge common assumptions: Dublin transfers modestly reduce unequal distributions of asylum responsibilities. #EU #Asylum #Migration #DublinRegulation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The EU’s Dublin system is widely seen as unfair, but new research suggests the system has produced surprisingly fair outcomes in practice. ✍️ @lutzphilipp.bsky.social @ftrauner.bsky.social & Philipp Stutz @eupthejournal.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

A brief summary of our findings on how the European Dublin system redistributes asylum responsibilites can be found on @lseblogs.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

New article out: How Dublin transfers redistribute asylum responsibility. We show that Dublin transfers modestly reduced inequitable distributions of asylum responsibilities across member states, challenging common perceptions in the debate. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW - Uncovering Mutual Understanding on Immigration with Open-Ended Survey Questions - https://cup.org/4cXArLR - Soran Hajo Dahl (University of Bergen) #OpenAccess

Exactly! The muddling through-approach the federal govt took after the 2014 mass immigration initiative was nicely analyzed by Armingeon/ @lutzphilipp.bsky.social : link.springer.com/article/10.1... With these transitional provisions in the current proposal, such an approach would *not* be possible

In June, Switzerland will vote on what is so far the most radical far-right popular initiative launched by the Swiss People‘s Party SVP: capping the population at 10M (currently ≈9.1M). In this thread, I’ll break down what it’s about and how it fits into broader findings on Swiss direct democracy

THIS IS HAPPENING! What Europeans Think about Immigration and Why It Matters James Dennison and Andrew Geddes Oxford University Press, publication date June 25 2026, £30 lnkd.in/dU8dRYuB

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

False Beliefs or Just Bad Guesses? Understanding Public Views on Immigration --> summary of our research on immigration misperceptions nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/false-b...

Neu erschienen: Migrationsland Schweiz: Mythen, Realitäten und Perspektiven (Denknetz), mit meinem Beitrag: „Warum das Migrationsland Schweiz eine (neue) Erzählung braucht“. Viele lesenwerte Beiträge zur Gestaltung von Migration in der Zukunft. pdf-Download --> www.denknetz.ch/migrationsla...

I am excited about this new paper, Negativity & Misinformation, just out with @cbwlezien.bsky.social in @polcommjournal.bsky.social: "durable biases in information processing, by media organizations and humans more generally, can produce misinformation and misperceptions..." doi.org/10.1080/1058...

New article out in ASYL: What implications of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum for European Responsibility-sharing? A political breakthrough but not overcoming the structural and political hurdles to an effective implementation asyl.recht.ch/de/artikel/0... @maudbachelet.bsky.social

📢 New article out in the Journal of European Public Policy (with @maudbachelet.bsky.social ): Europe’s immigration divide: multidimensional responsibility-sharing as a solution? Europe is deeply divided on migration. 🧵👇

✨ A silver bullet for EU migration policy? 🤔 @lutzphilipp.bsky.social and Maud Bachelet test whether Europeans support EU member states choosing their contribution to a common migration policy (border protection, money, relocation, etc.). 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New article out in the Journal of European Public Policy (with @maudbachelet.bsky.social ): Europe’s immigration divide: multidimensional responsibility-sharing as a solution? Europe is deeply divided on migration. 🧵👇

🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/icel...

New and open access, in @psrm.bsky.social: What happens when we make politicians draw distributions? Nic Dias, @jacklucas.bsky.social and I explore whether the large errors politicians make about public opinion are artificially inflated by how researchers ask them to estimate it /1 cup.org/4kltoyE

Happy that my article just published in PSRM! In "Inclusion to Exclude“, I show that when politicians invoke women's rights to justify anti-immigration positions, it shifts citizens' policy preferences - but differently so depending on their prior views. doi.org/10.1017/psrm... [Thread below]

NEW PAPER ALERT! My paper, with @bjornhoyland.bsky.social , on how “policy loss” shapes support for the EU has just been published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Check it out! 1/

💭 Based on @psrm.bsky.social research, @lutzphilipp.bsky.social & Marco Bitschnau reveal that many false beliefs about #Immigration are merely low-confidence guesses, rather than firmly held views. 🤔 This distinction has important implications for understanding public opinion. ➡️ bit.ly/3NvPq5i

German-speaking Swiss tend to expect greater #integration from ‘foreigners’ than from ‘people in general’. This bias, absent in French-speaking Switzerland, was measured by @s-manser-egli.bsky.social and @lutzphilipp.bsky.social as part of the NCCR "On the Move".

New piece in @goodauth.bsky.social on what Trump's actions in Venezuela might mean. goodauthority.org/news/what-ha...

Not surprising. Eurobarometer survey has shown the same thing a few years ago. For a more comprehensive coverage of public misperceptions, see our review www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tout le monde ne doit pas s’intégrer au même degré Notre recherche avec @s-manser-egli.bsky.social est présentée dans le magazine Horizons 👇 www.revue-horizons.ch/2025/12/04/t...

More Swiss than the Swiss --> Summary of our research into unequal integration norms www.horizons-mag.ch/2025/12/04/b...

De NRC interviewde Arend Lijphart de belangrijkste Nederlandse politicoloog www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Nicht alle müssen sich gleich stark integrieren. Das Horizonte-Magazin hat unsere Studie zu ungleichen Integrationsnormen zusammengefasst www.horizonte-magazin.ch/2025/12/04/n... @s-manser-egli.bsky.social

The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde

🧠 How inaccurate are public perceptions of immigration? ➡️ @lutzphilipp.bsky.social & M Bitschnau show that many supposed misperceptions are actually guesses, offering a sharper way to study how perceptions shape political attitudes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨 Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

It's almost like every single reputable expert who has been saying this exact thing for years was right. Home Office recognised this fact 15 years ago. Successive governments, globally, continue to ignore it, and continue to push harmful "tougher" policies. 1/ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

@pzlotnik.bsky.social @lutzphilipp.bsky.social and Sandra Lavenex did research on this issue and traced the first migration control clauses in preferential trade agreements to the mid-1980s. They then became almost standard in different external agreements of the EU.

@politico.eu reports that the EU considers withdrawing trade benefits if a third country refuses to cooperate on readmission. While the EU seems to be more determined this time, this line of thinking is actually not new at all from a longitudinal perspective.

How do people form beliefs about complex topics? Happy to report our Bayesian model of the psychology of Bayesian updating is out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social! (w/ Gabriel Li & Krosnick) If you gloss over the Greek, it's a new model for how to assess the impacts of information on summary judgments.

🚨 New policy paper 🚨 What to learn from the Dublin system for solidarity in EU asylum governance? We recommend more transparency, better pressure assessment & prioritizing relocations from more to less pressured states. @ftrauner.bsky.social & Philipp Stutz (VUB) www.epc.eu/publication/...

Want to know more about the MER dataset 🤔 Read Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero, Klaudia Wegschaider and Rainer Bauböcks explain in their new publication ⚡ MER maps migrant voting and candidacy rights in 165 countries across 60 years 🗳️🌍📊 ⚡ tinyurl.com/mtm2rp53

Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @ispp-pops.bsky.social

Very happy that my meta-analysis with Nik Stoop, Peter van der Windt and Haoyu Zhai has been published @bjpols.bsky.social ! We re-analyze *118* survey experimental studies on attitudes towards migrants in 53 countries. Huge thanks to all authors for sharing data files. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Morgen Abend!

FR: Dispense d’intégration: pourquoi les migrant-es sont soumis-es à des normes sociales plus strictes - www.defacto.expert/2025/11/17/d... EN: Integration Dispensation: Why Immigrants Face Stronger Social Norms - www.defacto.expert/2025/11/17/i...

Integrationsdispensation: warum für Migrant*innen strengere soziale Normen gelten - Stefan Manser-Egli, @lutzphilipp.bsky.social Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass nur von einigen Menschen Integration erwartet wird, während andere nicht diesen Erwartungen unterliegen. www.defacto.expert/2025/11/17/i...

Our study on public immigration misperceptions is out! Prior research overstated their prevalence due to flawed measurement. Our new approach separates real misperceptions from uninformed guessing — showing they’re less common than widely assumed and ideologically motivated. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨 In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official. How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar. www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...

From our latest issue: The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization by ALA ALRABABAH, ANDREAS BEERLI, DOMINIK HANGARTNER, DALSTON WARD www.cambridge.org/core/journal...