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...

Ich freue mich sehr auf den Besuch am Luzerner Theaterfestival „Die grosse Menschenschau“ am 19. Dezember – wo ich über europäische Migrationspolitik und was Forschung zu besseren Lösungen beitragen kann referieren darf. 👉 Infos & Tickets: neubad.org/event/die-gr....

New paper with @mhamjediers.bsky.social German judges have discretion to apply rehabilitative juvenile criminal law (Jugendstrafrecht) or punitive adult criminal law to 18–20-year-old offenders. We show that immigrant youths are ~10 percentage points less likely to be sentenced under juvenile law

Integrationsdispensation: Warum für Migrant*innen strengere soziale Normen gelten --> neuer Blogbeitrag, jetzt lesen nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/integra... @s-manser-egli.bsky.social

Integration Dispensation: Why Immigrants Face Stronger Social Norms --> read our new blog post nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/integra... @s-manser-egli.bsky.social

Hanna runs into Sue. Sue asks: ‘Do you want to stop by for a coffee some time?’ What is the best thing Hanna can do? Maybe you know the right answer to this question. Maybe you don’t. And maybe you don’t have to know it. While social norms shape all our... (1/3) 🧵 nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/integra...

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

❗️Please share widely: TT position in migration/citizenship/identity at IPW @univie.ac.at: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... Deadline: 10 Dec 2025

This is the final 'poll of polls' before the Dutch elections. Three parties at the same level, and two more not much smaller. Given the high percentage of late deciders and voters in doubt, the outcome is still very much uncertain. 🧵

After a huge post-election flip in economic perceptions, I thought Democrats and Republicans might be lying to pollsters to send a partisan message — but I was wrong! New in the Journal of Experimental Political Science (open access): doi.org/10.1017/XPS....

Geert Wilders failed in government, but the far right retains its grip on the Netherlands | Cas Mudde

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...

🧭 Natascha Zaun takes the long view on how EU migration policy evolved from integration to selective consolidation: from Amsterdam to today's ad hoc Schengen suspension 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New LSE job in political science 🚨 We're looking for a *Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy* to join the LSE School of Public Policy Please share! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🚨 New article out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social with @svenhegewald.bsky.social “The changing geography of support for European integration in the shadow of the Ukraine war." How did Russia’s invasion reshape public support for EU policies? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you have missed this, the United Nations International Migrant Stock database has been updated to the end of 2024 [commencing in 1990], providing totals and percentages by destination and by country of origin for all UN countries and territories: www.un.org/development/...

Happy to see our findings on the 'migration bias' — the fact that migrants face stronger social norms than society at large — on Sociale Vraagstukken, with some thoughts on the Dutch integrationist discourse. @lutzphilipp.bsky.social www.socialevraagstukken.nl/migratiesame...

Is het in overeenstemming met democratische waarden om van immigranten te eisen dat ze trouw beloven aan normen die niet van burgers worden verwacht en gehandhaafd? www.socialevraagstukken.nl/migratiesame... @s-manser-egli.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

Hoe 'remigratie' mainstream wordt in de Nederlanse politiek

The Trump administration sees trade deficits as “national emergencies”. Ever wondered why people seem to dislike imports? Very happy that my paper "Mercantilism 2.0: American and Chinese Mass Public Opinions Toward Trade Balances" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New article out 🚨 How do states seek to influence the spatial distribution of refugees within their borders? We conceptualise & measure refugee dispersal policies across Europe ➡️ common feature of asylum policies, more restrictive with functional pressure and local autonomy doi.org/10.1111/gove...

🚨 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

Die legendäre @leewas.bsky.social -Abstimmungsnadel tickt – mit Liveprognose in Echtzeit! Jetzt den Abstimmungssonntag verfolgen: tagesanzeiger.ch cc @lucasleemann.bsky.social #abst25 #chvote #Eigenmietwert #EID

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...

🚨📢 I am hiring a PhD candidate /research assistant in Swiss Politics and/or Comparative Politics (100%)! 🚨📢 Je recrute un·e assistant·e diplômé·e en science politique en politique suisse et comparée! Please join me @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland! Thanks for sharing! polisky @sspunil.bsky.social

First instalment of my substack primer on right-wing populism in Europe is out. jacobedenhofer.substack.com/p/explaining...