Jürgen Habermas died today at 96. Few political theorists shaped how we think about democratic legitimacy in modern societies as profoundly. His lifelong question was straightforward but demanding: How can political authority be justified under conditions of pluralism? 🧵

🌍✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day ✨🌍 This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics 📚 Explore the research and join the conversation linktr.ee/ecpr.collect... #IWD #WomenInPolitics

🌍✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day ✨🌍 This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics 📚 Explore the research and join the conversation linktr.ee/ecpr.collect... #IWD #WomenInPolitics

🌍✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day ✨🌍 This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics 📚 Explore the research and join the conversation buff.ly/9wGrwYE #IWD #WomenInPolitics

💐 Today's the day! Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay with our journals and blog 🎀 Enjoy a round-up of curated #OpenAccess research exploring issues of gender and the representation of women in politics 📚 Drawn from the full span of our publications portfolio linktr.ee/ecpr.collect... #IWD2026

Feel free to get in touch with me or @asheinze.bsky.social if you have any questions!

*Call for Abstracts* The abstract submission is now open for our (w/ @asheinze.bsky.social) special issue: Party Youth Wings Across Europe: Organisation, Influence, and the Future of Party Democracy We still have a few spots open (e.g. several countries in Southern Europe and CEE or the UK) 😊

What does illiberalism actually look like across Europe - in parties, voters, and institutions? The new @authlibeu.bsky.social Country Papers, edited by the ✨ @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social, provide one of the most systematic comparative mappings to date. www.authlib.eu/country-pape... 🧵👇

🔮 Since its launch in 2023, @petraguasti.bsky.social & @mattiazulianello.bsky.social's broad-spectrum #FutureofPopulism thread has explored the rise of populist parties worldwide + speculated on how populist movements will develop in the years to come. 📖 Read the story so far: bit.ly/3ZxqIEp

♀️ Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science everyone! 🌈 Since the backlash is real, I want to thank all the amazing and inspiring (female) colleagues who make #PoliticalScience more diverse, more fun, and more relevant. Happily, the following list can never be complete 👇 #WomenInScience

Celebrating the 100th post in the Future of Populism series 🔮 with a brilliantly written blog by @mattiazulianello.bsky.social 🌳🌲! His PopulisTree brings clarity to decades of research on populism. 🎉 Read the post 👇 theloop.ecpr.eu/making-sense... 🌀

⚡NEW issue out now! 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjcs21/4... 🙌 @adamfagan.bsky.social @lenkabustikova.bsky.social @andreapirro.it @grigopop.bsky.social @tranfi.bsky.social @vmonastiriotis.bsky.social

🎉🏆 @calderarocha.bsky.social has won our 2025 Joni Lovenduski PhD prize in #Gender & #Politics ⭐ Her 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐯𝐞 dissertation on Far-Righting Feminism: Criminalising Street Harassment in France and Britain earned the Jury's recognition! More 👉https://buff.ly/pIRwJmD @petraguasti.bsky.social

🎤 Friday continues with featured roundtable on Illiberalism in Europe, featuring Larissa Böckmann, Andrej Zaslove, @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social and the one and only @petraguasti.bsky.social. Details can be found here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... #ECPRgc25

It was great sharing this panel on #unpolitics with @paultaggart.bsky.social and @petraguasti.bsky.social! Thanks to Robert Csehi for the comments on my paper on "Unpolitics in the European Parliament: Fraying the ‘cordon sanitaire’ after the 2024 elections"! #ecprgc25

🗣️ Feeling inspired by the Illiberalism in Europe roundtable earlier at #ecprgc25? 👀 Check out The Loop blog pieces from speakers @leoniedejonge.bsky.social, Andrej Zaslove & @petraguasti.bsky.social. ✍️ bit.ly/45uKu69 ✍️ bit.ly/45MEiYn ✍️ bit.ly/4mgVDP8

An amazing and important article by Zuzana Uhde for #InstitutSYRI journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #openaccess #transantionallabour

Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.

New book share. UCL Press published our Sciences of the Democracies last week in open access PDF. Link: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sci... A core implication of the book is that it seeks to revive basic descriptive research to lay the groundwork for stronger and more inclusive theories of democracy.

Democratization can happen anywhere you are and everywhere you may go. #SciencesOfDemocracies Proud to have been a part of this project led fearlessly and tirelessly by #JeanPaulGagnon Out tomorrow incl. #OpenAccess with @uclpress.bsky.social discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

2. část rozhovoru s @petraguasti.bsky.social na @irozhlas.cz: 👉„Volby rozhodne účast. Nástupu populistů mohou zabránit mobilizovaní ‚antipopulisté‘.“ 👉„Různé části společnosti čerpají informace z úplně jiných zdrojů. Je to nebezpečný trend.“

Second part of the summer interview with @jakubgrim.bsky.social at @irozhlas.cz on polarisation, information bubbles & the role of conservative parties in the survival of liberal democracy. Main takeaway: populists can only be stopped by mobilised citizens. www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov...

Meloni's intention to offshore asylum seekers to non-EU countries has been met with warm words by Von der Leyen & several EU governments, but her "Albania centre" remains almost totally empty, as legal challenges pile up... www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Orbán past his peak, Meloni's blond ambition & skill on the rise. First part of our annual summer interview with the amazing @jakubgrim.bsky.social in @irozhlas.cz

ROZHOVOR s @petraguasti.bsky.social na @irozhlas.cz část 1. Blíží se konec maďarského režimu Viktora Orbána? 👉 „Vsadil na Trumpa a vyhrál. Jenže republikáni už Orbána ho nepotřebují. I Trump poznal, že už je jen kleptokrat za zenitem.“

It's an honor to have an article with @lenkabustikova.bsky.social in this special issue on Illiberalism with so many scholars whose work I've learnt so much from. Thanks to @zsolt.bsky.social , @petraguasti.bsky.social , Dean Schafer, + Bálint Mikola! www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Finally got the printed copy! Thanks again @petraguasti.bsky.social and @mattiazulianello.bsky.social for the meticulous editorship!

New paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social where I look at the impact of parties’ age-targeted group appeals on age gaps in voting🧵

A reminder: Ru and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners steadily throughout the war. The latest exchange isn't a sign of progress towards a diplomatic solution. Ru remains as committed as ever to its maximalist goals; it's planning a summer offensive on Kharkiv. russia will only stop when it's stopped

#OpenAccess in our April 2025 issue - 'The Demand and Supply of Pandemic Populism: A Global Overview' - tinyurl.com/3sa967yn by @mattiazulianello.bsky.social & @petraguasti.bsky.social

While the women behind "womanosphere" outlets all have different styles and tactics, they are mostly aligned in their desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview: women as submissive homemakers, men as strong providers.

More young women are voting Green than young men sympathising with Reform. 'It pays to listen to people sitting quietly at the back, not just the ones screaming in your face' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @alicekoubova.bsky.social @petraguasti.bsky.social this might be of interest

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Glad to see that the article 'The Demand and Supply of Pandemic Populism: A Global Overview'—written with the amazing @petraguasti.bsky.social found a home in Government & Opposition, Volume 60, Issue 2! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Always find it astonishing to see German media talking about antisemitism as an imported problem resulting from Muslim migration. Seems they think that a mere 80 years of not trying to hunt down and murder every Jewish person in Europe means they can erase a thousand years of European antisemitism.

I have a new paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social with @christopherojeda.bsky.social and Paul Weingärtner. 🎉 Using data from @ess-survey.bsky.social and @gesis-panel.bsky.social, we explore the relationship between depressive symptoms and evaluations of democracy.

Nobel Prizes by country and year. The dominance of Germany is striking every time. Before 1933, that is. And the utter dominance of America (and the UK) after 1945.

🗓️April newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network, with events, publications, training and more #democracy Available 👉🏼 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

📚📚📚 New book out this July with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social We present a novel approach to study #NegativeCampaigning & #Incivility 🥊 ⚔️ - focusing on public perceptions and evaluations 😱😆🤢😡 Bonus: low price (~£35) & the cover is 🤘 Pre-orders from July 5: tinyurl.com/7raa9fpf

So much in #TheResidence is a metaphor for today's USA and an appeal for unity. It is also a lot of fun - full of Easter eggs. ;)

✨ NEW opportunity ✨ ✒️ Co-edit our renowned Comparative Politics book series which has published some of the most influential works in #PolSci 📚 Source & evaluate manuscripts 📚 Select referees 📚 Support authors & junior scholars 📚 Develop & grow the series ⏳ Apply by 14 May #AcademicSky #Polisky

Our article explaining #Fico ‘s return to power @ 2023 SlovakElections now out. Important lessons for EuropeanPolitics & concerned by democratic backsliding: @fromagehomme.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @petraguasti.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v15 and the V-dem Institute Democracy Report 2025 The Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... DR25: "25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped?": v-dem.net/publications... #DR25 #DemocracyReport2025 #VDemDatasetV15 #polisky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliSciSky 🧵1(3)

🌤️ So happy to be returning to @charlesuni.cuni.cz in #Prague as a guest lecturer & discuss the #FarRight in #Europe with another brilliant cohort. Thanks for the kind invitation @petraguasti.bsky.social & to the Institute of Political Studies (IPS FSV UK), which shines in a new faculty building! 🎇

Regarding #BILD "journalism" and breaking news on Nord Stream 2, it is, in fact, an #FT article, and you can read it here: kyivindependent.com/ft-nord-stre.... It is just comrade Warning trying to make Nord Stream 2 a thing again.

Reminder: We are organising the first standalone ECPR conference for the @ecpr.bsky.social Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy (@ecpr-ead.bsky.social)! 🔍 Check out our nine thematic sections! ⏳ The deadline to submit panel and paper abstracts is this coming Monday, 3 March - don’t miss out! 😎

It was a badly executed setup.