In our new piece at @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social, @aloysiusod.bsky.social and I try to understand what factors led some municipalities in Poland to implement openly discriminatory policies against LGBTQ+ residents while other, similar municipalities did not. (1/n)

ONLINE FIRST! “When do local governments discriminate?” by @matthewstenberg.bsky.social @aloysiusod.bsky.social www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...

Our paper (@jusimon.bsky.social and Mario Kukec) conceptualizes the role of party cohesion in facilitating or inhibiting backsliding across different regime types (parliamentary, presidential, and semi presidential). (1/3)

Our paper (@jusimon.bsky.social and Mario Kukec) conceptualizes the role of party cohesion in facilitating or inhibiting backsliding across different regime types (parliamentary, presidential, and semi presidential). (1/3)

As the Polish election fast approaches, I just wanted to repost our new preprint about how PiS has been differentially using local governments to pursue its agenda

NEW PREPRINT. Conor O’Dwyer @aloysiusod.bsky.social and I try to understand what led some local governments in Poland to implement discriminatory “LGBT Free Zones”, while in other municipalities such measures either weren’t implemented or even proposed (1/8) #polisky osf.io/preprints/so...

@profmusgrave.bsky.social , could I also be added to the polisky list? Thanks!