Interesting insights on the institutional implications of the EU decision last night

Article 20 TEU for ”enhanced cooperation“ is mentioned in the Conclusions of the European Council on the reparations loan for Ukraine. A smart move! It allows to go ahead without Orbán, Fico and Babiš. Is the #EU24 the new EU? #EUCO 1/3

"Real communism has never been tried"

The cleavage inside the EU deepens.

🇪🇺🇩🇪 Published Today in @bjpols.bsky.social 🇮🇹🇫🇷 How a voting advice application affected voting behavior in three large-scale field experiments: shorturl.at/2ekBj TLDR of our study (with @simonhix.bsky.social & @rlachat.bsky.social) below 👇 1/14

NEW - Quality Not Quantity: How a VAA Affected Voting Behavior in Three Large-Scale Field Experiments - https://cup.org/491pwNQ - @fresejoris.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social & @rlachat.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Excellent piece on the decline of the “Brussels effect”, by @pmdfoster.bsky.social and @bmoens.bsky.social. This figure, in particular, tells a lot of the story giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Few thoughts on the "Polish exodus" from the UK. 1. It's not an 'exodus', it's a slow drip. We're fine, thanks. 2. Migration is really complicated. 3. The absolute cheek of the very same media attacking Poles for years lamenting their departure. 4. What you can do? THREAD 🧵

West Ham and Fiorentina both lost at home today, and are both in the relegation zone and likely to be relegated. I preferred it when they were both 6th or 7th in their respective leagues. It's like they have some weird cosmic link. 🤷‍♂️

46 years ago today London Calling is the third studio album by English punk rock band The Clash, originally released as a double album in UK on this day in 1979 at CBS Records #punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #londoncalling #history #punkrockhistory #otd

De must read voor dit weekend, een interview met de eminence grise van de vergelijkende politicologie. Zette Nederland in 1968 internationaal op de kaart met zijn klassieker Verzuiling, Pacificatie en Kentering in de Nederlandse Politiek

The core thesis of our Brextinction paper, beautifully (or morbidly?) summarized in one flowchart (also based on YouGov data). @simonhix.bsky.social @juhoharkonen.bsky.social ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

From October 2025 - Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - cup.org/47ifc4B "we show that educational divides are diminished in the presence of countervailing networks" - @davidattewell6.bsky.social & @dpzollinger.bsky.social #OpenAccess

This is, sadly, exactly what we predicted would happen with the new make up of the EP (ecfr.eu/publication/...)

This is a UESD just waiting to happen (get on it @fresejoris.bsky.social!) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is an amazing analysis of how Google Maps shapes restaurant ratings and choice! Bravo @laurenleek.eu open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

The real partisan "God Gap" in religious rhetoric among members of Congress wasn't most pronounced during GW Bush. Study shows it really showed up in 2nd term Obama & was largest during first term Trump. (Note Dems increased religious language too in recent years.) anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

This is amazing, and explains a lot about US politics. Thanks for writing this up @adambonica.bsky.social

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.

“Democracy has crumbled”, shouted the protester as she threw apple crumble over the Crown Jewels. Gotta love British humour 🤣 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If I was “being Dutch”, I’d say “I told you so”! 😉 (ht @catherinedevries.bsky.social)

Second, the centre-right to far-right “Venezuela majority” (EPP + ECR + Patriots for Europe + ESN) is no longer an exception. It was decisive on: • the omnibus on corporate sustainability/due diligence • SME finance • subsidiarity & national parliaments (!) • deforestation rules

November was a month of high tension in the European Parliament. I went through 51 final votes and 10 public Council votes for my latest EU-Analytics review – and found three different working majorities at play:

The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country. We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better. We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

When you learn about "controlling on a post-treatment variable", you begin to see it everywhere. Today's example: do coalition governments that take longer to form work quicker when they take the reins? doi.org/10.1111/1475... (1/n)

We hate rankings except when they are favorable...so today I am extremely happy that EUI Political Science ranks 6th in the world!

1000 times this. Thanks Cyrus I’d put it almost more sharply: not always, but too often, researchers using survey experiments seem to think they’re making causal inferences when they are measuring quantities. confusion over the inquiry is v far from the spirit of the cred revolution

Brilliant article on the regulatory burdens of the EU single market, eg. the toy with the massive label with loads of required envir. info, which costs a fortune to produce and is then cut off and thrown away, creating more waste! EU shooting itself in the foot. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This isn’t good. Sounds like a classic case of insider information sharing on a major public procurement contract.

News from a robust democracy

For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A great man 😢 #COYI www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Ouch! Hoping this argument doesn’t escalate. I have enormous respect for @dandekadt.bsky.social and @turnbulldugarte.com. Both are phenomenally smart and creative scholars. Some of the very best around.

A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published. Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response. osf.io/rn6h3/files/...

SPLITTERS !!! #LifeOfBrian

Today I published a replication outlining concerns with "Instrumentally Inclusive" by Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega (2024, APSR). I document seemingly idiosyncratic and ad hoc choices made by the authors that create a pattern of statistically significant results consistent with their theory.

To do list: - buy more of the Xmas gifts this year! on.ft.com/4pAF8Pc Santa Claus is still a woman

People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot! Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072 (There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)

Great to see the CJEU enforcing basic rights throughout the EU www.bbc.com/news/article...

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

🚨 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/...

Gender-based violence has no place in a free and equal society. No woman or girl should have to live in fear. On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we call for an end to all forms of violence and affirm the right for every women to live in safety and dignity.

V happy to see this paper out with @chrisclaassen.bsky.social at @bjpols.bsky.social . We argue that nostalgia for Britain's past is an important, distinct opinion dimension which has meaningful consequences for party evaluations and vote choice.

Are you worried about the devastating cuts we are seeing to arts, humanities & social sciences in UK universities? Last call for my lecture in Leicester this Thurs 27th Nov on the value of these subjects and how they support UK security, cohesion and prosperity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...

Happy that our paper with @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, and @lstoetze.bsky.social found a home at @thejop.bsky.social. You can read it here 👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Thanks to all the fantastic people giving feedback and supporting us

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...

@casmudde.bsky.social makes the case (again!) to social democratic leaders that aping the far right is not a good electoral strategy! … it’s almost like they a deliberately ignoring political science research in their dash to oblivion 🤦‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very sad today. Thank you for being such an incredible bassist and person Mani! We will miss you. 😢 #GreatestBandEver www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...