🚨 🆕 analysis w/ @turnbulldugarte.com: most British young men reject the far right @ukandeu.bsky.social Despite media claims, 71% of young men & 75% of young women say they’d never vote Reform UK. The gender gap exists, but it’s steady across ages—not youth-driven. 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british...

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 A full-time postdoctoral position (100%) is available at my chair starting February 1, 2026. We are looking for a candidate with knowledge of quantitative methods and expertise in relevant subject areas.

Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.

Seems like today is a good day to re-share in light of the Dutch elections

In etwa einem Monat möchte sich die neue #Jugendorganisation der #AfD gründen. Mit @szde.bsky.social habe ich darüber gesprochen, dass es wohl vielmehr um organisatorische #Professionalisierung als inhaltliche Mäßigung gehen wird. Mehr zum strategischen Wandel 👉 www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/afd-...

With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.

Es gibt nun Leute, die schreiben, Merz musste das nicht wissen. Das genaue Goebbels Zitat vielleicht nicht. Aber dass im NS Stadtbilder buchstäblich gereinigt wurden, "judenfrei" gemacht wurden schon. Dass er Bilder in unheilvoller Kontinuität bedient, ist nicht zu leugnen.

💫New paper out with @chjncke.bsky.social in @europeansocieties.bsky.social: 📝"Far-right contention in civil society: Multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets" 🧵A short thread about the paper:

Mit WDR 3 Resonanzen habe ich heute über die Aussagen von Friedrich Merz gesprochen, darüber wie sein Kurs die radikale Rechte normalisiert und stärkt und warum er vielleicht mal öfter mit jungen Frauen sprechen sollte. www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

Wie die AfD die Rhetorik der anderen Parteien beeinflusst&die Debatte zu Migration bestimmt. Die Ergebnissen unseres Papers mit @dasalgon.bsky.social in der @tagesschau.bsky.social

Könnte das bitte jemand Friedrich Merz zur zwingenden Lektüre vorlegen?

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Unzählige internationale Organisationen und Zeug:innen dokumentieren das unbeschreibliche Leid in Gaza, aber in Deutschland denkt man sich zuhause vorm Bildschirm „die sehen gar nicht so mager aus“. An welchem Grad an Entmenschlichung sind wir angekommen, wenn so etwas Teil des Diskurses ist

In France, it seems the cordon sanitaire around the far right may be about to break @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social and I argue in this article that its efficacy has been consistently damaged by the mainstreaming of far-right discourse www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

When writing this we did it with the hope that it wouldn't remain an ever-green comment on the state of the Labour Party. For a brief moment during Starmer's conference speech I became more hopeful. As Starmer talks about Labour's latest radical right policy today, I've corrected myself.

The pretence of the cordon sanitaire: non-collaboration as a distraction from discursive congruence doi.org/10.1080/1478... Far right; mainstreaming;normalisation; populism;discourse Luke Shuttlewortha @k8ebrown.bsky.social @aurelmondon.bsky.social

Core to reactionary politics is a cowardly project that aims to protect and restore privilege and hierarchies of oppression Some thoughts on terminology and the term reactionary @reacpolrn.bsky.social reacpol.net/on-reactiona...

Ohne Antifaschistische Recherche wäre der NSU ein Trio und Stephan Ernst ein Einzeltäter, hätte es kein Verbot von HDJ und Combat18 gegeben und keine Razzia bei Objekt 21 und Nordbund stattgefunden. Die Forderung nach einem Verbot der Antifa soll auch rechte Netzwerke und Täter schützen.

📺 Wie radikal wird die neue #Jugendorganisation der #AfD? Darüber habe ich mit ARD @kontraste.de gesprochen. Wer sich einen Eindruck über die alten und wohl auch "neuen" Mitglieder und ihren Positionen verschaffen möchte, dem sei diese Dokumentation empfohlen: www.ardmediathek.de/video/die-ho...

🚨📢 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

As I am fairly new to Bluesky, this comes a bit late, but it is still worth checking out: Our #oa introduction to the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on "Europe’s Changing Protest Landscape" with @sophiahunger.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Delighted to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for my project “Lost in the Green Transition: Local Collective Greenloss Identity, Anti-Climate Attitudes and Radical Right Support.” #ERCStG More soon on #GREENLOSS. A huge thank you to friends and colleagues who made this possible!

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”. #ERCStG

Der #Call for Proposals für die #Dreiländertagung #3LT2026 von DVPW, @oegpw.bsky.social & SVPW/ASSP ist offen. Wir freuen uns auf Vorschläge für Panels & Papers bis zum 14.11.2025! Alle Infos 👉 www.dvpw.de/veranstaltun... #CfP 14.11. #PoWi #Politikwissenschaft #DACH #Europa #Zukunft #SpreadTheWord

Pretty exciting delivery today - hard copies of my first book! 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐮𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐀 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

👏 Very important new paper on the much-debated concept of the 'cordon sanitaire'. 📖

A must read. Definitely share this view (I tried to elaborate something similar in my book). To be connected with @valentimvicente.bsky.social’s work

check out the new publication by @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @aurelmondon.bsky.social and @k8em0.bsky.social on how useful the concept of cordong sanitaire still is for studying the far right

New article out! @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics Read the full article, open access, here 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social! Are young men becoming more conservative? This debate requires a) more nuance and b) theoretical explanations for often descriptive results. With Amy Alexander and Nicholas Charron, we try addressing both. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

Now in an issue @psrm.bsky.social: I show that the 🇩🇰 Social Democrats could have won policy support for a pro-immigrant platform if their messaging were framed in moral terms. Findings provide a central corrective to the popular notion that the Social Democrats were destined to go anti-immigrant 👇🏻

📢 Europe's Changing Protest Landscape Protests have grown more fragmented in recent years. New actors, claims, and tactics have emerged. A special issue @jeppjournal.bsky.social ‪with an introduction by Swen Hutter & @sophiahunger.bsky.social provides insights. www.wzb.eu/en/news/euro...

In der neuen Ausgabe der Internationalen Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie (Paragrana) schreibe ich zusammen mit @martinmettin.bsky.social über die Negative Anthropologie der Leistungsgesellschaft... www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our article on environmental protests in Europe now also has page numbers. Take a look at it, in case you missed it:

📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by ‪@sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter. In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New article out in Journal of Civil Society with Swen Hutter! We explore how civil society organizations (CSOs) mobilized volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, a moment of both rising need and shrinking organizational capacity. 📖 Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1744...

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

New article! 📚 "German Politics in #Times of #Crises: The Success of the Post-Merkel Conservatives in the 2025 Federal Election" is out in the @jcms-eu.bsky.social. Not the Scholz government, but the CDU's return may deepen the break with Merkel's legacy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Quite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."

📣 Very excited to welcome the fabulous @anjaneundorf.bsky.social at the Politics Lecture Series @humboldtuni.bsky.social @dynamics.bsky.social tomorrow. Come and join us! 👇