New publication in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social! Who perceives feminism as a threat, and why do a lot of women perceive feminism as threatening? With @evaanduiza.bsky.social, we explore these questions in the context of Spain. We find: ⬇️ doi.org/10.1017/S174...

I’m excited to share a new book, Reforming Primary Elections: Voters, Campaigns, and the Future of Congressional Politics, exploring how reforms could improve primaries. In our chapter, @msaeltzer.bsky.social & I analyze candidates in primaries. Free download: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

The Spanish right supports banning the use of burka and niqab in public spaces. The argument for the policy seems to be (partly) that it will promote the emancipation of women. We happen to have evidence that a similar policy in France had the *opposite* effect. 1/2 elpais.com/espana/2026-...

"Women and the Wall: Gender Attitudes and Political Engagement in Unified Germany" by Catherine E. De Vries and Diana Z. O’Brien. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Call for Papers: On 22 April, @centremarcbloch.bsky.social, @kiu-network.bsky.social & ZOiS are hosting a workshop on the transformation of #Ukraine's labour market in wartime, focusing on agriculture, care work, transport, trade, industry & public services. Deadline: 20 February. Read more 👇

Horseshoe theorising is not only cynical, it is also incredibly dangerous as all it does is legitimise the far right, while demonising any alternative left of centre Sadly, it's the only trick the failed hegemony has in its bag and if that leads to the far right in power, it doesn't matter to them

Neu im #DVPWblog: Sven Hillen @sfb1472.uni-siegen.de und Jessica Kuhlmann @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social zeigen zur Bundestagswahl 2025: In engen Wahlkreisen wurde die Erststimme strategisch gegen die AfD gebündelt – besonders von politisch Interessierten. 👉 www.dvpw.de/blog/blockie... #PoWi #BTW2025

The Tony Blair Institute’s "Energy Strategy Reset" report released today is a perfect illustration of tensions and inconsistencies of the Climate Realism view that emerged in US and Europe since the return of Trump, as @jeffcolgan.bsky.social & I have recently argued in @iojournal.bsky.social 🧵 1/

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Against scientific evidence and just an act of pure cruelty. The Labour government's school guidance is an attack on basic freedoms and rights of LGBTQ+ people. It's ridiculous to think that these cowards and opportunists are the right people to defend this country's democracy against the far right.

New article and special issue! Just out in Comparative Political Studies: “Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Information, Legacies, Temporalities", the intro to a special issue on countering illiberalism in liberal democracies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Thread 🧵1/7

I also feel extremely thankful to be part of the special issue that this paper introduces. Because of that I got to discuss these topics with some of the scholars I most admire. I can’t overstate how much I learned from those discussions.

🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social): We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys. Short version: It mostly doesn’t. w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social URL: osf.io/preprints/os...

If the PM reckons Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for spreading this exact same lie, should the Home Office apologise too, or? 🤨

Interesting: "Findings suggest that the left-right political orientation of journalists affects the use of subjectivity in reporting and political party composition, but in the opposite direction [from what was expected]: [Left-leaning] journalists seem to overcompensate for their individual views."

Excited to welcome the fabulous @tinepaulsen.bsky.social today at our Politics Lecture Series at @humboldtuni.bsky.social. Come and join us!

Our launch of The Far Right and the Media: International Trends and Perspectives is coming up tomorrow! Sign up below.

Das WZB-Projekt „Wirksam gegen Rechtsaußen" hat Strategien von zivilgesellschaftlichen Institutionen in der Auseinandersetzung mit #Rechtsextremismus untersucht und systematisiert. Den neuen Policy Brief dazu gibt es hier: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... @chjncke.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social

Another case of far-right normalisation through humanisation: readers learn about Chrupalla's hobbies, favourite films, and family struggles, while there's frightfully little pushback against his most blatant attempts to justify the AfD's racist politics. 1/5

For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

Very happy to share my second dissertation paper, now out in Party Politics. I study the role of Christianity in the rhetoric of European far-right parties doi.org/10.1177/1354...

We recently got some seed funding to expand this project a little further. You can read about it here www.mvbz.fu-berlin.de/news/seed-mo...

We have untrained ourselves of interrogating the core problems of border migration because we have allowed the media di divest from good reporting from the front. We only get to this conversation when tragedies like this happen, but it is not enough. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/4RXS9...

Im Wintersemester 2026/27 startet der weiterbildende Masterstudiengang "M.A. Beratung im Kontext Rechtsextremismus" zum dritten Mal, der sich explizit an Fachkräfte richtet. Bewerbungen sind ab Juni 2026 möglich. Infos zum Studienprogramm und zur Bewerbung: www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb21/stud...

I wrote a book about my three favourite topics: Feminism, Time & Care. It’s about how time is stolen by capitalism, how patriarchal our times are and how authoritarianism is based on acceleration. And it’s about chronofeminist politics to reclaim time @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...

Two new articles in Party Politics With @gessler.bsky.social Measuring party positions and issue salience with mass media and manifesto data" doi.org/10.1177/1354... With Hanspeter Kriesi "Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe" doi.org/10.1177/1354... Feedback very welcome!

As we explore here though, cordon sanitaires only work if they apply to wider discourse and beyond election Otherwise, mainstreaming can go on even when far-right parties are defeated www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We're excited about the next edition of our Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology, this time organized by the 💫 local team in Mannheim!

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

Nobody in Britain pays any attention to Australian politics, but One Nation overtaking the Coalition in the polls has distinct parallels with Reform leading the Conservatives. Parties on the radical right are coming for centre right parties across the world... Poll via AFR / RedBridge Accent.

Während sich die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg zwischen 2021 und 2026 deutlich in Richtung der Mitte des Policy-Raums bewegen, bleiben sie in Rheinland-Pfalz weiter bei ihrer klar linken Position in wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitischen Fragen. /1

Diese Studie ist eine Sensation: Heike Klüver hat 1.237 Regierungen in 57 Demokratien über 50 Jahre ausgewertet. Die Schlüsselfrage: Werden Rechtsextreme „entzaubert“, wenn sie mitregieren? Die Antwort – eindeutig: Nein. Sobald rechtsextreme Parteien an der Regierung sitzen, profitieren sie.

Happy to share this new paper @jeppjournal.bsky.social with my great colleagues @dweisstanner.bsky.social & Carsten Jensen. In "Winning with equality", we show "how left-wing parties attract votes but [in doing so] amplify electoral cleavages" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Key points in 📈👇

🤩 New year, new award ✨ The EJPG team are absolutely delighted to announce that @tunayaltay.bsky.social has been award the 2025 Best Article Award for their paper on "Translating difference: Whiteness, racialisation, and queer migration in Berlin" 🏆 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

Here's a short write-up of our recently published study: 📰"What People Really Think About Taxing the Rich – the surprising beliefs behind progressive taxation" TLDR: Most believe taxing the rich brings equality & growth! Elite fears are not shared. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

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The real ones know: there is only one SPSA conference today! 🇨🇭 Looking forward to present two brand-new paper projects ((Paper 1) co-authored with @hannaschwander.bsky.social and @franziskaveit.bsky.social & (Paper 2) co-authored with @juliusk.bsky.social) in Zurich today and tomorrow!

The problem Labour have is that they haven't done the hard work. They need a clear philosophy and that requires hard work. You can't simply swap out the personnel and magically fix not having done the necessary groundwork!

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

Same old, same old? Germany held an early election after the implosion of the traffic-light coalition in Feb 25. Some takeaways from our election report @klingelt.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Given the bad cold that I've had for the past few days (in the midst of the Australian summer 🤦‍♀️), waking up to this email was particularly sweet... Coming soon in @ejprjournal.bsky.social: our YOUMEM study on gender differences in motivations for joining youth wings of young women and men ✨

🚨New publication @ Journal of European Social Policy Despite its popularity, the political will to advance Universal Basic Income is limited. Together with @hannaschwander.bsky.social, we argue that attitude polarization severely constrains the political viability of UBI.

📣Thrilled to share our new article with @beckerbastian.bsky.social in JESP on attitude polarization around UBI. We show that despite high aggregate support for UBI, attitude polarization over policy design strongly shapes its political feasibility. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🥳 New year, new publication 📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.

Meine Einschätzung zur #Abschiebeoffensive der CSU: Die geplante Abschiebeoffensive der CSU wäre ein schwerer Fehler mit enormen wirtschaftlichen Kosten für Deutschland und wäre zudem ein Bruch mit dem deutschen Asylrecht. Thread 1/n

Back to work and thinking ahead to future conferences? This week is the last chance to apply to our (+ @joncollins.bsky.social ) section at ECPRGC in Krakow! Deadline: 9 January As always, feel free to reach out with any comments/questions. :) More details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Die Petition gegen die Einführung eines Registers von trans und nichtbinären Menschen braucht noch 4000 Unterschriften. Es sind nur noch wenige Tage. Zeichnet die Petition bitte mit und teilt diese mit Menschen in eurem Umfeld. epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...

"Die rechtliche Einordnung des US-Einsatzes ist komplex. Dazu nehmen wir uns Zeit." Quantenphysik ist komplex. Das hier nicht.

By way of preparing for teaching and making sense of current events, I spent today trying to synthesise the demand-side literature on democratic backsliding (see figure below). The starting point of most of this literature is simple: Do voters punish politicians who violate democratic norms, or do