The CJEU recently ruled that Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal no longer qualifies as a court under EU law. This is one of the EU’s most decisive legal responses to the capture of Poland’s judiciary under the PiS. Our @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social and @profpech.bsky.social unpack the ruling 👇

Largely unnoticed outside of Argentina, President Milei is planning a massive expansion of the intelligence service's powers – SIDE. Among other things, agents would be allowed to arrest citizens. I spoke with the Buenos Aires Herald about possible consequences and parallels to the country's past.

📢 New book chapter 👤 Øyvind Stiansen (ISV) @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social 🔎 The Courts 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

El Salvador approved two constitutional reforms that eliminate the minimum budget for the Judiciary and modify the term of electoral magistrates. In a year, the ruling party has made six reforms to the Constitution that weaken balances. beta.elfaro.net/en/el-salvad...

From November 2025 - Leveling and Spotlighting: How the European Court of Justice Favors the Weak to Promote Its Legitimacy - cup.org/4oWD6ZT - @silje-hermansen.bsky.social, @tommasopavone.bsky.social & @louisabo.bsky.social #OpenAccess

‪ Studying the role of courts & judicialization in the welfare sector? 📝 Join us at #ecprgc26 in Kraków (September, 2026)! Submit your paper proposal: ecpr.eu/GeneralConfe... (deadline January 9 ⏰) & send an email to [email protected] - or, check out the other great panels in the Section👇

If you’re having trouble accessing my book The Taliban Courts: War through Law, feel free to contact me. It’s been unavailable and, since OUP won’t do a paperback, the hardback is very expensive for individuals. I’m happy to help you find a way to read it.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship #ECPRMemberJobs 📅 Minimum grade of 2.1 (GPA: 3.6) in a relevant Master's degree 🇮🇪 @ucddublin.bsky.social ⌛ Friday 30 January buff.ly/0telfWN #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

“Is the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social a social court protecting the ‘have nots’ or an economic court beholden to the ‘haves’?” @silje-hermansen.bsky.social, @louisabo.bsky.social & I have an answer on @verfassungsblog.de. This holiday season, our analysis give us reason to be biased for hope:

Is the ECJ a plaything of the powerful — or a protector of the weak? New litigation data suggests a clear answer. TOMMASO PAVONE, SILJE SYNNØVE LYDER HERMANSEN & LOUISA BOULAZIZ show how the Court levels the odds for individual rights claimants. verfassungsblog.de/is-the-europ...

PostDoc on voters and legislators #ECPRMemberJobs 💭 Interest in issues of political behavior from a comparative perspective 🇨🇭 University of Geneva ⌛ Monday 15 December buff.ly/L93olfo #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social. A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

The EU 🇪🇺 now adopts fewer legal acts per year, but the regulatory load inside them keeps growing 📈 A new @jeppjournal.bsky.social article by Brandsma et al. measures regulation by counting actual regulatory statements (“Companies shall…”). I plotted their data: fewer acts, more obligations.

My study of 🇪🇺 public opinion is now published! Check it out if you want to know how attitudes towards European integration really covary with political ideology, which policy views predict EU support, and how party positions structure public opinion. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Love that you map descriptive representation to substantive representation and link it to quotas. A paper worth reading.

Time to switch article submission as well as referee reports to handwritten bluebooks. blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/13/l...

“We tend to imagine corruption as a transaction: money buying votes, quid pro quos in backrooms. But money’s real power is quieter and deeper. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored.“ Worth reading the full piece!

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨 Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

All 46 Council of Europe member states have signed the European Convention on Human Rights. Signing the #ECHR isn’t optional, it’s a mandatory step for any country wishing to join the #CouncilOfEurope. Because human rights, democracy, and the rule of law are at the 💙 of everything we do.

Patrick Wohlfarth and I find the longstanding relationship between public opinion and Supreme Court decisions that we and others have previously documented no longer exists. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

With the government looking to scale back jury trials, newly-released YouGov data shows Britons who have served on juries are more likely (67%) than the wider public (54%) to say they would rather have a jury rather than a judge decide their own case yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

The Junior Law and Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for its spring seminar series on zoom! Submit by January 12 for full consideration. To apply to present or to get on our email list to attend our seminars see 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #psworkshop

📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database! The data now covers - > 3.000 parties - 1.100 parliamentary elections - 402 presidential elections - 2.044 cabinets across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31). All info: ppeg.wzb.eu We hope that data is helpful to the community!

🏛️ How does the European Court of Human Rights safeguard liberal democracy? 🔎 Nicole Bolleyer and Philipp Schroeder analyse the ECtHR’s strategic use of Article 17 between 1999 and 2024 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

Today marks one year since the Dec. 3, 2024 martial law declaration that rocked South Korea and still reverberates today. What’s on my mind today is the grit of South Koreans who rushed to the National Assembly that night, in freezing weather, to demand a return to democratic government.

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

What should the EU do about #Hungary? 🇪🇺🇭🇺 New ARENA Europa podcast ep. is out! We often ask what’s feasible instead of what’s right when it comes to #RoL enforcement in the #EU. @vmakszimov.bsky.social asked me about what “the right thing” might be. 🔗 Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/2lyLtQi...

💥New: Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore? ✍️Adam Arian #AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

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

We are very excited about our #ecprgc26 Section on "Judicial Politics in an Age of Democratic Contestation" chaired by @thaliagerzso.bsky.social and @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... and hope to see you all in Kraków (8-11 September 2026)!

Wow 🤯 Rules keep on growing. Thank you, Steffen Hurka @steffenhurka.bsky.social and the #EUPLEX team, for providing such valuable to demonstrate how rising legislative complexity imposes real challenges on public administration and governance in modern democracies.

@erikvoeten.bsky.social has built his career on one goal: make ideas flow more freely. In this week’s Etched in Marble, we talked about writing, editing, & how to carry arguments beyond academia without losing their complexity. 🪶 New post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-... 🧵

People value free and fair elections, and prefer living in a country with free and fair elections but with less desirable outcomes (e.g. low levels of wealth) to living in a country without free and fair elections but with better outcomes journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00104140251392539

Clear sky, clear message in Vilnius 🇱🇹 💙 💛

👀ICYMI: "Political science isn’t short on new methods. But too often, our publishing culture is a slot machine: pull the lever enough times and someone will hit the jackpot." ✍️ @silje-hermansen.bsky.social #PolSci #ResearchMethods #AcWri

Friends, my article w/ @silje-hermansen.bsky.social and @louisabo.bsky.social on how/why the "have nots" come out ahead in litigation @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We propose a theory of judicial leveling & spotlighting to explain these contrarian results: take a look!

That ain't how science works.

Many dictatorships use foreign helpers to influence democracies. In our new study, we examine why, when, which authoritarian regimes employ Western PR firms - a particularly important type of foreign helper. Study + summary are open-access 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📄 New WP version out - full overhaul! The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social ) Comments welcome! 🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...

Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does. Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine. Put the tools to the use of theory. Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...