Italy ranks 85th in the Global Gender Gap Index, with over half of all women in employment, among the lowest in EU. And the parliament passes this law in the same month the far-right government abolished sexual education from schools. Would this law alone help reducing the number of feminicides?

Lesbian and gay party leaders receive lower leadership evaluations than straight leaders in the UK, and the effects are consistent across genders. Interesting yet discouraging findings in our BJPS paper. @josephfcozza.bsky.social @gdilandro.bsky.social Andrea Aldrich @utgovernment.bsky.social

🚨 New article out today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social ! 📄 “Strategic Inclusion Without Transformation: How Populist Radical Right Parties Engage With Women’s Interests” With Bonnie Meguid, @hildecoffe.bsky.social & Miki Kittilson 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

So great to see Voters Under Pressure featured in this @comppol.bsky.social review article by @klingelt.bsky.social! Reviewing the book alongside work of Bartels and Tillman, Tristan's reading is the mandate function of elections is being challenged👇 www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

We're all doomed: 'the themes that truly captured attention and spread most widely were those rooted in government blame, ideological conflict and conspiracy.'

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

Our new issue "The Colonized & the Atomic Bomb" is out! On August 6 and 9, we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This issue convokes Indigenous perspectives from lands that were exploited for these bombings. thefunambulist.net/shop/60-colo...

🚨 🚨 🚨 New OA publication in Research&Politics @respol.bsky.social.bsky.social‬ out today: #Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to ✝️ #religiosity but highly correlated with #farright attitudes. A short 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Nothing‘s really happening in the world right now, is it? @uni-hamburg.de was tasked by the Hamburg senate to save a substantial amount of money. Now, one solution is to cut an IR professorship. I‘m teaching IR at UHH myself, and we're doing our best to fulfil the students' massive demand...

📢Join us today, 17:15 CET (VMP9 B130), when Sigrid Roßteutscher will present her paper "Social contexts and the gendered support for right-wing populism – a panel analysis of young voters in Germany" in our HPS³ seminar series. All are welcome to attend!➡️ www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/fachberei...

Packing and unpacking. Structuring and restructuring. Trust the (writing) process. Move your post-its until you make new meanings of them. And honor the things you delete. #Writingmonday to start the week ☕️.

Thrilled to be presenting my research on the strategic representation of women in Italian radical right parties tomorrow at #EPSA2025! I'm part of a fantastic panel on gender, political representation, and far-right support. Looking forward to connecting and exchanging ideas! @epsanet.bsky.social

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Only about 30% of Italians cast a vote - well below the 50% threshold needed to make a poll binding. What a defeat! Lot of work to do Italy!!!

🧵 Con 305 voti a favore e 199 contrari, il parlamento francese ha votato a favore di un disegno di legge che legalizza il suicidio assistito. In Italia non abbiamo ancora una legge nonostante la pronuncia della Corte Costituzionale del 2019, come spiega @vitalbaa.bsky.social in questo articolo 👇

A re-post of my last @theguardian.com op-Ed, which started as a Bluesky thread, after years of frustrations of the Joe Roganization of the far right (TM). Summary: The kids are ok… the girls rule!

📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 Do LGBTIQ+ issues matter for populist radical right? An analysis of Italian parties’ social media narratives Read the article by @massimoprearo.bsky.social & @scopelliti.bsky.social here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....