Finally, three weeks later on Thursday 4th December at 12:00, @williamlallen.bsky.social rounds out the series by presenting important insights into the partisan attitudinal effects of data visualisation of refugee numbers. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c939c6...

Asymmetric reporting: Yesterday, David Lammy made a comment about Nigel Farage "flirting with the Hitler Youth" and it was 2nd story on BBC News at 10. Today, Zia Yusuf repeatedly calls Keir Starmer a "stochastic terrorist... trying to incite violence against Farage" and it's not even mentioned.

How strategic narratives function in geopolitical settings as bordering practices? I address this question in my latest article ‘Narrating Geopolitics: Strategic Narratives of Georgia’s EU Candidacy’ published in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social

From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT). rdcu.be/eIkms

I'm old enough to remember people complaining that the Kosovans were eating all the ducks and swans. Lucky that the ducks and swans, just like the scare stories about refugees, are a replenishable resource.

Looking forward to JD Vance denouncing this as another example of the European crisis of freedom of speech.

The Canadians appear to love their geese so much that they build them swimming pools.

Happy to see this out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! ➜ doi.org/10.1080/1350... The paper asks why the European Commission @ec.europa.eu increasingly sponsors participatory innovations – such as the European Citizens' Panels – although their strategic and functional value remains elusive 🧵 1/6

Don't miss the APSA Presidential Task Force on Democratic Innovations, kicking off at 10am in the VCC. #apsa2025 @di-apsa.bsky.social

But how could they possibly be sure it was his signature, and that his friend's partner hadn't solicited a fake letter from a random weirdo in order to set him up 20 years later?

Charlie Kirk described Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot dead two protesters, as "a hero to millions".

Several of my great new colleagues at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social and their collaborators have to put together this blockbuster paper on what happened when the UK Labour Party adopted radical right rhetoric on immigration. A must read for centre left parties across Europe.

A nice thing about jetlag when you are an owl, is that is it is one of the few times you get to experience the sunrise.

Was talking about this story with my wife last night. First thing she said was, "Raynor's explanation doesn't add up as mortgage conveyancers won't normally offer tax advice". Why are these people such amateurs?

We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous. There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

First leg of my epic journey for a pre-APSA visit to Vancouver Island University. Going to take Tram > Train > Flight > Metro > Bus > Ferry. So, a full house of transport options.

So happy that mine and @stefaniereher.bsky.social ESRC grant application for a 4 year comparative project on disability and political parties was successful!! @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

I've been re-reading Machiavelli's The Prince and it has been reassuring that Trump is seemingly doing everything that Machiavelli advises the aspiring ruler not to do if he wants to effectively take and hold power.

German intellectuals also experienced the Nazis as kitsch. Maybe it says more about the intellectuals than the regime - a psychological coping mechanism for temporarily denying the seriousness of their predicament, i.e. if the regime is just a cheap imitation, how can it really be a threat?

This time with the correct hashtag #ecprgc25.

This time with the correct hashtag #ecprgc25.

I gave a short interview about 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴, a collaborative monograph I co-authored (lead @jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social), published #OpenAccess by @uclpress.bsky.social over the summer: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025... Full book: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

This looks very interesting. A new graduate training centre in Frankfurt and Darmstadt with up to 12 4-year PhD positions on the aesthetics of democracy. The original post contains an English language version of the job ad.

I had an Afghani student at the time the US and UK shamefully abandoned their allies and hotfooted it out of the country. He was going out of his mind worrying that his father would be murdered for serving in the new police force that had been created post-invasion. 1/2

🔔 New Centre Publication (open access) Latest publication by our PhD student @wendyconwaylamb.bsky.social and co-authors, including Centre associates Pierrick Chalaye & Emerson M. Sanchez in the new book by @oliverescobar.bsky.social & Stephen Elstub 🙌 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Thrilled to share this 16-country conjoint experiment with @catherinedevries.bsky.social & @simonhix.bsky.social. We find strong support for majoritarian reforms and tougher legal enforcement, even when paired with policies people dislike. Policy-inelastic institutional preferences exist! A 🧵...

Altman just gave Chat gtp free to every federal official, because he knows the AI boom is cratering right now and he’s desperate for someone to find an application for his loony share price. UK government shouldn’t pay anything until we have provenly useful application

My first paper is out in @bjpir.bsky.social ! 🎉 It looks at a novel dataset of local climate mini-publics in the UK, and how organisers justify their implementation. Full paper: journals-sagepub-com.libproxy.york.ac.uk/doi/epub/10....

Sad not to be joining everyone for #ecpr25 next week. I will be there in spirit, through my co-authors, who are presenting what we have been up to on the i4i and INSPIRE projects recently...

Latest Politics and Governance: Ross on "Liberal and Deliberative Democracy in the Global South: Models, Functions, Practices." www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

I am struggling to see the use case for why my new washing machine needs to be internet enabled. The only one I can think of is that I buy a robot that is sophisticated enough to load the washing whilst I am out, but not sophisticated enough to turn the washing machine on.

Experiencing some FOMO that I didn't get my book out in time for it to be stolen by chatbot developers.

🚨NEW STUDY: Do Americans support a woman president? Our list experiment during the 2024 election, when @kamalaharris.com was on the ballot, reveals hidden bias, and it's more widespread than you'd expect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

very happy to see this one one, we have tried to create a dialogue between democratic innovations and federalism/territorial minority studies... 🤩 will interest @nenadstojanovic.bsky.social @anewq.bsky.social + @altmandavid.bsky.social 😉

Do you work on immigrant integration or well-being? At this @compasoxford.bsky.social hybrid seminar on 19 Sep, Adam Komisarof (Keio, Japan) and I will each share work on migration attitudes, with commentary from the brilliant @sbvanoosten.bsky.social! www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/promot... #migcitsky

2-year position as Senior Researcher or Project Researcher in the ERC Synergy Project funded by the European Union "Advancing Digital Democratic Innovation" under the lead of Prof. Maija Setälä at UTU in Turku, Finland ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...

🔔 New open access article in Political Studies from Selen Ercan, Jordan McSwiney, Emily Beausoleil, Claire Fitzpatrick and @andreafelicetti.bsky.social! The paper examines two forms of democratic resilience in the public sphere and the role of political leaders in each. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Are you presenting at #APSA2025? Submit your paper or presentation to APSA Preprints to the APSA Annual Meeting event page to circulate your project, get a DOI, & make sure to upload new versions as your work progresses! Check out others' papers, too. #polisky preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

New book share. UCL Press published our Sciences of the Democracies last week in open access PDF. Link: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sci... A core implication of the book is that it seeks to revive basic descriptive research to lay the groundwork for stronger and more inclusive theories of democracy.

To be fair to the AI, the Conservatives have gone through so many leaders recently that it is difficult to keep up.

Every single one of these that I have seen so far appears to do its utmost to turn Barack Obama into a white guy.

I have been fortunate to have a small part in an interesting and provocative book that was just published yesterday. Among other things, the book is a call to radically open up our study of democracy -- including what it looks like, where it happens, and who the participants in it may be.

#polisky #psjminfo We're hiring for three faculty positions in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. All 3 positions are part of an internal departmental cluster hire in the thematic area of Problems of Democracy. A 🧵on the positions. 1/

Are populist sore losers? Using three datasets, @arminschaefer.bsky.social and Jonas Wenker demonstrate that the winner–loser gap in satisfaction with democracy is larger among populist individuals. 👇

Ah yes, all those radical left big banks are notorious for discriminating against conservatives.

Want to work on the frontiers of dem theory with v. smart and lovely people @hansasenbaum.bsky.social, @lucyjparry.bsky.social & Graham Smith? They're recruiting a part-time research associate for a new project on non-human representation and participation vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/hrvacancies/...

Regular reminder to 🇩🇪 parties who see such numbers: That AfD got strong bc nobody represented right-wing populist positions does not mean that AfD will lose if you adopt such positions. Often it may just make things worse: you acknowledge you were wrong, AfD was right & now you appear spineless.

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

Just over a week until the deadline for this:

📣 Hungry for democracy? The Democracy R&D 2025 programme is live – and it’s a full-course menu. Sessions are carefully tagged by purpose (inform, train, debate, solve, network) and spice level (mild to spicy). New or seasoned, there’s a seat at the table. 🍽️ drive.google.com/file/d/1TEgK...