Looking forward to this exchange organized by my wonderful colleagues at @sspunil.bsky.social Lausanne! Diving deeper into the socio-economics of the radical right populism. 💭

🥳 Thrilled to see our article out, #OpenAccess in Government and Opposition Journal! With Zoe Lefkofridi & @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social we investigate the alignment of Western Balkan party programs with EU gender equality demands and how gov/op status & ideology shape attention to gender issues.

Officially a Doctor in Political Science! My thesis investigates the #WesternBalkans EU accession dynamics related to democracy and gender equality as well as patterns of and motivations for contestation and support of these countries at the #EU level. Grateful to everyone along this journey!

POPULISM AND CONSPIRACY were on our minds at our project Research Workshop with colleagues from 🇳🇱 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇸🇮🇮🇹 🇮🇹🇨🇭🇦🇹 as well as our university, we discussed some cutting-edge work on this increasingly potent political problem. It was both a productive and fun conference, Krampus and all.

This finally landed in my mailbox. 🥳Reinhard Heinisch and I elaborate on the concepts of sovereignty and sovereignism in relation to populism. Thanks to the editors Carlos de la Torre and Oscar Mazzoleni, and colleagues for their early feedback in a workshop back in 2021 at the Uni Lausanne.

Very happy to see our book move to the printing stage! 📖 Co-edited with Reinhard Heinisch & Aneta Cekikj, it covers places less well understood like Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. All contributing authors are experts from this region. ✨ polisky

I am immensely proud and happy to celebrate that my great friend @cwegscheider.bsky.social won the University of Salzburg's 2023 Dissertation Prize for his dissertation "Dissatisfied democrats?" Congratulations to Carsten and his excellent supervisors, Zoe Lefkofridi and @markuswagner.bsky.social.

Last week, we discussed the 'unpolitics' of populist governments in EU policy-making at SCEUS.Thanks to all the participants and keep an eye on future publications! If you're interested in joining the project, propose a paper for the ECPR Joint Sessions until 23 november!

My supervisor, prof. Zoe Lefkofridi received the Greek International Women Award for outstanding contribution in Political Science and Law. She holds the first professorship at the Uni Salzburg for Politics & Gender, Diversity and Equality, and coordinates two Horizon projects. #celebratingwomen

Proof that world-class research is possible even in a small department; Pol.Sci at Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg among the 100 best departments worldwide for the 5th year in a row. :)

Apologies, it must have gotten cut. It is "The insecurity of doing research and the ‘so what question’ in political science: how to develop more compelling research problems by facing anxiety" by Gustafssnn and Hagstrom link.springer.com/article/10.1...