The EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences invites prospective PhD candidates to join the SPS Virtual Open Day 2025. Discover online our doctoral programme, meet faculty and researchers, and learn about life at the EUI. 📅 4 December 2025 | Online event 🔗 www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

New OA article @europe-asia.bsky.social: The Incumbency Advantage and the Enabler Effect: How Londongrad Beat the UK AML Regime Drawing on £2bn of property data, we show that not a single incumbent kleptocrat (0/72!) lost their UK assets. with @jheathershaw.bsky.social T. Mayne & S. Tokubayev

If you know anyone considering doing a PhD in political science or sociology, encourage them to apply to the EUI PhD program and join the institute's landmark 50th cohort of PhD researchers in the SPS Department! Applications from Central and Eastern Europe are particularly welcome!

We have reached peak "NATO expansion propaganda". Jeffrey Sachs claims he was personally told by someone he didn't meet that there was a broken promise to a person who says it wasn't made.

Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)! epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Last week, I presented my research at the University of Rijeka (@unirijeka.bsky.social) during an event celebrating Croatia's accession to @eui-eu.bsky.social. I am grateful to the session's chair, Tena Prelec (@tenaprelec.bsky.social), & the audience for great questions & engagement.

Sheffield Hallam University appeased China Govt to protect its income from Chinese student enrollment. It shut down research into forced labour and human rights abuses, intimidated academics, suppressed academic papers. Outrageous. Universities functioning as corporations. Must be investigated.

Join us on October 30 (12:00, IDHEAP Learning Lab) for the next IDHEAP–LAGAPE seminar! Anna Gwiazda (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) will present her work on Women’s Political Participation and Democratic Resilience in an Era of Democratic Decline. @unil.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social

Nano-targeting is not a persuasive weapon: it is a dissuasion and polarization weapon. New paper out osf.io/preprints/so... with the brilliant Thomas Robinson, @simonhix.bsky.social and @fresejoris.bsky.social – the first to quantify the perverse incentives/inherent democratic dangers of this tech.

What explains the rising turnout in recent EP elections? @filipkostelka.bsky.social & @evakrejcova.bsky.social find that it's the strength of Eurosceptic parties at the national level. The more seats they hold in national parliament, the more mobilizing the EP election is doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Bacteriologists cannot turn into bacteria, but political scientists can turn into voters. Today is one of those days. #volby2025 #VotingInRome #frecciarossa

You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU? Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇 @bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025. epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ @rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

Amazing work from @evakrejcova.bsky.social @filipkostelka.bsky.social and N.Sauger!

Change in migrants’ political attitudes: Acculturation and cosmopolitanization is now available in Early View. @evakrejcova.bsky.social @filipkostelka.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/09/12/c...

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Jan Rovny (@jrovny.bsky.social) meets an impressive lineup of critics (@annagbusse.bsky.social, @grigopop.bsky.social, @lenkabustikova.bsky.social, Johanna K. Birnir) of his fantastic book "Circumstantial Liberals: Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition and Democracy" at @apsa.bsky.social 2025

We look forward to receiving your submissions for the Comparative Politics section of the EPSS conference (@epssnet.bsky.social)! In addition to innovative work on traditional topics & cases, we especially welcome strong contributions on less studied countries and regions (e.g., Eastern Europe). 📝

We are hiring! 🌏 For the future Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS) at @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz, we are looking for a 👉 Research Group Leader in Comparative Area Studies. Join us in Prague – details here: bit.ly/CenMASleader @millanos.bsky.social @karelkouba.bsky.social

We are hiring! Join @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz as a 👉 Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Area Studies and take part in building the future 🌏 Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS). Based in Prague – details here: bit.ly/CenMASpostdoc @millanos.bsky.social @karelkouba.bsky.social

From June 2025 - Understanding Voter Fatigue: Election Frequency and Electoral Abstention Approval - cup.org/4enhQaZ "findings hold major implications for our understanding of voter turnout and democratic institutional engineering" - @filipkostelka.bsky.social #OpenAccess

I have been at every single EPSA conference since EPSA was founded. I am excited to attend EPSS 2026 in Dublin - below some clarifications on EPSA and EPSS

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

🚨 We're hiring! Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment. Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊 www.gesis.org/en/institute...

🗳️Satisfaction boosts turnout, or voting boosts satisfaction? ➡️@filipkostelka.bsky.social L.Linek @jrovny.bsky.social @skvrnami.bsky.social find both in Central-Eastern Europe. Satisfaction spurs turnout, voting raises satisfaction, especially for winners www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Prof Skocpol making a crucial point here. The centralized police. And then the lawless quasipolice who guard the camps. Trump’s death bill moves the US towards those two thresholds, well known from Germany in the 1930s. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

Does democratic satisfaction drive voter turnout, or does voting increase dem. satisfaction? Using 7 election panels, Lukas Linek, @jrovny.bsky.social, @skvrnami.bsky.social, and I find that—unlike in the West—both mechanisms may operate in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). 1/n @eui-sps.bsky.social

‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇

NEW - Understanding Voter Fatigue: Election Frequency and Electoral Abstention Approval - cup.org/4enhQaZ "findings hold major implications for our understanding of voter turnout and democratic institutional engineering" - @filipkostelka.bsky.social #OpenAccess

If you have not read @kenbenoit.bsky.social statement, please do! And support @epssnet.bsky.social by becoming a member today! www.linkedin.com/pulse/suppor...

This is fantastic. Very excited by this development in European Political Science. Please come and join us. Get involved. Sign up to the listserv. Etc

Heading to Madrid with many political scientists at the Florence airport #EPSA2025 @eui-sps.bsky.social

The 2nd edition of the #PoliticalBehaviour Workshop in Central and #EasternEurope featured 32 papers over two days, with speakers from all career stages across Europe—and even the US & China. Want to join us in June 2026? Keep an eye on our website for a new call: www.eui.eu/en/projects/... #CEE

☀️ 35°C+fulfilling discussions=perfect workshop! Many thanks to @filipkostelka.bsky.social for organizing the workshop on Political Behavior in #CEE at the @eui-eu.bsky.social! I’m very grateful about all the suggestions, and happy to have met a truly wonderful group of outstanding scholars.

Poprvé v historii můžeš domů volit odkudkoli. Jak? Poštou. 👉https://www.volimdomu.cz/

Last Tuesday, we had the pleasure of having @filipkostelka.bsky.social present his work "Change in Migrants’ Political Attitudes: Acculturation and Cosmopolitanization" in our joint seminar with @dec-gr.bsky.social. We thank all the audience for attending and for the engaging discussion.

Had a great time at Sciences Po, discussing @damienbol.bsky.social's impressive habilitation research, and now heading to Barcelona for a presentation at @transdem.bsky.social, equipped with an excellent read by @celytadeas.bsky.social

Today, I defended my habilitation in Paris. This is one for these peculiar national survivances that exist in many countries, but that we hardly talk about in globalized academia. Going through these hoops is nonetheless an important part of any academic career for many of us

Happy to present the first results from our @equalstrength.bsky.social project! Lots to do, still, but we have a fantastic team!

Your name. Your background. Still deciding if your child gets a spot in daycare. Today at dept Seminar Series , @distasioval.bsky.social & Lea pessin shared sobering evidence of discrimination across Europe. Research like this reminds us: biases don’t pause at the nursery door. #SPSseminar #EUI

🗣️Next TransDeM-DEC seminar: @filipkostelka.bsky.social (European University Institute) will present "Change in Migrants’ Political Attitudes: Acculturation and Cosmopolitanization", co-authored with @evakrejcova.bsky.social and Nicolas Sauger. 📅Tue May 27, 13:00 📍Sala de Juntes, Fac. CCPP (UAB)

Great tribute to Hanspeter Kriesi's impressive research career now happening at the European University Institute. @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social

This chart is from @britishelectionstudy.com @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social, me and Ed Fieldhouse. You can see that 2024 Reform voters mainly came from the Conservatives or UKIP in 2015. This has been a story on the right for *ten years* now, unless something very different happened last week.

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

New paper out in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social (w/ @blaisa.bsky.social , @jfdaoust.bsky.social & Patrick Fournier) in which we show strong evidence of losers' consent in a citizen assembly! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🗳️🇭🇺With every credible poll showing Viktor Orbán’s ruling Fidesz far behind Péter Magyar’s TISZA party, talk in Hungary is shifting to whether Orbán might try to jail or ban his rival—à la Turkey. The real question now: will Hungary have free and fair elections in 2026? And would Orbán give up power?

Reflecting the current authoritarian Zeitgeist, Nations in Transit research project by @freedomhouse.bsky.social, evaluating the state of democracy in former post-communist countries, has been discontinued after twenty years due to a lack of funding. This is what civilizational decline looks like.

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData