Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 #Italy #OpenAccess 'The politics of pre-electoral coalition formation can ‘freeze’ political influence at least to some degree' 🔓Read the article by G. Del Panta, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social & @klingelt.bsky.social 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 🔓 #Italy The disproportional consequences of a proportional bargain: candidate selection within Italian electoral coalitions in 2022 Read the article by Gianni Del Panta, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social and @klingelt.bsky.social here #OpenAccess👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Scholars have long paid attention to disproportionality between parties’ votes and seats emerging from the electoral system. In @sespjournal.bsky.social, Gianni Del Panta, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social, and I show that disproportionality can also be a by-product of pre-electoral coalition formation.🧵

The more conditionality, the more compliance? 🔼🚀 Igor Guardiancich, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social, @eborghetto.bsky.social & Lucia Quaglia compare how EU countries complied with country-specific recommendations before and after the Recovery and Resilience Facility 👇

1. Do we trust the UK (this government, but also the next) to come to the defence of Europe should the situation require it? If we do, there is no need to involve them in EU plans, since we already have NATO that commits the UK to protect Europe.

Globalization is changing its face... and we're asking why and how! The CfP for the conference of the Italian Political Science Association - SISP (September 4–6), is now open: sisp.it/convegno-202... @mattiaguidi.bsky.social and I welcome a wide range of contributions 👇 See you in Naples!

82 naufraghi salvati: 11 donne, 26 minori, alcuni sotto i 2 anni Porto assegnato: Ravenna, 900 miglia nautiche, 4 giorni di navigazione. Piantedosi augura buona Pasqua, e nel mentre prolunga consapevolmente la sofferenza dei naufraghi, ritardando cure e assistenza. Pasqua di ipocrisia e cinismo

Two MPs detained and deported by Israeli authorities for seeking information about Gaza is another clear sign of Israeli government weakness.

Attracting talent, offering safe spaces is good. If it goes hand in hand with extra resources for science / education. If not, these plans will create extra competition in already precarious systems. The fact is, many European countries cut on research spending. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Which policies do citizens prefer in economic crises? 💥 Leonardo Baccini, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social and Arlo Poletti show strong support for social spending & redistribution, but with an ideological divide: right-wing voters are far less likely to back welfare for foreigners. 👇

Stamattina ho parlato a @radiopopolare.bsky.social dei tagli all'#università e delle loro conseguenze per il nostro lavoro e per chi fa ricerca (soprattutto precaria). Per questo domani partecipo allo #ScioperoGenerale. www.radiopopolare.it/puntata/?ep=...

For anyone interested in replication, this is a really amazing thread. Bravo Laura and colleagues. You have set a new standard for honesty and transparency.

Il dipartimento di Giustizia statunitense ha chiesto che Google venda il browser Chrome https://www.ilpost.it/2024/11/21/google-chrome-vendita-dipartimento-giustizia/

Poche voci che parlino di Medio Oriente e dei crimini in atto a #Gaza qua o sbaglio?

Sto provando a smettere di seguire una persona e non ci riesco. Clicco, mi esce il messaggio “non segui più X”, ricarico la pagina e la seguo di nuovo. 🤷‍♂️

Albania’s 30 years journey to European values. From left to right: prison of Spaç, infamous site for political detention, officially closed in 1991. Prison of Gjadër, hailed as a new model in the management of human flows, officially open today to migrants deported by Italy.

Mio problema principale finora su Bluesky: sono entrato quando il grosso della bolla erano accademici, e ancora la mia bolla è troppo piena di accademici. Se anche provo a farmi suggerire post, l'algoritmo risente di questo. P.S. Non è "colpa" di Bluesky, ovviamente.

In questo momento la cosa affascinante di questo social è come le "community" si stiano pian piano ricostruendo. Un processo di contagio sociale che porta quelli della tua cerchia di là a venire di qua in quanto i legami sono trainati dalla condivisione di certi ideali/gusti.

once you become a zillionaire or whatever your only and overriding fear becomes somehow losing your money, which explains a lot about why these super-rich techy SF types fall hook-line-and-sinker for right-wing hyperinflation fearmongering

I am happy to share that my @bjpols.bsky.social paper with Elias Dinas is now OpenAccess, due to an agreement with the EUI. Using an instrumental variable approach, we find little evidence that the number of parties affects the quality of democracy. polisky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How do 1 million people evacuate anywhere in 24 hours? Especially when they have nowhere specifically to evacuate to?

How wld Peter Mair interpret the political developments in the US today? Writing about the EU he argued that when no opposition within the system is possible, opposition will turn against the system. 1/

In recent years, Bahrain, the UAE, Morocco, and Sudan have "normalized" relations with Israel. This shift in elite discourse and state behavior, however, is at odds with popular opinion in these countries and across the region. Here are three charts underscoring this point...

The more critical your review is, the more wholeheartedly authors will express their gratitude in their response letter.

Perché a #Torino i poliziotti hanno manganellato studentesse e studenti in corteo? A cosa dobbiamo questo uso così disinvolto della violenza (che, ricordiamolo, non è a discrezione di chi ha un manganello in mano)?

🇬🇧/🇺🇸 For those of you who have received invitation codes, how long after you had joined Bluesky did you get them? And how many did you get? Thanks! 🇮🇹 Mi interesserebbe sapere da chi ha ricevuto codici d’invito dopo quanto tempo che eravate su Bluesky li avete ricevuti e quanti. Grazie!

Il mio feed X peggiora di giorno in giorno: per via dell'algoritmo o perché la gente se ne va?

The Italian government denounces a judge from Catania who, a few days ago, set aside in a court case a recent decree, which imposed asylum seekers the payment of 5.000€ (!) to avoid being kept in detention centres. The Orbanization of Italy continues.

Scopro che c'è anche @marioricciardi.bsky.social qua, consiglio di seguire!

NEW: The US Economy was bigger than we thought Updates using more comprehensive data sources have increased the size of US GDP and made the post-pandemic recovery look even stronger!

In Italia la maggioranza di governo parla di tutto (pubblicità di una catena di supermercati, complotti per fare governi tecnici) fuorché delle politiche che sta mettendo in atto.

1/5 Il panorama delle piattaforme di micro-blogging è a tratti piuttosto deprimente. X sta lentamente morendo, ma nessuna delle alternative prende piede come dovrebbe. 

A few months ago there seemed to be a glimmer of hope this might be the place that gets critical mass among journalists and other news watchers. Feels like that hope has dissipated. If Bluesky could turn a bunch of these red boxes green, I think there might still be hope, but time is running out.

So ECPR is here: @ecpr.bsky.social 👋🏼 Polisky polcom

This week I was on 🇮🇹 radio to talk about where climate politics stands rn My voice (cringe) at ~30’ here: www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2023/0... Polisky catch: it’s time for progressive parties to find a voice for climate thru positive economic vision. Extreme events wont create support in themselves

Breaking News: The U.S. sued Amazon for illegally protecting a monopoly over swaths of online retail by squeezing merchants and favoring its own services, setting up an antitrust fight with the e-commerce giant that could alter the way Americans shop. nyti.ms/48rAJGu

1/5 Credo di essermi fatto un’idea sul perché Bluesky punta a portare poche persone per volta dentro. Non è soltanto perché non vogliono sovraccaricare la piattaforma (il che ha perfettamente senso), ma anche per cercare di evitare un effetto “boom and bust”. Mi spiego

📝New pub.@ESR How does a fair tax system look like? We find low & high income earners have similar tax fairness ideals but differ in whether they think the current system represents these ideals. Informing people about actual taxes changes people's support for redist. taxes doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Nice shiny app by @morinryan.bsky.social to visualise word freqs in your Google scholar profile: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...

Still testing if it works but there’s now an IPE/CPE feed for folks who are in polisky already! It’s ipesky or cpesky or cipesky. First time I do any of this so I’m very open to suggestions (starting from the feed’s avatar!). Please help advertising it!

Is it my impression or one of the problems of switching from platforms like Twitter, Instagram, etc. to platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon, for most people at least, will be that most of us have *unlearned* how to curate our content feeds? For many it's like learning the (old) Internet again.

Social media experts on polsky: Why do Mastodon and Bluesky have no proper algorithms* to display in our feeds the posts that are currently relevant and widely discussed on the platform? Is it a technical challenge because hard to built or is it a deliberate political decision against algorithms?

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I’m curious about the strategy of Bluesky: what are the short-term and medium-term goals? For how long will it be an invite-only platform? I see they want to “take it easy”, but don’t they risk losing momentum? Or are they waiting for the momentum (i.e. some new crazy decision by Musk)?

Polisky

First post here, having a look. For what it's worth, I'm a political scientist based in Siena (Italy). And I think there's something here called "polisky" but I've no idea what it is. So please enlighten me if you want. Felice di connettermi anche con italiane/i 🇮🇹 se ci siete e mi trovate.