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Do people’s beliefs in the legitimacy of the WHO, IMF, or UN change based on what others think? Our survey experiments from 🇧🇷+🇩🇪+🇺🇸 say: Yes! Peer opinion matters—even in the face of elite cues. ➡️IO legitimacy is shaped socially, not just top-down. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s115...

Out now in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social with Soetkin Verhaegen & Sigrid Quack:‬ doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

See what I have in my news diet today: German far-right AfD parliamentary group calls for applications - what a challenge to start the day without Google Ads personalization...

Finally in print @the-peio.bsky.social: my piece on how IO advocacy on social media may fail in times of polarized fragmentation. doi.org/10.1007/s11558-023-09517-0

🙌 New research about elite opinion about int'l organizations (IOs): Studying Swedish elites, we find that elites’ national security concerns tend to reduce their support for problem-solving through nonsecurity IOs. 🇸🇪 With Nicholas Olczak @stockholm-uni.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isag... #polisky

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

Was muss der Mann auch immer so kurze Röcke tragen

Was mir so wehtut für Selenskyj: weil die Existenz seines Landes gefährdet ist, für die er unermüdlich und mit so viel Verantwortung kämpft, musste er diese ganzen Fatzkes im Oval Office mit bewundernswerter Contenance ertragen, obwohl er nur eine Sache gedacht haben kann: F*** off. F***.OFF.

Wohl etwa 200.000 Menschen demonstrierten heute in #Berlin gegen den Rechtsruck im Land und gegen die Zusammenarbeit der CDU/CSU mit der AfD. 200.000 Menschen für #Demokratie und unteilbare #Menschenrechte! Dank an @campact.bsky.social für die Organisation!

Ideology and Legitimacy in Global Governance | International Organization | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is a really cool paper, which I recommend to those interested in public opinion in IR, IO's, and legitimacy.

Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt, @lisadellmuth.bsky.social‬, and Jonas Tallberg show that people view IOs as #ideological actors and accord IOs greater #legitimacy when they perceive these organizations as ideologically closer. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...