I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers. Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6): ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/

NEW PUBLICATION “How the Media Cordon Sanitaire Crumbles: Lessons from Germany” now out in @prxjournal.bsky.social 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2026.2621808 I’m very happy that this paper is out – this project is particularly important to me.

New article and special issue! Just out in Comparative Political Studies: “Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Information, Legacies, Temporalities", the intro to a special issue on countering illiberalism in liberal democracies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Thread 🧵1/7

Belangrijk en grootschalig onderzoek van UvA wetenschappers www.parool.nl/nederland/di...

Presumably this obvious attempt at political interference in another country's election will be roundly condemned by Fidesz

2025 #ThrowBackPaper (open access) Authoritarianism in 🇬🇧 is positively associated with anti-immigration attitudes yet within-person changes in immigration attitudes precede changes in authoritarianism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Super happy to see this paper with @isabellareb.bsky.social and @mrooduijn.bsky.social out.

Great to see this new paper out, brilliantly led by @isabellareb.bsky.social! Very happy to have been part of this team, also with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social.

Marlon U., oprichter en vertegenwoordiger van de uiterst rechtse Vrijmoedige Studenten Partij (VSP), voerde schrikbewind op de VU www.parool.nl/amsterdam/ho...

Call for papers for our workshop on electoral politics at the Poletmaal2026 in Ghent on June 11-12. Please join Amber Voets, Chloe de Grauwe, and myself for great discussions of our changing electoral landscape and explanations for voter behavior politicologenetmaal.eu/workshops-20...

For an international audience: Forum for Democracy (FvD) is showing its true colors in many ways recently, amongst others by having candidates from extremist extraparliamentary organisations on its local lists

Bannon: "We're gonna have #ICE surround the polls coming november. We are not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." Heeft de regering Trump de uitspraken van extremist Steve Bannon bevestigd of ontkend?

What Sofia is too modest to explicitly say in her post below, is that - in addition to our PRR youth wings book - she has a solo one coming out with OUP in June on grassroots women in the PRR: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Kandidaten gemeenteraad FvD waren betrokken bij extreemrechtse organisaties als Geuzenbond, NVU en Voorpost (met Ben Meindertsma): www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/kan...

Super proud that our 9-country-study is finally published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social! A Populist Axis? Analyzing Connections Between Populist, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Political Space 👉Populist axis exists, effect on voice choice differs by country journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🧵

Lijkt erop alsof dit de klassieke onderhandelingstactiek is: extra rechts insteken, zodat ze straks heel gul wat aan GL-PvdA kunnen gunnen. Zowel op Groen als op Rood is het opvallend karig.

*** reflecties bij regeerakkoord over burgerschapsonderwijs*** In het regeerakkoord wordt een en ander gezegd over burgerschapsonderwijs. Er wordt ingezet op bevoegde leraren in het mbo. Hieronder vat ik kort de maatregelen samen:

Manchester capitalism rebranded as a lifestyle choice. It's what happens when the left withdraws from shaping identities around work, life, and politics. Individualism, conservatism ("marry early"), puritanism. They all shape how he will act politically. "Care for the sick? No, it's their own fault"

Lees dit interview met Steven Levitsky, een van de meest vooraanstaande democratie-onderzoekers., over de staat van de democratie in de VS. „Ik vond mezelf altijd een doemdenker. Maar het is veel, veel erger dan ik had verwacht.” www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Another morning, another article mentioning the "hard right"... This may seem trivial but the use of terms that euphemise far-right politics and deflect from the threat they pose matters a lot See @gsamaras.bsky.social 's brilliant article on the "hard right" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great op-ed by @catherinedevries.bsky.social on how attention has become a geopolitical weapon. And why Europe should stop falling for Trump’s “geopolitical clickbait” (love the term): www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today in @theguardian.com, I argue that Donald Trump’s foreign-policy playbook is increasingly about attention capture, or what I call geopolitical clickbait. Plus I outline why this matters for Europe & what to do about it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📅 The schedule of the 5th @ecpr-ead.bsky.social Summer School on Concepts & Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics now online! tinyurl.com/f73yym3b ⏳ One month left to apply @casmudde.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social @andreapirro.it @albertostefanelli.bsky.social

🚨 If populist rhetoric isn't persuasive, why do populists keep winning? 🚨 Our new paper (and first published registered report) shows populism's real electoral power may be mobilization, not persuasion—though policy positions still matter far more for voting. alexanderkustov.org/files/Kustov...

Good piece by @jonhenley.bsky.social on how European far-right parties and voters are responding to Trump. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Image by Luiso García 👏

Really happy this work with @fraraffaelli.bsky.social found a home at EJPR. We show that growing up at times of high salience of immigration produces cohorts of voters who are more likely to vote for parties that they agree with specifically on immigration. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper!! I'm very proud of all my coauthors. This project started as an internship by @cvalebeek.bsky.social and @delaneypeterson.bsky.social with me and Daniel Komáromy. Both are now PhD candidates in our faculty, and it’s great to still be working with them as colleagues!

A crisis has broken out within the PVV of Geert Wilders. Seven MPs have left the party due to dissatisfaction with its current course. nos.nl/artikel/2598...

Als de zeven PVV dissidenten zich aansluiten bij JA21 zal Dilan Yesilgöz plotselingen ervan overtuigd raken dat er toch een meerderheidskabinet nodig is "gezien de internationale situatie" www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...

The English version of my op ed for @lemonde.fr is now available: www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Dit is een heel belangrijk artikel van Lotte Schrijver, Marcel Lubbers en @takesipma.bsky.social. Het laat zien dat naar mate kiezers migratie als een belangrijker thema zien zij een grotere kans hebben om PVV te stemmen, *onafhankelijk* van hun positie over migratie.

Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...

Within the next decade the radical right is going to be the main force on the right in Europe (national and EU level). This includes far-right parties and formerly centre-right parties shifting their position. Moderate conservatism and Christian democracy will largely disappear on the right. 1/

Apologies for being self-referential but

mindblowing wat je met visualisatie kan bereiken

X is the megaphone of 21st century fascism and authoritariansim. It has poisoned public debate. It is a tool for bullying, abuse, and assault. X needs to disappear from our discourse. When people and institutions post there, it gives X credibility. It keeps it relevant. It's time to stop.

🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

Ik gaf een nogal deprimerend eindejaarsinterview aan @markla94.bsky.social van het NRC Handelsblad.

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A new paper reveals that: -larger out-group animosity compared to in-group favoritism (more hate than love) is sufficient for affective polarization. -larger in-group favoritism compared to out-group animosity (more love than hate) is necessary for consensus. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

We have a cover! Will be out with Verso Books in June.

It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social. A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:

De NRC interviewde Arend Lijphart de belangrijkste Nederlandse politicoloog www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

In the introduction to the #Encyclopedia (link below) we map some major trends First, we identified all articles (2000–2020, JSTOR, 4M articles) that mention “political communication” in title, abstract, or text and plotted their evolution per sub-discipline Huge jump for pol psych in recent years

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant! I’m extremely grateful to my colleagues and collaborators for their support and help, and very excited to start this new adventure. Looking forward to all the collaborations ahead! #ERCCoG 1/2

Er is geen vertrouwenscrisis, maar een betrouwbaarheidscrisis, zoals Tom van der Meer het altijd zo mooi zegt. speld.nl/2025/12/04/j...

(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨 In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Insightful reporting by @cwarzel.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com The #maga movement on X turns out to be rather ‘global’ in nature 👀 … that is many accounts operating from non US places adding fuel to polarized US politics. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low. European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths! Me in @theguardian.com