Now out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Important read 👇

Happy to see my work with @ivobantel.bsky.social and @lucasleemann.bsky.social published in Party Politics. We look at how affective polarization shapes voters' preferences for technocratic and populist governance in Germany showing that it largely depends on partisanship 1/4

Kamerbrief: Aanpak weerbare democratische rechtsstaat en de evaluatie van verkiezingen www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken...

NCTV waarschuwt voor ‘nihilistisch extremisme’ dat wordt aangewakkerd door onlinegroepen

I'm shocked.

Out now! Met Thijs Vos en Denny van der Vlist dook ik in de informele politiek op het lokale niveau. We laten zien dat gemeenteraadsleden, zeker van de coalitie, zeer regelmatig overleggen met andere raadsleden. plc-journal.eu/article/view...

📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July

Extreemrechts groeit hard in Duitsland, waarschuwt de veiligheidsdienst. Het aantal extreemrechtse geweldsdelicten steeg het afgelopen jaar met 9 procent

"I find that hostility towards visible women differs from men in content, not volume. Visible women face similar volumes of generic hostility but twice as much gender-specific abuse as men." highly relevant study by Annie Jarman @bjpols.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wat voedt radicaal rechts? Met hoogleraar @catherinedevries.bsky.social sprak ik over hoe hele groepen burgers na decennia aan verschraling, schaalvergroting en technocratisch bestuur hun vertrouwen verloren in de overheid. En hoe radicaal rechtse partijen daar listig op in spelen.

Dads matter. Research suggests that children raised by involved fathers are more likely to pursue their goals in healthy ways, express their emotions openly and build more equitable relationships as adults. #FathersDay

Do local labour markets shape support for the radical right? @rubenruizrufino.bsky.social examines how labour-intensive industries foster exclusionary attitudes and boost far-right voting across Europe. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/h3Y59Lc @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci #RadicalRight

Nu in de Hofvijver @montesquieuinst.bsky.social Zijn de lokale verkiezingen tweede-orde-verkiezingen? Samen met Tim Mickler (@polscileiden.bsky.social) doken wij in de eerste resultaten van het Lokaal Kiezersonderzoek www.montesquieu-instituut.nl/column/20260...

📢 Postdoc position in #EU politics & governance (100%, 3 years initially) @uni-freiburg.de w/ competence in computational methods ⏰Deadline: 30 June 2026 ⭐Start: 1 October 2026 👉Full job ad & application portal: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005... #EUsky #academicposition #jobs #hiring #polisci #CSS

My department at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social is advertising 3 Tenure-Track AP positions in Political Science and 2 Teaching positions. The department is nice, non-toxic, and in good financial shape (which is not a given these days, in the UK or elsewhere): warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

1/ I'm delighted to share my latest article: The mainstreaming of the far right and democratic erosion: Three analytical pathways, now published in Irish Political Studies www.flyn.to/LopOj99 @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

Our OA chapter "Telegram as a Developing Political Actor: Conceptualising Platform Actorness" with @tanyalokot.bsky.social has just been published as part of the second edition of The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics. #Commsky #Polisky #IRsky #PlatformGovernance #Academicsky

Holy shit… de oceanen zijn echt van het padje af qua temperatuur! 😱 Dat opgewarmde water is een enorme batterij met energie voor het laden van weersystemen. Maak de borst maar nat… Via prof. Eliot Jacobson op X

Because the world is gloomy enough

🇮🇪 Why was Ireland the exception in a year of anti-incumbent, far-right votes? @conorlittle.bsky.social shows the main parties held firm: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael renewed their vows, Sinn Féin's vote slid to 19%, and far-right parties won 1.6% and no seats. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Are preferences for authoritarian rule individual predispositions—or can they spread socially? Using field + survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we show that openness to strongman rule can spread socially. American Journal of Political Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What do political scientists actually mean when they put the words 'radical' and 'right' together? Here's a brief empirical analysis for you (open access) 📄🔍📊

Goed stuk van de NOS over het toekomstige zomerklimaat. Belangrijkste: het wordt nog warmer. Oorzaak: fossiele brandstoffen. app.nos.nl/shorthand/de...

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

Na Rucphen ook #PVV-coalitie in Steenbergen (en in Pekela, maar daar heet de PVV geen PVV meer). www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/60149...

Vacature! Wij zoeken een directeur voor het nieuwe Wetenschappelijk Instituut voor Solidariteit. Wil jij wetenschap, samenleving en politiek verbinden en bijdragen aan de toekomst van het groene en sociaal-democratische gedachtegoed van @progressiefned.bsky.social? Solliciteer of tip iemand!

Forumschool in Almere maakt als eerste gebruik van alternatieve subsidieroute: www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/f...

Recent research on the #RadicalRight

Samen met collega’s @catherinedevries.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social geef ik duiding bij het karakter van uiterst rechtse partijen in Nederland www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

How average and extreme summer temperatures are changing in Western Europe. Graph: Robert Rohde. This will continue until we reach net zero emissions, whether you like it or not: it’s physics. @rarohde.bsky.social

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

To mark the launch, The Guardian publishes an article based on our latest data on the rise of far-right parties across Europe: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Far-right parties top the polls in three of the biggest European democracies. Part of this is likely due to the self-reinforcing nature of normalization. The more successes FRPs pile up, the more their positions seem socially acceptable, which fuels further gains. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

Super pleased the new edition is out. @mrooduijn.bsky.social is such an incredible leader of this long running scientific project and it is an honour to be part of his team

Really glad to see this IPPR report out, and it was great to help out with the analysis.

De nieuwe editie van de wetenschappijke popu-list.org is uit "Met gebalde vuisten maakt uiterst rechts een opmars in Europa: in tien jaar van marginale beweging naar een kwart van het electoraat": www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Neutral arbiter, partisan speaker, or asset of the coalition? Patterns of Oral Question Selection by the Speaker of the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament - https://cup.org/4ov0n5z - Wouter Nelen & @simonotjes.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

Nu ook beschikbaar in blogvorm: Nederlandse kiezers zien de democratie achteruitgaan (maar ze zijn het niet eens over welke democratie, of waarom) via @stukroodvlees.bsky.social stukroodvlees.nl/kiezers-zien...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Analysis finds news coverage is 357% higher when acts of terrorism are committed by Muslims than by other groups. Might go along well w your #AvailabilityHeuristic lectures. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tom van der Meer en Claes de Vreese adviseerden een half jaar geleden het kabinet in wording over de kansen en risico’s van een minderheidscoalitie. Nu maken ze de balans op – ze zijn niet enthousiast. www.groene.nl/artikel/op-z... @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social

Reminder: Wednesday is the day!!!

Reminder: Wednesday is the day!!!

Can you see the anomaly 👇 ? On temperature forecasts for Tuesday France has same colour than the belt of deserts in Africa and Arabia. Not normal. We are in a #climate emergency. And our politics are denying or minimising the problem because "it's the economy, stupid", to enrich the rich ☠️

France will be at the epicenter of the most significant heat anomaly on the planet over the next few days. The sheer extent of the country that could experience temperatures above 40°C is nothing short of astonishing.

It's hard to fathom what Europe will live next week. Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C UK will ridiculize its June national record Germany 10 days 37C+ This is CRAZY