‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS PBC is looking for presenters for the upcoming fall term (October to mid-December 2026). If you would like to present, please fill out this form: forms.gle/5o7Y82uNGnD2... 🗓 The proposal deadline is 21 August. Please share with colleagues who may be interested

NEW! Combining my two obsessions of cycling and political economy data into a new Substack: Tour de Data. Daily posts for every stage of the Tour de France, digging into what the race tells us about money, place, and power. Not just who's in yellow;) 🚴📊 tourdedata.substack.com

Fresh from the press! It was great experience to be part of the team that made this paper on an unfortunately still highly relevant topic possible.

Dit is dus wat wel mis gaat. De stem van de meerderheid die vandaag óók grootscheeps op straat was krijgt slechts een mention.

Zwaar vuurwerk, fakkels, brandstichting, extreemrechtse leuzen, vernielingen, intimidatie. Het houdt maar niet op. Dit georganiseerde geweld is een keiharde ondermijning van onze democratie, beïnvloedt door extreemrechtse groepen en opgehitst door politici. www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...

Out now: @euelections.bsky.social 2024 dataset 🇪🇺 The dataset combines coded party positions of 291 political parties and candidates across member states with survey data from more than 830,000 users of the EU&I VAA during the 2024 European Parliament elections. hdl.handle.net/1814/95154

🚨 Western democracies are often described as polarized. @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social + I study how polarization actually feels. Now published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, we asked citizens in 5 European countries to report their emotions ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Before my PhD I was a TA with a sidejob in a cheese shop. At some point I found myself collecting receipts, writing down the target weight, and digitizing them afterwards. Last weekend I took up the effort and simulated the rest for a teaching module: Cheesy Correlations and Causality. 🧀 (1/8)

The submission of so many businesses (now Gallup) is a reminder of how much capitalism is dependent upon state support!

Onder het mom van 'eerlijke verkiezingen' het vertrouwen in het verkiezingsproces ondermijnen door incidenten niet zorgvuldig te (laten) onderzoeken, maar uitvergroten en ophef te creëren. Zeer zorgwekkend. www.rtl.nl/nieuws/polit...

Ok, D66 is the biggest (medium) party in the Netherlands.. by a whisker… Good news. Congrats! Can we now focus on the fact that the second biggest party/person is engaging in thinly-veiled election denial?

Dit kan je niet maken #geertwilders. Dit is #rechtsstaat ondermijnend. Zo onafhankelijk & deskundig als de Nederlandse #Kiesraad krijg je ze bijna niet. Trumpiaans soort #hetze Wilders deelt berichten die suggereren dat Kiesraad niet onafhankelijk is nos.nl/collectie/14... via @NOS

Prinsenvlag, VOC-logo's, nationalistische leuzen, hysterische opruiing, journalisten en politiemannen aangevallen, ruiten partijkantoor D66 ingegooid. VVD-er Heinen: 'Laten we niet alles politiek maken.' De VVD is een verachtelijke partij.

Zoals ik al eerder aangaf is het cruciaal dat GNSV per direct op alle universiteiten geweerd wordt. De vereniging is extremistisch en een veiligheidsrisico

📢 Out now! Democracy Report 2025: 25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped? Read the Report: v-dem.net/publications... Download the V-Dem Dataset v15: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... #DR25 #DemocracyReport2025 #VDemDatasetV15 #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliticalScience

Call for scholars in political behavior (broadly understood) studying Central & Eastern Europe: workshop hosted by @eui-eu.bsky.social, June 19-20. 2nd edition. Participants from the region can have their travel & accommodation fully covered. Apply by 28/3. More info: www.eui.eu/en/projects/...

I keep reading that Zelensky shouldn't have risen to the bait. The man is human. He's seen tens of thousands of Ukrainians murdered, their cities blown apart & their children stolen. He was sitting by a man who's looting his country's minerals & praising Putin. And for 40 minutes, he held it in.

You can say a lot about Trump, but within one month in office he did managed to stop Vladimir Putin from being the biggest threat to world peace

Wij van WC-eens adviseren WC-eend, aldus Plasterk

@rensvliegenthart.bsky.social has three new vacancies (2 PhDs and 1 post-doc) available within his great Vici-funded project at Wageningen University for those interested in discontent, electoral campaigns, polarisation, and political trust. www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/... www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

“Het jongetje dat altijd gepest was, dat zich jammerend had gewenteld in het onrecht dat hem was aangedaan, mocht meedoen met de grote jongens.” www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Het kan aan mij liggen, maar dit is naar mijn inziens nog steeds meer gepast dan commercials maken waarin jezelf gelijkstelt aan oud-premiers van andere partijen. #VVD #Dilan nos.nl/artikel/2500...

Come and work with us in beautiful Amsterdam! We are looking for a PhD student to explore the 'Role of Social Norms in Negative Campaigning and Affective Polarization' Deadline: 10 Jan 24 Starting: Preferably April 24 All details: tinyurl.com/45ryj32t RT=🧡 @ascor.bsky.social, # commsky # polsky

VVD heeft wel de grootste flater ooit geslagen met het opblazen van het kabinet…

Durft iemand het al aan om de uitslag van de Prodemos Scholierenverkiezing te duiden? PVV de grootste gevolgd door Forum en daarna pas usual suspect onder studenten GLPvdA. stem.scholierenverkiezingen.nl/uitslagen

Erika van Elsas, a former colleague of mine, has written a blog post (in Dutch) on StukRoodVlees discussing the distinctions between substantive polarization and incivility in debates, drawing from the paper we collaborated on: stukroodvlees.nl/polarisatie-...