🌀 🪧 Many #extremist organisations operate in democratic societies. Some get banned; others don’t. Why? 📜 Using data from Germany, Michel Zeller of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social explains why governments ban only some of the organisations working to undermine constitutional democracy ⤵️ bit.ly/3YuECH0

What about them? 💭 Rune Stubager, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck use survey data from Austria, Denmark & the U.S. to find out whether group sympathies matter as much as social identity when influencing #VoterBehaviour

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What about them? 💭 Rune Stubager, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck use survey data from Austria, Denmark & the U.S. to find out whether group sympathies matter as much as social identity when influencing #VoterBehaviour

Sore losers? 😓 @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @katerinamichalaki.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social use survey experiments after major U.S. elections to test whether reminding people of a party's loss, and their reactions to it 🤬, makes them more or less supportable 📣

It’s ideology, not geography 🗺️ New research by Natasha Wunsch of @ecprsgeu.bsky.social & @mihailchiru.bsky.social show conflicts over democratic backsliding in the EP are driven more by ideology (pro-EU vs Eurosceptic) than by a simple East–West split

Women MPs and climate action 🌍👩‍💼 @hannahsalamon.bsky.social's new research from the UK Parliament shows women MPs talk about the environment more than men helping embed #Climate issues across politics

Who should compensate trade losers? 🌍💸 @andduer.bsky.social, @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & Gemma Mateo find across 19 European countries that political elites and the public think differently about how to help those hurt by trade 🎁

When liberal values hit their limits 🕌⚖️ Lise Lund Bjånesøy, Peter Esaiasson, Elisabeth Ivarsflaten & Paul M. Sniderman find support for Muslims’ civil liberties across Europe drops sharply when religious freedom is used to preach conservative values

Pics or it didn't happen! 📱 @olgaeisele.bsky.social, @hdnrch.bsky.social & @phoebemaares.bsky.social look at a decade of EU social media posts to show that how images are used strongly shapes user engagement

Who do parties really listen to? 🎧 @felixlehmann.bsky.social finds that EU-wide evidence shows parties mostly respond to their own supporters, not the public at large, holding across issues, regions, party types, and over time.

How democracies survive autocratization 🛡️ New comparative research by @gpanzano.bsky.social & @lucatomini.bsky.social show that democracies don’t survive backsliding because of single heroic actions. Survival depends on coordinated resistance 💪

Left vs Right is becoming personal 🔴🔵 New cross-national evidence by N. Lin, L.P. Santoso & R.T. Stevenson shows voters in Western democracies are developing emotional attachments to the Left and Right as social groups, but how will this impact voting?

That’s all from the latest issue of the European Journal of Political Research! 📚✨ Thanks so much for tuning in 📻️ Missed it? No worries! Issue 65.1 – featuring research on #ComparativePolitics, #Populism, #DemocraticRights, and more – is fully #OpenAccess 🙌

65.1🦋 How do parties decide who wins what in #Coalition talks? 🤝 Drawing on data 📊 from five government formations, David M. Willumsen of @ecprsgeu.bsky.social & @simonotjes.bsky.social study how #PolicyPayoffs are negotiated and distributed in coalition governments

How does the EU shift political battles? @brigittepircher.bsky.social and Karl Loxbo present research Sweden shows EU membership dampens conflict on economic issues, while sharpening debates on welfare and identity 🧩

65.1🦋 Chosen (not) to win? 🥈 @leaelsaesser.bsky.social & Jonas Wenker use data from Germany to suggest that working-class candidates are less likely to be placed in safe or winnable positions on party lists, and that career politicians might be favoured instead 🧍💼

Welfare politics is about who gets what 🎁😌 @petroleuse-sbd.bsky.social & Timothy Hellwig find evidence from Europe which shows economic security shapes welfare preferences, linking policy design directly to voter approval and electoral incentives

65.1🦋 Resentment and democracy under strain ✊ @mfilsinger.bsky.social & Steffen Wamsler of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social show how #SGRD shapes not only radical political support, but also citizens’ commitment to democracy 🏛️ drawing on survey data 📊 across six European countries

65.1🦋 Do Respectful Politicians Make Less Polarized Citizens? 🤝 @rtpedersen.bsky.social @julianchr.bsky.social & Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen use survey data to test whether positive rhetoric 🗣️ ✅ can reduce #polarization in the same way negative rhetoric 🗣️ ❎ increases it buff.ly/5I8UL8K

65.1🦋 Is representation out of touch? 🤔 Nino Junius & Stefaan Walgrave comment on a #RepresentationGap between high and low SES backgrounds in politics, suggesting that those who benefit the most from inclusion in their personal networks often lack it the most 🤝

Our latest articles are now available as #OpenAccess on Cambridge Core! This makes them easy to share with students, integrate into teaching, or circulate among colleagues — all peer-reviewed and free to read 📖 😱

65.1🦋 #FarRight amplifiers 🔊 @dasalgon.bsky.social and @tevoelker.bsky.social show how far-right actors increasingly shape the agendas of mainstream parties, particularly around Islam, migration & cultural issues. #AfD

65.1🦋 🆕 Perceived #Inequality and #Populism 🗣️ Evidence across Denmark, Germany and Italy show that people who perceive great inequality are more likely to hold #Populist attitudes according to @lstoetze.bsky.social, Johannes Giesecke & @heikekluever.bsky.social

#AffectivePolarization ≠ only #Partisanships 🎉 Ida Bæk Hjermitslev & @markuswagner.bsky.social widen the lens on political identity, looking in Germany, where ideological identities (left/right) are as strong as party IDs and shape how people judge others 🤔

65.1🦋 Attitudes toward international organisations? 🌍 Exploring #Technocratic & #Populist attitudes, Reinout van der Veer & @profonderco.bsky.social use survey data across five European 🏤 countries to explain how people view #InternationalOrganisations

65.1🦋 What issues matter most to #Voters? 😬 @gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups prioritise different issues. But are issue importance and personal attitudes driven by the same factors? 🧭🗳️

High emissions and low admission? 🏭️ @lucasgeese.bsky.social and @chantal-st.bsky.social use rare data to understand what impact the carbon footprint of voters has on the decarbonisation focus of MPS, asking whether politician's prioritize #NetZero, or short-term electoral gains 🌍️

65.1🦋 What happens when the #RadicalRight looks fondly to the past? 🕰️ 👀 @populismblog.bsky.social & @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social introduce #AuthoritarianNostalgia exploring how supporters of VOX and Chega connect today’s politics with Spanish & Portuguese eras buff.ly/GHwnwul

Open Access, with fewer financial hurdles 🚧 💸 The @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org & ECPR partnership supports EJPR authors with funding guidance, OA expertise, and global publishing infrastructure 🏗️ buff.ly/e11eP6L

65.1🦋 Do campaigns matter? 🤔 Denmark’s 2022 EU defence opt-out vote show that #Campaign information matters. While fear-based messages influences #Voters at the start, their effect declines as voters learn more. @rsenninger.bsky.social, J.Fenger & D.Beach of @ecprsgeu.bsky.social

Impressionable years and lasting votes 👶 @leonardocarella.bsky.social & @fraraffaelli.bsky.social argue that people exposed to high #Immigration salience when young are more like to consider a party's standing later in life, highlighting generation difference in #Voting patterns buff.ly/py9IYUS

What else is there to know? 💰️ @elenakanrez.bsky.social & Jaroslaw Kantorowicz test whether different ways of informing people change their perception and support of economic sanctions using German and Polish experiment data

✔ Global reach ✔ Robust publishing infrastructure ✔ Strong Open Access expertise That’s what @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org is bringing to EJPR in 2026 and on 🚀

65.1🦋 Sore losers 😤 🗳️ Einar Bäckström finds that #VoterSatisfaction does not change right after electoral decisions, but becomes more polarised over time ⏰ Long-term processes drive the winner-loser gap🏅

65.1🦋 Representation and resentment🙅 R. Hlatky of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social, @dramyhliu.bsky.social, Y. Li & A.Pitre-Young expand on how ethnic minorities succeed in #CEE 1️⃣ Types of #representation 2️⃣ #MinorityMobilization vs #AllyAdvocacy 3️⃣ Political activity or social marginalization

📘 A new chapter begins in 2026 for EJPR! Did you know? Our current issue is the first published with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org as part of our new partnership! Stay tuned to see what this change means for readers, authors, and the global political science community 🤔

65.1 🦋 Democracy under pressure 🦠 @vinarceneaux.bsky.social, @catherinedevries.bsky.social, B. Bakker & S.Hobolt find that support in the US and UK remained strong for #Democratic rights during the first wave of the #Pandemic, valuing support in times of crisis🌦️

#AI to detect hate speech? 🤖 These authors 🧵 trained GPT-4o-mini with online hate speech labeled by various annotators to show that when asking #LLM's to perform judgement-based tasks , data quality matters more than quantity 🤬 buff.ly/J25oYTB

65.1 🦋 Who runs for political office and who doesn’t? 🤷 These authors 🧵👇️ show how personality traits, especially honesty and humility, shape citizens’ political ambition, answering why recruitment matters in cross-national study ✍️ 🔗 buff.ly/Sc9yPf1

65.1 🦋 How does legislative organisation shape the electoral fortunes of coalition parties? @shane-martin.bsky.social & Lasse Aaskoven show that strong parliamentary committees can help junior coalition partners avoid punishment, even when PM parties face steeper losses ⛰️ 🔗

We’re starting 2026 with new research 📘 The latest issue of European Journal of Political Research is now out! Featuring work from authors across #ComparativePolitics, #Populism, #DemocraticRights and more! Stay tuned 📻️ to see the highlights 💡

MAGA & MAGYAR 🇺🇸🇭🇺 Christian Lamour examines how "common sense" language is used to challenge liberal democratic views, and similarities between Trump's and Orbán's speech styles used to promote ideas grounded in the radical right.

Conscription = Civic Engagement?🪖 @morten-jakobsen.bsky.social & @sorenserritzlew.bsky.social examine influences #Conscription in Denmark 🇩🇰 has on factors including: National attachment Prosocial motivation #Trust Political preferences #PoliticalInterest & #Authoritarian attitudes

🛐 How is #Secularisation changing the way we vote? @melff.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social & Kamil Marcinkiewicz examine patterns in Western Europe to find how the relationship between religion and vote choice have changed over time. 🗳️

The magic of unwaved flags 🪄🚩 Maria Nordbrandt, Gina Gustavsson & Karen N. Breidahl showed Swedes and Danes their national flags to ask whether subtle reminders of #NationalIdentity can reduce #Polarization. buff.ly/1ISZrWz

Why are some #Goverments appointing #NonPartisan ministers? These authors 🧵👇 encourage a broader approach to this question, using a novel dataset across 30 European democracies, to ask are any non-party ministers appointed at all? And if yes, how many? 🗳️ buff.ly/vTRgyhd

Are #ConstitutionalCourts really neutral?🧑‍⚖️ These authors 🧵👇 look at Spain's Constitutional Court 🇪🇸 ⚖️ across 4 decades to see how judicial outcome is shaped by political alignment, institutional design , and cour ideology. buff.ly/eF5K4V3

Check out Michael C. Zeller's piece on @ecprtheloop.bsky.social, which builds on his research 📑 published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, bringing a fresh clarity to the question of how #Democracies respond to #ExtremistOrganisations 💭

Why do some #Extremist groups get banned whilst others don’t? 🤔 Michael C. Zeller looks at Germany’s 🇩🇪 “militant democracy” & shows that bans are driven less by principle and more by visibility, strategy, and politics. 🔗