In this paper we use data from Argentina to contribute to the debate about the dangers of polarisation. We explore if partisans rely on regime stereotypes to stigmatise rivals; are more emotional in victory/defeat; and display conditional democratic commitments journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW First online article 🔔 #openaccess How does the populist radical right use local office to pursue national political ambitions? #Peru #Populism #politicalambition @eljorobado.bsky.social @zsofiabocskay.bsky.social @sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Strong partisans, conditional democrats? Partisanship and reactions to electoral outcomes in Argentina ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid... Paper forthcoming in @cpsjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @egocantos.bsky.social and Carlos Melendez

✍️ Peru’s democracy is eroding not through aspiring autocrats but through exhaustion. Entrenched informality hollows out authority and turns governance into a marketplace of deals rather than a system of rules, @eljorobado.bsky.social argues in his op-ed. 🇵🇪🇵🇪 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/3hdcnjjb

We continue with Daphne Halikiopoulou (University of York, @dafnoukos.bsky.social) presenting work on ethnic vs civic nationalism in speeches by far right leaders in Europe and Latin America 🇪🇺🌎 (joint work with Carlos Meléndez @eljorobado.bsky.social and Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social)

Next up, Carlos Meléndez (Lisbon University, @eljorobado.bsky.social) presents work on voters' responses to authoritarian stances by political leaders, with survey experimental data from Brazil 🇧🇷. (joint work with Ezequiel González Ocantos @egocantos.bsky.social)

Cool to be listed in the "Top 10 Political Science Scholars by Region" (Latin America), global ranking of research productivity elaborated by @joan-barcelo.bsky.social et al., published in @pspolisci.bsky.social , under the Top Publications category. The link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📌 This Wednesday 26/2, join @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social & @eljorobado.bsky.social , as they present their research on the psychological, ideological, and attitudinal drivers of authoritarian support in Italy, with a focus on the 2022 Italian elections. Learn more and register here🔗 buff.ly/3Xe2uOG

¿Cuál es la funcionalidad de nuestra polarización ? “Tengo la impresión de que la disincronía entre la polarización de las élites con la polarización de la sociedad va a generar, tarde o temprano, un caso paradójico de contrapolarización” elcomercio.pe/opinion/colu...

🚨 Call for papers 🚨 "Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy: Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America" Central European University, 22-23/9/2025 Organised by @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Carlos Meléndez democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...

Very happy to co-organize with @dafnoukos.bsky.social the 2nd Democratic Expeditions Workshop this September in Budapest at CEU-Democracy Institute We’re looking for comparative studies of the far-right in Latin America and Europe Proposals welcome here: democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...

How can we combat the far right and safeguard democracy? Delighted to be organising the next 'Democratic Expeditions' workshop with @eljorobado.bsky.social at CEU, together with FES next September- info and Call for Papers below. Join us in Budapest! democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...

Our January 2024 issue (Vol.56, No.2) is now available: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

It was really insightful to finally get to present our paper on populism anti-populism and moralization at the POPULISMUS workshop in Thessaloniki :)

Nuestra intervención en el debate sobre por qué los chilenos le dijeron “no” a la nueva constitución en 2022. Pasen y lean!

Why did Chileans vote against a new constitution in the 2022 referendum? What is the text or the context? Leveraging a conjoint experiment and vote-choice models based on original f2f survey data, this article finds that second-order preferences ruled the day.

New article on Fast Track by @egocantos.bsky.social & @eljorobado.bsky.social, "Rethinking the Role of Issue-Voting in Referenda: Conjoint and Vote Choice Analyses of Preferences for Constitutional Change in Chile,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...