📣 Our latest e-Extreme Newsletter is out! Find it here: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... (Current Issue) ✋ Kindly brought to you by @audreygagnon.bsky.social, @lazaroskaravasilis.bsky.social and @sabinedvolk.bsky.social! 🍿 Read on for expert interviews (on elections in 🇵🇹 & 🇷🇴), book reviews and more!

📣 Are you an early career researcher? Did you present a paper at #ECPRgc25 in Thessaloniki as part of our Extremism & Democracy endorsed section? Then why not nominate yourself for the 2025 E&D Best Paper Prize? Just send us your paper via email by 5 Sept. 📧 [email protected] 🏆

#ecprgc25 is over. Thank you Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and all the supporting staff for hosting us, and for organising a great conference.

🗣️ Feeling inspired by the Academic Freedom Under Pressure roundtable earlier at #ecprgc25? 👀 Check out The Loop blog pieces from speakers @sldelange.bsky.social and Iris B. Segers: ✍️ bit.ly/45wLUNi ✍️ bit.ly/3Jf8HFU

A lot of new and interesting political science research is presented at #ecprgc25 in (very warm) Thessaloniki

Do not miss our Business Meeting. Don't think about it as business, but more as reconnecting with your scholarly community 🤗

✨ Great start to #ECPRGC25! Presented an early draft in a panel endorsed by @ecpr-ead.bsky.social, together with @larboe.bsky.social, @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social and @tevoelker.bsky.social, followed by excellent discussion and feedback from @sldelange.bsky.social. 🙌 More exciting days ahead! ✨

On Wednesday (at the crack of dawn), we continue with a book panel, celebrating two OUP publications by Paris Aslanidis and @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it, co-hosted with the great @sldelange.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/ecpr...

Yay! Who else is coming to #ECPRgc25? 🌞 🏖️

🍿Do not miss our book panel at @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference celebrating these two important OUP publications by Paris Aslanidis and the dreamteam duo @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it. 🍰 Featuring commentary by @sldelange.bsky.social & @leoniedejonge.bsky.social.

Thrilled to receive the 2024 Best Paper Prize ✨! Sad I can’t attend the celebration in person, but thankful for the recognition and this community.

🎉 Congrats to @dom-of-tronina.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 Best Paper Prize! Her paper shows how anti-gender movements build transnational ties on Twitter/X via shared hashtags👏 🪷 Big thanks to our esteemed jury members: @kai-arzheimer.com @caterinafr.bsky.social @ammassarisofia.bsky.social

🙌 Our Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy is at #ecprgc25! Don’t miss their Business Meetings and Panels during the conference 🏆 Plus, explore their prizes, events, and other opportunities in the thread below 👇

📢 Hello E&D Colleagues! We’ve got several updates from the @ecpr.bsky.social Extremism & Democracy Standing Group (@ecpr-ead.bsky.social). Whether you’re joining us in Thessaloniki or following from afar, here’s what’s coming up. 🧵👇

📣 Our colleagues from the WZB Berlin Social Science Center are looking to establish a new research department and to fill the full-time position of Director for the study of democracy at the earliest possible date. Here you find the job opening on the website of the WZB: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...

💡 Our colleagues over in Italy are organising a Summer School on Democratic Backsliding & Political Conflict from 27-30 September 2025. There are scholarships available from Widening countries. Application details can be found at: www.eui.eu/apply?id=sum...

📢 Call for Reviewers! We seek reviewers for the Dec 2025 and Apr 2026 editions of eExtreme, the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy newsletter. We are looking for reviews of recent books on the far right, extremism, populism, or terrorism. Please contact me or @ecpr-ead.bsky.social

📣 Calling all interested scholars... Who would like to review a book for us?

What a great pleasure to have participated in the 1. Conference of the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social in London! 💫 Two days of diverse panels, a stellar roundtable, an inspiring keynote, and an incredibly friendly and supportive community - thanks for organising this! 💘

Had a great time presenting at the first Conference of the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social, surrounded by an array of experts and fascinating panels. Many useful ideas for existing and future papers, and next steps. The E&D community continues to grow, and I look forward to wherever it takes us in 2027!

Had a wonderful time at the inaugural conference of the E&D group in London. Congratulations and many many thanks to the organisers for putting this event together - already looking forwards to the next one (once everyone has had a chance to rest).

Presented the first draft of the first paper of my postdoc project at the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social! Special thanks to @profannikawerner.bsky.social for the insightful feedback and to @simonotjes.bsky.social , @robert-a-huber.bsky.social for the valuable input

#SGED25 at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social we have the joke-peppered keynote of @kai-arzheimer.com who takes us down the memory lane mapping out A Quarter Century of Extremism & Democracy - Now What? #ecpr #polisky

Attending inaugural conference of the Standing Group of Extremism and Democracy New & Old Challenges of Populism & Radicalism @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social in London 🇬🇧. I get the chance to chair an extremely interesting section on Identities. More info about the event at: ecpr.eu/Events/322 #SGED25

Congratulations to all involved in organising it - great success. And hope all those attended come away with fond memories of @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social

A huge thank you to the good people who made the inaugural conference of the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social possible! #sged25

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💐 We´re about to close the first standalone conference organised by the @ecpr.bsky.social SG E&D. THANK YOU from the organising team to everyone who made this event a success! 💐 @sajuria.com @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @profannikawerner.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social

Such an interesting project: Listening to @asheinze.bsky.social‘s presentation on German mayor‘s responses to the #AfD, based on innovative focus group data. Mayors matter! Looking forward to reading this great piece of research 📚

Follow the RRResRobot for interesting research references! 🤖

Haha, tru dat! 😊 If I remember correctly, I approached Roget Eatwell as I had just finished my PhD, in 1998, being 30 years old. Truly amazing to see how this idea has developed into such an amazing and supportive community of scholars almost 30 years later. 😍

If you are at the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference, come to @liranharsgor.bsky.social's panel on Tuesday 15:00 - 16:30 and hear Armin's talk. We document a growing gap in satisfaction with democracy between the lower and the higher educated using APC- analyses of Eurobarometer and ESS data.

First conference of the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social in London 🇬🇧

Great to listen to the keynote by @kai-arzheimer.com. Not only a kind person but also a star of the field! @powimz.bsky.social @ipp-jgu.bsky.social

Even back in the day @ecpr-ead.bsky.social discussed extremism’s effect on democracy. @kai-arzheimer.com builds the large historical bridges in his Keynote at our Standing Group Extremism & Democracy conference. @ecpr.bsky.social

Excellent keynote! 👏 Thank you @kai-arzheimer.com

"How it started" vs "How it's going". @kai-arzheimer.com scraped info from the conference website to get a sense of what the members in our Standing Group are working on today. 😎

@kai-arzheimer.com dug into the @ecpr.bsky.social archives (with a little help of supportive staff there) to tell the founding story of our Standing Group. 🤩 Our SG was founded in 1999 by a "then very young" @casmudde.bsky.social & Roger Eatwell.

🥁 Next up, our keynote speaker for tonight, Prof. @kai-arzheimer.com! Kai has not only been an influential scholar in the field of Extremism & Democracy - but also a wonderfully supportive colleague. 👏

It was a real privilege to chair this roundtable. We had an insightful (and sometimes despairing) discussion about the current threats to democracy. Many thanks to @terezacapelos.bsky.social, @timbale.bsky.social, Kathleen Blee and Andrej Zaslove for their time and careful thoughts.

🤓 Next up, @ecpr-ead.bsky.social: Rolf Frankenberger presenting some work-in-progress on our research into Everyday Extremism. Thanks to @manesweisskircher.bsky.social for chairing and @k8ebrown.bsky.social for agreeing to serve as discussant!

Stellar (if not exactly uplifting) roundtable on the #farright threat to liberal democracy featuring @timbale.bsky.social, Kathleen Blee, Tereza Capelos and Andrej Zaslove at the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference #sged25

What a great Roundtable on the Challenges to Democracy at our @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference at QMUL. Fantastic and varied insights by @terezacapelos.bsky.social @timbale.bsky.social Kathleen Blee and Andrej Zaslove. Special thanks to @sajuria.com for expert moderation.

👏 Thank you for this fascinating (though slightly depressing) roundtable!

Enjoy this wonderful event everyone. There in spirit. And organising committee looking very smart!

🎉 @ecpr-ead.bsky.social first Conference in 🇬🇧 London is in full swing! Scholars around the world gather to share & discuss their cutting-edge research on contemporary challenges in #democracy, #extremism and #populism 📸 Take a sneak peek of the morning in action 👇

Sad to miss this. So many great people there. And so much exciting new research. Enjoy everyone!

🤓 Conferencing in London! The first @ecpr-ead.bsky.social confering is about to start!

Registration in full swing for our first ever @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference @ecpr.bsky.social. Looking forward to an inspiring two days. @profannikawerner.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @sajuria.com @stijntvankessel.bsky.social

We are so exciting to get this show on the road! 🔥