As I told Jimmy Kimmel, when is it enough?

We have once again updated our encyclopedia of polarisation and I will take it as an opportunity to introduce some of the features again. On ❄️ polarization.wiki you can find descriptions, formulas, data and applications of the most common measurements of political polarization.

Why #democracy needs #business? A strong private sector is key to democratic resilience. But there are risks! It isn't business capture of state but state capture of business that poses the greatest danger to democracy, we argue in @jodemocracy.bsky.social w/ @lucanway.bsky.social & S. Levitsky.

@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... 🚨Please share widely! #Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

If you’re a political scientist please consider joining @epssnet.bsky.social as a member to help support this new (not for profit!) organization and the next European Political Science Conference in 2026 in Belfast 👇 If that’s not in the budget: spreading the word is just as important 😊

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

DEP Pepe Mujica

❗Diez lecciones que nos deja Pepe Mujica www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

🔴 #RSFIndex2025 |The 2025 RSF World Press Freedom Index highlights the media’s growing economic fragility. Among the five indicators used to evaluate the Index’s countries, the economic indicator saw the most significant decline. #WPFD2025 #WorldPressFreedomDay

Das #BMZ muss sich wandeln – "es hat in dieser Legislaturperiode vielleicht zum letzten Mal die Chance, seine Arbeit als zukunftsfähiges und eigenständiges Politikfeld zu erhalten." @heinerjanus.bsky.social & @avonschiller.bsky.social in @table.media: table.media/esg/standpun...

29 April 1945 | The US Army soldiers liberated #Dachau - the first concentration camp created in Nazi Germany which became a model camp for the entire SS concentration camps system. Over 205,000 people were imprisoned there between 1933-1945. Some 41,500 were murdered there.

Das Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) bleibt laut #Koalitionsvertrag erhalten. Jetzt ist es Zeit für tiefgreifende Reformen, schreiben die IDOS-Experten Heiner Janus und Armin von Schiller in: #DieAktuelleKolumne www.idos-research.de/die-aktuelle...

Die Koalitionsverhandlungen konzentrieren sich auf Deutschlands militärische „Hard Power“ – und das wohl zur Lasten der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Damit würde die nächste Regierung einen strategischen Fehler machen und ihre globale Position schwächen, so Svea Koch und @nielskeijzer.bsky.social:

Der nächsten #Bundesregierung wird eine ungewohnte Führungsrolle in der #Afrikapolitik der #EU zukommen. In einer neuen Analyse der @FESonline mache ich 5 Vorschläge, wo, wozu und wie sich #Deutschland besonders engagieren könnte. 🧵 ⬇️ und Link ➡️ library.fes.de/pdf-files/in...

Nailed it www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

We (@pdri-devlab.bsky.social) are hosting a webinar on March 5th, noon EST. "Our goal is to deepen public understanding of what foreign aid entails and highlight the stakes of its suspension from the perspectives of those directly engaged in the work." Register at: upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Nach den Äußerungen von CDU-Chef Friedrich Merz zum Mord an Walter Lübcke hat sich die Witwe zu Wort gemeldet. Die Demos haben „uns als Familie sehr viel Kraft“ gegeben und gezeigt, „wir sind nicht allein, wir treten gemeinsam ein für den Bestand unserer Demokratie.“ www.hna.de/kassel/witwe...

It's a rather low hurdle but we cleared it, not a given these days.

🚨 please share! We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June. This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers. Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️ www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

Eighty years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.

Este #25N y el resto de días alzamos la voz por las que ya no están. ¡Nos queremos vivas, libres y sin miedo! Unidas contra las violencias machistas. TU VIOLENCIA MACHISTA, NUESTRA RESPUESTA FEMINISTA. #NiUnaMenos