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3 months ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: How do populists define “the people”?
@tiondelisa.bsky.social
examines how right-wing populists construct ingroup identity through opposition. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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IN NEW ISSUE: Politics for Survival: W Lu, S Fan & W Chen examine ideological control in authoritarian regimes from a bottom-up perspective, wherein firms not only comply but also utilize the control to advance their interests:
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about 17 hours ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: Do generous welfare policies foster political trust? Matthijs Gillissen,
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& Anna Ruelens examine the long-term effects of welfare generosity on trust in political institutions. Read more:
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1 day ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: Who deserves representation, and when? August De Mulder, Ine Gevers &
@zeljkopoljak.bsky.social
unpack the temporal dynamics of politicians’ claims of representation on social media:
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IN NEW ISSUE: Short-term rentals can disrupt urban life & influence the ballot box -
@tonirodon.bsky.social
, Raya & Llaneza link high Airbnb density in Barcelona to increased support for parties targeting home-sharing regulation:
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2 days ago
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Measuring Changes in Corruption Over Time: Maya Dalton & Justin Esarey introduce a new synthetic measure of within-country change in corruption allowing researchers to explain common changes in corruption to all measures, rather than privileging any single index. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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Measuring Changes in Corruption Over Time - Maya Dalton, Justin Esarey, 2026
How confident should we be in the answers we get when using existing measures of corruption? Scholars routinely rely on country-level corruption indices to stud...
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3 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: How does affective polarization shape political participation? Maruša Lubej, Martin Dolezal & Andrej Kirbiš's examine how emotional divides between political groups impact voting, protests & other participation. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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3 days ago
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Do partisans distort what counts as democratic behaviour? Nam Kyu Kim, Yunmin Nam, Joonseok Yang & Wonbin Cho examine survey data, showing citizens rate co-partisans’ undemocratic acts as more democratic, especially under affective polarization. More:
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4 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: The moral limits on uncivil climate protest - Alex McLaughlin examines Andreas Malm’s claim that the climate movement should engage in targeted sabotage of property associated with high emissions. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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4 days ago
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Did Biden’s 2024 exit reshape electoral outcomes?
@mattmotta.bsky.social
, Trujillo,
@stecula.bsky.social
, Callaghan,
@ophiryotam.bsky.social
&
@drorwalter.bsky.social
examine panel data, finding no turnout effects but higher excitement and Democratic engagement. Read more:
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#polsky
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5 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: The green transition as both an analytical & a political concept -
@jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social
explores the intentions to which it responds, the assumptions with it & if these are well founded:
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#polsci
#polsky
5 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: The Case of VOX in Spain: Josep Maria Comellas Bonsfills & Mariano Torcal Loriente examine the dynamic relationship between affective polarization and radical right’s emergence:
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#polsci
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6 days ago
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How do opposition parties become viable under dominant-party rule? Nur Sinem Kourou & Ahmet Cemal Ertürk examine Turkey’s CHP, arguing “transformative accumulation” builds capacity through ideology, leadership and organisation. Read more:
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7 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: What gets a country elected to the UN Security Council? Gary Uzonyi explores the role of regional relative democracy - read OPEN ACCESS:
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#elections
#polsci
#polsky
#researchnote
#polsky
7 days ago
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Do local labour markets shape support for the radical right?
@rubenruizrufino.bsky.social
examines how labour-intensive industries foster exclusionary attitudes and boost far-right voting across Europe. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
#polsky
#polsci
#RadicalRight
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8 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: How do personality traits relate to positive and negative partisanship? R Michael McGregor,
@thelagnum.bsky.social
& Scott Pruysers examine this in-depth suing data from Canada. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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#ECRs
#polsci
#polsky
8 days ago
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Are authoritarian legislatures mere rubber stamps? Hui Yang, Xiaohong Yu & Jiangrui Liu examine China’s Congress, showing bill revisions respond to party attention and public concern despite bureaucratic constraints. Read more:
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#polsky
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9 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: Sexual Corruption and Political (Dis)trust - Sofia Jonsson explores how gendered experiences of corruption affect trust levels. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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#polsci
#polsky
#democracy
9 days ago
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How do memories of wartime violence affect post-war inter-group attitudes? Dino Hadzic shows war memory activation increases hostility toward out-group members, especially among those who experienced violence firsthand. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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10 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: Rising public dissatisfaction with representative democracy has sparked interest in bottom-up forms of direct democracy, so D Moeckli, F Mendez, M Labud & N Reimann map the European landscape of citizen's initiatives:
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#polsci
10 days ago
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Why do citizens support participation but not take part? Steven N. Blok's article shows those favouring direct democracy are less engaged than technocratic or politician-averse groups. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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#polsky
#polsci
#PoliticalParticipation
#eupolitics
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11 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: Automation ‘losers’ prefer the radical right, but have they become more authoritarian?
@gregoriobuzzelli.bsky.social
,
@francesconicoli.bsky.social
& S Sacchi find no deep ideological shift among routine workers:
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#polsci
#polsky
11 days ago
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How to move beyond capitalism from within capitalism? Aiste Pagirenaite argues that the capitalist state can be used strategically by prefigurative organisations to build better - sustainable, democratic, and fairer - futures. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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12 days ago
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12 days ago
New article out in
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with Ugur Sumbul! Not all crises fuel anti-establishment attitudes (#conspiracism &
#populism
) equally. Energy & immigration concerns do, climate & Ukraine war don't. Timely findings as Europe faces a new energy crisis 👉
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IN NEW ISSUE: Politics for Survival: W Lu, S Fan & W Chen examine ideological control in authoritarian regimes from a bottom-up perspective, wherein firms not only comply but also utilize the control to advance their interests:
buff.ly/GPEToGx
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
#polsci
#polsky
12 days ago
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Do far-right parties moderate or diversify their agendas over time? Belén Fernández-García examines Western Europe (1990–2025), showing stronger nativism alongside broader socioeconomic appeals. Read more:
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#polsky
#polsci
#FarRightPolitics
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13 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: Who deserves representation, and when? August De Mulder, Ine Gevers &
@zeljkopoljak.bsky.social
unpack the temporal dynamics of politicians’ claims of representation on social media:
buff.ly/wlfV2aF
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
#ECRs
#polsci
#polsky
13 days ago
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Did Biden’s 2024 exit reshape electoral outcomes?
@mattmotta.bsky.social
, Trujillo,
@stecula.bsky.social
, Callaghan,
@ophiryotam.bsky.social
&
@drorwalter.bsky.social
examine panel data, finding no turnout effects but higher excitement and Democratic engagement. Read more:
buff.ly/3CKEZqC
#polsky
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14 days ago
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Our May issue is now out! 📘 Read the latest research findings in all areas of
#politics
and
#IR
in
@polstudies.bsky.social
:
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The journal publishes rigorous and original work significant to the whole discipline.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
#polsci
#polsky
@uoypolitics.bsky.social
14 days ago
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Do parties & voters agree on EU exit referendums?
@acgoldberg.bsky.social
&
@alessandronai.bsky.social
examine 10 countries, showing parties are more opposed than voters, with gaps narrowing as issue salience rises. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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#EuropeanPolitics
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Nexit, Frexit or Grexit? A Comparison of Party and Citizen Positions Towards European Union Exit Referendums - Andreas C Goldberg, Alessandro Nai, 2026
The fracture between citizens and elites on European integration remains understudied, most notably when it comes to specific issues. One of these issues, parti...
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15 days ago
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Measuring Changes in Corruption Over Time: Maya Dalton & Justin Esarey introduce a new synthetic measure of within-country change in corruption allowing researchers to explain common changes in corruption to all measures, rather than privileging any single index. Read OPEN ACCESS:
buff.ly/Q9Kr5FF
15 days ago
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How do opposition parties become viable under dominant-party rule? Nur Sinem Kourou & Ahmet Cemal Ertürk examine Turkey’s CHP, arguing “transformative accumulation” builds capacity through ideology, leadership and organisation. Read more:
buff.ly/cYglzNS
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#polsky
#polsci
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16 days ago
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Do local labour markets shape support for the radical right?
@rubenruizrufino.bsky.social
examines how labour-intensive industries foster exclusionary attitudes and boost far-right voting across Europe. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
#polsky
#polsci
#RadicalRight
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17 days ago
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Do partisans distort what counts as democratic behaviour? Nam Kyu Kim, Yunmin Nam, Joonseok Yang & Wonbin Cho examine survey data, showing citizens rate co-partisans’ undemocratic acts as more democratic, especially under affective polarization. More:
buff.ly/L7be1EK
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17 days ago
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Are authoritarian legislatures mere rubber stamps? Hui Yang, Xiaohong Yu & Jiangrui Liu examine China’s Congress, showing bill revisions respond to party attention and public concern despite bureaucratic constraints. Read more:
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@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
#polsky
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Decoding Legislative Dynamics: Empirics on Bill Modifications in China - Hui Yang, Xiaohong Yu, Jiangrui Liu, 2026
Authoritarian legislatures are often portrayed as “rubber stamps” that merely formalize predetermined decisions. Yet growing evidence suggests that they can inf...
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18 days ago
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Is discrimination wrong because of what it expresses or how it’s deliberated? Bjørn Hallsson &
@vikipedersen.bsky.social
argue expressive disrespect drives moral judgment for everyone, while deliberation matters mainly for Independents & Republicans. More:
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#CEPDISC
#philsky
#xPhi
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19 days ago
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Do perceptions of low economic status limit support for welfare taxes? Laura Lungu examines survey data showing those feeling poorer favour equality yet resist tax rises to fund welfare. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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#polsky
#polsci
#WelfarePolitics
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20 days ago
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Do referendum winners stay satisfied? Kris Dunn, Fiona Wang &
@chvrakopoulos.bsky.social
tracked
#Brexit
voters over 5 years & found dramatic fluctuations in democratic satisfaction. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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#WinnerLoserGap
#Referendums
#polsci
#polisky
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21 days ago
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Has
#technocracy
reshaped cabinet formation in Greece? Manina Kakepaki & Gerasimos Karoulas examine ministerial careers since 2000, showing the rise of academic technocrats under strong PMs & coalitions. Read more:
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#polsci
#CrisisPolitics
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22 days ago
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Finally, we wrap up with a thinking point on civic education and democracy in two cases with evidence of a recent 'return' to democracy: Florin N Fesnic's 2015 article compares the effects of the widely different choices made in the early 1990s by Poland and Hungary... 🧵 👇️
22 days ago
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How do democratic transitions affect party politics beyond borders? Ubeydullah Ademi & Firat Kimya examine diffusion effects, showing transitions reduce democracy polarization in neighboring democracies over time. Read more:
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#polsky
#DemocraticDiffusion
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23 days ago
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Wonder who has been involved in anti-regime protests & why?
@danmercea.bsky.social
,
@feligsantos.bsky.social
& Matthias Hoffmann examine protest participation in Hungary & five other European countries on a gradient from non- to actual participation. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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#polsky
23 days ago
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Why has the populist radical right failed in Scotland?
@davidevampa.bsky.social
, Alan Convery &
@frasmcm.bsky.social
examine how symbiotic polarization between SNP and Conservatives blocked PRRPs, until recently. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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#polsky
#PartyPolitics
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24 days ago
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Now we return to where it all began: Read
@zsolt.bsky.social
's 2015 experimental study detailing research conducted before and after the 2010 Hungarian election that brought Orban back to power and began the process of democratic erosion... 👇️ 🧵
24 days ago
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Are visual strategies distinctive to populism? Francesco Melito &
@mattiazulianello.bsky.social
examine how political parties’ comms teams strategise, based on original interviews with professionals working directly with Italian parties. Read more:
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25 days ago
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Making sense of the Hungarian case - this week, we've pulled four articles from our archive that can provide some context and thinking points on the results of the recent election in Hungary. First is an intro to party politics in the Hungarian context 🧵 👇️
25 days ago
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Do negative encounters with immigrants activate personality effects in PRR support?
@cvalebeek.bsky.social
, Daniel Komáromy,
@delaneypeterson.bsky.social
&
@mrooduijn.bsky.social
find it's not generally the case but initial exposure & out-group framing may matter:
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26 days ago
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Did Biden’s 2024 exit reshape electoral outcomes?
@mattmotta.bsky.social
, Trujillo,
@stecula.bsky.social
, Callaghan,
@ophiryotam.bsky.social
&
@drorwalter.bsky.social
examine panel data, finding no turnout effects but higher excitement and Democratic engagement. Read more:
buff.ly/3CKEZqC
#polsky
26 days ago
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What makes technical expertise a legitimate source of authority? Trym Nohr Fjørtoft (
@trymnf.com
) examines “technical legitimacy”, proposing conditions under which expertise can justify delegation to non-majoritarian institutions. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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#ECRs
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