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🎄 Happy holidays everyone! We at
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How do youth bulges reshape political participation in Africa?
@michaelkumove.bsky.social
& Karin Dyrstad examine age-period-cohort effects showing rising protest & declining turnout as youth ratios grow. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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Do Youth Bulges Affect Voting and Protesting? An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis - Michael Kumove, Karin Dyrstad, 2025
Most African countries are experiencing a youth bulge, where a very large proportion of their populations are made up of young people. How might this affect pol...
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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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3 days ago
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📝 How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Haiges,
@nilsweidmann.bsky.social
& Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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3 days ago
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Why do interest organizations network with their opponents?
@marcelhanegraaff.bsky.social
, Andrea Pritoni,
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&
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examine the logic of brokerage. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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4 days ago
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📝 Do patterns of coalition management affect governance outcomes in multiparty presidential regimes? Chaisty & Power examine how cabinet proportionality predicts accountability and public goods. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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4 days ago
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Does the public disapprove of leaders who back down to initiate negotiation with non-state armed actors? Zlatin Mitkov & Michael Yekple examine leader-public interactions during domestic security crises:
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5 days ago
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📝 How does electoral volatility influence party system polarization? Juliusz Gastev explores the relationship in the Latin American context from 1992 to 2018. Read the research note OPEN ACCESS:
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5 days ago
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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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6 days ago
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📝 What drives party support for deliberative democracy in Europe? Sergiu Gherghina & Bettina Mitru find support is shaped by left ideology, governing status, party novelty & manifesto length - not electoral strength or populism. OPEN ACCESS:
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6 days ago
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Kimonos, Ponchos and Blue Jeans: Rafael Shimabukuro explores the role of clothing in populism through an analysis of Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s one-time autocrat (1990–2000). Read OPEN ACCESS:
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7 days ago
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📝 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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7 days ago
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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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8 days ago
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📝 How do different types of
#polarization
affect political
#corruption
? Áron Hajnal analyses a panel of 153 countries (2000-2021) to examine this & how regime type moderates these effects. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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8 days ago
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Trym Nohr Fjørtoft
10 days ago
My paper "Technical Legitimacy" has just been accepted for publication in
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Thorsten Wojczewski
9 days ago
For the AfD's foreign policy outlook, see my piece in
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Who Do People Prefer to Be in Charge? Tessa Haesevoets,
@verschuerebram.bsky.social
, Kim Dierckx, Alain Van Hiel & Arne Roets examine UK Citizens’ preferences for politicians, citizens, experts & AI in policymaking:
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9 days ago
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9 days ago
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Who commits religious discrimination, and why? Brendan Szendro's article 'Defining the Contours of Religion, State, and Modernity' examines this question. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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10 days ago
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Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives:
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& Laura B Stephenson use evidence from Canada to examine this subject. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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11 days ago
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What drives populists to accept expert advice? Cross-country study by A Peresman,
@thoruplars.bsky.social
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@honoratam.bsky.social
&
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compares how populists & non-populists evaluate expertise:
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12 days ago
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How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online?
@frederikgremler.bsky.social
, Lea Haiges,
@nilsweidmann.bsky.social
& Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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12 days ago
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Politics Vs Economics:
@daparicio95.bsky.social
, Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll, Arne Risa Hole & Emili Tortosa-Ausina examine how Spain’s asymmetric fiscal system has shaped regional inequality:
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13 days ago
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Nils Weidmann
15 days ago
Inequality matters for ethnic conflict. But do group elites actually frame a situation as unjust? In a recent article (
doi.org/10.1177/00323217251401758
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, Lea Haiges, Christina Zuber and I analyse “grievance frames” in social media posts of ethnic organisations.
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How do youth bulges reshape political participation in Africa?
@michaelkumove.bsky.social
& Karin Dyrstad examine age-period-cohort effects showing rising protest & declining turnout as youth ratios grow. Read OPEN ACCESS:
buff.ly/28U1J2a
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#ECRs
13 days ago
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Why do mafias vary between parasitic, collusive & adversarial strategies toward institutions? Francesco Niccolò Moro & Aldo Paparo examine how local political weakness & spending shape organised crime behaviour. Read more:
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14 days ago
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How do populist citizens understand democracy? Patricia Rehus &
@steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social
find they tend to support direct democracy & are less supportive of liberal principles. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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14 days ago
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Why is the gendered performance of lament a powerful lens to understand politics, particularly in the context of the ongoing violence we are witnessing today? Shirin M Rai explores the layers of lament:
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15 days ago
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Politicized pejoration -
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, Husam AlZubaidy, Andrey Cao, Abigail Chang, Nikki Sadat, Abby Ward & A Maurits van der Veen develop the concept through a case study of the term “woke” in the US. Read more:
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15 days ago
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When are ‘evidence-based’ policies truly based in evidence? What seems like an easy question to answer is anything but, according to Schneider et al.
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16 days ago
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How do non-party actors view far-right parties in Australia?
@imogenrichards.bsky.social
, Callum Jones, Jordan McSwiney &
@kurtsengul.bsky.social
explore perceptions & relationships within the far-right ecosystem beyond formal politics. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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16 days ago
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The evolution of Europe's image in the annual conference speeches by British Conservative leaders (2006-2023): Alma-Pierre Bonnet uses a critical analysis of strategic narratives to shed light on the way they envisage UK's place, role and identity today:
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17 days ago
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How does internal migration affect political life in autocracies? Yuequan Guo & Jiannan Zhao examine how returning migrants in China show higher political efficacy & shifted forms of participation. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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17 days ago
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The Professionalisation of Participatory Democracy: Patricia García-Espín & Emma Lancha-Hernández examine class and cultural biases in citizen advisory councils. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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18 days ago
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Does polarization increase violence toward political candidates? Morten Harmening &
@donyhu.bsky.social
examine how ideological divides fuel aggression in democratic elections. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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18 days ago
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What are the relationships between corruption, democracy & trust in government? Shlomo Mizrahi & Dana Natan Krup examine the effect of societal norms that support corruption on these relationships:
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19 days ago
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Should political parties pick their parliamentary candidates by lottery among members? William Bosworth, Keith Dowding & Adriano Giuliani examine sortition within parties as a guard against elite capture while preserving deliberation. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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19 days ago
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Informal Workers as Outsiders: Anil Duman examines how informal employment, prevalent across the MENA region, impacts political behavior by creating insider–outsider divides. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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20 days ago
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In what senses might body counts be, paradoxically, both humanizing and dehumanizing?
@moyalloyd.bsky.social
explores the role that orders of grievability play in determining whose lives are counted, and how. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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20 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: Do protests change citizens’ perceptions of political parties? Javier Padilla examines evidence from Spain's anti-austerity protests to discuss this question. Read in
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21 days ago
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Is it rational to expect to win elections?
@mbarnfield.bsky.social
argues so-called "wishful thinking" about election outcomes is part of how voters make rational sense of their role in democracies. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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21 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: Varieties of Populist Attitudes in
#Brexit
Britain:
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, M Martín,
@unnombrealazar.bsky.social
,
@mmoyanop.bsky.social
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@quiqueclari.bsky.social
test a new multi-dimensional strategy to measure and compare them:
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22 days ago
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How do people adapt to sanctions in authoritarian contexts? Yechan Moon & Taehee Whang show informal economies in North Korea expand where sanctions hit hardest. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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22 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: Why do some immigrant-origin citizens show high levels of political interest in both home & origin countries, some none, some favour one over the other? A Goerres, J Elis,
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& D Spies examine this:
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23 days ago
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How do democracies respond to extremist attacks? Selen A Ercan, Jordan McSwiney, Emily Beausoleil, Claire Fitzpatrick &
@andreafelicetti.bsky.social
explore 2 approaches to resilience- ‘bouncing back’ & deepening democracy. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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23 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: Are more women elected in proportional elections than in majoritarian ones?
@gulczynski.bsky.social
,
@monikaturyna.bsky.social
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@jkantorowicz.bsky.social
examine local Polish elections and find little evidence of that. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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24 days ago
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How does media framing shape perceptions of election winners? Thomas M. Meyer & Katjana Gattermann argue equivalency framing influences voter views, especially for ambivalent voters. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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24 days ago
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IN NEW ISSUE: Which values distinguish supporters of radical right populist parties from their rivals? Arman Azedi finds political authoritarianism is a key ideological feature. Read OPEN ACCESS:
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25 days ago
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What drives party support for deliberative democracy in Europe? Sergiu Gherghina & Bettina Mitru find support is shaped by left ideology, governing status, party novelty & manifesto length - not electoral strength or populism. OPEN ACCESS:
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