CALL FOR CHAPTERS! Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

Den här skrev vi 2018, men kan kanske fortfarande ha viss relevans: www.dagensarena.se/essa/stor-ri...

65.1🦋 What happens when the #RadicalRight looks fondly to the past? 🕰️ 👀 @populismblog.bsky.social & @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social introduce #AuthoritarianNostalgia exploring how supporters of VOX and Chega connect today’s politics with Spanish & Portuguese eras buff.ly/GHwnwul

Maybe not trust crisis, but the scandalization of Norwegian politics has reached a new level. And as I say here, political trust isn't extremely important for any one thing in particular, but it plays a role in many things, like voter turnout, welfare systems, acceptance of foreigners, and more.

Välkommen till Bajen, Vivienne! www.hammarbyfotboll.se/nyheter/baje... #bajen #hammarby

Important read(s) 👇

The #populist #right is a master of #flipsiding established #concepts. Michal Krzyzanowski, Natalia Krzyzanowska, @jensrydgren.bsky.social have edited a special issue with pieces analysing this practice, including my analysis of double flipsiding of #security www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...

Sociology, along with i.a. Mendelian genetics, cybernetics, quantum physics, or theory of relativity, was banned in the Soviet Union and its satellites as "bourgeois pseudoscience" incompatibile with Marxism-Leninism. Turns out that maybe it's just incompatible with authoritarianism in general.

Our new special issue is now published! "Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right" www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...

Some really striking numbers in this new survey showing the flip in European public opinion about America. But bear in mind this is only Western Europe. In Eastern Europe, it has been harder to take the blinders off peoples' eyes. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Useful graphs for when I teach the power of partisanship in a few weeks. Here is a force which can get 20% of the US public to see Canada (!) as an enemy overnight, based on nothing at all beyond the brain farts of a deranged party leader

Our new special issue is now published! "Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right" www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...

For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

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: buff.ly/WeHXRFw @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #PartyPolitics

What Sofia is too modest to explicitly say in her post below, is that - in addition to our PRR youth wings book - she has a solo one coming out with OUP in June on grassroots women in the PRR: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships. osf.io/preprints/so... 1/15

Great intervention by @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on reactionary centrism, anti-wokeness, and the tendency to interpret the success of the right as backlash instead of as its own political project www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Coming out in June. (when @casmudde.bsky.social & I will be presenting it at the @ces-europe.bsky.social conference in Dublin)

This article, new in Comparative Political Studies, seems relevant The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 Deadline Soon (***February 5, 2026***): 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science 🚨 I am seeking applicants for a 3-year postdoc related to my @erc.europa.eu research project EQUILIBRIUM that focuses on state-citizen interactions. The application link and further information are in the post below. ⬇️

"Compared to the original 669-page textbook, the new version is just 267 pages. ... the state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality." www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Interested in an academic career in political science? Do you want to work in a vibrant department with friendly colleagues? Interested in climate governance or EU studies? Do to live close to nature, but also enjoy a vibrant cultural scene? Appreciate a good work-life balance?

Välkommen till Bajen, Mathilde! Ps. @hammarbyfotboll.se, lägg gärna ut nyheter även på Bluesky. #bajen #hammarby www.hammarbyfotboll.se/nyheter/hamm...

Happy that my article just published in PSRM! In "Inclusion to Exclude“, I show that when politicians invoke women's rights to justify anti-immigration positions, it shifts citizens' policy preferences - but differently so depending on their prior views. doi.org/10.1017/psrm... [Thread below]

An important study on an underappreciated diversity concern in academia: by class background.

academic.oup.com/book/62001/c... New book OPEN ACCESS 👇🏻👇🏻 This chapter introduces #deepcontestation and explains the distinction between normal contestation, which permits gradual adaptation, and deep contestation, which rejects foundational norms and threatens systemic stability. @scripts-berlin.eu

Tiktok 🇺🇸 turns out to be Trump aligned state platform. In no time. www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-...

Good piece by @jonhenley.bsky.social on how European far-right parties and voters are responding to Trump. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Efter ett år av amerikanska utspel på den globala arenan börjar många nu tvivla på om USA verkligen är en partner att lita på. Vi förklarar varför det är dags att ta avstånd från amerikansk teknik, och presenterar några alternativ för den som själv vill bryta.

🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social) ⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

📖✅Our open access article 'Lipset and Rokkan meet data' on the electoral structuring of traditional #cleavages has been issued on @wepsocial.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are hiring a Professor! The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, the world’s leading research environments in the field, is now recruiting a Professor. We welcome applications from internationally recognized scholars. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

1/From Greenland to Venezuela to tariffs, Trump foreign policy baffles leaders and readers. Why? Because it is not about national interest but those of insider elites. To understand and manage, you have to name it: what @segoddard.bsky.social and I call neo-royalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

Det akuta problemet i USA är inte polarisering utan radikalisering. En högerextrem falang har kontroll över statsapparaten. Polariseringen behöver troligen först ÖKA – motståendet mot MAGA måste öka – innan man senare ev. kan sträva efter minskad (affektiv) polarisering. www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...

My department is hiring a PhD student in Political Science for an open position! I really enjoy working here and recommend all who are interested in a PhD in Political Science to apply. Deadline is 6 February 2026! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

J. Rydgren, ed. Class Politics and the Radical Right. London, New York: Routledge, 2013.

Our brand new monograph, discussing the findings of our work together during the last seven years, is now out for @oxfordacademic.bsky.social‬ and free to read and download!

The last paper of @dpzollinger.bsky.social and I's Special Issue 'Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies' is now out at @wepsocial.bsky.social. Florent Gougou & @simonpersico.bsky.social's paper analyzes ecological conflict in the longue durée through a Lipset-Rokkanian lens.

When the United States gets through this period of madness, it will need to draft a new constitution. What we are witnessing is not only the erratic behavior of one man, or even a small group of fanatics, but a failure of political institutions. [1/3]

When the United States gets through this period of madness, it will need to draft a new constitution. What we are witnessing is not only the erratic behavior of one man, or even a small group of fanatics, but a failure of political institutions. [1/3]

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

#OpenAccess from @epsjournal.bsky.social - Misuse, mislabelling, and the broken path of the ‘hard-right’: Challenging nonscientific political discourse - https://cup.org/45kNxP2 - @gsamaras.bsky.social#OpenAccess

This was very helpful. Our main question isn't if the US president is a fascist. It is how the study of fascism can help us understand the current situation, the goals and strategies of the main actors beyond other concepts. And to convey the severity of the situation where other terms have failed.

Trump has pushed the problem of sanewashing to its extreme. Commentators who see politics as a game of rational actors often get lost when it comes to him. If anything, I hope this letter makes one thing very clear to everyone: Trump cannot be sanewashed.

CRIS at the Sciences Po, Paris is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to join the Research Team led by Prof. Mirna Safi working on “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle: Bridging Unequal Treatment and Unequal Outcomes across Countries, Regions and Workplaces” Apply: www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/J...

🌟 PHD FELLOWSHIP ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring 1 PhD fellow for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting 09/26! Great PhD community + int'l & supportive environment + FUN city. 💰for conferences + workshops! Lots of mentoring & career development opportunities! Deadline Jan 29th. Please apply!

Hamsun gav sin medalje til propagandaminister Goebbels. Machado gav sin til Trump. www.nrk.no/nordland/jak...