DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

Researchers recently asked Americans what income level other people need in order to live a good life. A whopping 86% of Americans reported income levels well below what others say they themselves need. Fascinating!

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - State-Building and Rebellion in the Run-Up to the French Revolution - https://cup.org/3MWqzqX - @mikealbertus.bsky.social & @victorgayeco.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination New paper with Michal Krzyzanowski and Natalia Krzyzanowska in Social Semiotics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Because I have been such a good boy (once again), 🎅 has an early present for me: here's a brand-new (open access) article discussing the use of #radicalright as a concept in current scholarship. And if that wasn't already great (it is), there's more 1/3

Interesting call for papers on political sociology and authoritarianism at #ecprgc26. The panel "Political Sociology at the Edge: Resilience, Resistance, and the Rise of Authoritarianism" has extended their deadline to January 9th. Worth considering for those working on d... https://buff.ly/ZMtcK31

One of my favourite papers from this past year!

Who are the “People” and what does “Home” mean? A case of frame transformation and counter-framing of the “People’s Home” in the Sweden Democrat Rhetoric 1989–2022 New paper with @elgenius.bsky.social in Social Semiotics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New position at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, dont’t hesitate to apply if you study ecological transitions👇👇👇

Who are the “People” and what does “Home” mean? A case of frame transformation and counter-framing of the “People’s Home” in the Sweden Democrat Rhetoric 1989–2022 New paper with @elgenius.bsky.social in Social Semiotics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The trap Trump now faces - the Epstein redactions will only fuel conspiracy theories even when they are innocuous. Our 2016 JEPS article: "Classified or Coverup? The Effect of Redactions on Conspiracy Theory Beliefs" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)

📄 New paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with my amazing co-author @plutscher.bsky.social ! 💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020. polisky csssky socsky commsky

Out of 102 episodes globally in which a trend toward autocracy was reversed over the past century, the vast majority led to restored or even increased levels of democracy. doi.org/10.1080/1351...

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

A very good article on worlwide surveys on democracy is Dahlberg, Stefan & Ulf Mörkenstam (2024) "Exploring Popular Conceptions of Democracy Through Media Discourse." Democratization. 31:8. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/1351...

Survey experiments have become a popular methodology among social scientists. Has it been effective? In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

📣📣 New paper with #JoergFriedrichs, @florianschaffner.bsky.social, @niklasstoehr.bsky.social , “Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media” is out at @ejprjournal.bsky.social Read more: doi.org/10.1017/S147...

This is a really cool paper! "support for the radical right ... is intricately linked to various aspects of car culture in rural regions. ... youths with an interest in cars are significantly more likely to support the radical right."

Happy to see my article with @joostvanspanje.bsky.social on the short-term political consequences of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy announcement published in @psrm.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Fascinating new research in AJPS (flagship poli sci journal) on Christian nationalism & SCOTUS "An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "We find that CN is related to Court attitudes in three ways:"

New paper out w/ @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. We show that political trust dynamics matter for electoral behavior. While stable and variable distrusters behave similarly, declining trust boosts both abstention and anti-establishment voting. 🧵

📣 @pietrocastellig.bsky.social and I are absolutely thrilled to announce that the call for the 5th @ecpr.bsky.social Summer School on ‘Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’ is now open! 🇮🇹 The event will be hosted by @unibo.it, from 6 to 10 July 2026. 🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/353

When I began studying radical right parties 30 years ago, many called them "flash parties" and expected them to vanish as quickly as they appeared. They didn’t. Will their support and power keep growing? Possibly, maybe even likely in the short run, but not inevitably. There is no determinism here.

The leading scholars of democratic decline say the US "has descended into competitive authoritarianism" - we "ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany, or even Argentina are democracies" - but caution that it can be contested and reversed www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

This is a brilliant piece on the restructuring of political competition in Western Europe and goes far beyond the question of populism. Great also for teaching.

New on #FirstView - "Justifying and Negotiating Responses to the Radical Right: The Case of the Swedish Labour Movement and the Intra-Organizational Arena" - shorturl.at/gh3qc by @slsalo.bsky.social, @jensrydgren.bsky.social & @podmalm.bsky.social

"the current US government believes that its national security is best served by the destruction of liberal democracy in Europe." My new, and dark, op-Ed in @theguardian.com

New paper in Government & Opposition: Justifying and Negotiating Responses to the Radical Right: The Case of the Swedish Labour Movement and the Intra-Organizational Arena Together with @slsalo.bsky.social and @podmalm.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper in Government & Opposition: Justifying and Negotiating Responses to the Radical Right: The Case of the Swedish Labour Movement and the Intra-Organizational Arena Together with @slsalo.bsky.social and @podmalm.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Early xmas present from @govandopp.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Jag söker en forkningsassistent i statsvetenskap för att hjälpa till med diverse uppgifter! Sök här: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky New paper #PSPB More evidence that liberals and conservatives think differently. Here, conservatives engage in more slippery-slope thinking journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

‼️ Two weeks left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP project 👇.

Name assimilation increases immigrants' earnings A LOT. osf.io/preprints/so...

This is a properly interesting book. From the cradle, social scientists of all stripes learn that everything from productivity to alienation is rooted in an increasingly specialized division of labor. Jackson basically asks: if this is true, why does my job consist of so many distinct goddamn tasks?

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Really excited to share my new article published in @electoralstudies.bsky.social! 1/7

Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @ispp-pops.bsky.social

Despite the current state of politics, moral views have become more progressive over time. Why? In an experiment we found that the arguments that make liberals more liberal also persuade conservatives, whereas the arguments that make conservatives more conservative don't persuade liberals.

Can the far-right be tamed by government inclusion? The short answer is no, on the contrary. The longer answer can be found in this pre-print, which analyzed an impressive amount of data (1,237 cabinets in 57 democracies from 1976 to 2023): osf.io/preprints/so...

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: buff.ly/9eIVm7h @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great discussion of @zethis.bsky.social's excellent thesis on the legacy of the GDR on contemporary political behavior.

Are you interested in the #SD? K. M. Jylhä, J. Rydgren, and P. Strimling. “Radical Right-wing Voters From Right and Left: Comparing Sweden Democrat Voters Who Previously Voted for the Conservative Party Or the Social Democratic Party”. In: Scandinavian Political Studies 42.3-4

LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark! We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area. Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15! Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost! jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

1 Associate Professorship in Sociology, University of Oxford: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE046/a...

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...