(5/5) This supports findings from this other great @jeppjournal.bsky.social article by Marco Martini and @stefwalter.bsky.social on how Brexit shapes nationalist rhetoric in media coverage outside the UK. doi.org/10.1080/1350...

(1/5) My article Disintegration and Party Competition is out in the latest issue of @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! I ask how parties in other member states reacted to #Brexit. Do #Eurosceptic challengers frame it as an example to follow? Or do they instead row back on ‘hard’ demands to #leave the EU?

So thanks to the ERWG members - @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social, @catherinedevries.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social & @markkayser.bsky.social - for being such a great group to work with. And I am excited to continue our work with the entire awesome @epssnet.bsky.social Council!

Back home after an eventful weekend - I am proud of what we have created (even if we had hoped to arrive at a more consensual way forward). Our work in the EPSA reform working group has been intense. Still, doing this with such an engaged, friendly & creative group has been a privilege and treat.

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

(1/3) I am excited to be on 2 great panels at #EPSA in Madrid! On Thursday 26 June (09:30 - 11:10, Room 0A.06) I present joint work with @stefwalter.bsky.social on Parties and IOs on the panel ‘Text analysis in the Study of IR’ chaired by @andduer.bsky.social

Highly innovative design with fine-grained implementation: truly recommend the read !

Much of my research in the last six years has revolved around the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project. I am so proud of my team and all we have achieved, and grateful to the @erc.europa.eu for making this possible. If you want to know what we did, this thread is for you:

Congratulations to the DISINTEGRATION team! And because our world still remains mostly integrated, it is fitting that in several hours, Cornell students taking Introduction to Comparative Politics with me will be discussing some of its outputs (with this "feature slide" of today's assigned author)

Great thread on an important, ambitious research project led by the brilliant @stefwalter.bsky.social - with insights and findings that are more relevant than ever given the challenges facing all major international organisations 👇

To celebrate the successful conclusion of the DISINTEGRATION project, we are creating a thread that presents all published research completed in the project. We'll post one paper a day – stay tuned!

Today marks the final day of the DISINTEGRATION project, a project on the mass politics of disintegration generously funded by the @erc.europa.eu . We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found: 1/20

Seeing all the current and former DISINTEGRATION team members again was wonderful. It makes me so happy and proud to hear about their learnings from the project and their exciting plans going forward. What a great group, and a lasting legacy of the DISINTEGRATION project!

Thank you to @stefwalter.bsky.social and the rest of the DISINTEGRATION team for an inspiring workshop on the timely issue of challenges to international organisations - in beautiful Swiss surroundings!

Many thanks to @stefwalter.bsky.social, the DISINTEGRATION project team, and fellow advisors @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @dustintingley.bsky.social for two days of stimulating discussions and fun company in the Swiss countryside!

What a pleasure to reflect on the learnings, achievements and ways forward from the DISINTEGRATION project with former and current team members and our wonderful advisory board at Kloster Fischingen. Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.

Newest publication from the @erc.europa.eu project @disintegrationerc.bsky.social .

Graph of the month: As the DISINTEGRATION project enters its final month, here is its core theoretical contribution: A framework that predicts that the relative size of cooperation gains at risk and contagion risks shape the extent to which states accommodate non-cooperation by others or not.

The workshop featured an impressive line-up of contributions, including results from the organizers' @erc.europa.eu funded projects: the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project of @stefwalter.bsky.social and the #EUROBORD project of Frank Schimmelfennig.

It was an amazing experience to exchange about current challenges to the #EU 🇪🇺 and its transformations above the Lago Maggiore last week! 🤓🏔️

What an amazing workshop and line-up – thanks a lot, @stefwalter.bsky.social and Frank Schimmelfennig, for this great opportunity to exchange about current challenges to the EU and its transformations above the Lago Maggiore!

Concluding three inspiring and insightful days of talking research and thinking about EU integration, its boundaries, and integration and disintegration dynamics with a fantastic set of people on Monte Verità.

Thanks to @stefwalter.bsky.social & Frank Schimmelfennig for organizing a fab workshop (what a location). So much great work in progress on Europe and even some ~hopeful thoughts on the future 💙 @hayleypring.bsky.social @acalacino.bsky.social and I are extra grateful for the comments on our paper!

Today starts the Workshop "The changing boundaries of European integration", co-organized by the DISINTEGRATION (@stefwalter.bsky.social) and EUROBOR (Frank Schimmelfennig) @erc.europa.eu projects and generously co-sponsored by the CSF. We look forward to three insightful days on Monte Verità!

***GRAPH OF THE MONTH*** Does media-reported EU policy focus shape legitimacy perceptions? Our new study finds that ideological leanings matter: left-wing voters reward EU focus on regulation & climate, while right-wing voters prefer immigration policies.

Welcome to Bluesky, @erc.europa.eu Without the ERC, this project would not exist. www.disintegration.ch

Contagion already starting Paging @disintegrationerc.bsky.social...

More contagion effects: Swiss populist right demands that Switzerland leave the Paris Climate agreement. Paging @disintegrationerc.bsky.social

(1/8) Just published in @the-peio.bsky.social by @tommccraehunter.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social : We introduces IOParlspeech, a dataset of over 600,000 statements on 75 IOs in parliamentary debates (six countries: AT, CAN, DE, UK, USA, NZL) between 1990 and 2018. doi.org/10.1007/s115...

(1/2) *** Graph of the Month *** Whilst IOs have become politicised in domestic politics, our analysis of parliamentary debates as part of the DISINTEGRATION project shows there is huge variation across IOs.

Switzerland and the EU habe negotiated an agreement to consolidate their relations. @stefwalter.bsky.social provides a first assessment, drawing also on some DISINTEGRATION data.

2024 has been another exciting year for the DISINTEGRATION project, with two workshops, several publications, much work in progress and most importantly, a great team. Before we'll move into DISINTEGRATION's grand finale, we wish you all happy and relaxed holidays and all the best for 2025!

So much fun: a great group of people, engaged discussions, and applications of the accommodation dilemma across a wide range of topics – from trade over human rights to nuclear proliferation. After so much food for thought, now some fondue!

Really enjoyed our intense, stimulating, and fun workshop on when, why, and how the accommodation dilemma shapes how the international community deals with noncooperation. Looking forward to co-editing a special issue on this with the wonderful @lisadellmuth.bsky.social!

Exciting workshop on one of the big questions of our time: how should the international community respond no non-cooperative states or groups of states? A pleasure to work with the brilliant @stefwalter.bsky.social ! #polisky

Successful first day for the workshop on "How States and International Organizations Respond to Non-Cooperation" organized jointly by @lisadellmuth.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social. A great set of papers and constructive general discussions about non-cooperation and the accommodation dilemma.

Perhaps time to evaluate how accurate the 2016 expectations about the effects of Brexit among British voters turned out to be... Source: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this amazing work 💯 % ⤵️

Great thread by @catherinedevries.bsky.social about the implications of the rise of euroskeptic parties for EU reform. Shift in euroskeptic rhetoric from exit to reform is also evident in some of @disintegrationerc.bsky.social's work, e.g. in this piece by Marco Martini & @stefwalter.bsky.social.

"Do external crises unite or divide international organizations? Evidence from 1,443 UNSC resolutions (1995-2018) suggests external crises, like humanitarian disasters, civil conflicts, floods, and terrorist attacks, divide rather than unite the Security Council. Graph by Johannes Scherzinger #UNSC

*** Graph of the Month *** How are IOs discussed in parliament? In a forthcoming article, Tom Hunter and @stefwalter.bsky.social introduce IOParlspeech, a dataset of over 600,000 statements on IOs in parliamentary debates in six countries, 1990-2018. The dataset is available here: twtr.to/rQn9o

Graph of the month: Analyzing 167 arguments made in 25 direct democratic voting campaigns on international issues in Switzerland, @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social show that the framing of arguments in favor and against international cooperation differ significantly.

Our results suggest that precedents of nationalist policies shape domestic politics well beyond the concerned countries themselves. Here’s the link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Now published: How do populist-right parties respond when their preferred policies are implemented abroad? Focusing on Brexit, Marco Martini and @stefwalter.bsky.social show that nationalist parties adjusted their aggressiveness towards the EU in line with the ups and downs of the Brexit process.

DISINTEGRATION goes Bocconi University today, where @stefwalter.bsky.social will presents research on how to balance reputational and material concerns when responding to non-cooperative behavior.

Since the mid-2010s, the number of resolutions in the UNSC that have failed or been vetoed has markedly increased, providing another indicator for growing international dissensus amidst a surge of global crises. Data & Visualization by Johannes Scherzinger. #UnitedNations

We have been collecting a lot of data on evolving public opinion on international cooperation in the DISINTEGRATION project. Some of this data is now publicly available for download in the SWISSUbase repository. Check it out!

🥁Exciting Update! 📣 The DISINTEGRATION 5-wave panel survey on 🇨🇭Swiss public opinion is now out, revealing key shifts in attitudes. Dive into our data to explore how attitudes on Switzerland’s relations with 🇪🇺Europe and the 🌍World have evolved. Access it here: doi.org/10.48573/enm...

Excited to share our latest publication in the EJPR with Cyrille Thiébaut!   We study how mainstream parties have adapted to an increasingly Eurosceptic public, unveiling a novel strategy of “silent responsiveness”.   Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/1475...