Great conference to launch an excellent new book on French Democracy in Distress. @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @vtiberj.bsky.social @caterinafr.bsky.social @cevipof.bsky.social

NEW - Quality Not Quantity: How a VAA Affected Voting Behavior in Three Large-Scale Field Experiments - https://cup.org/491pwNQ - @fresejoris.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social & @rlachat.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🇪🇺🇩🇪 Published Today in @bjpols.bsky.social 🇮🇹🇫🇷 How a voting advice application affected voting behavior in three large-scale field experiments: shorturl.at/2ekBj TLDR of our study (with @simonhix.bsky.social & @rlachat.bsky.social) below 👇 1/14

📣 AUTHLIB Final Conference 🗺️ Mapping the Illiberal Challenge: Patterns, Drivers, Consequences 📅 Jan 8–9, 2026 📍 @weareceu.bsky.social, Budapest Two days on illiberalism, democracy & democratic responses. 👉 Register today to secure your spot: www.authlib.eu/authlib-fina...

Where is the French democracy going? Very proud of this new collective book It adresses citizens, parties, institutions, social movements etc... and gathers a brilliant team of scholars

The CERIUM-FMSH summer school comes to an end. Thanks to this fantastic group of promising young scholars: @annasawallisch.bsky.social @anninahermes.bsky.social @francescayton.bsky.social @gaetanoinglese.bsky.social @galron3.bsky.social @ginaaniano.bsky.social Isolde Hegemann

Last day of the CERIUM-FMSH summer school. Today with @jrovny.bsky.social on democracy and illiberalism. @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social

Day 4 of the CERIUM-FMSH summer school, with @simonchauchard.bsky.social on Misinformation, Rumors and Hate Speech. @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social

It was great talking about recent developments in campaign and (social) media influence at the CERIUM-FMSH summer school - and even better to learn about so many promising PhD projects on these topics. Thanks for having me in sunny Paris @rlachat.bsky.social & @rdassonneville.bsky.social!

We welcome today @sldelange.bsky.social at the CERIUM-FMSH summer school, to talk about far-right and populist parties. @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social

For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !

On the second day of the CERIUM-FMSH summer school, @florianfoos.bsky.social discussed about political campaigns and their effects. @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social

Day 1 of the CERIUM-FMSH summer school. @vinarceneaux.bsky.social presents research on the effects of social media on public opinion. @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social

Looking forward to welcome the participants of the 2025 CERIUM-FMSH summer school, on Challenges to Electoral Democracy. With @rdassonneville.bsky.social , @fondationmsh.bsky.social, @cerium-udem.bsky.social

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“even if [Europeans] cannot stop the attacks on US academia, different groups can help US-based academics in other ways.” My new op-Ed in @theguardian.com

Published Today in PSRM: Based on a novel “Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design” (MUESD), I contextualize previous findings suggesting that Europeans become more empathetic toward migrants when exposed to migrant suffering. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A Summary Thread: 1/15

🦋 Welcome to our new followers! You can find here the starter pack gathering our members present on Bluesky. Go follow them ⏬ go.bsky.app/EBRGCLH

L’Europe veut réarmer - © Chappatte dans Le Temps, Genève 👉 www.chappatte.com/fr/images/le...

Zelensky in the crossfire - © Chappatte in NZZ am Sonntag, Zürich 👉 www.chappatte.com/en/images/ze...

[LE MONDE] À la une du journal @lemonde.fr aujourd’hui, un dessin par @chappatte.bsky.social (Suisse) : www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

If you understand German: I tried to make the case I am outlining in the thread below on German television. The Trumpists really mean it. Just as on the domestic level, they are going for regime change - for a fundamentally different world order:

BUNDESTAGSWAHL | 18 Uhr Prognose Forschungsgruppe Wahlen/ZDF Union: 28,5% (+4,4) AfD: 20,0% (+9,7) SPD: 16,5% (-9,2) GRÜNE: 12,0% (-2,8) LINKE: 9,0% (+4,1) FDP: 5,0% (-6,5) BSW: 5,0% (NEU) Sonstige: 4,0% (-4,7) Änderungen zum Wahlergebnis von 2021 #Bundestagswahl2025 #btw25

L’administration Trump met "en œuvre une politique qui vise à détruire les instruments permettant de produire des énoncés objectifs. Faire disparaître la réalité pour ne plus laisser les faits porter préjudice à la volonté du chef : c’est exactement ce que l’on attend d’une politique fasciste."

‘Cybertruck Man’ a cartoon in defiance of Musk #political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

"We need to take a step back and realize that the GOP has become an authoritarian political party. It's either on board with authoritarianism or completely willing to tolerate it." On the pod, Steve Levitsky is highly Illuminating on our slide into autocracy: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

This is the one article to read on contemporary (and future) U.S. politics. Laid out analytically and clearly. There is a hint of optimism (which I do not share but do appreciate).

"If Trump, Musk and their allies [...] succeed, then the question of American politics won’t be if they’ll win the next election, but whether the Constitution as we know it is still in effect." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis   The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. It’s not a single master plan – it’s comprehensive chaos. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

👇 Proof that populists like Trump always outdo satirists: I drew this cartoon for Arte TV @artefr.bsky.social on January 18th…

Where are the Democrats? This is good by @edwardluce.bsky.social on.ft.com/3EhEpzR

The call for applications for the doctoral Summer School on "Challenges to Electoral Democracy" is still open!! The application deadline is February 17. More information here: www.chairedemocratie.com/files/sites/...

📣Summer school on "Challenges to Electoral Democracy", Paris, July 1-5, 2025📣 Organized with @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social More information and applications here👇

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Cet après-midi à Paris, journée d’etude sur les règles électorales en France et ailleurs avec @jbpilet.bsky.social @bvancoppenolle.bsky.social et autres Vu la situation politique actuelle, ca vaut la peine de faire le point sur les réformes possibles www.sciencespo.fr/en/events/jo...

Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵

APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)

🇬🇧🇪🇺 Published Today in EJPR 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @simonhix.bsky.social @juhoharkonen.bsky.social and I find that 1/3 of the anti-Brexit shift in the UK can be attributed to the impact of cohort replacement (old voters dying, young people becoming eligible to vote)! 1/12 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I was invited to speak about the upcoming Trump era and share some lessons and optimism. I declined politely. After more than 25 years of researching the far right, I have no more (new) lessons and optimism to share.

A blog post on our working paper "Quality not quantity: how a VAA affected voting behavior in three large-scale field experiments", with @fresejoris.bsky.social and @simonhix.bsky.social. VAAs do not increase vote switching, turnout, or knowledge. But they improve the quality of vote switching

Following our colleague André Freire’s sudden passing, the editors at @sespjournal.bsky.social , namely Bonnie Field and Nicoló Conti had a touching idea: to prepare a special collection of André’s articles with the Journal. A nice way to pay tribute to his work: www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...

Now published in PNAS! We had a survey in the field at the time of the first assassination attempt on Trump. We found that Rs became significantly less supportive of partisan violence and had increased in-party affect. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“Hungary’s key lesson is you don’t protect democracy by talking about democracy — you protect democracy by protecting people. Only a democracy that works for the people is sustainable.”