❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research Weiqing Song, Mengdie Zhou, & Ziqing Yang use a combination of bibliometric analysis and documentary analysis of Chinese scholarly literature to reveal the Chinese understanding of European strategic autonomy (ESA). 👉https://buff.ly/HuNpHCb

❇️ FirstView - 📊Dataset Olga Lavrinenko introduces the FEMPOWER dataset, covering the period 1980–2023 for around 9,000 women’s organisations active worldwide. 👉https://buff.ly/BHTTvNY

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬'[This book] stands out for the richness of its empirical observations...’ Oscar Basnier reviews "Politics without politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule " by @landemore.bsky.social (Allen Lane, 2026) 👉https://buff.ly/8hjztul

❇️ FirstView - 📊Dataset Amy Alexander, Susan Banducci, @hildecoffe.bsky.social, @martafraile.bsky.social & @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social introduce the new module Gender in Contemporary Europe: Rethinking Equality and the Backlash developed for Round 11 of @ess-survey.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/5W07Y56

❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research Bulent Aras challenges the notion of a straightforward ‘rally ‘round the flag’ effect in Russian public sentiment towards its leadership during the Russia–Ukraine war. 👉 buff.ly/uKv4ybD

❇️ FirstView - 💼 Profession Vladimír Naxera analyses the composition of editorial teams and editorial boards of all 187 political science journals indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). 👉 buff.ly/xHJv6lt

❇️ FirstView - 📄Policy Commentary Susana Sanz-Caballero compares how the EU and the U.S. address hybrid threats, particularly the manipulation of information as a tool to undermine democracies. 👉 buff.ly/s1IWw4C

❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research Arash Beidollahkhani, @manchester.ac.uk examines Iran as a case study to explore the effects of state-led Islamization policies on political science curricula. 👉 buff.ly/TPt8Smo

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬'...a timely and analytically rich contribution...’ Ondrej Voznak reviews "Great Power Competition and Middle Power Strategies" Edited by Vinod K. Aggarwal & Margaret A. T. Kenney. @springer.springernature.com, 2023 👉https://buff.ly/w5AyBMW

❇️ FirstView - 🎓️ Teaching & Learning @nataliejester.bsky.social, @apapamichail.bsky.social, @mlebourdon.bsky.social & @louisepears.bsky.social argue that teaching on global challenges should involve teaching with, through, & about social media as a place of politics. 👉 buff.ly/ybmtyPX

📗 EPS features contributions written by and for the #PoliticalScience community 💚 From debates to datasets, original research to reviews - EPS is the place for your next #PoliticalScience article! Submit your work here 👉 buff.ly/bvFVNqI

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬'...a highly interesting read...’ Katinka Linnamäki reviews "The Birth and Death of Liberal Democracy in Hungary: The Populist Logic of Polarisation as Hegemony" by @emiliapalonen.bsky.social @helsinkiupress.bsky.social, 2025 👉 buff.ly/B1txpZJ

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬'...a significant contribution to the terminological understanding of the concept...’ Mălina-Maria Rîndașu reviews "Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat: Countering Global Alarmism", by Kurt Weyland @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2024 👉 buff.ly/ho4XGUz

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬'One of the book’s greatest strengths is its commitment to the realist paradigm’ Greg Shaw reviews "The EU’s Strategic Dilemma in the Ukraine War", by Viktor Jakupec @springer.springernature.com, 2025 👉 buff.ly/6BStSqq

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬'...an innovative approach...’ Mariana Vahlis reviews "Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro", Edited by @jpolga.bsky.social & Raul Sanchez Urribarri @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2025 👉https://buff.ly/82Ml3uG

📗 EPS features contributions written by and for the #PoliticalScience community 💚 From debates to datasets, original research to reviews - EPS is the place for your next #PoliticalScience article! Submit your work here 👉 buff.ly/bvFVNqI

We hope you've enjoyed the 🌷March Issue🌷 ✒️ Edited by Linda Basile & Stella Ladi 📖 @ljramiro.bsky.social 👏 Thanks to all our brilliant contributors & to the anonymous reviewers 🕵️ who help to make each manuscript the best it can be

That's everything from our 🌷March Issue🌷 📗Volume 25 Issue 1 🔍 7 Research articles, 💼 2 on the Profession, & 📖 4 Book Reviews 🔓 💯 #OpenAccess ✍️ 21 contributors 🕵️ & many more anonymous referees 👉 buff.ly/GSoVK3k

🌷March Issue 📖 Book Review 💬'...[offering a compelling analysis] of Taiwan as a strategic partner for Europe...’ Ryan Brading reviews "Partners in Peace: Why Europe and Taiwan Matter to Each Other" by Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 👉 buff.ly/NJjO3vM

🌷March Issue 📖 Book Review 💬'...the book highlights the citizen-led dynamics often overlooked...’ Guy Gerba reviews "Populist Mobilization" by Paris Aslanidis @academic.oup.com, 2024 👉 buff.ly/4ZHycEI

🌷March Issue 📖 Book Review 💬'...theoretically engaging, normatively stimulating, and empirically appealing...’ Edith Manalachioaei reviews "The Normalization of the Radical Right" by @valentimvicente.bsky.social @academic.oup.com, 2024 👉 buff.ly/AFVX7dN

🌷March Issue 📖 Book Review 💬'...a deeply rewarding book.’ Vittorio Orlando reviews "The European Union in Search of Narratives" by François Foret @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2024 👉 buff.ly/Vv5gyUm

🌷March Issue 💼 Profession Daniel Stockemer, Engi Abou-El-Kheir & Stephen Sawyer explore the relationship between female editorial board members, female editors, and the number of female authors published across #PoliticalScience journals. 👉 buff.ly/L39NC77

🌷March Issue 💼 Profession @michelesdv.bsky.social, A.Haraldsson, @gelovanishota.bsky.social, S.Banducci, K.Koc-Michalska & @yannistheocharis.bsky.social highlight the challenges, training needs, and preferences of scholars using text analysis methodologies. 👉 buff.ly/atL774q

🌷March Issue 🔍 Research Dimitra Panagiotatou explores whether #EU public policies operating in a multilevel governance system contribute to European identity-building. 👉 buff.ly/FoMnw5J

🌷March Issue 🔍 Research The EU is institutionally limited in protecting academic freedom, Calvin Khalesi argues - but there are innovative ways it could change this to support universities in its Member States. 👉 buff.ly/2O34nkG

🌷March Issue 🔍 Research @lucasschramm91.bsky.social analyses the #EuropeanCouncil as a key actor in the EU’s multi-level and multi-institutional system of governance. 👉 buff.ly/VjkX7ON

🌷March Issue 🔍 Research Francesco Nasi uses the case study of Agorà Democratiche within the Italian Democratic Party to examine how traditional parties engage with digital democratic innovations, and what factors can hinder their successful implementation. 👉 buff.ly/kZhMKtc

🌷March Issue 🔍 Research Katerina Sideri & Eleni Chanania use hermeneutic policy analysis to examine how HCWs and the government had starkly different understandings of risk in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic. 👉 buff.ly/ay5gdZ8

🌷March Issue 🔍 Research @joaoferreiradias.bsky.social examines how Portuguese politicians talk about the country’s maritime epic as a part of national identity and how this is also a flashpoint in today’s culture wars. 👉 buff.ly/B4iVK0J

🌷March Issue 🔍 Research @gsamaras.bsky.social presents the first systematic study of how major English-language outlets used the term “Hard-Right”. 👉 buff.ly/GrCdjE5

🌷March Issue Out Now!🌷 Volume 2️⃣5️⃣ Issue 1️⃣ 📗For our first issue of the year, with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, we explore political discourse and identity in Europe, governance & policy processes, democratic innovation & participation, and academic freedom & research methods 👉 buff.ly/GSoVK3k

🌍✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day ✨🌍 This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics 📚 Explore the research and join the conversation linktr.ee/ecpr.collect... #IWD #WomenInPolitics

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬'...begins with a useful engagement with the history and sociology of public intellectuals...’ Tyler Robinson reviews "How Slavoj Became Žižek: The Digital Making of a Public Intellectual" by Eliran Bar-El @uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025 👉 buff.ly/VSbU5IR

❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research Antonella Seddone & Marco Valbruzzi investigate the opinions of party members from Partito Democratico about the digital participation opportunities that the party provides. 👉 buff.ly/AvC1ERo

❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research Francesco Veri & @nenadstojanovic.bsky.social examine how configurations of three key institutional dimensions – consensus democracy, federalism, & direct democracy – shape the adoption of minipublics in Switzerland 👉 buff.ly/iIQvGRS

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬'...the book highlights the citizen-led dynamics often overlooked...’ Guy Gerba @ucc.ie reviews "Populist Mobilization" by Paris Aslanidis @academic.oup.com, 2024 👉 buff.ly/6y6qKya

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬'...a deeply rewarding book.’ Vittorio Orlando @haskoliislands.bsky.social reviews "The European Union in Search of Narratives" by François Foret @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2024 👉 buff.ly/Vv5gyUm

❇️ FirstView -🔍️ Research Selena Grimaldi & Matteo Boldrini analyse the careers of European parliamentarians in Spain and Italy to find out what the most widespread career models are and what political factors influence them. 👉 buff.ly/rOj9Xlm

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬'...theoretically engaging, normatively stimulating, and empirically appealing...’ Edith Manalachioaei reviews "The Normalization of the Radical Right" by @valentimvicente.bsky.social @academic.oup.com, 2024 👉 buff.ly/AFVX7dN

❇️ FirstView -💼 Profession @jjungblut.bsky.social, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social examine political science departments at universities across the world to assess the extent to which they vary with regime type. 👉 buff.ly/qEIeGoB

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬'...an original and valuable addition to the study of populism...’ Guy Gerba @ucc.ie reviews "The Populist Style: Trump, Le Pen and Performances of the Far Right" by @theoaiolfi.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social, 2025 👉 buff.ly/4F9RF8s

❇️ FirstView - 🔍 Research Katerina Sideri & Eleni Chanania use hermeneutic policy analysis to examine how HCWs and the government had starkly different understandings of risk in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic. 👉 buff.ly/Hw93R6A

Publishing Open Access shouldn’t be a barrier 🚧 🧭 @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org supports EPS authors in navigating funding options and institutional OA agreements ➡️ bit.ly/45O5S7m

❇️ FirstView - 🔎 Research How do traditional parties engage with digital democratic innovations, and what factors hinder their successful implementation? Francesco Nasi discusses these issues using the case study of Agorà Democratiche within the Italian Democratic Party. 👉 buff.ly/O8h60Az

What does the @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org & ECPR partnership mean for EPS authors? ✔️ More support for Open Access ✔️ Clearer routes to OA compliance ✔️ Greater global reach for published research

❇️ FirstView - 🔎 Research Dimitra Panagiotatou explores whether #EU public policies operating in a multilevel governance system contribute to European identity-building, and asks; what can jeopardise the process of identity formation at the level of policy elites? 👉

📗 EPS is now published with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org as part of a new strategic partnership with ECPR. 💻️ While the publishing platform has changed, our scope, editorial leadership, and peer review standards remain the same – now with wider reach through #OA on Cambridge Core. 📰 bit.ly/4tbqssd

“…linguistic ambiguity... helps far-right parties rebrand themselves as moderate" @gsamaras.bsky.social's new paper in @epsjournal.bsky.social warns of the dangers of imprecise journalistic language that blurs the line between mainstream conservatism and extremism ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/media-m...

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