@jakubw.bsky.social @hait-tud.bsky.social Green and Pirate parties in second-order elections: Alternative to the political mainstream and the far right? Part of his and Vladimír Naxera's SI on Pirate Politics in Europe link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pirates the Czech way: sailing (unsuccessfully) from the “Rebel Bay” to the calm waters of neoliberal mainstream? Vladimír Naxera, Petr Bláha, Jakub Charvát, Petr Krčál & Pavel Maškarinec in @jakubw.bsky.social & Vladimír Naxera's SI on Pirate Politics in Europe link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Read Raphael Kies and Patrick Dumont @liser.lu From Breakthrough to Breakdown? Analyzing the Pirate Party of Luxembourg through a Supply-and-Demand Framework Part of @jakubw.bsky.social @hait-tud.bsky.social and Vladimír Naxera's SI on Pirate Politics in Europe link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Liberal democracy in the European Union faces significant challenges as its core pillars are increasingly contested, eroded, or dismantled. Read the introduction by Ramona Coman, @nathaliebrack.bsky.social & @miscoiu.bsky.social of their special issue. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mateusz Leszczynski Sinan Nadarevic Jennifer Fitzgerald @colorado.edu explore the emotional dimensions of electoral behavior with an eye toward improving our understanding of the ways that voting for right wing populist parties (RWPPs) makes people feel. #Austria link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Read @thareerat.bsky.social & Nicole Bolleyer's 'Pirate party trajectories in European multilevel systems: organizational choices and their consequences' Part of @jakubw.bsky.social & Vladimír Naxera special collection Two Decades of Pirate Politics in Europe link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Two Decades of Pirate Politics in Europe Read this important special collection edited by @jakubw.bsky.social @hait-tud.bsky.social and Vladimír Naxera, University of West Bohemia link.springer.com/collections/...

Two Decades of Pirate Politics in Europe Read this important special collection edited by @jakubw.bsky.social @hait-tud.bsky.social and Vladimír Naxera, University of West Bohemia link.springer.com/collections/...

Ten years after Brexit. Read again @sarahwolff.bsky.social and @agathepiquet.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social Post-Brexit Europeanization: re-thinking the continuum of British policies, polity, and politics trajectories link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The study of European politics has taken a crisis-oriented turn. Yet despite a proliferation of new empirical research, crisis remains undertheorised as a unit of analysis in European studies @katealexandershaw.bsky.social, Joseph Ganderson & Anna Kyriazi explore link.springer.com/article/10.1...

✨The stage is set for our major conference 'Ten years on: the future of the UK-EU relationship with @flint-global.com ✨ 💻 Join us online as we mark 10 years since the EU referendum ⏰ Starting at 9am Tune in here 👉 www.youtube.com/live/HTjx89N...

Read Andrea Christou and Carmen Gebhard @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Taking citizens’ ideas and discourse seriously: a non-elite take on discursive institutionalism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Read David Arter, Faculty of Business and Management, Tampere University, "Why do MPs run to become MEPs when most simply want to remain MPs? On servicing the personal vote and doing party service". link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Read our most downloaded article of 2025. Alasdair R. Young of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA Adapting to adversity? EU trade policy in a more geopolitical world link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Take a look at Ramona Coman @nathaliebrack.bsky.social & @miscoiu.bsky.social special issue "Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament" With @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @alvarooleart.bsky.social & more link.springer.com/collections/...

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Read our most downloaded article of 2025. Alasdair R. Young of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Geogia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA Adapting to adversity? EU trade policy in a more geopolitical world link.springer.com/article/10.1... Congratulations!

Really happy this smarticle by @katealexandershaw.bsky.social, Joseph Ganderson & Anna Kyriazi has been published! If a crisis happens and nobody calls is a crisis, is it still a crisis?

The study of European politics has taken a crisis-oriented turn. Yet despite a proliferation of new empirical research, crisis remains undertheorised as a unit of analysis in European studies @katealexandershaw.bsky.social, Joseph Ganderson & Anna Kyriazi explore link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Emely Cruz-De-Jesús, Ángel Arcos-Vargas and José L. Martínez-Ramos @unisevilla.us.es explore what the current state of Energy Community (EC) regulation is, and analyse the Spanish draft decree for ECs discussed in light of broader European policy frameworks. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Out now. Andrea Christou and Carmen Gebhard @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Taking citizens’ ideas and discourse seriously: a non-elite take on discursive institutionalism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Out now. Read David Arter, Faculty of Business and Management, Tampere University, "Why do MPs run to become MEPs when most simply want to remain MPs? On servicing the personal vote and doing party service". link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Take a look at Ramona Coman, @nathaliebrack.bsky.social & @miscoiu.bsky.social special issue "Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament". With @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @alvarooleart.bsky.social and more. link.springer.com/collections/...

"analysis shows that yes, dissensus over liberal democracy is a line of conflict in the EP. However, conflicts over gender equality are, as ever, a litmus test of the contents and workings of that democracy" @jekantol.bsky.social @valentineb.bsky.social & Gaweda rdcu.be/e0cgB @compeurpol.bsky.social

Anthoula Malkopoulou and @benmoffitt.bsky.social ask - how should we respond to #populism? - arguing for responses to it to contain populism’s most egregious characteristics while salvaging its productive side. @compeurpol.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Out now! Milan Zafirovski; @max-etzel.bsky.social; Maciej Skrzypek, Wrocław Uni; @tudzarovska.bsky.social; Jakob Frateur, Peter Bursens, Patricia Popelier, @uantwerpen.be‬ @susanacoroado.bsky.social; Dömötör Gere, Dávid Kollár, Ádám Stefkovics,Századvég Foundation www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/4...

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In his latest article for CEP, Kyung Joon Han University of Tennessee explores Populism and voters’ projection bias in party ideology estimation link.springer.com/article/10.1... #populism #leftrightideologies #cognitiveprojection

In her latest CEP article Élodie Druez @ulbruxelles.bsky.social examines how the French and British Black African middle class view the main right-wing parties: the Republicans in France and the Conservatives in the UK. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In the latest issue, Özgün Sarımehmet Duman, Corvinus University of Budapest discusses: Competitiveness in the European market: a comparative analysis of the Eurozone periphery & the non Eurozone periphery link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Competitiveness #EMU #Eurozone #Exchangerate

In the latest issue, Rebeka Kiss HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences & @miklossebok.bsky.social explore: The Concept of Tailor-made Laws and Legislative Backsliding in Central-Eastern Europe link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Legislativebacksliding #Tailormadelaws #CentralEasternEurope

In the latest issue: Read István Benedek HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest Populist autocratization and populist electoral autocracies: towards a unified conceptual framework link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Populism #Hybridregimes #Autocratization

23: 3. Latest issue out now! With: István Benedek HUN-REN Centre Budapest Rebeka Kiss HUN-REN Centre Budapest & @miklossebok.bsky.social Özgün Sarımehmet Duman Corvinus University Élodie Druez @ulbruxelles.bsky.social Kyung Joon Han University of Tennessee www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/4...

Read articles online first! with: Sharon Lecocq & Patrick Müller Sarah Wolff & Stella Ladi Senem Aydın-Düzgit & Alper Kaliber Ana E. Juncos & Simon Frankel Pratt Laura Pierret Tom Casier Emilija Tudzarovska Dömötör Gere, Dávid Kollár & Ádám Stefkovics And more! link.springer.com/journal/4129...

Latest issue out now! With... Paulo Marques, Rui Branco & Rita Guimarães Tomáš Dvořák Saliha Metinsoy Andreas Corcaci & Sho Niikawa Andrea Capati Moritz Kappler, Rahel Schomaker, Edoardo Guaschino & Koen Verhoest www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/4...

Read @tudzarovska.bsky.social latest article The rise of technocratic politics in the EU: the legacies of neoliberalism link.springer.com/article/10.1... #EUeconomicgovernance #Neoliberalism #EUcrisis #Pandemic #Statetransformation

Out now! Dömötör Gere, Dávid Kollár & Ádám Stefkovics of the Századvég Foundation in their latest article discuss Who's left, who's right? Examining cross-national variations in the use of the left–right scale with anchoring vignettes link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Out now! Maciej Skrzypek University of Wrocław investigates the dynamics behind the escalation of peaceful public gatherings into civil disorder in Finland and Sweden, both of which have high levels of public trust in governance. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Out now! Élodie Druez @ulbruxelles.bsky.social examines how the French and British Black African middle class view the main right-wing parties: the Republicans in France and the Conservatives in the UK link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Discursive Framing of European Integration in EU-Wide Media: Actors, Narratives and Policies following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Andrea Capati from LUISS University link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Europeanintegration #EUwidemedia #Russianinvasion

How do elite core actors assess trust in national & EU authorities? The varying role of generalised trust at different governmental levels Moritz Kappler, Rahel Schomaker, Edoardo Guaschino & Koen Verhoest link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Generalisedtrust #Politicaltrust #Europe

Out now! The COVID-19 pandemic gave a new impetus to the study of citizens’ political trust in times of crisis. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Jakob Frateur · Peter Bursens· Patricia Popelier· @uantwerpen.be @susanacoroado.bsky.social #Politicaltrust #COVID19 · #TsQCA

Andreas Corcaci & Sho Niikawa assess the rise of referendums and democratic convergence in European democracies using time-differencing QCA in their latest article in issue 23 2. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Referendums #EU #QCA

Delighted that my article on the unrest in Greece under its first Troika program is now published in the Comparative European Politics! It challenges prevailing views on unrest in Greece, which are often shaped by Greek exoticism and exceptionalism. It explains unrest with labour immobility.

@salihametinsoy.bsky.social provides a political economic explanation for this unrest. You can read it here. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Protests #Greece #Troikaprograms #Labourmobility #Labourmarketderegulation

Analysing the gap in non institutionalized political engagement between Western Europe & the post communist region Tomáš Dvořák @charlesuni.cuni.cz explores link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Politicalengagement #Publicsphere #Postcommunistcountries #Mixedmethods

The politics of pro outsider labour market reforms: a configurational study Paulo Marques, Rui Branco and Rita Guimarães ISCTE-IUL NOVA University Lisbon discuss in the latest issue link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Comparativepoliticaleconomy #Dualization #Fixedtermcontracts #Solidarity #fsQCA

Special Issue: Crises as opportunities? Reconceptualising the EU-member states in the age of permanent emergency eds @lpolverari.bsky.social & Stella Ladi & @angelosangelou.bsky.social @sarahwolff.bsky.social @karolinapomorska.bsky.social @aejuncos.bsky.social www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/4...