Every time I read @adamprz.bsky.social reflecting on his life and work, I am in awe. Though I have never met him, and we move(d) in different circles, his reflections speak deeply to me. One of the last intellectual giants in the field representing an increasingly different discipline.

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨 I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity. I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests. doi.org/10.1080/1474...

Taking a closer look at @mierkezat.bsky.social @swenhutter.bsky.social & @eborbath.bsky.social's paper on cleavage formation and civil society and cannot recommend it highly enough! Really insightful theorizing, e.g. on changes in the form of civil society and its effect on group-party linkages:

As I am fairly new to Bluesky, this comes a bit late, but it is still worth checking out: Our #oa introduction to the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on "Europe’s Changing Protest Landscape" with @sophiahunger.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.

📢 Call for applications! I’m looking for a 4-year PhD researcher (100%) in Political Science: focus on public opinion & the far right You’ll be part of the POLHYBRID project @sciencepoulb.bsky.social, working with me & @caterinafr.bsky.social Deadline: 9 11 2025 👉 Info & apply: shorturl.at/El2mW

"You can’t write four op-eds a week and expect to produce a book with staying power” Another great interview by @catherinedevries.bsky.social for her blog "Etched in Marble". @mkblyth.bsky.social is sharp and critical and his insights resonate deeply with me.

On Saturday, I'll present the paper “Movement Parties and Parliamentary Speech in Chile, Spain, and Mexico”, co-authored with @eborbath.bsky.social and @janschwalbach.bsky.social ; 2pm, East Meeting Level, East 3.

Another fantastic piece out in our "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" special issue! (co-edited with @davidattewell6.bsky.social ) @mierkezat.bsky.social et al investigate the role of civil society in contemporary cleavage formation.  There are a few more SI contributions still to come!

Interesting new article that fits nicely within "The Building Blocs" research agenda (t.ly/us7kj), which we recently contributed to: t.ly/Dg6zK We, as scholars of Europe, can learn from scholars of MENA, SE Asia, etc, who have long emphasized the role of civil society for party competition.

📊 New dataset and paper alert! We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Below follows a 🧵

🔔 Very happy to see our paper published open access on cleavage theory and civil society! 📖 We have tried to sketch a new research agenda, that I think has a lot of potential. I very much enjoyed working on this! Check Alex's thread below 👇 & read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de j0b.de/veca 75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards 📆31/08

My new Substack on revisiting the pessimistic early “breakdown prophecies“ made about Eastern Europe im early 1990s. Wrong then, but look more prescient open.substack.com/pub/drseanha...

📖 Amazing to see Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe is finally out open access: tinyurl.com/2s37s6y2 In our chapter with Liriam Sponholz ✨, we discuss how #far-right actors engage in platformed #mainstreaming, through hyperlink #network analysis based on +120,000 #Facebook page posts. 📊

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Feels like a good time to share this call for papers. Can't wait for EPSS 2026!

I learned so much from @rdassonneville.bsky.social's Voters Under Pressure, Tillman's Authoritarianism and the Evolution and Bartels's Democracy Erodes from the Top. In @comppol.bsky.social, I review each book on its own terms and draw out implications for the view that elections confer mandates. 🧵

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Reading about the US these days often feels like reading the Hungarian press circa 2011-2012, only in English.

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

Our article on environmental protests in Europe now also has page numbers. Take a look at it, in case you missed it:

"We argue that symbolic class signalling has gained in importance due to the political realignment along the cultural dimension, and we expect radical right parties to benefit most from it" - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social Read #OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV

🔔 New paper out! We trace how the 2022 protest wave 📣 helped pave the way for Germany's left-nationalist BSW 🇩🇪. What looked like a momentary crisis turned out to reshape the political landscape. Another reminder: protests can spark political realignment 🔥📊

🚨 We're hiring! Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment. Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊 www.gesis.org/en/institute...

Voice is one of the most talked-about, and least explained, aspects of academic writing. We’re told to “find it,” but rarely taught how to build it. I wrote up some reflections here: 👉 open.substack.com/pub/catherin... A 🧵 about why so much academic writing feels voiceless & what to do about it.

🚨 New article out in Journal of Civil Society with Swen Hutter! We explore how civil society organizations (CSOs) mobilized volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, a moment of both rising need and shrinking organizational capacity. 📖 Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1744...

🚀 Launching the Humboldt Governance Lab @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social! We deliver evidence-based insights and policy advice on today’s key challenges to democracy. 🌐 hu-govlab.de Follow us for research, updates & collaborations. #GovLab #Democracy #PolicyResearch

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Budapest Pride thread, from the ground

Off to Madrid for #EPSA2025 Assuming I survive the heat, I'll be presenting two papers and joining a roundtable on protests and social movements in Central and Eastern Europe. Looking forward to catching up with many of you there!

Nothing is more bonding than when someone says "oh that [dataset/theory/model]" in a tone that betrays they too have suffered

Our book is out and available to read open access online: academic.oup.com/book/60532. It is dedicated to Niko.

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not? What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/0032... 🧵 1/10

🚨 Attention EPSA goers, please check if you are a chair or discussant. Many are finding out late! You won't see it by using the "Search" button in the #EPSA2025 program (only Browse), and there was no email to inform you. Check it in your profile coms.app/epsa2025/wel... or the spreadsheet below:

We are happy to present our book: "Populist Radical Right Parties in Action: The Survival of the Mass Party" on 13. June 2025 at @rug.nl. For more information and registration please see the poster and the link below. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Super happy to have @dnwildi.bsky.social join the project and to start the research group 🐣😊 Stay tuned! 🌱

I've been running online surveys in #Romania about the presidential elections. Lots of crazy stuff but the graph below took me by surprise (and I'm someone who studies communist legacies). This is the share of the second-round vote for Simion as a function of what respondents think of Ceaușescu.

3 more days to apply for 2 postdoc positions in Frankfurt - let me know if you have any questions!

What makes a protest work? Size, diversity, discipline and shifting loyalties in power structures all help. Across countries, stolen elections or shocking abuses often spark action, but the U.S. may now be in uncharted territory. Lessons from @chenoweth.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2025/04/05/p...

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections". Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x) #CivMilSky

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

🎓 New semester, new syllabi! This summer term, I’m teaching two seminars: 1️⃣ New research in European party politics (BA, reading seminar): endre-borbath.eu/assets/pdf/B... 2️⃣ Quantitative content analysis of the coverage of political conflict (MA, methods seminar): endre-borbath.eu/assets/pdf/B...

🚨Call for Papers🚨 Charlotte Rößler-Prokhorenko, @chjncke.bsky.social und ich organisieren beim Kongress der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social im September in Duisburg ein Panel (aka "Ad-hoc-Gruppe") zur Politisierung der Zivilgesellschaft. ❗Deadline: 30.04.❗ kongress2025.soziologie.de/fileadmin/us...

Thrilled to welcome you back @sldelange.bsky.social together with the brilliant @tevoelker.bsky.social who will be visiting @SciencesPo_CEE during the same period. Can't wait to work together and have you both here!

Almost 30 years to the day, I published my first "major" academic article. It was an English language summary of my Dutch language M.A. thesis. A short thread on how it came about. 🧵