Worrying development in the Netherlands.

I got stuck measuring local UK inequality, so I wrote a Substack about it: "The UK's Local Inequality Problem: Big Debates, Bad Data" Do share your data and thoughts! open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Spain's La Vuelta halted in Madrid as police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters reut.rs/4mf5i7O

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Really good and really really interesting. To a large extent, it goes against my expectations, and yet it does cover it's bases well enough that I may have to accept that maybe norms are a bigger part of the far right story than what I initially thought.

Cool work! The League in Italy has historically been the party of small-to-medium Norther Italian businesses so annecdotally the argument checks out. Also speaks to the evidence of this recent paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized? In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Desgraciadamente, importantes partidos y medios de comunicación continúan dando eco y espacio a la idea de que la inmigración trae crimen. ¿Pero qué dice la evidencia? A esto respondo en mi nueva entrada en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social nadaesgratis.es/santiago-san...

It’s striking how much these patterns are similar across many European counties (both the center left one and the radical right one). And yet there’s much work to be done in shifting the discourse from competing narratives that have little empirical backing.

No hace falta tener hijos para verse afectado, basta con ser humano, pero como padres y madres recientes lloramos especialmente el asesinato masivo de niños. Por @txepeligro.bsky.social en M&P de @elpais.com

What people expect fascism to look like versus what it often looks like in real life

Many UK media are actively contributing to Reform’s rise. The non-stop reporting and exaggeration of anti-migrant protests that don’t get more than a few hundred people on the street, the portrayal of extreme minority opinions as mainstream, the constant obsession with Farage.

📢 I've written the @financialtimes.com Free Lunch newsletter today on the rise of populism & its economic implications 📢 No surprise: populism makes for very bad economics, with clear negative impacts regardless of whether it is left-wing or right wing variety Free-to-read link👉 on.ft.com/4fViP31

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

Once again, PBC is back and calling for your applications! As always, this is a no-budget but heart-rich story — and we can’t wait to see your proposals!

This is quite interesting, suggesting that less (gender) equal nations have higher rates of cross gender friendships

NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

España y la paradoja de la densidad 🏘️ Decimos que España está 'vacía' y es cierto: gran parte se ve blanca en mapas de población. Pero OJO: en densidad superamos a Finlandia, Suecia, Estonia, Irlanda o Grecia. Estamos casi en media europea de hab/km². ¿Cómo se explica? Hilo:

NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

This is a fabulous response by my colleague Kevin Munger to "that" Economist piece about the EUI. Perhaps @spignal.bsky.social and @jhooper.bsky.social might be interested! kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...

Now out @jpube.bsky.social! In Italy, lower spending on immigrants by far-right mayors is met by a growth in social welfare volunteering by progressive citizens. Check it out! 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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 🧵

Now in an issue @psrm.bsky.social: I show that the 🇩🇰 Social Democrats could have won policy support for a pro-immigrant platform if their messaging were framed in moral terms. Findings provide a central corrective to the popular notion that the Social Democrats were destined to go anti-immigrant 👇🏻

🚨New publication!! 😶‍🌫️ Wait for a little summary by @bertous.bsky.social in the coming days 👇 ...or just click to learn about the new radical right party -SALF- that shocked Spanish politics in the last EP elections

The @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮 epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Deadline: 7 November 2025

¿Deben los jóvenes de 16 y 17 años poder votar? 🤔 Más de 80 expertos y activistas creen que sí, y han firmado un manifiesto que defiende esta idea como un paso hacia una democracia más justa e inclusiva.

The protestors and students were right. They were right, they were brave, and every American institution failed them. America sacrificed itself to enable evil men to cheer for war crimes without having to hear any criticism.

I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section. I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.

New publication in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with Delia Baldassarri. We show that in the US, social relationships remain politically heterogeneous, and that heterogeneous close ties and acquaintances lower partisan animosity through distinct mechanisms. A thread on the main findings:

Shocking, even for their standards, that the Spanish far right is in favor of deporting even legal migrants if they “fail to integrate”—and that, at the same time, the mainstream right refuses to establish a cordon sanitaire. elpais.com/espana/2025-...

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Why are working class people under-represented in legislatures? We propose one potential mechanism: working-class individuals are *perceived* as less likely to achieve political success, and are subsequently 'pragmatically' discriminated against. We provide an experiment in the UK to test it:

Prof Skocpol making a crucial point here. The centralized police. And then the lawless quasipolice who guard the camps. Trump’s death bill moves the US towards those two thresholds, well known from Germany in the 1930s. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

The G7 is exempting American multinationals from the global minimum tax. It’s pathetic and scandalous.

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/

🚨 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. 🧵

And last but not least, there is an overall imbalance by gender (about 60/40), but with variation across institutions.

I took a closer look at the program #EPSA2024 and found some interesting trends – there seem to be more US based scholars than last year 🇺🇸 @epsanet.bsky.social‬ A thread on this year's authors and affiliations 🧵

Behind Spain's blackout: 'Conventional generators (mostly gas-fired) failed to supply grid-balancing services they’d been paid for'. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I look forward to meeting many of you soon in Madrid for EPSA 2025. In case that’s helpful to anyone, here are some of my personal Madrid favorites:

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

Recordatorio importante para entender parte de los orígenes de la corrupción: España es el país (tras Eslovenia) con mayor porcentaje de procedimientos de contratación negociados con una empresa SIN licitación pública. Dinero de todos adjudicado a dedo. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/oe...

Se puede estar muy en contra del régimen de los ayatolás de Irán y denunciar la vulneración del derecho internacional de Estados Unidos con su ataque Y se puede estar muy en contra de la organización terrorista Hamás y denunciar los crímenes de guerra sistemáticos de Israel contra los palestinos

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

#showyourstripes Hamburg, Germany Human caused climate change is noticeable everywhere: showyourstripes.info

El Gobierno catalán anuncia préstamos a jóvenes para pagar la entrada de su primera vivienda (incentivar la demanda). Cuando hicieron una política similar en Reino Unido (help-to-buy): ❌Aumentaron 8% precios. ❌No aumentó la oferta. ❌Los promotores se apropiaron de toda la ayuda.

Together with @paugrau.bsky.social, we have just posted our first Substack, which is our quick take on the outcome of the labour rights and citizenship referendums in Italy on 8-9 June 1/ open.substack.com/pub/simonhix...