Why do some people who strongly identify with their region hold more negative attitudes toward immigrants? With Mia Gandenberger and Anita Manatschal, we examine how regional intergroup dynamics shape immigration attitudes in Belgium in @actapolitica.bsky.social. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

La version française du "Manuel d'anti-autocratie" est désormais disponible.. Il s'agit d'un appel à l'action, à la résilience et à la défense collective de la démocratie, de la vérité et de la liberté académique face à la montée de l'autoritarisme zenodo.org/records/1960...

In the wake of HU elections, social media flooded with „Just do x and far-right populism will be defeated“-solutionism. If it were as simple as anti-corruption campaigning, Fidesz would have been defeated by 2018.

📻18h20 Municipales : les résultats du second tour bouleversent-ils vraiment les rapports de force ? Sur @franceculture.fr, @quentinlafay.bsky.social recevra Adélaïde Zulfikarpasic, sondeuse à Ipsos BVA, @auroremalval.bsky.social, grand reporter et @eliemichel.bsky.social, chercheur

My article “War in the campaign? Issue emphasis and issue salience during the 2022 French presidential campaign” is now published in Party Politics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

L'adoption du mode de scrutin proportionnel apparaît aujourd'hui, selon deux politistes, comme une condition nécessaire pour redonner à la démocratie française la capacité de renouer avec des gouvernements représentatifs, stables et opérationnels.

[OUT] 'The impact of party-voter congruence on affective polarization: evidence from Belgium', new paper by @bjarneck.bsky.social & @emilievh.bsky.social, researchers at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol), with @eliemichel.bsky.social, in JEPOP www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Out in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties - with @bjarneck.bsky.social and @emilievh.bsky.social. We show that actual differences in policy positions between voters and parties are important predictors of how voters sympathize with other voters (horizontal affective polarization)

"Political Life" most salient issue among French citizens in 2025. Ahead traditional most important problems like purchasing power, law and order, immigration, or the environment.

Special issue on “Wartime Europe” in the @jeppjournal.bsky.social With @bjarneck.bsky.social, we examine public opinion on the war in Ukraine, and on supporting Ukraine. And we find little evidence of war fatigue…

Share widely with your students in Switzerland 🇨🇭thinking about a PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 🇨🇭 21 Nov 2025 | 2:30pm CET @alissasiara.bsky.social introduces the program & life at EUI, I share my experience, and we answer your questions. 👉 Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Very much looking forward to this workshop organized by @linerenn.bsky.social and Oscar Mazzoleni at @unil.bsky.social !

#CNES took the floor at the 3rd #MEDemConference at @gesis.org as Olga Gyarfasova presented our activities to the #DemocracyResearch community 💡 #CNES is a proud partner of @medem.bsky.social and we look forward to a continued collaboration with this emerging European #ResearchInfrastructure 🚀

Next at the #MEDemConference – @LorenzoDeSio presents his vision for the #MEDemServiceGatewayHub 🌐 – featuring #ATLAS, our living encyclopedia designed to make democracy data findable, comparable, reusable, and linkable. Discover more about our #MEDemTools 👉 link in bio!

🚀 Kicking off day 1 of the 3rd #MEDemConference at @gesis.org! From @sldelange.bsky.social discussing radical-right normalization 🗳️ to calls to consolidate democracy data by @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social 📊 — keynotes spotlight why #MEDem matters for democracy.

📊 New Dataset Release: Belgian Electoral Panel Survey 2024 🇧🇪 We’re excited to announce the release of a new dataset from a 4-wave panel survey conducted during the 2024 Belgian elections! 📥 Download the dataset now: www.sodha.be/dataset.xhtm...

Antoher thorough demonstration that geography can mirror politics - but does not produce political preferences in itself!

Important roundtable on academic freedom at #ecprgc25. Insightful (but grim) presentation by @isaliba.bsky.social on attacks on academic freedom globally and also in Europe.

🚨 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...

Glad to share a symposium on my book "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare" with SER: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-.... Featuring @alexandreafonso.bsky.social, @vapunkt.bsky.social, @ankehassel.bsky.social, @danielk24.bsky.social, @gscheiring.bsky.social, & rejoinder by myself 👇

New publication with @bjarneck.bsky.social on public opinion toward supporting Ukraine in Europe out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social @forsresearch.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social

#VendrediLecture New paper out @eliemichel.bsky.social & Sylvain Brouard @cevipof.bsky.social on the effect of crises on electoral behavior: "Retrospective voting in times of pandemic: comparative evidence from panel data" in Political Science. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... OPEN ACCESS

New paper out (with Sylvain Brouard) on the effect of crises on electoral behavior: "Retrospective voting in times of pandemic: comparative evidence from panel data" in Political Science. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @forsresearch.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social @cevipof.bsky.social

New paper out in @bjpols.bsky.social, co-authored with Emilien Paulis. Using survey data from 13 European democracies, we show that electoral winners are less supportive of referendums, especially when they are affectively polarized. 1/6 Paper: doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425000365

Fichier cumulatif de près de 50 ans d'une enquête électorale nationale de grande qualité ! @asso-afsp.bsky.social @spsr.bsky.social

Very useful cumulative file of a benchmark national election study ! @nesconsortium.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social

Great afternoon at the GREC workshop in Lausanne @forsresearch.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social with @lacic.bsky.social @matthiasenggist.bsky.social @eliemichel.bsky.social @lukaslauener.bsky.social @anketresch.bsky.social and many others

Steven Levitsky on why the U.S. is now a competitive authoritarian regime and can't be considered a democracy. www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆 He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

Big news from ‪@medem.bsky.social‬ ! Congratulations !

Congratulations ! MEDem is an exciting project supported by more than 1000 researchers !

"Towards a Polarised Electorate?" By @bjarneck.bsky.social @ulbruxelles.bsky.social @eliemichel.bsky.social available in #OpenAccess at plc-journal.eu/article/view...

We are looking forward to this online seminar on #survey #sampling on May 13! 🤩 Sign up to attend: newsletter.forscenter.ch/newsletter/i... 👇

Exciting workshop on the 2023 Swiss Federal Elections - gathering researchers from so many universities. Look forward to our research output @spsr.bsky.social. Thanks to the support of @forsresearch.bsky.social @ipz.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

theconversation.com/la-condamnat... (Luc Rouban, très juste comme souvent.)

Looking forward to exchanges on #ElectionStudies with German and Austrian colleagues @gles.bsky.social #AUTNES #Selects at @forsresearch.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social @anketresch.bsky.social @lukaslauener.bsky.social @eliemichel.bsky.social

Coalitions of the willing are back in vogue, with Macron hosting another summit tomorrow in Paris. Here’s a chart I made on forms of differentiated integration and political cooperation in Europe:

Qui aimerait venir travailler et faire une thèse avec/chez nous? Mise au concours: 2 postes d’assistant.e doctorant.e à 80% au sein du LAPS- Uni!Neuchâtel Nous, c‘est une équipe formidable! Nos spécialités: études critiques/réfléxives sur les mobilités et migrations. www.unine.ch/laps/wp-cont...

Le Conseil national de la Résistance a-t-il inventé la Sécurité sociale ? Est-il à l'origine de l’État-providence en France ? ✍️ Découvrez les explications de @guillaumepollack.bsky.social sur ehne.fr/fr/eduscol/t... 🤝 @aphg.bsky.social @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social

@dacemoglumit.bsky.social is bang on. Same applies in Europe, of course. Plural institutions, including a string HE sector, are critical for successful societies and the economy: on.ft.com/4by1BXg

Décès de Dominique Colas, professeur émérite de science politique à #sciencespo, chercheur au @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social, auteur de nombreux ouvrages et articles consacrés à Lénine, à l’URSS et à la Russie ainsi qu’au nationalisme www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/fr/book/?gco...

Completely missed this! Based on data from The PopuList, ParlGov, and other sources, @economist.com shows that far-right parties are now supported by 24% of European voters. This makes them Europe’s most popular party family. www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

3/3 Importantly, this did not happen - in most member states - because French policy ideas were prevailing. Rather, external pressures are pushing the EU towards greater efforts for more sovereignty, independence and (!) protectionism. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share! - 2yr postdoc in wealth research - 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty - 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy - 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology - tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society

We are trying to build the most ambitious infrastrucutre for democracy research - and we need your support !

AlumVoice survey from the @eui-eu.bsky.social ! Useful to reconnect. @eui-alumni.bsky.social

This is an important reminder ! In the end, maps are not so good at explaining differences in vote choice...and they are rarely as straightforward as some would like to argue.

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