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.

🚨A a fantastic new resource for migration and democracy scholars! Congrats to @globalcit.bsky.social @sumpierrez.bsky.social @wegschaider.bsky.social for this massive effort! cc @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @migcitpol.bsky.social @mpc-eui.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

Good 🧵 by @jdzankic.bsky.social on the problematic 'gold card' in the US.

According to @internationalidea.bsky.social's recent Global State of Democracy report, 2024 marked the ninth consecutive year of net democratic decline: 54% of countries experienced declines whereas 32% recorded improvements. Here is our summary: www.democracywithoutborders.org/37744/

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Looks legit

This move might negatively impact research and innovation in the U.S.: H1b was a common visa for excellent postdoc scientists to move to the U.S. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

🚨📢 I am hiring a PhD candidate /research assistant in Swiss Politics and/or Comparative Politics (100%)! 🚨📢 Je recrute un·e assistant·e diplômé·e en science politique en politique suisse et comparée! Please join me @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland! Thanks for sharing! polisky @sspunil.bsky.social

Short and to the point 👇🏼

Ein kluger, nachdenklicher und sehr persönlicher Essay über politische Gewalt: «Würde das Alltägliche so viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommen wie das Spektakel, wären wir an einem anderen Punkt. Wie hat Walter Benjamin gesagt? Dass es so weitergeht, ist die Katastrophe.»

🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social 'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇 Read the full article (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Solidarität mit @dunjahayali.de ✊

This is a great development! But what about the 25% of adult long-term non-citizen residents that Switzerland excludes? Reform is much needed ▶️ @demokratie-vi.bsky.social cc @zdaarau.bsky.social @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @migcitpol.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

🚨The Swiss parliament has decided to let mentally disabled persons vote! Yet, suffrage in democracies remains persistently non-universal (see 2015 ELECLAW data below, Switzerland marked yellow). For more, check out the @globalcit.bsky.social electoral rights database: globalcit.eu/conditions-f...

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...

Great to see @globalcit.bsky.social’s Rainer Bauböck at the launch of the @internationalidea.bsky.social Global State of Democracy Report 2025. Emphasising the important implications of out-of-country voting in times of democratic recession both in migrant origin countries and destination countries.

Are you planning to attend IMISCOE 2026 in Girona and working on immigrant naturalization? @ninaca.bsky.social and I are inviting abstracts to put together a panel. Sends us your paper abstract if you are interested to join! @migcitpol.bsky.social #MigCitSky www.linkedin.com/posts/nina-c...

Absolutely shameful hagiographies of Charlie Kirk by “liberals” like Ezra Klein and Gavin Newson. It’s like Fortuyn all over again. It is perfectly possible to oppose the killing of people you vehemently and wholeheartedly disagree with.

I recently read a BA thesis on the prevalence of "anti-gender" ideology in #farright party manifestos. It was quite good overall, but when it came to choosing a graph style and colour palette, the student did the funniest thing👇

Are you from a high income country? Do you live abroad? Ever thought about taking up a new citizenship? Then, check out my new paper with Floris Peters (Utrecht) doi.org/10.1002/psp.... @migcitpol.bsky.social @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

📘 64.4 How do welfare systems shape views on immigration? A 🇪🇺 study from @alinavranceanu.bsky.social & @bpetrova.bsky.social finds: Generous welfare → more positive attitudes toward immigrants Welfare cuts → increased hostility (evidence from 🇩🇰) Read more:

📢 New Book Review Symposium 📚 Engin Isin’s Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law explores the paradox of human vs citizenship rights & asks if a planetary citizenship can emerge 🤔 Isin reflects on 35 years of struggles, rights, and paradoxes shaping modern citizenship 🔗 tinyurl.com/yed9efba

The great scholar Chandran Kukathas has argued that restrictions on the freedom of immigrants inherently require and imply restrictions on the freedom of citizens, a large cost that is rarely accounted for in public debate about optimal restrictions on immigrants.

✨ Now published in the @scmrjems.bsky.social: our paper on the "Pathways of external citizenship: the global extension of dual citizenship and voting from abroad", with the great @sumpierrez.bsky.social! You can access 50 free online copies here: lnkd.in/dvaNmTWR See 🧵 for summary of our 📝

Das sollte auch in meiner Schweiz-TL genau zur Kenntnis genommen werden: Bei rechtbürgerlichen Parteien zeigt die Forschung seit jeher: Anbiedern an SVP &co bringt nichts. Menschen wählen lieber das Original. Nun zeigt eine ganz neue Studie: Das gilt auch für Parteien *links* der Mitte (s. Labour)

The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

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...

Returning from vacation and looking for a late summer read? @ivobantel.bsky.social and I got you covered! In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Labour's next biggest losses are to left-liberal parties (Liberal Democrats and Greens). Reform's growth in support has mostly come from the Conservatives and non-voting (much less from Labour). These reflect patterns of party-bloc voting that we saw in the 2024 UK GE: tinyurl.com/y5pv7thw

In der Deutschschweiz ist man sich viel zu wenig bewusst, wie verletzend in der Romandie die Debatte um die Abschaffung des Frühfranzösisch empfunden wird. Viele Romands sehen sich in dem Vorurteil bestätigt, dass man sich in der D-CH als die “echteren” und “wichtigeren” Schweizer:innen fühlt.

Schwingerkönig Armon Orlik. A striking detail: Orlik’s grandfather came to Switzerland as an 18-year-old refugee, fleeing Soviet-controlled Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. Now, Orlik stands as Swiss wrestling king – cheered most passionately by fans of the far right SVP, the anti-migration party

Spot-on from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)

🆕 publication alert ✨ I’m delighted our paper on Waves of Securitisation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Citizenship Stripping Regulations in Europe, with Luuk vd Baaren & Maria Gerdes is out now in Statelessness & Citizenship Review! 🔗 statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...

WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.

🔔 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....

🚨 New in Journal of Politics! 🚨 Do radical right parties need to cut ties with old dictatorships to succeed? 👉 @sergipardos.bsky.social and my study of Spain’s VOX says: ❌ Not necessarily.

🚨 New Policy Brief 🚨 How to address responsibility-sharing in European migration governance? Public support hinges on perceived fairness. We propose binding fairness rules with flexible implementation to overcome political deadlocks. 📖 Read the full brief: nccr-onthemove.ch/wp_live14/wp...

The EU has proposed letting member states drop ‘connection requirement’ from the ‘safe third country’ asylum concept @gaiaromeo.bsky.social & @frowinrausis.bsky.social argue this marks a shift toward an ‘(un)safe fourth country’ approach that some have already - unsuccessfully - tried bit.ly/4lnXktD

Brilliant paper for researchers and students working with migration data by the talented @samdschmid.bsky.social

The idea of #externalizing asylum is gaining traction within Europe. I explain why Denmark, as first European state, passed a bill to outsource asylum and how the Social Democratic government justified their U-turn. #openaccess @wepsocial.bsky.social👇️

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.

Congrats, great paper, @samdschmid.bsky.social! This is a gentle introduction and excellent overview of available data and methods. Obligatory reading for anyone interested in quantitative approaches in the field of comparative immigration law.

🚨 This overview of quantitative political science data and methods for comparative immigration law is intended for students and scholars of other methodological and/or disciplinary backgrounds. @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @migcitpol.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social ‪

🚨 This overview of quantitative political science data and methods for comparative immigration law is intended for students and scholars of other methodological and/or disciplinary backgrounds. @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @migcitpol.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social ‪

🚨New Peer-Reviewed Working Paper @mpimmg.bsky.social I introduce quantitative political science data and methods to compare immigration law. A revised version will appear as a Chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law. www.samdschmid.com/publications...

Call for applications open until September 15!

2050 one was. 2339 was a sociologist

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

This is a prime case study of how moving your issue agenda as a center right party (Cons) to the right extremes will eventually cost yourself everything. The Cons are projected at 24!!! seats right now. Reform at 395!