🚨New publication! My article “Far-right parties and gender policies in contemporary Türkiye” is out now. I analyze the Victory Party, New Welfare Party & Free Cause Party and map their gender policy positions. Free access: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/INVR6...

🚨New publication! My article “Far-right parties and gender policies in contemporary Türkiye” is out now. I analyze the Victory Party, New Welfare Party & Free Cause Party and map their gender policy positions. Free access: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/INVR6...

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀? In our new dataset, we track these prosecutions with @seva.bsky.social @sahibjafarov.bsky.social. It's more common than you might think. Check out our @foreignpolicy.com op-ed for the findings. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d... @idos-research.bsky.social

🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉 powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com - Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models - Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters - Fast! (Instant results)

🚨 New publication alert! Social media is often seen as a catalyst for the transnational spread of far-right and anti-gender movements. But is it really? How does it work? My research examines how anti-gender movement organizations exchange across borders online. Curious about the findings? 🧵👇

HEADS-UP! 🚨 On Wednesday October 29, the Netherlands will holds its 9th (!) legislative elections of the 21st century. I will continue to post disproportionately about my country of birth and citizenship (but not of residence) in the coming weeks. This will be my thread for Dutch news! 🧵

We’re excited to host Samantha Bradshaw for a seminar on 17 November at Özyeğin University. She’ll share insights from her groundbreaking work on international competition over quantum technologies. @sbradshaw.bsky.social Link for the registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Two job openings at our department. One for Turkish Politics (stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/POL...) and one for Public Policy (stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/POL...) .

Rejection is one of the toughest parts about academia and this post provides some great guidance on how to deal with it (that I will start trying to follow myself). Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. 
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. 
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

NEW - Inflation and Incumbent Support: Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election - https://cup.org/3JaiZYj "priming Americans to think about inflation reduced support for the incumbent party" - Selim Erdem Aytaç, @danielmcdowell.bsky.social & David A. Steinberg #OpenAccess

Our special issue "Genocide is a feminist issue" is now available here: tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3... @snehakrishnan.bsky.social

peer review is a process of removing every sentence every sentence every sentence you liked

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 #𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 #𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬? They face huge risks, especially during economic crises, when dictators choose to financially extort or #purge their business allies. And yet, despite their power to disrupt, business elites rarely switch sides. My research shows why.

Thrilled to be starting as a Visiting Scholar at Concordia University’s Political Science Department with the Immigration Research Initiative! Excited for new ideas, collaborations, and great conversations on migration.

Working on political psychology research with a focus on East Asia? A new special issue of our journal will center East Asia to broaden the field’s geographic & cultural assumptions. Find the call in the Special Issues section of the link below & consider submitting your work! linktr.ee/POPSjournal

"The DP’s authoritarianism emerged as a result of its pursuit to establish hegemony right from the start. Failure of establishing consent gave way to forceful domination, setting the DP period as the first example of competitive authoritarianism in Turkey" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma. Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia. Please apply, share, etc. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

🌅📙 64.3 #NostalgicDeprivation in Europe 🇪🇺 These authors (🧵⬇️) look at impact of #NostalgicDeprivation on support for #PopulistParties across both Eastern and Western Europe 🌍 linking populist attitudes and voting. 🔗 buff.ly/HuJNAqL

OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today is my first teaching day of Fall 2025. I'm teaching a grad course on Qualitative Methods, for the first time in almost 10 years. As several people have asked me to post my syllabus, here it is. Note that it can be, and often is, changed a bit during the semester.

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social and Tamta Gelashvili @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social (ISV) 🔎 How can institutions better support researchers? The case of extremism and terrorism research 📗 Open access in Qualitative Research doi.org/10.1177/1468...

🚨 New article out in @govandopp.bsky.social 🔥 How did far-right parties go from political outcasts to election contenders in Germany, Portugal, Spain & Sweden? Turns out, stigma doesn’t last forever… www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025). If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31

New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social! Are young men becoming more conservative? This debate requires a) more nuance and b) theoretical explanations for often descriptive results. With Amy Alexander and Nicholas Charron, we try addressing both. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As I explore at length in the article below, "immigration" is not a "legitimate concern" that rises from the bottom to force the elite to crack down but a top-down construction to divert attention away from the many other real crisis people care about journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Join us!

I'm delighted to see this article out in @govandopp.bsky.social! Jonas Wenker and I show that losing an election has a far stronger negative effect on populist voters than on non-populist ones. For populists, losing signals that the system is broken. 1/5 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

In four years Meloni has gone from pariah to leader of the new Christian Democracy, now with the explicit endorsement of the most important recent leader of Italian Bishops. There are a few PhD theses waiting to be written on this rapid journey...

@profterrig.bsky.social Terri Givens and I are looking forward to welcoming 10 domestic & international early career scholars to Wellington on 20 August for our workshop "Understanding the Race-Immigration Nexus in Settler-Colonial Settings." Still looking for discussants - please PM if interested

So, @jelenasubotic.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue on heritage politics for @risjnl.bsky.social, and the contributions are starting to drop on first view! Stay tuned for our co-authored introductory essay and more contributions but here is what we have so far:

🚨 New piece for @ecpr.bsky.social's @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — @maxheermann.bsky.social & I map trips of world leaders using @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social's COLT of over 78K+ foreign trips by heads of state and gov from 1990-2023. Reference: bsky.app/profile/jose...

🔊 We have a new review available! @ibburckhardt.bsky.social looks at Hoffman and Ware, "Guns, God and Sedition: Far Right Terrorism In America", finding it "makes significant and timely contributions to theory and strategy in terrorism studies." Link here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It is OUT the last (printed) version of Handbook of Affective Polarization doi.org/10.4337/9781... It is open Access!!!

We’re accepting submissions for Fall 2025 until August 14. If you’re on the market, it’s a great chance to practice your job talk with an audience! We also welcome paper presentations. Apply here: iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Do sanction threats work? We find that threats—even if credibly backed—do not increase support for concessions in the target public (Turkiye case). Plus, positive inducements provoke backlash in some groups, highlighting coercive diplomacy’s limits Check out our research note: shrturl.app/3l4wWJ

This is our second journal article together. The collaboration started at Luther College and we presented earlier drafts at MPSA and LASA conferences. Thanks to everyone who offered their feedback and support. Check the article out and share it with others. It is open access.

Our introduction to the forthcoming @GPCjournal special issue called "Genocide is a Feminist Issue" prepared together with @snehakrishnan.bsky.social is now available. First 50 copies available for free at www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TBDEX...

Far-right parties are doing well – so it’s important that we see them for what they are. Yet, in the UK, the label ‘hard right’ is catching on. Why is debateable. But, argues, @timbale.bsky.social, this misdescription sanitises far-right parties, and we should push back against it bit.ly/4eLRBeC

Our co-authored article on Correa's polarizing legacy in Ecuadorian politics is published! We focus on the dynamics of populism, polarization, and opposition to explain the runoff reversals in the 2021 and 2023 presidential elections, leading to the election of Guillermo Lasso and Daniel Noboa.

Our book now exists in hard copy - for the real fans and their libraries - but you can also still keep browsing and downloading it here for free: academic.oup.com/book/60532

🚨 🚨 🚨 New OA publication in Research&Politics @respol.bsky.social.bsky.social‬ out today: #Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to ✝️ #religiosity but highly correlated with #farright attitudes. A short 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why #democracy needs #business? A strong private sector is key to democratic resilience. But there are risks! It isn't business capture of state but state capture of business that poses the greatest danger to democracy, we argue in @jodemocracy.bsky.social w/ @lucanway.bsky.social & S. Levitsky.

New WP w/ @riazsascha.bsky.social: via >42 million placebo tests, we show type I error inflation in Unexpected Event during Survey Designs (UESD), propose an adjustment, implement via new R package uesdRobust, and demonstrate utility by replicating two top UESD studies. osf.io/preprints/os... 1/9

1. "Can Capitalism Save Democracy?" by @lucanway.bsky.social @semuhi.bsky.social and #stevenlevitsky muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Finally got the printed copy! Thanks again @petraguasti.bsky.social and @mattiazulianello.bsky.social for the meticulous editorship!