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/...

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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!

🧵 Hiring 2 PhDs in political science! Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES @uantwerpen.be 🇧🇪 We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️ 💥 4-yr fully funded 📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025 🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug Details + apply 👇

Are you using online surveys in your research? Recruiting participants through paid ads? Then @anjaneundorf.bsky.social and I have an article you’ll want to read: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

New publication! Our joint work with Deniz Sert and Evren Balta, "Electoral pressure, reputational risks, and coalition politics: how established parties respond to the rise of anti-immigrant parties," is published online as open-access. doi.org/10.1017/npt.... @evreki.bsky.social

New publication! Our joint work with Deniz Sert and Evren Balta, "Electoral pressure, reputational risks, and coalition politics: how established parties respond to the rise of anti-immigrant parties," is published online as open-access. doi.org/10.1017/npt.... @evreki.bsky.social

Very happy to receive Özyeğin University Faculty Research Excellence Award.

Today, we concluded our two-day workshop on Political Behaviour and Public Opinion. Many thanks to all presenters and participants for the inspiring discussions and contributions!

Now in @ispp-pops.bsky.social: what type of personality do citizens want their leaders to have? In a series of studies conducted in Belgium, Canada, and Israel, we present citizens with profiles of potential leaders with different personality configurations drawn using the Big Five traits /1

Check out our exciting new article that tests the drivers of support for the Greater Idaho Movement. Coauthored by @littvay.bsky.social and Semir Dzebo. Open access below 👇

Families' wealth in 1427 predicts their wealth in 2011.

10 Mayıs Cumartesi günü İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesinde sosyal bilimlerde yöntem tartışacağız.

Populism remains an important necessary concept to understand current political transformations. But analysts need to move away from it as the main focus. Authoritarian nativism, white supremacy, racism, sexism and fascism are the ideologies at the core of the current erosion of liberal democracy 1/

Bu sene yakın zamanda kaybettiğimiz Prof. Fuat Keyman anısına verilen Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödülünü (BAGEP 2025) Prof. Senem Aydın Düzgit'ten aldım. Beni bu ödüle layık gören herkese çok teşekkür ederim. @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social @bilimakademisi.bsky.social

The FBI just arrested a sitting judge for “obstruction” of their nativist agenda. Do you really think you are safe?

People often overestimate how many others share their views—a phenomenon known as the false consensus effect. In a new article in @ispp-pops.bsky.social, @clandwehr.bsky.social, Philipp Harms and I show that this tendency is associated with stronger populist attitudes: doi.org/10.1111/pops....

CfP: Workshop on Trust and Cognition Link for the application: ozyeginpsy.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...