I am looking for a PhD student to support my ERC Consolidator project INEQCHANGE: Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe. ⏰ deadline: 31 May

Around half of Americans are pessimistic reformers – people who say the political system needs major changes but are not confident it can be changed effectively. www.pewresearch.org/...

Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

👍Very excited to see that my solo-authored article: "Surveying Minoritized Citizens: A Quantitative Study of Identification versus Categorization" has been published in Survey Research Methods✨ I hope survey researchers to reconsider how they survey group membership💪 doi.org/10.18148/srm...

Why I don't expect liberal democracy to go away any time soon: My article on the resilience of liberal democracy, published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social. Perfectly timed to the day after Orbáns defeat and a small spike in "democracy-optimism". There are, I argue, good reasons for such optimism.

No amount of gerrymandering will fix that

Keeping this for the future: Orbán on TV saying that the election results are painful but clear. This feels momentous. #Hungary

Orbán congratulated Magyar. It's really a historic moment.

Fidesz and its candidates in single mandate districts are faring worse than even the initial forecasts. Very likely 2/3 supermajority for the opposition Tisza. Orbán is finished. #Hungary

I'm browsing early district level results (30-40% counted) & they look INCREDIBLE. Tisza is ahead of Fidesz not only in battlegrounds, but in deep Orbán country too. It's *early*, but it's very, VERY promising. Map from Partizán's live show

BIG day today in Hungary, but at least in the short run, the choice is between authoritarianism and democracy, with liberal democracy at the backburner.

When populism can be good doi.org/10.1353/jod.... Paper in Journal of Democracy by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @pculpepper.bsky.social and Taeku Lee

For Orbán and his allies, much is at stake beyond losing political power:

Do the clothes make the candidate? In my paper with Steven Perry, we find candidates who dress more formally were perceived as more politically sophisticated, & indirectly had increased support. The text complexity of candidate messages had no effect. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Call for Contributors 🚨 "Lost in Their Words: Rewriting the Political Lexicon of the Far Right" Editors: Sofia Miola (University of Pavia) & Massimiliano Livi (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Güvenlik mi, meşruiyet mi? Devletler silahlı örgütlerle neden ve nasıl ilişki kurar? Konuklarımız Belgin Şan Akca ve Efe Tokdemir. 📅 8 Nisan Çarşamba, 18.00 📍 Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED) Oditoryum Ayrıntılar bağlantıda. bilimakademisi.org/panel-catism...

With rising populism and affective polarization globally, are the two entwined? Stefanelli & Castanho Silva explore in their paper from our Feburary issue and find that the relationship isn't as straightforward as we might assume. Read for more on their findings doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Now this article has volume and page numbers. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thinking about a Master’s in International Relations? 🌎 The IR & Globalization MA (Thesis) at Özyeğin University offers: ✨ Full scholarships 🎓 Research-focused training 👩‍🏫 Faculty expertise in security, migration, political behavior & more 📅 Apply: May 1–31, 2026 📢 Info sessions: May 4 & May 21

I'll present one of my latest papers tomorrow at Bilkent University.

Currently in FirstView: in “Potential and Pitfalls of Audio as Data for Political Research: Alignment, Features, and Classification Models,” @r-mestre.bsky.social and Matt Ryan provide solutions to challenges encountered when analyzing audio data in political science.

▶️ Social Science Data Lab: Spring 2026 Events Four input talks by great researchers (see below ⤵️)! 🗓️ Details & Zoom: socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/ 👥 Organizers: @rubac.bsky.social, @denis-cohen.bsky.social and Alexander Wenz

📌 Hiring one postdoctoral and two predoctoral researchers for the @erc.europa.eu project #COUNSTER, each position for up to 3 years to start on May 2026. Postdoc: stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/IR2... (Deadline Feb 20) Predoc: stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/IR2... (Deadline March 1)

New year, new publication! 🎆 Thrilled to kick off 2026 by sharing our latest work with Bilge Yabancı (@bilgeyabanci.bsky.social) in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (@scmrjems.bsky.social). Full text: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New year, new publication! 🎆 Thrilled to kick off 2026 by sharing our latest work with Bilge Yabancı (@bilgeyabanci.bsky.social) in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (@scmrjems.bsky.social). Full text: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access! Part of a special issue on Turkey's 2023 general election. Thanks to special issue editors Berk Esen and @mertmoral.bsky.social.

Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)

BAGEP başvuruları başladı. Son başvuru 23 Ocak 2026.

One slot free for tomorrow’s International Office Hours. Next week will be the last of this year. There will be no IOHs next semester.

📣 My new working paper is out! I tested how people in 5 countries judge the fairness of biometric + automated border checks. If you care about migration or algorithmic governance, this one is for you 👉 cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c... The big takeaway: people don’t find automation inherently fairer

The electoral effects of state-sponsored anti-LGBTQ measures doi.org/10.1086/739782 Accepted paper in @thejop.bsky.social by Violeta I. Haas, Konstantin Bogatyrev, Nuffield Fellow @tabouchadi.bsky.social Heike Klüver and Lukas F. Stoetzer

(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨 In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Far-Right Networks in Motion — Webinar on Dec 5, 4 PM CET A discussion on the transnational dynamics of the far right with @steppe-project.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social steppe.hypotheses.org/2236 📩 Register with [email protected]

🚨 New Publication! 🚨 In this piece, I examine both the extreme and the more “moderate” factions within the AfD 🇩🇪 and compare their positions on 🇺🇦/🇷🇺 with their stances on 🇮🇱/🇵🇸. Key insights and findings👇🏻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Do Americans judge acts of partisan political violence impartially? No. We show that Democrats and Republicans exhibit clear partisan bias: both see the same violent act as more justified when it targets the other party than when it targets their own side. osf.io/preprints/so... #polisky

Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @ispp-pops.bsky.social

Just got the letter—I’m now an Associate Professor! Deep thanks to everyone who’s been part of this journey. Excited for what’s ahead! 🎉

New #openaccess study We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment. "A time panelty for the Global South?" shorturl.at/ZiAFb

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

Be our colleague! We are hiring: "Koç University invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor position in International Relations with a focus on International Political Economy (IPE) starting in September 2026." Details in the link below: jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...

🚨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...) .