Fascinating research presented in the #EPSS2026 panel “Countering Democratic Backsliding: Norms, Civil Society, and Resilience”. Check out these papers: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/...

WELCOME to #EPSS2026 from the EPSS Council!

A heartfelt thank you to our amazing outgoing #EPSS president @sarahobolt.bsky.social, who was not only instrumental to creating EPSS, but also sheparded it so successfully through its first year. And equally huge thanks to incoming EPSS president @simonhix.bsky.social for his fabulous leadership!

I am delighted and honoured to have been elected to the @epssnet.bsky.social Council. I look forward to supporting the development of the association and helping to build a vibrant and inclusive home for political science across Europe and beyond.

Welcome to Belfast! 🎉Tonight marks the informal start of #EPSS2026! Before the conference officially opens, there are two great ways to ease in.

We can’t wait to welcome @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social in our webinar next Tuesday, 19 May. Comt and join us!

🆕 Keep positive and defend democracy 🛡️ @aykutozturk.bsky.social, Steven E. Finkel, @anjaneundorf.bsky.social & Ericka Rascón Ramírez conduct online experiments in Turkey to understand the effect democratic framing within educational interventions has on #PublicOpinion 📚️

🚨 Over 50 leading academics have sounded the alarm on the UK's voting system ⚠️ In an era of multi-party politics, First Past the Post risks “random and arbitrary” results like never before 🗳️ The experts' letter warn Ministers they must address this to stem growing instability and distrust

📊 New paper out in Democratization! How do autocrats actually stay in power? 👉 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Co-authored with Wooseok Kim, @eugenian.bsky.social , Ksenia Northmore-Ball, and @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social.

🔍 Can you help? Looking for everyday examples of misinformation We’re working on an experimental project on media literacy and civic reasoning with @shoutoutuk.bsky.social and are looking for real-world examples of misinformation to use in a training intervention.

I’m really looking forward to discussing our research in the upcoming PRD webinar, organised by the brilliant @jenny-oser.bsky.social. Join us next Wed, 14 Jan, for a timely conversation on how democracy can be promoted online - and what research tells us about what actually works. More details ⬇️

Can democracy promotion still work where terrorism is pervasive? A common assumption is that insecurity pushes citizens toward authoritarian “strongmen”. Our new research tests whether that is actually true.

New article out in @bjpols.bsky.social 🎉 Why do elections remain widely supported even as democratic checks and balances erode around the world?

Discover our Comparative Political Behavior Elements series? Edited by @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, Raymond Duch & Randolph Stevenson, this series explores how mass political behaviour varies across nations, regions, social groups and time periods. https://cup.org/4oubhYq #ComparativePolitics 🗺️

This was a fun project to work on. Check out our new paper, out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social now! ⬇️

The Spanish centre-right is taking a tumble and the far-right is on the rise. I was lucky enough to present some new causal work on Friday at LSE showing that the PP does better when it signals distinctiveness from VOX. ~1.5K tests, same result. Rejecting far-right benefits centre-right

🎓 Join us for our Autumn 2025 Webinar Series: “Using Social Media as a Research Tool”, co-organised with @aykutozturk.bsky.social! We explore how social media data can help study democracy, political communication & public engagement. 🧵👇

#polisky #poliscisky @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @laiabalcells.bsky.social @eliasdinas.bsky.social @giacomolem.bsky.social Please forward to folks who might be interested!

1/ ✨ This week I had the privilege to attend a thought-provoking workshop in beautiful Budapest, hosted at the CEU Democracy Institute, on countering the far right’s influence and safeguarding democracy.

The Perspectives on Politics Call for Papers are due next week! What is the role of the University in promoting and/or resisting political and social change? Submit manuscripts for “Political Science and the University" by October 1! buff.ly/9X51I3v cc: @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

🤔 Do surveys exaggerate democratic support due to social desirability bias (SDB)? ➡️ Using survey-mode variation & list experiments in 24 countries, @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social & @aarslew.bsky.social find no evidence that SDB inflates democratic attitudes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

🌍✨ Today is World Democracy Day – a reminder that democracy must be nurtured and renewed. Our research on Promoting Democratic Citizenship Online shows that short, animated videos can strengthen democratic values across very different contexts.

#APSA2025 The deadline has been extended until October 1, 2025.

We’re delighted to have five academics in the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social Fellowship. Well done @graemeroy.bsky.social @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social @anjaneundorf.bsky.social y.social Herve Moulin and Sotiria Grek. More: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... @uofgasbs.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

I am deeply honoured to be elected a Fellow of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social. This recognition reflects not only my own work but also the support and inspiration I have received from colleagues, collaborators, and students over the years.

Today's presentation by Professor @anjaneundorf.bsky.social of her research into the #politicisation of #education in times of #conflict set a high bar for our autumn speaker series. We thank Anja for her insightful talk and the audience for an active Q&A! Coming talks: www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Excited to attend the NECE Festival 2025 in Oslo this week! 🌍✨ Theme this year: HOPE – how collective hope can drive resilient, ethical & sustainable communities. #NECEFestival #Hope @thecivics.bsky.social

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Why do some people keep voting throughout their lives while others drop out? And how do authoritarian elections - even uncompetitive ones- shape citizens’ habits? Ksenia Northmore-Ball and I tackle these questions in my new paper, now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

🚨 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.

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

The deadline for our @poppublicsphere.bsky.social special issue on "Political Science and the University" is coming up this week. When we put this together, we did not know how timely this issue would be. Send us your great work on the intersection of politics and higher education!

Job alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. A focus on the relation between health & politics is highly desirable. Info: jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline 11th July. Please share!

📢 Got great research? Send it our way! 📘 @psrm.bsky.social publishes top-tier work from all subfields—theory, methods, you name it. ✅ Fast decisions (<30 days) ✅ Open access ⏺️One of the fastest rising journals in the discipline www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Don’t miss the deadline to apply for the @epovb.bsky.social Early Career Fellowship. Coming up next week! ⬇️📆

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-...

From April 2025 - Choosing Democracy Over Party? How Civic Education Can Mitigate the Anti-Democratic Effects of Partisan Polarization - cup.org/4iooX3d - Melek Hilal Eroglu, Steven E. Finkel, @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @aykutozturk.bsky.social & Ericka G. Rascón Ramírez #OpenAccess

📣 Call for Papers: The Authoritarian Eco-System 📣 We are launching a new policy brief series w/ the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on authoritarian politics! Deadline: 3 October 2025 Submit abstract (500 words) researcher’s profile, and CVs to: [email protected] Details? Read the call &🧵

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

Are you an early career researchers working on elections, public opinion, or political behavior? Apply to the @epovb.bsky.social fellowship!

Political scientists! APSA @epovb.bsky.social‬ is now on bsky. Drop us a follow! And help us circulate this call for proposals to junior scholars?

#jobs 🚨🚨🚨 4 postdocs in Münster: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5... I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

🌐💻@aykutozturk.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce our next three webinars in our series "Social media as a research tool", starting on Tue, 20 May. Find out more and register here: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

🗳️ Populism is a warning sign. English local elections show it again: People feel abandoned & look scapegoats. Drawing on own research & others, I argue 👇🏽 💡 To counter populism: We need to reinvest in citizens, e.g. housing, health & dignity. Short 🧵 📖 www.socialeurope.eu/to-counter-p...

When poor people live in poor regions, that deprivation becomes politically charged and anti-systemic attitudes emerge says @giovannifacchini.bsky.social, @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @sergipardos.bsky.social & Cecilia Testa 👉 citp.ac.uk/publications...

I am excited to participate in @thecivics.bsky.social NECE Campus tomorrow (29/Apr) at 15h (CET), presenting research on promoting democracy online. Register for the webinar here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

🧵 THREAD: Can a short online intervention help defend democracy against partisan polarization? In our new study - just published in the @bjpols.bsky.social - my colleagues and I tested this question across 33 countries 🌍 with over 41,000 participants 🧑‍🤝‍🧑. Here’s what we found 👇

NEW - Choosing Democracy Over Party? How Civic Education Can Mitigate the Anti-Democratic Effects of Partisan Polarization - cup.org/4iooX3d - Melek Hilal Eroglu, Steven E. Finkel, @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @aykutozturk.bsky.social & Ericka G. Rascón Ramírez #OpenAccess