Reminder: 🎓 XIV Workshop on Empirical Political Science 📅 Save the date 3 July 2026 • 10:00–13:30 📍 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona @politiquesuab.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/barcelo...

Pre-announcement: Call for questions, Selects 2027 Contribute your questions to the Swiss electoral study during the 2027 federal elections. 📅 Call: end of April 2026 🗓 Deadline: end of June 2026 Selects 2023, including datasets, questionnaires & documentation www.swissubase.ch/en/catalogue...

1/ New paper (Open Access) which asks a simple but often overlooked question: what do we actually mean when we move between institutional, structural and systemic racism? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ersjournal.com

Fascinating.

Danish Social Democrats adopted hardline, nativist anti-immigration policies and look to have recorded their worst election result in over 100 years. So, the lesson for the European left from the “Danish model” is that copying and normalizing the far-right leads to gutting your own support.

📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢 Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right? I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support. doi.org/10.1177/1369... A short 🧵:

The British state getting into bed with Palantir is just incredibly blackpilling, especially since it is being done by a Labour government who are composed of the exact sort of people that Palantir's owners and operators openly say they wish to drive from power forever! Inept self-loathing fools.

⁉️ Are anti-immigration people really "sexually modern"? No ⁉️ Are people more supportive of anti-immigration platforms when these also include progressive positions on gender and sexuality? Also no I explore these questions w/ 🇬🇧🇩🇪 original survey data (+ a conjoint in 🇩🇪) 👉 osf.io/preprints/so...

AI systems are now making decisions about you — who gets hired, whose content gets removed, whose voice gets heard. My new paper finds something concerning: LLMs infer your ethnic identity from subtle textual cues… … and use it to discriminate against you. 🧵 1/

„The USA loses its long-term status as a liberal democracy – for the first time in over 50 years. […] The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history“ (V-Dem 2026)

V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025. Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius. Largest declines came, by far, in the US. This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index.

EPSS Diversity Committee is happy to announce the launch of our mentoring program: a new initiative designed to develop a new network within the EPSS community. March 31 is deadline, and program runs from May 1, 2026, to April 30, 2027. More info: epssnet.org/about/divers...

MEGA could well outlast MAGA. Do European countries have strong enough institutional and constitutional checks to survive giving power to the far-right? Hungary didn't, Poland is struggling, the UK definitely doesn't. Democracy is incredibly fragile. Once it's lost it's very hard to restore.

Out in @thejop.bsky.social: How Exiles Mobilize Domestic Dissent with @aasiegel.bsky.social We investigate how Egyptian exiles influenced a cascade of online dissent that culminated in anti-regime protests back home in September 2019. Article link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/swifESz @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Paper w/ @carogarriga.bsky.social: Academia’s Class Problem. PoliSci is dominated by the upper middle class / people with parents who went to university – unlike society as a whole. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

❗️ Tue, Mar 10, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with Kåre Vernby ( @stockholm-uni.bsky.social ) "The Local Roots of the Nationalization of Politics" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

In Sweden, most PhD students work at 80% contract to extend funding. Now international PhDs are being deported for doing exactly that. So much for “Swedish exceptionalism”. www.tv4.se/artikel/ZhUi...

Still controlling for gender without thinking about why? You can cite me💚👩‍🔬💚 I show that the gender gap in progressive climate and environmental views is a persistent empirical regularity that cannot be explained by differences in socioeconomic background, political ideology, or risk aversion.

📢 New in IMR. We often ask whether #refugees “integrate.” But what happens when the host society becomes hostile? I develop the concept of social marginalization and show that refugees in more #violent German counties report stronger feelings of exclusion and discrimination. doi.org/10.1177/0197...

🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

The current processing time for a citizenship application in Sweden is 47 months. The government wants to apply new citizenship requirements to people who applied for citizenship years ago but are still waiting. There is grassroots mobilization against this: www.fairtransitionsweden.com

Update: As @robfordmancs.bsky.social said to @theguardian.com, zero net migration may offer Labour "the opportunity to steer the domestic political agenda away from" Reform's key topic. Other experts stress that Labour loses votes to Greens & LD. Yes, *for now*, but Labour may play the long game.

"Professor Ludvig Beckman lämnar sin plats i Migrationsverkets etiska råd i protest. Utvisningspolitiken är nu så omänsklig att den strider mot grundlagen, anser han. – Jag kan inte legitimera utvisningar av 18-åringar som växt upp här och som har föräldrar som bor här, säger han."

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half. ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers. Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story

Very very likely that Trump might attack Iran.... just to create a distraction from what is happening with ICE in Minnesota. www.bbc.com/news/article...

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Our cover this week.

The “criminal immigrant" narrative manufactured by the US media-propaganda apparatus psychologically embeds immigrants into racial hierarchies within the social imagination PDF: joeledmartinez.com/wp-content/u...

Cartoon by @mortenmorland.bsky.social.

The NYT has a new video analysis of Renee Good's shooting which is careful, accurate, and clear - he walked across the path of a moving car, then leaned in and shot her with his feet well clear of the vehicle. 1/

Just so people understand the timeline: (1) The president of the United States called Somali-Americans "garbage" and the Vice President says that the US has a "Somali Problem". (2) The White House directs immigration agencies to Minnesota due to its large Somali community.

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

ICE has long used the latest spy tech to pursue immigrants — but now it’s also targeting anti-ICE protesters. Here's what you need to know:

When asked what you would need in order to have kids, economic concerns dominate. Men report a higher need for a suitable partner (43%) than women (29%). In this question 33% of women report they don't want children compared to 8% of men.

With ~9 months to election day, the Moderates, the traditional right wing party, are five points behind the right wing populist Sweden Democrats.

NEW AT DEMOGRAPHY: We use difference-in-difference approach using applicant vs. implemented counties w/ 287(g) ICE agreements 2000-2020 to identify a plausibly causal effect immigration enforcement leading to sizeable increase in Latino-White segregation. OPEN ACCESS PDF doi.org/10.1215/0070...

A 12-year-old is suspected of committing a murder in Malmö last week. Until now, criminal networks have used children to carry weapons and plant hand grenades, but not as hit men. This is a direct result of the right-wing government's punitive criminal policy. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/en-1...

2024-25 CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social heads into winter break in fine fashion w/yet another pub, this time as co-editor of the book "Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship" 🙌 About the book: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/anti-colonia... Open access options: chooser.crossref.org?doi=10.51952...

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

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New today at Science Advances from @kshoub.bsky.social and me. We revisit the question of whether a local tragedy (mass shooting) influences voter behavior. They do, at least at the local level, with some important caveats and implications for policy. Short thread... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Crazy support numbers for Zohran Mamdani among young women: 84% (!) of women aged 18-29 voted for Mamdani in the NYC Mayoral Election. But also important: young men voted MUCH MORE STRONGLY (67%) for Mamdani than old men (37%).

I am old enough to remember people in the West and especially college students, actually giving a damn about Darfur. Now, nobody gives a shit. I have no idea why, it's not like there is a legal limit on the number of conflicts and massacres one can care about, Gaza or Ukraine are not an excuse.

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

▶️ Political Representation 👉🏽 Section chairs: @hannaeback.bsky.social & @sopro.bsky.social 📢 Our section welcomes work that addresses representation, legislative politics, or electoral institutions, esp. research advancing our theoretical understanding + offers new empirical evidence. >>> 3/

We are also interested in work with a focus on the representation of marginalized groups.   Submissions: papers, panels, topical roundtables, or author-meets-critics. end/