NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.

🔎Au CEE, la science politique fait parler les données massives. Création de grands corpus, analyse grâce au machine learning et aux LLM : entretien avec Meryem Bezzaz, @malojan.bsky.social, @selmasarenkapa.bsky.social, @luissattelmayer.bsky.social, doctorant·es. 👉 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

#EPSA2025 starts tomorrow! A dozen of our scholars have papers on political lotteries, challenges to democracy, autocratic legacies, the fate of mainstream parties, group-targeting in politics and media, climate politics, culture wars / backfire... 👉Details here: www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

🇪🇺🇦🇫 Published Today in CPS 🇪🇺🇦🇫 “Stand by those who share our values” – how refugees fleeing the Taliban improved European attitudes toward immigration Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os... Thread: 1/8

EuroSpeech: Massive Multilingual Parliamentary Speech Corpus - 78,100+ hours across 22 European languages - 50,500+ hours of quality-filtered data (CER < 20%) - Robust alignment algorithm for non-verbatim texts - Dramatically expands resources for 19+ languages huggingface.co/datasets/dis...

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...

Ich habe mit @tabouchadi.bsky.social für @volksverpetzer.de über den Forschungsstand zum Ausgrenzen rechtsextremer Parteien, ihrer Normalisierung in Politik und Medien und darüber gesprochen, was sich ändern muss, um die weitere Unterwanderung unserer Demokratie zu verhindern.

Should democracies ban parties that threaten democracy? In the DEMOTRADEOFF project survey we asked people in 15 countries about this. A short 🧵 with some results Citizens are deeply divided about this issue Support for bans is highest in 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇨🇭 🇩🇪 www.dw.com/en/germany-i...

Huge thanks to everyone who made #COMPTEXT2025 happen - really enjoyed the panels, the talks, and the people!

After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!

3 young scholars from our centre present at #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna on Fri & Sat: @jdeyris.bsky.social on Fed discourses @selmasarenkapa.bsky.social on social group constructions @luissattelmayer.bsky.social on party positions #TextAsData cc @comptext.bsky.social @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social

Les promesses électorales n'engagent-elles que ceux qui les écoutent ? La délégation @cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social m'a invitée à présenter mes recherches dans une petite vidéo 😊 Featuring @egrossman.bsky.social et @selmasarenkapa.bsky.social, et c'est par ici 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M84O...

Now available Open Access: 📰 Does (immigration) framing influence public opinion? 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You wonder how the CDU/CSU playing with the "Brandmauer" to AfD last week has influenced German voters? @mafaldapratas.bsky.social @jmfernandes86.bsky.social & I have you covered. We surveyed sample of 2,000 German voters. 🧵with first results 👇. Spoiler: It did not go down as well as CDU/CSU hoped.

Grateful for the great experience at Gesis Fall Seminar! 🍂🫶🏼Spent two weeks of intense learning in Webscraping and Advanced Textual Analysis w @haukelicht.bsky.social, @allisonwkoh.bsky.social & Jennifer Scurell. Mind is officially blown now onto the actual work! Thanks to ScPo & CEE for the funding