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This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics

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❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review

💬'...begins with a useful engagement with the history and sociology of public intellectuals...’

Tyler Robinson reviews "How Slavoj Became Žižek: The Digital Making of a Public Intellectual" by Eliran Bar-El

@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025

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❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research

Antonella Seddone & Marco Valbruzzi investigate the opinions of party members from Partito Democratico about the digital participation opportunities that the party provides.

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❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research

Francesco Veri & @nenadstojanovic.bsky.social examine how configurations of three key institutional dimensions – consensus democracy, federalism, & direct democracy – shape the adoption of minipublics in Switzerland

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❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review

💬'...the book highlights the citizen-led dynamics often overlooked...’

Guy Gerba @ucc.ie reviews "Populist Mobilization" by Paris Aslanidis

@academic.oup.com, 2024

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❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review

💬'...a deeply rewarding book.’

Vittorio Orlando @haskoliislands.bsky.social reviews "The European Union in Search of Narratives" by François Foret

@routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2024

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❇️ FirstView -🔍️ Research

Selena Grimaldi & Matteo Boldrini analyse the careers of European parliamentarians in Spain and Italy to find out what the most widespread career models are and what political factors influence them.

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❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review

💬'...theoretically engaging, normatively stimulating, and empirically appealing...’

Edith Manalachioaei reviews "The Normalization of the Radical Right" by @valentimvicente.bsky.social

@academic.oup.com, 2024

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❇️ FirstView -💼 Profession

@jjungblut.bsky.social, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social examine political science departments at universities across the world to assess the extent to which they vary with regime type.

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❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review

💬'...an original and valuable addition to the study of populism...’

Guy Gerba @ucc.ie reviews "The Populist Style: Trump, Le Pen and Performances of the Far Right" by @theoaiolfi.bsky.social

@edinburghup.bsky.social, 2025

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❇️ FirstView - 🔍 Research

Katerina Sideri & Eleni Chanania use hermeneutic policy analysis to examine how HCWs and the government had starkly different understandings of risk in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Publishing Open Access shouldn’t be a barrier 🚧

🧭 @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org supports EPS authors in navigating funding options and institutional OA agreements ➡️ bit.ly/45O5S7m

Challenges in implementing digital democratic innovations in traditional political parties: The case of the Italian Democratic Party | European Political Science | Cambridge Core

❇️ FirstView - 🔎 Research

How do traditional parties engage with digital democratic innovations, and what factors hinder their successful implementation? Francesco Nasi discusses these issues using the case study of Agorà Democratiche within the Italian Democratic Party.

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What does the @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org & ECPR partnership mean for EPS authors?
✔️ More support for Open Access
✔️ Clearer routes to OA compliance
✔️ Greater global reach for published research

European identity-building at the level of policy elites: EU socialisation and discourse in the field of Cohesion Policy | European Political Science | Cambridge Core

❇️ FirstView - 🔎 Research

Dimitra Panagiotatou explores whether #EU public policies operating in a multilevel governance system contribute to European identity-building, and asks; what can jeopardise the process of identity formation at the level of policy elites?
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ECPR's journals now Open Access with Cambridge University Press European Consortium for Political Research

📗 EPS is now published with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org as part of a new strategic partnership with ECPR.
💻️ While the publishing platform has changed, our scope, editorial leadership, and peer review standards remain the same – now with wider reach through #OA on Cambridge Core.
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“…linguistic ambiguity... helps far-right parties rebrand themselves as moderate"

@gsamaras.bsky.social's new paper in @epsjournal.bsky.social warns of the dangers of imprecise journalistic language that blurs the line between mainstream conservatism and extremism

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The European Council turns 50: Studying and analyzing a key institution of the European Union European Political Science | Cambridge Core

❇️ FirstView - 🔍 Research

@lucasschramm91.bsky.social analyses the European Council as a key actor in the EU’s multi-level and multi-institutional system of governance.

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Decline of academic freedom in Hungary: Rational choice analysis of the European response European Political Science | Cambridge Core

❇️ FirstView - 🔍 Research

Calvin Khalesi argues the EU is institutionally limited in protecting academic freedom, but there are innovative ways it could change this and support universities in its Member States.

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Research challenges and training needs in text analysis for political science research European Political Science | Cambridge Core

❇️ FirstView - 💼 Profession

@michelesdv.bsky.social, A.Haraldsson, @gelovanishota.bsky.social, S.Banducci, K.Koc-Michalska & @yannistheocharis.bsky.social highlight the challenges, training needs, and preferences of scholars using text analysis methodologies.

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Contested narratives: Portuguese maritime heritage in gatekeepers’ discourses European Political Science | Cambridge Core

❇️ FirstView - 🔍 Research

@joaoferreiradias.bsky.social examines how Portuguese politicians talk about the country’s maritime epic as a part of national identity and how this is also a flashpoint in today’s culture wars.

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Closing the gender gap in political science publishing: The role of female editorial boards European Political Science | Cambridge Core

❇️ FirstView – 💼 Profession

Daniel Stockemer, Engi Abou-El-Kheir & Stephen Sawyer explore the relationship between the percentages of female editorial board members, female editors, and of female authors published across 120 political science journals.

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❇️ FirstView – 🔍 Research

@gsamaras.bsky.social presents the first systematic study of how 7 major English-language outlets used the term “Hard-Right”.

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🤩 New Year, New Publisher and New Articles!

✳️ You can now access EPS articles in FirstView

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EPS are going on break. We will be back in the New Year. Thank you to our community for a productive year.

❄️ December Issue Out Now! ❄️

Volume 2️⃣4️⃣ Issue 4️⃣

📗Our final issue of the year is a bumper one!
✍️ 42 Contributors
✒️ Edited by Stella Ladi, Linda Basile & @ljramiro.bsky.social

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