Sofia Ammassari

Looks fascinating - congratulations Ben 😃 I look forward to reading it!

🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆

'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social

How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?

Only one week left for some last interviews in Santiago (Chile), and then it's finally time to go home 🇦🇺 ☀️

This was the last of our 6 seminars across South America.

It was incredibly insightful to hear the thoughts of colleagues and students about the rise of the populist radical right in the continent. Lots of food for thought.

These exchanges will be invaluable when writing up our research outputs.

It was a pleasure to give a seminar at the Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba last Friday about our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) on the transnationalisation of the populist right.

Thanks to Oscar Gracia Landaeta, Andrés Laguna-Tapia & Claudia Muriel for being excellent hosts 💕

Call for Abstracts: Together with @kirareneekurz.bsky.social, I'm editing a @cogitatiopag.bsky.social Issue on #YouthWings in #Europe! 🤓 We especially invite contributions focusing on countries in Central, Eastern & Southern Europe. Feel free to get in touch! www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

All good things come to an end 🥲

The last seminar of our South American trip (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) will take place at Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba, this Friday.

Looking forward to further exchanges about the transnationalisation of the PRR with UPB students and colleagues!

Jeez it's good when you see great work from great people getting funded (part 1). Big congrats to some of the best in Australian political science - @duncanmcdonnell.com, @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & Ferran - on this big and important grant!

Thank you Ben ☺️

Thank you Dominika ☺️

Love ❤️❤️❤️

Career milestone unlocked - my first ever large research grant ✨🥹

A graph from 1998 to 2025 with date on the x axis and number of unique speakers on the y axis. There are a lot of dots, but it broadly shows the number of women rising over time, to around 40 in 2025.

Number of unique speakers in the Australian parliament, by gender, 1998-2025. By Lindsay Katz and @inessadeangelis.bsky.social.

Well deserved, Dominika! 🎉

Last week I finally got my ECPR SG Extremism & Democracy Best Paper Prize 2024 🪵🏆 — probably the classiest wooden block I own!

Still thrilled and grateful to @ecpr-ead.bsky.social and the jury @ammassarisofia.bsky.social @kai-arzheimer.com @caterinafr.bsky.social

Coming up next Thursday at noon in Lima: @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & I will be presenting our research on the transnational populist right at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

I'm looking forward to good discussions and the local ceviche.

(states of emergency etc. permitting, of course).

I really enjoyed presenting our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) on the rise of the transnational populist right at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.

Great audience and really thoughtful questions throughout - exactly the kind of exchange that makes giving seminars so rewarding!

After a wonderful couple of weeks in Brazil, it's time to move on to the next stop of our South American trip ➡️ 🇦🇷

I'm excited to present our research (@duncanmcdonnell.com) on the transnationalisation of the populist radical right on Wednesday at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires!

Same team... sorry to disappoint you 😅

It was great to present our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com ) on the transnationalisation of the PRR at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

It was also a pleasure to chat with their very talented graduate students afterwards, and to stroll around the beautiful campus.

I'm so pleased to see our new article out in Perspectives on Politics.

Since I moved to Australia, I've heard many people say "you'll never publish in a top US journal with Australia as your only case" (and they weren't wrong to think that).

But yesterday, we did.

Thread by Josh about it below:

Yes, the Parliament was indeed very busy!

I was stunned by the architecture, but I'm happy to go back to livelier Rio 😏

One of the best parts of this job: travelling to places I might never otherwise visit, to talk to people for my research.

Very excited to have conducted interviews inside the National Congress in Brasilia today 🇧🇷

It was a pleasure to present with @ammassarisofia.bsky.social to the faculty and very smart students from IESP in Rio today.

And the view when we came out into the Botafogo afternoon sun wasn’t bad either.

From empowerment to participation: How women’s political empowerment shapes non-institutionalized political participation and reduces gender disparities - Cyrill Otteni, 2025 This study examines how women’s political empowerment influences the gender gap in non-institutionalized political participation (protest, boycott and petition ...

🚨 New article out! 🚨
How societal-level women’s empowerment 📣✊ shapes the gender gap in protest, boycott & petition signing 🗳️
👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

With Andrej Zaslove, I wrote a piece on the recent extreme-right riots in the Netherlands, and what should be learned from them 👇

Sexism and the Gender Gap in Support for the Radical Right Using survey data from Spain we show that the gender gap in the probability of voting for the radical-right party Vox is mainly due to men having higher levels of modern sexism than women. We find ...

We have a new paper out with @gricoc.bsky.social in @jwpp.bsky.social (this time I swear I am going to post the right link): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to kicking off our South America seminar tour in Rio de Janeiro next week 🇧🇷

Many thanks to IESP for hosting us!

Conserva le lacrime per quando devi leggerli sti ringraziamenti 😂

Thank you Sarah! Obviously you are among the first names dropped in the acknowledgements 💘