Dominika Tronina

JUST OUT: "Boundaries and Cleavages: Elements of a Cultural Sociology of Political Divides."

OA: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article...

It develops what the cultural sociology of group formation can contribute to research on political cleavages.

(And why "Somewheres vs Anywheres" really doesn't cut it.)

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New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

Wow, herzlichen Glückwunsch,Christina! 🎉🍾

A few weeks ago I arrived from fieldwork in Peru, where I was collecting archival data on the internal armed conflict. Today I finally have a new version of this paper examining how the conflict affected and continues to affect the success of female politicians francisca-castro.com/research/wor...

#CFP: Join @europasoziologie.bsky.social, @MonikaEigmüller, @swallaschek.bsky.social, @RenéeKrug, @OlgaTyszkiewicz and me for the conference 'Gender Equality Conflicts in Europe' to discuss anti-gender mobilisations, discourse and institutions! Submit by 31 October 2025!

📣 Our latest e-Extreme Newsletter is out! Find it here: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... (Current Issue)
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🍿 Read on for expert interviews (on elections in 🇵🇹 & 🇷🇴), book reviews and more!

🏆 Our Extremism & Democracy Best Paper Prize Committee is looking for nominations! Are you an Early Career Researcher? Then nominate yourself! Did you see a great paper presentation in the E&D Section in Thessaloniki by a PhD researcher or post-doc? Send them our way! @ecpr.bsky.social

Had the chance to write an article about the ongoing protests in #Serbia, while I was in #Belgrade last week. It has now been published in the new edition of @jungle.world.

Between writing and printing, protests continue in Serbia. Currently, there are escalations, such as around the Faculty of

🔔 Very happy to see our paper published open access on cleavage theory and civil society! 📖

We have tried to sketch a new research agenda, that I think has a lot of potential.

I very much enjoyed working on this!

Check Alex's thread below 👇 & read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The pretence of the cordon sanitaire: non-collaboration as a distraction from discursive congruence Much has been written about how mainstream parties respond to far-right challengers in liberal democracies. Whereas some mainstream parties have become more open to forming coalitions with far-righ...

New article out!

@luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social,
@k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics

Read the full article, open access, here

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Thank you Sofia! ☺️

Many thanks again for this recognition 🙏 I’m honored and very grateful to the jury for their work and support!

🎉 Congrats to @dom-of-tronina.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 Best Paper Prize! Her paper shows how anti-gender movements build transnational ties on Twitter/X via shared hashtags👏
🪷 Big thanks to our esteemed jury members: @kai-arzheimer.com @caterinafr.bsky.social @ammassarisofia.bsky.social

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Thrilled to receive the 2024 Best Paper Prize ✨! Sad I can’t attend the celebration in person, but thankful for the recognition and this community.

From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election The 2024 Austrian parliament election reflects both continuity and transformation within the political landscape of the country. Following a turbulent inter-election period marked by multiple crise...

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
"From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election" 🇦🇹🗳️🤝

📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140...

By Manuel Scharrer, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social and me

Vor fünf Jahren rebellierte die belarussische Gesellschaft gegen Machthaber #Lukaschenko – friedlich und kreativ. Sie protestierte für faire und freie #Wahlen, gegen die ausufernde #Gewalt, mit der Lukaschenkos Machtapparat versuchte, den Aufstand niederzuschlagen. 1/4

I learned so much from @rdassonneville.bsky.social's Voters Under Pressure, Tillman's Authoritarianism and the Evolution and Bartels's Democracy Erodes from the Top. In @comppol.bsky.social, I review each book on its own terms and draw out implications for the view that elections confer mandates. 🧵

I am elated to share that the special section "Threats and Opportunities: The Contestation of Gender and Sexuality in International Organizations" that I co-edited with the wonderful Jelena Cupać of the @wzb.bsky.social is finally out in @ifjpglobal.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfjp20/2...

Im Rahmen von #distex ist unser erstes #PolicyPaper erschienen. Mit "Leerstelle (R)Age?" thematisiere ich, warum Radikalisierung keine reine Jugendthematik ist. Oft nicht beachtet: Auch im Alter können sich Menschen demokratiefeindlichen Milieus zuwenden oder extremistische Weltbilder festigen. /1

Germany's Bundestag postpones vote on judges' appointment – DW – 07/11/2025 The CDU/CSU union pushed for postponing the vote on one of the judges, citing plagiarism suspicions. The union's junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats, were outraged by the decision.

2020 Polish Const. Tribunal imposes near-total abortion ban.
2022 U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Today Germany delays Const. Court appointment after anti-abortion groups target pro-choice nominee.

Abortion rights under attack - court by court, country by country.
p.dw.com/p/4xJLb

Im Bundesverfassungsgericht werden demnächst drei Stellen neu besetzt. Eine Wahl im Bundestag könnte am 10. Juli 2025 stattfinden. Eine Kandidatin sorgt bereits jetzt für massive Proteste – vor allem aus antifeministischen und extrem rechten Kreisen.

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Glückwunsch 🎉

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫

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This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on.

A quick 🧵: