Carlos Bravo-Laguna

Don’t be too relieved: Dutch election result not ‘end of populism’ or far-right The number of people who choose to vote far-right remains unchanged (with 48 seats vs 46), and now they have more flavours of far-right to choose from.

Yup! 👇

The CfP for the ISCRAM2026 track on Networked Approaches to Crisis and Risk Management is now open!

Where? Leiden University.
When? 31 May to 3 June 2026.

- Completed research paper (9 January).
- Work in progress & Practitioner insights and perspectives (23 February).

More info: iscram2026.com

Congratulations Luigi! A very well-deserved prize.

Many thanks to the jury for the award and their appreciations: it is truly an honor to receive it!

A special thanks also to my brilliant colleague Alejandro, who saw the potential of an idea born almost by chance during a half-hour chat a year and a half ago, and which we later turned into a paper!

Honored to receive the Best Paper Prize 2024 from @politicalnets.bsky.social together with the brilliant Luigi Schiavo. Many thanks to the jury and colleagues!

It was our pleasure to personally award the Best Paper Prize presented at the previous ECPR conference in Dublin. @ecpr.bsky.social 🏆

The jury, consisting of Maria Brockhaus, Katia Pilati, and Volker Schneider, unanimously decided for @alexciordia.bsky.social and Luigi Schiavo.

Congratulations! 👏

Our #ecprgc_25 has been intense and productive in beautiful Thessaloniki. Thanks to the Aristotle Univ for hosting us and to all participants. We are a big @ecpr.bsky.social family!

Our last panel was packed! ⚡#ecprgc26 @ecpr.bsky.social

Once again, thanks to all who participated. 🙏

#socioecological #systems #networks #environmental #governance

Download event app ECPR 2025 General Conference

📣 Welcome to Day 1 of #ecprgc25!

⭐ An exciting day ahead awaits:

🎓 Methods Taster by @politicalnets.bsky.social, 15:45-16:30
🎙️ Plenary Welcome, 17:00-18:00
🍸 Welcome Reception, 18:15-19:30

📲 View highlights on event app ecpr.eu/App

✌️ Two more panels behind us. @ecpr.bsky.social

✅ #Climate policy networks chaired by @anttigronow.bsky.social

✅ Comparing political networks chaired by Manuel Fischer and @petrocelik.bsky.social

Thanks for the great presentations and discussion! ⚡ We continue today with three more sessions.

Excellent turnout and insights at our panel on Comparing Political Networks today at the ECPR General Conference! Thessaloniki is a perfect location to reconnect with older and newer members of the #polnets gang.

There is little better than 🏖️💻beach office to start into an exicting week at @ecpr.bsky.social in beautiful Thessaloniki - and a great turnaround of our panel on political networks affect output or outcome 🙏 @helgej.bsky.social Maria Brockhaus @anttigronow.bsky.social Bruna Rodriguez Aasa Karimo

🚀 We kicked off with the panel on the challenging issue linking #network structures and #policy outputs. #climatechange

6️⃣ There are six more panels to go - check the schedule attached.

⚡ Looking forward to seeing you at our panels! @ecpr.bsky.social #ecprgc25

Recruitment : POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW to work on the PROTECCT project Application to be sent before 6 July 2025

📣 GREAT post-doc! work with me and my best French colleagues on the PROTECCT project : Protecting against the social risks associated with climate change in Europe: a comparative perspective

Duration: 28 months.
Deadline July 6
Location: Sciences Po Paris

www.sciencespo.fr/cso/en/news/...

The title page of a paper listing the title: "Blame Shifting in Autocracies Following Large-scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey"; the authors: Edward Goldring, Jonas Willibald Schmid, and Fulya Apaydin; and the abstract: "Large-scale disasters, particularly when handled poorly, often spark popular outrage and threaten an autocrat’s hold on power. Autocrats frequently employ blame shifting strategies to redirect public anger and weather these storms. We examine whether blame shifting after a large-scale disaster helps or hurts an autocrat’s popularity through a mixed-methods research design in the electoral autocracy of Turkey in April-July 2023, following the February 2023 earthquakes. An online survey experiment (n=3,839) identifies the effects of blaming the aftermath of the earthquake on the opposition, a force majeure, private construction companies, or a govern- ment minister, while focus groups explore the mechanisms behind these effects. We find that blaming the opposition or a force majeure leads to a backlash, especially among those more able to critically evaluate information. Focus groups reveal that these backlash effects are driven by voters’ dismay at electoral opportunism and the incumbent’s polarizing language following a large-scale disaster."; and the note that the paper is forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics.

After large-scale disasters autocrats often shift the blame on others to save their popularity. Our 🚨new paper🚨, just accepted at Perspectives on Politics, shows that this tactic is prone to backfire. With @edwardgoldring.bsky.social & @fapaydin.bsky.social . shorturl.at/v6wIV%E2%AC%...

Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal There are reports from Madrid of traffic lights not working and the underground system being evacuated.

I don't know how our wifi at the uni continues to work at the moment, but this is where we are at right now: www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different? There is a wide range of labels, such as electoral autocracy, hybrid regimes, or multiparty autocracy, and corresponding empirical measures to describe and measure political regimes that combine au...

Ever felt uneasy about how concepts & measures of "grey zone" autocracies are used interchangeably across the literature? Then check out my 🚨new paper🚨 in @democratization.bsky.social and get some substance to back up your gut feeling: tinyurl.com/ypdm2kna Or at least read the main points below ⬇️

It has indeed been a great pleasure to introduce some basic notions related to policy networks and social network analysis to ISPOLE UCLouvain doctoral researchers. Many thanks @ccrellin.bsky.social for the excellent organization and hospitality!

Glad to have had organized the ISPOLE PhD capacity building session on #PoliticalNetworks.

It was a pleasure to have invited @cbravuna.bsky.social to present such a rich and informative seminar!

An #unacknowledgement - we need more of these

How do you get a PhD position in the Netherlands?

As a PhD coordinator @fggaleiden.bsky.social I receive many requests about how to get into our PhD programmes. Most of the time, I politely turn them down for all kinds of good reasons, so here are my 2 cents about how to apply.

Think tankers and academics to European leaders this evening…

Dear Leaders,

Don’t look at us now please. Just read our past papers (yes, the ones from years ago). We literally put it in black and white for you.

Thanks and best regards.

Labour launches ads in Reform-style branding to boast about deportations Exclusive: Some MPs and activists upset at tone of party’s Facebook campaign aimed at countering Farage

This is absolutely gross! Even for Labour!

PhD candidates in European Union Foreign Policy PhD candidates in European Union Foreign Policy (two positions, each 1.0 fte)The Institute of Political Science of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences invites applications for 2 PhD candida...

We are hiring! Two PhD positions in EU Foreign Policy at Leiden University within the EUFOG project (which has in total 18 PhD positions!). Please help us spread the word! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Enhorabuena, Juan!

Welcome @fggaleiden.bsky.social !

Was great to delve into the world of policy networks at the @ecpr.bsky.social POLNET winter school last week at the @upf.edu IBEI, and also get a bit of sun and architecture along the way!

Power, governance, and coordination in the prevention of violent extremism and terrorism: towards multi-agency counterterrorism? Multi-agency collaboration has been identified in previous studies as a key strategy for early intervention in violent extremism. However, little focus has captured the institutional framework that...

I'm really happy to see my first single-author paper titled "Power, governance, and coordination in the prevention of violent extremism and terrorism: towards multi-agency counterterrorism?".

Many thanks to those that helped me to make this possible!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The last edition of the @ecpr.bsky.social POLNET Winter School has just come to an end! During 5 intense days, 7 instructors have brought SNA closer to over 30 scholars from all over the world. Thank you IBEI for hosting us and see you soon!