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La Ciencia Política y su enseñanza en Paraguay: transformaciones y desafíos de la disciplina

"La Ciencia Política y su enseñanza en Paraguay: transformaciones y desafíos de la disciplina", disponible en acceso abierto aquí:

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If you´re interested in presenting at the panel, please send us a title and short abstract by Wednesday! Thank you!

We are delighted to invite you, along with @pablopizarro.bsky.social, to our panel titled "Courts in Crisis and Recovery: Lessons from Latin America’s Democratic Struggles" at the LASA Conference 2026, Paris.
Below you find our short abstract. For more information, please contact us!

Thrilled that this book, with Driscoll and Krehbiel, is out this week. Its topic that become surprisingly relevant: under what conditions does the public punish presidents who ignore court decisions?

GIGA-Gebäude mit Pride-Farben

🏳️‍🌈 #GIGA zeigt Flagge an der Binnenalster! 🏳️‍🌈

Als Institut mit globalem Blick wissen wir: Vielfalt stärkt Forschung, Perspektiven und Zusammenhalt – und unterstützen das Motto der #HamburgPrideWeek2025 "Wir sind hier, um zu bleiben. Queere Menschen schützen".

#HappyPride ✨

Schluss mit der Hetzkampagne – Solidarität mit Brosius-Gersdorf! Wenn rechte Netzwerke gezielt demokratische Institutionen angreifen, ist unsere gesamte Gesellschaft in Gefahr. Die Kampagne gegen Brosius-Gersdorf zeigt, wie orchestriert und wirksam Desinformation h...

Wer hat noch nicht?

Justice Sotomayor: “This is not the first time the Court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last. Yet each time this Court rewards noncompliance with discretionary relief, it further erodes respect for courts and for the rule of law.”

To “constitutionalise” lawlessness and bully whole judiciary into submission, a would-be autocrat only needs to capture a country’s top constit and/or supreme ct via majority of integrity-free individuals as we saw in EU in 🇭🇺 & 🇵🇱 under PiS. In absence of supranational cts 🇺🇸 judiciary in deep trouble

Teil einer Strickmütze in verschiedenen Rottönen, and er ein OMA Button heftet. Text im Bild: Menschenwürde verteidigen! Gegen die AfD Versammlung Demonstration Text unter dem Bild: 4. Juli 25, 10 Uhr, Walsrode, Treffpunkt: Großer Graben (Stadtgraben am Brunnen) Neben dem Text Logo "AFD VERBOT JETZT"

Die #OMAS in Walsrode bitten um Unterstützung. Sie stehen jeden Freitag mit einer Mahnwache am Großen Graben, nun macht die sog. afd ihnen den Platz streitig. Aber so einfach lassen wir uns nicht vertreiben! Kommt alle und zeigt: wir sind mehr!

Bericht, der komplett geschwärzt ist

Transparenz, die

Symbolbild: Seite 47 des Berichts zu Spahns Maskenaffäre (ein Beispiel von vielen)

THEY F*CKING TOOK THE ICE CREAM MAN! The photo says it all.
Masked ICE goons grabbed Enrique Lozano in front of a Culver City, CA church. A Community Coalition helped the family identify the abandoned cart, locate his belongings. For 20 years, loved in the community. "Hardened criminals" - my ass.

Masked Terror At this point, we have all seen the videos.

One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

The Rule of Law and Checks and Balances under Attack Lessons from Hungary and the U.S. In Hungary, key pillars of the rule of law and the system of checks and balances have already been systematically dismantled. In the United States, government agencies are being destructed or forced i...

for those of you in Berlin tomorrow (23 June), there's this: calendar.boell.de/en/event/the...

Die Attacken der #noAfD und anderer autoritärer Populisten gegen Richter:innen und Gerichte nehmen zu! Auf Basis unseres Aufsatzes in @democratization.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1080/1351...) erkläre ich hier, welche Strategie dahintersteckt und wie dadurch die Unabhängigkeit der Justiz gefährdet wird.

Trump sent National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to protests against his aggressive immigration enforcement operations.

For AZIZ Z. HUQ, a larger question emerges from these events: can American federalism in any form survive this Administration?

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Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy This handbook provides a methodical, comprehensive, and unifying overview of the vibrant yet disparate scholarship on populism and foreign policy. By mapping the debates and existing findings, as well...

Our #handbook of #populism and #foreignpolicy has a publication date: 20 June! Very much looking forward to seeing this in print :-) @davidcadier.bsky.social @achryssogelos.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

The editors @millanos.bsky.social and Rossana Castiglioni presented the journal at #Ceisal2025, a panel on European journals working on Latin America

Check out the new #GIGAFocus on Child Labour Policies by @johannapieper.bsky.social!

These are some results of the project on personalization of power during the Covid-19 pandemic, which I’ve being conducting at @giga-hamburg.de with a group of amazing researchers. Check them out in the link! You can even play with the data we collected on 32 countries all over the world 😎

YouTube video by Ciencia Política UBA Protagonistas de la Ciencia Política #6 Mariana LLANOS

Hace unas semanas en Buenos Aires conversé con estudiantes de ciencia política de la UBA. Gracias por este recorrido por mi vida con la ciencia política 🫶 @redpolitologas.bsky.social @giga-hamburg.de
youtu.be/A5_jJ050Lu0

Title page and abstract for the paper "Populists before power: delegitimization strategies against independent judiciaries" by Philipp Köker, Tilko Swalve, Merle Huber, Christoph Hönnige and Dominic Nyhuis. An open access version of the paper is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2025.2470765

New paper with Tilko Swalve, Merle Huber, Christoph Hönnige & @donyhu.bsky.social now out in @democratization.bsky.social 🥳 We argue that we need to look more closely at the threats to liberal democracy posed by authoritarian “populists before power” 🚨
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Lateinamerika Nachrichten Die LN berichten als Monatszeitschrift seit über 50 Jahren solidarisch, kritisch und unabhängig über Politik, Gesellschaft, Kultur und Wirtschaft.

Unser Artikel über Trumps Migrationspolitik und die Auswirkungen auf Migrant*innen sowie die Reaktionen lateinamerikanischen Regierungen ist heute erschienen. „Ein Tag ohne Migrant*innen“ wurde in Lateinamerika Nachrichten veröffentlicht.

lateinamerika-nachrichten.de

Is Mexico at the Gates of Authoritarianism? | Journal of Democracy The country’s outgoing president relentlessly attacked Mexico’s democratic institutions, taking it to the brink of authoritarianism. His successor is poised to push its democracy over the edge.

In our essay we describe how the judiciary and other democratic institutions were subverted by Lopez Obrador
Read us here: www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/is-...

Nuestra colega Mariana Llanos (@millanos.bsky.social ) analiza las elecciones alemanas en Radiomundo (Uruguay)
#NoSinMujeres

Estuvo buenísima la discusión!!

This is how it could look like… www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

“Are We Sleepwalking into Autocracy?” Trump Embraces Authoritarian Playbook Is Trump embracing the authoritarian playbook of far-right Hungarian dictator Viktor Orbán? Princeton professor Kim Lane Scheppele walks us through Orbán’s sudden rise to power and how the Trump admin...

Honored to be on Democracy Now today!

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The New Authoritarianism This isn’t single-party rule, but it’s not democracy either.

Competitive authoritarianism in the making
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Tapa del artículo: Jueces en tensión: la Corte Suprema argentina (2003-2023) y la Corte Constitucional colombiana (2002-2023) frente a la polarización.

Con @bgarciaholgado.bsky.social estudiamos cómo la Corte Suprema Arg y la Corte Constitucional Col han respondido en décadas recientes a la polarización política.
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Today I received my paper copy of @govandopp.bsky.social’s Double Special Issue 🧐. It includes an amazing collection on 1. the radical right in the pandemic and 2. cabinet reshuffles. My article with @magna-inacio.bsky.social and Bruno Pinheiro in the link 👉
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