Endre Borbáth

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

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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🧵

I remember how much I liked his study on the transition in Eastern Europe when I first read it at CEU as an MA student: www.jstor.org/stable/40970... It is one of those texts with ideas that have stayed with me ever since. RIP

I have just seen this Diane, big congratulations, I am very happy to see that it worked out!!!

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine An interview with Adam Przeworski.

Every time I read @adamprz.bsky.social reflecting on his life and work, I am in awe. Though I have never met him, and we move(d) in different circles, his reflections speak deeply to me.

One of the last intellectual giants in the field representing an increasingly different discipline.

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨

I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity.

I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

Understanding protest scripts: the anti-containment protests in Germany and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic The pandemic did not bring protest politics to a halt. Instead, it sparked diverse and divergent forms of contention. This study compares the development and characteristics of anti-containment pro...

Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests.

doi.org/10.1080/1474...

Thanks Linus! :)

Taking a closer look at @mierkezat.bsky.social @swenhutter.bsky.social & @eborbath.bsky.social's paper on cleavage formation and civil society and cannot recommend it highly enough! Really insightful theorizing, e.g. on changes in the form of civil society and its effect on group-party linkages:

Journal of European Public Policy Special Issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape. Guest Editors: Sophia Hunger & Swen Hutter. Volume 32, Issue 8 of Journal of European Public Policy

As I am fairly new to Bluesky, this comes a bit late, but it is still worth checking out:

Our #oa introduction to the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on "Europe’s Changing Protest Landscape"
with @sophiahunger.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.

Doctoral Researcher (100%) in Political Science 4 years Focus: Public opinion, Political Conflict, and the Far Right The Department of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is hiring a doctoral researcher with a specialization in quantitative research (survey and experiments) for the project “...

📢 Call for applications!

I’m looking for a 4-year PhD researcher (100%) in Political Science: focus on public opinion & the far right

You’ll be part of the POLHYBRID project @sciencepoulb.bsky.social, working with me & @caterinafr.bsky.social
Deadline: 9 11 2025

👉 Info & apply: shorturl.at/El2mW

Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Writing, Thinking, and Why AI Can’t Save You Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

"You can’t write four op-eds a week and expect to produce a book with staying power”

Another great interview by @catherinedevries.bsky.social for her blog "Etched in Marble". @mkblyth.bsky.social is sharp and critical and his insights resonate deeply with me.

On Saturday, I'll present the paper “Movement Parties and Parliamentary Speech in Chile, Spain, and Mexico”, co-authored with @eborbath.bsky.social and @janschwalbach.bsky.social ; 2pm, East Meeting Level, East 3.

Congratulations!!!

Another fantastic piece out in our "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" special issue! (co-edited with @davidattewell6.bsky.social )

@mierkezat.bsky.social et al investigate the role of civil society in contemporary cleavage formation. 

There are a few more SI contributions still to come!

Interesting new article that fits nicely within "The Building Blocs" research agenda (t.ly/us7kj), which we recently contributed to: t.ly/Dg6zK

We, as scholars of Europe, can learn from scholars of MENA, SE Asia, etc, who have long emphasized the role of civil society for party competition.

📊 New dataset and paper alert!
We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Below follows a 🧵

🔔 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....

Ausschreibung

@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de
j0b.de/veca

75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards
📆31/08

What the early pessimists on Eastern Europe got right After 1989, a few scholars warned Eastern Europe’s new democracies would rapidly fail. They were wrong — but 30 years on, their “breakdown prophecies” look prescient.

My new Substack on revisiting the pessimistic early “breakdown prophecies“ made about Eastern Europe im early 1990s.

Wrong then, but look more prescient

open.substack.com/pub/drseanha...

Platformed Mainstreaming: How and for What Does the Online Far Right Use Hyperlinks? In this chapter, we explore how the German far right strategically uses hyperlinks on Facebook and what functions they serve. For this purpose, after gathering a sample of public Facebook pages of far...

📖 Amazing to see Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe is finally out open access: tinyurl.com/2s37s6y2

In our chapter with Liriam Sponholz ✨, we discuss how #far-right actors engage in platformed #mainstreaming, through hyperlink #network analysis based on +120,000 #Facebook page posts. 📊

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

Feels like a good time to share this call for papers. Can't wait for EPSS 2026!

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. 🧵

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Reading about the US these days often feels like reading the Hungarian press circa 2011-2012, only in English.

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

shorturl.at/kcTbG

Our article on environmental protests in Europe now also has page numbers. Take a look at it, in case you missed it: