Davide Morisi

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Don’t get Greenland’s role in Arctic security wrong - EUROPP Donald Trump's claims about Greenland risk an escalation that no one wants and that will leave us all less secure.

Last year, Donald Trump claimed that taking control of #Greenland is vital for US national security.

In a post from the @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social archives, @ulrikpg.bsky.social unpacks the complicated security dynamics in the Arctic, and the dangers of misunderstanding them.

Today I published a replication outlining concerns with "Instrumentally Inclusive" by Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega (2024, APSR).

I document seemingly idiosyncratic and ad hoc choices made by the authors that create a pattern of statistically significant results consistent with their theory.

Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects

🆕 Campaigns do matter

Research on Denmark’s 🇩🇰 2022 EU defence opt-out vote by @rsenninger.bsky.social, Derek Beach & Jannik Fenger shows campaigns can reduce framing effects. Loss-based arguments swayed voters early but faded as they became informed.

Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025 It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

Thanks to @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social for giving us the possibility to guest edit a special issue on "Political violence in democracies". Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social and I wrote an open access introduction: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!

Mini-Publics and Representative Government: How Deliberation on Climate Change Influences Trust in Institutions European Consortium for Political Research

Here is the link to our paper included in the panel: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

If you're at @ecpr.bsky.social in Thessaloniki this week, come to our panel on connecting deliberative and direct democracy (Friday 15:45 - 17:30 EEST). Exciting presentations on how we can "innovate" our democracies #ecprgc25.

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 🧵

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

The world’s richest Jeff had his wedding plans interfered with by Italian busybodies! Oh no! | First Dog on the Moon Why do people hate vulgar displays of extreme wealth by people whose business interests are burning the planet to the ground?

The world’s richest Jeff had his wedding plans interfered with by Italian busybodies! Oh no! | First Dog on the Moon

Losing Touch: The Rhetorical Cost of Governing - Frederik Hjorth, 2025 The electoral ‘cost of governing’ is widely considered a law-like phenomenon. However, costs of governing are not limited to the electoral dimension. This paper...

Legislators speak with reduced simplicity while serving in government. When serving in government, they dedicate more speaking time to intrinsically complex, technical issues and less to clearly ideologically laden issues journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

YouTube video by Collegio Carlo Alberto Discover the Allievi Program in Social and Political Sciences at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin

If you're planning to do a master's programme in social and political science, this is an amazing opportunity. Fully funded, great city and amazing faculty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X047...

Might be of interest for @jasonreifler.bsky.social and @brendannyhan.bsky.social‬

Really glad to share our new paper out on @thejop.bsky.social. We find that school debating reduces vulnerability to #misinformation and #conspiracy theories kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study!

The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...

Best,

The ANES Team

Who is susceptible to misinformation? We looked at >60,000 people from 24 countries who took our MIST test. Key results: Gen Z are more susceptible & those on the extreme right (but they don't know it).

Led by the brill @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social & Fritz Götz

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march.

They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

University of Sheffield staff to strike over 'drastic' cuts The University and College Union says up to 1,000 jobs will be put at risk by planned cutbacks.

In a time when some EU countries are doing everything they can to attract scientists fleeing the U.S, the UK government appears comfortable seeing some the top research intensive universities collapse

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Will Europe Sacrifice the Digital Services Act in Negotiations with Trump? | TechPolicy.Press Jakob Ohme, LK Seiling, and Claes H. de Vreese write that European leaders must protect the DSA to ensure a democratic future.

As EU-US relations change Europe must stand firm for the DSA

The DSA is imperfect, it cannot fix everything. But the DSA is a shield to defend European democracy.

@dscheykopp.bsky.social @lkseiling.bsky.social and I argue this in @techpolicypress.bsky.social ⬇️

www.techpolicy.press/will-europe-...

Greenland has voted 🗳️

Turnout up: >70%

Centre right party 29,9%
Independence party 24,5%
Current left govt / PM Egede party 21,4%

Government with and without independence party possible.

Source: DR

The Observer view on the Trump-Zelenskyy clash: a moment of dark reckoning | Observer editorial With or without the US, Europe must learn to defend itself, and Ukraine, against Russian aggression

"The first lesson should be acknowledgment of what has been obvious since Trump’s inauguration: the US cannot be relied on as a security, intelligence or trading partner"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨🚨🚨 Publication alert!

Out now at @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social:

"Political Representation as Communicative Practice"

together with Fabio Wolkenstein. We ask: What is political representation & how should we study it?

⬇️ Download for free for 13 days! 🧵On what you can expect👇

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State capacity and political regime stability | 6 | The State-Democrac Two recent strands of research have proposed that state capacity facilitates autocratic and democratic survival, respectively. While convincing arguments

The Trump-Musk adminstration is trying to dismantle the US bureaucracy.

The short-term consequence may be to impede economic growth: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The long-term consequence is to destabilize democracy: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Frontiers for Young Minds Nobel Collection: Three new Nobel Prize-winning breakthroughs shared by Laureates with young readers Frontiers for Young Minds, an award-winning science engagement journal for kids, is proud to share three new articles written by Nobel Prize-winners. These thre

"Every single article published is first reviewed by young reviewers aged 8-15, to ensure they are both accessible and fun to read for others their own age." I wonder if they are kinder or nastier than the reviewers I normally get :) www.frontiersin.org/news/2024/12...

Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’ Satirical petition from Denmark, which owns Greenland, racks up 200,000 signatures as Trump eyes Arctic island

“We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood, bike lanes to Beverly Hills and organic smørrebrød to every street corner. Rule of law, universal healthcare and fact-based politics might apply” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries

The falsehood came from the right.

How (radical/ extreme) right shares mis/ disinformation more online.

Good to see @uva.nl colleagues @pettertornberg.bsky.social and @julianachueri.bsky.social’s research featured in @theguardian.com #polisky

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

It's a very good idea, but I wonder how many people would prefer a fast review process with reviewers who already rejected your paper once, instead of trying your luck with a new pool of reviewers at another journal