This is a great book by Levitsky & Way which Trump, Hegseth & Rubio should have read before attacking Iran. It argues that dictatorships born of social revolution - such as Iran - are exceptionally durable. It is wishful thinking that the Iranian regime evaporates after a short bombing campaign
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This is a unique opportunity for junior scholars of extremism and democracy. You do NOT want to miss it. Apply!
13.02.2026 16:31 — 👍 14 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
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
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.
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!
Here is the link to our paper included in the panel: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
25.08.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
25.08.2025 09:47 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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
24.07.2025 09:11 — 👍 1481 🔁 927 💬 44 📌 70
The world’s richest Jeff had his wedding plans interfered with by Italian busybodies! Oh no! | First Dog on the Moon
25.06.2025 07:41 — 👍 229 🔁 46 💬 10 📌 3
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...
18.06.2025 05:36 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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...
12.06.2025 12:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Might be of interest for @jasonreifler.bsky.social and @brendannyhan.bsky.social
26.05.2025 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really 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...
26.05.2025 08:50 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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...
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 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👇
cup.org/3ERYIUR
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...
"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...
18.02.2025 11:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“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...
12.02.2025 09:38 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
30.01.2025 15:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
