Sarah de Lange

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

Must read from @gsamaras.bsky.social

"Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences. Every headline, every clip, every click adds weight. This is how the line gets crossed"

www.politico.eu/article/medi...

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Nee dat was een van mijn collega’s

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Institute member @sldelange.bsky.social, with @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social and @bartschuurman.bsky.social, argues in de Volkskrant that Europe is underestimating the two-front pressure on its liberal democracies — from Moscow and Washington, backed by the far right in Europe.

The Green Gender Gap: Environmental attitudes and pro-environmental vote choice across Europe Does gender matter for how we engage with green political ideas? Using more than twenty years of data across 36 European countries, this paper identif…

Still controlling for gender without thinking about why? You can cite me💚👩‍🔬💚

I show that the gender gap in progressive climate and environmental views is a persistent empirical regularity that cannot be explained by differences in socioeconomic background, political ideology, or risk aversion.

PhD Position: Factual Belief Polarisation and its Attitudinal Consequences | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!

🚨 Job alert! 🚨

We are looking for a PhD candidate for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization and its attitudinal consequences.

The position will be at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University (Netherlands). Check out the full job profile below!

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The far right in Spain and Portugal didn’t go mainstream alone.

The Iberian media system played a key role in their normalization 📺📻📰

2 new publications out now🔥

This marks the closing chapter of my project POLAR, a research journey that began in 2021.

A 🧵on how Vox and Chega became mainstream 👇

Sarah L. de Lange CEVIPOF (UMR 7048) research focuses on two main areas. The first includes political attitudes, behaviour and parties; the second involves political thought and the history of ideas.

Beyond excited to announce that on the 1st of Jan I have become an affiliated researcher @cevipof.bsky.social Extremely grateful for this exciting opportunity and greatly looking forward to working with the many inspiring colleagues and PhD researchers at the center www.sciencespo.fr/cevipof/en/d...

Opinie: Europa moet in tweefrontenconflict durven benoemen wie zijn vijanden zijn Door de nadruk op de militaire dreiging van Rusland blijft het bredere patroon buiten beeld: serieuze druk op de liberaal-democratische fundamenten van de EU, vanuit zowel het Kremlin als vanuit Washi...

Met @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social en @bartschuurman.bsky.social betoog ik in @volkskrant.nl dat de druk op de liberale democratieen in de EU, vanuit zowel het Kremlin als vanuit Washington, en met steun van uiterst rechts in Europa, systematisch wordt onderschat www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

I’m delighted to share a special milestone in the life of Party Politics 🎉
To mark the journal’s 30th anniversary, I had the pleasure of co-ed a Symposium with Paul Webb
The symposium revisits the journal’s origins, intellectual trajectory, and its role in shaping the field over the past 3 decades.

Hear, hear! Ik schreef over de dubbel dreiging (en de schending van art 2 NAVO) met Sebastian van t Erve.
www.nd.nl/opinie/opini...

Eens met beide punten!

Why democracies ban extremist organisations Many extremist organisations exist and operate in democratic societies. Some get banned by democratic authorities; others don’t. Why? Using data on far-right organisations from Germany, Michael…

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🪧 Many #extremist organisations operate in democratic societies. Some get banned; others don’t. Why?
📜 Using data from Germany, Michel Zeller of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social explains why governments ban only some of the organisations working to undermine constitutional democracy

⤵️ bit.ly/3YuECH0

European far-right parties including AfD and National Rally are part of RSS-BJP's transnational networks. In Feb 2025, before Ursula von der leyen's India visit,Thierry Mariani-led Patriots for Europe delegation was invited by RSS affiliate India Foundation, where RSS &PFE ideologues criticised EU.

Screenshot from the first page of the PDF showing the title, author names and abstract of the paper. Title: Between “Cancel Culture” and Campus Culture: Debate and Dissent in the Discursive Space of the University.

Based on a representative survey of academics at German universities, Christiane Thompson and I find little support for "canceling" controversial views on campus. Instead, universities are widely expected to facilitate debate on controversial issues. Our two main findings:
doi.org/10.1007/s110...

🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Liberaal omdat in de democratische rechtstaat onder andere individuele vrijheden, zoals vrijheid van meningsuiting, vereniging, demonstratie, pers etc centraal staat

Helemaal mee eens!

Another excellent post for the illiberalism series! 🌊

Get in contact with me or The Loop if you want to contribute 📢

En @groene.nl heeft een mooie reportage vandaag die de dreiging illustreert bsky.app/profile/groe...

Opinie: Europa moet in tweefrontenconflict durven benoemen wie zijn vijanden zijn Door de nadruk op de militaire dreiging van Rusland blijft het bredere patroon buiten beeld: serieuze druk op de liberaal-democratische fundamenten van de EU, vanuit zowel het Kremlin als vanuit Washi...

Met @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social en @bartschuurman.bsky.social betoog ik in @volkskrant.nl dat de druk op de liberale democratieen in de EU, vanuit zowel het Kremlin als vanuit Washington, en met steun van uiterst rechts in Europa, systematisch wordt onderschat www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

« La liberté académique est une condition de la démocratie elle-même » TRIBUNE. La France doit tirer une leçon de l’expérience américaine : sans statut juridique fort, la liberté académique ne résiste pas longtemps aux chocs politiques, explique, dans une tribune au « Mo...

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Inside the Growing Scientist Migration to Europe For decades, the U.S. has attracted talented scientists from all over the world. That may be changing.

Good piece on the “brain drain” from the U.S. and the history of its “brain gain”. For the moment, while the numbers might be up, it looks like the real loss is in talented junior and future scholars, rather than senior “stars” (as most of these programs are not competitive for the latter).

Red Lines: Why we need Red Lines (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network This article by Aurelien Mondon discusses the need for red lines in the struggle against reactionary politics.

Thought-provoking read by Aurelien Mondon. Should be of interest to centrists, liberals, and lefties concerned about the far right.

Poland asks EU Parliament to strip far-right leader Braun of immunity to face Holocaust denial charge

Poland has asked the European Parliament to strip far-right leader Grzegorz Braun of immunity so that he can be charged with denying Nazi crimes, an offence carrying a potential three-year jail term.

The case relates to his claims that gas chambers were not used at the Auschwitz and Majdanek camps.

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist,
but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false
no longer exist.”

- Hannah Arendt

My choice for Quote of the Day in @stinej.bsky.social series.

Fascinating new paper by and @elena-amaya.bsky.social and Robert Braun on the role of folklore in shaping far-right support in Weimar Germany: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Danish election campaign first poll:

- center left bloc almost has a majority; center right far from
- centrist government (like the current) is an option again
- social democrats do well (compared to recent polls, not comp w/ 2022 elections)
- liberals do poorly, general fragmentation on the right

MATTHEW BADLOSS IS IT