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The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast

🗓️ June 18–20, 2026

📍 ICC Belfast

📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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Aquellas palabras: "Los coches son el último resto de barbarie consentida (...) Personas extremadamente serviles en su trabajo realizan peligrosísimas maniobras al volante para demostrar su superioridad. El automóvil se ha convertido en la versión contemporánea del “vivir peligrosamente” fascista".

This is the kind of article APSR used to be famous for. The ones that make your brain explode, that challenge you, confuse you, test your patience, and make you smarter by making you realize your limitations. Well done Erica Simmons and @nickrushsmith.bsky.social‬ 👏

Colomina. C.; Innerarity, D. y Cantero, M. (Coords). (2024). Desigualdad Algorítmica Gobernanza, representación y derechos en la IA. 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎 𝐶𝐼𝐷𝑂𝐵 𝑑’𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑠 (138). www.cidob.org/sites/defaul...
‪@ccolomina.bsky.social‬ @daniel-innerarity.bsky.social‬ @cidobbarcelona.bsky.social‬

📰What are the 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀 in federalism, regionalism and territorial governance?
📌Don’t miss our editorial note 👉https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2025.2518752
@davidevampa.bsky.social @filippoboni.bsky.social @assefafy.bsky.social @merylkenny.bsky.social @marielylopezs.bsky.social & M.Zulianello

Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century Cambridge Core - European Government, Politics and Policy - Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century

Should be read together with this excellent new political sociological account of the rise of far-right parties in light of the transformation of the cleavage structure in Western Europe.

These pictures will be remembered for centuries.

Future generations will ask:

"Who did what, and when?

Who made this abomination possible?

Who spoke out - and who remained silent?"

Make sure you have good answers.

🧪How did COVID-19 affect citizens’ democratic preferences?

➡️ @cescamat.bsky.social A.Arenas A.Falcó & @jordimunoz.bsky.social find a lasting rise in technocratic preferences and a temporary bump in the willingness to sacrifice civil rights and freedoms www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Buscador | Estas son las profesiones del Estado en las que cambiarán las oposiciones si prospera la reforma del Gobierno Función Pública quiere modificar el acceso para abogados del Estado, la carrera diplomática, conservadores de museos o ingenieros geógrafos, entre otros

🔎 Buscador | Estas son las profesiones del Estado en las que cambiarán las oposiciones si prospera la reforma del Gobierno

Seminario de investigadoras visitantes de Rede Armela en @politicasusc.bsky.social . Un placer coñecer as investigacións de Maisa, Emma, Juliana e nosa Susana.

Gaslighting in politics: how a female experience became universalised Gaslighting, a form of manipulation coined to describe relational abuse within couples, has become a tool for collective political analysis. What does this shift from the private to the public sphere ...

Fascinating piece on the meaning and use of “gaslighting”

“political gaslighting, unlike propaganda, is not meant to convince or change behaviour, but to overwhelm and disorient people by making them ‘much less likely to act (express criticism, resist)’”.

Democratic innovation for change: A participatory corrective to deliberative hegemony - Oliver Escobar, Adrian Bua, 2025 The world faces social, political, economic, and ecological crises, and there is doubt that democratic governance can cope. Democracies rely on a narrow set of ...

🤔 What's the point of democratic innovation? Can it address crurrent crises and build democracies for the future?
💡In this new article @adrianbua.bsky.social and I argue that the field needs to strengthen its change-making orientation and capacity. Open access 👉🏼 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@pbustinduy.bsky.social celebrando que se ponga coto a la vulneración de derechos por empresas, en España la admon. pública es una de las mayores fuentes de vulnerabilidad. Opaca, anticuada y cargada de procedimientos ridículos que generan toda una industria de la gestoría para lidiar con ellos.

The East in wolf’s clothing. Wolf attacks correlate with but do not cause far-right voting The resurgence of wolves in Germany has sparked intense debate, particularly in rural areas where wolf attacks on livestock are frequent. Prior resear…

Local reactions to wolf attacks in Germany are not powerful enough to influence the election decisions of many voters www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

El Plan Estatal de Lucha contra la Corrupción, según Civio: medidas recicladas y carencias estructurales La hoja de ruta anunciada por Sánchez despliega tácticas recurrentes que generan titulares pero no alteran el fondo. La lucha contra la corrupción en España sigue necesitando las mismas reformas estru...

El Gobierno presenta su Plan #Anticorrupción, pero ¿es una estrategia seria o política performativa?

Lo hemos analizado y vemos un patrón claro: medidas recicladas y muchas carencias estructurales.

Aquí lo razonamos:

🔗 civio.es/novedades/20...

This Fall I will teach "Qualitative Methods in International Affairs" for the first time in almost 10 years 😲

The course primarily aims to introduce PhD students in Comparative Politics (CP) & International Relations (IR) to the various theoretical and methodological approaches available to them. ➡️

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Why are working class people under-represented in legislatures?

We propose one potential mechanism: working-class individuals are *perceived* as less likely to achieve political success, and are subsequently 'pragmatically' discriminated against.

We provide an experiment in the UK to test it:

This is fascinating.

Clarito

How do structural incentives, such as job scarcity and metric-based evaluation, shape the questions scholars ask, the methods they use to answer them, and the outlets they prioritize to publish their work?

We have an updated draft answering these questions: osf.io/preprints/os...

📢Abierto el envío de propuestas para la II Sesión del Grupo Permanente de Género y Política de la AECPA que haremos en Santiago de Compostela 👉https://aecpa.es/es-es/envia-tu-propuesta-2-sesion-del-grupo-permanente-de-genero-y-politi/news/5081/

💜So glad to see this collective @ccindle-eu.bsky.social article accepted in Women’s Studies International Forum!!
👉🏽‘Anti-gender politics and European democracies’ legacies of exclusion and violence’
✍🏽With Conny Roggeband Marta Rawłuszko Petra Meier @ilheenk.bsky.social @pcaravantes.bsky.social

YouTube video by Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) Culture wars and symbolic representation | Laura Morales | #ActEU

Research suggests a new socio-cultural cleavage is emerging...

At the #ActEU Mid-Term Conference, @lauramdu.bsky.social gave a presentation on culture wars and symbolic representation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyzf...
@csic.es @unidue.bsky.social @politicsunisaar.bsky.social

🎓 Como é empezar Ciencias Políticas na USC?
Laura cóntacho en primeira persoa! 💬

Descubre como viviu o seu primeiro ano na carreira, por que escolleu esta opción e que lle aporta estudar nesta facultade.

#PolíticasUSC #GraoEnCienciasPolíticas #USC #AccesoUniversidade #Universidade

La Xunta vuelve a defender su rechazo a 22 millones de euros destinados a crear plazas en escuelas infantiles públicas El director xeral de Familia considera que la partida es un "error" porque no se negoció con las comunidades autónomas

La Xunta vuelve a defender su rechazo a 22 millones de euros destinados a crear plazas en escuelas infantiles públicas.

Corruptos y corruptores La corrupción persiste en España a pesar de los múltiples organismos de control y reformas legales, lo que revela fallos estructurales más profundos en nuestra administración pública.

Hoy @lapuente.bsky.social pone las luces largas sobre la corrupción y su relación con la administración pública en España.

"Corruptos y corruptores"

www.eldiario.es/132_bd1e37?u...

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on.

A quick 🧵:

New publication!
Our joint work with Deniz Sert and Evren Balta, "Electoral pressure, reputational risks, and coalition politics: how established parties respond to the rise of anti-immigrant parties," is published online as open-access. doi.org/10.1017/npt.... @evreki.bsky.social

Recentralisation in welfare? Measuring and comparing territorial governance change in Spain - Jorge Hernandez, Eloísa Del Pino, Juan A. Ramos, César Colino, 2025 Decentralisation was one of the more visible changes in Western welfare states from the 1970s to the 2000s and was viewed by some as an unstoppable trend. Howev...

🔔 By applying our index SPREI, we shows to what extent the Great Recession reversed the process of decentralisation that featured the development of the WELFARE STATES since the 70s, what dimensions of governance changed and what policy tools were used for it

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....