Josh Dubrow

Polish town's event honouring local Jewish composer cancelled after far-right backlash

Scumbag antisemite and *member of the European Parliament* Grzegorz Braun, along with vicious Polish right-wing trolls, forced a small Polish town to not honor a local Jewish composer.

Remember: Braun got 6% of the vote for President in Poland

#StopAntisemitism

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Its a sensible translation.

Are the seats inside the train?

The Effect of Politicization on Protest Participation in Non‐Democracies: The Case of Hungary Politicization—the expansion of conflict in the political system—is often assumed to be associated with high levels of participation. Yet, this is not necessarily the case, especially in contexts of.....

🔔 New paper with @susanszky.bsky.social in Social Science Quarterly: The Effect of Politicization on Protest Participation in Non-Democracies: The Case of Hungary 🔔

We test whether politicization mobilizes or demobilizes partization in an autocratizing context

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/ssqu...

Ethnic Polish journalist imprisoned in Belarus awarded EU human rights prize

"Andrzej Poczobut, journalist & leader of the Polish minority in Belarus who has been imprisoned since 2021, has been awarded the Sakharov Prize, the EU’s highest award in the field of human rights, alongside Mzia Amaglobeli, a journalist imprisoned in Georgia."

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Latest panel survey data highlights the position of younger Europeans | Infra4NextGen Data collected in Wave 5 of the self-completion panel survey undertaken as part of the Infra4NextGen project has been published today (Friday 17 October).

Data collected in Wave 5 of our self-completion panel survey (CRONOS-3) has now been published.

Questions focused on artificial intelligence (AI), how panellists think they are viewed by other people, climate change policy proposals, mental health, financial security and many more.

US congressman from Ohio says swastika flag in office was 'ruse' that targeted Republicans Rep. Dave Taylor said his staffer didn't knowingly display the altered American flag.

A ruse, they say! A "false flag" operation? 🤣

"an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye."

#surewhateveryousaydude

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Poland joining 20 largest world economies, IMF figures show

-- "the IMF estimates that Poland’s GDP will reach $1.04 trillion this year."

-- "In 1990, it was the world’s 38th largest economy, according to the IMF, ranking just below Pakistan and Algeria."

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Good news for old papers:

After Google Scholar, older papers are represented on par with their overall frequency in the universe of science, experienced an uptick in their citations, and are cited beyond their own broad field

"Who Actually Governs? Gender Inequality and Political Representation in Rural India"

"Drawing on an original survey in 320 Indian village
councils...Women elected through gender quotas
do not equally participate in decision-making processes within village councils"

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"By ... campaign contributions, lobbying efforts, and media ownership, economic elites can influence political outcomes in ways that frequently marginalize the interests of the general populace."

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The interaction of economic and political inequality in Latin America: a view from Colombia Abstract. We investigate how economic inequality can persist in Latin America in the context of radical falls in political inequality in the last decades.

In Columbia, "a vicious circle emerges whereby policies that reduce inequality are less likely to be adopted and implemented in places with relatively high inequality."

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When the strongman is a woman: female leadership in right wing populism Purpose. The article wants to unpack a curious, but important, puzzle: if, as most analysts agree, the core unifying feature of right-wing populisms is the adoption of masculinist and anti-feminist pe...

Not too many of them, but its worth investigating, I suppose.

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Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right | Tracking Far-Right Volunteers Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right is the first comprehensive academic study taking an in-depth look at white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other right-wing

"the first comprehensive academic study taking an in-depth look at white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists leaving their home countries to join armed groups fighting in civil wars and other armed conflicts."

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

That sounds biased. I might try that show.

No, Poland's Vistula river isn't drying up - but it does face mounting environmental threats

“We must take into account that at some point, as the low levels deepen, water intake in Warsaw will have to be reduced. In the long term, that is precisely the scenario..."

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Poles' trust in army reaches record high while trust in church falls to record low

PAP poll:

trust in the armed forces is 94%
trust in the European Union is 50%
trust in the Church is 35%

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Poland hits back at Zelensky's claim it can't protect its people from mass Russian drone attack

"Zelensky noted that, during one recent attack, Ukraine had faced 810 Russian drones and had shot down over 700 of them. By contrast, Poland “had I think 19 drones and they destroyed four”."

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Your article was a founding of the 21st century literature on the topic. It should be free for all to read, and its about time that publishers recognize that they must release the classics (and others) from behind the paywall.

"Intersectionality in Electoral Politics: A Mess Worth Making" - Wendy Smooth

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"The Structure of Intersectionality: A Comparative Politics of Gender" - @slweldon.bsky.social

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They do discuss the obvious --those in the applicant pool may deliberately lower scores of others to raise their own chances of obtaining the grant. The authors call it "gaming the system," but it has another name: "Conflict of Interest". CoI must be dismissed from any process. Yet, DRP invites it.

Editor pro tip

Dear reviewer, do make use of the “Confidential Comments to the Editor” box!

Hesitated btw major/minor rev? Saw a red flag? Really loved the piece? A general thought? Let us know!

This info is invaluable for us to see more clearly *across* reviewers, especially if conflicting

Inequalities in place-based representation: Looking inside electoral districts MAFALDA PRATAS, JORGE M. FERNANDES, MIGUEL WON

🌅📙 64.3

Winners or losers of representation? 🥇

An investigation 🔎 by @mafaldapratas.bsky.social, @jmfernandes86.bsky.social & @miguelwon.bsky.social looks at whether representatives offer #ProprotionalRepresentation, examining unequal levels of parliamentary attention ⚖️🏛️

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What about elite manipulation in deliberative mini-publics? Examining threats and resilience in the Ostbelgien model | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core What about elite manipulation in deliberative mini-publics? Examining threats and resilience in the Ostbelgien model - Volume 17 Issue 3

☀️ Vol 17.3

The impact of elite manipulation? 🤷

Nino Junius proposes a framework that analyses elite influences during the inpt, throughput and output stages of mini-publics to determine how 🇩🇪 & 🇧🇪 citizens are being targeted by powerful elites.

buff.ly/dKDsa5v #OA

📢 Heads up! EPSR is taking a summer break ☀️

🛑 No submissions will be accepted during August — we’ll be back in action come September!

Perfect time to refine your manuscripts! ✍️📚

But stay tuned for our August Issue! ☀️

Bluesky lives. It is unfortunately not as lively as academic twitter used to be, but there's no way I'm going back to the Nazi who owns twitter's corpse

💼🇪🇺⚖️ I'm hiring! Team Europe at Democracy Reporting International is looking for fresh talent to tackle key research challenges on the rule of law in the EU and beyond. 1/

Gender Equality in the New European Parliament: Europarties and Political Groups The chapter examines the political programs of Europarties and political groups to show how gender equality policies were addressed in the EP 2024 elections. Based on official election results and ins...

"Based on official election results and insights from previous EP legislatures, the chapter compares political group positions and forecasts the potential impact of political group dynamics on EU gender policies"

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