Frank Mols (PhD)

Social media partisans vs. party members: political affiliation in a digital age Recently political parties have diversified their affiliation options, including by developing social media followings, but so far there is little evidence about who is exploiting these new options...

Our paper with @karinakosped.bsky.social and Susan Scarrow on 'Social media partisans vs. party members: political affiliation in a digital age' in West European Politics now has a volume/issue!
50 free copies available via www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UVHJE...

EA on Dublin NewsTalk: Trump Envoy Witkoff's Collusion With Kremlin Over Ukraine - EA WorldView Vladimir Putin poses with Donald Trump’s envoy, real estate developer Steve Witkoff, St. Petersburg, Russia, April 11, 2025 Ukraine War, Day 1,372: Europe Warns Against Trump-Kremlin “Carve-Up” of Ukr...

EA on Dublin NewsTalk: #Trump Envoy #Witkoff Collusion With #Kremlin Over #Ukraine (Scott Lucas w The Hard Shoulder)

#UkraineWar #TrumpRussia

eaworldview.com/2025/11/krem...

Join me, @stijntvankessel.bsky.social & Isabelle Hertner next week as we present "Populist Radical Right Parties in Action" (Oxford University Press), available Open Access here:

academic.oup.com/book/60532

If you or your library prefer a printed copy, you can find a discounted code below.

Snap Out of It? Governmental Instability and Far‐Right Mainstreaming in the Dutch and French Elections of 2023/2024 Click on the article title to read more.

📣 New piece out in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with the great @mlorimer.bsky.social & Marianna Griffini!

We compare the 2023 🇳🇱 & 2024 🇫🇷 snap elections: different systems, but shared patterns:
➡️ Gov’t instability
➡️ Continued rise and mainstreaming of the far right

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Wealth Paradox Cambridge Core - Political Sociology - The Wealth Paradox

Our 2017 CUP book 'The Wealth Paradox: Economic Prosperity and the Hardening of Attitudes' can be ordered here 👉 bit.ly/3kBGvNx

Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling; in both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty.

See also:
theconversation.com/political-wi...

"Taking over Greenland",
"Building a White House Ballroom"
"Tylenol causes Autism"
It's called distracting by 'flooding the zone' (with nonsense)

Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling; in both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty.

See also:
theconversation.com/political-wi...

Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling; in both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty.

See also:
theconversation.com/political-wi...

Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling; in both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty.

See also:
theconversation.com/political-wi...

See also: theconversation.com/political-wi...

Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling; in both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty.

See also:
theconversation.com/political-wi...

Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling; in both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty.

See also:
theconversation.com/political-wi...

🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social
'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇

Read the full article (open access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Issue congruence outweighs geography: Understanding the appeal of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) in east and west Germany

New Publication 📖 with @aikowagner.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social
"Issue congruence outweighs geography: Understanding the appeal of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) in east and west Germany"
Full paper (open access)👉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What did we find? 🧵

From Subjects to Citizens: Why the Fifth Estate Matters Now Democracy Watch AU: a framework to empower Australians to hold politicians, governments, institutions, and media accountable

From Subjects to Citizens: Why the Fifth Estate Matters Now.
Democracy Watch AU: a framework to empower Australians to hold politicians, governments, institutions & media accountable.
Democracy only works when citizens demand accountability, not blind trust.
suebarrett.substack.com/p/from-subje...

On Wednesday (at the crack of dawn), we continue with a book panel, celebrating two OUP publications by Paris Aslanidis and @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it, co-hosted with the great @sldelange.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/ecpr...

Gezien de hardnekkigheid van deze mythe maar even mijn nieuwe artikel in de herhaling wbs.nl/publicaties/...

Populist radical right parties are often said to predominantly attract poor 'losers of globalization', and to benefit from economic crisis. However, when studying populist voting patterns longitudinally it becomes clear this is a (very pervasive) myth. #Populism #TheWealthParadox

Yes, that'd be something, right? Using ChatGPT to string together three words ... 🤣😂

Thank you James - Much appreciated!

Why Trump and Brexit are Not Working-Class Revolts - ABC Religion & Ethics Events like Brexit and the election of Donald Trump are widely interpreted as a working-class revolts. But populist voting may well be associated with status protection and aspiration to secure upward...

This online article provides a quick summary of the book's findings - www.abc.net.au/religion/why...

Maybe he just passed it on, or he sold it (without reading it)

Just so you know, this graph is based on NASDAQ data