Zach Dickson

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Political Identities in Europe We invite submissions for an interdisciplinary workshop on "Political Identities in Europe". The event will take place on November 13-14, 2025 at the University of Amsterdam. Political communities acr...

📢 Call for papers: "Political Identities in Europe" workshop, Nov 13-14, 2025
@uvahumanities.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social

How are political identities constructed across Europe?

Deadline: Sept 26, 2025.

🔗 Info & submission:
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From pubs to populism: what the decline of community space means for democracy

Rosa Marks explores how rebuilding social & cultural infrastructure can help reverse the UK’s slide into distrust, division & populist politics?

www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/social-...
@britishacademy.bsky.social

I hugely enjoyed speaking to Matt Mulford on the TRIUM Connects podcast about the rise of challenger parties and populism and the future of European integration

Listen in here if you’re interested:

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Such a great time with such brilliant people! Huge thanks to the organizers for hosting an exceptional workshop!

Love to see it

Great to see this out!

Populist right parties are increasingly politicising climate change

Nowhere is this more evident than in the UK where Farage has made opposition to Net Zero a key issue for Reform UK

Great to see this out!

New preprint w/ @grahn.bsky.social & @joenoonan.se

What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸

In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing.

📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Both illegal and authoritarian

Incredible resource for people studying political communication in Europe 🗣️

Very cool design and important findings!

Great threat by @robertsaunders.bsky.social on the key strategic mistake by Labour in adopting the populist right framing of immigration as the main cause of public service decline

Also relates to work on how this framing of the crisis of the NHS has helped UKIP/ Reform:
catherinedevries.eu/NHS.pdf

Vacancy — PhD Position "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics" Are you curious about how images, videos, and memes transform political communication? Are you passionate about digital technology and the future of democracy? Then apply for this PhD project focused ...

🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨

Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger

DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥

@polcomm.bsky.social

➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu

Cool new work on the influence of visible deprivation and support for the populist right

1/6 📢 Just as Germany announces it will begin turning back asylum seekers at its borders (starting May 6), our new article in European Journal of Political Research is out:

🧵👇 “Closed borders, closed minds?”

doi.org/10.1111/1475...

#BorderPolitics #EUPolitics #Schengen #COVID19 #EJPR

Yeah that’s fair, I’ll take your word for it. It’s not that I don’t know that racism exists — I grew up in rural America with brown skin — it’s that I believe that as soon as we concede to solely race-based grievances, they’re made legitimate and we’ve lost the argument

I agree to an extent. I do think that without attaching immigration to another salient issue (eg crime, terrorism, public services etc.) it’s not a winning political issue.

I refuse to believe that happy, healthy and fulfilled people simply dislike migrants for no other reasons

Exactly. When people have economic opportunities and functioning public services, immigration doesn’t even register for many.

But when immigrants are viewed as competition for resources, demand for anti-immigrant policies and parties increases

Great thread!

Labour’s underperformance in the locals is a warning: political momentum is fragile when grievances go unaddressed. Without visable improvements to the NHS and other public services, voter patience won't last.

Reinvesting in public services isn’t just good policy, it’s good politics

Really interesting findings!

I think Trump & co have tried to make 'woke ideology' something more complex/nebulous, but it seems voters know exactly what it means.

The 'fight against woke ideology' is simply a fight against black and trans folks and women's rights

very thorough and thoughtful post on the rise of right-wing populism in Europe. Very much looking forward to the next installment!

Excited to welcome @dbroockman.bsky.social at the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour seminar today! He will present a paper on “How Constituent Contact Reinforces the Status Quo: Evidence from Administrative Records on Contact to Congress” today *4-5 pm UK time* (in-person or online)

great to see this out!

congrats, Mathias! well deserved!

Academic torrents might be an option if finding someone to host is an challenge -

The US embrace of Russia is an existential threat to the EU. Germany must step up to save it | Catherine De Vries To counter the crisis caused by Trump, Friedrich Merz has little choice but to abandon decades of military and economic caution

Some of my reflections @theguardian.com today on what the US embrace of Russia means for the EU & how Germany can play a leading role.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia:
osf.io/preprints/os...

🧵Thread

Here is what to watch out for in the 6pm exit polls:
1) does the CDU cross 30% & how large is the gap to the AfD?
2) is there a majority of seats for a CDU-SPD coalition? This is the easiest (but by no means easy) coalition to negotiate.
3) are FDP and BSW in or out?
4) how well does die Linke do?

Hard to imagine this working out in Trump’s favour

a graphic reading 'lse department of methodology, methods short courses, MY580 advanced quantitative and qualitative analysis'

Join us on 26 February for another Methods Short Course ➡️ this time, it's "Casual Interference for Observational Data" with @zachdickson.bsky.social.

This course will introduce students to the principles and methods of causal inference for observational data.

Sign up➡️ https://buff.ly/4hXn7GZ