📣Our Call for Special Issue Proposals is still open!
📝We invite scholars to submit proposals that address fundamental aspects of politics and society in the region. We especially welcome proposals that are comparative in scope.
🔗 Check here: tandfonline.com/journals/fse...
📢 in our #NewIssue (30.4)
P. Christmann, @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social & @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social highlight that political trust has been restored to pre-crisis levels in #Portugal, while it remains persistently low in #Greece and #Spain.
🔓Read #OpenAccess 👇
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🎉 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...
Mando único y culto al líder: Abascal descabalga a los críticos y culmina su diseño del nuevo Vox www.eldiario.es/1_c6c6c1?utm...
As you well know, this is also true at the micro level: jerks get fewer service assignments. Capable women get more.
What does a restorative justice framework look like for this? (Jerks have to endlessly prosecute AI cheating cases?)
Yes, please
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION OUT! (Open Access 🔓)
In @nationsnationalism.bsky.social, we show that in post-referendum Catalonia rhetoric cools not from reconciliation but from institutional necessity.
Funded by @icipeace.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📢 in our #NewIssue (30.4)
The study by Lea Heyne, @rosanavarrete.bsky.social & @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social finds a negative link between EU polarisation and membership support in #Greece, #Portugal and #Spain
🔓Read here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
⏳ Last days of free access!
Our article published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies is available to read free for a limited time.
With #Italy heading toward a forthcoming #ConstitutionalReferendum, the debate it engages with is especially timely.
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How do you introduce a field without mentioning one of its central insights? We are through the looking glass, y'all.
📢 CfP 📄
🌞AECPA Granada · Septiembre 2026
¿Cómo atraviesa el género a las políticas sociales? Bienvenidas investigaciones sobre bienestar, trabajo, cuidados, salud, vivienda, inclusión social y más, que analicen su diseño, implementación y efectos desde una perspectiva de género. #aecpa
📢NEW ARTICLE!📢
Voter preferences for or against female candidates in local elections? Experimental evidence from Portugal
📚Read the article by B. F. Gonçalves Ribeiro, M. Â. Vilela Rodrigues, and F. Tejedo-Romero here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢NEW ARTICLE!📢
Strategic dualism: CHP’s cleavage politics and the evolution of opposition coordination in #Turkey
Read the article by @berkesen.bsky.social, Şebnem Yardımcı-Geyikçi and Hakan Yavuzyılmaz here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢 #NewIssue #SpecialIssue 30/4
The Makeover of Southern Europe: Fifty Years after the Transitions to Democracy in #Greece #Portugal #Spain
Guest Editors: @jmfernandes86.bsky.social, N. Garoupa, @mjhierro.bsky.social & @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social
Don't miss it!👇
tandfonline.com/toc/fses20/c...
📢 in our #NewIssue (30.4) #Greece #Portugal #Spain
The research by J. M. Fernandes, I. Sánchez-Cuenca & D. A. Sotiropoulos underscores the importance of considering both structural and agency-based factors in understanding democratisation processes
Read here 👇
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢 in our #NewIssue (30.4)
@mjhierro.bsky.social J.P. Monteiro & @ingrigoriadis.bsky.social find democratic transitions redefine national boundaries:
🔸ideologically expanding the political community
🔸redrawing the demos
🔸altering the nation’s ascriptive foundations
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Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
New article and special issue!
Just out in Comparative Political Studies: “Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Information, Legacies, Temporalities", the intro to a special issue on countering illiberalism in liberal democracies.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:
We are very sorry to share the news that Sabri Sayari passed away peacefully on February 11, 2026
Are Americans polarized in their attitudes toward higher education? 🤔
Using some @electionstudies.bsky.social data, the answer seems to be: Yes, but not dramatically so, and there's a tendency for more experience with higher ed. to be associated w/ more positive ratings. 👍
📊 As #Spain moves toward a new regularisation policy, recent research helps place this debate in a broader context.
R. Perna & M. Puig Batalla analyse opposite #regularisation #policy #outputs in #Italy & #Spain during #COVID19
Read it here #OPENACCESS 👇
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📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 #Italy
The feminisation of Italian governments. Towards a more gender-equal distribution of political power?
Read the article by C. Barbieri & P. Pansardi here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
50 years after: Was democratization inevitable or contingent?
Read #FreeAccess the introduction to our latest #SpecialIssue by @jmfernandes86.bsky.social, N. Garoupa,
@mjhierro.bsky.social & @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
⏰ Just a couple of weeks left to apply—call open until 25 February!
65.1🦋
What happens when the #RadicalRight looks fondly to the past? 🕰️ 👀
@populismblog.bsky.social & @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social introduce #AuthoritarianNostalgia exploring how supporters of VOX and Chega connect today’s politics with Spanish & Portuguese eras
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🗣️ Call for abstracts open!
The IV Catalonia Workshop in Political Theory will take place in Girona on 11 June 2026.
Open to any area of political theory, with special attention to identity, justice, equality, conflict, and crisis.
⏳ Deadline: 31 March 2026
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
With Congress preparing another vote on the SAVE Act, advocates warn its documentation requirements could make registering to vote more difficult for millions of women—threatening both access to the ballot and progress toward gender parity in political power.
