I am very pleased to finally have this piece out in @millennjournal.bsky.social, together with Valentin Clavé-Mercier! doi.org/10.1177/0305... 1/10

Happy to answer questions folks have!

Daniel Devine@danjdevine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Unbelievably, there are *two* academic jobs at Cardiff University. One in British politics (seemingly broadly defined) cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/53... One in political behaviour/opinion 🙌 cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/52...

Brief pause from Messi's magic to share my new piece in the Annual Review of Political Science: "Education as a Political Institution" which explains why we should stop treating education as just another public service Open access here: tinyurl.com/yezzkam5

Education as a Political Institution

Education institutions are fundamentally political. They mold political values, shape inequality, create opportunities for patronage through teaching jobs, and can even be used for political surveilla...

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NEW - Skills, Spatial Polarization, and the Politics of the Knowledge Economy: Introducing the Regional Human Capital Database - https://cup.org/42ztudJ - Jane Gingrich, Daniel McArthur & Mihnea Cuibus #OpenAccess

We are hiring ! Very happy to talk to anyone interested ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Lucas Knotter@lucaslitmanen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

JOB! My department at the @uniofbath.bsky.social is opening up TWO Lecturer positions in Environmental Politics (broadly defined)! I came to PoLIS at Bath a few years ago, and it has been such a great place to work. Make sure to apply! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

📢CIRAF Seminar Announcement📢25th March 12pm-1:30pm 💻 Christian Nationalism in Online and Offline Contemporary Far-Right Politics - with Andy Williams (Cardiff University) and Kate Barber (University of Reading). Free and online but registration is required www.eventbrite.com/e/christian-...

Christian Nationalism in Online and Offline Contemporary Far-Right Politics

The second in CIRAF's 2026 seminar series Looking forward / Looking back.

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we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Our 2025 workshop series is NOW ONLINE! Packed with practical know-how to equip Early Career Scholars (and everyone else) with tools that matter & tacit knowledge on key areas of academic work 🔧🧠 Help us get this in front of the right eyes — PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! 🙏📢 www.chstm.org/perspectives...

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

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NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🌅📙 64.3 📚 How do parties talk about education? A new study by J.Gingrich & @anjagiudici.bsky.social looks at 70+ years of party rhetoric across 20 democracies to find 3 trends in discussion: 1️⃣ Consensual 2️⃣ Differential salience 3️⃣ Polarised 🔗

Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run

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I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.

Postdoc at the University of Edinburgh for a project on “Instability After Adverse Parental Life-Course Events and Educational Inequality.” Open to applicants with the right to work in the UK, deadline Aug 4. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/r...

Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh

Recruiting now: Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Yay! @madselk.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @mhaslberger.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, Laure Bokobza, and my piece on 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social! Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/964464

World Politics@worldpolitics.bsky.social · last yr.

The July issue of @worldpolitics.bsky.social is out! Learn about #DemocraticSocialist #PoliticalParty strategies, participatory institutions, #WealthInequality, #migrants and #socialsecurity coordination, and #Kissinger and #SoftPower. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55120 #Inequality #Capitalism

❗Among their electoral potential, social democratic parties face very few strategic dilemmas. Left-progressive appeals resonate most strongly. New study in @worldpolitics.bsky.social with @tabouchadi.bsky.social , @indubioproreto.bsky.social, Nadja Mosimann, and @markuswagner.bsky.social Thread👇

Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

My op-ed about my research on religion, politics and education in Hungary feps-europe.eu/a-suffocatin...

A suffocating embrace? - Foundation for European Progressive Studies

Religion and nationalism in Hungary

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#FarRight forces in Europe & beyond are trying to redesign education systems to promote their illiberal & authoritarian principles🧑‍🎓 This ProgPost dossier discusses this w/ articles by @anjagiudici.bsky.social @neszter.bsky.social & @jovanakaraulic.bsky.social 🗞️ feps-europe.eu/dossier/the-...

The far right and the conquest of education Archives - Foundation for European Progressive Studies

While education is commonly understood as a force that can create equal opportunities, the way education systems are designed impacts how they can promote and propagate diverse values and can even rei...

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Policy impact for researchers 📣 Join us for a virtual one-day workshop on understanding and engaging with UK government and policy making. Our first available workshop takes place on Wednesday 4 June – sign up now www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/ifg-academy/...

Against all evidence, societies with more income inequality make young people believe they have more chances to climb the social ladder. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

We are seeking a PhD Research Student (70%) to join the Centre for Education and Digital Transformation at @phzuerich.bsky.social! Pursue impactful research in data literacy, media ethics, datification or related topics. Begin September 2025, fixed term (5 years). Apply by 24 May 2025!

PhD Research Student in Education and Digital Transformation 70% - Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich

Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich looks for PhD Research Student in Education and Digital Transformation 70% in Zürich - apply now!

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From February 2025 - Mini-Publics, (Lack of) Representativeness, and Legitimacy Beliefs - cup.org/42TH1OK "results of this study temper hopes that mini-publics offer an easy fix to perceptions of low democratic legitimacy" - Micha Germann #OpenAccess

Preorder info for Man Up! May it make a difference: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Man Up

The revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the West—from an internationally recognized extremism expert and media comm...

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Thrilled to see this finally published! An amazing project developed with @clarafontdevila.bsky.social, Huriya Jabbar and @averger.bsky.social and Huriya Jabbar. It brings together 30 contributions from 50+ amazing authors. e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res... A brief summary of the 4 parts 👇

Our data paper on the Regime Support and Opposition Groups data was just published in @bjpols.bsky.social ! Co-authored with @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social and @torewig.bsky.social Here comes a relatively long thread (as is appropriate for a long-term project)

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3

Here's me and Ed Fieldhouse for @conunitucl.bsky.social, summarising our recent paper on voter ID in Britain: with more detail on who is lacking ID and the impact on turnout.

How have voter ID requirements affected British elections?

The July general election was the first UK-wide vote since new voter ID rules were introduced by the Elections Act 2022. Ralph Scott and Edward Fieldhouse examine recent data to show who lacks ID a…

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Join us in Lausanne this summer.

Eidg. Hochschule für Berufsbildung EHB | HEFP | SUFFP | SFUVET@ehb-hefp-suffp.bsky.social · 2y ago

𝐕𝐄𝐓 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Vocational and Professional Education and Training: Opportunities and Challenges of Contemporary Career Transitions 📣 Last call for paper submissions! Deadline February 21, 2025: www.sfuvet.swiss/news/vet-con... #vocationaleducationandtraining #vocationaleducation #VETcongress2025

Democracy researchers please take note, and tell relevant colleagues: The Dep. of Pol. Sci. in Gothenburg is hiring a new Director for the V-Dem Institute. The Director will also serve as permanent (tenured) member of the Dep., with reduced teaching responsibilities during their tenure as Director.

V-Dem Institute@vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢Applications Open for New Director of the V-Dem Institute V-Dem Institute and the Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg is looking for a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Science & Director of the V-Dem Institute. To application: shorturl.at/9rvmx 📆 March 27, 2025.

Exciting day - my book is now out in the online world!! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Youth and Peace in England, 1919-1969

This book offers an historical analysis of an area of young people's activity in England from 1919 to 1969, in connection with the League of Nations Union.

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For our project Territorial Inequality in Education, Johanna Schnabel @jos38.bsky.social , Paolo Dardanelli, Steven Ballantyne, and I are looking for an RA to support data collection. The position is based at Cardiff University and will be supervised by me. polisky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLT184/r...

Research Assistant at Cardiff University

An academic position as a Research Assistant is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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