Excited to see this paper from my PhD published in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social Drawing on original experimental evidence from Poland, I examine whether protests over a deeply entrenched issue, namely abortion, induce polarization, not only ideologically but also affectively doi.org/10.1093/jopr...

Can bedtime stories help explain far-right voting patterns? Read about it in "Pedagogy of Fear: Folklore and the Far-Right in Weimar Germany," a new study co-authored by CRWS graduate student @elena-amaya.bsky.social. #voting #folklore #sociology

Pedagogy of Fear: Folklore and the Far-Right in Weimar Germany - Elena Amaya, Robert Braun, 2026

This article argues that folklore (orally transmitted group knowledge) shapes far-right voting by inculcating feeling rules that resonate with nativist and auto...

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🚨New paper Like most things in democracies, achieving climate action in the form of sustainable policy needs a significant amount of political mobilization. We investigate when & where this is more likely to happen across places on the climate frontline: the Global South🧵 📌 osf.io/preprints/so...

Endlich Zeit für "The Story of Art Without Men" von Katy Hessel und auch die Geschichte von Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh ist mir echt nicht wurscht.

🎉🥳 Thrilled to announce that after a week of reading new literature and falling down footnote-induced rabbit holes, I can confidently write a footnote of my own saying, “That literature you might be tempted to think is relevant to my argument is not, in fact, relevant to my argument.” #blessed

Thrilled to announce my 🆕 book, The Social Foundations of Constitutional Innovation, w/ @josephfcozza.bsky.social & Dave Armstrong, is out in the Cambidge Elements in Comparative Political Behavior. Read it free until 8/3/26: cup.org/44E5RSy Preorder: bit.ly/4faMlTG 🧵1/12

The Social Foundations of Constitutional Innovation

Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Social Foundations of Constitutional Innovation

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A group of scholars, many of them from Central and Eastern Europe, contributed to the excellent monograph on the rights of Roma and strategic litigation in European courts. Edited by Kristin Henrard and Lilla Farkas, the book offers many nuanced and insightful accounts of its two central themes.

Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ... Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups? Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com: tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

Sehr, sehr tolle arte-Doku zu niederländischen Blumen- & Insektenmalerinnen & Kulturförderinnen des 17. Jahrhunderts, auch zur aufkommenden Wissenschaft zu diesen Pflanzen & Tieren. Sicherlich was für @schreibersnaturarium.de 😍 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Flower Power - Niederländische Malerinnen im 17. Jahrhundert - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Im 17. Jahrhundert bewirkten die Naturwissenschaften, dass niederländische Malerinnen Reptilien und Insekten in ihre Kunst holten. Frauen wie Maria Sibylla Merian, Alida Withoos und Maria Moninckx hab...

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Publication day! My contribution to Volume 26 of the Annual Review of Political Science, "Participatory Democracy and Its Limits" is now officially available and is OPEN ACCESS (meaning freely available to all): www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Participatory Democracy and Its Limits

This review surveys the limits of participatory democracy and reconsiders its merits, with particular emphasis on the limited attention of citizens. I trace the development of participatory democracy ...

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Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Forthcoming from me in the Annual Review of Political Science: "Participatory Democracy and Its Limits." Download a complete preprint here: kevinjelliott.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

💫 Veranstaltungshinweis: Einführung in die ipb-#Protestbefragungen Am 24. Juni um 17 Uhr stellen @sehaunss.bsky.social, @marvinstein.bsky.social & @simonteune.bsky.social die über @gesis.org veröffentlichten ipb-Datensätze „Demonstrationsbefragungen in Deutschland und Polen“ vor.

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The Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World will be out this July Endorsement below by @argohdes.bsky.social

"Man darf ja nichts mehr sagen" – Aus Anlass des 77. Geburtstags des #Grundgesetz habe ich mit mit @epdnews.bsky.social über die Meinungsfreiheit unterhalten und darüber, wie wir zu einer gesunden demokratischen Debattenkultur zurückkehren können www.epd-video.de/themen/beitr...

International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia #IDAHOT ERC grantee Kath Browne works to explore new ways of understanding differences and develop our knowledge about the effects of sexual & gender changes in the 21st century. @ucddublin.bsky.social Beyond Opposition: buff.ly/U9SWmkz

Aufarbeitung ist i. d. R. nicht die Aufgabe eines Archivs. Das bewahrt, dokumentiert & stellt (neutral & nicht wertend) für die Forschung = Aufarbeitung zur Verfügung. Nicht einmal das hat der "Spiegel" in dieser Sache geblickt.

„Die Nazi-Kartei zeigt, wie Aufarbeitung im Internet aussehen kann. Das wäre eigentlich Aufgabe des Bundesarchivs.“, schreibt der Spiegel, der selbstverständlich mit guten Archiven hätte zusammenarbeiten können, wenn es ihm um die Sache gehen würde.

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

🚨 Entering the last 2 weeks to apply for one of these postdoc positions on children's political socialization in my team at Aarhus Uni 🚨 I'm looking for talented candidates w qual methods skills who want to understand the deep roots of political marginalization: international.au.dk/about/profil...

Archäologin, Abenteurerin, Agentin: In "Die Welt in ihren Händen" verwebt Olivier Guez die Lebensgeschichte von Gertrude Bell mit den Ereignissen im Nahen Osten nach dem 1. Weltkrieg. Am 6. Mai präsentiert der Autor sein Buch in der Hauptbücherei. Anmeldung: ticket.wien.gv.at/M13STB/jq9qd/

Ich höre das hier gerade mit großem Gewinn als Hörbuch. Aber Vorsicht: Zu hören/lesen wie zentrale Akteure der deutschen Kulturgeschichte systematisch Frauen ausgebeutet haben, radikalisiert www.penguin.de/buecher/leon...

CHECK IT OUT @eepolitics.bsky.social Symposium ‘Understanding Ukraine’s resistance, resilience and reform in the face of Russia’s war’ tandfonline.com/toc/fjcs21/4...

Excited for this upcoming discussion at the European University Institute 👇 Guardians under fire: Ukraine’s Constitutional Court between Wartime Constitutionalism and European Integration 🗓️ 15 April 2026 | 15:00–16:30 CEST 📍 Villa Salviati (Sala dei Cuoi) / hybrid

Auch auf der Leipziger Buchmesse 2026? Dann nicht verpassen: Unsere Podiumsdiskussion zu den Parlamentswahlen in Ungarn im April 2026. sogde.org/de/events/pa... Wann? Do, 19.03. 15 Uhr Wo? Café Europa, Halle 4 (E401) @sudosteuropa.bsky.social @viadrina.eu

NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "Street mobilisation during election campaigns in multilevel systems: a supply–demand analysis" with @leonhardschmidt.bsky.social — now out in @wepsocial.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2026.2634027 1/6

Finally, @saragoodman.bsky.social zooms out to lay out a framework for greater conceptual precision when working on "Citizenship with adjectives" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Citizenship with adjectives: conceptual precision in comparative research

This paper argues for greater conceptual precision in citizenship studies, particularly as the field expands to include cases both globally and over time. It begins by defining citizenship as a for...

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Das ORF hat eine eigene Reihe zu "Frauen mit Courage" in der weitere Portraits zu finden sind ⬇️ oe1.orf.at/archiv/fraue...

New Publication Alert! Why are legislatures in some authoritarian regimes more powerful and influential than in others? In their book, Alejandro Bonvecchi and @emisimison.bsky.social answer this question by analysing past dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil, and Spain www.cambridge.org/9781009676243

Tagung „Enabling Democracy“, 30.09-02.10.26 in Bonn. Nähere Informationen: www.jura.uni-bonn.de/institute-un...

Super happy to see that my paper with Dr. Robert Braun, "Pedagogy of Fear: Folklore and the Far-Right in Weimar Germany" got published online in the American Sociological Review! doi.org/10.1177/0003...