The Trump admin admits it used keyword searches to identify research grants for termination. Instead of evaluating the scientific value of each project, grants were arbitrarily flagged because they contained words the admin didn’t like. 🧵 Article: zurl.co/vWcbo

The federal government isn’t America’s only authoritarian institution: Backlash at Yale to its negotiations with Trump shine a light on the danger of smaller authoritarian structures in civil society. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The federal government isn’t America’s only authoritarian institution | Jan-Werner Müller

Backlash at Yale to its negotiations with Trump shine a light on the danger of smaller authoritarian structures in civil society

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📘 Youth Wings of the Populist Radical Right is out today online with Oxford University Press! A wee thread about our new-born book 🧵 academic.oup.com/book/62992

Youth Wings of the Populist Radical Right

Abstract. Many of today’s populist radical right (PRR) leaders in Europe came through their party’s youth wings. Yet, we know little about these organizati

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It's summer in this part of the world, time for novels! I finally managed to read this book, suggested by too many friends and students to be avoided. I have very mixed feelings. My few cents.

"What is happening in the United States is the attempted conversion of science into a political tool, tolerated when useful, punished when inconvenient, and redefined when it resists". academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

Europe must learn from America’s assault on science

In June 2026, several prominent diabetes researchers, including Steven Kahn, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, were removed by police from the annual meeti

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Almost 1 in 4 voters in Europe now votes for a radical right party (23%), up from 7% in 2006 and 11% in 2016. Almost 1 in 3 votes for a populist party. By contrast, only ≈1% now votes for a radical left party, the lowest level since 1989 Source: The PopuList 4.0, via @caterinafr.bsky.social

#VendrediLecture📚 Political science can no longer treat the far right as an *external challenger* in the *electoral arena* of politics. In the 2025 Peter Mair Lecture, @caterinafr.bsky.social suggested three ways forward. You can now read her full keynote speech: doi.org/10.1080/0790...

Caterina Froio@caterinafr.bsky.social · last mo.

1/ I'm delighted to share my latest article: The mainstreaming of the far right and democratic erosion: Three analytical pathways, now published in Irish Political Studies www.flyn.to/LopOj99 @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

Gearing up for the 5th edition of our Summer School! Keynote lectures are open to all. @casmudde.bsky.social @pietrocastellig.bsky.social @ecpr-ead.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social

1/ I'm delighted to share my latest article: The mainstreaming of the far right and democratic erosion: Three analytical pathways, now published in Irish Political Studies www.flyn.to/LopOj99 @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

The mainstreaming of the far right and democratic erosion. Three analytical pathways

This lecture, delivered in memory of Peter Mair, discusses how political scientists can account for the far right's evolving relationship with democracy as far-right actors become increasingly inte...

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🇮🇪 Why was Ireland the exception in a year of anti-incumbent, far-right votes? @conorlittle.bsky.social shows the main parties held firm: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael renewed their vows, Sinn Féin's vote slid to 19%, and far-right parties won 1.6% and no seats. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Now it's the time of Dina Waked for the @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social about the importance to speak true to power.

Excellent speech by @tommasovitale.bsky.social at the 2026 graduation ceremony of Sciences Po @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social : "Always ask why things are what they are".

Today we launch the new version of The PopuList! The PopuList provides an overview of far-left, far-right and populist parties in 31 European countries from 1989 until 1 May 2026. Explore the new website here: popu-list.org

Home - The PopuList

The PopuList Interactive Version 4.0 Static Version 4.0 CSV Version 4.0 What is the PopuList? The PopuList offers researchers, journalists, […]

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#Populism? The PopuList 4.0 and its shiny website are out today! Always a pleasure to work with captain @mrooduijn.bsky.social and the rocking crew @dafnoukos.bsky.social @sldelange.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @paultaggart.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social

Matthijs Rooduijn@mrooduijn.bsky.social · last mo.

Today we launch the new version of The PopuList! The PopuList provides an overview of far-left, far-right and populist parties in 31 European countries from 1989 until 1 May 2026. Explore the new website here: popu-list.org

Un épisode de chaleur est un événement météorologique. La tendance qui modifie sa fréquence, son intensité et ses conséquences est, elle, une évolution climatique de fond.

I made a small visualisation of the birthplace and nation represented of players at the World Cup. Stunning 96(!) players born in France. You can play with it here: claude.ai/public/artif...

Terrible but true: “nothing is too rightwing any more.” How there are no guardrails anymore on the right of UK politics and beyond. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre....

There are no guardrails now on the right of UK politics: where Restore Britain goes, others will follow | Owen Jones

In the UK – and across the west - incendiary language and white supremacist policies are entering the political mainstream, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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🚨 🚨 🚨 new publication (with @antonialang.bsky.social) klaxon!!! Over the past decade, scholars have increasingly turned to “place” as a key factor in political behaviour — particularly on the far right, in Europe & the US. Urban-rural divides are especially intriguing. But are they true cleavages? 🤔

The Far-Right Protest Observatory is online 📯! www.farpo.eu FARPO, a joint initiative by ULB/Cevipol, @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, C-REX, University of Bologna, provides data on protest events by far-right parties and movements across Europe in the past 20 years: check our website! (1/8)

I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!

We couldn't have a better audience and venue for the first presentation of our forthcoming @oxfordunipress.bsky.social volume "Protests of the far right" based of Farpo.eu. Thanks for hosting us D. della Porta, @mportosg.bsky.social L.Zamponi & L. Bosi. @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

Sciencepo ULB@sciencepoulb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

[Rayonnement] @pietrocastellig.bsky.social, Prof at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) will present a paper on 'Protests of the far right' with @caterinafr.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it, at the conference Social movement studies in intense times on June 4 www.sns.it/it/evento/so...

The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10 journals.sagepub.com/toc/CPS/curr...

Comparative Political Studies - Volume 59, Number 6

Table of contents for Comparative Political Studies, 59, 6

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Is there also a documentary that shows how reactionary centrists paved the way for the Nazi takeover by creating a moral panic about non-issues (like the 1920s equivalent of "wokeness")?

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4mo ago

A four-hour documentary from 1969 about life in Nazi-occupied France chronicles the way that many ordinary citizens simply lived their lives as if nothing had changed, @dgraham.bsky.social writes. "The Sorrow and the Pity" is more relevant than ever:

🎓 I am very happy to share that I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation, "Competition Between Equals: Mainstream Party Decline, Far-Right Evolution, and the Transformation of Party Competition in Western Europe", on Monday!

Sadly very accurate!

#DansLaPresse 📰 Dynamiques communes aux partis d'extrêmes droites en Europe et dans le monde, circulation et contagion des idées, liens entre extrêmes droites et classes populaires, ... Autant de sujets abordés dans l'interview de @caterinafr.bsky.social par @amestre.bsky.social dans @lemonde.fr ⤵️

« L’entrée de partis d’extrême droite dans la compétition électorale incite la droite traditionnelle à se durcir »

Les idées de la droite radicale se diffusent à grande échelle, en Europe comme sur le continent américain, rappelle l’universitaire Caterina Froio. La question de l’immigration est l’enjeu politique q...

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The full story of the situation in Florida. 1. Universities will no longer have (already censored) Intro to Sociology as general ed course. 2. Colleges will have far-right version of Intro to Sociology as general ed course.

Florida bans sociology from core curriculum at state universities

For years, Republican lawmakers and education leaders have argued that sociology — especially high-enrollment introductory courses — has been overtaken by progressive ideology

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La Costituzione protegge più di una maggioranza parlamentare. #referendum

Et sinon... Les évolutions de la liberté académique comparés a qq autres "démocraties"

Laurent Pech 🇺🇦@profpech.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Academic freedom or lack thereof: Decline of institutional autonomy in the United States compared to its decline in other prominent (former) democracies that have autocratized, namely Hungary, India, and Türkiye academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...