“La Roja” is the ultimate case of cultural transmission: generation after generation playing the same football. You could randomly reassign players across positions—or even across cohorts—and still get the same game, again and again. Learning to play becomes like learning a language.

From May 2026 - National Attachment, Past In-Group Perpetratorhood, and Out-Group Attitudes - cup.org/3Pe9gDf - @laiabalcells.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social & Ethan vanderWilden #OpenAccess

🎯 PBC back in action. Feel free to spread the word. Happy to provide further information if needed. 🚨

EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium@behaviour-eui.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS PBC is looking for presenters for the upcoming fall term (October to mid-December 2026). If you would like to present, please fill out this form: forms.gle/5o7Y82uNGnD2... 🗓 The proposal deadline is 21 August. Please share with colleagues who may be interested

eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... The Peter Mair assistant professorship is out. Sascha’s stint was a short but an exceptionally positive experience that we want to retain and perhaps even augment.

Populism as a thick ideology.

C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE@casmudde.bsky.social · last mo.

Interesting op-Ed by @eliasdinas.bsky.social on whether Andreas Papandreou was a populist. The answer is undoubtedly controversial.

Time to go back www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06...

Cate Blanchett to become visiting University of Oxford professor

Blanchett will be the new Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College.

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NEW - National Attachment, Past In-Group Perpetratorhood, and Out-Group Attitudes - https://cup.org/3Pe9gDf - @laiabalcells.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social & Ethan vanderWilden #OpenAccess

Race against the machine

⭐ Remarkable, Skilful, Masterful ⭐ 🎉@lauranordstrom.bsky.social has won the 2025 Jean Blondel PhD Prize, for her outstanding dissertation 'Power of Experts in the EU: Birth of the Troika and Resilience of the EMU Paradigm in the European Debt Crisis of 2010' (@helsinki.fi) 👇️Read more #ECPRPrizes

Laura Nordström wins our 2025 Jean Blondel PhD Prize

European Consortium for Political Research

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made fast with Claude, but seem reasonable to me.

#8Marzo

This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.

EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences@eui-sps.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Call for Papers 📣 The EUI SPS Department invites submissions for the workshop “Political Behaviour in Central & Eastern Europe.” Research on elections, public opinion, parties and political participation in the CEE region. Submit by 30 March 2026 www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=... #PoliticalScience

A very interesting paper, worth a read especially on a day like this .

Max Schaub@maxschaub.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Why did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes? doi.org/10.1017/S153... @kanol.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de @politikuhh.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social

I know many of us have lost hope of being ever accepted to this, but do not lose hope and keep on applying, the time will come

Francesc Amat@cescamat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 📢 Call for Papers IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social 🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford) 📍 University of Barcelona 🗓 June 29–30, 2026 Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026: shorturl.at/oZTNy #pleaseRT

My two cents on the APSR replication debate is that the lesson to learn is that the PAP is to our work what the VAR is to football: we don't quite like it, but we recognize its value when we miss it.

Il paper più amato link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Berlinguer, I Love You (Still): The Downstream Effects of Expressive Voting - Political Behavior

For nearly as long as the rational voting paradox has puzzled scholars, it has been recognized that voters’ decisions are influenced by expressive motivations. Yet, since disentangling emotional from ...

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Here I am again to witness my academic funeral.As I did some years ago with my job at Oxford, here I come to advertise my EUI chair. It has been a great job and I am happy to answer Q's. Also, fyi, I am not (yet) leaving the EUI. I do need, however a new name for my chair:suggestions very welcome.

EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences@eui-sps.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📢 The EUI’s SPS Department invites applications for the Swiss Chair in Federalism and Democracy, a prestigious position supported by the Swiss Government. Apply by 24 Nov 2025: eui.eu/About/JobOpportunities/Open-competitions-for-academic-posts #AcademicJobs #Federalism #Democracy #EUI

El jurado propuso otorgarlo ex aequo a Nerea Gándara-Guerra @nerealidad.bsky.social por su tesis titulada “From the feminist void to the feminist club: three essays on feminists movements and social change” dirigida por Elias Dinas

🌸 EUI SPS joined “Corri la Vita” in Florence 🌸 On Sunday, 28 September, a delegation from our SPS Department ran together for solidarity, prevention and shared commitment. We thank all participants, supporters and volunteers! @eliasdinas.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social @hermwerf.bsky.social

(2/2) @zengchen.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social, @redatamtam.bsky.social, and more! Most papers are currently open access. You can read the new issue here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Political Analysis: Volume 33 - Issue 4 | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Political Analysis - Volume 33 - Issue 4

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🎉 Congratulations to our alumna @nerealidad.bsky.social, PhD supervised by Prof @eliasdinas.bsky.social, who has received the Juan Linz Award for the Best PhD Thesis in Political Science from cepcgob.bsky.social !👏 Read more 👉 www.cepc.gob.es/noticias/res...

It has become common for those who embody the traits of a stigmatized category to define it—in ways that conveniently exclude them.Antisemites, for example, claim authority to decide who is antisemitic; today, far-right supporters use the same strategy,defining ‘far-right’ to exempt their own views.

New article by @dziblatt.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

Warnings From Weimar

Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

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Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized? In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

Please share: Seeking seed funding to develop innovations for open science, design, aggregation, transfer..? Call open now with @egap.bsky.social egap.org/our-work/res... @awilke.bsky.social Deadline 31 October

One of our recent articles 'How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms' has been referenced in a Time magazine article - cup.org/4mANXXT You can read the BJPolS article by @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social article #OpenAccess here - cup.org/4lfeHvD

Britain Is Getting the Immigration Debate All Wrong

There are worrying signs about the country's direction, as Reform tops the polls, and mainstream politicians chase the far right, writes Jonathan Portes.

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Currently in FirstView: “Mapping (A)Ideology: A Taxonomy of European Parties Using Generative LLMs as Zero-Shot Learners.” Riccardo Di Leo, @zengchen.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social‬, and @redatamtam.bsky.social see if ML can obtain measures of party ideology that match the validity of experts.

Once again, PBC is back and calling for your applications! As always, this is a no-budget but heart-rich story — and we can’t wait to see your proposals!

EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium@behaviour-eui.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025). If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31

EuroWEPS is back to Italy, this time with two slots: Milan & Florence -- see below (and apply or spread the word).

Ala Alrababah@aalrababah.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Apply to EuroWEPS 12/13! We're organizing the next EuroWEPS workshops at Bocconi (Nov 14) and EUI (Dec 15) to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is Sep 30