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Leonardo Puleo

@leonardo-puleo.bsky.social

Postdoc at CEVIPOL - Université Libre de Bruxelles | Researching on challenger parties, voting behaviour and illiberal ideas

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Gianluca Piccolino @gippone.bsky.social · 2w ago

📣 Fiducia nelle istituzioni, democrazia, futuro dell'UE: la tua voce conta! Partecipa al sondaggio della Cost Action #EUPopLink sul futuro dell'Europa e aiutaci a diffonderlo! 🗳️ @eupoplink.bsky.social get.epoll.eu/index.php/48...

Leonardo Puleo @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Illiberalism in the making. “Vote Yes and we get the judiciary out of the way. They are firing squads, execution platoons.” These were the words used yesterday by Giusi Bartolozzi, head of staff to Justice Minister Nordio. (1/3)

Guido Panzano @gpanzano.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Out for @ejprjournal.bsky.social with @lucatomini.bsky.social! With many data, e.g. @vdeminstitute.bsky.social & @demerosiondec.bsky.social, we show comparative patterns of democratic survival related to resistance actions during autocratization episodes in democracies. Here: shorturl.at/gOhba

Unity makes strength: Patterns of democratic resistance against autocratization | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Unity makes strength: Patterns of democratic resistance against autocratization

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Luca Tomini@lucatomini.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Publication alert ❗📘👀 New open access article on autocratization and democratic survival on @ejprjournal.bsky.social together with the brilliant Guido Panzano (Kiel): what configuration of resistance actions account for democratic survival during autocratization? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Laura Jacobs @lcjacobs89.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I commented for POLITICO Europe 🗞️ on European far-right parties pushing ICE-style migration enforcement. Even without explicit Trump links, the same punitive logic is being normalized within European legal frameworks. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

European far-right parties push for ICE-style police

Fringe figures want to follow the Trump playbook for tackling unauthorized migration.

politico.eu

Leonardo Puleo @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Italy. On a mainstream talk show, clashes between protesters and police in Turin. Demonstrators were labelled terrorists. Meloni called for attempted-murder charges. Measures shielding police and allowing 48h detention of protesters without offenses are under discussion. Illiberalism in the making.

Leonardo Puleo @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Bruxelles folks 👋 Tomorrow I’ll be presenting an overview of my new project on party-based illiberalism. Looking forward to the discussion!

Sciencepo ULB@sciencepoulb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

[Info] 'Party-Based Illiberalism in Europe: Why is Illiberalism Gaining Ground in European Party Systems?' Thursday seminar by @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social Co-organized by Cevipol and BrIAS Thursday 29 January, 12.00 BrIAS seminar room (+ live stream) Registration: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Leonardo Puleo @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Odd how champions of liberalism endorse illiberal moves that violate international law and state sovereignty

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 9mo ago

Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.

Leonardo Puleo @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Back in Palermo for Christmas and dreaming of Serie A! 💖🖤⚽️

Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In her Christmas message, Meloni has attacked those "who say we shouldn't set up nativity scenes in schools since they offend people from other cultures". I have discussed the "rediscovery" of Christmas traditions by radical right parties with Politico: www.politico.eu/article/how-...

How the far right stole Christmas

Seasonal traditions and good cheer are being repurposed to serve political ends.

politico.eu

Regional & Federal Studies @regfedst.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲! 🚨 🇮🇹 Twenty thousand leagues below the Po: 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 in the Lega (Nord) Read the new article by @gippone.bsky.social & Sofia Marini here 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1359... #Italy #Lega #party #career

Twenty thousand leagues below the Po: career patterns and party institutionalisation in the Lega (Nord)

Party institutionalisation (PI) is a key concept in research on political parties, indicating organisational and ideological consolidation. In this study, we propose to consider the career patterns...

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Giuseppe Carteny @giucarny.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New Publication out! 🔥 Italy’s right-wing politics has changed dramatically over the past two decades. With @gippone.bsky.social and @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social we started from a basic question: Why has the radical right surged inside Italy’s right coalition? Radicalisation or something different?

Leonardo Puleo @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Another piece of the illiberal puzzle? Some reflections on Italy’s new constitutional judicial reform: it risks weakening liberal democracy, especially alongside gov attacks on the judiciary, power shifts between PM and Pres of the Republic, and new limits on protest. @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

Will the Nordio reform weaken liberal democracy in Italy? - EUROPP

The Nordio reform in Italy might appear limited in scope, but it could lead to a further weakening of liberal democracy under the leadership of Giorgia Meloni.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Guardian gets it. The real importance of Orban's visit to see Trump was getting financial backing for Orban's tough upcoming election campaign. And all indications are he got it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on special Trump treatment for Hungary: roll on the next election | Editorial

Editorial: As polls suggest that Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian rule is under threat, Brussels can only wait and hope

theguardian.com

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 11mo ago

Our friend @rrresrobot.bsky.social has finally broken the chains that tied it to evil Elon #farright #radicalright #research

The Radical Right Research Robot breaks free from Twitter - kai arzheimer

My Radical Right Research Bot is no longer dependent on Twitter. Yay!

kai-arzheimer.com

Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🎤 With @sldelange.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on the Dutch election outcome: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Geert Wilders faces shutout as centrists hail huge gains in knife-edge Dutch election

Far right neck and neck with liberal D66 but all major mainstream parties have ruled out working with anti-Islam firebrand

theguardian.com

Leonardo Puleo @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social · 12mo ago

💫Second great news of the day The book “Dissensus over Liberal Democracy: Insights from European Judges” is finally out with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @hartpublishing.bsky.social I’m truly happy to have co-edited this volume with Ramona Coman, Viktor Kazai, and Andrew Bradley. A thread 🧵 1/N

Leonardo Puleo @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚀🚀🚀 First time posting here! I’m happy to share that I’ve just started a new FNRS-funded project at ULB (CEVIPOL/IEE): Party-Based Illiberalism in Europe. Over the next three years, I’ll study how illiberal ideas and practices spread across party systems and citizenry. @sciencepoulb.bsky.social