The "Victory Trap," my latest w/ @elvinongpolsci.bsky.social. Why do victorious pro-democracy coalitions often struggle to reverse autocracy? Using a most different case design (Malaysia🇲🇾 + Poland🇵🇱) we argue that internal weaknesses to the coalition lay the groundwork for autocratic comeback. 1/3

Perspectives on Politics@poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 4d ago

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! The #Victory #Trap: Endogenous Opposition Coalition Weaknesses in Reversing Autocracy By @elvinongpolsci.bsky.social & Frances Cayton doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Submit Panel proposals to the 2027 @ipsa.org World Congress of Political Science! #IPSA2027 🗓️24–28 Jul, Luiss Guido Carli ⏳️Open panels: 26 Aug | Closed panels: 4 Nov Submit on any political science topic, including the theme Uncertain Democracies: Rethinking Governance in a Changing Global System

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2027 IPSA World Congress, 24–28 Jul, Luiss Guido Carli, Rome

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⌛t-3! Langsam wird es Zeit! Reicht Eure Vorschläge für offene #Panels beim #Kongress #dvpw2027 noch bis Freitag ein. #Politikwissenschaft #PoWi #Umbruch #Leipzig #CfP

DVPW@dvpw.bsky.social · 5d ago

⌛t-4! Noch ist reichlich Zeit, Vorschläge für offene #Panels beim #Kongress #dvpw2027 einzureichen 😎 #Politikwissenschaft #PoWi #Umbruch #Leipzig #CfP

📢Happy to see our article “Far-righting the mainstream: endogenous drivers of reactionary shifts in western party politics” with @alvarooleart.bsky.social published in Compartive European Politics A short thread 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Far-righting the mainstream: endogenous drivers of reactionary shifts in western party politics - Comparative European Politics

Research on the relationship between the far right and the mainstream has predominantly focused on how far-right electoral success exerts external pressure on mainstream parties, leading them to accom...

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If journal editorial is of interest to you - replace me at @jeppjournal.bsky.social as Associate Editor. I've loved working with JEPP. The team, papers, and reviewers have been awesome. Happy to answer questions if you have any. editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Associate Editor needed for Journal of European Public Policy

Associate Editor needed for Journal of European Public Policy

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Tobias Widmann@twidmann.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy (HPE)? 🚨 At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE), we discuss state-of-the-art research in the field on a regular basis. ‼️We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️ Please see the link below if you’d like to join.

It's not only that Frederiksen is normalising far-right discourses. She is also actively giving salience to a topic "owned" by the far right – at a time when immigration to both Denmark and the EU is decreasing quickly, and most Europeans have other priorities.

Euractiv@euractiv.com · 6d ago

Meloni and Frederiksen urge protection of Europe’s Christian heritage

@cunef.bsky.social is hiring -- 3 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor positions in Political Science. Details and contact information in the job post link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32392

🚨New Data🚨 We just released the "Machine-translated ParlSpeech V2" on Harvard Dataverse! It contains 3.5M parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, NL, SE) translated into English using open-source models. w/ Adam Černý @chrauh.bsky.social @janschwalbach.bsky.social ⬇️

Interested in a PolSci PostDoc @ Berlin? 4 more days left to apply! 👇

Heike Klüver@heikekluever.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PostDoc? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social and Johannes Giesecke at Humboldt University, @scripts-berlin.eu and @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 2026

Researchers with greater scientific impact are less happy. The reason is that they suffer from worse work-life balance. All work and no play, makes academics miserable. But...scholars who have prosocial goals and creative engagement are happy. The key is tenure. academic.oup.com/rev/article/...

This is rare thing in the UK currently, but Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a full-time and permanent lecturer specialising in critical discourse studies. hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Jobs at Lancaster University

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Taktisches Wählen soll eine Regierung der AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt verhindern. Für @zeit.de schreibe ich, warum die Strategie der politischen Mitte in Ostdeutschland kurzfristig helfen mag, aber langfristig nicht ihre strukturellen Probleme löst – und mache einen Vorschlag. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Landtagswahlen: Der Preis des taktischen Wählens

Je mehr Parteien es über die Fünf-Prozent-Hürde schaffen, desto geringer sind die Chancen der AfD auf eine Mehrheit. Über die Chancen und Schwächen der Strategie

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📣 We are hiring - please share! 👉 1-2 Postdoctoral Fellows with specialization in political data science or comparative politics as part of the ERC project “Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge” (AutoKnow)- PI Tore Wig. 📅3-4 years ⏳September 10, 2026. 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026

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📣 New paper (cond. accepted at CPS)! ⚡ What happens politically when household energy becomes more expensive? In our new paper (with bluesky-less Sophia Wang) we show that even before the energy crisis (2016–2021), increases in household energy burden erode SWD, particularly among renters. 🧵 1/4

If you are *really* worried about the resurgence of fascism, the mainstream media & politicians are not your friends (that includes the "centre left") For decades now they have paved the way for this resurgence and countering it means acknowledging thus this as a very obvious starting point 1/

In this article, recently out for @wepsocial.bsky.social, @henrikseeberg.bsky.social and I present key findings from our coding of party youth wing statutes in 11 countries. Bonus: data available here! 👇🏼 dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

West European Politics@wepsocial.bsky.social · last wk.

🏛️ Do party youth wings get a real say? @sofiamarini.bsky.social and @henrikseeberg.bsky.social hand-code 57 youth wing statutes from 11 countries. Most of them have high levels of internal democracy and autonomy from the senior party but low access to the senior party. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

*JOB* My group at @gesis.org has an open position: we are looking for a candidate to support the expansion of our Trusted Research Environment for providing access to sensitive research data: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2707934?...

Research Infrastructure Specialist (Postdoc) for Trusted Research Environments (DSS-26) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure...

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Es ist endlich da! 😍 Unser (@cerpintaxt.bsky.social & @donyhu.bsky.social) Buch "Empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung: Eine Einführung" (@springer.springernature.com) 💡Eine empirisch-vergleichende, politikwissenschaftliche Einführung in die Kommunalpolitik 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet Lehrenden und Studierenden eine kompakte Einführung in die empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung.

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Some personal news 💫 After almost two years at @iast.fr, I’m moving to Ireland to start as an Assistant Professor in political science at @tcddublin.bsky.social I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity and for the trust my new department has placed in me. Can’t wait to join the team in Dublin.

Full of despair today. Massive lay offs in social sciences and humanities across the country, Burnham puts out a video saying 'AI can write an essay', and my university is busy integrating co-pilot into all staff and student computers. We are being told we're defunct and there's no resistance.

Important read (if I may)👇 (ping @edinburghpir.bsky.social @timbale.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social @tabouchadi.bsky.social @profsob.bsky.social @robfordmancs.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @joaocarvalho21.bsky.social) link.springer.com/epdf/10.1057...

Italy is changing its electoral system (again): the fifth reform since 1993. I wrote for @laderafrutal.bsky.social's Fruits & Votes blog on how the new bonus-adjusted system works, why the government wants it, and its political implications. fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/i...

Italy is changing its electoral system (again)

Nicknamed the “Stabilicum” by the right-wing coalition government that introduced it, this would be the fifth major electoral reform in Italy since 1993.

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🚨 New article🔥 with @mguinjoan.bsky.social & @joelardiaca.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social ➡️Climate action often enjoys broad public support... until governments propose specific measures. The key? Costs, benefits, and who pays 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Public support for climate policies: costs, redistribution, and ideological divides

Securing public support for climate policies remains a major challenge. Citizens’ perceptions of the costs, benefits, and distributive consequences of these policies are key factors shaping their a...

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Everyone who uncritically repeats "hospitals used for military purposes become legitimate targets" has a role to play in this epidemic of attacks against healthcare facilities in war! A) The law is more demanding than that! B) Without concrete evidence for "use" attacks are presumptively illegal.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

From Ukraine and Sudan to Gaza: why have hospitals become a target of war?

Viel von uns sind bewusst nicht mit diesem Begriff in die Debatte über den Angriff auf unsere Community gegangen. Es wäre ein guter Moment mal zuzuhören und zu verstehen warum das so ist. Stattdessen sind wir schon wieder bei Vorschriften wie wir nachdenken und diskutieren sollen.

Katja Berlin@katjaberlin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ich habe gestern häufiger das Wort Zirkuszelt in meiner Timeline gelesen als das Wort Islamismus. Natürlich wird der fürchterliche Anschlag gerade von rechts instrumentalisiert, aber islamistischer Fanatismus bleibt trotzdem ein Problem, das thematisiert werden muss und zwar am besten von Leuten,

New publication out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social! We know young voters vote for different parties and hold different attitudes than older citizens. What we know less about: whether they also care differently about political issues. Using novel experimental survey data, I show: they do! 👇

“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old

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🆕 in @bjpols.bsky.social: "Thinly Veiled: The Use of Femonationalist Speech in European Parliaments" We describe the ⬆️ of femonationalist speech over time & across party families in Europe We find the far right use it esp when other parties converge on their anti-immigration position Open access!

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW - Thinly Veiled: The Use of Femonationalist Speech in European Parliaments - https://cup.org/4fPucuL - @jmfernandes86.bsky.social, Bonnie M. Meguid & @anacweeks.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We're hiring a six-year Postdoc @stawi-univie.bsky.social, starting in Oct 2026 (or thereafter). Research: political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅 Deadline: 20 Aug 2026 Apply here: tinyurl.com/dyf9bt7h