Remember the collapse of Germany's "traffic light" coalition in November 2024? Ever wondered how this affects citizens' attitudes? Look no further: @cyrillotteni.bsky.social and I got you covered in our new article, out now in @electoralstudies.bsky.social 🧵 📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How conspiracy theories entered the mainstream in Spain ✍ @josejavierolivas.bsky.social @maikherold.bsky.social & Felix Hormig @forum-midem.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

How conspiracy theories entered the mainstream in Spain

Conspiracy theories have become mainstream in Spain, with actors on both left and right adopting conspiracy narratives for short-term political advantage.

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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.

Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

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📢 Call for Papers! MIDEM invites early career researchers to join the workshop “Polarized Democracies: New Lines of Division in Europe” (11–12 June 2026, Dresden). Submit your abstract by 20 Jan 2026. All Details below 👇 #CfP #PoliticalScience #Polarization #Democracy @tudresden.bsky.social

📢𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Excited to share our new article (with maikherold.bsky.social‬) in German Politics: "𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 ‘𝐁ü𝐧𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐡𝐫𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐭’ (𝐁𝐒𝐖) 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲" https://shorturl.at/WV2pM