Florence Faucher

@ffaucher.bsky.social

Professor of political science. Director of the CEE (Centre for European studies and comparative politics), Sciences Po. Symbolic politics and policy - political parties - environmental politics - Comparative, European politics.

Bravo Théodore for this great work. It’s been a pleasure seeing you develop your thesis and succeed in bringing together brilliantly two different approaches, demonstrating how they enrich each other and allow us to advance our understanding of the politics of policy. @theodoretallent.bsky.social

Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics@sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · 4w ago

🎓Congratulations Dr @theodoretallent.bsky.social! Today, he defended his #PhD thesis exploring discontent / support for the green transition in rural areas, co-supervised by @ffaucher.bsky.social and @d-luca.bsky.social. 👉 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude... cc @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social

Federica Genovese, Florence Faucher, Théodore Tallent, Sarah De Lange, Emiliano Grossman, Simon Persico

Woot! It was great to be part of this committee! Congratulations again to Dr @theodoretallent.bsky.social 🌟

Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics@sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · 4w ago

🎓Congratulations Dr @theodoretallent.bsky.social! Today, he defended his #PhD thesis exploring discontent / support for the green transition in rural areas, co-supervised by @ffaucher.bsky.social and @d-luca.bsky.social. 👉 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude... cc @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social

Federica Genovese, Florence Faucher, Théodore Tallent, Sarah De Lange, Emiliano Grossman, Simon Persico

Number 10 North is strategic, policy-wise, but I think it will probably be more important for its ‘symbolic politics’. Making voters in the north feel more represented because of a tangible, high profile political symbol. These symbols emphasised by @ffaucher.bsky.social.

Florence Faucher (@ffaucher.bsky.social)

Professor of political science. Director of the CEE (Centre for European studies and comparative politics), Sciences Po. Symbolic politics and policy - political parties - environmental politics - Co...

ffaucher.bsky.social

Futuro Nazionale is part of a broader trend that characterizes the fourth phase of the far right: the radicalization of the radical right. It is a logical response to the radicalization of the mainstream and the mainstreaming of the radical right. We see it in several countries (eg NL, UK).

Italian general launches far-right party, threatening Meloni's election hopes

General Roberto Vannacci launched his new far-right party on Sunday, posing a direct challenge ​to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's grip on power as he seeks to pull Italy ‌in a more hardline, national...

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Yet total silence on the subject from key players - and guess what, all the key players were men. This excellent analysis of the male tilt of referendum media coverage, 'Three Men and a Vote' was published by researchers at Loughborough University: theconversation.com/three-men-an...

Three men and a vote: EU referendum is turning into a Tory boys’ own story

Media coverage of the debate has so far been dominated by Conservative men

theconversation.com

Just had an editor for the first time suggest to my co-author and I that the use of em-dash suggested we had used AI in our writing. We had not - why are even simple joys of using a lovely little em-dash and several clauses, being stolen from us 😭😭

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

404media.co

There’s the plainly farcical: a Trump arts centre is about as credible as Trump University. But then there are fear-inducing architectural gestures reminiscent of fascism: just as Hitler saw the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and decided he needed a much larger one himself, so Trump has been inspired...

Donald Trump's definition of "beauty"

From the “Arc de Trump” to the White House ballroom, the president is imposing a quasi-fascist aesthetic on Washington

newstatesman.com