This by @jamesrdennison.bsky.social and @andrewpgeddes.bsky.social looks brilliant - and very timely! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
James Dennison
@jamesrdennison.bsky.social
Political and social scientist Prof @mpc-eui.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social & Pierre Keller Prof @harvardkennedy.bsky.social Interests: attitudes, behaviour, comms, migration, quant, 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺 politics www.jamesdennison.eu
🚨New Science Advances🚨 Untrustworthy sources on Facebook and Instagram in 2020: Concentrated exposure but no attitudinal effects www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... -Exposure very low but highly concentrated -Reducing exposure by ~70% for months had no measurable effects *even among frequent consumers*
How much of what we know about attitudes to immigration actually generalises beyond Western countries? My new OA paper in Public Opinion Quarterly tests one of the field's biggest assumptions using data from 66 countries. Most findings travel well but three don't academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
Are the Major “Western” Findings on Attitudes to Immigration Supported by Global Evidence? Mostly Yes, Actually
Abstract. The causes of variation in attitudes to immigration have been the subject of extensive scholarship in recent decades, with some factors being rep
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Latest PollBase is out, with all the British voting intention polls since the 1930s
Latest PollBase is out, with all the British voting intention polls since the 1930s
With the end of another quarter, another update to PollBase, my database of British voting intention opinion polls is now up.
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Free for you: definitions are optional when it comes to the far/radical/extreme/populist/new right.
Clearly defined concepts are overrated. The strange case of European Radical Right Studies - kai arzheimer
Clearly defined concepts are certainly necessary for any kind of scientific progress, right? Who could possibly disagree with that? Yes, you guessed right:
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Delighted to contribute to Self-Evident Truths, a new Harvard collection marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. My argument: 1776 fused rights with national liberation—and created the definitive template for modern global politics. Does America still believe in it? t.ly/gcHtK
Self-Evident Truths: The 250-Year Pursuit of Human Rights in the United States of America
A landmark collection of reflections from Harvard scholars on America's unfinished human rights journey. As the United States marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, Self-Evident Truths...
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Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.
In this #EUIresearch video @jamesrdennison.bsky.social is in conversation with María Hernández about our new book 'What Europeans Think about Immigration and Why it Matters', imminently forthcoming with Oxford University Press. www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
What Europeans think about immigration and why it matters, with James Dennison
In this EUIResearch video, James Dennison, parttime Professor at the Migration Policy Centre, explores the ideas behind the new book he coauthored with MPC Di
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I'll see you and raise you @timbale.bsky.social - I don't agree at all - just knock it on the head and don't even engage with the possibility - the country wants some governing to actually happen, not to have it all thrown back at us again
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · last mo.Not sure I agree; but it's maybe worth making two points. 1: What you can't do as a takeover PM is rule out an early election and then call one (Theresa May's mistake). 2: What you can't do as a takeover PM is allow people to believe that you might and then not do it (Gordon Brown's mistake).
📢 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! 🙏
2 three-year postdocs in political communication and political psychology at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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I'm exceptionally proud of this paper so it is nice to hear that others found some merits in it too. Very grateful to the award committee for taking the time to read and engage with the paper. It is exhibit 79816 in the school of "partisanship is one helluva drug" doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Heroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Heroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities - Volume 14 Issue 1
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Political Science Research and Methods@psrm.bsky.social · last mo.🏆 The 2025 Vera Troeger Best Paper Award goes to Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte (@turnbulldugarte.com) and Markus Wagner (@markuswagner.bsky.social) for "Heroes and Villains: Motivated Projection of Political Identities". 🎉 Congratulations! 👏 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It's courageous for any victim of sexual abuse to go to trial, but when your abuser is a man as powerful as Jeffrey Donaldson, it is on another level. Solidarity to those women today
How can you test restrospective voting within the first 2 years of a 5 year term? I don't get the logic. E.g., Starmer claims 500k kids "lifted out of poverty" as a signature achievement. But that number is a *forecast*. We can't test "deliverism" based on things that haven't been delivered yet!
Surely the worst crime committed by the leader of a UK political party. Horrendous.
Sam McBride@sjamcbride.bsky.social · last mo.Former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is a paedophile, a jury has unanimously found: Guilty on all 18 counts, including rape of a primary school girl. Judge says jail is "inevitable" and ex-MP immediately remanded into custody. Full breaking coverage:
Looks like Michel Barnier agrees with me that the EU would welcome Britain back as a member and, if it wants, Britain could stay out of Schengen and the euro : internationalbusinessnews.co.uk/rejoining-th...
Rejoining the EU quickly is a realistic prospect - International Business News
Written by Richard Corbett, ex Lab. MEP Faced with opinion polls showing that the UK public increasingly wants to rejoin the EU, those who are still hostile to this are peddling the line that the EU [...
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It's deja-vu all over again! (Source, @jamesrdennison.bsky.social on the 2015 general election: doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...)
![“[The Greens] appeal to students and university-educated professionals with ‘post-material’ values on authority, minority rights, environmentalism, immigration and the EU. The Greens won over those voters most attached to these norms, not least because the Labour Party's rhetoric had become increasingly sympathetic towards the [Farage]-led anti-immigration backlash. In terms of immigration, the Greens could be summarised as a ‘backlash against a backlash’….[M]ost new Green voters, who were less concerned about the environment than longer standing Green voters, had originally planned on voting Labour. The Greens appealed to those with traditionally left-wing views that shared Labour voters' attitudes to redistribution yet ‘looked’ more like Liberal Democrats in everything except their youth and disenchantment with traditional politics.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xabwvf57eu2lawtmvheq3ubi/bafkreiaubivojqmv3by4p2mcoog4ebccwqfecngemvoyg35x5p3ssjwl2a)
I wonder how much of this is the fact that universities now expect students to read entire textbooks on a computer or tablet using buggy ebook apps. My experience of these things has been uniformly terrible and I wouldn’t fare well either.
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
So what happened is that Hungary has allowed the EU to send a letter to Ukraine and Moldova confirming they have fulfilled the benchmarks for cluster one. Now, EU countries will work on a common position for the negotiations. This position needs to be endorsed before the IGC on 15 June.
Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨🚨 Huge breaking news from Brussels: Hungary has lifted its two-year-long veto on Ukraine's EU accession. Ukraine and Moldova will soon be able to open the first cluster of the accession process. The saga is over.
How do immigration threat perceptions relate to policy preferences and political behaviour? @J.Dennison shows that threat perceptions are multidimensional, driven by threat sensitivity and migrant cues, shaping policy preferences and influencing behaviour indirectly. doi.org/10.1093/migr...
A group of EU countries is poised to approach countries outside the bloc about setting up centers for rejected asylum applicants. The push comes as officials aim to finalize talks on the Returns Regulation today. Brussels Playbook has more 👇
The EU’s migration crackdown gets real
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Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling
"Akshually we won the war already but the other guys refused to quit" certainly seems to be a favourite for apologists these days
ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 3mo ago1/ Russia actually won the war in Ukraine in 2023 – but the Ukrainians changed the paradigm in 2025 and have turned the tables on the Russian army since. So claims RT journalist Alexander Kharchenko, who calls for Russia to change its approach fundamentally. ⬇️
An entire article "ultra-processed foods" being banned from hospitals in Brazil that does not even attempt to define what "ultra-processed" means! 🤦♀️ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Just what the doctor ordered: Brazil’s drive to ditch UPFs from hospital menus
Following the successful reduction of ultra-processed foods in schools, scientists and politicians hope to improve patient health with locally grown and freshly prepared meals
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terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 3mo agoGoogle is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
Reform are very good at moving the goalposts. They said they’d win Gorton and Denton (lost by 12pts), win Wales (lost by 6pts), destroy the Tories in 2026 (PNS rose vs 2025) and win six London boroughs (won one). Each time journalists concluded those outcomes were clear from the outset
3/"I am old enough to remember that in the mid 2000s several economists thought that China would need to take multiple decades to catch up to the level of tech development in the OECD. Time flies!"- @fgenovese.bsky.social NYTimes on what everyone in science knows www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Imagine if journal editors actually gave a shit about the dangerous slop that gets published under their brand? Imagine if the Guardian employed a science journalist who knows that correlation does not equal causation?