Check out the new Irish Election Studies Archive: irishelectionstudies.org All major election, referendum, and other voter studies! All with standardized variable coding and detailed codebooks. And we're still compiling more data sets! @cses.bsky.social @psaireland.bsky.social

I defended my dissertation at @ucdpolitics.bsky.social! Thanks to exam comm- @newsprof1.bsky.social, @jelkink.bsky.social & @dawnwalsh.bsky.social, supervisor @alexdukalskis.bsky.social, RSP members @sbrazys-ucd.bsky.social & @stefanmueller.bsky.social, & to @researchireland.ie for funding my work 🎓

Positive contact dominates Jewish–Palestinian interactions in mixed Israeli neighborhoods. Even in conflict and war, research suggests everyday interactions are often more positive than commonly assumed. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Everyday opposition in authoritarian settings shows that people neither fearfully endure nor loyally support the regime. Now out in Handbook on Opposition Politics, edited by O’Malley, Cavatorta, and Baturo: doi.org/10.4337/9781... DM me for a copy of the chapter.

15 years after the Arab Spring: why did people protest then, but not now? Hot, hopeful emotions spark protest. Cool safety concerns keep people at home. Hot Contention 👉 bit.ly/hotcontention @academic.oup.com @ucdpolitics.bsky.social www.almendron.com/tribuna/its-...

After years of war, insurgency, and protest, Iraq’s ruling elites now rely less on force and more on control of state institutions to shape the 11 November elections — turning the vote into an exercise in continuity rather than change.

The U.S. warned Iraq not to pick its PM. Iraq did anyway. Arab Barometer data from Iraq provides context: U.S. favorability is low (28%) and declined 7 points between 2022 and 2024. In the meantime, favorability toward Iran increased from 24% to 34%. www.arabbarometer.org/media-news/a...

New paper out w/ @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. We show that political trust dynamics matter for electoral behavior. While stable and variable distrusters behave similarly, declining trust boosts both abstention and anti-establishment voting. 🧵

The Irish government lets refugees spend nights in cheap tents. This is inhumane treatment of people who spent months or years in dire travel to find refuge in Ireland. Please help by donating to volunteers who provide them all the support they can! www.idonate.ie/crowdfunder/...

Please Support Support homeless men seeking asyl on iDonate

Support homeless men seeking asylum to keep warm this winter from iDonate, the online fundraising people.

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Great to see the 2024 edition of How Ireland Voted on the book shelves! Get your copy! ;-) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

How Ireland Voted 2024

This book is the 10th volume in the established How Ireland Voted series and provides the definitive story of Ireland’s 2024 election.

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Who are the experts informing us and our governments about Chinese politics? Happy to see our article presenting the network structure of a snowball sample of experts on Chinese politics published today: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Applications are now open for the UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship 2026. Closing Date: 30 January 2026 ✔️Covers full fees (EU and Non-EU) ✔️Provides a living stipend of €25,000 per year for up to four years ✔️Is open to EU and non-EU applicants 👇 www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...

Mmmh. Yes, Jetten/D66 had a great election and is the largest (mid size) party. But at the same time far right cemented its vote share, just shared across more parties than Wilders/PVV. Important nuance for the 🇳🇱 elections. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

The Dutch choose optimism over anti-immigrant populism

Rob Jetten fends off Geert Wilders

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Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)! epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

"De media-obsessie met ‘de grootste’ is onnozel en gevaarlijk": www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Opinie | De media-obsessie met ‘de grootste’ is onnozel en gevaarlijk

Verkiezingsuitslag: In veel politieke verslaggeving wordt de laatste dagen gedaan alsof het cruciaal is welke partij de grootste is: PVV of D66. Dat is een onzinnig frame dat lijkt op Amerikaatje spel...

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Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.

C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE@casmudde.bsky.social · 9mo ago

On the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer: 2021: 28 2023: 41 2025: 42 👈 And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.

It’s not easy to break free from deep dependencies. But it can be done. ICC to drop MS for German alternative ⬇️ www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv

The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

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Dit dus….

Merijn Oudenampsen@merijnoudenampsen.org · 9mo ago

Sterker nog, inmiddels kunnen we ook BBB wel tot het radicaalrechtse blok rekenen, en de VVD staat er ook met één teen, dan wel één been in. Het blok is gegroeid en het raam van Overton is een stuk naar rechts verschoven.

Kevin Saudé is presenting now on a co-authored paper with Rory Costello on negative and positive partisanship. Also using data from the National Election and Democracy Study.

Fascinating social class and voting data from Prof Gail McElroy from the 2024 general election National Election and Democracy Study. #PSAI25

Fascinating analysis by Prof.Dornschneider-Elkink on populist attitudes and voting in GE 2024. #PSAI25 @jelkink.bsky.social

Enjoying the panels of the Specialist Group on Parties, Voters and Elections of the Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference in Galway - great papers on Irish voting and electoral system!

Are you an expert in peace and conflict studies, and perhaps a recent PhD graduate? The UCD School of Politics and International Relations has a 5-month Teaching Fellow position open to teach in the areas of international security and political violence. my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Making final preparations for our conference presentation tomorrow

Paginagrote advertentie KNAW tegen de bezuinigingen met handtekeningen van 511 leden (KNAW en de Jonge Akademie) www.knaw.nl/nl/themas/st...