José Javier Olivas Osuna

@josejavierolivas.bsky.social

PoliSci, Spanish politics, populism, Brexit, public policy @UNED / @LSEIdeas Señalando inconsistencias en la argumentación política. No pertenezco a ninguna tribu. My research profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jose-Javier-Olivas-Osuna

New publication alert 🚨 📚📰 see Professor Raul Gomez’s latest co-authored article titled “Threat perception and partisan animosity: Evidence from Argentina and Brazil” 🇧🇷 🇦🇷

José Javier Olivas Osuna@josejavierolivas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨🎉Delighted that this paper with my amazing colleagues Raul Gomez @livunipol.bsky.social and Luis Ramiro @uneduniv.bsky.social on threat perceptions and party animosity in Argentina and Brazil is now published at @ejprjournal.bsky.social #polisci #polarization www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Unfortunately, with the new border crisis in #Ceuta, my article "A fence of opportunity: On how Vox’s radical right populist narratives frame and fuel crises in the border between Spain and Morocco" has become again quite relevant. #migration Pdf here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

A fence of opportunity

Abstract This article deconstructs the parliamentary discourses regarding two migratory incidents in Ceuta, May 2021, and Melilla, June 2022, when hundreds of people attempted to cross the fences that...

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Zapatero supported the bombings on Lybia in February 2011 (he was Spanish PM, PSOE). Pedro Sánchez was publicly backing that position claiming the need to bring democracy to Lybia (and accusing Aznar, previous PM, PP, of friendship with Gaddafi). Sanchez's "No to #war" today is a political strategy

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

“The heyday of democracy was not a society where consensus was politely found on key issues, as proponents of the polarisation narratives argue, but one where ideas were contested radically. The aim was not to search for a middle ground, but for a better society [according to] the proponents.”

Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 10mo ago

🚨new article🚨 "Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive 🧵Thread🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Abstract for the article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-025-00779-4