How do new radical-right parties adapt after their electoral breakthrough to institutionalize within democratic systems? A new study co-authored with Astrid Barrio www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Institutionalization without moderation? Radical right post-breakthrough adaptation in multilevel Spain. The case of Vox

How do new radical-right parties adapt after their electoral breakthrough to institutionalize within democratic systems? This article examines post-breakthrough adaptation through a longitudinal st...

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We’ve just released the Youth Wing Membership Survey (YOUMEM) dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ha... It’s the largest comparative study of party youth wing members ever conducted, with survey responses from over 5,000 members of 12 centre-left and centre-right youth wings in 6 countries. 🧵

Pau Marí-Klose: "Ha llegado el momento de la adaptación al cambio climático, y eso implica movilizar muchos recursos" www.eldiario.es/1_c05722?utm...

Pau Marí-Klose: "Ha llegado el momento de la adaptación al cambio climático, y eso implica movilizar muchos recursos"

El sociólogo por la Universidad de Zaragoza presenta este miércoles la publicación 'Estado del bienestar y el cambio climático', que ha editado junto con Mario Kölling y en la que también participan a...

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Spain Is an Example to the World Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

Opinion | Spain Is an Example to the World

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Woody by Andy English British, b. 1956 - Wood engraving

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¿Tan mala es la salud de la educación?

El problema crucial de la escuela pública es cómo responder a la diversidad cultural fruto de la inmigración y cómo atender a las clases más pobres en una época de clases medias menguantes

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Muere Jaime Miquel, el Luis Aragonés de la sociología www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...

Muere Jaime Miquel, el Luis Aragonés de la sociología

Dicen que las dos cosas más difíciles de decir en la vida es “hola” por primera vez y despedirte cuando un amigo se va. La instantánea que acompaña a este

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Out now (OA) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Do people in rural areas want politicians offering stronger representation to rural areas - as opposed to just their local area? Yes - based an original conjoint experiment in the UK (1/5) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆 He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

Pati Manning, Barcelona. 14/05/2025

“Lo malo es que este libro no se venderá en España, y cuando pueda circular libremente nadie sabrá de qué estoy hablando”

New special issue on political mobilization @karinakosped.bsky.social @anika-gauja.bsky.social @kweissenbach.bsky.social Here we observe which party activists are more inclined to get informed through party websites @pcorreavila.bsky.social & O.Barberà journals.sagepub.com/toc/ppqa/31/2

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Our book rethinks prime-ministerial performance by asking: What tasks must PMs fulfill in parliamentary democracies? Using a "delegation chain" framework, we identify 2 core tasks: 1️⃣ Running state affairs (e.g., cabinet conflicts, policies, crises). 2️⃣ Maintaining parliamentary & party support.

Corinna Kroeber@corinnakroeber.bsky.social · 2y ago

🔍 Interested in prime ministers’ careers, performance, or politics in CEE? Our new OUP book will be worth your time. Why bother reading the 228 pages? Over the next days, @janberz.bsky.social & I will share threads summarizing its main contributions. Stay tuned!

🎉 Excited to announce our book "Prime Ministers in Central and Eastern Europe: Careers, Context, and Performance" is out and published by Oxford University Press! Co-authored by the amazing Florian Grotz, @corinnakroeber.bsky.social, & Marko Kukec. More: academic.oup.com/book/59247

Prime Ministers in Central and Eastern Europe: Careers, Context, and Performance

Abstract. Prime ministers are the most powerful and visible politicians in established parliamentary democracies. But is this also true for post-communist

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EU’s biggest secessionist movement is losing momentum

And Catalonia’s new President wants to shoot it dead.

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Are unexperienced politicians more likely to become polarizers? MPs with less parliamentary experience, and with less prior political experience are more likely to express negativity toward outparties in their legislative speeches, by @hannaeback.bsky.social

El jefe de la Cancillería de Olaf Scholz @wolfgangschmidt.bsky.social en Agenda Pública: "La cooperación entre los socialdemócratas y el Partido Popular Europeo es clave" agendapublica.es/noticia/1953...

El jefe de la Cancillería de Olaf Scholz en Agenda Pública: "La cooperación entre los socialdemócratas y el Partido Popular Europeo es clave"

Wolfgang Schmidt es el ministro alemán de Asuntos Especiales y jefe de la Cancillería de Olaf Scholz. La figura clave de su Gobierno. Agenda Pública ha conversado con él en Berlín de la mano de nuestr...

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Last summer I gave this interview on the far right in Spain and beyond to @jrteruel.bsky.social for @agendapublica.es

"The time for the sanitary cordon to the ultra-right in Spain has passed"

The normalization of the extreme right and its impact on liberal democracy are key issues in this conversation between expert Cas Mudde and Juan Rodríguez Teruel at the CCCB in Barcelona. They also di...

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Isidre Molas és el fundador de la ciència política moderna a Catalunya, una font de renovació crucial per a la politologia espanyola, i l’inspirador intel.lectual de diverses generacions d’acadèmics, publicistes i polítics de tots colors. Li han donat la Creu de Sant Jordi 👏

“Opinion polls are inaccurate, distort political debate and should be banned during the final weeks of an election campaign” www.politico.eu/article/ban-...

Ban the polls: UK election strategists slam ‘inaccurate’ voter surveys

Tory Isaac Levido and Labour’s Morgan McSweeney both see the case for a black-out on publishing polls ahead of election day, according to a new book.

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