Are you looking for a good home for your research on the dynamics of #farright mobilisation and its implications for democracy? Look no further than this call 📣 We're particularly interested in innovative theoretical and empirical studies that critically engage with the radical–extreme distinction

Far-right mobilisation and democratic transformation

This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection examines the contemporary dynamics of far-right mobilisation and its implications for democracy. ...

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𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒚? Our new (well…) study in @ejprjournal.bsky.social suggests that commitment to democratic rights and procedures does not look particularly robust once citizens face concrete crisis-related trade-offs. (1/6)

🇭🇺⚖️ Sulyok does the paradox and signs the constitutional amendment that's removing him from office. He really had no choice; the Tisza majority would do him in one way or another. The coast is clear for Peter Magyar to exercise unrestrained power and demolish the house that Viktor Orbán built. 1/

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Hungary's president signs law change ending his term in office reut.rs/4fmrjjA

How do you undo an autocracy? Here's my latest on the challenges that Peter Magyar has in Hungary . . . pass it on!

Journal of Democracy@jodemocracy.bsky.social · last mo.

He did the hard work of defeating Viktor Orbán. But Hungary’s new prime minister faces the harder task of undoing the damage his predecessor wrought. Can he do it while avoiding the traps Orbán left in his wake? @kimlanelaw.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

After #Dreiländertagung comes the #Convention #dvpw2027: Today, the Programme Committee has published the calls for #panels & #roundtables! All the details 👉 www.dvpw.de/dvpw2027/en 15/08/2026 open panels 31/10/2026 closed panels & roundtables #PolSci #PoliticalScience #CfP

The Myth of Authoritarian Efficiency. Article published with Jørgen Møller in Persuasion. www.persuasion.community/p/the-myth-o...

The Myth of Authoritarian Efficiency

When it comes to getting stuff done, democracies win every time.

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Der DVPW-Vorstand hat soeben eine Stellungnahme zum aktuellen #Referentenentwurf des #BMFTR zur Reform des #WissZeitVG im Rahmen der Verbändebeteiligung abgegeben. 👉 www.dvpw.de/informatione... #IchBinHanna & #IchBinReyhan warten auch nach fünf Jahren noch auf eine umfassende Reform!

#WM2026: How well did previous FIFA World Cup winners perform in terms of democracy in the respective year when the tournament was held? Here is the breakdown using V-Dem's Electoral Democracy Index @vdeminstitute.bsky.social

Great new article by my awesome departmental colleague Licia Cianetti.

Andrea Pirro@andreapirro.it · 2mo ago

At @eepolitics.bsky.social, we are delighted to share this new article by Licia Cianetti (@unibirmingham.bsky.social) on democratic resilience and re-democratisation. Enjoy the read! @adamfagan.bsky.social @petrkopecky.bsky.social @lenkabustikova.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/2159...

New book on democracy. #OpenAccess Seven Myths about Democracy by Jørgen Møller & Svend-Erik Skaaning, Routledge taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon.... Challenges (full or partial) misunderstandings about the meaning, trajectory, causes, and consequences of democracy.

Seven Myths about Democracy | Jørgen Møller, Svend-Erik Skaaning | Tay

This timely book challenges seven widespread misconceptions about democracy that continue to shape public and academic debates about its past, present, and

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Check out our Cambridge Elements with @raschwartz.bsky.social available online for free until June 3rd: doi.org/10.1017/9781... In it, we build a new analytical framework to understand new forms of democratic erosion in the region.

New Forms of Democratic Erosion in Latin America

Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - New Forms of Democratic Erosion in Latin America

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Excited to share a new paper on youth underrepresentation in German local elections. 🗳️ Analyzing 6,400 candidates in 100 municipalities, we find: Youth are scarce in candidate pools & parties assign them lower list positions. However, voter bias only emerges for top list positions.

European Political Science Review@epsrjournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🆕 Knee-high to a cricket: Why young candidates don’t get elected 🦗 @anlopatina.bsky.social & Daniel Stockemer use German local election data to assess the disadvantages young candidates face, and the roots of underrepresentation for youths in the candidate pool 🏊️ buff.ly/yg41jX9

This month, Matthias Mader and I started work on our DFG-funded project, GLOBID – Identity and the Globalization Cleavage. We are very much looking forward to the next 3 years and would be delighted to connect with others working on related questions. More at vergleich.politik.uni-mainz.de/globid/

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/dem...

GitHub - xmarquez/democracyData: Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy

Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy - xmarquez/democracyData

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The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10 journals.sagepub.com/toc/CPS/curr...

Comparative Political Studies - Volume 59, Number 6

Table of contents for Comparative Political Studies, 59, 6

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If you are doing any #quarto slidecrafting, i have been trying really hard to keep this page updated with everything I have done emilhvitfeldt.com/project/slid...

Join us in Hannover, Oct 1-2, for the annual meeting of the @dvpw.bsky.social Analytical Political Theory Group! Call for papers: www.dvpw.de/fileadmin/us...

Why I don't expect liberal democracy to go away any time soon: My article on the resilience of liberal democracy, published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social. Perfectly timed to the day after Orbáns defeat and a small spike in "democracy-optimism". There are, I argue, good reasons for such optimism.

BIG day today in Hungary, but at least in the short run, the choice is between authoritarianism and democracy, with liberal democracy at the backburner.

Even if Victor Orbán is ousted on Sunday, Hungary’s return to liberal democracy is not guaranteed | Gabriela Greilinger and Cas Mudde

Challenger Péter Magyar is no progressive – and after 16 years of creeping authoritarianism, the PM has embedded Fidesz in the Hungarian state, say Gabriela Greilinger and Cas Mudde of the University ...

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Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026. international.au.dk/about/profil...

Three 2-year Postdoctoral positions at Aarhus University: Projects on personality cults and strategic communication in autocracies - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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The summer term at @powimz.bsky.social is just around the corner, and I'm particularly looking forward to my new course on militant democracy and, hopefully, many stimulating discussions with my students!

We are already looking forward to the 2026 "AK Wahlen" @dvpw.bsky.social conference at JGU Mainz on 7–8 May and to welcoming many of you there for an exciting program. The conference is open to non-presenters. Registration deadline: 24 April 2026. More information: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...

Last week, we (@clandwehr.bsky.social, my colleague Leonard and I) had the joy of welcoming some great colleagues working on the topic of democracy to Mainz, for the concluding workshop of our project "Conceptions of Democracy among Citizens and Political Elites". Thank you for three wonderful days!

1000 words from me and Alenka Krasovec on this weekend’s parliamentary elections in Slovenia 🇸🇮 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-old-and-...

The old and the “new”: Slovenia’s parliamentary elections - UK in a changing Europe

Ahead of the election in Slovenia on Sunday 22 March 2026, Tim Haughton and Alenka Krašovec explain the Slovenian political landscape and where the different parties stand in the polls.

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Jürgen Habermas died today at 96. Few political theorists shaped how we think about democratic legitimacy in modern societies as profoundly. His lifelong question was straightforward but demanding: How can political authority be justified under conditions of pluralism? 🧵

This article by Joep van Lit and Carolien van Ham is very useful for those interested in empirically studying democratic erosion in all its complexities.

📍Democratic Resilience Syllabus 📑 I'm sharing my master’s seminar syllabus on democratic resilience. I *loved* teaching it and had great students. I hope I get to do it again some day. ❤️ If you use it or adapt the syllabus, I’d love to hear how it goes. klaudiawegschaider.com/media/democr...

🗓Am 22. März 2026 ist in #Rheinland-Pfalz #Landtagswahl. Wir in der Abteilung Innenpolitik/Politische Soziologie des @powimz.bsky.social haben im Auftrag der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Profile für alle zur #Wahl stehenden #Parteien verfasst. ⬇️ www.bpb.de/themen/parte...

Landtagswahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2026 | bpb.de

Zur Landtagswahl in Rheinland-Pfalz 2026 am 22. März 2026 treten 12 Parteien an. Hier finden Sie zu jeder ein Kurz-Profil.

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Teamed up with the excellent Jan Hruška ( Masaryk Uni 🇨🇿 / Adam Mickiewicz Uni Poznań 🇵🇱) to explore how upper chambers can guard against democratic backsliding. A neglected topic.Our new piece in Democratization: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 
Free eprints: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Are the upper chambers a source of democratic resilience? Evidence from elite perceptions in the Czech Republic

In recent years, several Central and Eastern European countries, including Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia, have experienced significant democratic backsliding. The Czech Republic was also perceived ...

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