❇️ The 2026 Joint Sessions #ecprjs26 are officially underway! Wishing all participants across our 3️⃣3️⃣ Workshops an enriching week ahead ⛰️ Not in Innsbruck this week? You can still join us for the Stein Rokkan Lecture by @siljahausermann.bsky.social, streaming FREE as part of #ECPRHouseSeries 👇

House Series – The Stein Rokkan Edition: Silja Häusermann, Cleavage Politics and Democratic Resilience, Online, 8 April 2026

European Consortium for Political Research

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Fakultät SoPo@sopouibk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Die ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2026 haben heute an der Sowi begonnen! #ecprjs26 @ecpr.bsky.social A warm welcome to all participants 🌎🧡 We hope you have a lovely stay in #innsbruck and enjoy lots of interesting discussions ⛰️ @polsciuibk.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

📣🏆We are honoured to be awarded the PSA Specialist Group of the Year 2025/26! Many thanks to the jury at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social for their trust, our convenors and executive committee members for their work, and all our members for their active contribution!

Yup. Welcome to the New Trumpian Anarchy. @dandrezner.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Anarchy Is What Donald Trump Makes Of It

There's anarchy and then there's ANARCHY.

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🚨 NEW EVENT 🚨 6️⃣ This January will mark 6 years since the UK's departure from the EU 🇬🇧🇪🇺 To discuss the important year ahead in UK-EU relations, UKICE's team of experts will be joined by Sir Ivan Rogers 📆 Fri 31 Jan, 1pm GMT 💻 Online Sign up here 👇 ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

UKICE Lunch Hour: UK-EU relations in 2026 - UK in a changing Europe

Join UK in a Changing Europe experts and former UK Permanent Representative to the EU Sir Ivan Rogers for a discussion on the future of UK-EU relations.

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📣 Temporary job for political scientists! We are advertising a temporary position of Lecturer and Researcher in British Politics (HU-Berlin, full-time, 1-year, PhD or PostDoc level) to replace me during my paternity leave. Find the advert here (in German): www.hu-berlin.de/universitaet...

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia

Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

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It was great to be back at @eui-schuman.bsky.social for a workshop on "The EU between differentiation, disintegration, and enlargement". Find most papers on @wepsocial.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/bdz7arw7) and @jeppjournal.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/4htxs4hk). Thanks to all organisers and participants!

Now out in #RFCB, my article about the growing dissatisfaction of Conservative MPs before the 2024 General Election... Useful to understand the weekly defections to Reform UK and public discontent with the course of the party by senior party officials! journals.openedition.org/rfcb/14232

From Hope to Disarray: The Parliamentary Conservative Party’s Road ...

Introduction The 2019 General Election in the United Kingdom produced a remarkable result for the Conservative Party. It won 365 out of 650 seats and around 44% of votes, which represented its high...

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Paolo Chiocchetti, “British Eurosceptic voters before and after Brexit”, Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique [Online], XXX-3 | 2025 doi.org/10.4000/14qkm

British Eurosceptic voters before and after Brexit

Introduction A decade ago, Brexit emerged as the most salient, divisive, and transformative issue in British politics. Having gathered strength since the early 1990s both within the Conservative pa...

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OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Linus Westheuser@lwestheuser.bsky.social · last yr.

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣 Vising fellowship for early-career researchers at our Centre for British Studies in Berlin (6 months, €5,000). Political scientists welcome!

Coming soon with @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social... British Labour Leaders: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/britis... British Conservative Leaders: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/britis...

💥OUT NOW! Volume 48, Issue 5 (2025). The Special Issue "External Differentiation: A New Trajectory after Brexit and Ukraine?" Edited by @pchiocchetti.bsky.social Stefan Telle & @brigidlaffan.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/c...

📣New publication! Happy to announce a special issue of West European Politics (@wepsocial.bsky.social) on "External differentiation: a new trajectory after Brexit and Ukraine?". www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/4... A thread.

West European Politics

External Differentiation: A New Trajectory after Brexit and Ukraine? Guest Editors: Paolo Chiocchetti, Stefan Telle and Brigid Laffan. Volume 48, Issue 5 of West European Politics

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Tiefgehende Einschnitte - Großbritannien fünf Jahre nach dem Brexit (Gerhard Dannemann und Paolo Chiocchetti) 1drv.ms/b/s!Anj7bWfo...

Wir machen uns Sorgen um die Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre in Deutschland und geben den Wähler*innen vor Sonntag noch mal ein paar Fakten mit. Wählt weise, wir haben viel zu verlieren! netzwerk-nachhaltige-wissenschaft.de?p=503

📣 CfP "The UK in Europe: prospects of resetting relations with the EU and bilateral partnerships" (deadline 7 March) Link: 1drv.ms/b/s!Anj7bWfo...

Habe gerade erst bemerkt, dass das schon diese Woche in der Zeit erschienen ist: Mein Plädoyer für eine Überwindung des Lehrstuhlsystems in der ZEIT. www.zeit.de/2025/07/wiss...

NEW - A Crisis of Political Trust? Global Trends in Institutional Trust from 1958 to 2019 - cup.org/4gCcLuT - @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, Gerry Stoker, @hannahbunting.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social & Andrew Klassen #OpenAccess

🥳 Vandaag vieren we de oprichting van de onze universiteit, 450 jaar geleden. Net als in 1575 loopt een gemengd gezelschap van wetenschappers, studenten en muzikanten naar de Pieterskerk voor de viering. Iedereen is welkom om deze speciale optocht te aanschouwen, vanaf 14.25 bij Academiegebouw.

Back from a great conference on the 2024 UK General Election in Paris (Sorbonne Nouvelle, @crew-ur4399-usn.bsky.social), where I presented my research on Eurosceptic voters. It was a pleasure to participate! Many thanks to the organizers Clémence, Pauline, and Thibaud!

📢New publication! Telle, S., Chiocchetti, P., & Laffan, B. (2025). External differentiated integration: between stability and change. West European Politics, 1–25. doi.org/10.1080/0140...

External differentiated integration: between stability and change

The external relations of the European Union (EU) are complex. Existing research has handled this complexity by approaching the EU’s external relations from a variety of distinct perspectives. The ...

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Last conference panel: Panel 6: Foreign and European Policy Simon Usherwood (Open University) Paolo Chiochetti (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Sylvain Gaillaud (SIRICE, Uni Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) Thibaud Harrois & Pauline Schnapper (CREW, USN) Thanks Gordon Cumming (Uni Cardiff) for chairing

Looking forward to welcome 49 scholars at the Centre for British Studies of @humboldtuni.bsky.social for a 3-day interdisciplinary conference on "(Re)drawing borders: When and where was the United Kingdom? When and where is it now?"

📣 Postdoctoral visiting fellowship in British Studies (Berlin, April-September 2025). Apply by 20 December. Political scientists are welcome! www.gbz.hu-berlin.de

📣 Public event I am delighted to invite you to our next Monday Lecture on "The EU's response to Brexit" by Prof Brigid Laffan and Dr Stefan Telle (Berlin and online, Monday 21 October, 17:00 CET) Participation both in person and via Zoom, registration required (events.gbz@hu-berlin.de).

Ten days left to submit an abstract for our December conference on redrawing borders in British Studies

Paolo Chiocchetti@pchiocchetti.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 📜 Call for Papers! “(Re-) Drawing Borders: When and Where was the United Kingdom? When and Where is it Now?” (Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12-14 December 2024). Deadline 6 June, full call below. drive.google.com/file/d/1DzTz...

📣 📜 Call for Papers! “(Re-) Drawing Borders: When and Where was the United Kingdom? When and Where is it Now?” (Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12-14 December 2024). Deadline 6 June, full call below. drive.google.com/file/d/1DzTz...

📣 #PublicationAlert How has Brexit affected British democracy? Gerhard Dannemann and I review the evidence for a German audience in the journal Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik t.co/xluZ4h0uoO

Die Bedeutung des Brexits für die Demokratie in Großbritannien

On the one hand, Brexit has repatriated key competences from the EU to the UK, broadening the scope for political decisions which respond to national democratic preferences. On the other hand, it has ...

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