2026 APSA Theme Panel: Mass-Elite Interactions in Democratic Backsliding Mass-Elite Interactions in Democratic Backsliding Sunday, September 6, 8:00 am to 9:30 am 2026 APSA Annual Meeting &… http://politicalsciencenow.com/2026-apsa-theme-panel-mass-elite-interactions-in-democratic-backsliding/

2026 APSA Theme Panel: Mass-Elite Interactions in Democratic Backsliding

Mass-Elite Interactions in Democratic Backsliding Sunday, September 6, 8:00 am to 9:30 am 2026 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition — Boston, MA |  Register here In-person | Full Paper Panel  Participants: (Chair) Vicente Valentim, IE University (Discussant) Ji Yeon (Jean) Hong, University of Michigan (Discussant) Hanna Folsz, Stanford University Session Description: This panel focuses on the interactions between elites and citizens across stages and contexts of democratic backsliding.

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Great opportunity for tenure track jobs in Madrid:

Giacomo Lemoli@giacomolem.bsky.social · 5d ago

@cunef.bsky.social is hiring -- 3 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor positions in Political Science. Details and contact information in the job post link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32392

Our dept has a call for two post docs in Michael Becher’s ERC project. Details in the links in the original post Michael is an amazing scholar and one of the kindest mentors around. Please help spread the word!

IE Political Science Department@iepolisci.bsky.social · 5d ago

We are hiring two postdocs in the ERC project (DIS)EMPOWER led by Professor Michael Becher (DL Oct 30). The project analyzes how work automation shapes the power of workers in the workplace and in democratic politics. careers-ieedu.icims.com/jobs/3160/po... careers-ieedu.icims.com/jobs/3161/po...

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The Center for Scientific Integrity announces inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z Award for courage in retracting their own work - The Center for Scientific Integrity

The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors a junio...

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This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms

Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2w ago

news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest

Open access version available here: files.osf.io/v1/resources...

For more on the power of norms to shape political behaviour, check out this book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social which really should be required reading for every British politician and advisor, and everyone in the British political media: academic.oup.com/book/57946

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

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oh this one has a good answer by Valentim: www.illiberalism.org/vicente-vale...

Vicente Valentim on the Normalization of the Radical Right | illiberalism.org

Vicente Valentim on the role of social norms in shaping voter behavior and the impact of their erosion in the context of the rise of radical right parties

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we're going to Beijing in September! for a wedding! not staying long enough to really go to other places in China, as China big, but if anyone has recs on where to eat/what to do there over three or four days, do let me know! wahoo!

End of month #psjminfo report. We're a few jobs short of a 100 TT positions. Which is about the same as last year (2025-26). So it seems the market isn't getting worse... However as recent as 23-24, we had nearly twice as many postings by this point. www.politicalsciencejobs.org/job-listings

PS Jobs - Job Listings

This is a listing of academic jobs for political scientists. If a job hasn't been listed yet, you can submit it here.

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If you’ve been dying to run an RDD to estimate the effect of exposure to a solar eclipse, this is your chance:

Because the postwar stigma against the radical right died with the postwar generation slowly passing on, and the new right emerging out of new political entrepreneurs capitalizing on the evaporation of said norms: www.illiberalism.org/vicente-vale...

Vicente Valentim on the Normalization of the Radical Right | illiberalism.org

Vicente Valentim on the role of social norms in shaping voter behavior and the impact of their erosion in the context of the rise of radical right parties

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Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3w ago

what’s going on with the world man. why is the far right resurgent everywhere? it’s easy to blame whatever policy boogeyman (neoliberalism, housing shortage, immigration, etc etc) but I think it has to be something deeper. maybe lived memory is dying out of how evil fascism is

In case you ever feel bad about the state of the Left in your country, look to Hungary.

Europe Elects@europeelects.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hungary, Medián poll: TISZA-EPP: 68% (-5) Fidesz/KDNP-PfE: 23% (+2) MH-ESN: 7% (+3) MKKP→G/EFA: 1% (+1) DK-S&D: 0% (-1) +/- vs. 22-29 June 2026 Fieldwork: 22-24 July 2026 Sample size: 1000 ➤ europeelects.eu/hungary

I am not sure this is still a thing, but I am trying to access this article and can't. Does anyone happen to have a gift link? www.thetimes.com/business/com....

The venture capital model is wasteful, chaotic — and essential

I have been reading the business plans of new ventures for more than 30 years, and while the presentations have become a lot slicker, I’m not sure the underlying propositions have improved much. Power...

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This is why work by @frediotto.bsky.social and scientists at the World Weather Attribution is so important. Their work is instrumental to ensure we know which events are climate change attributed. Shame that forces eg on the right want to underfund precisely those that can give them these answers.

Vicente Valentim@valentimvicente.bsky.social · 3w ago

The fundamental problem of causal inference in action. One can’t know whether a single event (eg a fire of historic proportions) was caused by climate change because we can’t know the other counterfactual. elpais.com/espana/2026-...

Unbelievably, there are *two* academic jobs at Cardiff University. One in British politics (seemingly broadly defined) cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/53... One in political behaviour/opinion 🙌 cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/52...

Lecturer in Politics - Teaching and Research in Law Building | Internal & External Website

View details and apply for this Lecturer in Politics - Teaching and Research vacancy in Law Building. Lecturer in Politics - Teaching & Research School of Law and Politics The School of Law a...

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The fundamental problem of causal inference in action. One can’t know whether a single event (eg a fire of historic proportions) was caused by climate change because we can’t know the other counterfactual. elpais.com/espana/2026-...

El PP desoye las llamadas a un pacto de Estado sobre el cambio climático

Los populares cuestionan la influencia del calentamiento global en los incendios, mientras se diluye la tregua política de los últimos días

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Fantastic job opportunity at the European University Institute in Florence: Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics Application deadline: October 15. @eui-sps.bsky.social www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Everyone who uncritically repeats "hospitals used for military purposes become legitimate targets" has a role to play in this epidemic of attacks against healthcare facilities in war! A) The law is more demanding than that! B) Without concrete evidence for "use" attacks are presumptively illegal.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

From Ukraine and Sudan to Gaza: why have hospitals become a target of war?

This is crucial and often unmentioned. Almost every single diagnosis of declining faith in universities fails to mention that it is runs in parallel to declining faith in almost all American institutions. Any failure to recognize this means it is really flawed or not a serious effort.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last mo.

👇🎯 The tell about this is that none of these people claiming academia had a trust problem benchmark universities to other societal institutions or spend any time banging on about the problems with those institutions: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

O céu já não é azul. Madrid volta às máscaras por causa dos incêndios

O céu já não é azul. Madrid volta às máscaras por causa dos incêndios

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Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...

De esta manera están combatiendo el fuego los bomberos en el incendio que afecta a la Comunidad de Madrid y que, junto al de Ávila, afecta a ya a 45.000 hectáreas y ha obligado a evacuar o confinar a más de 88.500 personas social.elpais.com/mmn…

Zoals @valentimvicente.bsky.social uitgebreid uitlegt betekent normalisering dat radicaalrechtse uitingen vroeger sociaal en maatschappelijk werden bestraft, en nu steeds minder. Daardoor maakt men publieke uitingen die 50 jaar geleden ondenkbaar waren - want vroeger *dacht* men dat dat niet kon.

O novo episódio do Opinionistas é sobre Cristiano Ronaldo e a Consciência Coletiva. Mas antes, um aviso. Este episódio contém passagens reais de coisas ditas sobre CR7. Portanto, se gostas de futebol, este episódio não é para ti. Disponível nas plataformas habituais.

🚨Deadline day: Call for editors of The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social seeks Academic Editors or an editorial team for its blog site from 1 Oct Shape the platform's editorial direction, overseeing analysis & strengthening the visibility and impact on understanding contemporary political developments

Apply by midnight UK time, tonight! Friday 24 July

Call for new editors of The Loop

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Professorship! The European University Institute (my PhD alma mater) in Florence, Italy, is seeking a new Chair in Intellectual History, 1500–Present. Deadline: 10 September www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Demora leva doentes com cancro a morrer sem terem acesso a cuidados paliativos: www.publico.pt/2179597

Começa logo bem.