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Bonnie Field
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Professor.
Editor of South European Society & Politics, @sespjournal.bsky.social.
Spain, European politics & political science. My views. https://www.bonnienfield.com
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Are Americans polarized in their attitudes toward higher education? 🤔

Using some @electionstudies.bsky.social data, the answer seems to be: Yes, but not dramatically so, and there's a tendency for more experience with higher ed. to be associated w/ more positive ratings. 👍
February 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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📊 As #Spain moves toward a new regularisation policy, recent research helps place this debate in a broader context.

R. Perna & M. Puig Batalla analyse opposite #regularisation #policy #outputs in #Italy & #Spain during #COVID19

Read it here #OPENACCESS 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 3, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 #Italy
The feminisation of Italian governments. Towards a more gender-equal distribution of political power?

Read the article by C. Barbieri & P. Pansardi here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 5, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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50 years after: Was democratization inevitable or contingent?

Read #FreeAccess the introduction to our latest #SpecialIssue by @jmfernandes86.bsky.social, N. Garoupa,
@mjhierro.bsky.social & @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 9, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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⏰ Just a couple of weeks left to apply—call open until 25 February!
📣 @pietrocastellig.bsky.social and I are absolutely thrilled to announce that the call for the 5th @ecpr.bsky.social Summer School on ‘Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’ is now open!

🇮🇹 The event will be hosted by @unibo.it, from 6 to 10 July 2026.

🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/353
Summer School of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, University of Bologna, 6 – 10 July 2026
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
February 10, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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65.1🦋

What happens when the #RadicalRight looks fondly to the past? 🕰️ 👀

@populismblog.bsky.social & @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social introduce #AuthoritarianNostalgia exploring how supporters of VOX and Chega connect today’s politics with Spanish & Portuguese eras

buff.ly/GHwnwul
Authoritarian nostalgia and support for (populist radical) right parties | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Authoritarian nostalgia and support for (populist radical) right parties - Volume 65 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
February 10, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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🗣️ Call for abstracts open!

The IV Catalonia Workshop in Political Theory will take place in Girona on 11 June 2026.

Open to any area of political theory, with special attention to identity, justice, equality, conflict, and crisis.

⏳ Deadline: 31 March 2026
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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With Congress preparing another vote on the SAVE Act, advocates warn its documentation requirements could make registering to vote more difficult for millions of women—threatening both access to the ballot and progress toward gender parity in political power.
The SAVE Act Is Back—and Women’s Political Power Is on the Line
As Congress revives the SAVE Act, new proof-of-citizenship rules could reshape voter registration in ways that burden women voters.
msmagazine.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
on.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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¿Qué ha pasado en Aragón?

El PP pierde votos y queda lejos de la absoluta, pero ha ganado y probablemente gobernará. El PSOE cae; Podemos se hunde; sube la Chunta y se dispara Vox. El voto se derechiza.

Siete gráficos para entender el resultado 👇
February 9, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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🔴 ACTUALIZACIÓN | Con el 75% escrutado, el PSOE pierde un diputado más e iguala su peor resultado histórico en Aragón (18). El PP gana con 26, Vox logra 14 y Chunta duplica sus escaños (6). IU también entra en el Parlamento.

🗳️ Consulta los resultados 🔗 social.elpais.com/goqz7
February 8, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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#Portugal 🇵🇹 – EXIT POLL RTP: 𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗦 🔴 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗮 𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶́𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗴𝗮 ⚫

🔴 Seguro: 68–73%
⚫ Ventura: 27–32%

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electomania.es
February 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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El PP se encamina hacia otra victoria agridulce que podría dejarlo a expensas de la ultraderecha. Vox no solo es el partido que más crece, aspirando a duplicar su representación, sino que se refuerza en el bloque derechista
Vota Aragón: Abascal redobla su desafío a Feijóo
Vox, en ofensiva total contra su rival derechista, busca su ratificación como gran beneficiario del ciclo electoral abierto por el PP. El PSOE se expone a estrenar con un fiasco su estrategia de someter ministros a las urnas
elpais.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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‼️OPEN!

Decentralisation was long seen as unstoppable in Western welfare states

But the 2010–16 recession brought strong central pressures for fiscal consolidation

Did this reverse the path?

We created SPREI, Social Policy Recentralisation Index, to find out #WelfareState #MultilevelGovernance
February 7, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Storm-battered Portugal heads to polls as rivals unite to keep out far right
Storm-battered Portugal heads to polls as rivals unite to keep out far right
Socialist António José Seguro on course for victory but gains by André Ventura’s Chega could herald watershed
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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#tbp Why do folks support the #RadicalRight 🗳️ ? A survey of what we know & what we don't know, and what we could learn in the future (free author's version)
Explaining Electoral Support for the Radical Right - kai arzheimer
Why do people vote for the Radical Right? Surveying 3 decades of explanations for Radical Right voting, I summarise what we know, and what we don't know
www.kai-arzheimer.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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🧑‍🤝‍🧑Do politicians consider the gender of leaders when selecting coalition partners?

➡️Using a conjoint on 979 Spanish mayors, @albahuidobro.bsky.social finds that mayors, especially those on the center and left, prefer coalitions with parties led by women www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
February 6, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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New paper out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

I show that - contrary to claims that personalised electoral systems are good for participation - Open Lists have no effect on turnout relative to Closed Lists; in fact, they increase rates of voter error. 🗳️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 5, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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New publication in the Journal of Public Policy!🚨

⚖️It shows how feminist advocacy pushed for a reform entitling mothers and fathers to equal parental leave in Spain.

👉This also unveils that descriptive representation matters because it can open access for feminist groups.

doi.org/10.1017/S014...
Redefining influence: how a feminist advocacy group reformed paternity leave in Spain through insider women’s alliances | Journal of Public Policy | Cambridge Core
Redefining influence: how a feminist advocacy group reformed paternity leave in Spain through insider women’s alliances
doi.org
February 5, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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🚨🚨Striking but welcome development in Portugese politics: To stop the explosive growth of the ultranationalist #Chega party, Portugal’s leading conservatives are doing the previously unthinkable: endorsing the center-left candidate for president. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/port...
Portugal’s conservatives back left-wing candidate to avoid a far-right president
Center-right leaders are taking pains to publicly reject the ultranationalist contender ahead of the country’s Feb. 8 vote.
www.politico.eu
February 2, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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This is a really scary time, especially for grad students in the US on visas.

ICYMI I run a writing solidarity Zoom group for students and scholars from/working on MENA. We’re in Week 144 and had new participants join this week.

Please email me if you or your students/colleagues might benefit.
January 31, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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In the midst of chaos, excited to share a new publication with @aeggers.bsky.social and Marko Klašnja, dx.doi.org/10.1111/lsq..... As usual, I write an embarrassing thread about my wonderful coauthors-- 🧵 (1/)
A Rich Woman's World? Wealth and Gendered Paths to Office
We introduce and seek to explain a new and surprising fact about members of the US Congress: since at least the 1980s, Congresswomen have been substantially wealthier than Congressmen serving in the ....
dx.doi.org
January 30, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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The Netherlands are set for a new chapter in its parliamentary history. A minority government. And the youngest PM ever.

www.reuters.com/world/dutch-...
Dutch parties agree on rare minority government
Leaders of political parties in the Netherlands have agreed to form a rare minority government, they said on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:39 AM