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Duncan McDonnell

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Professor of Politics | 🇮🇪🇦🇺| Australian Research Council Future Fellow | populism and party youth wings | https://duncanmcdonnell.com/

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 6d

I'm so pleased to see our new article out in Perspectives on Politics.

Since I moved to Australia, I've heard many people say "you'll never publish in a top US journal with Australia as your only case" (and they weren't wrong to think that).

But yesterday, we did.

Thread by Josh about it below:

Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 6d

🎉 New publication out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with @duncanmcdonnell.com and Michelle Evans!

We expected public bias to work against aspiring Indigenous political candidates in Australia. Instead, we found the opposite - an 'inverted hierarchy' of bias.

Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 3h

Speaking of Socrates, years ago in Dublin I heard the story "Socrates spent a period studying medicine at UCD and played for their football team". It was a pretty well-known 'fact' at the time.

Turns out it was complete fabrication. He never even visited!
www.the42.ie/socrates-ire...

The Brazilian icon and the bizarre, long-running myth of his failed football career in Ireland

Socrates never did play for UCD or Shelbourne and he never tasted Sigerson Cup action either. So, where did the stories come from?

www.the42.ie

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 1d

But of a breeze in the evenings. Mustn’t grumble.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 1d

Ha! One of my earliest football memories is of Zico ripping Liverpool to bits in the Intercontinental final. They have remained in my heart.

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 1d

You mean something like this?

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 1d

After an excellent couple of weeks of fieldwork and seminars in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, the South American tour continues on Thursday at 5.30 pm with this seminar by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me at the University of São Paulo.

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 2d

Is DIEM25 the first political party to have more academic articles about it than it has had voters?

(before anyone gets offended, I do think some of those articles are very interesting!)

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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 2d

It was great to present our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com ) on the transnationalisation of the PRR at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

It was also a pleasure to chat with their very talented graduate students afterwards, and to stroll around the beautiful campus.

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 2d

Post-seminar briefing in Little Africa, Rio.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 4d

With the absolute Godmother of Ipanema beach.

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 4d

This weekend’s pre-seminar preparation in Rio is an Ipanema beach homage to Anthony Bourdain.

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 5d

Thanks Ben!

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 6d

Obrigado!

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 6d

I celebrated last night with a beer at the Maracanã stadium in Rio, alongside 72,000 Flamengo fans.

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 6d

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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 7d

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

The Inverted Hierarchy: How #Public #Bias Can #Favor #Potential #Indigenous #Candidates

By @jholloway.bsky.social, @duncanmcdonnell.com & Michelle Evans

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 9d

In Brasilia today & tomorrow to do interviews in this stunning parliament.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 10d

It was a pleasure to present with @ammassarisofia.bsky.social to the faculty and very smart students from IESP in Rio today.

And the view when we came out into the Botafogo afternoon sun wasn’t bad either.

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 11d

Kleberson, no.

But for the longest time, I insisted that Anderson was going to become a world-class midfielder.

I'm still waiting.

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 11d

I wore my Ireland jersey to the gym the other day for that reason.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 11d

How do you prepare the day before a seminar in Rio?

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 17d

We’ll be talking about how PRR parties today are connecting across borders at senior and junior levels, the issues that link them — and what all this means for liberal democracy.

For more details, see: iesp.uerj.br/evento/ciclo...

Ciclo de Palestras 2025.2: Duncan McDonnell e Sofia Ammassari - IESP

O Ciclo de Palestras IESP-UERJ 2025.2 recebe Duncan McDonnell e Sofia Ammassari, docentes da Griffith University, para ministrar a conferência The rise of the transnational populist right, na Sala Ola...

iesp.uerj.br

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 17d

Next Monday, 29 September, Sofia Ammassari & I will be presenting new research on the transnationalization of the populist radical right at IESP in Rio de Janeiro.

It's the first of a bunch of seminars we'll be doing in South America over the next 6 weeks.

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 19d

Sounds like the time I read Laclau.

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Sep 8

For a moment, I was reading this and thinking it looked interesting.

Then I realised I wrote it.

Anyway, it's interesting if you're into youth wings, party organisation, young people & politics etc.

European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Are youth party members more radical than leadership?

A 🇪🇺 study of 4,000+ youth wing members finds larger numbers of radicals especially on the centre-left with longer tenure than aligned members

#PoliticalScience #YouthPolitics #PartyCohesion

Read more: buff.ly/12M2XwC

Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings

DUNCAN MCDONNELL, SOFIA AMMASSARI, ANNIKA WERNER, NIKLAS BOLIN, MARCO VALBRUZZI, HUGO FERRINHO LOPES, REINHARD HEINISCH, ANN-CATHRINE JUNGAR, CARSTEN WEGSCHEIDER

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

Young radicals, moderates and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings

DUNCAN MCDONNELL, SOFIA AMMASSARI, ANNIKA WERNER, NIKLAS BOLIN, MARCO VALBRUZZI, HUGO FERRINHO LOPES, REINHARD HEINISCH, ANN-CATHRINE JUNGAR, CARSTEN WEGSCHEIDER

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Sep 7

Continuing this series of footnotes and asides that are making it into the final draft of our "Youth wings of the populist radical right" book.

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Sep 6

Celebrating the end of “winter” in Brisbane.