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Giorgio Malet
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Political scientist at ETH Zürich. Interested in public opinion, democratic representation, and EU politics.

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mabreyer.bsky.social
New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.

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Abstract It is widely accepted in political science – and remarkably established in public discourse – that status anxieties fuel a far right backlash against progressive politics. This narrative suggests that right-wing conservatives perceive the status of women, racial, or sexual minorities as threatening. Using open-ended survey questions fielded in Germany, we show that women and minorities indeed figure in people’s perceptions of status hierarchies, but in very specific ways: First, overall, people still perceive status as largely socioeconomically determined. Second, sociocultural groups figure in perceptions of who is gaining/losing status, less so in perceptions of the top/bottom of society. Third, more than conservative voters, it is social progressives who mention women and minorities as “winners”. While on race/ethnicity, we find evidence for a backlash, on gender and sexuality we find more evidence for a progressive momentum. This matters for progressive politics today and for how we empirically study status concerns.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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simonecremaschi.bsky.social
Now out @apsrjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! 🫒

We advance a new argument on how economic crises fuel support for far-right parties in left-behind places by tapping into long-standing community narratives

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November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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dpzollinger.bsky.social
How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations?

In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.

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Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - Volume 55
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November 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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retobuergisser.bsky.social
Share widely with your students in Switzerland 🇨🇭thinking about a PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social

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21 Nov 2025 | 2:30pm CET

@alissasiara.bsky.social introduces the program & life at EUI, I share my experience, and we answer your questions.

👉 Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
PhD Prep Talk: Switzerland
Meet an EUI Researcher and alumnus from your country​!
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November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
giorgiomalet.bsky.social
🚨 New article out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social with @svenhegewald.bsky.social

“The changing geography of support for European integration in the shadow of the Ukraine war."

How did Russia’s invasion reshape public support for EU policies?

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October 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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fgenovese.bsky.social
On the continuity between Deaghi and Meloni, I have written in 2023 with Salvatore Vassallo here ⬇️

We were not wrong.

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October 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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pitrieger.bsky.social
Excited to share my first single-authored dissertation paper!

I study how voters react to party differentiation in coalitions. Voters like clear partisan signals, but the gains are short-lived and limited to aligned supporters.

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October 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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giadapasquettaz.bsky.social
New semester, new great lineup for our #InternationalStudies seminar with amazing speakers at @uni-konstanz.de

➡️ Gabriella Gricius @ggricius.bsky.social
➡️ Fabio Franchino
➡️ Livia Schubiger
➡️ Kenneth Schultz
➡️ Giorgio Malet @giorgiomalet.bsky.social
➡️ Timon Forster @timonforster.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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jeppjournal.bsky.social
Citizens in 🥜-regions closer to Russia became more supportive of EU defence, enlargement & foreign policy after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine (exception: energy policy)

By @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @svenhegewald.bsky.social

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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chriswratil.bsky.social
You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU?

Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇

@bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.
September 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

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September 25, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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thomasmmeyer.bsky.social
New publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social :
“Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?”
@polstudies.bsky.social
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September 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
giorgiomalet.bsky.social
Together with @jellekoedam.bsky.social, @tinepaulsen.bsky.social, and @nicolaiberk.bsky.social, we brought together an amazing group of researchers doing exciting work here in Zurich — and it turned into a super fun, engaging workshop. Huge thanks to everyone who joined and made it so special!
July 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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simonchauchard.bsky.social
🚨EPSA 2025 friends, Program Committee co-chair here....

We still have a few great panels missing discussants!!

**Details below: 1/n**

PLEASE RETWEET AND CONSIDER DISCUSSING :)

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if you are able to assist with any of these roles please email: [email protected] ASAP
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June 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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filipkostelka.bsky.social
Great tribute to Hanspeter Kriesi's impressive research career now happening at the European University Institute. @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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stefwalter.bsky.social
Brexit has featured prominently in the Swiss debate about CH-EU relations. Here we provide a more systematic study, using panel data to study changes in attitudes over time.
May 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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rsenninger.bsky.social
🚨 New book alert!

Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...
May 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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thmskrr.bsky.social
🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social

❓Political implications of labor market transformation

Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city.

Deadline: May 18, 2025.

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April 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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sophiahunger.bsky.social
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨

Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org
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April 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
There have been many "new cleavage" articles in the 1990s and 2000s, but I have always found this particular one to be the most insightful and prescient. 👇
April 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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stefwalter.bsky.social
Every once in a while, we write articles we truly care about.

This is one of them, and I am so happy and proud to see it published at ISQ:
Responding to Unilateral Challenges to International Institutions
Abstracts. How do international institutions respond to unilateral challenges by its member states, such as non-compliance, blocking of reforms, renegotiat
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March 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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dtoshkov.bsky.social
How do attitudes to 🇪🇺 European integration relate to political ideology and policy preferences?

A major update of my study:
- I added the latest 2023 ESS data for citizens and 2024 CHES data for parties
- I built an app to explore these relationships across datasets, indicators, years & countries
Average support for further European integration of citizens (blue line, based on GAM with cubic regression splines) and positive orientation towards European integration of political parties (black dots and red line, based on a local polynomial regression) as functions of left-right self-placement of the citizens and general left-right party positions as estimated by experts. Originally, party positions on European integration are scored on a 1-to-7 scale, which has been rescaled from 0 to 10 to match the public opinion data. Data: ESS Wave 11 (2023), CHES (2024).
March 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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knalewajko.bsky.social
Very happy that my paper has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social!

Do insurgents help or hurt genocide targets? Contrary to common belief, I find that insurgent presence reduced Jewish victimisation during the Holocaust in France.

Here's what I discovered 👇

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apsrjournal.bsky.social American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · Mar 6
Just published on APSR First View: "Allies of the Weak: La Résistance and Jews in the Holocaust" by Kasia Nalewajko. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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stefwalter.bsky.social
News from the DISINTEGRATION project:

In a new working paper, @giorgiomalet.bsky.social, @tommccraehunter.bsky.social, @scherzinger.bsky.social and I find that how people view the EU is influenced by what kind of EU policies the media are focusing on and how this chimes with people‘s preferences.
disintegrationerc.bsky.social ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · Mar 5
***GRAPH OF THE MONTH***
Does media-reported EU policy focus shape legitimacy perceptions? Our new study finds that ideological leanings matter: left-wing voters reward EU focus on regulation & climate, while right-wing voters prefer immigration policies.
March 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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valentimvicente.bsky.social
Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social .

We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric.

Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric.

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Abstract: How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggests that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender.
February 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM