Jens Rydgren

@jensrydgren.bsky.social

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Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University | Research on nationalism, populism, radical right-wing parties and voters; Class politics; Ethnic relations | Hammarby IF football supporter

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Jens Rydgren is a Swedish writer, political commentator and a professor of sociology, at Stockholm University. Specialising in research of political sociology, for many years he has studied populist right-wing parties. In 2002 he defended his thesis Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization: The Case of the French National Front in a debate with Sidney Tarrow of Cornell University. He has appeared as an expert on right wing populist parties, including the Sweden Democrats, in various news media. .. more

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 7h

For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 1d

Why has the populist radical right failed in Scotland? @davidevampa.bsky.social, Alan Convery & @frasmcm.bsky.social examine how symbiotic polarization between SNP and Conservatives blocked PRRPs, until recently. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/WeHXRFw

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #PartyPolitics

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 2d

What Sofia is too modest to explicitly say in her post below, is that - in addition to our PRR youth wings book - she has a solo one coming out with OUP in June on grassroots women in the PRR:

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 2d

Great intervention by @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on reactionary centrism, anti-wokeness, and the tendency to interpret the success of the right as backlash instead of as its own political project

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Beware of ‘anti-woke’ liberals: they attacked the left and helped Trump win | Jan-Werner Müller

So-called ‘reactionary centrist’ pundits proclaimed that there was a global ‘vibe shift’ in favor of the right. They were wrong

www.theguardian.com

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 3d

Coming out in June.

(when @casmudde.bsky.social & I will be presenting it at the @ces-europe.bsky.social conference in Dublin)

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Jona de Jong @jonadejong.bsky.social · 4d

Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships.

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 5d

Jag tror tvärtom att det skulle kunna vara verkningsfullt. Exit är ibland en bra strategi för att få voice att höras ordentlig. Men ett collective action-problem så klart, behövs några större länder som initierar för att få igång bandwagon-effekt.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 7d

This article, new in Comparative Political Studies, seems relevant

The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 7d

Not much

Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 7d

Without social stratification (across class, gender, ethnicity/race, etc) = no sociology

Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 7d

"Compared to the original 669-page textbook, the new version is just 267 pages. ... the state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality."

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Florida Introduces “Sanitized” Sociology Textbook

The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two univ...

www.insidehighered.com

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 7d

Interested in an academic career in political science? Do you want to work in a vibrant department with friendly colleagues? Interested in climate governance or EU studies? Do to live close to nature, but also enjoy a vibrant cultural scene? Appreciate a good work-life balance?

Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 8d

Välkommen till Bajen, Mathilde!

Ps. @hammarbyfotboll.se, lägg gärna ut nyheter även på Bluesky.

#bajen #hammarby

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Hammarby värvar Mathilde Janzen

Bajen är överens med Kristianstads DFF om en övergång för svensktyska vänsterbacken Mathilde Janzen. U23-landslagsspelaren har skrivit på ett kontrakt över säsongen 2029. – Mathilde är en väldigt

www.hammarbyfotboll.se

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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Deadline Soon (***February 5, 2026***): 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science 🚨

I am seeking applicants for a 3-year postdoc related to my @erc.europa.eu research project EQUILIBRIUM that focuses on state-citizen interactions.

The application link and further information are in the post below. ⬇️

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Sophie Mainz @sophiemainz.bsky.social · 9d

Happy that my article just published in PSRM! In "Inclusion to Exclude“, I show that when politicians invoke women's rights to justify anti-immigration positions, it shifts citizens' policy preferences - but differently so depending on their prior views. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

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Antje Wiener @antjewiener.bsky.social · 9d

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New book OPEN ACCESS
👇🏻👇🏻
This chapter introduces #deepcontestation and explains the distinction between normal contestation, which permits gradual adaptation, and deep contestation, which rejects foundational norms and threatens systemic stability.
@scripts-berlin.eu

Introduction: Deep Contestations of the Liberal International Order

Abstract. This introductory chapter examines the Liberal International Order (LIO), its evolution since the Second World War, and its present state of deep

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 9d

An important study on an underappreciated diversity concern in academia: by class background.

Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 9d

📢now forthcoming in ECMA!

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia

Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.

Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 9d

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 9d

Good piece by @jonhenley.bsky.social on how European far-right parties and voters are responding to Trump.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘Enemy of Europe’? How Trump’s push for Greenland spooked far-right allies

Leaders and voters who formerly applauded US president’s aims have been growing increasingly uneasy

www.theguardian.com

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 9d

Tiktok 🇺🇸 turns out to be Trump aligned state platform. In no time.

www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-...

TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

Alleged censorship comes after investors loyal to Trump take over social media platform

www.independent.co.uk

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10d

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 10d

🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social)

⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*?

doi.org/10.1017/S147...

From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization

doi.org

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Bibliotek i Samhälle @foreningenbis.se · 10d

Efter ett år av amerikanska utspel på den globala arenan börjar många nu tvivla på om USA verkligen är en partner att lita på. Vi förklarar varför det är dags att ta avstånd från amerikansk teknik, och presenterar några alternativ för den som själv vill bryta.

Alternativ till amerikansk tech

De senaste veckorna av utrikespolitik har varit tumultartade. Det militära angreppet på Venezuela och politiska hot mot Grönland och Danmark väcker frågor: Är det inte dags att bli oberoende av US-amerikansk teknik? Leodan Rodríguez målar upp några alternativ och tipsar om icke-amerikansk programvara.

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Reposted by Carl Henrik Knutsen, Mark J. Brandt, Victor Asal , and 2 more Carl Henrik Knutsen, Mark J. Brandt, Victor Asal, Nazita Lajevardi, Jens Rydgren

Ashok Swain @ashoswai.bsky.social · 11d

We are hiring a Professor!
The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, the world’s leading research environments in the field, is now recruiting a Professor. We welcome applications from internationally recognized scholars. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Professor of Peace and Conflict Research

Uppsala University announces a vacancy for a permanent position as Professor of Peace and Conflict Research At the Department of Peace and Conflict Research The Department is one of the

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 11d

1/From Greenland to Venezuela to tariffs, Trump foreign policy baffles leaders and readers. Why? Because it is not about national interest but those of insider elites. To understand and manage, you have to name it: what @segoddard.bsky.social and I call neo-royalism.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

Opinion | This Theory Explains Trump’s Baffling Foreign Policy

www.nytimes.com

Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 11d

Men för minskad polarisring krävs en avradikalisering av MAGA-väljarna.

Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 11d

Det akuta problemet i USA är inte polarisering utan radikalisering. En högerextrem falang har kontroll över statsapparaten. Polariseringen behöver troligen först ÖKA – motståendet mot MAGA måste öka – innan man senare ev. kan sträva efter minskad (affektiv) polarisering. www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...

Statsvetaren: ”Otrolig splittring” i USA efter skjutningarna

Konflikten som just nu pågår i USA synliggör den stora splittringen mellan de federala och lokala myndigheterna i landet. Det säger Emma Ricknell, statsvetare vid Linnéuniversitetet, till SVT. – Att d...

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Vincenzo Emanuele @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social · 13d

📖✅Our open access article 'Lipset and Rokkan meet data' on the electoral structuring of traditional #cleavages has been issued on @wepsocial.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....