Our new study in
@jwpp.bsky.social
shows that online abuse on social media discourages young women from pursuing political offices—before their actual political careers have even begun.

with @dahoehmann.bsky.social and Tomoko Latteier

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

🎉 We’re SO HAPPY to have wrapped up our 3-year SNF-funded project “Do Citizens Distrust Politicians? The Role of the Representative Function” with a 2-day workshop “Citizens’ Preferences for Representation and Their Consequences for Political Behaviour” — it was a huge success! 🙌🤯

Now out with volume number!
“Selecting and Ranking Female Candidates under PR” (with Michael Jankowski @cerpintaxt.bsky.social) in European Journal of Political Research (doi.org/10.1111/1475...)

Another piece on candidate selection of mine is forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social : Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR” (doi.org/10.1086/734244)

Superb analysis by @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social putting the Trump administration in global context of what state capture is, how it operates, and the prospects of it coming to a country near you

Apparently, the government's 'fix' for SLAPPs relies on not acknowledging them.

↪️ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social: 'A sanctioned Russian warlord suing a British journalist for stating the blindingly obvious is, apparently, not an abuse of the British legal system.

NEW: our latest investigation on how Abramovich evaded millions of euros on his fleet of superyachts.

His associates arranged for commercial exemptions on huge VAT bills by falsely claiming the boats were hired out to customers.

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

New Quick Guide out: Sexual corruption - The Basel Institute on Governance's primer on this under-recognised intersection of corruption and sexual abuse, its impacts, and how social norms contribute to its persistence.

🔗 baselgovernance.org/publications/qg35

👋 A big welcome to all those who've joined Bluesky in the last few days. If you're seeing this, you probably have an interest in #anticorruption so why not give these fine folk a follow?
We've added some great accounts recently thanks to recommendations so please keep them coming! #starterpack