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Tarik Abou-Chadi
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Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️‍🌈

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Jul 7
New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Reposted by Tarik Abou‐Chadi

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 9h
If you are an advanced PhD student or PostDoc working on AI and global politics/tech/authoritarianism come spend 1-6 months in Berlin this year with @scripts-berlin.eu! We have some funding for you and will help w/ visa and other moving issues.
Info here: www.scripts-berlin.eu/about-us/job...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 11h
How are "Labour will do better without Keir Starmer" and "Peter Mandelson has done more damage than good to the Labour Party" partisan views?
(Not that politics professors wouldn't be entitled to partisan views.)

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 11h
The idea of "pull factors" has become essential for how many parties approach immigration. In their desperate attempt to respond to the radical right, they look for levers that signal agency. Imaginary pull factors are necessary for the just-do-something approach that wants to signal toughness.
cathalmalone.bsky.social Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 14h
Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment?

"Pull factors" on steroids.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Steve Peers, Tarik Abou‐Chadi

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 14h
Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment?

"Pull factors" on steroids.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reposted by Tarik Abou‐Chadi

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Ezequiel González-Ocantos @egocantos.bsky.social · 1d
We are pleased to announce that the call for the 4th Annual Early Career Workshop on Social Science Approaches to Law and Courts is now live. If you are a PhD student or postdoc working in this area, you can send us your abstract via this link: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 1d
Bringing down Keir Starmer would be the best thing Peter Mandelson has ever done for the Labour Party.

Reposted by Tarik Abou‐Chadi

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
Possibly it also is worth recognising that the 2024 election win was not some strategically brilliant victory, but a significant under-performance against a historically unpopular government.

Reposted by Jens Rydgren

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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

Reposted by Sara B. Hobolt, Stefan Müller, Marta Kołczyńska , and 1 more

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 3d
Acceptances (+ rejections 😔) on panel & paper proposals for this year’s EPSS conference in Belfast 18-20 June went out today.

If you have submitted, please check your inbox!

You need to register for the conference by Friday 13 March.

1/3

Reposted by Anne Rasmussen, Robert Huber, Markus Wagner , and 8 more

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Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social · 3d
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨

7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).

Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 3d
New star line up at Sciences Po
sciencespo-cee.bsky.social Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · 6d
👏 We've been thrilled to welcome 2️⃣ new Assistant Professors this month!

@dianebolet.bsky.social, working on the green backlash and the rise of the far right.

Jonne Kamphorst, jointly affiliated with @cdsp-sciencespo.bsky.social, bringing expertise on democratic engagement & LLMs in social science.
Diane Bolet Jonne Kamphorst

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 3d
Increasingly difficult to come up with places where the approach to the far right is not accommodation and normalization

Reposted by Will Jennings, Tim Bale

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 3d
Australia. Another one of people's favorite examples that tough border control weakens the far right. Instead, Australia as many other countries seems to show us a recipe for how the far right can become so normalized that it eventually outperforms the mainstream right.
drjennings.bsky.social Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 4d
Nobody in Britain pays any attention to Australian politics, but One Nation overtaking the Coalition in the polls has distinct parallels with Reform leading the Conservatives. Parties on the radical right are coming for centre right parties across the world...

Poll via AFR / RedBridge Accent.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 3d
"Wie wird das Wetter nächste Woche?"
Man scheint bei Allensbach Schwierigkeiten zu haben zu unterscheiden zwischen von etwas verunsichert sein und unsicher sein über etwas (das in der Zukunft liegt). Aber das nächste Buch zur "Verunsicherungsgeselleschaft" ist sicher schon in Arbeit.
beimwort.bsky.social Jonas Schaible @beimwort.bsky.social · 3d
„Wo ist die Unsicherheit am größte?“
Alle: Überall

Demoskopie am Limit

Reposted by Tarik Abou‐Chadi

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Jonas Schaible @beimwort.bsky.social · 3d
„Wo ist die Unsicherheit am größte?“
Alle: Überall

Demoskopie am Limit

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Kim L. Scheppele, Steve Peers , and 5 more

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 4d
Nobody in Britain pays any attention to Australian politics, but One Nation overtaking the Coalition in the polls has distinct parallels with Reform leading the Conservatives. Parties on the radical right are coming for centre right parties across the world...

Poll via AFR / RedBridge Accent.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 5d
People rightly focus on how the Epstein files reveal how networks of the rich elite work in supporting the worst. We should not forget that they also reveal another simple truth: men are trash
colincarlson.bsky.social Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 5d
This is Nathan Wolfe. Nathan is a virus hunter. Nathan has a bit of a reputation. Through the years, I've told multiple journalists stories I've heard, like "Nathan thanks Jeffrey Epstein in his book." Somehow no one ever wrote anything up. Want to see what Nathan was up to in today's Epstein files?
nathan wolfe doing the theranos pinch

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 5d
Be especially nice to the millenial gays in your life today. We are in mourning.
a woman in a black dress is smiling with #schitts creek written in the corner
ALT: a woman in a black dress is smiling with #schitts creek written in the corner
media.tenor.com

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, John R. Hutchinson, Smith , and 1 more

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 5d
This is Nathan Wolfe. Nathan is a virus hunter. Nathan has a bit of a reputation. Through the years, I've told multiple journalists stories I've heard, like "Nathan thanks Jeffrey Epstein in his book." Somehow no one ever wrote anything up. Want to see what Nathan was up to in today's Epstein files?
nathan wolfe doing the theranos pinch

Reposted by Vincent Tiberj, Tarik Abou‐Chadi

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Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · 6d
👏 We've been thrilled to welcome 2️⃣ new Assistant Professors this month!

@dianebolet.bsky.social, working on the green backlash and the rise of the far right.

Jonne Kamphorst, jointly affiliated with @cdsp-sciencespo.bsky.social, bringing expertise on democratic engagement & LLMs in social science.
Diane Bolet Jonne Kamphorst

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 7d
Mit Grüßen an alle in der deutschen Debatte, die immer wieder mit "aber die Zahlen sind von der Hamas" versucht haben das Ausmaß des Genozids in Gaza zu relativieren. Internationale Expert:innen sehen die Zahlen schon lange als zuverlässig. Jetzt auch die IDF.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 7d
A weekend ruined

Reposted by Jonathan Hopkin

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 7d
Complete insanity. And it's a political choice. There should be interest-free student loans for at least a share of the population. That's the rule not the exception if you look at other countries. Graduates are the most important electoral group for Labour. They can demand more from this government
bbcnewsnight.bsky.social BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 7d
“I borrowed in total £55,000…”

“How much do you owe now?"

“£72,000”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Dr Arthur Joustra, a trainee paediatrician, about how his student loan debt has risen since he graduated in 2022 - despite making payments.

#Newsnight

Reposted by Tarik Abou‐Chadi

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Trustfund @trustfnd.com · 7d
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 7d
Manchester capitalism rebranded as a lifestyle choice. It's what happens when the left withdraws from shaping identities around work, life, and politics. Individualism, conservatism ("marry early"), puritanism. They all shape how he will act politically. "Care for the sick? No, it's their own fault"

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, John R. Hutchinson, Scott L. Greer , and 8 more

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 7d
www.ft.com/content/d0b7...
No thank you.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 8d
Super informative on the by-election that everyone is talking about. Most interesting for me: how difficult this should be for Reform based on socio-demographics. It should be very winnable for a candidate on the left who can mobilize young and muslim voters. Unclear if that sill applies to Labour.

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings, Steve Peers , and 9 more

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 8d
New Swingometer! The Gorton and Denton By-election: A tale of Two Manchesters

open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
The Gorton and Denton by-election: a tale of two Manchesters?
Unpopular incumbent + fragmented opposition + unusual seat = unpredictable contest
open.substack.com

Reposted by Thomas M. Meyer, Tarik Abou‐Chadi

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Valentina Ausserladscheider @vapunkt.bsky.social · 8d
‼️If you are an early career researcher interested in CPE and related field and focus on Eastern Europe, the great team around @dorobohle.bsky.social at the Department of Political Science @univie.ac.at is looking for a postdoc 📣 Deadline 27.02. 📯Details here👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
jobs.univie.ac.at

Reposted by Simon Hix, Patricia Owens

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 9d
Instead of reading even more about Matt Goodwin, I would like to read about a system that over years has enabled, defended, and empowered him. A system that discredited his critics and enjoyed him as an enfant terrible. A system that only listened when senior, white, male professors criticized him.