🔎 Want to go deeper?

Read the journal article "How Terror Attacks Shape Political Agendas on Multiculturalism in France" by Elena Cossu and @caterinafr.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social published in Politics and Governance!

Open access ⤵️ www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

📣 As we conclude AUTHLIB in the coming weeks, stay with us for the roll-out of a set of exciting country and policy papers, showcasing the varieties of illiberal drivers and appeal across Europe, and our analysis and recommendations to address the illiberal challenge on the EU level.

🤝 The MORES - Moral Emotions in Politics @mores-project.bsky.social is an innovative research project exploring the role of moral emotions, values, and identities in politics. In doing so, it builds on AUTHLIB's work.

👉 Learn more and follow its social media channels: mores-horizon.eu

Giving a glimps into @mores-project.bsky.social, @zsolt-boda.bsky.social (Eötvös Loránd University) also joined the conference and shared insights into their ongoing work on moral emotions and populist governance.

Peter Kreko (Eötvös Loránd University) and Gábor Orosz (Flinders University) discussed the initial findings of their democratic inoculation experiment that is bridging AUTHLIB and the recently launched @mores-project.bsky.social.

📖 Learn more about illiberal politics in Europe!

Check AUTHLIB's Politics and Governance special issue: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

The panel closed with the presentation of Bálint Mikola @weareceu.bsky.social of his joint work with Péter Radó (Eötvös Loránd University, CEU) that assessed how illiberalism transforms social and educational policies in Central Europe.

Following her intervention, Eva Fodor @weareceu.bsky.social explored the how gender issues are targeted and instrumentalized by illiberal forces.

🗣️ Read more about one of AUTHLIB's deliberative fora, the Ideological Opponents' Forum here: www.authlib.eu/authlib-ideo...

@petraguasti.bsky.social @charlesuni.cuni.cz shared how various forms of deliberation tested in the framework of AUTHLIB impacts polarization and whether it has the potential to change people's views in ideologically charged as well as locally sensitive matters.

⚠️ @danielhegedus.bsky.social @gmfus.bsky.social discussed the illiberal challenge to democratic civil society in Europe and put forward elaborate EU-level recommendations to protect and strengthen the sector.
Stay tunedned for the paper!

📽️ Interested in this issue?
Watch the discussion of the SNS team's early results here: youtu.be/iU-YwtHn05E?...

Zsolt Enyedi @zsolt.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social talked about the "illiberal international" exploring the elite-level cooperation identifying key nods and mapping ideological differences among illiberal groups.

🔗 Batuhan Eren and Manuela Caiani @sns.it presented their main takeaways from their research on the growing connections among far right parties, movements, and civic actors across borders and the ongoing transnational learning among them.

Elena Cossu @eui-eu.bsky.social shared her findings on the conceptualization and measurement of illiberal and far-right party communication using LLMs.