Who’s France’s next PM? Me? You? It could be anyone! Put your hand up and you’ve half a chance (terms and conditions apply, in particular if you’re from the left)

🇫🇷🗳️ La stabilité des blocs par rapport aux législatives 2024 est impressionnante :

🔴🟢🟣 Gauche 32%, +2
🟡🔵 "Socle commun" 27% +, -5
⚫🟤 Extrême-droite 36,5%, +2

Tout dépendra de la participation et de l'ampleur du front républicain - et bien malin qui peut les anticiper...

Absolutely delicious Ukrainian meal at Onuky in Riga tonight, including dumplings, chanterelles, stuffed peppers, chocolate cake, and a lovely Ukrainian Merlot. Slava Ukraini!
#slavaukraini #ukrainianfood

La pétition citoyenne "Non à la Loi Duplomb — Pour la santé, la sécurité, l’intelligence collective" approche le million de signatures en qq jours.
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

J’en profite pour faire une petite histoire de cette pratique, de ce droit

“When asked directly whether he could guarantee under oath that French citizen data would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit French authorization, [Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs Anton] Carniaux responded: ‘No, I cannot guarantee it.’”

Ellen Wilkinson was such a good parliamentary performer.

Here she is in 1925, arguing for votes for women at 21 (rather than 30, as previously).

New article w Elena Cossu : How terror attacks shape political agendas on #multiculturalism in France.
👉 We show how terror events push mainstream parties toward far-right rhetoric on #diversity & #Islam. @cogitatiopag.bsky.social @authlibeu.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

What Abou-Chadi et al. show here is not just that conservative migration positions won't help social-democrats to attract voters, but also that left positions on retirement (that is allowing for early retirement) make social-democrats most attractive (and right positions make them less attracitve).

For SD Parties this means that as long as their program is economically to the left, it does not matter much to working class voters what it includes culturally e.g. on immigration. In contrast, educated middle class voters will punish a program for being less culturally progressive.

Looks like we should all take the story in one of this summer’s indie successes with a pinch of salt

Wrote a short piece about how challenging tackling the far right has been for French mainstream parties for Logos, with reference to @aurelmondon.bsky.social's work on mainstreaming
tldr version: they don't know what they're doing
logosjournal.com/article/the-...

It would take a heart of stone…
www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

Why, oh why, and I so old and already have a PhD? Astérix studies, the dream (though not if it involves watching some of the live-action films)

For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !

I will never be able to hear the words HS2 and not think of this incredible illustration from French TV news trying to understand why high-speed train projects are a failure in the UK
(LGV: high-speed train line)

Happy 1-year anniversary of Macron’s dissolution to those who celebrate!

Stop the search’s, here’s my new class video for ranked-choice voting

'Afin d’avoir une majorité, il faut un scrutin majoritaire rejetant la proportionnelle, chère aux rivalités et aux exclusives de partis mais incompatible avec le soutien continu d’une politique, et adoptant tout bonnement le scrutin uninominal à deux tours' (Mémoires d’espoir, 1970)

Les Républicains follow 1945 De Gaulle over 5th Republic De Gaulle by supporting PR in French parliamentary elections
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

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📊🚨 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗦?

@chanret.bsky.social & I have a panel at @psaepop.bsky.social on 𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨 and have space for 2 papers. Topics might include fragmentation, disproportionality, measurement, etc. DM for more info and we especially welcome interest from ECRs!

🇺🇦 Unsurprisingly as seen from Ukraine, there was no silence on the frontline - and hence no Easter truce on Russia's part...I talked about it with Gavin Lee and Doug Herbert as we analyse this weekend's key events in Ukraine.

🔗 Video here 👇

www.instagram.com/reel/DIsnA-J...