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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 22h

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Dr. Semuhi Sinanoglu @semuhi.bsky.social · 1d

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 #𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 #𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬?

They face huge risks, especially during economic crises, when dictators choose to financially extort or #purge their business allies. And yet, despite their power to disrupt, business elites rarely switch sides.

My research shows why.

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Ezgi Elci @ezgielci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you, Cas! I wish we could meet, but going in and out of the US from Canada is risky for Turkish citizens now because of obvious reasons :)

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Ezgi Elci @ezgielci.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thrilled to be starting as a Visiting Scholar at Concordia University’s Political Science Department with the Immigration Research Initiative! Excited for new ideas, collaborations, and great conversations on migration.

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Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · Sep 2

Working on political psychology research with a focus on East Asia? A new special issue of our journal will center East Asia to broaden the field’s geographic & cultural assumptions. Find the call in the Special Issues section of the link below & consider submitting your work! linktr.ee/POPSjournal

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Clément Plaisant @cplaisant.bsky.social · Sep 2

"The DP’s authoritarianism emerged as a result of its pursuit to establish hegemony right from the start. Failure of establishing consent gave way to forceful domination, setting the DP period as the first example of competitive authoritarianism in Turkey"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The first case of competitive authoritarianism in Turkey: the Democrat Party, 1950–1960

The extant literature on modern Turkish politics offers a mixed perspective on the Democrat Party (DP) period and the 1950s. The foundational literature extolls the DP era as a period of democratiz...

www.tandfonline.com

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Sep 1

3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma.

Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia.

Please apply, share, etc.

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1

Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...

jobs.smartrecruiters.com

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · Aug 26

🌅📙 64.3

#NostalgicDeprivation in Europe 🇪🇺

These authors (🧵⬇️) look at impact of #NostalgicDeprivation on support for #PopulistParties across both Eastern and Western Europe 🌍 linking populist attitudes and voting.

🔗 buff.ly/HuJNAqL

Nostalgic deprivation and populism: Evidence from 19 European countries

JEREMY FERWERDA, JUSTIN GEST, TYLER RENY

ow.ly

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Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · Aug 22

OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A screenshot of the abstract displayed under the link in the post

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Aug 18

Today is my first teaching day of Fall 2025. I'm teaching a grad course on Qualitative Methods, for the first time in almost 10 years.

As several people have asked me to post my syllabus, here it is. Note that it can be, and often is, changed a bit during the semester.

spia.uga.edu

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 New article 🌟
👥 Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social and Tamta Gelashvili @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social (ISV)
🔎 How can institutions better support researchers? The case of extremism and terrorism research
📗 Open access in Qualitative Research
doi.org/10.1177/1468...

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POP @populismblog.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨 New article out in @govandopp.bsky.social
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How did far-right parties go from political outcasts to election contenders in Germany, Portugal, Spain & Sweden?

Turns out, stigma doesn’t last forever…

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Back to the Future? The Electoral Breakthrough of Far-Right Parties | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core

Back to the Future? The Electoral Breakthrough of Far-Right Parties - Volume 60 Issue 3

www.cambridge.org

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Aug 11

NEW -

How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD

"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"

- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamics of mainstream and radical political rhetoric regarding anti-immigrant policies, highlighting differences in societal responses and enforcement norms based on the source of the rhetoric.

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EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium @behaviour-eui.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!

We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025).

If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31

EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium

Please fill in the details below to submit your proposal. Kindly provide the title and abstract of your paper, as well as your availability to present. The Colloquium is held every Tuesday from 17:00 ...

docs.google.com

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Gefjon Off @gefjonoff.bsky.social · Aug 7

New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Are young men becoming more conservative?

This debate requires a) more nuance and b) theoretical explanations for often descriptive results. With Amy Alexander and Nicholas Charron, we try addressing both.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Young men, gendered labour market competition, and opposition to gender equality policy across 27 EU countries

Recent studies have shown an increasing divide in political values between young men and women, particularly regarding gender equality attitudes. In this study it is argued that this is due in part...

www.tandfonline.com

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · Aug 5

As I explore at length in the article below, "immigration" is not a "legitimate concern" that rises from the bottom to force the elite to crack down but a top-down construction to divert attention away from the many other real crisis people care about

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

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · Aug 5

Join us!

PoWiMZ @powimz.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm delighted to see this article out in @govandopp.bsky.social! Jonas Wenker and I show that losing an election has a far stronger negative effect on populist voters than on non-populist ones. For populists, losing signals that the system is broken. 1/5 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Losers’ Dissent: How Election Results Shape Populists’ Satisfaction with Democracy | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core

Losers’ Dissent: How Election Results Shape Populists’ Satisfaction with Democracy

www.cambridge.org

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · Aug 3

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · Aug 2

In four years Meloni has gone from pariah to leader of the new Christian Democracy, now with the explicit endorsement of the most important recent leader of Italian Bishops.

There are a few PhD theses waiting to be written on this rapid journey...

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Ayca Arkilic @aycaarkilic.bsky.social · Jul 31

@profterrig.bsky.social Terri Givens and I are looking forward to welcoming 10 domestic & international early career scholars to Wellington on 20 August for our workshop "Understanding the Race-Immigration Nexus in Settler-Colonial Settings." Still looking for discussants - please PM if interested

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Elif Kalaycioglu @elifkalay.bsky.social · Jul 28

So, @jelenasubotic.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue on heritage politics for @risjnl.bsky.social, and the contributions are starting to drop on first view!

Stay tuned for our co-authored introductory essay and more contributions but here is what we have so far:

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Meray Maddah @meraymaddah.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨 New piece for @ecpr.bsky.social's @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — @maxheermann.bsky.social & I map trips of world leaders using @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social's COLT of over 78K+ foreign trips by heads of state and gov from 1990-2023.
Reference: bsky.app/profile/jose...

Network visualization of foreign diplomatic visits using the COLT dataset.
- Countries are shown as circular nodes sized by the number of inbound visits.
- Node color indicates world region: blue for Asia, yellow for Europe, red for Africa, green for Latin America and the Caribbean, pink for Oceania, and purple for Northern America.
- Directed arrows represent path of state visits from a leader’s country to their first destination, with line thickness indicating visit frequency in each decade.
Edge colors denote decades: dark blue (1990s), orange (2000s), and light green (2010s–2023).

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Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism @jpict.bsky.social · Jul 24

🔊 We have a new review available! @ibburckhardt.bsky.social looks at Hoffman and Ware, "Guns, God and Sedition: Far Right Terrorism In America", finding it "makes significant and timely contributions to theory and strategy in terrorism studies." Link here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

God, guns and sedition: far-right terrorism in America

Published in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Mariano Torcal @marianotorcal.bsky.social · Jul 23

It is OUT the last (printed) version of Handbook of Affective Polarization doi.org/10.4337/9781...
It is open Access!!!

doi.org

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