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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇

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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 26d

Very nice interview on the connections between football and politics with Cas Mudde, who teaches an academic course on the subject at the University of Georgia.

www.ultimouomo.com/come-il-neol...

Come il neoliberismo sta minacciando il calcio – Ultimo Uomo

Con Cas Mudde parliamo dei diversi rapporti tra politica e calcio nel presente.

www.ultimouomo.com

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Amsterdam Centre for European Studies - ACES @acesuva.bsky.social · Aug 22

“The rise of far-right parties is not only about cultural conflict or immigration – it’s also about geography and the presence of the state,” said Professor Catherine E. De Vries.

On September 15, ACES opens the academic year with a timely lecture by Professor De Vries.

🔗 lnkd.in/dJwGvKMh

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Aug 19

Mijn nieuwe essay “De Wilderiaanse Leegte” uit in de Groene

🇮🇹 Vanuit Italië zie ik hoe Nederland steeds meer op mijn gastland begint te lijken.

En ja: als je Nederlanders écht boos wilt maken, moet je ze vergelijken met Italianen. Dus here we go. 😉

🔗 www.groene.nl/artikel/de-w...

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Hoe Wilders voortbouwt op een Italiaanse traditie van charme, crisisretoriek en nietsdoen

De erfenis van Silvio Berlusconi reikt inmiddels tot in Nederland: politiek als spektakel, media als toneel en daadkracht vooral in de vorm van schone schijn. Geert Wilders is de meest recente erfgena...

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · Aug 13

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A shadow on democracy? 😶🌫️

@mfenzl.bsky.social demonstrates the importance of studying the political impacts of the #ShadowEconomy bringing to light 💡 the impact on welfare systems and #Taxation rates 💲📈

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A shadow on democracy? The shadow economy and government responsiveness

MICHELE FENZL

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Aug 3

Want to read about tracking and civic engagement? It’s summer after all.

Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Jul 1

New paper out with the @adkspanel.bsky.social team, in the @bjsociology.bsky.social. I was happy to lead this paper on track differences in civic engagement, using four-year panel data of the ADKS (DAPDV) project, from the start of the tracked system (roughly age 12-16) doi.org/10.1111/1468... >

Track Differences in Civic and Democratic Engagement During Secondary Education: A New Panel Study From the Netherlands

Whether students educated in different ability tracks in secondary education develop different levels of civic and democratic engagement is yet unclear. To explore this issue, we focus on how schools...

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · Jul 6

Why are working class people under-represented in legislatures?

We propose one potential mechanism: working-class individuals are *perceived* as less likely to achieve political success, and are subsequently 'pragmatically' discriminated against.

We provide an experiment in the UK to test it:

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · Jun 17

Finishing this book wasn't exactly easy, but it's out there now and I can hardly believe it...

Anyone and everyone can read it and download it, as it is Open Access.

We are happy to come to your institution and present the findings in the Autumn, just drop us a line!

Populism in Action @populisminaction.bsky.social · Jun 17

Our brand new monograph, discussing the findings of our work together during the last seven years, is now out for @oxfordacademic.bsky.social‬ and free to read and download!

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Jun 9

The Italian citizenship referendum failed. This is a tragedy for Italy and for progress on migrant rights in Europe
… and condemns Italy’s national football teams to further failure 🤦‍♂️
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Italy’s citizenship referendum fails after voters heed Giorgia Meloni call for boycott

Low turnout for two-day plebiscite aimed at granting faster citizenship to immigrants garners below 50% threshold needed to pass

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Tom Louwerse @tomlouwerse.nl · Jun 9

🧵 New research on what citizens expect from opposition parties in democracy published in @wepsocial.bsky.social. @elinazorina.bsky.social and I surveyed people in Canada, Denmark, Netherlands & UK to understand their views on opposition roles. doi.org/10.1080/0140...

What kind of opposition do citizens want?

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Opposition parties play a crucial role in democracies. While scholars have extensively studied opposition behaviour and institutional powers, little is known about what citizens expect from opposition parties and how they evaluate these expectations being met. This study addresses this gap by examining citizens’ views on three key opposition roles - oversight, cooperation, and offering alternatives - and their perceived fulfilment across four countries: Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Based on a citizen survey, this study assesses how individual characteristics (democratic satisfaction, political interest, education) and institutional context are related to these views. Citizens across all four countries value cooperation. Preferences for the ‘alternative’ role vary between institutional settings. On the individual level, conflict-oriented and dissatisfied citizens value cooperation less, while those with higher education and political interest find oversight and cooperation more important.

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Jun 5

IN NEW ISSUE: What makes a politician trusted by citizens? @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, G Stoker, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social & @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social find attributes of authenticity are as important as competence & integrity: buff.ly/41DzrXI OPEN ACCESS

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jun 3

FINALLY! The dysfunctional far-right government Schoof has effectively fallen, after Wilders pulled his party from the coalition.

Importantly, this happens as his PVV is in a (free) fall and centrist parties PvdA/GL-CDA-D66 are polling at 40% together. But is VVD still liberal democratic party?

Geert Wilders trekt PVV terug uit het kabinet-Schoof

Kabinetscrisis: Geert Wilders trekt de PVV terug uit het kabinet-Schoof. In dit liveblog volgt NRC de laatste ontwikkelingen.

www.nrc.nl

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Larissa Böckmann @larboe.bsky.social · May 16

Very excited to share this publication in Politics & Governance together with @sldelange.bsky.social @nathaliebrack.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social
We study the embrace of illiberalism in far-right discourse in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2019
www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Far‐Right Illiberalism in the European Parliament | Article | Politics and Governance

Larissa Böckmann, Sarah L. de Lange, Nathalie Brack, Matthijs Rooduijn

www.cogitatiopress.com

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Bjarn Eck @bjarneck.bsky.social · May 16

New paper out in @bjpols.bsky.social, co-authored with Emilien Paulis.

Using survey data from 13 European democracies, we show that electoral winners are less supportive of referendums, especially when they are affectively polarized. 1/6

Paper: doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425000365

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar.

We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads.

What we find is disturbing:

osf.io/preprints/os...

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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · May 8

New publication with @lisajanssen.bsky.social in PolBeh:
Political distrust pushes people away from the status quo, representative democracy. But distrusters are mostly critical citizens: Rather than technocracy or authoritarianism they pull towards direct democracy
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pushing and Pulling: The Static and Dynamic Effects of Political Distrust on Support for Representative Democracy and its Rivals - Political Behavior

Distrust is widely argued to stimulate support for political and institutional change. Yet, there is little agreement among scholars whether distrust pulls people towards rivaling decision-making mode...

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Lawrence McKay @lawrencemckay.bsky.social · Apr 29

Out now (OA) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Do people in rural areas want politicians offering stronger representation to rural areas - as opposed to just their local area? Yes - based an original conjoint experiment in the UK (1/5)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Luana Russo @luanarusso.bsky.social · Apr 25

This is a special day for Italians 🇮🇹 and for Portugueses 🇵🇹.
This is the day in which liberal democracy was chosen over authoritarian regimes.
This is the day we embraced social justice.
#25Aprile will always remind us of how much we should value liberal democracies, justice, and freedom.

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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · Apr 24

🧵 THREAD: Can a short online intervention help defend democracy against partisan polarization?

In our new study - just published in the @bjpols.bsky.social - my colleagues and I tested this question across 33 countries 🌍 with over 41,000 participants 🧑‍🤝‍🧑.

Here’s what we found 👇

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Jona de Jong @jonadejong.bsky.social · Apr 22

In the latest issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social, my article with Jonne Kamphorst in which we propose that educationally homogeneous social networks contribute to the stabilization of political conflict on the cultural dimension. A short thread on the main findings:

Link: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

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Giovanni D’Agostino @gdagostino.bsky.social · Mar 24

Join us in Groningen! Last week to submit your abstract 👇

Carmen van Alebeek @cvalebeek.bsky.social · Mar 24

🚨 One week left to apply! 🚨

One week left to submit your abstract for our panel "Citizens’ attitudes towards democracy" at #Politicologenetmaal 2025 (June 12-13, University of Groningen).

📩 Submit here: politicologenetmaal.eu/call-for-pap...

⏳Deadline: March 31, 2025

Hope to see you there!

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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · Mar 11

I feel so fortunate to work with an multidisciplinary team of smart, driven, and passionate colleagues in the ERC-funded project CRITICALTRUST (on the nature, measurement, development, roots, and democratic consequences of political trust). Such collaborations are a true highlight of academic life.

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Violeta Haas @haasvioleta.bsky.social · Feb 27

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia:
osf.io/preprints/os...

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Stuk Rood Vlees @stukroodvlees.bsky.social · Feb 26

Nieuwe blog: Episode 132 – The 2025 German elections, with Tarik Abou-Chadi https://stukroodvlees.nl/?p=17668

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