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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · Aug 11

This sentiment is also shared by more nationalist figures within the ruling party LDP, like Tomomi Inada, former Defence Minister, which openly denied the Nanjing massacre.

www.smh.com.au/world/china-...

China slams Japan's defence minister Tomomi Inada for ducking Nanjing massacre questions

China on Friday accused Japan's new defence minister of recklessly misrepresenting history after she declined to say whether Japanese troops massacred civilians in China during World War Two.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · Aug 11

When a party mixes nostalgia for a “strong Japan” with revisionist undertones, it’s not just a policy debate, it’s a warning sign.

The Sino-Japanese history problems have never been solved and faced. Mix this with an ongoing anti-chinese feeling and Sanseito, nothing good can come out of this.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · Aug 11

In Japan’s polarised memory politics, wartime predations abroad aren’t just history, they shape the present. Denial of past atrocities risks more than diplomatic fallout: it can erode the democratic & pacifist ideals that define postwar Japan.

Recent survey: chinascope.org/archives/334...

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · Aug 11

Just watched Dead to Rights. Hard not to think of Sanseito’s rising nationalist–populist rhetoric, its anti-migration stances also vs Chinese.

Japan’s gov’t has acknowledged wartime wrongdoing but never issued a direct apology for the massacre. Ambiguity keeps the wound open & fuels mistrust.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · Aug 4

My new my new home for the next two months. Excited to dive into this new adventure at the Monash University!
@monashuniversity.bsky.social

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · Aug 1

With some delay from @ipsa.org, I made it through Seoul’s heatwave and the rainy season. Grateful to have been part of such a vibrant and stimulating environment. Had so many energising conversations with brilliant scholars from all over the world. Still buzzing with ideas!

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Max Heermann @maxheermann.bsky.social · Jul 22

(1) In the new In_equality magazine by @excinequality.bsky.social, we draw on original survey data from 9 countries to argue that public support for mutlilateral health policy is more robust than populists want to make you believe.
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The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social · Jul 18

🎉 New Issue Alert! The eighth issue of In_equality magazine is here: 7 Years of Research. Looking Back and Ahead. This edition dives into our research over the past seven years and takes a look at what’s next. Read it here (also available in German): t1p.de/hfl2c @Uni Konstanz

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ecpr - SG Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨 New #PolComm ECR Club Session coming up! 🙌

🕺 Join us tomorrow (12 June) at 🕰️ 1pm for a discussion of 🎇 Memes during the Czech Elections 🗳️

w/ ✨ Martina Paulenova, Ofra Klein & Ana Langer. ✨

🖥️ Check events.ecpr.eu/Events/Event... for more details and registration/zoom link! 🔗

@ecpr.bsky.social

Memeing the Candidates: Exploring Polarization and Incivility in Commenters’ Responses to Anti-Populist Memes during the 2023 Czech Presidential Elections

European Consortium for Political Research

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · May 25

Wrapped up a fantastic week at the #ECPR Joint Sessions—grateful for the inspiring discussions and brilliant colleagues. Big thanks to Lisbeth Zimmermann and @raffaelemstr.bsky.social for organizing a great workshop on the international politics of the far right!
@ecpr.bsky.social

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · May 6

Guess Merz' version of 'whatever it takes' didn’t include managing fragmented ranks in his own party & the coalition.

Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · May 6

Can mainstream parties just get their act together maybe?

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · May 6

Branded as undemocratic, the #AfD now flips the populist script exploiting Merz's failed vote to frame CDU and SPD as the real enemies of the people.
Celebrating a democratic deadlock as a response to anti-democratic criticism.

I need 🍿

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · May 1

Amen.

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · May 1

Populism is not undemocratic per se. It is a euphemism for the kind of political and social system the current far right wants to establish. If we continue to describe their threat as populism, politicians will continue to say "in a democracy, it can't be wrong to do what the people want". 2/

Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · Apr 29

"populist backlashes are not always successful. Populism as a thin ideology provides a thin basis for multilateral reform coalitions, making (partial) exit a more likely outcome than reform."
[Populism and backlash towards IC]

🤼Reality vs Academia

breakingthenews.net/Article/Hung...

Hungary's parliament approves ICC exit

Hungary's parliament approved on Tuesday a bill to withdraw the country from the International Criminal Court (ICC) after obtaining necessary support from more than two-thirds of its members.Hungarian...

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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · Apr 28

📢 PUBLICATION ALERT!

New article by @lazaroskaravasilis.bsky.social in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social re-examines how 'the elite' is constructed in populist discourse, using the cases of Die Linke and AfD. A crucial contribution to populism studies!

Read here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What we talk about when we talk about ‘the elite’ in populism studies: re-examining an often-neglected term in the cases of Die Linke and AfD

Populism studies have almost exclusively focused on understanding the phenomenon of populism based on how ‘the people’ are constructed as a political subject. Indeed, most of the relevant literatur...

www.tandfonline.com

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · Apr 23

My new office wall meme

Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · Apr 22

I know I'm the last person who should be posting this...

Meme of Bernie Sanders saying "I'm once again asking you to stop correlating populist attitudes with everything. they don't matter

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · Apr 22

I know I'm the last person who should be posting this...

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Christian Breunig @breunig.bsky.social · Mar 31

Terrific lineup for our Comparative Politics & Political Economy series this summer,incl @clandwehr.bsky.social @finseraas.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social @ccavaille.bsky.social @anewq.bsky.social & @valentimvicente.bsky.social . Thanks for organizing @tobiastober.bsky.social @na-wehl.bsky.social

Comparative Politics and Political Economy speaker series at the University of Konstanz

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · Jan 21

So it happened ("ooh that's a big one"), now who is next in the line?
Meloni? Wilders? Le Pen? Now that Trump has normalized the withdrawal from IOs, we could expect that more populists will claim the same, supported by their audience already critical towards international governance.

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Jan 15

What is the far-right’s foreign policy outlook? @thorstenwojczewski.bsky.social tests a proposed theoretical framework through a comparative analysis of two German right parties. In @polstudies.bsky.social: https://buff.ly/40yvuTA (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social

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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · Jan 9

#RadicalRight parties made significant gains at the ballot box during 2024.

Drawing on his recent book @oxunipress.bsky.social, @valentimvicente.bsky.social @ieuniversity.bsky.social argues that this success owes much to the normalisation of their views.

@lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

How the normalisation of the radical right has fuelled their electoral success

Radical-right parties made significant gains at the ballot box during 2024. Vicente Valentim argues this success owes much to the normalisation of their views. Last year was a year full of election…

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · Dec 4

Right now on the other social.

South Korea: coup d'etat.
Scholars: in 1952 I published this paper about Korea that explains exactly why we shouldn't be surprised.

Today I'm expecting, at least, papers about Jean-Marie Le Pen and Pierre Poujade that explains EM défaite.

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · Nov 23

Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Political scientist: The cup is affectively polarized

Adiv Gonzalez Muñoz @vidadiv.bsky.social · Nov 23

Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Quantum physicist: the cup is half full AND half empty.

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Nov 23

Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Historian: The cup, 1789-1914

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Max Heermann @maxheermann.bsky.social · Apr 4

The Easter basket wasn't empty! 🐣🐤

Great to see our (w @leuffen.bsky.social & @julianschuess.bsky.social) article on the link between fairness concerns and public support for (differentiated) EU integration published open access in the European Journal of Political Research: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Abstract:
This article analyses whether and how fairness considerations affect citizens’ support of European Union (EU) policies and integration. While past literature has revealed that perceptions of procedural and substantive fairness impact on public opinion at the level of the nation state, we know less about the fairness-support nexus when it comes to international cooperation. We here make use of the case of differentiated integration (DI) to experimentally dissect normative and utility-oriented considerations in the evaluation of EU policies. DI as an instrument to overcome heterogeneity-induced gridlock has been linked to both autonomy and dominance, and it can generate winners and losers in the EU. Our experiments reveal that citizens largely support DI. However, they are opposed to forms of DI which impose negative externalities on a subgroup of EU member states. This holds irrespective of the affectedness of citizens’ own member states.

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Jelle Koedam @jellekoedam.bsky.social · Mar 14

🚨 Job Opportunities 🚨

Multiple postdocs on Daniele Caramani’s ERC project on “Global Cleavages” at the EUI!

polisky PSJMinfo

A few days left to apply:

europeangovernanceandpolitics.eui.eu/erc-advanced...

ERC Advanced Grant GLOBAL - Call for applications - The European Governance and Politics Programme

3 post-doctoral Research Fellowships in the ERC Advanced Grant project “Global Cleavages: The Shape of Political Conflict across World Regions in Historical Perspective” (GLOBAL, 2023-28) led by PI Da...

europeangovernanceandpolitics.eui.eu

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