New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

JA21 - 95%

As long as the far right shapes public opinion, and mainstream parties follow public opinion, the far right dominates politics, whether in government or not.

I don't know what social democratic parties stand for in the 21st century, and I think neither do they.

We are back! ❤️‍🔥 🇪🇺

In this #episode, we bring you the electoral updates from 🇨🇿🇫🇷🇮🇹🇲🇩🇳🇴🇬🇧.

🎧 Brought to you by the spectacular @europeelects.bsky.social! 🚀

Must read.

Although summer officially ends today, @ecprsgpp.bsky.social decided otherwise by giving us one more week of fun
at @unidue.bsky.social, where we could discuss one of our biggest obsessions, political parties.

#ECPR #SummerSchool #Parties #PolSci

So even someone like Jimmy Kimmel, who brings in millions, isn’t safe from far-right intimidation!

And every high-profile surrender not just feeds the thirst for more among the far-right mob but also facilitates the next surrender.

He knows he's lying.

In Prague a cardinal and ex-archbishop will hold a mess for Kirk, for which members of the city council from the government coalition (Christian Democrats) are sharing invites. They will then put a straw wreath at the Old Town sq, where “anyone can pin a mourning ribbon with a message for Charlie”

I recently read a BA thesis on the prevalence of "anti-gender" ideology in #farright party manifestos. It was quite good overall, but when it came to choosing a graph style and colour palette, the student did the funniest thing👇

Brazil's former president Bolsonaro found guilty of coup plot. Three out of five Supreme Court justices found the 70-year-old guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Saying goodbye to summer with beautiful sunny days in #Napoli for the Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Political Science. Good research, good food, good vibes.

#SISP2025 #NapleSisp #PolSci #Polisky

The normalization and rationalization of the often authoritarian, erratic and nonsensical behavior and policies of the Trump administration by most of the business, media, and political elites shows how shallow the support for democracy, let alone liberal democracy, always was in this country.

✨ Great start to #ECPRGC25!

Presented an early draft in a panel endorsed by @ecpr-ead.bsky.social, together with @larboe.bsky.social, @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social and @tevoelker.bsky.social, followed by excellent discussion and feedback from @sldelange.bsky.social.

🙌 More exciting days ahead! ✨

Got six minutes to spare? Do yourself an acoustic favour and give this a listen. (Oh, and find someone who looks at you the way the backing singer with the pink hair looks at Richard).

Tomorrow 10:45: I'll be presenting a working paper with @lennartschuermann.bsky.social which shows that effective state action against the far right increases public support for democracy. This is part of the great panel by @larboe.bsky.social , @javidibad.bsky.social & @sldelange.bsky.social

Interested in mainstream responses to illiberalism and far right mobilization?Join us tomorrow at 10:45 for an interesting panel dealing with reactions to the far-right in various arenas @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social @javidibad.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social, discussed by @sldelange.bsky.social

I’m getting so tired of the marginalized anti-Trump Republicans telling the Democratic Party to become the pre-Trump Republican Party… and the (reactionary) centrists in media and politics celebrating them as the bastions of liberal democracy.

Join us on Tuesday, in case you're around.

📢 Hello E&D Colleagues! We’ve got several updates from the @ecpr.bsky.social Extremism & Democracy Standing Group (@ecpr-ead.bsky.social). Whether you’re joining us in Thessaloniki or following from afar, here’s what’s coming up. 🧵👇

Just like any other 'Zuidas' dude

1/3) 📣Out in Party Politics:
We trace the equal rights and economic equality positions of 69 center-right and far-right parties since 1970 in 12 countries. We find that center right parties did not react to/address equal rights concerns and economic inequality

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New #Episode alert! 🇪🇺

🔥 In our #June episode, Gabriel and I recap the 'Super Sunday' of May 18 and discuss the collapse of the #Dutch coalition government. Updates on 🇳🇱🇵🇹🇵🇱🇷🇴. We're heading off on a summer holiday and will be back with a new episode in September.