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Rikki Dean
@rikkidean.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures at Southampton University. Visiting Professor at Democratic Innovations Research Unit, Frankfurt University. https://rikkidean.com/
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · Apr 3
The ERC have given me 5 years to figure out what Europeans really think about democracy. If you would like to come and join me in the endeavour, then I am currently hiring a postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social.

Deadline: 30 April | Details here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #polisky
Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE)
We are delighted to welcome applications for the position of Research Fellow within a new ERC-funded research group on Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE): Rethinking Conceptual, Ontologi...
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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 4h
🎓 Join us for our Autumn 2025 Webinar Series: “Using Social Media as a Research Tool”, co-organised with @aykutozturk.bsky.social!

We explore how social media data can help study democracy, political communication & public engagement. 🧵👇
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 5h
🧩Democracy is complex, but maybe that’s an asset

🌍🪴@alexalenz.bsky.social, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Markus Hinterleitner, @cknill.bsky.social & Yves Steinebach show that democracies handle climate-policy complexity more smoothly than less democratic regimes 👇

🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 5h
Booked today's trip to Lisbon through mine. Got a hotel that said contact them if I arrive after 6, but the details they provided were for a manager who resigned 2 years ago. And realised this morning that the "hand luggage" included in my flight was just a laptop bag. Extra £70 to take clothes.
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Tamara Ehs @tamaraehs.bsky.social · 3d
AI in Politics: Repairing Democratic Connections? @rikkidean.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social und ich warfen im Rahmen unser Fellowships @goetheuni.bsky.social einen interdisziplinären Blick auf KI und LLM in der Demokratie. Jetzt nachzulesen: www.steiner-verlag.de/Connectivity...
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Javier Ortiz-Tudela @ortiztudela.bsky.social · 3d
Second, a more down-to-earth combination in which @tamaraehs.bsky.social, @rikkidean.bsky.social and I reflect on the potentials and pitfalls of AI for Democracy. Much has changed in the AI-sphere since we wrote it but many of our concerns remain! - AI in Politics: Repairing Democratic Connections?
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Javier Ortiz-Tudela @ortiztudela.bsky.social · 3d
Very happy to finally see this out! A while ago I had the wonderful opportunity to meet an awesome group of scientists from very diverse fields, interested in exchanging thoughts, experiences and ideas. In this book, we collect some of these exchanges as a celebration the richness of science.
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PSA Political Psychology Specialist Group @psapolpsychology.bsky.social · 6d
Finally, three weeks later on Thursday 4th December at 12:00, @williamlallen.bsky.social rounds out the series by presenting important insights into the partisan attitudinal effects of data visualisation of refugee numbers.

Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c939c6...
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 6d
Asymmetric reporting:

Yesterday, David Lammy made a comment about Nigel Farage "flirting with the Hitler Youth" and it was 2nd story on BBC News at 10.

Today, Zia Yusuf repeatedly calls Keir Starmer a "stochastic terrorist... trying to incite violence against Farage" and it's not even mentioned.
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Szilvia Nagy @szilvia-nagy.bsky.social · 7d
How strategic narratives function in geopolitical settings as bordering practices?
I address this question in my latest article ‘Narrating Geopolitics: Strategic Narratives of Georgia’s EU Candidacy’ published in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social
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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 8d
From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT).

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The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)
Scientific Data - The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 12d
That would really be a threat to British values.
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 12d
I'm old enough to remember people complaining that the Kosovans were eating all the ducks and swans. Lucky that the ducks and swans, just like the scare stories about refugees, are a replenishable resource.
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 21d
Looking forward to JD Vance denouncing this as another example of the European crisis of freedom of speech.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 21d
🚨Watch as police confiscate van showing Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump in Windsor amid the US president's state visit
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 22d
The Canadians appear to love their geese so much that they build them swimming pools.
Picture of a swimming pool at dusk full of Canada geese with the Vancouver skyline in the background.
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Paul Kindermann @paulkindermann.bsky.social · 24d
Happy to see this out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social !

➜ doi.org/10.1080/1350...

The paper asks why the European Commission @ec.europa.eu increasingly sponsors participatory innovations – such as the European Citizens' Panels – although their strategic and functional value remains elusive

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 26d
Don't miss the APSA Presidential Task Force on Democratic Innovations, kicking off at 10am in the VCC. #apsa2025 @di-apsa.bsky.social
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 27d
But how could they possibly be sure it was his signature, and that his friend's partner hadn't solicited a fake letter from a random weirdo in order to set him up 20 years later?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27d
Can they do that?
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Peter Mandelson sacked as US ambassador by Keir Starmer over emails to Jeffrey Epstein
The Foreign Office says he was fired
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 27d
Charlie Kirk described Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot dead two protesters, as "a hero to millions".
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · Sep 6
Several of my great new colleagues at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social and their collaborators have to put together this blockbuster paper on what happened when the UK Labour Party adopted radical right rhetoric on immigration. A must read for centre left parties across Europe.
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5
Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · Sep 6
A nice thing about jetlag when you are an owl, is that is it is one of the few times you get to experience the sunrise.
Sunrise on a cloudy morning over the bay in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, with half the sun emerging from clouds above the forest and the light reflecting on calm water of the bay.
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · Sep 5
I am on board with moving our panel to the beach.
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · Sep 5
A Conservative would get away with it too. There was plenty worse amongst the last government. It is the hypocrisy that makes it stick - i.e. Labour believe that taxes are good and should be paid, so can't get away with not paying what they should.
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · Sep 5
Beginning the final leg - the Vancouver > Nanaimo ferry. Only 14 hours after the first tram. Accidentally booked myself a senior ticket 🤪
Photo of a green and white catamaran ferry in Vancouver harbour
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · Sep 5
Should add that my wife is not some property expert. This is something that anyone who has bought a property would probably know.
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · Sep 5
Was talking about this story with my wife last night. First thing she said was, "Raynor's explanation doesn't add up as mortgage conveyancers won't normally offer tax advice". Why are these people such amateurs?
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