The far right’s resistance against gender equality in parliaments disrupts and polarises parliamentary work on gender equality. A classification of far-right parties’ strategies against gender equa...

This volume tackles the pressing issue of online violence against academics, considering the diverse forms that cyberbullying and harassment can take, as well as their likely targets. Offering both th...

Are Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens in Europe? New research finds European Islamophobia has no link to a person’s religiosity.

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Ongeveer de helft van de Europeanen vindt dat medewerkers van uiteenlopende publieke instellingen politiek gekleurd zijn. Wetenschappers komen hier nog het minst slecht vanaf: zo’n 60 procent van de E...

De eeuwenoude omvolkingstheorie steekt in verschillende gedaantes steeds weer de kop op. Vandaag de dag is ze springlevend, ook in Nederland. Experts maken zich zorgen. ‘Telkens opnieuw leidt dit tot geweld.’

Politici lijken zelf niet meer te snappen hoe de parlementaire democratie werkt, betoogt Ruud Koole. Dinsdagavond houdt de politicoloog ‘een pleidooi voor historisch institutioneel besef en constituti...

Contemporary cleavage research has linked ‘socio-cultural’ conflicts mobilised by new left and far right parties to structural divides in post-industrial knowledge societies. Contributions in this ...

Representatives of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) have held high-profile talks in Washington to strengthen ties with the Trump administration. Relations with the US have long been contentious withi...

Social movement scholarship has emphasized that progressive ‘Europeanization from below’ may be a breeding ground for major EU reform and democratization. Empirically, however, activists have found it difficult to make gains when targeting the EU. To understand the challenges that activists face in the context of transnational EU mobilization, our article draws from agency-oriented approaches in social movement studies to propose an ‘EU mobilization package’, comprising three recurring strategic dilemmas that activists encounter: (a) the formulation of goals that both address the transnational level and appeal to national or local constituencies, (b) the building of a transnational political organization that is both inclusive and effective, and (c) whether and how to interact with EU institutions, particularly in the context of European Parliament elections. We apply this framework to the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), an organization founded by Yanis Varoufakis in 2016, which is a key example of social movement dissensus to EU politics. Methodologically, we rely on comprehensive interview data, the analysis of a large corpus of DiEM25 online and offline publications, and participant observation of three public events. A discussion of the group’s strategic challenges provides important general lessons for our understanding of social movement mobilization targeting EU politics as well as transnational activism.

Op 29 oktober zijn er verkiezingen voor de Tweede Kamer. In deze serie gaan wij aan de hand van een aantal grafieken in op de vraag wie de kiezers van de vijftien grootste partijen volgens de peilinge...

Extreemrechtse ideeën zijn de afgelopen jaren in hoog tempo genormaliseerd. Ik spreek met mijn gast van vandaag Léonie de Jonge (hoogleraar rechtsextremismeonderzoek aan de Universiteit van Tübingen) ...