Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics” Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordi...

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

✍️ Apply to our ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship!

The European Institute is looking to support a Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2026/27 academic year.

🗓️ Deadline: Monday 1 June, 23.59 (UK time)

👉 Find out more: www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/resea...

Assistant Professor in Political Science at University of Nottingham Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Political Science on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

There is a rare permanent job in the UK - assistant prof (lecturer) in political science with a focus on quant methods

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LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods at London School of Economics and Political Science An academic position as a LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Great opportunity for recent PhD grads looking for a postdoc with solid support for research + teaching development

This is my current role, so I'm happy to answer questions if you're interested!

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Really great – herzlichen Glückwunsch!!

A hat trick of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social prizes last night! @elizabethjevans.bsky.social for the Mackenzie Book Prize, @dbonansinga.bsky.social for Specialist Group of the Year @psa-italian.bsky.social & @williamlallen.bsky.social for the Joni Lovenduski early-career achievement award. #psa26

Amazing – congratulations!!

Israel Passes Law to Hang Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks

"Israel’s Parliament passed a law on Monday that would allow the hanging of Palestinians convicted of deadly militant attacks, but experts say it almost certainly cannot be applied to Jewish extremists convicted of similar crimes."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

Italy under Giorgia Meloni: A ‘Vanguard’ in the Management of Migration and Security Challenges? This one-day workshop will examine the policies and influence of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whose leadership of Brothers of Italy - widely classified as a populist radical right party -…

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS

In collaboration with @psa-italian.bsky.social, the European Institute is hosting a workshop on 🇮🇹 'Italy under Giorgia Meloni: a ‘vanguard’ in the management of migration?' on 15 May 2026.

⏰️ 📩 Please submit a 250-word abstract by 15 March 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

EU should relax net-zero target, German energy minister says Katherina Reiche says the bloc shouldn’t stick to a ‘rigid’ climate goal.

With a center-right like this, who needs a far-right. German edition

www.politico.eu/article/germ...

PAIR at PSA 2026: Monday 30 March 15.30. Johni Korwa: Examining Twin Cities of Jayapura and Vanimo (St Catherine’s, Mary Sunley) 15.30. Donatella Bonansinga: The 'Tradwives' Phenomenon and the Glamorisation of Reactionism (St Catherine’s, Aramugam 1.1) 15.30. Elizabeth Evans: Discussant on roundtable for the book 'Practical Social Democracy’ (Wadham, Giles Badun) Tuesday 31 March 09.30. Bradley Ward: Can AI Revive the State? Understanding the Labour Government’s AI Policy in the Era of ‘Power Without Capacity’ (Exam Schools, Room 6) 09.30. Will Jennings: Generations of Political Trust: A Comparative Age, Period and Cohort Analysis (Wadham, Okinaga) 09.30. Donatella Bonansinga: Narratives of Hope and Possibility: Patriots for Europe as a Case of Ultrasocial Populist Cooperation (St Catherine’s, Aramugam 1.1) 09.30. Rob Johns: Discussant on roundtable ‘A Decade After the EU Referendum: Brexit Tribes and Trajectories’ (St Catherine’s, Riverside Room B) 12.30. Will Allen: Co-authored report launch, ‘Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and IR: Evidence from the UK, 2012-25’ (Exam Schools, East School) 13.30. Katerina Glyniadaki: The (Lack of) Regulation of Assisted Reproduction Technologies in Greece (Wadham, Knowles) 15.30. Donatella Bonansinga: The Emotional Underpinnings of Protection in the Age of Insecurity (Wadham, Room 5) Wednesday 1 April 09.30. Mariana Borges: The Paradox of Polarization: Why Nonprogrammatic Parties Thrive in Brazil’s Divided Democracy (Wadham, C. Day Lewis) 13.30. Vanessa Cheng-Matsuno: Rootedness and Irregular Migration in Latin America (Wadham, C. Day Lewis)

Excited for the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in one week! Colleagues are presenting work on topics including populist visuals, Labour and AI, irregular migration, and party politics. They're also on roundtables about Brexit, the UK academic job market, and a book launch. Say hi! #psa26

Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.

What are our teams witnessing in #Lebanon? How is Doctors Without Borders responding? Jeremy Ristord, Country Director, updates on the situation and our activities:

Document detailing a call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship at Goethe University Frankfurt

Document detailing a call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship at Goethe University Frankfurt

Document detailing a call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship at Goethe University Frankfurt

Document detailing a call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship at Goethe University Frankfurt

📢 Four postdoc positions in Political Theory at @normativeorders.bsky.social in Frankfurt, deadline 15 March:
Political theory/philosophy | global health justice | future of democracy | global order in transition. 10 months from Oct 2026, €2,400/month tax-free. See the calls below for details

💼 We're #HIRING!

We are seeking an Assistant Professor in International Migration specialised in forced #migration and #policy responses to the #international #displacement of people and/or #immigration, #race and #citizenship (from a #comparative perspective).

🌍️ 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Mackenzie Book Prize 2025-26 Shortlist Announced - Political Studies Association Thank you to all who nominated a book for this esteemed prize which celebrates the distinctive contribution these works have made to advancing Political Studies. From an impressive number of entries, ...

Two books by our colleagues are shortlisted for this year's @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Mackenzie Book Prize! @elizabethjevans.bsky.social for 'Disability and Political Representation', and @drjennings.bsky.social for 'The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales'. www.psa.ac.uk/news/mackenz...

📣 Call for Papers:
🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE

Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p

Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

I’m thrilled to see this JEPP Special Issue on the 2024 🇪🇺European Parliament elections in print

Great articles on far-right voting, realignment, attitudes to EU climate action etc.

Thanks to everyone who contributed and those who made EES 2024 @eesresearch.bsky.social possible!

Read more here 👇

A positive end to the first week back is that the book is now fully available. It's not on their website yet, but it is on mine.

I'm really happy with how it turned out and grateful to all the authors.

Hope it's useful.

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Krass: Die US-Regierung hat Sanktionen gegen Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon von @hateaid.org erlassen, dazu trifft es auch den früheren EU-Kommissar Thierry Breton, weil "These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states". Einreiseverbot

Two months in, the Gaza ceasefire is floundering The consequences will ripple beyond the Middle East

But it was Trump's plan! Who could possibly have foreseen this happening?

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure

www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

This plot shows average response rates of the European Social Survey. Between 2002 and 2023 the have fallen from 61 to 41 per cent.

This plot breaks down ESS response rates by country. In almost all countries, the rate has gone down over time - in some cases, like Sweden, quite dramatically so.

In line with the 'credibility revolution', we are thinking about research designs that allow us to get closer to causal effects. Those who use surveys have often turned to survey experiments. At the same time, survey response rates have dropped considerably. Below are the figures for the ESS.

The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it, says academic and author Cas Mudde

The 2025 National Security Strategy document makes it official: the Trump administration believes that European liberal democracy is a threat to U.S. national interest.

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨

Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🌍The latest cleavage: the universalist divide

@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social , @dpzollinger.bsky.social , @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, and @lhaffert.bsky.social provide evidence from the 2024 European Election Study 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🗣️ JOB! Professor of Political Theory and the History of Political Thought at Friedrich Schiller University Jena

📅 Deadline - 11 December 2025

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Forthcoming May 1st 2026 (with @lwestheuser.bsky.social and @thomaslux.bsky.social)

Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics at UCL An academic position as a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Not a drill - there's a Britain-focused lectureship (FT, permanent) available.

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In this new paper, we use open-ended survey questions to study how people perceive (changes in) social hierarchies. 

We show how and among whom status gains of women, ethnic minorities, or LGBTQ+ people are saliently perceived–namely among progressives, not just conservatives!