❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research

Arash Beidollahkhani, @manchester.ac.uk examines Iran as a case study to explore the effects of state-led Islamization policies on political science curricula.

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❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review

💬'...a timely and analytically rich contribution...’

Ondrej Voznak reviews "Great Power Competition and Middle Power Strategies" Edited by Vinod K. Aggarwal & Margaret A. T. Kenney.

@springer.springernature.com, 2023

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❇️ FirstView - 🎓️ Teaching & Learning

@nataliejester.bsky.social, @apapamichail.bsky.social, @mlebourdon.bsky.social
& @louisepears.bsky.social argue that teaching on global challenges should involve teaching with, through, & about social media as a place of politics.

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📗 EPS features contributions written by and for the #PoliticalScience community

💚 From debates to datasets, original research to reviews - EPS is the place for your next #PoliticalScience article!

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❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review

💬'...a highly interesting read...’

Katinka Linnamäki reviews "The Birth and Death of Liberal Democracy in Hungary: The Populist Logic of Polarisation as Hegemony" by @emiliapalonen.bsky.social

@helsinkiupress.bsky.social, 2025

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❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review

💬'...a significant contribution to the terminological understanding of the concept...’

Mălina-Maria Rîndașu reviews "Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat: Countering Global Alarmism", by Kurt Weyland

@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2024

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❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review

💬'One of the book’s greatest strengths is its commitment to the realist paradigm’

Greg Shaw reviews "The EU’s Strategic Dilemma in the Ukraine War", by Viktor Jakupec

@springer.springernature.com, 2025

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❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review

💬'...an innovative approach...’

Mariana Vahlis reviews "Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro", Edited by @jpolga.bsky.social & Raul Sanchez Urribarri

@routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2025

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📗 EPS features contributions written by and for the #PoliticalScience community

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We hope you've enjoyed the 🌷March Issue🌷

✒️ Edited by Linda Basile & Stella Ladi
📖 @ljramiro.bsky.social

👏 Thanks to all our brilliant contributors & to the anonymous reviewers 🕵️ who help to make each manuscript the best it can be

That's everything from our 🌷March Issue🌷

📗Volume 25 Issue 1

🔍 7 Research articles, 💼 2 on the Profession, & 📖 4 Book Reviews
🔓 💯 #OpenAccess
✍️ 21 contributors
🕵️ & many more anonymous referees

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🌷March Issue

📖 Book Review

💬'...[offering a compelling analysis] of Taiwan as a strategic partner for Europe...’

Ryan Brading reviews "Partners in Peace: Why Europe and Taiwan Matter to Each Other" by Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy

Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

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🌷March Issue

📖 Book Review

💬'...the book highlights the citizen-led dynamics often overlooked...’

Guy Gerba reviews "Populist Mobilization" by Paris Aslanidis

@academic.oup.com, 2024

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🌷March Issue

📖 Book Review

💬'...theoretically engaging, normatively stimulating, and empirically appealing...’

Edith Manalachioaei reviews "The Normalization of the Radical Right" by @valentimvicente.bsky.social

@academic.oup.com, 2024

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🌷March Issue

📖 Book Review

💬'...a deeply rewarding book.’

Vittorio Orlando reviews "The European Union in Search of Narratives" by François Foret

@routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2024

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🌷March Issue

💼 Profession

Daniel Stockemer, Engi Abou-El-Kheir & Stephen Sawyer explore the relationship between female editorial board members, female editors, and the number of female authors published across #PoliticalScience journals.

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🌷March Issue

💼 Profession

@michelesdv.bsky.social, A.Haraldsson, @gelovanishota.bsky.social, S.Banducci, K.Koc-Michalska & @yannistheocharis.bsky.social highlight the challenges, training needs, and preferences of scholars using text analysis methodologies.

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🌷March Issue

🔍 Research

Dimitra Panagiotatou explores whether #EU public policies operating in a multilevel governance system contribute to European identity-building.

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🌷March Issue

🔍 Research

The EU is institutionally limited in protecting academic freedom, Calvin Khalesi argues - but there are innovative ways it could change this to support universities in its Member States.

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🌷March Issue

🔍 Research

@lucasschramm91.bsky.social analyses the #EuropeanCouncil as a key actor in the EU’s multi-level and multi-institutional system of governance.

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🌷March Issue

🔍 Research

Francesco Nasi uses the case study of Agorà Democratiche within the Italian Democratic Party to examine how traditional parties engage with digital democratic innovations, and what factors can hinder their successful implementation.

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🌷March Issue

🔍 Research

Katerina Sideri & Eleni Chanania use hermeneutic policy analysis to examine how HCWs and the government had starkly different understandings of risk in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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🌷March Issue

🔍 Research

@joaoferreiradias.bsky.social examines how Portuguese politicians talk about the country’s maritime epic as a part of national identity and how this is also a flashpoint in today’s culture wars.

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🌷March Issue

🔍 Research

@gsamaras.bsky.social presents the first systematic study of how major English-language outlets used the term “Hard-Right”.

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🌷March Issue Out Now!🌷

Volume 2️⃣5️⃣ Issue 1️⃣

📗For our first issue of the year, with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, we explore political discourse and identity in Europe, governance & policy processes, democratic innovation & participation, and academic freedom & research methods

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Read Our IWD Collection Now!

🌍✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day ✨🌍

This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics

📚 Explore the research and join the conversation

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#IWD #WomenInPolitics

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review

💬'...begins with a useful engagement with the history and sociology of public intellectuals...’

Tyler Robinson reviews "How Slavoj Became Žižek: The Digital Making of a Public Intellectual" by Eliran Bar-El

@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025

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❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research

Antonella Seddone & Marco Valbruzzi investigate the opinions of party members from Partito Democratico about the digital participation opportunities that the party provides.

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❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research

Francesco Veri & @nenadstojanovic.bsky.social examine how configurations of three key institutional dimensions – consensus democracy, federalism, & direct democracy – shape the adoption of minipublics in Switzerland

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❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review

💬'...the book highlights the citizen-led dynamics often overlooked...’

Guy Gerba @ucc.ie reviews "Populist Mobilization" by Paris Aslanidis

@academic.oup.com, 2024

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