Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review!
We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵
Nuevo capítulo: "Contra el autoritarismo: Resiliencia"
Conversamos con @sajuria.com sobre construir resiliencia estableciendo coaliciones, defendiendo integridad informativa y reactivando infraestructura social
Síguenos donde veas o escuches podcasts: democraciaenlsd.transistor.fm/episodes/las...
I think this oped by Tony Blair gets key boundaries wrong for sincerity in challenging antisemitism in UK. It goes too far in insisting on agreement with several of his views of Israel/Palestine & war in Gaza conflict as a litmus test for challenging antisemitism
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📖 Protecting civil society is increasingly an international issue inseparable from the corrosion of rules-based order.
CSOs need more systemic coordination to pursue a civic diplomacy against authoritarian policies, argues Javier Sajuria.
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Why did the People's Vote campaign fail? Could Brexit have been stopped? What lessons can be learned?
Join us on 19 March to launch @morganj0nes.bsky.social's new book: "No Second Chances: The Inside Story of the Campaign for a Second Referendum".
All welcome!
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New open access article: Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear? With @drashleec.bsky.social and @cerifowler.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Well, no, they’re not just as wrong. The bigger error is not seeing that “trying to win over voters from a party on the opposite end of the spectrum, whose values your core voters oppose” is not same as “chasing voters from party on same side ideologically whose values your core voters like.”
✍️ Chapter 1
International Shifts and the Need for Civic Diplomacy by Javier Sajuria (@sajuria.com)
Why does civic diplomacy need to be developed as a core component of foreign and security policy?
Far-right authoritarian tactics to socially marginalize, intimidate, and disenfranchise a group. The oppression of one group signals to others you could be next. This goes far beyond bigotry. The authoritarian playbook enabled and empowered by anti-trans and anti-woke actors.
We've reached the "Maurice Glasman showed better judgement than the PM" stage of this crisis. Not sure there's any way back from that...
Photo of Starmer and Mandy smiling together
I guess the question that people who believe the PM should stay on need to ask themselves is whether they'd have said the same had Boris Johnson appointed someone as Ambassador knowing full well they'd stayed mates with a nonce - and, believe me, that's exactly what most voters think Starmer did.
'Free to' and 'will' are, I'm afraid, two totally different things. And the idea that it was only the presence of these two jokers that has prevented the Tories turning away from culture-war populism towards the centre right before now is, I'm sorry to say, utterly preposterous. 1/n
Der Spiegel headline: Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf.
I didn't say it. The Germans did.
Are we all watching #TheTraitors?
Our latest paper by Christian Bohlen examines how different types of electoral mandates in the German MMP system affect the way MPs engage in geographic representation on Twitter (X)
#Politics #Representation
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Interested in referendum design?
Our latest paper explores the impact of ballot question design on voting behaviour, authored by Charlotte C. L. Wagenaar, @TomWGvdMeer and Kristof T. E. Jacobs
Go check it out!
#Politics #Referendums #Representation
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In our latest article, Szymon Andrzejewski
@SzAndrzejewski explores common citizen vouchers as a new method of financing politics and a tool for preserving critical democracy infrastructure.
Go read it!
#Politics #Democracy #Representation
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In this fascinating new article, Miriam Hartlapp, Maura Kratz and Marie Michel explore the conceptualisation of migrantised groups and the implications for representation. Go have a read!
#Representation #Politics #Migration
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Our latest Mile End Institute/Savanta London Poll is out!
Labour - 31%
Reform - 19%
Greens - 18%
Cons - 17%
LD - 13%
@standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy @mileendinstitute.bsky.social @savanta.bsky.social
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There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
Hello reactionary centrists 👋
Picture of Arsenal player Gabriel Jesus wearing a t-shirt that says "I belong to Jesus"
So happy for Gabriel Jesus!
📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels and Papers
🔎 Comparative Politics from a Latin American Perspective
🪑 @sajuria.com & Talita Tanscheit
⌛ Deadline: 9 Jan buff.ly/cJJ1mCB
#Polisky #Populism #Gender
They are ultraconservative and authoritarian. In South America, they all have expressed admiration for the dictatorships, and more importantly, are part of the same international far-right spaces (e.g. CPAC, Foro de Madrid)
More than people originally thought, I would say. In most Latin American countries, the far-right does not promote limits to immigration, with the exception of Chile (where everyone does). They are also more consistent in economic policies, strongly neoliberal.
But the founding fathers!
The extensive history of democratic transitions (failed and successful) teaches us that it will be a messy ride.
