📢 SOFI söker forskningsassistent (50 %, ca 4 månader, start hösten 2026) till ett projekt om distansutbildning i högre utbildning. Arbete med intervjuer och forskningsdata. Ansök senast 12 maj.
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The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10
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🚨🚨Fascinating @politico.eu report on how Donald #Trump has become so politically toxic in Europe that even his closest ideological #far-right allies increasingly view him as a liability. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/trum...
Tack, intressant!
Last chance to apply for our Postdoc in Sociology at SOFI!
Deadline: 13 April 2026
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Det finns en naivetet i Sverige att våra högerpopulister är mer demokratiska än i andra länder. Det stämmer inte. SD-väljare straffar politiker med antidemokratiska tendenser i lika låg grad som väljare för PiS i Polen.
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/in-...
Nu kan du göra egna analyser av Levnadsnivåundersökningen (LNU). Skapa diagram, följ förändringar över tid och ladda ner data direkt. Ett värdefullt verktyg och ett enkelt sätt att arbeta med en av Sveriges viktigaste datakällor om levnadsförhållanden.
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Filip Olsson visade med sin avhandling att det finns ett glapp mellan medvetna och omedvetna fördomar. Nu har det gått lite över ett år sedan han doktorerade. Vi har frågat honom om livet efter examen.
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🚨 Call for Contributors 🚨
"Lost in Their Words: Rewriting the Political Lexicon of the Far Right"
Editors: Sofia Miola (University of Pavia) & Massimiliano Livi (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Ja illa, mycket illa. Att upprätthålla rättsstatens principer borde stå över partipolitik.
Demokratin i USA mår sämre än på 50 år, och USA räknas inte längre som en liberal demokrati. Dyster läsning - men med en del ljuspunkter - i den senaste forskningsrapporten från @vdeminstitute.bsky.social
Forza Bajen!
Ja, men verkar inte riksdagsgruppen vara väldigt partilojal? Däremot tror jag att det blir ett ordentligt liv på lokal och regional nivå runtom i landet.
Otrolig fotbollsspelare och väldigt sympatisk person.
📢 We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at SOFI, Stockholm University.
Interested in research on the causes and consequences of social policy for individuals and society?
Apply by 13 April 2026.
More information and application:
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#postdoc #sociology
Job opportunity for sociologists working in the field of social policy:
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Hon sticker i sommar tyvärr, oavsett vad vi erbjuder henne. Hon är nästan lika viktig för damerna som Besara är för herrarna, så det blir en enorm utmaning att försöka hitta en ersättare.
Why does mainstream accommodation of far-right and Eurosceptic parties often electorally backfire? In my 3rd dissertation paper, just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social, I argue that voters specifically punish internally divided parties for accommodation: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
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Come work with me! Two postdoc positions open in @erc.europa.eu project PROTECT, examining how local change shapes public support for protectionist policies in areas like trade and finance. @stockholmuni.bsky.social
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#polisky #academicsky
Nature study: "The political effects of X’s feed algorithm" Abstract: "Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2
New experimental study publshed in Nature confirms what we all largely expected, that "X" was algorithmically redesigned to promote a right-wing ideological pipeline.
Full study here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bra om det blir fight kring detta oavsett!
Jo, men det är ju Socialdemokraternas politik. Sen kan man ju hoppas att tillräckligt många S-medlemmar driver motstånd internt för att ändra den politiken, men jag är dessvärre inte speciellt hoppfull att de lyckas med det innan valet.
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#FarRight amplifiers 🔊
@dasalgon.bsky.social and @tevoelker.bsky.social show how far-right actors increasingly shape the agendas of mainstream parties, particularly around Islam, migration & cultural issues. #AfD
New course for PhD students.
This course explores the contemporary conditions under which far-right publics are formed, mobilized, and legitimized, as well as their societal consequences, in terms of nativist sentiments, authoritarian attitudes, and anti-migrant violence.
www.gu.se/en/socav/far...
The Swedish gov’t intends to deport an 8-month-old baby to Iran, even though he was born in Sweden and both parents are legal residents: www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/migr...
New article and special issue!
Just out in Comparative Political Studies: “Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Information, Legacies, Temporalities", the intro to a special issue on countering illiberalism in liberal democracies.
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🆕 Perceived #Inequality and #Populism 🗣️
Evidence across Denmark, Germany and Italy show that people who perceive great inequality are more likely to hold #Populist attitudes according to @lstoetze.bsky.social, Johannes Giesecke & @heikekluever.bsky.social
