💡The NEW issue incl. #FREE content is out now! 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjcs21/4... 🙌 @emmamateo.bsky.social @oonuch.bsky.social @tymofiibrik.bsky.social @alinanychyk.bsky.social @popovaprof.bsky.social @bencehamrak.bsky.social @erinjenne.bsky.social @littvay.bsky.social @andreapirro.it

Pretty excited to share this. We worked on a monster for the past year, getting LLMs (AI, those ChatGPT kinds of things) to qualitatively code the levels of populism in political speeches with holistic grading. Enjoy. populism.byu.edu/large-langua...

AI on the Cheap Repeatedly, I get asked whether ChatGPT is worth paying for, what other products I would recommend, and, if not ChatGPT, which product one should subscribe to. Here’s the answer. Yes.

New blog post on whether you need a #ChatGPT or other #AI or #LLM paid subscription, and if you do, how to get it on the #cheap. levente.littvay.hu/ai-on-the-ch...

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NEW! The public opinion effects of antisemitic elite cues: a survey experiment on the Hungarian Soros campaign in @eepolitics.bsky.social w/ @bencehamrak.bsky.social @erinjenne.bsky.social G.Simonovits. Soros cues worked through partisan motivated reasoning & not antisemitism doi.org/10.1080/2159...

Thrilled to receive the Best Dissertation Award from @polpsyispp.bsky.social at #ISPP2025 in Prague! 🙌 Even more excited to share this moment with my amazing supervisor @littvay.bsky.social who won the John L.Sullivan Mentorship Award! 🏆✨

Harvard’s Battle Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced into Exile

Harvard’s Battle Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced into Exile. Guess which school was the OG? #ceu www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

New article. New dataset on US governors’ #populism w/ @erinjenne.bsky.social Open Access. doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Perfect weather for kicking off our BAGSS Internal Methods Institute! Excited to gain bright insights from our esteemed instructors @littvay.bsky.social,Prof Elias Dinas,Dr Tato Khundadze & Prof Derek Beach with a rich professional & social programme.

#BIMI25

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Group photo of the MEDem Team and the workshop participants.

Whiteboard full of post-its.

Building Géopolis in Lausanne.

View of mountains near Lausanne.

Great discussions at the recent MEDem Workshop in Lausanne with brilliant minds from Political Science and Communication Science! Hosted by FORS, we worked hard to gear up for the final phase of the ESFRI meeting. #MEDem #ESFRI #DemocracyResearch 🔗

It’s Not Just Trump: Americans of Both Parties Support Liberal Democratic Norm Violations More Under Their Own President Abstract. There is a growing worry about the health of American democracy, and political scientists and pundits alike are looking for possible explanations

Democracy in danger, new paper from @littvay.bsky.social @jennifermccoy.bsky.social: It’s Not Just Trump: Americans of Both Parties Support Liberal Democratic Norm Violations More Under Their Own President

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Yeah. Long overdue. Good seeing you here (also not at all surprised lol)