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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El miércoles en el Seminario del @ipp-csic.bsky.social IPP-CSIC, @llschenoni.bsky.social nos presenta "Bringing War Back In" (Cambridge UP, 2024): cómo las guerras del siglo XIX moldearon el Estado en América Latina. ¡Os esperamos! #CienciaPolítica #AméricaLatina
The Blackness scale might be one of my favorite parts of the paper. People often talk about identity as continuous (“She’s Black, but she ain’t Black Black”), so we developed a way to capture that perception. We then estimate how much different traits predict those ratings.
As major news outlets including USA Today Co. and the New York Times restrict the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the vast collection of web pages.
"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections." (@adamprz.bsky.app)
Sometimes that's even true for non-democracies.
#Hungary
⏪ 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗙𝗦…
🇪🇸 @javiermcanto.bsky.social & @julitudo.bsky.social examined the similarities, differences, and dynamics of competition between #Vox and #AliançaCatalana in #Catalonia.
🗳️ What factors influence voters to choose between them?
🔓 Article in #openaccess here 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1359...
🆕 Beyond Policy: Identity in Party Competition 🗳️
Christina Zuber, of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social, @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social & Edina Szöcsik rethink how parties win #Elections arguing that success depends not only on policy preferences, but on linking preferences to #GroupIdentities
Very interesting thread! I’ve learn a lot. Do we know something about the potential make up of Tisza’s future MPs? I think that’s important before assessing if many people may feel not represented.
Building affordable housing ➡️ support for funding housing.
Nearby homeowners ⬆️ support; renters ⬇️ support. Both are “the policy adjacent”—secondhand recipients & drivers of policy feedback.
Forthcoming @ajpseditor.bsky.social ( doi.org/10.1111/ajps...) w/ A. Magazinnik & @msands.bsky.social 1/9
📚 End-of-week highlight: the Festschrift for @thomas-saalfeld.bsky.social, my PhD supervisor, arrived.
Delighted to have contributed to this wonderful volume. It brings back many happy Bamberg memories. Huge thanks to @jmfernandes86.bsky.social and @javiermcanto.bsky.social, and congrats to Thomas 🎉
As part of the Infra4NextGen project, funded by @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu 🇪🇺, harmonised datasets are now available.
These include #data from social surveys that has been harmonised to make them as comparable as possible, even if the question text and response scales differed.
Why are we observing a 'green backlash' when serious efforts to decarbonise have scarcely begun? I'm happy to share my working paper, 'The Political Consequences of Climate Ambition: Evidence from Australia', which analyses how voters respond prospectively to proposed climate policies. Brief 🧵:
A family with 3-d glasses shocked by what they see on their mobile devices screens
The far right in Spain and Portugal didn’t go mainstream alone.
The Iberian media system played a key role in their normalization 📺📻📰
2 new publications out now🔥
This marks the closing chapter of my project POLAR, a research journey that began in 2021.
A 🧵on how Vox and Chega became mainstream 👇
No sería la primera vez...
🧵 #KOMEX2025 Outstanding Course Award goes to @na-wehl.bsky.social
1/ for "A Hands-on Introduction to Longitudinal and Panel Data Analysis"
Students knew from session 1 they were in expert hands.
@uni-konstanz.de @excinequality.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social
Últim dia per presentar-hi candidatura! 🚨
RA en discurs polític, nacionalisme i immigració comparada 👇
Social scientists keep explaining why consistent time series are indispensable for understanding social change.
And now Gallup ends the longest-running pres. approval series.
Striking – esp. from the institution that helped institutionalize representative sampling in modern public opinion research
El jueves organizamos desde el @ipp-csic.bsky.social una charla sobre cómo los nuevos desafíos de seguridad y defensa impactarán en nuestros estados del bienestar. ¡Animaos a asistir!
Joan Romero dio clase a casi todas las promociones de Políticas en la @uv.es... menos a la mía, porque estaba de estancia. Siempre me dio rabia no haberle tenido como profesor, pues todos mis compañeros le admiraban. Y este gesto lo confirma una vez más.
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Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
If you're hoping to show students evidence to support your tech rules/interactive pedagogical approach, here's what I use. Decidedly not comprehensive, but makes the key points.
A chart titled "Welcome to the Era of 65-Year-Old Roommates." Text reads: "As living costs continue to rise, more older adults are rending out rooms in their own homes, a comparison of the share of listing of rooms to rent on the SpareRoom platform in 2019 and 2024 shows."
For young, entry-level workers, sharing rent with roommates is a rite of passage. But as living costs continue to rise and as homeownership becomes less achievable for young adults, older adults are making up a growing share of live-in landlords. trib.al/4jvD8Ox
Green policies can be contentious, with opposition often highlighting rural-urban divides. In this article we measure and analyse the perceptions of harm associated with several green policies (renewables, motor fuel taxes, car restrictions, conservation restrictions, and pesticide and antibiotics bans). We conceptualize these perceptions of harm as an individual dimension of the environmental justice paradigm, closely related to support for green policies and its characteristic rural-urban gap. Using survey data from Spain, our findings reveal that perceptions of harm, together with postmaterialist values and environmental prioritization, are associated with support for green policies. However, only differences in perceptions of harm account for the rural-urban gap, which is modest in size and remains partly unexplained. Our findings suggest that rural dwellers are not less supportive of green policies because they have weaker postmaterialist values or prioritize the environment less, but because they feel they are the losers of ecological transitions.
New article!
The losers of ecological transitions: rural and urban support for green policies in Spain, by Marta Vallvé @martavallve.bsky.social & Eva Anduiza @evaanduiza.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Happy to see my article with @julitudo.bsky.social already as the journal’s second-most-read in 2025, despite being published only in early November. Many excellent pieces in @regfedst.bsky.social in 2025. Do check them out!
Algún día habrá que hablar del extraordinario sistema de captura de rentas que han conseguido ser las agencias de viaje en la administración pública.
Make a Bond movie academic:
On The Publisher's Secret Service
Make a Bond movie academic:
Sci-Hub: From Russia with Love
Same procedure as every year... time to share my favorite Christmas-related article. Why American Jews Eat Chinese Food on Christmas? Merry Christmas! www.theatlantic.com/national/arc...
Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.
Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.
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NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
Brand Transformation in #European #Politics: The Rise and Limits of #Nonclassical #Names
By @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...