This is right, but I'd go further: winning the domestic argument on the free movement of people is what's needed to unlock anything further than the reset. That means Starmer has to repudiate many of his own arguments on migration.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I thought the 1981 TV series was excellent.
🔥 Super interesting take by @gabrielagreilinger.com on what we can learn from Hungary 🇭🇺 in beating competitive authoritarianism. Many interesting parallels here to our @fesonline.bsky.social paper on “How to counter the far right: lessons from Brazil” 🇧🇷 collections.fes.de/publikatione...
Hall of fame FT correction
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
🧵
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
The special issue I coordinated together with Ramona Coman and Sergiu Miscoiu on the actors of dissensus is out! It is part of the @gemdiamondphd.bsky.social GEM diamond Doctoral network and the SI contains brilliant articles by the PhD students of the network. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations to @vladmarginas.bsky.social for his article
"Faithful resistance: religious actors and the articulation of dissensus in Romania and Greece"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The first 2 articles in our Special Issue in European Politics and Society (GEM-DIAMOND Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD network). This SI offers a comprehensive analysis of how civil society & transnational actors contribute to dissensus over liberal democracy.
www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
Money can't buy you EU citizenship.
Today, the European Court of Justice found Malta's golden passport scheme in breach EU law. It was about time
"women's higher level of affective polarization in Western Europe is [...] explained by their stronger disapproval of populist radical right‐wing parties as well as their greater concern for issues around gender and the natural environment."
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Out now! New article "State of the world 2024: 25 years of autocratization – democracy trumped?" in Democratization.
doi.org/10.1080/1351...
by @marinanord.bsky.social, @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social, Ana Good God, and @silindberg.bsky.social
#Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScience #USA
📢 New article
👥 Tom Christensen & Per Lægreid
🔎 Reversing Government Reforms: Radical Change or Adaptive Adjustments?
📖 In Public Administration, @journalpa.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/padm...
What a line
"we argue that our evidence is consistent with finding that badass TikTok edits are approximately as effective as professionally produced television ads"
doi.org/10.1177/2056...
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting.
The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
How much do you wanna bet that no-one at the ISA is reflecting on the fact that some of those from Europe who attended its convention in Chicago were subject to more interrogation about their politics than people entering Russia?
THREAD! 1/
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
"Elegantly written and clearly structured, the volume takes readers on a memorable tour of historiographical theories and the history of the concept of nation and nationality"
Nations before the Nation-State by Anna Marisa Schön
Out Now
📚 cup.org/4ihuUQu
Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
I write with great sadness to say that I have had to change my travel plans and will not be able to join you for the conference to which you had so kindly invited me. I will unfortunately be cancelling all planned visits to the USA. /1
Meanwhile, in the EU, authorities in five EU MS (Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Romania and Slovakia) have “intentionally" undermined "the rule of law in nearly all aspects” acc to a report by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
[Rayonnement]
Pietro Castelli, Professor at SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), will present his book in a webinar:
"Movements and Parties of the Far Right"
for the University of Lisbon
on Thursday, April 3, at 14:30 (15:30 Brussels)
Link: bit.ly/3D9XRP3
When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
BJPolS academic abstract discussing the implications of democratic deconsolidation and voter behavior on political culture in Poland.
NEW -
The Demand Side of Democratic Backsliding: How Divergent Understandings of Democracy Shape Political Choice - cup.org/4hy5Nrf
- Natasha Wunsch, @marcjacob.bsky.social & Laurenz Derksen
#OpenAccess
An imitation of a doctor's prescription with unreadable handwriting, exaggerating the idea that doctors' writing is often incomprehensible. Each line is followed by normal text stating: 'We want access to medicines to be cheaper, easier, and faster.
The EU excels in innovative medicines, but we need to be vigilant about keeping generic drug production in Europe.
Our Critical Medicine Act aims to:
💊 ensure easier access
🇪🇺 boost local production
🧪 improve supply chain security
= more stability for the EU's pharmaceutical industry.
Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share!
- 2yr postdoc in wealth research
- 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty
- 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy
- 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology
- tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society
We are living in dangerous times.
Europe‘s security is threatened in a very real way.
Today I present ReArm Europe.
A plan for a safer and more resilient Europe ↓
europa.eu/!MFPVMC
