🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 The big May elections preview

Holyrood Mag's Louise Wilson, journalist Will Hayward, politics lecturer Dr Stephanie Luke and Liberal Democrat MP Will Forster join host @alaintolhurst.bsky.social to discuss next month's local elections

🎧 Listen now: podfollow.com/politicshome

Live Webinar - ‘The rightward shift in European politics, and wider implications’ YouTube video by The Democracy Forum

Two takeaways lively @LondonDemocracy Debate rightward shift European politics. 1) Stultifying paralysis of mainstream 2)Failure to address voters' frustrations. Superb insight from @barrygardiner.bsky.social @vjmalletft.bsky.social
Dr Stephanie Luke, Roberto Foa. youtube.com/live/83jbxsm...

War economy vs European Silicon Valley? The EU's competing sociotechnical imaginaries of defence innovation and industry The war in Ukraine and the US administration's growing disengagement from European security have led to a paradigm shift in European defence. While contestation and negotiation about strategic prio...

Very happy to say that my article with @brunoomartins.bsky.social 'War economy vs European Silicon Valley? The EU's competing sociotechnical imaginaries of defence innovation and industry' has just been published in @cspjournal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Can Devolution Survive the UK’s New Politics?’ – Professor Sir John Curtice YouTube video by School of Law and Politics

Mae'r recordiad o'n Darlith Flynyddol 2025 gan Yr Athro Syr John Curtice, Prifysgol Ystrad Clud, nawr ar gael ar YouTube

The recording ofour 2025 Annual Lecture by Prof. Sir John Curtice of @unistrathclyde.bsky.social is now on YouTube

👇 'Can Devolution Survive the UK's New Politics?' #Senedd26

I had the pleasure of talking to @campaign-lab.bsky.social about Labour's response to Reform during the UK Local Elections. 👇

The UK’s digital imprint regime - is it working? New requirements for digital imprints in online campaign material were rolled out in the 2024 general election. We review the guidance and recommend how to improve transparency requirements.

🌟New: At the last #UK General #Election, new “digital imprint” rules required online campaign content to state who is behind it.

Katharine Dommett, Stephanie Luke & Hazel Gordon (@sheffielduni.bsky.social) find few campaigners fully complied.

@electoralcommission.org.uk #Transparency

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When Attack Strategies Backfire: How can progressives fight Reform UK on social media · Zoom · Luma Join us on Zoom for the next entry in our academic series. Dr Stephanie Luke analyzes how progressive actors and Reform UK engage with each other through…

Progressives vs Reform UK on social media have fiery conversations.

But are these tough discussions actually helping Reform grow?

Join Dr. Stephanie Luke as she delivers the next lecture in our Academic series.

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🖥️ Zoom

🕐 28th August 13:00 - 14:00

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Are you passionate about research in Intersectionality & identity or Far right & populism? 🤔 Come and present your paper at the #ECN25 Conference 🙌🏻

🗓️ Send your proposal by Friday 20 June at 5pm GMT! ⬇️

Friends or just fellow travellers? What Reform has in common with other populist right parties in Europe (and what it doesn’t) | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union Populist and far-right parties across Europe share many of the same traits, says Ros Taylor. But Reform has not yet embraced the pro-natalist agenda of a lot of its counterparts.

Why Reform has never seriously dabbled in pro-natalism — unlike MAGA and its European counterparts.

New piece for @boelleu.bsky.social.

eu.boell.org/en/2025/04/3...

More than 4 million Australians have already voted. Major political parties take note Applications for postal votes close tonight at 6pm but early voters are wasting no time having their say.

The boom in early voting has consequences for campaign timing and strategies

Today I spoke with the ABC about how major, minor and independent candidates are adapting their campaigns to this new normal in different ways

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

That’s a wrap for #ECN25 & #PSA25! 🎉

From the ECN committee, we would like to thank everyone who attended our Pre-Conference Day & the events during the main conference! These events wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible participation of ECs.🤩

Some reflections🧵

🚨 My article 'Political Outsiders? A Study of “Teal” Independent Campaign Demographics in the 2022 Australian Federal Election' has been published as part of an upcoming special issue of @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social edited by @chriswallace.bsky.social and Sybil Nolan

Using a mixed methods approach, our analysis finds mixed evidence of a 'rural disadvantage' in campaign contact. Our findings suggest that while campaigners perceive there to be greater challenges when campaigning in a rural constituency, in practice the picture is more nuanced.

How does rurality affect campaigning? In the UK, some constituencies are physically small and take in parts of densely populated cities, while others span huge geographic areas and may con…

🚨How does rurality affect campaigning?

In a new study, Charles Pattie, Luke Temple, Kate Dommett, and I explore how rurality affects campaign activity. @electoralstudies.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...