📚 SESP #ArticleCollections #Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe
1⃣7⃣ articles
🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, N. Conti, @bonniefield.bsky.social
#Equality #LGBTIQ* #Sexism #Feminism #Rights
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📢 in our #NewIssue (31.1)
The feminisation of Italian governments. Towards a more gender-equal distribution of political power?
⏳Temporary #FreeAccess
Read the article by C. Barbieri & P. Pansardi 👇
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📢 #NewIssue 31/1
with articles on
- Feminisation of Italian governments
- Candidate gender and voter choices in #Portugal
- Regionalisation and NHS in #Italy
- Contestation of pandemic management in #Greece
- Intra-coalition disproportionality in #Italy
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Thousands gathered in Boston today, turning the city into a reminder that this country was built rejecting kings—and still is. #NoKings2026
📚 SESP #ArticleCollections
Polarised #Turkey? Citizens, #parties and #elections under competitive authoritarianism
The collection now includes 4 new articles!
#polarisation
🎯Introduction by @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social
🔗Read and download here ⬇️
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📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 #Italy
Regional models and health outcomes: the Italian National Health Service in the post-pandemic period
Read the article by F. Maino & M. Betti here 👇
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📢NEW ARTICLE!📢
The contestation of state authority: media discourse and crisis management during the pandemic in #Greece
Read the article by Angelos Loukakis & Hans-Jörg Trenz here 👇
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📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 #Turkey
Fragmenting faith: the splintered landscape of Turkish political Islam in the 2023 elections
Read the article by @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social here 👇
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💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 #Portugal #NowOpenAccess
'Even in contexts of moderate polarization, affective ties to parties can significantly shape the democratic process'
🔓 Read the article by @fredericofs.bsky.social here 👇
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💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡#Cyprus #OpenAccess
Fidias Panayiotou’s success in the 2024 EP election ‘underscores the shift towards personality-driven, issue-based, and social media-oriented actors’
Read the article by V. Triga & N. Ioannidis here 👇
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💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 #OpenAccess
'the 2024 EP elections in #Portugal were not merely second-order national contests'
#Chega’s 'Euroscepticism was not overlooked by its newer electorate'
Read the article by T. Silva & @marinacostalobo.bsky.social here 👇
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💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 #Spain
‘left-leaning voters (#PSOE and #Sumar) were more likely to cite EU-level issues as central to their vote decisions’ in the 2024 EP election in #Spain
Read the article by P. Simón & A. Bosco here 👇
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📣Our Call for Special Issue Proposals is still open!
📝We invite scholars to submit proposals that address fundamental aspects of politics and society in the region. We especially welcome proposals that are comparative in scope.
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📢 in our #NewIssue (30.4)
P. Christmann, @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social & @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social highlight that political trust has been restored to pre-crisis levels in #Portugal, while it remains persistently low in #Greece and #Spain.
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🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Mando único y culto al líder: Abascal descabalga a los críticos y culmina su diseño del nuevo Vox www.eldiario.es/1_c6c6c1?utm...
As you well know, this is also true at the micro level: jerks get fewer service assignments. Capable women get more.
What does a restorative justice framework look like for this? (Jerks have to endlessly prosecute AI cheating cases?)
Yes, please
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION OUT! (Open Access 🔓)
In @nationsnationalism.bsky.social, we show that in post-referendum Catalonia rhetoric cools not from reconciliation but from institutional necessity.
Funded by @icipeace.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📢 in our #NewIssue (30.4)
The study by Lea Heyne, @rosanavarrete.bsky.social & @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social finds a negative link between EU polarisation and membership support in #Greece, #Portugal and #Spain
🔓Read here 👇
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⏳ Last days of free access!
Our article published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies is available to read free for a limited time.
With #Italy heading toward a forthcoming #ConstitutionalReferendum, the debate it engages with is especially timely.
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How do you introduce a field without mentioning one of its central insights? We are through the looking glass, y'all.
📢 CfP 📄
🌞AECPA Granada · Septiembre 2026
¿Cómo atraviesa el género a las políticas sociales? Bienvenidas investigaciones sobre bienestar, trabajo, cuidados, salud, vivienda, inclusión social y más, que analicen su diseño, implementación y efectos desde una perspectiva de género. #aecpa
📢NEW ARTICLE!📢
Voter preferences for or against female candidates in local elections? Experimental evidence from Portugal
📚Read the article by B. F. Gonçalves Ribeiro, M. Â. Vilela Rodrigues, and F. Tejedo-Romero here 👇
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📢NEW ARTICLE!📢
Strategic dualism: CHP’s cleavage politics and the evolution of opposition coordination in #Turkey
Read the article by @berkesen.bsky.social, Şebnem Yardımcı-Geyikçi and Hakan Yavuzyılmaz here 👇
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📢 #NewIssue #SpecialIssue 30/4
The Makeover of Southern Europe: Fifty Years after the Transitions to Democracy in #Greece #Portugal #Spain
Guest Editors: @jmfernandes86.bsky.social, N. Garoupa, @mjhierro.bsky.social & @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social
Don't miss it!👇
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📢 in our #NewIssue (30.4) #Greece #Portugal #Spain
The research by J. M. Fernandes, I. Sánchez-Cuenca & D. A. Sotiropoulos underscores the importance of considering both structural and agency-based factors in understanding democratisation processes
Read here 👇
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📢 in our #NewIssue (30.4)
@mjhierro.bsky.social J.P. Monteiro & @ingrigoriadis.bsky.social find democratic transitions redefine national boundaries:
🔸ideologically expanding the political community
🔸redrawing the demos
🔸altering the nation’s ascriptive foundations
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Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
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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