"Without strong, accountable institutions capable of implementing laws fairly and effectively, constitutional reforms risk becoming symbolic political exercises rather than meaningful governance improvements"

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#DRC #AfricanPolitics #ComparativePolitics

Let’s Rethink The Lords: International Models At this point in the conversation, it’s reasonable to pause and ask whether we’ve drifted into fantasy territory. Whenever a new institution is sketched out — especially one dealing with ethics, long-term judgement, or constitutional restraint — the instinctive reaction is often: this all sounds very British and very theoretical… but does anyone actually do this? The reassuring answer is yes.

This isn’t uncharted territory.
Other countries split these roles deliberately — we just… didn’t.
#LetsRethink #ComparativePolitics #Democracy

Text: Playing Games With Comparative Politics: An Interactive Workshop at ISA 2026. Monday, Mar 23, 2026. 4 PM-5:45 PM (ET). Madison, Hyatt Regency. ISA logo. Background: Two dice.

Interested in enhancing your #Teaching skillset? Join us for an interactive workshop at #ISA2026 on using #Games & exercises to teach #ComparativePolitics and engage #Students in creative #Classroom activities. You can add this session to your convention schedule here: buff.ly/Rsu9guG

Text: Pedagogy Conference Planning Committee. Contemporary Simulations in Political Economy and Coalition Government. Teaching Day at ISA (4/4). Sunday, Mar 22, 2026. 4 PM-5:45 PM (ET). A111, GCCC. ISA logo. Background: A government building with a blue sky.

Don't miss the last session of Teaching Day at ISA on how to integrate #Games into the #Classroom! Join the panelists as they engage in two #Simulations designed to teach key concepts in international #PoliticalEconomy & #ComparativePolitics. Add this session to your schedule here: buff.ly/oKpme3f

How do we actually measure Euroscepticism across countries?
Alexia Katsanidou unpacked the methodological challenges of survey data and harmonization in comparative research.

#EUPopLink #SurveyResearch #ComparativePolitics #Euroscepticism #DataScience

Have the US, Israel, or Iran Officially Declared War? What the laws require, what the governments did, and why it matters.

Checkout my latest article analyzing if the US, Israel, and Iranian governments have formally declared war:
#iranisraelwar #iranisraelconflict #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration #TrumpNews #war #ComparativePolitics
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Make sure to check out Ch3 for a fresh account of how politics really works in Southeast Europe — clientelism and informal governance behind a liberal-democratic facade. Free is a very good price, indeed.
#PoliSci #Polisky #Balkans #ComparativePolitics

Let’s Rethink Parliament: Designing For Time Countries like Germany and New Zealand design institutions that make long-term thinking safer, not heroic.

Let’s Rethink Parliament: Designing For Time

Long-term thinking doesn’t survive on good intentions.

It survives when institutions make it safe to plan beyond the next headline.

Other countries quietly design for that.

#LetsRethink #Governance #ComparativePolitics #UKPolitics

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The Project - Comparative National Elections Project - UPF

📣 New Data Release!

CNEP Merge 73 now available

🇯🇵 Japan 1993 - full documentation and original dataset restored

📊 Access the updated database at: www.upf.edu/web/cnep

#CNEP #ElectionStudies #ComparativePolitics

Freedom & Prosperity Framework: Influences (and What’s Novel) Democracy must ensure that corporate power serves the public interest

I didn't invent the concepts. Here are my influences, plus a couple paragraphs on how I applied them a little differently.

#Democracy
#ConstitutionalReform
#ComparativePolitics
#RuleOfLaw
#DemocraticInstitutions
#HumanDignity
#ProportionalRepresentation
#Antitrust
#PoliticalReform
#GoodGovernance

European Journal of Political Research: Volume 65 - Issue 1 | Cambridge Core Cambridge Core - European Journal of Political Research - Volume 65 - Issue 1

That’s all from the latest issue of the European Journal of Political Research! 📚✨

Thanks so much for tuning in 📻️

Missed it? No worries! Issue 65.1 – featuring research on #ComparativePolitics, #Populism, #DemocraticRights, and more – is fully #OpenAccess 🙌

Pushing and Pulling: The Static and Dynamic Effects of Political Distrust on Support for Representative Democracy and its Rivals - Political Behavior Distrust is widely argued to stimulate support for political and institutional change. Yet, there is little agreement among scholars whether distrust pulls people towards rivaling decision-making mode...

Does political distrust undermine representative democracy? New evidence from four European countries shows it mainly increases support for direct democracy, especially among politically efficacious and populist voters. #ComparativePolitics
Read more:
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European Journal of Political Research: Volume 65 - Issue 1 | Cambridge Core Cambridge Core - European Journal of Political Research - Volume 65 - Issue 1

We’re starting 2026 with new research 📘

The latest issue of European Journal of Political Research is now out!

Featuring work from authors across #ComparativePolitics, #Populism, #DemocraticRights and more!

Stay tuned 📻️ to see the highlights 💡

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It's a wrap!

Today we had the pleasure to welcome @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social to our #ComparativePolitics & #PoliticalEconomy Colloquium.

Svenja talked about
"What is antidemocratic strategic litigation?"

This was already the last CPPE talk of the winter term.
Stay tuned for the next round 😉

The Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the Global South - Stratheia Liberal democracy is eroding in the Global South as populism, inequality, and weak institutions hollow out democratic substance.

The crisis of democracy in the Global South reflects unmet expectations, not rejection. The real struggle is between substantive democracy and its hollow imitation.
#GlobalSouth #DemocracyDebate #ComparativePolitics
stratheia.com/the-crisis-o...

#polisky #comparativepolitics #childrensrights #AIstartup

ISA 2026 PASS Course. Playing Games With Comparative Politics. Saturday, March 21, 2026. 8 AM - 12 PM (ET). Cost: $60. Columbus, Ohio. ISA logo. Background: Two dice.

Attending #ISA2026 and looking to enhance your #Teaching skills? Sign up for a PASS course on using #Games & exercises to teach #ComparativePolitics and engage #Students in interactive #Classroom activities. This course can be added to your convention registration: buff.ly/HrPG4fc

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Image of cover of World Politics journal with new subtitle: A Quarterly Journal of International Relations and Comparative Politics

WORLD POLITICS is excited for the addition to its front cover, launching with the January issue (coming soon!) The #journal has for a long time been a journal of both #InternationalRelations & #ComparativePolitics, and now our subtitle reflects this. #academicpublishing #PoliticalScience #research

It was in jest, but no seriously, #MeanGirls was so much more organized warfare than anything we're seeing now, I was an #InternationalRelations / #ComparativePolitics major in college when it came out, and I think I may have actually wrote a paper on norms of international conflict based on it 😆

"…the author has amassed provocative sets of facts well worth a critical reading by specialists." — @choicereviews.bsky.social

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📊 Figure 3: Annual enforced returns by country (2014–2022).

The U.S. is an outlier—several orders of magnitude above others.

Germany ranks 2nd, ~5% of U.S. levels.
#MigrationStats #ForcedReturn #ComparativePolitics

CEE Extremism and Resilience European Consortium for Political Research

📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels & Papers
🛡️ CEE Extremism and Resilience
🪑 @cburchett.bsky.social & @joncollins.bsky.social
⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/Qji5iTa

#PoliSky #CallforPapers #ComparativePolitics #Europe

The Politics of Crisis Management: Emerging Directions in Public Policy and Political Science General Conference 2026, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University

📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Papers
🧩 The Politics of Crisis Management: Emerging Directions in Public Policy and Political Science
🪑 @vtsagkr.bsky.social & Angelos Angelou
⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/3h9hFKS

#PoliSci #CallforPapers #ComparativePolitics

Twin Federations: Canada and Belgium, Bilingual States in Permanent Negotiation Belgium is the world's most elaborate exercise in territorial linguistic federalism; Canada is the world's most ambitious experiment in nationwide individual bilingual rights.

Belgium and Canada offer a sharp comparison: two bilingual federations managing territorial vs personality language regimes, economic imbalances, and autonomist pressures.
#CanPol #Canada #Quebec #Flanders #Belgium #Federalism #ComparativePolitics #Bilingualism
southof45.substack.com/p/twin-feder...

The Politics of Development General Conference 2026, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University

📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels and Papers
📈 The Politics of Development
🪑 @maxgallien.bsky.social & @nicolaischulz.bsky.social
⌛Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/XpMMvnW

#ComparativePolitics #PoliticalEconomy #CallforPapers #Polisky

General Conference 2026, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University European Consortium for Political Research

📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Papers
⚠️ Threats to Democracy and What to Do About Them: A Sciences of the Democracies Action Guide
🪑 Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann & Michael Hoffmann
⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/BtAHI6i

#Populism #ComparativePolitics #Polisky #CallforPapers

A Comparative Study of the African Union and the European Union General Conference 2026, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University

📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels & Papers
🌍 The Role of Regional Organizations in Conflict Mediation: A Comparative Study of the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU)
🪑 Mohammed Mutala Surazu & Martial DOGOU
⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/DW157zI

#Populism #ComparativePolitics #Polisky