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Cristina Chiva

@cristinachiva.bsky.social
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Academic specialising in gender, comparative politics and European / EU politics. Currently working on gender and democratic resilience against autocratisation. She/her.

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Cristina Chiva @cristinachiva.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
It's been a pleasure to work on this and be part of such an amazing team!
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Tanja Vuckovic Juros @tvuckovicjuros.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Download it today 4 free: Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space. Hidden Connection, ed. by Roman Kuhar & Adriana Zaharijevic! Bragging rights: endorsements by Judith Butler, @ericfassin.bsky.social, Ruth Wodak & @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social :) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space
This open access book advances knowledge of anti-gender mobilizations and offers helpful insights for academics, researchers, and policymakers alike.
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Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:

Generative A.I.
This class helps you to be a better writer and thinker. Generative AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, and other platforms) is neither writing nor thinking. Any use of Al in this class (whether to write, brainstorm, outline, or summarize) will be considered a violation of academic integrity. It undermines your intellectual development, for one: AI content is often inaccurate or hallucinatory and is always boring, banal, and average. This is by design, as generative Al works by predicting the most obvious or basic sequencing of words. Good writingwriting that is persuasive, powerful, lively, funny, surprising, rousing, insightful, transformative, provocative-requires human work. Human creativity is weird and variable and uneven, but it holds the capacity for growth, revelation, empathy, and brilliance. We urge you not to abandon the glorious experiential potential of human messiness and transformation for the tedium of robot sentences.
One further reason to abjure generative Al, especially in a class on environmental literature: in addition to its counterproductivity to your work as a writer and thinker, Al is enormously environmentally destructive.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Terrific syllabus language about the dangers of Generative AI
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Jeremy Menchik @menchik.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
A corollary to this principle is that finding a single hallucinated citation should lead to an automatic rejection. Automatic. This should be a matter of policy. And this is one of easier AI-related problems for our journals!
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 21/12/2025
Journal editors: I suggest manually clicking on DOI links in the references section of submitted manuscripts. You may be surprised by what you see. Gen AI has lots of uses, and one of them is generating fraudulent citations.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The US government is now targeting anyone applying for a H-1b visa that have worked on "activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
For some reasons, @eppgroup.bsky.social has decided to emulate Orban’s autocratic playbook and target civil society actors. This comes at a time where EPP AFCO Chair previously did his best to normalise fake judges and anti-rule of law pseudo “experts”
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Rebecca Turkington @rcturk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
@saskiabr.bsky.social and I wrote in @foreignpolicy.com about the dismantling of gender equality architecture in U.S. foreign policy, including offices that were created more than six decades ago with bipartisan consensus. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/13/t...
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Trump Erases Women From Foreign Policy
The White House has overturned the decades-old bipartisan policy consensus that female empowerment serves U.S. interests.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
My god…
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Caterina Froio @caterinafr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Timely keynote by Donatella della Porta @ipsa.org : moral panic as a mechanism of repression of academic freedom.
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Dr. Dominika Tronina @dom-of-tronina.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
2020 Polish Const. Tribunal imposes near-total abortion ban. 2022 U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Today Germany delays Const. Court appointment after anti-abortion groups target pro-choice nominee. Abortion rights under attack - court by court, country by country. p.dw.com/p/4xJLb
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Germany's Bundestag postpones vote on judges' appointment – DW – 07/11/2025
The CDU/CSU union pushed for postponing the vote on one of the judges, citing plagiarism suspicions. The union's junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats, were outraged by the decision.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Indeed, measures similar to Reform's Trump-style book bans for children have already been found in breach of ECHR rights to freedom of expression - www.ilga-europe.org/news/europea...
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European Court rules against Lithuania labelling LGBTI-inclusive fairytale book harmful to children
European Court of Human Rights rules that labelling a book of fairy tales as harmful to children solely because of LGBTI content breaches the European Convention
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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Does higher state capacity go together with lower risk of democratic breakdown? Many political scientists certainly believe so! Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.
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Gefjon Off @gefjonoff.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A very important book. I’ll be putting on my reading lists
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
With @sarahbush.bsky.social & @laurenrprather.bsky.social we document the rise of low-quality election monitors who legitimate host elections regardless of fraud & show that authoritarian-led regional IOs--esp. those anchored by Russia--have pioneered the tactic link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Zombies ahead: Explaining the rise of low-quality election monitoring - The Review of International Organizations
The international election monitoring regime has become considerably more complex in the twenty-first century. Although the number of organizations engaged in high-quality election monitoring has plat...
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 07/06/2025
The autocrat needs enemies. Great, short explainer by @pepinneff.bsky.social
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The moral panic presidency: Donald Trump’s ignoble legacy of disharmony and demonisation - ABC Religion & Ethics
Moral panics are evidence of American weakness — they signal societal insecurities that provide an opportunity for external enemies to amplify racism, sexism and transphobia as part of their larger destabilisation efforts.
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Saskia Brechenmacher @saskiabr.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Checking in from parental leave to share my latest paper with @carnegiedcg.bsky.social! What's behind the contemporary anti-gender backlash? How does it manifest across different countries and regions? And why has it been difficult to mount an effective response? 🔽 🔽 🔽
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 04/06/2025
Gender conflict subtly but powerfully shaped South Korea’s election.
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South Korea election: Lee Jae-myung takes over a country split by gender politics
Gender conflict subtly but powerfully shaped South Korea’s election.
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
✍️Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser examines how far-right actors harness anti-feminist rhetoric to mobilize voters, resist the expansion of rights, and contest the very meaning of democracy. Read it 👉: tinyurl.com/8mbkfumm
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration. My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...
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A candle in the dark: the CJEU rules against criminalising parents for smuggling their children
Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Bologna, taken by  Ввласенко , via Wikimedia Commons Introd...
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 26/05/2025
This is a very interesting observational paper for those working on gendered dynamics of far-right, descriptive rep & femonationalism Does women's descriptive rep. lower anti-gender discourse among far-right? No, it *increases* it (according to parl speech data 2009-2023) doi.org/10.1177/1465...
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Dániel G. Szabó @gszd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@politico.eu: "The bill says threats to national sovereignty include influencing public opinion, promoting democratic debate, or challenging state-defined values like Christian culture and traditional family roles."
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Orbán’s Fidesz party proposes Russia-style crackdown on Hungary’s civil society
The new bill fits into a pattern of democratic backsliding for the Central European country.
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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Ecem Nazlı Üçok (@ecprgender.bsky.social) explores how student protests in Turkey, Serbia, and Georgia reflect more than isolated unrest — they reveal a transnational wave of political mourning 🙁, democratic erosion 📉, and Gen Z-led resistance ✊. ➡️ bit.ly/4d9s8uC
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How Gen Z students are leading transnational resistance
Ecem Nazlı Üçok explores how student protests in Turkey, Serbia, and Georgia reflect more than isolated unrest — they reveal a transnational wave of political mourning, democratic erosion, and Gen Z-l...
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Some rare good news for trans people – the transphobic amendment to the Data Bill was defeated by a large margin. It would have forced trans people to out themselves virtually daily, putting people's safety and dignity at risk, so it's great to see MPs reject it comprehensively.
Graph showing 97 'ayes' on the left hand side and 363 'noes' on the right hand side.
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 06/05/2025
Is Ernst Fraenkel’s dual state theory a useful template for making sense of Trump’s assault on the rule of law? WILLIAM SCHEUERMAN on what the theory might have gotten wrong by presuming that capitalism and economic actors favor legal predictability. verfassungsblog.de/trump-2-0-as...
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Germany's AfD's positions designated as "incompatible with the free democratic order" by the federal office for the protection of the constitution. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence
The AfD came second in Germany's February elections and has a record number of seats in the new parliament.
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opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net · 02/05/2025
🔴 The Conservatives knew their immigration plan would disproportionately impact LGBTIQ+ people. They did it anyway | Investigation by @sianushka.bsky.social www.opendemocracy.net/en/hostile-i...
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 02/05/2025
Shock, but no surprise. The only unexpected thing about this is the timing #farright #radicalright #Germany
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Germany: Intelligence agency says entire AfD 'extremist' – DW – 05/02/2025
One of Germany's most popular parties, the AfD, has been designated by the country's domestic intelligence agency as an extremist organization that threatens democracy.
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Germany's domestic intelligence service concludes that the AfD as a whole is "confirmed far-right" and in opposition to the free and democratic constitutional order of Germany. This is a big deal. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
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AfD laut Verfassungsschutz "gesichert rechtsextremistisch"
Das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz hat eine Neubewertung der AfD auf Bundesebene vorgenommen. Demnach bestehen keine Zweifel mehr, dass die Partei insgesamt rechtsextremistisch ist. Von Michael Götsc...
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Populism remains an important necessary concept to understand current political transformations. But analysts need to move away from it as the main focus. Authoritarian nativism, white supremacy, racism, sexism and fascism are the ideologies at the core of the current erosion of liberal democracy 1/
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Bernardo Rodrigues @brodeu.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Can someone please revoke Hungary's access badges to the Council until it's a functional democracy again? How do they still have a vote?....
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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This is why Republicans in the House passed a law saying women can't register to vote if their last name is different from their birth certificate. Yes, that happened.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Sound the subnational authoritarianism klaxon
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
If you want POTUS to hear your case on exceptions to tariffs, you might want to pay him a million for dinner with him www.wired.com/story/people...
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People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Business leaders are paying as much as $5 million to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1 million apiece to dine with him in a gro...
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
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Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines
Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Germany funding Eutelsat terminals in Ukraine as alternative to Starlink - expansion planned - www.aol.com/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive-Germany funds Eutelsat internet in Ukraine as Musk tensions rise
Berlin has been paying for Ukraine's access to a satellite-internet network operated by France's Eutelsat, as Europe seeks alternatives to Elon Musk’s Starlink. Eutelsat’s chief executive Eva Berneke ...
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Hungary joins the outlaws.
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Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is where the lens of authoritarian politics is helpful. Not because I think the US is necessarily an autocracy now, but because it helps explain the curious lack of voice on the part of powerful interests. These actors are scared: threatened with retaliation and lacking coordination capacity
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Last night & today are why I’m not convinced all the How Democracies Die is a particularly useful model for the US in this moment. You don’t consolidate control by blowing things up & inflicting pain on your own base. But that’s what Trump is doing & I can’t imagine how this helps his legitimacy
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The standout madness in the general madness are the enormous tariffs on South East Asia which, if these stick, is going to magnify China's sphere of influence. Geopolitical lunacy.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
US is using tariffs to coerce countries into adopting US anti-choice values. For example, trying to force the UK to overturn bubble zone laws that protect abortion clinics www.yahoo.com/news/trump-w...
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No free trade with US without free speech, Starmer warned
Sir Keir Starmer’s attempts to strike a free trade deal with the US are at risk over a free speech row.
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The European Commission is "examining" the letters sent by the US government to several EU countries asking them to certify their companies don't implement DEI programmes. The internal analysis is done based on "general international rules and specific arrangements."
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 28/03/2025
The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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