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Stephan Köppe @drkoeppe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Great to see @inigoaldama.bsky.social PhD research being published together with @drdonoghue.bsky.social in Territory, Politics, Governance: doi.org/10.1080/2162... @ucdspswsj.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @politiquesuab.bsky.social

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‘Building a social project’? The welfare preferences of minority nationalist parties

Iñigo Aldama & Matthew Donoghue

Cite this article https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2026.2677563
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Minority nationalist parties increasingly govern welfare domains, yet little is known about how they form welfare preferences. The rescaling of authority to regional levels has compelled them to craft welfare discourses aligned with their communities’ interests, but how and why they develop such stances remains an open question. Integrating insights from time-series cross-section (TSCS) regression and election manifesto analysis of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco, EAJ-PNV), we systematically examine how welfare preferences evolve over time. We conclude that a combination of socio-economic factors, regional authority devolution and party competition determine whether they treat welfare as an instrument of nation-building or fiscal contention.

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Advance commentary (open access): The resilience trap: Deepening the ‘risk shift’ in social policy via the crisis and resilience fund by Matthew Donoghue journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

JUST PUBLISHED! Great to see my commentary published in Critical Social Policy today: "The resilience trap: Deepening the 'risk shift' in social policy via the crisis and resilience fund". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... More in the following posts:

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Iñigo Aldama @inigoaldama.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm immensely glad to share that my article with Matthew Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social has just been published in Territory, Politics Governance! @rsa-tpg.bsky.social 🎉 Our findings transform how we think about minority nationalism and the welfare state 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I really enjoyed working on this article, it was great to be a part of realizing Iñigo's idea! Read the thread below for more!

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We could be using technology to live in an age of abundance. But given capitalism requires scarcity to drive surplus value, what we'll likely get is obscene profits for a few, and mass uncompensated unemployment for the rest.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is more or less what I try to impart on my students. AI is here to stay and it's silly to not acknowledge that. So we must teach people how to use AI interfaces as tools to enhance -not replace - work. If you use AI to save time and cut corners, it WILL end badly for you - or someone else.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Campus looking alright in the sunshine

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Only just started marking this semester. But a strong reflection already on AI use. I don't know if it's AI use settling in now it's been around a few years, or that I require a signed AI declaration with explanation/justification, but in the essays I've marked so far, there's a noticeable shift.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If you'd told me a month ago - let alone when I started off in academia - that I'd be using cloud computing to run a code an AI had written for me to analyse almost 4.5m words of text, I wouldn't have believed you. But here we are.

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🚨I’m delighted to announce the launch of Arguably – a new publication for progressive ideas and debate – alongside @camvargas.bsky.social. Columnists include @benjudah.bsky.social, @davidlawrenceuk.bsky.social and @ZoeGrunewald.bsky.social. Subscribe now to receive our launch piece: Arguably.uk

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The new home of progressive ideas and debate. Click to read Arguably, a Substack publication. Launched 3 days ago.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Walking out of the lecture theatre realizing I've given my last proper lecture of the academic year, vs the realization that I have hundreds of essays landing on my desk soon

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

#academicsky people! Do I have any contacts who might be willing to chat to this dunce about Natural Language Processing #NLP, particularly as it pertains to multilingual Semantic Network Analysis? I have many questions!

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Come and work with us! Happy to answer questions about the school etc.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Does anyone have any recommendations for a *reliable* and *accurate* programme/app that converts references into different styles (e.g. x/y/z/ to APA etc.)?

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Another oil shock. *IF ONLY* we could generate energy without oil?! Mad, I know, but maybe huge windmills, or maybe even something that harnesses the sun? Waves move about a lot, maybe some Brainiac could invent something that turns moving water into energy?! One of those billionaire fellas maybe?

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

To benefit from even a partial notion of "democratic capitalism" you would need to have been alive between ~1945-1979. Democratic capitalism in Liberal economies lasted about 34 years. It lasted longer (maybe still there) in the Nordic countries. As with everything, continental Europe is a mixed bag

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Automating alienation. Fantastic.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

For one of my modules this semester, I put a statement in my handbook to say that use of Generative AI to produce essays is not permitted. I decided I needed to give more specific guidance on what I will - and won't - accept.

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

From The Times last Saturday. Starmer's ministry provides empirical proof of the fact that (contrary to what the Labour leadership has believed for many years) you can't govern without an ideology: something organising your outlook and mobilising people to action. www.thetimes.com/article/2cb4...

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Largely depressing reading. But the takeaway point is that something has to give at some point, some how.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Humanity is hurtling so quickly downhill. Lazy warmongering. I'm sure it helps that the targets had already been dehumanised.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I keep hearing the Green Party have been doing divisive and sectarian politics. Does anyone have any examples? Or is this Labour Party entitlement to a core vote they actively dislike?

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 27/02/2026

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/02/2026

What Goodwin's reaction shows is that reactionaries claim to talk for "the people" but truly hate the people and them having a say in how things should be run It shouldn't surprise us that reactionaries are elitist and anti-democracy obviously and yet this has been obscured through skewed coverage

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Imagine if Matt Goodwin's campaign strategy was to NOT tell people to vote Reform. Absolute galaxy brained genius of the far right. A brain too big for academia etc etc

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Delighted to see the news in Gorton and Denton this morning - on multiple fronts.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Today marks the 15,000th day this year it has rained in Ireland.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

What's the point of anything anymore

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IPR @uniofbathipr.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We’re hiring a Policy Engagement Manager! We’re seeking a Policy Engagement Manager to strengthen and enhance engagement with #PublicPolicy across the University of Bath’s research portfolio. 🔗 www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... #PolicyJobs #HigherEducation #ResearchImpact #JobVacancy

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Birthday present to myself arrived today. Giddy with excitement and can't wait to have it framed and in my office! It is a 1960s 'genuine reproduction' (as it were) of a poster from the Mai '68 protests. Absolutely love it.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Had a spate of high quality new followers recently, despite not posting all that much. Hi everyone! My pinned post tells you a little about me, although it's a bit out of date now. I should probably update it soon...

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Just finished one of my Work and the Welfare State lectures, and once again mentioned the Reserve Army of Labour - and then I see this post.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Feeling very "pessimism of the intellect", not very "optimism of the will", today.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I thought for a millisecond this was about grindcore the musical genre. Which is also, some might say, absolute insanity...

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

On question time someone would say 'oh that's an important point' and move on without questioning it. Or the person questioning it would just get shouted down as a radical lefty

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I will always remember, during his quasi-respectable period, an organisation committed to addressing inequality (yes, it's true) asking me how they might be able to court Goodwin to come to one of their events, so they could have 'both sides'. I politely declined. hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...

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State of HATE 2025: The Opportunist Extremist: The Strange Radicalisation of Matthew Goodwin

Once a respected academic studying the far right, Matthew Goodwin has become one of its most influential figures. Now a GB News pundit and Reform UK fanboy, he’s traded scholarship for reactionary gri...

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Have adverts on journal websites always been a thing and I haven't noticed before, or is this a new level of hell we now get to enjoy?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous

Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.

I don’t know if Maduro is good or bad, not even if he’s a drug trafficker; in the files of the Colombian justice system, after half a century of dealing with the biggest cocaine mafias, the names of Nicolás Maduro or Cilia Flores don’t appear. Those who have come forward to denounce him are Venezuelan opposition generals, nothing more, seeking to topple the popular vote.

The judicial power in Colombia doesn’t belong to me; it’s independent of me, and my opposition largely handles it.

If one wants to know about the mafia and the business of cocaine commercialization, just look at Colombia’s judicial files.

That’s why I deeply reject Trump speaking without knowing; my name doesn’t appear in the judicial files on drug trafficking over 50 years, neither from before nor from the present. Stop slandering me, Mr. Trump. That’s not how you threaten a Latin American president who emerged from the armed struggle and then from the people of Colombia’s fight for Peace.

I was part of the clandestine organization that fought for democracy in Colombia against the civil dictatorship of the "State of Emergency." The organization that in 1974, long before Chávez, carried out the operation to raise Bolívar’s sword once more, who said he would never sheathe it until injustice ended in Gran Colombia. I was with the M19 that made the first peace in contemporary Latin America.

He doesn’t read Colombia’s history, and that’s why he fails when he criticizes us. He should only meet with his officers who are experts in drug investigations in Colombia, whom I’ve helped with my own investigations as a senator of the Republic from Colombia’s Left and its people,

who have suffered the narco genocide and its political allies, who are also allies of the American far right.

Tens of thousands of our comrades from the armed and popular struggle for democracy were assassinated, and we didn’t go begging you for invasions; we endured and won through Peace.

I’ve never burned a U.S. flag because I’ve read the history of the popular and workers’ struggles in the U.S. through Zinn’s books in Spanish. And that’s why I honor the American working people, the Black and Indigenous people, the young soldiers who, alongside the Soviets, defeated Hitler.

And that’s why I dared to speak on a street in New York in front of the United Nations building and under U.S. law that protects the opinions of those attending the United Nations Assembly to speak freely. I spoke against the genocide in Gaza—how I would have loved to accompany you to make peace in Gaza! Where the Palestinians love me, and perhaps if instead of

going to capture a Latin American president with small controls on oil because you blocked the oil and condemned us to hunger and unleashed the exodus that reached your own country, I would have accompanied you to capture Netanyahu, the genocidaire.

For what I said, you took the arrogance to punish my opinion, my words against the Palestinian genocide. Your punishment is to falsely accuse me of being a drug trafficker and having cocaine factories; I don’t have a car, nor estates abroad—my house I’m still paying off to the bank with my salary. It’s unjust, and I fight against injustices.

I’m friends with a lot of people in the U.S. who stop me on the streets, surround me with their arms.

That’s why I respect the history that began with Washington and Bolívar together; they gave each other things, they were liberators more than enslavers.

I learned not to be a slave, and I reject your

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Turns out a combination of not using That Other Site and the economic landscape at the moment in general does, in fact, makes fulfilling the whole "starving artist" stereotype a whole lot more achievable 😅

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

A new report for the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) with my colleague, Orla Dingley, on "Examining the Concept and Use of Just Resilience in Ireland and Internationally". It looks at how we can ensure climate adaptation is effective and fair. www.nesc.ie/publications...

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Examining the Concept and Use of Just Resilience in Ireland and Internationally - National Economic & Social Council

Following on from the development of just transition in climate mitigation policy and practice, increasing focus is being placed on just resilience. This research paper was undertaken for NESC to expl...

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Such lazy "journalism" from the BBC. Perpetuating all sorts of stereotypes, removing any historical context, and conveniently ignoring recent shifts.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I'd wager this is evidence that the furore over 'migration' isn't about migration but the presence of dark-skinned people in the UK... And yes, this was evident in the more sinister corners of the Brexit campaigns.

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Stephan Köppe @drkoeppe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Very pleased to see UCD Master of Public Policy ranked within the top10 in Western Europe and no. 1 in Ireland. Thanks to co-director @drdonoghue.bsky.social faculty @ucdspswsj.bsky.social & @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social You can apply for 2026 here: www.ucd.ie/publicpolicy

Screenshot shows UCD MPP programme ranked no. 1 in Ireland.

Screenshot shows the TOP10 ranking of the UCD Master of Public Policy in Western Europe.

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Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Just fyi: Streeting has spent his entire adolescent and adult life hitherto strategising about how he can become PM. It's all a game etc etc. A depressing one, at that.

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