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Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) @protestinstitut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🤩 See you in Berlin next week! On 5th and 6th October, our annual conference takes place at the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 😱 Registration on the spot is also possible‼️ Program 👉️ buff.ly/4KWYi1h.

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ipb Jahrestagung 2026 – ipb – Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung

Research on protests and social movements is characterised by recurring puzzles – open questions that arise repeatedly across cases, methods and theoretical traditions. While we have accumulated rich…

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A nice surprise this morning: Google Scholar let me know that my work has now passed 1,000 citations. It means a lot to know that the work has been read, discussed, used, and built upon. Thank you to everyone who has engaged with it, especially my collaborators, mentors, and students! :)

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Thomas Lux @thomaslux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

With COVID-19 we may be witnessing a generation in the making. It is the most named event among the young, irrespective of status, region or ideology. The young were the ones who bore the containment measures. Older people, who ran by far the highest risk of dying, hardly mention it. 6/6

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Leonhard Schmidt @leonhardschmidt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New article with @bcastanho.bsky.social out now in @ejprjournal.bsky.social ! ✨ We map protest mobilization calls by MPs across Europe to disentangle the role of radicalism and populism in explaining party involvement in protest politics. 🪧 doi.org/10.1017/S147...

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Anselm Hager @anselmhager.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

EuroWEPS 14 is here! We'll meet in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social and discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars especially welcome to apply! Deadline is Sept 11.

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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 21/08/2026

“To understand views in Canada, we now turn to our Commonwealth correspondent in London who wants to tell us about the mysterious British soul.” www.badbaltic.com/if-eastern-e...

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If Eastern Europeans reported the world like the world reports Eastern Europe

Here’s what those tropes, clichés, and stereotypes sound like in reverse.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

None of this shit is worth our lives.

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

📄 And another working paper: **Pretty much all citizens say they support democracy.** But what do they mean by that? We ask whether voters from different partisan camps mean the same thing when they talk about "democracy." Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🚨New paper Like most things in democracies, achieving climate action in the form of sustainable policy needs a significant amount of political mobilization. We investigate when & where this is more likely to happen across places on the climate frontline: the Global South🧵 📌 osf.io/preprints/so...

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Nick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com · 30/07/2026

One of my empirical-work econ takes is that I think academia should be *more* open to publishing work based on best-we-can-do weak data, as long as there's really no other way to address the question and that work is very clear about what it can and can't actually say.

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Reto Bürgisser @retobuergisser.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We're hiring a six-year Postdoc @stawi-univie.bsky.social, starting in Oct 2026 (or thereafter). Research: political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅 Deadline: 20 Aug 2026 Apply here: tinyurl.com/dyf9bt7h

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Turkey keeps creating fascinating party names. The Good Party (İYİ Parti) was already a great example. The new CHP splinter takes newness "as a winning formula" to another level: it's literally called the New Party. Check out our recent paper on party names and branding 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Dino Wildi @dnwildi.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

I am proud to have presented my work with @eborbath.bsky.social on automating core sentence coding yesterday evening at @epssnet.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone there for a great panel and especially to @laiacastro.bsky.social for discussing our paper!

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Off to a conference marathon: first @ces-europe.bsky.social in Dublin, then @epssnet.bsky.social in Belfast. At CES, @dnwildi.bsky.social and I present papers on the climate divide and LLM claims analysis. In Belfast, @dasalgon.bsky.social presents our Chile/Spain movement parties paper. ☕/🍻? DM me!

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

One week left to apply to the two doctoral researcher positions below! ⏳ Please share with anyone who might be interested!

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Diane Bolet @dianebolet.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A fully funded 2-year postdoc for my ERC project on climate politics, comparative politics and political economy. Deadline: 29 July 2026, 10am CET Starting date: Jan 2027 (flexible) Feel free to reach out next week at EPSS if you’d like to discuss the position www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

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Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Position GREENLOSS Project

2 Years - Postdoctoral Position Starting January 2027

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 02/06/2026

Stunned to hear about the loss of Raul Pacheco-Vega. A hugely passionate scholar who built large and wide communities around him. His absence will certainly be felt in many places.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I am very much looking forward to presenting the first results from our ClimateDivide project at this superb conference next week! 🌳⚡🌳Hope to see some familiar faces too. PS: 🔎 We have two PhD positions in the project, spread the news and don't hesitate to reach out. climatedivide.eu

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The New Climate Divide

A highly-customizable Hugo research group theme powered by Wowchemy website builder.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 22/05/2026

Free for a limited period from the latest issue of @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - APSA Presidential Address: Epistemic Institutions and the Populism Dilemma: Reimagining Political Science as a Vocation amid Democratic Breakdown - cup.org/4sMuEhv - Taeku Lee

Cover of "Perspectives on Politics" journal, featuring a grid with red columns and handwritten numbers and characters. Text indicates a special section on International & Comparative Political Economy. Published March 2026, Volume 24, Number 1.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The recording of my lecture “The Populist Radical Right – A Threat to Democracy?” is now on YouTube. It opened Heidelberg University’s Ruperto Carola lecture series on “Wehrhafte Demokratie”. Watch here: youtu.be/jshrUXaqv7s?... Looking forward to the rest of the series!

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The Populist Radical Right – A Threat to Democracy

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Looking forward to presenting some work in progress with @dasalgon.bsky.social & @eborbath.bsky.social at @powimz.bsky.social today!

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Dino Wildi @dnwildi.eurosky.social · 19/05/2026

We are hiring 2 PhD candidates at Heidelberg University to research individual-level participation, group formation, and identities around the emerging divide in climate politics! For more infos see below or contact me - apply until 21. June!

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!

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Job Vacancies - Institute for Political Science

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I’m happy to open Heidelberg’s Ruperto Carola lecture series on “Wehrhafte Demokratie” with: “The Populist Radical Right – A Threat to Democracy?” I'll discuss why these parties rise, how they mobilize, and when they represent a threat to democracy. ⏰Mon 11 May, 18:15 📍Aula der Alten Universität

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Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

German SPD, Greens, and Linke will stop posting on X. An important step and signal. X and its owner have long become a megaphone for the far right, a venue that is actively used to encourage abuse and violence. It‘s simply shameful how many in politics, media, and academia still actively post there.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Congrats!!! I am looking forward to seeing you at the WZB!

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordi...

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This is a really interesting article. All of it has lessons, but the part that really struck me is the way populist culture war issues weren't tackled head on, but were instead effectively dismissed as far less relevant or important to people than issues of corruption and public service decline.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Do protests change elections? Prior research: "yes, and dramatically so." But is that always true? What about protests in the last few years? Our latest working paper challenges prevailing logic. Our finding: most recent protests have failed to do anything to influence elections.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Much of the coverage of the Hungarian election has focused on Orbán. We know less about the strategy behind Péter Magyar’s and Tisza’s breakthrough. I’ve written a short piece for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social on why this challenge succeeded.

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Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🚨 New paper in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social: Nils-Christian Bormann and I propose to model the electoral effects of ethnic and other cleavages with a new *Covoting Regression Model*. A short on the method and our results on ethnic voting in Sub-Saharan Africa. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Coethnics Covote in Africa: Studying Electoral Cleavages with a Covoting Regression Model | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Coethnics Covote in Africa: Studying Electoral Cleavages with a Covoting Regression Model

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Zoltan Miklosi @zmiklosi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It's weird that all these accounts I follow for other reasons (US politics, international politics, UK, etc.) are posting about Hungary. You gotta give it to Orban, he made HU "interesting" -- in a bad way. I am looking forward to HU going back being an obscure, boring, normal country.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Reuters says Tisza has at least 135 seats: 133 is the constitutional supermajority! Live by highly disproportional electoral systems (which Orbán made even more disproportional with the extra compensation votes awarded to winners), die by highly disproportional electoral systems.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Orbán congratulated Magyar. It's really a historic moment.

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Periodic reminder: this isn’t just an election. It’s either a popular uprising against Orbán or an authoritarian mobilization to keep him in power. (And it can absolutely be both.)

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Joost @almodozo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

In the last year and a half, pollsters in Hungary have developed parallel realities. On the eve of the elections the chasm between Fidesz-affiliated pollsters and the others has widened more than ever. Via Gabor Toka: xcancel.com/PopuliIn/sta...

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This article is the best summary I’ve seen so far of the institutional hurdles Tisza would face, even if it wins on Sunday. tvpworld.com/92544224/hun...

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Why winning Hungary’s vote may not be mean winning power [ANALYSIS]

Orbán's courts, media and constitutional locks will outlast any ballot box result.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

(2) You are prob right about the comparison with other EPP parties, but in the HU context is the most centrist among all right-wing parties (Tisza<Fidesz<Mi Hazánk). True, he didn't campaign with LGBTQI+ rights, but one of his slogans has been that under a Tisza gov anyone can love whoever they want

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

(1) You literally write "Considering the challenges Magyar will encounter if he is elected, not to mention his own rightwing ideology, it seems unlikely that he would prioritise restoring liberal democracy to Hungary beyond trying to undo 16 years of Orbánism"

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The article states more than that, e.g.,: "Even if Tisza’s vote share translates into a majority in parliament and enables it to implement reforms, democrats should not expect too much from a Magyar government." It goes on to argue that MP's ideology is anti-lib-democratic because he is center-right

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Point taken. But I'm still not sure why he would be anti-lib-dem. Key promises he made: - return to a prop. electoral system - term limits for PMs for 8 yrs (including for Orbán) - joining the European Public Prosecutor's Office - reforming the public media service I could go on; it's a long list.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Thanks for having the election on your radar! At the same time, you might want to take note of the highly salient electoral promises MP made on restoring institutional checks and balances, before you declare him anti-democratic on account of being on the centre-right. Also, it's Viktor, not Victor.

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Reto Bürgisser @retobuergisser.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Job vacancy announcement for a postdoctoral position at the University of Vienna Department of Government, starting August/September 2026. Research focus includes political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields. Application deadline: 29 April 2026. Full details are also available through the shared link.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Very happy to see this project published in Nature 😊 We contributed with replicating Manekin & Mitts 2022: Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance with Jan Fabian Dollbaum, and Jan Matti Dollbaum. We also wrote up those specific results here: ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/i4rdps...

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A comment on Manekin & Mitts 2022: Effective for Whom? Ethni

Manekin and Mitts (2022) investigate the success chances of minority ethnic groups when engaging in non-violent protests demanding political change. First, using observational data, the authors find t

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Congratulations Alex!!! I am looking forward to seeing you more 😊

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Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Some exciting news: I'm heading back to Europe! In April, I'll be starting a three-year fellowship at the University of Bremen. I will be hosted in the research group of the amazing @sophiahunger.bsky.social, working on wrapping up my first book on identity and writing my second on democracy.

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Can Péter Magyar win a deeply rigged election? Would Orbán leave power—and would anything change even if he did? How did we even get here, and why, against all odds, do we still cling to hope? I wrote up my (admittedly messy) thoughts ahead of April 12 brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/can-hungar...

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Can Hungary Vote Out Its Autocrat?

Musings on the politics & political economy of Orbánism ahead of the April 12 election

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