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🌊 #IlliberalWave No50 🗳️ Sweden's election blocked the populist #SwedenDemocrats' route into government 🤝 But Vera Tika argues that far-right normalisation isn't automatically reversed by electoral defeat. Once institutionalised, #illiberal change acquires a political life of its own bit.ly/4hkWzSy

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🌊 Far-right setbacks do not reverse illiberal change

Sweden's election defeated the Tidö bloc and blocked the Sweden Democrats' route into government. Yet the restrictive political settlement they helped construct may endure. Vera Tika argues that far-r...

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 19h

🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.53 📋 Decisions about what governments collect and publish can shape more than statistics. 🗂️ Sebastián León-Giraldo argues public knowledge is part of democratic infrastructure. 📊 When states make some populations harder to see, they exacerbate inequality. ⤵️ bit.ly/4z5wi0i

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🌈 Gender, public knowledge, and democratic backsliding

Political decisions about what governments collect, publish and use can shape more than statistics. Sebastián León-Giraldo argues that public knowledge is part of democratic infrastructure. When state...

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profmartinjbull.bsky.social @profmartinjbull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is my last day as part of the Founding Editorial Team of @ecprtheloop.bsky.social with Johanne Dohlie Saltnes and Kate Hawkins. Over 1,500 blogs published in 6 years! What a Team! Big thanks to @ecpr.bsky.social, Johanne and Kate, and to all our contributors. And all the best to our successors!

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🛢️Argentina has tightened oil development in the #Malvinas #Falklands and upped its defence budget. 👛 @nicosalvoni.bsky.social says this may hurt firms with mainland interests, but more money must translate into military capability for Argentina to sustain stronger regional presence ⤵️ bit.ly/4hVmOz2

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Javier Milei and the limits of pressure over the Malvinas/Falklands

Argentina has tightened controls on oil development around the Malvinas/Falklands and announced more defence funding. Nicolás E. Salvoni examines what the

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POP @populismblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you so much for the wonderful decade of posts on populism 🙏 POP - Political Observatory on Populism - closes down 📢 That's all folks... POP is dead, long live POP 🤟 Read here the last post 🤓 populismobserver.com/2026/09/28/t...

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The End

After a decade of honourable service, it is time to retire POP. A blog on populism that I started as a PhD student back in 2015 and to which I have dedicated countless hours until 2025. Meanwhile, …

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🪧Mohsen Askari compares #Iran’s 1979 revolution with the 2026 uprising to reveal a paradox about digital communication. 🛜 Modern tech swiftly mobilises collective action, but authoritarian states with control over internet infrastructure can still interfere with collective knowledge 👉 bit.ly/3Vh7jIZ

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Digital protest can spread quickly, yet still be easy to stop

Mohsen Askari compares Iran’s 1979 revolution with the 2026 uprising to reveal a paradox about digital communication technology. Though modern tech may swiftly mobilise collective action, authoritaria...

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🌕 Akash Shah analyses the necessity of #HALO for #NATO’s integration of #SpaceArchitecture. 🚀 Here, the author suggests that President Trump’s push for European self-reliance, data sovereignty and technical challenges could all explain the US absence from this initiative 👇 👩‍🚀 bit.ly/4rt7yN4

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America's absence from NATO’s latest space initiative, HALO

Akash Shah analyses the necessity of HALO for NATO’s integration of space architecture. Here, he suggests that President Trump’s push for European self-reliance, data sovereignty and technical challen...

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🌐 The #RulesBasedInternationalOrder is not simply breaking down. 🌎 Instead, governments are increasingly creating exceptions that allow them to modify or selectively apply those rules while leaving the wider institutional architecture intact, argues @ilankapoor.bsky.social 📖 bit.ly/4xLz0qT

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When the exception becomes the rule in world politics

The rules-based international order is not simply breaking down. Governments are increasingly governing through exceptions built into the rules themselves, argues Ilan Kapoor

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

👨‍🏭 Britain’s #DisabilityBenefit debate is commonly framed as a choice between containing spending and protecting claimants. 👩‍💻 Pierce Leslie argues for distinguishing income protection from #EmploymentSupport, to make it safer for people with partial or fluctuating capacity to work 🧑‍🦽 bit.ly/4rtyXOS

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Disability, work and the limits of benefit reform in Britain

Britain’s disability-benefit debate is commonly framed as a choice between containing spending and protecting claimants. Pierce Leslie argues that a better settlement would instead distinguish income ...

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

😆 Humour is effective as a line of attack against authoritarian post-truthers like Trump. 👀 @lassethomassen.bsky.social suggests that humour – used well – can help make us see new truths to which we were otherwise blind. 👉 buff.ly/smUfCPn