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Caterina Froio @caterinafr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What does far-right protest do to democracy? Join us online October 8, 12:15–13:15 CET as I present ongoing research with @xromerovidal.bsky.social, @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & A. Klassens. Thanks to @anketresch.bsky.social, GRIEC & Uni Lausanne. Info & registration 👇 www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...

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Contesting Democracy: Far-Right Protest and Public Satisfaction with Democratic Institutions

Caterina Froio de Sciences Po Paris présentera ses récentes recherches.

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The war in Ukraine, by contrast, had no systematic effect on electoral behaviour. The results underscore that the electoral consequences of crises depend on their nature and on how voters assign political responsibility.

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Using panel data from the Swiss Election Study (Selects @snsf.ch ), we find that the three crises generated distinct electoral responses. The pandemic had a demobilizing effect and reduced support for governing parties, whereas the energy crisis mobilized voters and increased incumbent support.

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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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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Very proud to see such a strong representation from the @unil.bsky.social at the inaugural #EPSS2026 conference, and deeply grateful to have such supportive, warm, and exceptionally productive colleagues @philipptrein.bsky.social @eliemichel.bsky.social! Todsy is day 3 in Belfast, rise and shine!

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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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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In June, Switzerland will vote on what is so far the most radical far-right popular initiative launched by the Swiss People‘s Party SVP: capping the population at 10M (currently ≈9.1M). In this thread, I’ll break down what it’s about and how it fits into broader findings on Swiss direct democracy

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

However, the findings for regional ingroup attachment vary: in Flanders and Wallonia, stronger regional identity aligns with exclusionary attitudes, while in Brussels, it is linked to more inclusive views.

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Using original survey data from Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels, we show that negative feelings toward other regional groups are consistently linked to stronger anti-immigrant attitudes.

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Why do some people who strongly identify with their region hold more negative attitudes toward immigrants? With Mia Gandenberger and Anita Manatschal, we examine how regional intergroup dynamics shape immigration attitudes in Belgium in @actapolitica.bsky.social. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Regional affects and attitudes towards immigrants: the case of Belgium - Acta Politica

Current research on regional identities does not fully account for the role of regional intergroup dynamics in shaping immigration attitudes. Drawing on insights from the party literature on affective...

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David Colon @davidcolon.eurosky.social · 25/04/2026

La version française du "Manuel d'anti-autocratie" est désormais disponible.. Il s'agit d'un appel à l'action, à la résilience et à la défense collective de la démocratie, de la vérité et de la liberté académique face à la montée de l'autoritarisme zenodo.org/records/1960...

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Manuel d'anti-autocratie: Guide à destination des chercheurs et universitaires confrontés au recul de la démocratie

Translated from the English original: the Anti-Autocracy Handbook Ce manuel d’anti-autocratie est un appel à l'action, à la résilience et à la défense collective de la démocratie, de la vérité et de l...

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In the wake of HU elections, social media flooded with „Just do x and far-right populism will be defeated“-solutionism. If it were as simple as anti-corruption campaigning, Fidesz would have been defeated by 2018.

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Importantly, mainstream candidates followed public issue salience more closely, while challenger strategies diverged - most notably with Marine Le Pen behaving more like a mainstream candidate, and Emmanuel Macron largely avoiding politicization of the war.

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The paper examines how candidates adapted their campaign issue emphasis after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, and whether these adjustments followed voter issue salience. It shows that while the crisis briefly reshaped the agenda, economic issues quickly regained dominance.

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

My article “War in the campaign? Issue emphasis and issue salience during the 2022 French presidential campaign” is now published in Party Politics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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La Vie des idées @laviedesidees.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

L'adoption du mode de scrutin proportionnel apparaît aujourd'hui, selon deux politistes, comme une condition nécessaire pour redonner à la démocratie française la capacité de renouer avec des gouvernements représentatifs, stables et opérationnels.

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La proportionnelle : une urgence démocratique

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Out in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties - with @bjarneck.bsky.social and @emilievh.bsky.social. We show that actual differences in policy positions between voters and parties are important predictors of how voters sympathize with other voters (horizontal affective polarization)

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

"Political Life" most salient issue among French citizens in 2025. Ahead traditional most important problems like purchasing power, law and order, immigration, or the environment.

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Special issue on “Wartime Europe” in the @jeppjournal.bsky.social With @bjarneck.bsky.social, we examine public opinion on the war in Ukraine, and on supporting Ukraine. And we find little evidence of war fatigue…

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Reto Bürgisser @retobuergisser.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Share widely with your students in Switzerland 🇨🇭thinking about a PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 🇨🇭 21 Nov 2025 | 2:30pm CET @alissasiara.bsky.social introduces the program & life at EUI, I share my experience, and we answer your questions. 👉 Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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PhD Prep Talk: Switzerland

Meet an EUI Researcher and alumnus from your country!

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

D66 n'a pas exactement remporté les élections. Ils sont arrivés en tête, avec un peu moins de 17% des voix. Cela leur donne simplement la primauté de la tentative de former coalition - dans un parlement qui compte 15 partis !

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Very much looking forward to this workshop organized by @linerenn.bsky.social and Oscar Mazzoleni at @unil.bsky.social !

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Consortium of National Election Studies @handle.invalid · 29/09/2025

#CNES took the floor at the 3rd #MEDemConference at @gesis.org as Olga Gyarfasova presented our activities to the #DemocracyResearch community 💡 #CNES is a proud partner of @medem.bsky.social and we look forward to a continued collaboration with this emerging European #ResearchInfrastructure 🚀

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MEDem @medem.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Next at the #MEDemConference – @LorenzoDeSio presents his vision for the #MEDemServiceGatewayHub 🌐 – featuring #ATLAS, our living encyclopedia designed to make democracy data findable, comparable, reusable, and linkable. Discover more about our #MEDemTools 👉 link in bio!

Lorenzo De Sio presents at the 3rd MEDem Conference 2025, standing beside a projection of the MEDem Service Gateway Hub. The slide shows tools including MEDem ATLAS, METEOR, AmCAT, and HarDIS, which support comparative democracy research.

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MEDem @medem.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🚀 Kicking off day 1 of the 3rd #MEDemConference at @gesis.org! From @sldelange.bsky.social discussing radical-right normalization 🗳️ to calls to consolidate democracy data by @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social 📊 — keynotes spotlight why #MEDem matters for democracy.

Sarah de Lange presents at the 3rd MEDem Conference 2025. Behind her, a slide shows the book “The Normalization of the Radical Right” and a quote on how radical-right behavior grows when previously hidden views become socially acceptable.

Simon Munzert speaks at the 3rd MEDem Conference 2025 on the past, present, and future of democracy research.

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Emilie van Haute @emilievh.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

📊 New Dataset Release: Belgian Electoral Panel Survey 2024 🇧🇪 We’re excited to announce the release of a new dataset from a 4-wave panel survey conducted during the 2024 Belgian elections! 📥 Download the dataset now: www.sodha.be/dataset.xhtm...

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Antoher thorough demonstration that geography can mirror politics - but does not produce political preferences in itself!

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Important roundtable on academic freedom at #ecprgc25. Insightful (but grim) presentation by @isaliba.bsky.social on attacks on academic freedom globally and also in Europe.

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🚨 We're hiring! Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment. Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊 www.gesis.org/en/institute...

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Philip Rathgeb @philiprathgeb.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Glad to share a symposium on my book "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare" with SER: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-.... Featuring @alexandreafonso.bsky.social, @vapunkt.bsky.social, @ankehassel.bsky.social, @danielk24.bsky.social, @gscheiring.bsky.social, & rejoinder by myself 👇

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Particularly, negative and positive (updates of) evaluations of health policy are associated, respectively, with electoral punishment and reward for incumbents, unlike economic policy evaluation. In short, Trump's defeat in 2020 is due to his mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic...

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

We adopt a constraining research design based on panel data to address issues of reverse causality and endogeneity in the study of vote choice. We find that policy evaluation of the governments’ response to the pandemic has influenced vote choice for incumbents.

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Bjarn Eck @bjarneck.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

New paper out in @bjpols.bsky.social, co-authored with Emilien Paulis. Using survey data from 13 European democracies, we show that electoral winners are less supportive of referendums, especially when they are affectively polarized. 1/6 Paper: doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425000365

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Fichier cumulatif de près de 50 ans d'une enquête électorale nationale de grande qualité ! @asso-afsp.bsky.social @spsr.bsky.social

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Very useful cumulative file of a benchmark national election study ! @nesconsortium.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Steven Levitsky on why the U.S. is now a competitive authoritarian regime and can't be considered a democracy. www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

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Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science @skytteprize.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆 He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Big news from ‪@medem.bsky.social‬ ! Congratulations !

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Congratulations ! MEDem is an exciting project supported by more than 1000 researchers !

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Politics of the Low Countries @plc-journal.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

"Towards a Polarised Electorate?" By @bjarneck.bsky.social @ulbruxelles.bsky.social @eliemichel.bsky.social available in #OpenAccess at plc-journal.eu/article/view...

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