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Giovanni Capoccia

@gcapoccia.bsky.social
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Politics Professor, University of Oxford. How liberal democracies respond to extremism and illiberalism. Liberal democracy and its others. Washington DC, Oxford, Rome. More info: users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073

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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have just published this piece for the Institute of Art and Ideas. It summarizes a part of my research agenda on countering illiberalism in liberal democracies. Thanks to the IAI for hosting it.⬇️ iai.tv/articles/the...
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The paradox of democracy’s self-defense
<p><em>Liberal democracies around the world are under threat. Oxford Politics Professor <strong>Giovanni Capoccia</strong> argues that there’s a paradox that prevents efforts to defend them. Illiberal...
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have just published this piece for the Institute of Art and Ideas. It summarizes a part of my research agenda on countering illiberalism in liberal democracies. Thanks to the IAI for hosting it.⬇️ iai.tv/articles/the...
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The paradox of democracy’s self-defense
<p><em>Liberal democracies around the world are under threat. Oxford Politics Professor <strong>Giovanni Capoccia</strong> argues that there’s a paradox that prevents efforts to defend them. Illiberal...
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This seems to me to get it exactly right and obviously applies beyond mathematics: solving a problem is not the same as developing conceptual understanding and insight, and might even come at the expense of it.
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy.
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Excellent editorial by @benjaminsire.bsky.social in @lel-media.bsky.social (a great publication spanning politics, society and scientific progress) on the expulsion from the French national territory of Xenia Fedorova, ex director of Russia Today in France. lel.media/edito/la-pou...
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La poupée russe du Kremlin - Les Électrons Libres
Martyre bâillonnée, Xenia Fedorova ? La liberté d’expression protège les opinions, pas les instruments d’une puissance hostile. Reste à empêcher nos démocraties de céder, elles aussi, à la tentation d...
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I gave some comments to Fabio Tonacci from the Italian newspaper La Repubblica about the current crisis of liberal democracy in the US and around the world. www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/...
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La mappa dei diritti: così la democrazia si restringe nel mondo
Dalle interferenze russe nelle elezioni europee fino a Trump e alle tecno-oligarchie di Musk e Thiel: secondo i report 2026 del V-Dem Institute, di Freedom Hou…
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My interview for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, on the dangers for liberal democracy today. www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/...
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Capoccia: “Oggi il vero pericolo per le democrazie sono le oligarchie della comunicazione”
Intervista al professore ordinario di Politica comparata all’Università di Oxford. “I proprietari delle piattaforme, che gesticono gli algoritmi, hanno un pote…
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My interview for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, on the dangers for liberal democracy today. www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/...
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Capoccia: “Oggi il vero pericolo per le democrazie sono le oligarchie della comunicazione”
Intervista al professore ordinario di Politica comparata all’Università di Oxford. “I proprietari delle piattaforme, che gesticono gli algoritmi, hanno un pote…
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"...After a decade of second-raters (May), comedy dilettantes (Boris Johnson), novices (Rishi Sunak and the bizarrely apolitical Starmer) and Liz Truss..." Brilliant synthesis of the past decade of UK politics.
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Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
On July 14, Judge Boasberg of the US Federal District Court in DC put a stay on the travel ban imposed last December on Clare Melford of the Global Disinformation Index, Thierry Breton and three other European researchers. Bravo! open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
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A victory for free speech in and about America
An article written in my capacity as Chair of the Global Disinformation Index about the attempts by the Trump administration to demonise and block our work
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Questa e' una notizia molto triste. L' avevo incontrato diverse volte a DC. Era una persona molto professionale e gentile. Very sad news. I met Daniele several times in DC. He was a very kind person and a very professional journalist. roma.corriere.it/notizie/cron...
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Weimers Report is an unprecedented attack on the EU Court of Justice’s authority, using the court’s limited transparency as a pretense to weaken its constitutional role in ensuring judicial independence across the Union @verfassungsblog.de Read legal analysis verfassungsblog.de/the-weimers-...
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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El gambito de Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen ha convertido su condena penal en una apuesta presidencial. El profesor de Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Oxford Giovanni Capoccia analiza cómo el recurso de Le Pen ante el Tribun...
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My piece on @verfassungsblog.de on what Marine Le Pen's decision to run for President might mean for the rule of law in France verfassungsblog.de/le-pens-gamb...
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Le Pen’s Gambit
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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
There's no doubt that Le Pen, like others in her ilk, is more than ready to misuse justice system as article details. But all this manoeuvring and the Le Pen/Bardella uncertainty will not be politically cost free.
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My piece on @verfassungsblog.de on what Marine Le Pen's decision to run for President might mean for the rule of law in France verfassungsblog.de/le-pens-gamb...
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Le Pen’s Gambit
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
On the political crisis in the UK--on @verfassungsblog.de verfassungsblog.de/starmer-resi...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What happened between 2015 and 2020 taught me that, should that awful day come and we, settled EU migrants, become the target of Reform, the Great British Public will do nothing to protect us. Friends will be appaled but powerless. A few marches, some nice, principled words, that'll be all.
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Les Électrons Libres @lel-media.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Les débats actuels sur la climatisation ont un étonnant parfum de déjà-vu. Au début du XXe siècle, c’est le chauffage central qui occupait le banc des accusés, cible des mêmes anathèmes que le froid artificiel aujourd’hui.
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Il y a un siècle, la France diabolisait le chauffage - Les Électrons Libres
Les débats actuels sur la climatisation ont un étonnant parfum de déjà-vu. Au début du XXe siècle, c'est le chauffage central qui occupait le banc des accusés, cible des mêmes anathèmes que le froid a...
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Les Électrons Libres @lel-media.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
À chaque canicule, le rituel est bien rodé. La France suffoque. Les écoles ferment. Les hôpitaux calfeutrent leurs fenêtres avec des couvertures de survie. C’est alors qu’invariablement arrive quelqu’un pour expliquer que la climatisation ne serait pas la solution.
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Climatisation : ces 12 idées reçues qui empêchent la France de s’adapter
À chaque canicule, le rituel est bien rodé. La France suffoque. Les écoles ferment. Les hôpitaux calfeutrent leurs fenêtres avec des couvertures de survie. Les médias conseillent de dormir dans des dr...
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My take on Starmer's resignation open.substack.com/pub/giovanni...
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The inevitable Reflecting Pool Dolchstoßlegende.
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"It is a shame that the world’s democracies are having to prepare for potential economic warfare with each other. But that is the world that Trump has created." www.ft.com/content/a718...
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America’s allies look to declare independence from the US
Traditional partners are rethinking their economic ties
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Excellent summary of where the UK economy is one decade after the Brexit referendum.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/06/2026
UK would be blocked from rejoining ‘wounded’ EU, says Juncker ft.trib.al/jVrEBYp
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UK would be blocked from rejoining ‘wounded’ EU, says Juncker
Former Commission president says other countries would ‘cold-shoulder’ Britain because of its closeness to the US
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Oh, the replies. Yet again, anonymous tankie accounts incapable of acknowledging that communist regimes were highly repressive and widely reviled by their own people. iF yOu CrITIcIZE CoMmuNisM YoU'rE a Fascist AlSo! CapITaliST WeST BaD so CoMMUniSm GoOd OMFGBBQ
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/06/2026
Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be | Owen Jones
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Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be | Owen Jones
Chilling comments by Reform figures can’t be dismissed when you consider the overwhelming power of the UK’s centralised state, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The scale of Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department against his enemies www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
To read them all now, check out @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The most corrupt president in history:
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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I'm shocked and so deeply saddened that my colleague and friend, Ran Hirschl, passed away. A towering figure in law and politics, he was so supportive of junior faculty like me, and had so much intellectual firepower to go. I'll miss him so much 😢 www.politics.utoronto.ca/news/memoria...
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 14/05/2026
“Rayner endured months of scrutiny over her living and tax arrangements. But when it emerged that Farage’s partner had bought an £885k house for cash, much of Fleet Street ignored it,” writes Alan Rusbridger
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Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power
The British media is obsessed with Zack Polanski, but raises barely a squeak over huge donations to Reform
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is excellent. One thing I'd add is that, almost entirely independently of what Farage does or says, there's a segment of voters who will think let's give him a chance/ he'd be a change/, and they could well have a decisive impact at the next GE given party fragmentation + FPTP.
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It's odd to think: after two world wars, an archipelago of death camps, slaughter of Jews, Roma, gays and disabled, what we really need is a re-armed, reunited Germany. And yet...
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog, reviewing @sarahobolt.bsky.social & James Tilley's new book "Tribal Politics. How Brexit Divided Britain": chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/book... (this is an additional post to the normal fortnightly posts, which continue as usual next week)
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 24/04/2026
Inadvertently reminded of this today, a great piece by my friend Andreas, sadly no longer with us to write things like this medium.com/kosmopolito/...
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Short guide to lazy EU journalism
The unofficial rulebook for lazy EU journalism. 20 invaluable tips for your career in EU journalism.
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Post-war era officially over. www.ft.com/content/c1ba...
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The welcome return of German military might
A defence strategy sets the right direction for dealing with the Russian threat
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10 journals.sagepub.com/toc/CPS/curr...
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Comparative Political Studies - Volume 59, Number 6
Table of contents for Comparative Political Studies, 59, 6
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reijer hendrikse @reijer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Verplicht huiswerk voor @robjetten.bsky.social
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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Andreas Busch @abusch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Important thread‼️👇🏻
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This looks to be a really fascinating special issue 👇
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10 journals.sagepub.com/toc/CPS/curr...
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Comparative Political Studies - Volume 59, Number 6
Table of contents for Comparative Political Studies, 59, 6
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, nearly every ship attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz today turned back.
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
From our FirstView: Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking by G. AGUSTIN MARKARIAN, @jacobhacker.bsky.social , @maclockhart.bsky.social and ZOLTAN HAJNAL. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
And the corresponding paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Video of the Harvard lecture here--thanks for the great comments and questions! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FODd...
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Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies
YouTube video by Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
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