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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Police overlooked tip-off, night before far-right agitators blocked Dover roads Kent police were contacted after people heard boasting about going to Dover to ‘attack Muslims’ Preston-next-Wingham resident e: “There were hundreds of them. They took over the place" An invasion by fighting-age men.

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Police overlooked tip-off day before far-right agitators blocked Dover roads

Details passed to Kent police after people heard in pub boasting about going to Dover to ‘attack Muslims’

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

📢 New paper out in Latin American Policy! With Franco Bastias, we ask: do Javier Milei's voters actually align with his policy agenda, or is his support more of a protest vote? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 1/6

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Latin American Policy | PSO Journal | Wiley Online Library

Argentina's political landscape experienced a major shift with the unexpected election of Javier Milei as President. Known for his radical right-wing stance, Milei has pledged to drastically minimize....

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Let´s talk about #Ceuta. 1/ Ceuta again. Von der Leyen's response to people crossing: "our rules," "swift returns," partnering with Morocco to stop "dangerous crossings." No mention of protection, of solidarity, of why people are crossing in the first place. No Union, just Spain left alone.

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Commission President expresses NO solidarity with Spain or the thousands of people affected in Ceuta. Nor does she call on other EU Member States to support Spain in managing what is a European border. No rebuke to Italy and Finland threatening to ‘suspend’ Spain from Schengen. That’s illegal

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

First #EPSS26 done! ✅ Was a great success in an exciting city, Belfast (perfect time to be there as a populist scholar). Glad I was part of this new start! An applause for the organisers and all the volunteers who assist us in finding the rooms 👏 P.s. I need to work on my facial expressions.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Me at the #EPSS26 conference, attending IR panels on international cooperation, IOs withdrawal. While in Italy the real drama is happening. 👇

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Panicopipoca3d: Man in 3D Glasses Eating Popcorn

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

While on the train for Belfast, let's wrap up #CES2026. I was lucky to share my first time here together with my great colleagues @maxheermann.bsky.social and @philippbien.bsky.social I'm very amazed to see the high quality of the works out there and the amazing scholars and colleagues.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Nigel Farage. A proper football fan who hasn't moved an inch in almost two years.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Unsurprisingly, @politico.eu gave far-right leader Bardella the chance to increase his international profile with this softball-interview. The ending is particularly gross. Prime normalization of the far right.

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‘The EU is completely obsolete’: France’s far-right leader wants to shake up Europe

Jordan Bardella lays out how he would lead France as president.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Safe and sound arrived in Dublin 🇮🇪 Getting ready for #CES2026 with a great company! Yes, some glasses of Guinness were involved! 🍺

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I am always affascinated by the use of music by the right-wing parties (et Al.). Like the latest video published for showing how much fun they had this weekend the fascist gang talking about migration 👇 . Are there studies about music & right-wing parties/movements? Like, why Gigi D'agostino?

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Something to really look closely. These kinds of events will shape not only European far-right politics but also the centre-right mainstream party agenda.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Looking at the USA, the rise of Alt-right, Trump and the Manosphera via Reddit, Podcasts & alternative SNS, we shouldn't be surprised to see Meloni using Podcasts to expand and normalise her radical right opinions. The same playbook used by her American friend.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Preparing the syllabus for the next semester. Inspired by @alessandronai.bsky.social. Goal: checking if students go through the syllabus. **Real Goal**: Be surprised by students on how much they know Italian cuisine besides "Pizza, pasta, spaghetti 🤌" and perhaps have some inspiration for dinner.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Just out! 💥 @ecprtheloop.bsky.social Populists often criticise international organisations but still work through them. Trump? More likely to walk out — and make the exit part of the show. My new piece looks at multilateralism, populism, and politics as performance 👇

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Great piece, a must-read for populist scholars, and definitely it should push all of us to look more into left-wing populism, too often overlooked. I wonder if the Italian 5-Star Movement and the German BSW are not the perfect "successful" example of Left Patriotism.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"In an era of information overload, there is no scarcity of data or analysis; what is lacking is attention. And whoever controls that controls the debate."

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 25/01/2026

*This*. It cannot be said often enough that Trump's 5th column in the UK is planning precisely the same fascist makeover. In broad daylight, and with "democratic" politicians being silent onlookers. And I wonder if Brits will have the courage of Minnesotans when it comes down to it.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I checked Truth Social for the very first time. I am still alive, but with a lot of questions (not even about Trump, tbh), and I am not even sure I want to hear the answers.

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Meloni sticking to her usual strategy, which so far has worked just fine for her. Moderation in foreign affairs; a stable, predictable rapport with the EU Commission; throwing some bones to her electorate and party members on matters related to migration and asylum...

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Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

It feels like we are watching a bonfire of international cooperation. And a bit like many EU leaders’ main concern is still reassuring Donald that they support his marshmallow-roasting over the fire.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This goes far beyond the usual populist playbook of loud rhetoric. While leaders like Meloni moderate in office, Trump opts for the real exit. Time to ask: can we still lump all “ RRW populists” together when some dismantle global governance, and others merely complain about it (e.g. Meloni)?

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

When you get accepted to conferences because you spent too much time writing a punchy and fancy abstract, and now you realise that you actually need to work on the paper.

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

There is nothing new to this situation, this has been the case for at least 5 years now.... except the use of the nonsensical term "hard right".

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Reminder for those who think that authoritarian and corrupt “phases” evaporate eventually. The Berlusconi legacy is healthy and strong in Italy.

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Mattia Zulianello @mattiazulianello.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

🌳 Thrilled to launch The PopulisTree — a new website covering decades of populism in Europe (both national and European elections) using a new taxonomy and dataset. 🔗 populistree.org 📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics: 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

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Collecting TikTok Data

Getting TikTok data (<https://www.tiktok.com/>) through the official and unofficial APIs—in other words, you can track TikTok.

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Dr. Jan Philipp Thomeczek @drphilphil.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🚨New VAA Dataset🚨 @wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/... Some insights 🧵1/n

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Aurélia Bardon @aureliabardon.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de! Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher 3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026 Please share widely 🙏

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Postdoctoral Research Position

Deadline: 15.12.2025

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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 18/11/2025

For the crowd still raving about the Danish Social Democrats, convinced that all social democratic parties should adopt their course. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🔴 GASTROPOPULISM THREAD (very random, but why not talking about #populism) I was chatting with a colleague about Markus Söder’s endless beer-and-Bavarian-food pics, and immediately thought of Salvini’s “face + food” posts. I usually laugh about it, but let's have a thread on it.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆 'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?

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Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

for the techno-populism curious, you might want to know that Meloni is also skipping COP30. btw remember the media praise she got re promises about finance at COP28 (300M for Green Climate Fund, 100M for Loss & Damage Fund)? Turns out 1/3 only has been issued and none of this is new money really.

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Nadja Wehl @na-wehl.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Very excited about the lineup for our #ComparativePolitics & #PoliticalEconomy colloquium in the winter @uni-konstanz.de !! ▶️Hannah Werner @ipz.bsky.social ▶️Fabio Franchino ▶️ @ashelshehawy.bsky.social ▶️Kevin Munger @eui-sps.bsky.social ▶️@rdassonneville.bsky.social ▶️@svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

New semester, new great lineup for our #InternationalStudies seminar with amazing speakers at @uni-konstanz.de ➡️ Gabriella Gricius @ggricius.bsky.social ➡️ Fabio Franchino ➡️ Livia Schubiger ➡️ Kenneth Schultz ➡️ Giorgio Malet @giorgiomalet.bsky.social ➡️ Timon Forster @timonforster.bsky.social

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Just watched Dead to Rights. Hard not to think of Sanseito’s rising nationalist–populist rhetoric, its anti-migration stances also vs Chinese. Japan’s gov’t has acknowledged wartime wrongdoing but never issued a direct apology for the massacre. Ambiguity keeps the wound open & fuels mistrust.

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

My new my new home for the next two months. Excited to dive into this new adventure at the Monash University! @monashuniversity.bsky.social

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

With some delay from @ipsa.org, I made it through Seoul’s heatwave and the rainy season. Grateful to have been part of such a vibrant and stimulating environment. Had so many energising conversations with brilliant scholars from all over the world. Still buzzing with ideas!

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Max Heermann @maxheermann.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

(1) In the new In_equality magazine by @excinequality.bsky.social, we draw on original survey data from 9 countries to argue that public support for mutlilateral health policy is more robust than populists want to make you believe. bsky.app/profile/exci...

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ecpr - SG Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🚨 New #PolComm ECR Club Session coming up! 🙌 🕺 Join us tomorrow (12 June) at 🕰️ 1pm for a discussion of 🎇 Memes during the Czech Elections 🗳️ w/ ✨ Martina Paulenova, Ofra Klein & Ana Langer. ✨ 🖥️ Check events.ecpr.eu/Events/Event... for more details and registration/zoom link! 🔗 @ecpr.bsky.social

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Memeing the Candidates: Exploring Polarization and Incivility in Commenters’ Responses to Anti-Populist Memes during the 2023 Czech Presidential Elections

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Giada Pasquettaz @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Wrapped up a fantastic week at the #ECPR Joint Sessions—grateful for the inspiring discussions and brilliant colleagues. Big thanks to Lisbeth Zimmermann and @raffaelemstr.bsky.social for organizing a great workshop on the international politics of the far right! @ecpr.bsky.social

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