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Gilles Verniers

@gillesverniers.bsky.social
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Researcher at CERI, Sciences Po. Indian political data, politics.

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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My take on how the trustworthiness of the Election Commission of India can be restored. m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-c...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Higher education is far from perfect but neither illiberalism nor neoliberalism has addressed the imperfections. Instead, they are destroying many of the aspects of higher education that did work well.
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Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My take: Authority is what allows a government to be believed when it speaks, & obeyed without tear gas when it acts. Legitimacy is the presumption that the system's verdicts are fair. On both counts, the ground has been shifting under GoI's feet. My take: m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-c...
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Win polls, lose authority: The lesson of July isn’t that GoI lost a minister, but that authority has to be earned between elections - The Economic Times
A youth-led movement, born from exam scandals, forced a minister's resignation. This dissent highlights a growing gap between electoral strength and genuine authority. The government's usual tactics...
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Why do so many politicians in India so readily betray their party? My piece in ET.
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I write about why the SIR matters, beyond the question of its effects on electoral outcomes. What is at stake is the legitimacy of Indian elections. t.co/x6xD7nTO0T?s...
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The manipulation of voter rolls is undermining the legitimacy of India’s elections
By altering the conditions and mechanics of the vote and thereby granting the ruling party an electoral advantage built within the electoral machinery itself, the ECI, whose purpose is to guarantee el...
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The only question that matter is not whether SIR made this or that party win or lose, but the fact that millions of voters could not cast their vote - by design - and were told to try again next time.
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
In this piece, I use @PippaN15 's electoral integrity chain framework to explain why the rules of the game cannot be changed unilaterally. This is a road that only has bad outcomes. economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-com…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/04/2026
Millions in India stripped of vote before critical state election, as government seeks to ‘purify’ electoral roll
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Millions in India stripped of vote before critical state election, as government seeks to ‘purify’ electoral roll
Experts say Muslims and other minorities have been disproportionately deleted from the electoral roll ahead of the West Bengal elections this week
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
As a donor who is at present endeavoring to fund and set up a scholarship with the university's Hutchins Center, may I say that if "viewpoint diversity" -- politicized shitspeak for protecting weaker ideas from better ones -- encompasses any part of my effort, I'm suing to get the money back.
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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 18/03/2026
an often forgotten part of far-right history nowadays is how the "race realist" movement is linked to other forms of bigoted pseudoscience - e.g. misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, among others. these are not, and have never been, serious academics. they're explicitly racist frauds
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My take on the politics of India's 2026 budget. Banking on expectation of long term benefits rather than short-term tangible ressource allocation.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
My two cents on the Bihar results. The MGB failed to provide voters with reasons to vote for it: m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-c...
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Centre-state Patnaship: What powered the NDA tsunami & sank the MGB in Bihar - The Economic Times
Bihar's electorate has spoken decisively, favoring the NDA and bestowing an incredible tenth term upon Nitish Kumar. With an impressive vote share and new seats won, the outcomes stand in stark contra...
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I recast the question of dynasticism in its broader elitist context, in @timesofindia. True in Bihar, true in India.
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Pavithra Suryanarayan @pavisuri.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. "Doesn't explain beyond India"
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Word.
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
When Institutions Work: Why Nicolas Sarkozy's Conviction Is Remarkable It is a rare instance of assertion of the rule of law and of the principle of equality before the law. thewire.in/world/when-i...
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When Institutions Work: Why Nicolas Sarkozy's Conviction Is Remarkable
It is a rare instance of assertion of the rule of law and of the principle of equality before the law.
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My piece on the role of caste in Bihar politics.
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
...there is a fundamental difference between curbing caste and concealing caste. ...Making caste invisible does not make it disappear. ...Dominance continues quietly, while democratic expression loses one of its tools. My piece on the caste display ban in UP m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-c...
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Never mind intent, banning caste display doesn’t diminish but reinforces invisible ways caste works - The Economic Times
The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a ban on caste-based displays. This includes police records and public signs. The move follows a court order and aims to end caste discrimination. Supporters s...
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Deeply saddened that Sankarshan Thakur has passed away. A fiercely independent man, friend to young and seasoned journalists and always generous and patient with scholars. A loss for his beloved home state of Bihar, to journalism, and to all of us.
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Jean, em dash enthusiast @jburkespraker.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
My advisor at Clemson was a Chicago history PhD, and I spent a summer working on my Latin at Chicago while I was at Brown. This is truly awful. But the Dalek references are top notch. 🤖
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Frédéric Mérand @fredericmerand.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Un des meilleurs spécialistes de l’Inde contemporaine, @gillesverniers.bsky.social, a passé le printemps à enseigner cette matière à 40 étudiants de @sciencepo-udem.bsky.social. Quelle chance!
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Patrick Heller @pheller.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Looking for a good summer reading list? Read the Naval Academy’s list of removed books www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the Naval Academy’s list of removed books
The Navy released the titles of 381 books that were removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library on the Annapolis, Md., campus this week because their subject matter was seen as being related ...
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
For those who thought that only social scientists and humanities scholars would be affected. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
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Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12/03/2025
No, Mr. President, you cannot illegally arrest and detain legal US residents because of their political views or opinions. In America, we have a little something called the First Amendment. Throwing protesters in jail is yet another step on the path to authoritarianism.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
National parks were the main places I wanted my kids to see, and I wrote about them in THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. Breaks my heart that the book is coming out as Trump tries to make good on his plans to destroy them. I hope my book helps the effort to fight back. www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
mesa verdeglacierarchesgreat sand dunes
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Vague enough for deniability,but general enough to terrorize. Obviously there is a hierarchy of victims, but don't assume you are safe because you are white, pro-Israel, U.S. citizen, whatever. This is not about terrorism, anti-semitism or "anti-Americanism". This is about total control!
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
One day, we'll look back on this as just Step 1 of removing women from any position of public authority. No one is making a fuss, because it's just women, so Step 2 will be easier. The broligarchs have already stated repeatedly that they regard women's right to vote in America as a "mistake."
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Rachel Donadio @racheldonadio.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This Zadie Smith essay is so incredibly good www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Dream of the Raised Arm | Zadie Smith
It’s no wonder those who lived under the Third Reich suffered ceaseless nightmares. What of our dreams today, under the totalitarianism of the online algorithm?
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Amherst at dusk
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"Over the years, I watched some batshit events. This one was right up there. Men and women fighting imaginary battles against an establishment of which they are part. Fighting diversity, inclusion, equality. Anyone who looks and thinks differently to them".
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Nigel Farage, Jordan Peterson & co worship each other in alt-right heaven | John Crace
Welcome to the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference, a fatuous echo chamber of self-congratulation
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 17/02/2025
The relevant political cleavage is not policy, it is constitutional order. We can fight bitterly over every policy once we agree that the rules must endure in order to protect the republic
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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Katherine Long @klong.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
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DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Amherst church well versed in social science literature.
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Amherst College
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Musk takes control of government communications.
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#SouthAsiaSky scroll.in/latest/10783...
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India saw 84% rise in communal riots in 2024: Report
Maharashtra reported the most number of riots – 12 out of the total 59, according to a report by the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism.
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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Very proud to have contributed with @larboe.bsky.social @pspolisci.bsky.social symposium about populism and democracy. We focus on the impact of populist parties when in opposition, because most research concentrates on these parties in power www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Populists in Opposition: A Neglected Threat to Liberal Democracy? | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Populists in Opposition: A Neglected Threat to Liberal Democracy?
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Delhi air far worse than a city literally on fire...
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Death of a far-right patriarch: my piece on how Jean-Marie Le Pen Reminded Us What the Far Right Looks Like When It Is Not Wearing a Mask thewire.in/world/jean-m...
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Jean-Marie Le Pen Reminded Us What the Far Right Looks Like When It Is Not Wearing a Mask
Toward the end of his life, Le Pen embodied the old far right: radical, aggressive, provocative, openly racist and anti-Semitic.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Surprise!
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Elon Musk Is a Paid Subscriber to Shockingly Racist Pro-Apartheid South African X Account
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is a paid subscriber to a virulently racist X account.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This Haaretz piece of IDF soldiers’ confessions of human rights violations absolutely wrecked me www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
IDF confessionIDF confessions IDF confessoons
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Happy Christmas season.
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I write on the 'One Nation, One Election' amendment that was presented in Parliament: m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-c...
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Can 'One Nation, One Election' truly simplify India's electoral process?
The Indian government has proposed constitutional amendments to enable simultaneous general and state elections. This "One Nation, One Election" initiative aims to reduce costs and improve governance...
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Just saw the Cash & Carry store in Paris where, as a student in 2001, I used to buy frozen parathas and copies of Outlook magazine...
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Roshan Kishore @roshankishore.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The great Indian political economy drama in six acts www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/t...
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
First snow
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Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Good point
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