Jonas Suchanek @jsuchanek.bsky.social · 24/09/2025"Nowhere is this selective application of values more glaring than in the EU’s response to Gaza." 010
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekElectoral Studies @electoralstudies.bsky.social · 17/07/2025🚨 New research! 🚨 Check out this recent article by @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social and Wouter van der Brug on place-based resentment and populist voting in the Netherlands. Free to read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 0175
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekJan Charvát @janch.czesky.online · 16/05/2025Druhá série podcastu Extrém začíná. Dnes mluvíme o antisemitismu. O středověkém antijudiasmu a kořenech konspiračních teorí, sociálním antisemitismu 19. století, rasových teoriích a holocasutu, vzniku státu Izrael a také o antisionismu a krajní pravici i levici. www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/...irozhlas.czExpert Charvát: Nenávist se často rodí z frustrace. Židé jsou obětními beránky dlouhodoběAntisemitismus, nenávist vůči Židům. Bolest, kterou si lidstvo nese po staletí. Kde se antisemitismus vzal? 0215
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 08/05/202580 years after Liberation Day, far-right parties are the strongest parties in the polls in the UK, France, and Germany. For every politician the most pressing question should be how to save liberal democracy. Yet, small minded partisan tactics prevail. The far right gets normalized and empowered. 416952
Jonas Suchanek @jsuchanek.bsky.social · 09/04/2025While the radical right populist governing parties of Hungary and Poland abused culture as a vehicle for transmitting their nationalist narratives, their technocratic Czech and Slovak counterparts took a more pragmatic approach to cultural policy. doi.org/10.1080/1028...doi.orgCultural policies of populist governments in central and Eastern Europe: a comparative reviewThe recent rise of populist and illiberal actors in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the concomitant democratic backsliding has generated notable scholarly interest; however, the implications o... 020
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekPiotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 07/04/2025🆕📝🚨 Glad to see this one out in International Journal of Cultural Policy. With data from @authlibeu.bsky.social, we review cultural policies of 🇭🇺Orbán, 🇵🇱Kaczyński, 🇨🇿Babiš, and 🇸🇰Fico. A short thread👇 1/4 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @schaferd.bsky.social @jsuchanek.bsky.social 1106
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekSimon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social · 05/04/2025It's impossible to put into words how vile this is. Murdering paramedics in cold blood. And then the lies. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...theguardian.comPhone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medicsIsrael says soldiers fired on ‘terrorists’ in ‘suspicious vehicles’ but footage shows clearly marked ambulances 510752
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekMartin Tremčinský @m-tremcinsky.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Dare to dream and imagine that instead of cars we would protect people in need, like abused women or homeless people.. crazy right? 1124
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Just like centrist parties in Western Europe, the Democratic Party is more concerned about the voters of the far right than with its own voters. 311032
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 09/03/2025And so it’s starting…theguardian.comIce arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer saysMahmoud Khalil’s arrest comes as Trump vows to deport foreign students involved in protests against Israel’s war 411844
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes 1027165964800
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekJan Charvát @janch.czesky.online · 28/02/2025Poměrně otevřený rozhovor o poměrech v KSČM, respektive Stačilo! Tento pohled v zásadě odpovídá mému názoru, že se současná KSČM ve skutečnosti posouvá na kulturní/politické ose doprava (a neplatí tak teorie podkovy). denikreferendum.cz/clanek/23717...denikreferendum.czJiří Dolejš: STAČILO! není levicové uskupení. Slouží jako výtah nacionalistůmJiří Dolejš byl po více než třiceti pěti letech vyloučen z KSČM. Oficiálně pro porušení stanov. S dlouhodobým kritikem konzervativního křídla KSČM jsme hovořili o splývání strany s krajní pravicí i o ... 1264
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekKai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 24/02/2025The axis of evil is not what it used to be 2246
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekJulius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 20/12/2024A commonly held notion is that Germany's far-right party AfD is especially successful in the country's more rural areas. However, a look at the party's election results in over 10,000 municipalities suggests that the link between rurality and AfD support is rather diffuse. A simple thread. 🧵👇 621772
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky 549129075482
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.truthout.orgTesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in IncomeThis brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent. 14474741920207
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...open.substack.comOf course it’s a coupMiss the obvious, lose your republic 5832813410727
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekOona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 05/02/2025This would be an unlawful seizure of territory in violation of the United Nations Charter, and the forcible transfer of the population of Gaza would constitute crimes against humanity. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...nytimes.comTrump Proposes the U.S. Take Over Gaza: Live Updates 711516520
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Friedrich Merz, the leader of the German CDU, just claimed in parliament that gang rapes are committed on a daily basis by asylum seekers in Germany. It is pure far right propaganda. The mainstreaming of the far right is happening on steroids in Germany right now. 5886242
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 23/01/2025A crazy story that should be a warning to many colleagues (and others) who want to travel to the U.S. (or Germany). There is a (secret) blacklist -- most likely related to critique of Israel (and its war crimes in Gaza).thenation.comWhy Did the US Block a Canadian Professor From His Own Book Event?Nathan Kalman-Lamb was barred entry into the US. This is a harbinger of the dark political future that Trump is ushering in. 13724
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekIvan Kalmar @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social · 23/01/2025In my long-term research on the language of illiberalism, "Maidan" (now used by the Slovak PM), when applied to events outside Ukraine, was one of the surest indicators of active Russian influence. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comSlovak PM Fico accuses opposition of trying to topple him Ukraine-styleThe opposition accuses Fico of using the intelligence service to torpedo a vote of no-confidence. 1257
Jonas Suchanek @jsuchanek.bsky.social · 09/01/20251/4🧵 Electoral maps like these are quite common in the Czech context – both outer and inner peripheries were notably visible in the latest presidential elections. But what factors led to the populist candidate Andrej Babiš's defeat, and what role does geography play? 161
Jonas Suchanek @jsuchanek.bsky.social · 25/11/2024"It’s far more straightforward to blame an abstract “wokeness” than to reckon with the fact that Harris ran a broadly right-of-centre campaign and still lost. It also conjures up a convenient voter, one who is more offended by language than by the promise of mass deportations." 010
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekPetra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 15/11/2024As we all seem to be moving here, let me post the first solo article by my PhD student Ales Michal, published today in the Parliamentary Affairs: academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...academic.oup.comMoralism without populism? The salience of corruption in the electoral manifestos and legislature speeches of Czech and Slovak partiesAbstract. Corruption remains a significant political issue in Central Europe. This article examines its salience in political discourse in Czechia and Slov 0112
Reposted by Jonas SuchanekCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 06/11/2024The most openly extreme right campaign of my lifetime is the most popular Republican presidential campaign of this century. 36217