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LAC-EU Doctoral Network @lac-eu.network · 23/09/2026

Speakers & moderators: Yuri Kasahara, @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social, GeorgWink, Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Luca Venga, Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano, BenedicteBull, and Ambassador of Peru Rolando Ruiz Rosas Cateriano. Big thanks to @UniOslo and the @UniOslo_GLOBE for hosting us so warmly!

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@eljorobado.bsky.social and I have a new book w/ @universitypress.cambridge.org on affective and instrumental attitudes toward fascism in Italy and France. A useful tool ahead of the 2027 national elections in both countries featuring highly relevant far right contestants. @ceudeminst.bsky.social

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My piece for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social : Futuro Nazionale’s programme does more than oppose immigration. It turns citizenship into a hierarchy—secure when inherited, conditional when acquired. Survey data show why the distinction matters in Italy and Spain. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

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Futuro Nazionale is redefining what it means to be Italian

Futuro Nazionale goes further than simply opposing immigration, with a platform that effectively seeks to redefine what it means to be an Italian citizen.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Absolutely dramatic defeat for CDU and victory for AfD. Main question is: will BSW make it into parliament. Currently AfD is estimated at 39 seats, BSW at 5 (out of 83). AfD majority is unlikely, but still possible.

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Political Research Exchange @prxjournal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

📣 Will you be joining us for #ecprgc26 in 3 weeks? 💡 Connect with PRX Editor - Lisa Zanotti Book your slot here 👉️ buff.ly/sFyMshq

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yes, and the text makes it explicit: Italy comes first, then the state and institutions, which must serve it. That reverses the fascist order, where it was the state that was meant to constitute the nation, not the other way round.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Not a politics of immigration. A politics of membership: what the nation is, how one enters, how it is graded, how one leaves. Italy votes next year. Worth reading the document, not the headlines about it. Italian quotations verbatim; translations mine.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And the nation is imagined across time: back to gli avi, the ancestors, forward to generations not yet born. Natality is not family policy here. It is civilisational continuity.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So membership is graded, not flat. Inherited at the centre, assimilated next, residents outside that, and beyond the circle, remigration.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The part I find most striking. A violent crime by a naturalised citizen would be grounds for a retrospective finding that the person "was never really assimilated." Citizenship is revoked. Remigration follows. Acquired membership isn't just revocable — it can be declared never to have been valid.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The programme states the asymmetry itself: "Per fare un italiano non ci vuole un corso di educazione civica: ci vogliono secoli." To make an Italian you don't need a civics course. You need centuries.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Two routes to belonging, and they are not symmetrical. Inherited: presumed, nothing to prove. Acquired: 20 years of residence, Italian at C1 with written and oral exams, clean record, and a signed declaration of assimilation to Greek, Roman and Christian civilisation.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What is the nation made of? Descent and civilisation. The italic peoples are "a community of law and of blood, because founded on the family, which is the source of the nation." Rome supplies the body. Christian Rome the soul.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Futuro Nazionale (Italy's newest far-right party) has published its first programmatic document. Most coverage focuses on the remigration plan. The more interesting claim is elsewhere: this is not just a programme about immigration. It is a programme about membership.A thread. 🧵

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Authoritarian, But Not Nativist - @aborges75.bsky.social & @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social examine how far-right parties in Latin America compare to their Western European counterpart: buff.ly/4fK7Fwk (OPEN ACCESS) #PSHighlyViewed 3/10 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci

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Research on far-right parties has mostly focused on Western Europe, where anti-immigration agendas and related nativist ideas have played a major role in right-wing radicalization. In this article, we analyze the rise of the far right in Latin America, a region where immigration has been much less prominent in public debates. Drawing on the 2020 Chapell Hill Expert Survey, we propose to assess the extent to which Latin American far-right parties fit existing conceptualizations that identify nativism and authoritarianism as the core characteristics of this party family. Given the relative unimportance of nativism as a distinguishing feature of cases of right-wing extremism/radicalism in the region, we propose a more parsimonious conceptualization of the far right. We also develop a typological classification and find that authoritarian-fundamentalist parties that embrace an extreme form of religious conservatism are the most common subtype of far-right party in Latin America.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

OUT NOW!!! with Cambridge University Press: The Far Right in Latin America, co-edited with Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Carlos Meléndez, Talita Tanscheit & me. @ceudeminst.bsky.social Open Access on Cambridge Core. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

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The Far Right in Latin America

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

En @rtvecom.bsky.social sobre la ultraderecha en Latam www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Sobre las causas de la emergencia de la ultraderecha en América Latina, los vínculos con Trump después de la elección en Colombia y de cara a la de Brasil. En @eldiario.es www.eldiario.es/blog/al-dia/...

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Quoted by @afp.com and @barrons.com on Latin America’s resurgent right after Colombia’s election. The key point: these victories are less a uniform ideological shift than the rise of personalistic leaders able to build contingent anti-incumbent coalitions. www.barrons.com/news/latin-a...

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Latin America's Resurgent Right Notches Another Win In Colombia

Populist leaders are sweeping into power across Latin America, with Colombian voters the latest to embrace hardline right-wing politics -- but will the trend last?

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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Italy, SWG poll: FdI-ECR: 29% PD-S&D: 22% M5S-LEFT: 12% FI-EPP: 8% AVS-LEFT|G/EFA: 7% LEGA-PfE: 6% FN-ESN: 4% Azione-RE: 3% (-1) IV-RE: 3% +E-RE: 2% NM-EPP: 1% +/- vs. 28 April 2026 - 04 May 2026 Fieldwork: 06-11 May 2026 Sample size: 1,200 ➤ europeelects.eu/italy

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"Autocratization" is a new research journal with particular, but not exclusive, focus on Latin America. A nice feature is interviews with scholars. This inaugural issue has interviews with @noamlupu.bsky.social & @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social & @tomginsburg.bsky.social & Juan Antonio Blanco

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I have an op-ed out in @revdem2020.bsky.social on the first weeks of José Antonio Kast’s presidency in Chile. @ceudeminst.bsky.social

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My interview in the inaugural issue of Autocratization Research Journal is out: democratic backsliding, populism, and early warning signs of authoritarian drift in Latin America (and beyond). Link: revistas.usergioarboleda.edu.co/index.php/au...

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Vista de Is Democracy in Retreat? Authoritarianism, Populism and Regional Prospects. Interview with Lisa Zanotti

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

5/ The playbook is predictable — and therefore counterable. Protect independent media, safeguard courts, monitor how mainstream parties adopt far-right framings, and build democratic counter-narratives. Discourse is an early-warning signal. By the time policies change, it's already too late.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

4/ The key insight isn't about extreme statements. It's about REPETITION. Mid-range attacks on judicial independence, press freedom, and pluralism, deployed constantly across hundreds of interviews, normalise illiberalism without anyone sounding the alarm.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

3/ Spain shows a clear gradient: Vox is the most illiberal, the centre-right partially accommodates, the left is more liberal. Argentina surprises: far right and left converge at similarly high illiberal levels, while the centre-right is the most moderate.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

2/ We analysed 255 elite interviews and 2,572 responses from political leaders across the ideological spectrum in Spain and Argentina, coded with LLMs. The finding: ~85–90% of illiberal rhetoric targets courts, media, and political opponents — not elections or citizenship rights.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

1/ 🧵 Can language erode a democracy before a single law changes? In our new report "Tracing Illiberal Talk," Hugo Marcos-Marné and I dig into how far-right rhetoric undermines democratic institutions — long before policies shift. Part of a broader research project we're developing together.

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Political Research Exchange @prxjournal.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

👋 Hello 2026! 🔓 We are @ecpr.bsky.social's O.G #OpenAccess journal 🏠 Home for innovation in #PolSci 🌱 Looked after by Editors @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social @mlorimer.bsky.social @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social 😍 Take a look at all the amazing articles from last year: buff.ly/QopHmSx

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The last post we wrote on the Chilean right after last year's election for @illsp.bsky.social

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

First article of 2026 in @politicsjournal.bsky.social on the discursive strategic inclusion of the far right in Spain

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

IN NEW ISSUE: Authoritarian, But Not Nativist - @aborges75.bsky.social & @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social examine how far-right parties in Latin America compare to their Western European counterpart: buff.ly/4fK7Fwk (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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Javier Sajuria @sajuria.com · 05/09/2025

1. "𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 ‘𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁’ 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲" by @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social, @elbanchas.bsky.social, Francisco Roldán Duque and Fabián Villalobos-Machuca (www.tfd.org.tw/backend/uplo...). A well-informed account of the demand for the far-right in Chile.

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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

New paper: determinants of support for mainstream and far-right candidates before next November’s presidential election in Chile. #Chile. Here: openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3...