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Michele Fenzl

@mfenzl.bsky.social
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Asst Professor (tenured) of political science @Maastricht. Previously postdoc in Zurich; PhD in Govt from Essex. Interested in political behaviour, political economy, comparative politics, EP elections, and everything experiments.

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Taking a stand ✋️🧍 These authors 🧵 use survey data across 9 countries to assess the downstreams consequences of #AffectivePolarization & intervene to successfully reduce participants #AffectivePolarization in 6 of the 9, improving interpersonal relations and social norms buff.ly/tHRWa65
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The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 26/01/2026
We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA. We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material. In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights. link.europa.eu/Fh8h84
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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Italian journalists of RAI (the Italian major TV and public station) stopped and threatened by ICE. This should not be the narrative the US government wants to send abroad.
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Tineke Strik @tinekestrik.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Good news! The OSCE Democracy Office suggests sending a full election observation mission to Hungary, with 200 observers on election day. Highly necessary, considering the charged situation and persistent fairness issues. @europarl.europa.eu should send a mission too! odihr.osce.org/node/661804
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Hungary, Parliamentary elections, 12 April 2026
Following an official invitation from the authorities of Hungary to observe the parliamentary elections to be held on 12 April 2026, and in accordance...
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CNN @cnn.com · 16/01/2026
"Minneapolis has become a petri dish for his hardline immigration policies, zeal for militarized law enforcement tactics and attempts to use immigration as a cudgel to crush progressive values in cities that reject his strongman leadership," writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis cnn.it/4aWuNJg
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CNN @cnn.com · 16/01/2026
Tensions flared in Minneapolis again Thursday in the wake of a second shooting by a federal immigration officer in just one week, as President Donald Trump threatened to invoke a centuries-old law that would allow the deployment of US troops to Minnesota. cnn.it/3Nm3sGG
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
ICE Agents enter Target with no warrant and violently tackle two American citizen employees, evidently because they didn't "look American" enough. (DHS refused to explain their rationale, so we have to guess.) The injured Americans were later dumped in parking lots miles away in sub-zero weather.
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‘Madness’: two US citizens violently detained by ICE in Minnesota, officials say
Two Target employees forced to the ground, then into SUV, then dumped in different parking lot
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Scenes from a personalist regime: the president’s personal lawyer threatens to arrest the elected leaders of an occupied city
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 15/01/2026
Watch my address on the ongoing federal presence in Minnesota: youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU
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Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota
YouTube video by Office of the Governor of Minnesota
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Michele Fenzl @mfenzl.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
What could go wrong?
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
@gideonrachman: "what the end of Nato would mean for the US. The continued existence of American military bases in Europe would immediately come into question." "The arms sales to Europe...would also collapse." www.ft.com/content/5690...
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Europe needs to think the unthinkable on Nato
Conflict over Greenland could destroy the transatlantic alliance, requiring a new European security treaty to replace it
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Literal propaganda for the sitting president
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/01/2026
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June 2025)
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/01/2026
Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 09/01/2026
"We are very well aware of the fact that X for Grok is now offering a spicy mode showing explicit sexual content. This is not spicy. This is illegal. This is appalling. This is disgusting. I can confirm we are very seriously looking into this matter." — Spokesperson @thomasregnier.ec.europa.eu
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/01/2026
Time to stop writing articles about the "security" or "economic" reasons to capture Greenland, they are irrelevant
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Darian Meacham @posteurope.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🚨We've got two tenure track posts in political philosophy @maastrichtu.bsky.social.🚨 Deadlines are 31 January and 26 February. #philosophy #academicjobs | @apaphilosophy.bsky.social www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566... www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3574...
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Assistant Professor in Political and Social Philosophy
Welcome to Maastricht University! At Maastricht University, philosophy plays a vital role in understanding a world marked by political tensions, technological upheaval, and societal transformations. H...
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/01/2026
Hegseth's attack on Mark Kelly reveals a dangerous core belief, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily: Criticizing Trump and defending the rule of law is sedition.
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Hegseth’s Appalling Vengeance Campaign
The Defense secretary’s attempts to demote Senator Mark Kelly are a pernicious form of political bullying.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Congrats again to John Mearsheimer for once again winning the eponymous John J. Mearsheimer Award For Demonstrating To People Who You Really Are: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Ladies and gentlemen, the brilliant mind who’s been called the “philosopher behind JD Vance”
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Reuters @reuters.com · 31/12/2025
Gaza City's landscape was once packed with concrete residential blocks. In the weeks before a ceasefire in October, Israel widely deployed a new weapon: M113 Armoured Personnel Carriers repurposed to carry between 1 and 3 tons of explosives, Reuters found reut.rs/49fw0cd
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
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Giulia Sandri @giuliasandri.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📢 Happy that the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication has just been published ! Have a look at my chapter on “Digital Intra-Party Democracy,” on how digital tools & AI are reshaping internal party processes and political participation. Link to my entry 👉🏻 www.elgaronline.com/display/book...
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Corinna Oschatz @corinnaoschatz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🫵WE WANT YOU 🎓 Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes? Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas
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Vacancy — Postdoc: "Role of Social Norms and Norms Transgression in the Acceptance of Negative Campaigning"
<p><span>Are you passionate about political communication, election campaigns, and quantitative empirical research? The Amsterdam School of Communication Research is seeking a highly motivated Postdoc for the research project<em> ‘That’s (not) appropriate’– Role of Social Norms and Norm Transgression in Voters’ Acceptance of Negative Campaigning, </em></span><span>led by Dr. Corinna Oschatz.</span></p>
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...
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Michele Fenzl @mfenzl.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
✨✨ Grant self-celebration ✨✨ Super happy I have been awarded a NWO XS grant to study how inequality affects political information! The grant will allow me to develop multi-country experiments and better understand how we read political information when our countries get more unequal! Stay tuned 👨‍💻
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Reuters @reuters.com · 17/12/2025
Some of the nearly 1,600 people who received clemency from Trump over the Jan. 6 attack have met with Justice Department officials and provided advice on how to retaliate against those who helped put them behind bars, a Reuters investigation finds reut.rs/4qeX9mu
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Michele Fenzl @mfenzl.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🚨🚨 Job opening 🚨🚨 My Faculty has opened a 4-year (!!!) postdoc position to work on the topic of disinformation! There is a great working environment and the incoming postdoc will have large opportunities to collaborate on research projects! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... 🇳🇱🇪🇺
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Post-doctoral researcher in Disinformation and European Democracy (4-year)
Post-doctoral researcher in Disinformation and European Democracy (4-year)
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Netherlands and Spain taking a stand after Israel allowed to compete in Eurovision.
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Netherlands and Spain boycott Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete
There had been calls for Israel to be excluded over the conduct of the war in Gaza.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/11/2025
the price of populism
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Mafia governance in action "the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
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Euronews @euronews.com · 20/10/2025
A total of 12 of 15 Dutch political parties running in the October elections have proposals that violate the rule of law, according to the Dutch Bar Association.
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Majority of Dutch election programmes violate rule of law, report says
A total of 12 of 15 Dutch political parties running in the October elections have proposals that violate the rule of law, according to the Dutch Bar Association.
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Luana Russo @luanarusso.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
What do we know about negative partisanship in Western Europe? This study in Electoral Studies examines its prevalence, components, predictors, and links to the radical right. 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lxsLxRaZn...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 01/10/2025
Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza this evening as it approached Palestinian territory.
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Israel intercepts Gaza-bound aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg and MEPs
The flotilla set sail in August and has pro-Palestine activists from around the world on board.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 30/09/2025
A recent call for a multimillion-euro program run by the EU’s top research council saw a fivefold increase in US-based applicants seeking to relocate to European institutions to pursue their research ambitions.
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Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe
US-based applicants to a prestigious EU research scheme have increased five-fold.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I'm of the view that, when @adamprz.bsky.social writes about democracy, we should pay a lot of attention... adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/musings-1
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 04/09/2025
The EU’s most prominent hard-right pressure group has received millions of euros in financial support from sources linked to Hungary’s populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, new financial disclosures show.
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Orbán’s favorite Brussels think tank received millions from Budapest, new figures reveal
MCC Brussels has received more than €6 million in funding to influence debate on public policy.
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Luana Russo @luanarusso.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Today I found in my pigeonhole 📬 the printed version of the Handbook of Affective Polarization! 😍 Thanks again to the wonderful editors @marianotorcal.bsky.social & @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social Best bit: you do not need to buy it! It is accessible open access 👉 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...
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The Economist @economist.com · 15/08/2025
To date, 186 journalists in Gaza have been killed since the war began, according to a monitor in New York—a higher rate than in any conflict since its records began in 1992
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The killing of journalists in Gaza
Almost 200 journalists have now been killed in Gaza
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Defending US democracy: the role of scientists @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Michele Fenzl @mfenzl.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🚨🚨- PHD OPPORTUNITY - 🚨🚨 I am excited to open a PhD position! How does rising inequality reshape media and democratic politics? If you are curious to answer this question, apply by September 15! You will be working with me and Luana Russo in beautiful Maastricht! Details at: tinyurl.com/mpzfk5me
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PhD Candidate on Political Economy/Political Behaviour
PhD Candidate on Political Economy/Political Behaviour
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🌅📙 64.3 A shadow on democracy? 😶🌫️ @mfenzl.bsky.social demonstrates the importance of studying the political impacts of the #ShadowEconomy bringing to light 💡 the impact on welfare systems and #Taxation rates 💲📈 🔗
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A shadow on democracy? The shadow economy and government responsiveness
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Anna-Kaisa Itkonen @akispox.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🔔 Got thoughts about cars, vans and their CO2-emissions? Let us hear them! Public consultation just opened. Details below. 🇪🇺🚗🚐🇪🇺
climate.ec.europa.eu
Commission launches public consultation on CO2 emission standards for cars and vans and on car labelling
The Commission has launched a public consultation on CO2 emission standards for cars and vans and the Car Labelling Directive. Citizens and stakeholders can help shape the EU’s path to cleaner vehicle...
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Miriam Sorace @miriamsorace.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Cannot wait for my organised panel on economic and political inequalities tomorrow - with contributions from @madselk.bsky.social @mfenzl.bsky.social @breunig.bsky.social and Matthew Shaikh - if you’re interested in the politics of inequality do join us!! #EPSA2025
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Silvia Merler @smerler.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The international monetary system is changing before our eyes. Germany and Italy pressed to bring gold home from US; a survey of more than 70 global central banks showed more were thinking of storing their gold domestically amid concerns about ability to access it. www.ft.com/content/e393...
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Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245bn of gold home from US
Trump’s attacks on the Fed and growing geopolitical risks reignite public debate about repatriating bullion
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