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Petra Guasti

@petraguasti.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Democratic Theory at IPS FSV UK • 2018/2019 Democracy Visiting Fellow at Harvard Ash • EC member at ECPR

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Swiss People’s Party SVP is one of the oldest and electorally strongest radical-right parties in the world. But: electoral popularity ≠ policy popularity Voters keep supporting the SVP in elections, but only 2 out of 12 popular initiatives launched by the SVP have passed Data: Swissvotes
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RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Find further scholarly works on the Extreme/Populist/Radical/Whatever Right at www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right…
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Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe
A bibliography of more than 1600 titles on the parties of the Extreme Right in Western Europe (aka the Populist Right, Radical Right, Anti-Immigrant Right)
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A four-wave study in Sweden found that conspiracy thinking, use of right-wing alternative media, and social media reinforce each other over time. In contrast, mainstream news use was associated with lower levels of conspiracy thinking. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Breeding conspiracy thinking? Investigating the longitudinal relationship between media use and conspiracy mindset
Over the last decade, conspiracy theories and beliefs in them have become a more pressing social and political problem. Despite different media being the main channels through which conspiracy theo...
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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨New article in Nature Scientific Data: The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures: doi.org/10.1038/s415... with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @sopro.bsky.social @chrauh.bsky.social @miklossebok.bsky.social 1/6
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The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
‼️ A new paper with Patrick Fournier and @zeynsom.bsky.social is now out in @wepsocial.bsky.social! We examine citizens’ perceptions of parties that combine left/progressive stances on some issues with right/conservative stances on other issues - which we refer to as ideological inconsistency. 🧵
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Voters’ perceptions of ideologically inconsistent parties
There is a growing consensus in party politics that new fault lines are emerging, and scholars increasingly characterise competition as multidimensional. In a multidimensional space, parties can ad...
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Shades of #Climate skepticism 🕶️ 🌳 @asheinze.bsky.social & @akueppers.bsky.social examine diverse climate attitudes of local political elites to develop an analytical framework, assessing the varying degrees of climate skepticisms in two eastern German states buff.ly/Ris4NIw
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Many shades of climate skepticism: Exploring climate change attitudes among local political elites in Germany | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Many shades of climate skepticism: Exploring climate change attitudes among local political elites in Germany
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/ After the elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, we will hear a lot about “the extremes”: Die Linke in Berlin and the AfD in MV. A good moment for some conceptual housekeeping. Radicalism, extremism and populism are not synonyms.
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/ A thought on digital public spheres, and why I am moving here from X. I joined Twitter because I believed in its promise: a place to exchange arguments, disagree, learn something and, occasionally, change our minds. I no longer think X is that place.
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Aleš Michal @alesmichal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#ecprgc26
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
10 year old me, having just learned English, mispronouncing "aluminum" and "severed."
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In this new paper, Daron Acemoglu et al. link automation, capital accumulation, and growing inequality to repression and, ultimately, to the willingness of capital owners to abandon democracy. Timely, unsettling, and well worth reading. www.nber.org/system/files...
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 17/08/2026
This morning, @theatlantic.com published an article by Lawfare Public Service Fellow @juliacurlee.bsky.social, who wrote about her experience working in the intelligence community during the first and second Trump administrations as an out trans woman.
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
So proud of this achievement for our book. Most grateful to the amazing and tireless @jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social help us to reach 100k next ;)
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
New open-access window (2 weeks): Erica Marat & Aizada Arystanbek, Decolonial Disruptions in Central Asia (CUP Elements series Politics and Society from Central Europe to Central Asia). Download: www.cambridge.org/core/element... #CentralAsia #DecolonialStudies #MemoryPolitics
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Decolonial Disruptions in Central Asia
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Decolonial Disruptions in Central Asia
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The first Element in our @universitypress.cambridge.org series Elements in Politics and Society from Central Europe to Central Asia with @popovaprof.bsky.social Gergana Dimova & @lenkabustikova.bsky.social coming on Monday! www.cambridge.org/core/element... A free 2-week download will be available
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Decolonial Disruptions in Central Asia
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Decolonial Disruptions in Central Asia
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
After Orban: Huge turnout (could be close to 80%). Constitutional majority in play for TISZA. If TISZA Party wins in 🇭🇺, this is not a change of government. It is a potential regime rupture. 🧵
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Jürgen Habermas died today at 96. Few political theorists shaped how we think about democratic legitimacy in modern societies as profoundly. His lifelong question was straightforward but demanding: How can political authority be justified under conditions of pluralism? 🧵
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Political Research Exchange @prxjournal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
🌍✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day ✨🌍 This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics 📚 Explore the research and join the conversation linktr.ee/ecpr.collect... #IWD #WomenInPolitics
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Read Our IWD Collection Now!
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Political Data Yearbook @pdyearbook.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
🌍✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day ✨🌍 This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics 📚 Explore the research and join the conversation linktr.ee/ecpr.collect... #IWD #WomenInPolitics
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Read Our IWD Collection Now!
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European Political Science Review @epsrjournal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
🌍✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day ✨🌍 This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics 📚 Explore the research and join the conversation buff.ly/9wGrwYE #IWD #WomenInPolitics
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Read Our IWD Collection Now!
A curated collection of research on gender and representation in politics, from ECPR journals and blog.
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
💐 Today's the day! Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay with our journals and blog 🎀 Enjoy a round-up of curated #OpenAccess research exploring issues of gender and the representation of women in politics 📚 Drawn from the full span of our publications portfolio linktr.ee/ecpr.collect... #IWD2026
Participants attending various ECPR events. The text reads: International Women’s Day #IWD2026. ECPR logo in the top right.
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Kira Renée Kurz @kirareneekurz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Feel free to get in touch with me or @asheinze.bsky.social if you have any questions!
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Kira Renée Kurz @kirareneekurz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
*Call for Abstracts* The abstract submission is now open for our (w/ @asheinze.bsky.social) special issue: Party Youth Wings Across Europe: Organisation, Influence, and the Future of Party Democracy We still have a few spots open (e.g. several countries in Southern Europe and CEE or the UK) 😊
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Future Issues | Politics and Governance
Politics and Governance is an innovative new offering to the world of online peer-reviewed open access publishing in the Political Sciences.
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
What does illiberalism actually look like across Europe - in parties, voters, and institutions? The new @authlibeu.bsky.social Country Papers, edited by the ✨ @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social, provide one of the most systematic comparative mappings to date. www.authlib.eu/country-pape... 🧵👇
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Zsuzsanna Végh (ed.): Mapping Illiberalism in Europe - Comparative Country Perspectives
📖 AUTHLIB Country Papers: The edited volume offers comparative perspectives on the illiberal challenge in seven European countries. Edited by Zsuzsanna Végh (GMF).
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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🔮 Since its launch in 2023, @petraguasti.bsky.social & @mattiazulianello.bsky.social's broad-spectrum #FutureofPopulism thread has explored the rise of populist parties worldwide + speculated on how populist movements will develop in the years to come. 📖 Read the story so far: bit.ly/3ZxqIEp
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The Loop’s path-breaking Future of Populism series celebrates 100 contributions
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Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
♀️ Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science everyone! 🌈 Since the backlash is real, I want to thank all the amazing and inspiring (female) colleagues who make #PoliticalScience more diverse, more fun, and more relevant. Happily, the following list can never be complete 👇 #WomenInScience
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Celebrating the 100th post in the Future of Populism series 🔮 with a brilliantly written blog by @mattiazulianello.bsky.social 🌳🌲! His PopulisTree brings clarity to decades of research on populism. 🎉 Read the post 👇 theloop.ecpr.eu/making-sense... 🌀
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🔮 Making sense of decades of populism in Europe with the PopulisTree
Mattia Zulianello introduces the PopulisTree, a new taxonomy and open-access dataset that maps the full diversity of populist parties across Europe over recent decades. Building upon and expanding the...
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East European Politics @eepolitics.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
⚡NEW issue out now! 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjcs21/4... 🙌 @adamfagan.bsky.social @lenkabustikova.bsky.social @andreapirro.it @grigopop.bsky.social @tranfi.bsky.social @vmonastiriotis.bsky.social
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🎉🏆 @calderarocha.bsky.social has won our 2025 Joni Lovenduski PhD prize in #Gender & #Politics ⭐ Her 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐯𝐞 dissertation on Far-Righting Feminism: Criminalising Street Harassment in France and Britain earned the Jury's recognition! More 👉https://buff.ly/pIRwJmD @petraguasti.bsky.social
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Charlène Calderaro wins ECPR's 2025 Joni Lovenduski PhD prize
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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🎤 Friday continues with featured roundtable on Illiberalism in Europe, featuring Larissa Böckmann, Andrej Zaslove, @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social and the one and only @petraguasti.bsky.social. Details can be found here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... #ECPRgc25
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Ariadna Ripoll Servent @aripollservent.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It was great sharing this panel on #unpolitics with @paultaggart.bsky.social and @petraguasti.bsky.social! Thanks to Robert Csehi for the comments on my paper on "Unpolitics in the European Parliament: Fraying the ‘cordon sanitaire’ after the 2024 elections"! #ecprgc25
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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🗣️ Feeling inspired by the Illiberalism in Europe roundtable earlier at #ecprgc25? 👀 Check out The Loop blog pieces from speakers @leoniedejonge.bsky.social, Andrej Zaslove & @petraguasti.bsky.social. ✍️ bit.ly/45uKu69 ✍️ bit.ly/45MEiYn ✍️ bit.ly/4mgVDP8
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
An amazing and important article by Zuzana Uhde for #InstitutSYRI journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #openaccess #transantionallabour
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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.
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Jean-Paul Gagnon @jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
New book share. UCL Press published our Sciences of the Democracies last week in open access PDF. Link: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sci... A core implication of the book is that it seeks to revive basic descriptive research to lay the groundwork for stronger and more inclusive theories of democracy.
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Democratization can happen anywhere you are and everywhere you may go. #SciencesOfDemocracies Proud to have been a part of this project led fearlessly and tirelessly by #JeanPaulGagnon Out tomorrow incl. #OpenAccess with @uclpress.bsky.social discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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Jakub Grim @jakubgrim.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
2. část rozhovoru s @petraguasti.bsky.social na @irozhlas.cz: 👉„Volby rozhodne účast. Nástupu populistů mohou zabránit mobilizovaní ‚antipopulisté‘.“ 👉„Různé části společnosti čerpají informace z úplně jiných zdrojů. Je to nebezpečný trend.“
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Guasti: Nesmíme podcenit rozštěpení společnosti. Lidé se zavírají do bublin bez konfrontace s realitou
„Různé části společnosti čerpají informace z úplně jiných zdrojů. Lidé se zavírají do bublin, nesmíme podcenit rozštěpení společnosti,“ říká v rozhovoru pro iROZHLAS.cz politoložka Petra Guasti.
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Second part of the summer interview with @jakubgrim.bsky.social at @irozhlas.cz on polarisation, information bubbles & the role of conservative parties in the survival of liberal democracy. Main takeaway: populists can only be stopped by mobilised citizens. www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov...
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Guasti: Nesmíme podcenit rozštěpení společnosti. Lidé se zavírají do bublin bez konfrontace s realitou
„Různé části společnosti čerpají informace z úplně jiných zdrojů. Lidé se zavírají do bublin, nesmíme podcenit rozštěpení společnosti,“ říká v rozhovoru pro iROZHLAS.cz politoložka Petra Guasti.
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Meloni's intention to offshore asylum seekers to non-EU countries has been met with warm words by Von der Leyen & several EU governments, but her "Albania centre" remains almost totally empty, as legal challenges pile up... www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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EU court rules against Italy on Albania migrant camps scheme
Europe's top court on Friday questioned the legitimacy of the "safe countries" list Italy uses to send migrants to Albania and fast-track their asylum claims, in a fresh blow to a key plank of the government's migration policy.
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Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Orbán past his peak, Meloni's blond ambition & skill on the rise. First part of our annual summer interview with the amazing @jakubgrim.bsky.social in @irozhlas.cz
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Jakub Grim @jakubgrim.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
ROZHOVOR s @petraguasti.bsky.social na @irozhlas.cz část 1. Blíží se konec maďarského režimu Viktora Orbána? 👉 „Vsadil na Trumpa a vyhrál. Jenže republikáni už Orbána ho nepotřebují. I Trump poznal, že už je jen kleptokrat za zenitem.“
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I Trump poznal, že je Orbán za zenitem. Nový lídr radikální pravice bude někdo jiný, předpovídá Guasti
„Novým lídrem evropské radikální pravice bude italská premiérka Giorgia Meloniová, protože je z nich úplně nejchytřejší a hraje šikovnou dvouúrovňovou politickou hru,“ popisuje docentka Petra Guasti.
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Lotem Halevy @lotemhalevy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
It's an honor to have an article with @lenkabustikova.bsky.social in this special issue on Illiberalism with so many scholars whose work I've learnt so much from. Thanks to @zsolt.bsky.social , @petraguasti.bsky.social , Dean Schafer, + Bálint Mikola! www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
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Illiberal Politics in Europe
Thematic Issue, Vol 13 (2025)
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Ezgi Elci @ezgielci.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Finally got the printed copy! Thanks again @petraguasti.bsky.social and @mattiazulianello.bsky.social for the meticulous editorship!
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Laura Serra @lauraserra.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
New paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social where I look at the impact of parties’ age-targeted group appeals on age gaps in voting🧵
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
A reminder: Ru and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners steadily throughout the war. The latest exchange isn't a sign of progress towards a diplomatic solution. Ru remains as committed as ever to its maximalist goals; it's planning a summer offensive on Kharkiv. russia will only stop when it's stopped
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Government and Opposition @govandopp.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
#OpenAccess in our April 2025 issue - 'The Demand and Supply of Pandemic Populism: A Global Overview' - tinyurl.com/3sa967yn by @mattiazulianello.bsky.social & @petraguasti.bsky.social
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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
#ikherdenk
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 26/04/2025
While the women behind "womanosphere" outlets all have different styles and tactics, they are mostly aligned in their desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview: women as submissive homemakers, men as strong providers.
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Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican
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Sonia Bussu @sbussu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
More young women are voting Green than young men sympathising with Reform. 'It pays to listen to people sitting quietly at the back, not just the ones screaming in your face' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @alicekoubova.bsky.social @petraguasti.bsky.social this might be of interest
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We obsess over the angry young men going Reform. But what of the anxious young women going Green? | Gaby Hinsliff
Desire for a politics that cares about global and local injustice is sharpening the political gender divide, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Important read 👇
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