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European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · 02/09/2026

Disinformation is out there. Can you spot it? 🕵🐢 We've made a game that puts YOU in the shoes of a disinformation spreader, teaching you about common techniques so you can avoid getting manipulated. Play from your browser at voteforturtle.eu In cooperation with @eudiplomacy.bsky.social

"VOTE FOR TURTLE - a 5 minute game about disinformation. And a turtle." Reads this visual with a large Play button as its focus, with a green cartoon turtle foot reaching out to press it. Play the game at voteforturtle.eu.

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Rick van Well @rickvanwell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In our new article in @govandopp.bsky.social @tomlouwerse.nl and I examine whether concerns about the "blurring" or "waning" of opposition are supported by empirical evidence. We analyse 75 years of parliamentary behaviour in 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 doi.org/10.1017/gov.... 👇

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Opposition Distinctiveness in Parliaments: A Longitudinal Analysis | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core

Opposition Distinctiveness in Parliaments: A Longitudinal Analysis - Volume 61

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Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Day 5 of our Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology! It’s been inspiring to see participants from across countries exchange ideas, build collaborations, and strengthen a supportive research community. Huge thanks to our fantastic speakers, organizing team, and supporters! 🙌 #PolMeth #WPM

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Tobias Widmann @twidmann.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

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2 three-year postdocs in political communication and political psychology at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

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Korinna Lindemann @korinlind.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Don't forget to apply until the end of the week! 🚨

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Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

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Anna Fruhstorfer @annakfruhstorfer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It was a very special day when my book arrived, and I got to open the package with my family :) Constitutional Change under Autocracy explores how autocrats use constitutional amendments not as mere legal tweaks, but as strategic tools.

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027! 📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort! Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd #EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity

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Manifesto Project @manifestoproj.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More: wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428... Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️

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Research associate – doctoral candidate (75%) (ID 377)

The Manifesto Project analyses parties’ election manifestos in order to study parties’ policy preferences. To this end, the project conducts conte...

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🔔 New paper on party brands with @swenhutter.bsky.social in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social We study the supply (how parties call themselves) and demand (what voters reward) sides. We pair a new European dataset of party names with conjoint experiments on voter reactions OA 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Hans Jonas Gunzelmann @hajogu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

💫New paper out with @chjncke.bsky.social in @europeansocieties.bsky.social: 📝"Far-right contention in civil society: Multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets" 🧵A short thread about the paper:

Title and Abstract of the paper "Far-right contention in civil society: multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets".
Authors: Hans Jonas Gunzelmann, Christin Jänicke

Abstract:

Over the past decade, the far right has been on the rise in civil societies across Europe. Civil society organizations have been challenged by the far right in governments, political parties, and within their own ranks. However, there is little systematic research on how the far right stirs conflict within civil society. Civil society research has tended to ignore ‘uncivil’ society and has instead focused on social capital and cohesion. Research on the noninstitutional side of the far right has been growing but has largely neglected the consequences for established civil society organizations and their members. This article addresses these blind spots by providing a conceptual framework and a methodology for studying the far right in civil society, which is applied to a case study. First, we construct a conceptual framework that adapts the contentious politics paradigm to the study of civil society. We delineate far-right contention within civil society and construct typologies of the action repertoires, actors, and targets. Second, we develop a methodology that combines different lenses to expand our view on far-right contention in civil society. We propose a mixed-methods research design for mapping far-right contentious events. Third, we apply our conceptual framework and methodology to the case of Germany by empirically mapping the action repertoires, actors and targets. Our findings fundamentally shift the scholarly understanding of the far right in civil society: We find that far-right contention in civil society goes well beyond adversarial actions by far-right actors. This has important implications for researchers and practitioners.

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Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

New from @erc.europa.eu project #MINORITYRULE with @sopro.bsky.social: We study voters’ knowledge about and perceptions of minority governments in 🇩🇰, 🇩🇪 and 🇸🇪. Link: doi.org/10.1017/S147... When survey researchers or politicians talk about minority governments, what do voters understand? ⬇️

Screenshot of the start of the paper. Title (Political knowledge and perceptions of minority governments in Europe), authors (Jens Wäckerle and Sven-Oliver Proksch) and journal (European Journal of Political Research)

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Pit Rieger @pitrieger.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Excited to share my first single-authored dissertation paper! I study how voters react to party differentiation in coalitions. Voters like clear partisan signals, but the gains are short-lived and limited to aligned supporters. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner: Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries Harmonized roles/policy areas Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940 Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p ⬇️

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Eva Krejcova @evakrejcova.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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Manifesto Project @manifestoproj.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

📣 Manifesto Project Data & Corpus Update 2025 is here! What's new? 🧵:

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

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Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master

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ECPR Parliaments Standing Group @sgparliaments.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

👋🏻 Welcome to those attending the ECPR General Conference #ecprgr25! Our section this year is action-packed with panels every day of the conference - here is an outline of what to expect:

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Lisa Zehnter @tiondelisa.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

"Wissenschaftskommunikation ist Teil meiner Arbeit und nicht mein Privatvergnügen." Genau deshalb muss der Umgang mit Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit systematisch erfolgen und darf nicht an Individuen hängenbleiben. Auch wenn gerade bei kommunizierenden Forscherinnen die "Kritik" ad personam erfolgt.

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Rebecca Kittel @rebeccakittel.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

On my way home after a great day of teaching Web-Sraping and Automated Data Collection at the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology @unibremen.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to meet all these motivated and talented researchers! #wpm #WomenInPolMeth

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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Really happy to see my work with @dweisstanner.bsky.social published with @bjpols.bsky.social. In this letter, we look at symbolic class signalling through cultural consumption and how effective it is across voters of different parties. A thread 👇 (1/n) #OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV

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The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - Volume 55

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such? My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020). A thread (1/n)

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

🚨 New article out in Journal of Civil Society with Swen Hutter! We explore how civil society organizations (CSOs) mobilized volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, a moment of both rising need and shrinking organizational capacity. 📖 Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1744...

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Lisa Zehnter @tiondelisa.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not? What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/0032... 🧵 1/10

Screenshot of the abstract of the article.

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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

📣 "Contentious Politics in Catalonia" Join us June 20, 2pm @wzb.bsky.social Book launch "Organizing for Independence" by @hajogu.bsky.social (WZB) Discussion: @laiabalcells.bsky.social (Georgetown) on aff. polariz. & nat. conflicts Info & registration (on site/Zoom) www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal...

Program of the Lecture Series "Civil Society and Political Conflict" at the WZB, 2025.

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

During the past months, I've been working on a debate section for JEPP. I invited a group of scholars with (very) different disciplinary backgrounds and substantive views to revisit Fritz Scharpf's asymmetry thesis, discussing its relevance in the twenty-first-century EU.

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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

When politicians use simple language, citizens understand more and see them as less elite. New paper with @danbischof.bsky.social out in @thejop.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1086/736693

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Can Simple Language Affect Voters' Political Knowledge and Their Beliefs About Politicians? | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5

Book cover of the second edition of Foundations of European Politics A Comparative Approach

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Rebecca Kittel @rebeccakittel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Politik und Grammatik - Im @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy durfte ich über meine Forschung zur Sprachkomplexität im Bundestag reden und welchen Effekt diese auf Wähler*innen hat. Wer reinhören mag: www.deutschlandfunk.de/politik-und-...

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Politik und Grammatik - Rebecca Kittel, Politikwissenschaftlerin

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉 summerschoolwpm.org Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social 📆01/05

summerschoolwpm.org

Summer School for Women in Political Methodology

20 to 26 July 2025 at the University of Bremen

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Sophia Hunger @sophiahunger.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

Image of a building of the University of Bremen with the text "Summer School for Women in Political Methodology" and "20 to 26 July at the University of Bremen" writen on it.

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Eric @ericbeltermann.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Morgen ist es soweit: In einem transdisziplinären Workshop loten wir die Möglichkeiten der Landesparlaments-Datenbank stateparl.de für Wissenschaft, Journalismus, Verwaltung und Zivilgesellschaft aus. Die Veranstaltung wird durch die @berlinualliance.bsky.social möglich gemacht. 🫶

Gemeinsam Politik im föderalen System besser verstehen und
analysieren
Transdisziplinärer Workshop
Wann?
Wo?
1. April 2025, 09:30 Uhr bis 16:30 Uhr
Vertretung des Landes Schleswig-Holstein beim Bund, In den Ministergärten 8, 10117
Berlin
Programm
09:1509:3010:1513:0014:0015:1515:3016:30Uhr
Uhr
Uhr
Uhr
Uhr
Uhr
Uhr
Uhr
Ankommen
Begrüßung & Einführung
Überblick über den Projektkontext
Transdisziplinäre Potentiale von „StateParl“ entdecken
Interaktive Einführung
Szenario-Entwicklung in transdisziplinären Kleingruppen
Kennenlernen
Entwicklung einer gemeinsamen Fragestellung
Bearbeitung mit den verschiedenen Werkzeugen von „StateParl“
Mittagspause
Bu[et in der Landesvertretung
Prototyping in transdisziplinären Kleingruppen
Beantwortung der Fragestellung
Empfehlungen für die Anwendung und Weiterentwicklung von „StateParl“
Pause
Ergebnisse und Reﬂexion
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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Pretty cool by @rebeccakittel.bsky.social - populists do not use easier language when speaking in parliament. They have to try and show competence?

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Government and Opposition @govandopp.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Out today on #FirstView - "Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates" - tinyurl.com/yc65ezcy by @rebeccakittel.bsky.social

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Rebecca Kittel @rebeccakittel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🚨Publication Alert Very happy to share that my second PhD paper is now out with @govandopp.bsky.social 🤗🎉 Do populist politicians use simpler language? I analyse 30 years of parliamentary discourse to shed light on that question! 👇 Full article: doi.org/10.1017/gov.... #OpenAccess

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Đorđe Milosav @djordjemilosav.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🚨 New paper out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social. We show a growing youth gender gap in far-right support, driven by young men. 3 key findings in 🧵⬇️ w/ @zachdickson.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @heikekluever.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social @tonirodon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Just published on APSR First View: "Allies of the Weak: La Résistance and Jews in the Holocaust" by Kasia Nalewajko. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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WZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Forschung zur Logistik von Protestcamps: "Protestcamps – sei es in Autokratien oder in Demokratien dienen nicht nur den Einzelnen als Basis, sie stehen auch für eine kollektive Energie der Veränderung“, so Anna Fruhstorfer @oenna2002.bsky.social, Ismael Benkrama und @rebeccakittel.bsky.social.

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Rebecca Kittel @rebeccakittel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🚨Three days left to hand in your abstract!!

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🚨🚨🚨 Publication alert! Out now at @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social: "Political Representation as Communicative Practice" together with Fabio Wolkenstein. We ask: What is political representation & how should we study it? ⬇️ Download for free for 13 days! 🧵On what you can expect👇 cup.org/3ERYIUR

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

NEW - Studying Multi-Level Systems with Cross-Level Data: Introducing Three Integrated Datasets - cup.org/4b8LzTi - Leonce Röth, @dasalgon.bsky.social, @dielea.bsky.social & André Kaiser

BJPolS abstract describing a political study that includes electoral, institutional, and government data across 21 countries from 1941 to 2019, stored in the Harvard Dataverse repository. The text mentions methodological localization and the availability of data at multiple governmental levels.

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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Join us March 7 (4pm) @wzb.bsky.social for the book presentation "Movement Parties of the Far Right" with @andreapirro.it & @pietrocastellig.bsky.social +Info & registration www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal... It's part of our Lecture Series 'Civil Society and Political Conflict' www.wzb.eu/en/node/62311

Program as PDF of the Lecture Series 'Civil Society and Political Conflict', Center for Civil Society Research.

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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Exciting news for legislative scholars! We're thrilled to announce the release of #ParlLawSpeech, featuring full texts of parliamentary speeches and corresponding bills & laws in 7 parliaments + in the EP. Access full texts via @gesis.org & check out www.parllawspeech.org for R tutorials. (1/2)

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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

New publication: "A Revolt of the Distrustful? Political Trust, Political Protest and the Democratic Deficit", co-authored with Edgar Grande; Journal of European Public Policy. #OpenAccess Article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Replication: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm... 1/3

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A revolt of the distrustful? Political trust, political protest and the democratic deficit

During recent crises in Europe, new heterogeneous protest movements have emerged that are difficult to label and classify. Existing studies suggest that the common denominator of these protesters i...

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Rebecca Kittel @rebeccakittel.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

📢 Call for Papers! Digital Communication and Computational Approaches to Understanding Social Movements in the Social Media Era Special Issue w. Computational Communication Research: tinyurl.com/2p8wcbh2 co-edited with: @smtorres.bsky.social & @oenna2002.bsky.social More details below 👇

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Call for Papers: CCR Special Issue on Digital Communication in Social Movement | Computational Communication Research

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research

A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct.

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Violeta Haas @haasvioleta.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Yeees! 💫 The preliminary program for our Workshop on the Political Economy of Autocratic Rule & Democratic Backsliding (June 23-24, just before EPSA) at IAST/TSE is out. Pair your Madrid trip with a stop in Toulouse. Registration opens soon! Check out speakers here: www.iast.fr/conferences/...

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Workshop on the Political Economy of Autocratic Rule & Democratic Backsliding

Workshop on the Political Economy of Autocratic Rule & Democratic Backsliding, Toulouse, TSE/IAST Building, June 23–24, 2025.

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