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On Monday October 12, I will give a lecture on our new book “Youth Wings of Populist Radical Right Parties” at @feps-europe.eu in Brussels 🇧🇪, which will be followed by a discussion with Mariam Ashgari & @emmarafowicz.bsky.social Everyone is welcome! Glad to be back in Brussels!

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New paper in Electoral Studies, led by @annikaschuster.bsky.social and @jangoedeking.bsky.social with Julian Erhardt and @robert-a-huber.bsky.social What happened to voters' attitudes when Merz accepted a Bundestag majority with the AfD in January 2025? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is an excellent and important cross-cultural reflection.

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Postdoc position within my group 3 years (100% TVl-13): stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/2... ⏱️ 06.11.2026 If you have questions: get in touch!

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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, salary level E 13 TV-L)

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions. 2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%) 1 doc: 2 years (75%) Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable) Application deadline: 1 November

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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Foreign academics now represent almost half of all academic staff employed at Dutch universities (but only a quarter of full professors). I wrote a post showing some data and discussing some ways to understand it: alexandreafonso.substack.com/p/immigrants...

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Immigrants: The Silent (Almost) Majority in Dutch Academia

Half of Dutch academics are now foreign, but almost no one talks about them.

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Tamta Gelashvili @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The final paper of my PhD is now out in @democratization.bsky.social! I ask how and why regime type impacts far-right mobilization. My starting point was a paradox: the far right is global, yet most of what we know about it comes from research on a handful of countries in Western Europe 1/9

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Far right mobilization in hybrid regimes: evidence from Georgia and Ukraine

How and why does regime type impact far-right mobilization? Most of our knowledge about the far right comes from studies of Western democracies, leaving far-right mobilization in hybrid regimes und...

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Does radical right success change attitudes or the local climate? Stefan Dahlberg, @hilmal.bsky.social & @polhosc.bsky.social examine Sweden, finding contextual alignment, not persuasion. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/rI91be4 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci #RadicalRight

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Electoral success of radical right parties is often argued to normalize previously stigmatized anti-immigration attitudes. Yet, it remains unclear whether such normalization reflects genuine within-individual persuasion or shifts in the local climate of political expression. We address this question by linking highly disaggregated district-level vote shares to individual-level panel survey data from Sweden (2018–2022), a period marked by sustained growth and partial normalization of the Sweden Democrats. Cross-sectional analyses reveal pronounced contextual patterns: Restrictive immigration attitudes are more prevalent in districts with higher local radical right support, particularly among voters who do not support the party, while core supporters remain comparatively stable. However, first-difference panel analyses provide little evidence that changes in local radical right support are associated with attitudinal change. The findings suggest that what appears as normalization in ecological analyses is more consistent with contextual alignment than with rapid persuasion, clarifying the micro-foundations of radical right normalization."

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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is there another capital city in Western Europe where the far right is as strong as it is in Vienna?

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Andrea Pirro @andreapirro.it · 30/09/2026

I recently spoke to @nbcnews.com about the European far right’s relationship with Russia.

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European Political Science @epsjournal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🍃 September issue 📖 Book Review 💬'...an original and valuable addition to the study of populism...’ Guy Gerba @ucc.ie reviews "The Populist Style: Trump, Le Pen and Performances of the Far Right" by @theoaiolfi.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social, 2025 👉 buff.ly/4F9RF8s

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 30/09/2026

Social science should be more open with the fact that novelty is smaller and smaller and more constructed. In like 1950, you could be like "we don't know how congressional committees work here is my book on congressional committees". Not the case now.

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POP @populismblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New book out 🔥 The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right. (Elements in the History and Politics of Fascism @universitypress.cambridge.org) How is the success of the Iberian far right linked to the memory of Franco and Salazar? doi.org/10.1017/9781009588072

The image shows, on the right half, the book's cover, with fascist architecture from Rome, which is the signature image used by the series on "The History and Politics of Fascism". The left half of the image shows the book's back, that includes the following summary:
The far right is achieving unprecedented electoral success, even in countries once considered immune such as Spain and Portugal. For decades, the stigma surrounding the long dictatorships of António Salazar and Francisco Franco seemed to inoculate the Iberian Peninsula against far-right mobilisation, yet Chega and VOX have shown that collective memory evolves – and stigma fades. This Element argues that understanding the far right's global rise requires attention to authoritarian nostalgia: a longing for an idealised authoritarian past. When activated by credible political actors with sufficient media visibility, this sentiment can generate support for far-right movements even in societies with a collective memory firmly condemning their authoritarian past. Using original survey data, the Element shows how contemporary far-right forces mobilise the ghosts of authoritarianism to erode democratic norms, revealing the enduring power of collective memory in shaping political behaviour.

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C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do you research online extremism at a university in Australia, NZ, UK, US, Canada or Ireland? Consider taking this survey which compare ethics review boards' and researcher perception and understanding of the risk of online extremism research. For more info: soton.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Chris Aalberts @chrisaalberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PvdD in Staten van Utrecht maakt bezwaar tegen benoeming #FvD-commissielid Bram van de Kerk (o.a. actief bij Groot-Nederlandse Studenten Vereniging). Benoeming wordt uitgesteld. Verklaring PvdD: utrecht.partijvoordedieren.nl/nieuws/parti...

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Partij voor de Dieren: geen ruimte voor normalisering van rechts-extremisme | Nieuws

De Partij voor de Dieren staat voor duurzaamheid, mededogen, persoonlijke vrijheid en persoonlijke verantwoordelijkheid. Doe mee en word lid!

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C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism, 13-14 May 2027, University of Helsinki. Paper abstracts and panel suggestions: 9 October 2026. www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

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Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism | University of Helsinki

13–14 May 2027, Helsinki, Finland

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Luis Sattelmayer @luissattelmayer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, @malojan.bsky.social and I are launching the PartySOME website at partysome.org, an open, interactive platform for exploring how much political parties communicate online and what they talk about 🎤💻📊

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Down from the Peak: Conditions for the Decline of Radical Right Parties” Excellent reflection on a crucial question. Unlike most punditry, this piece is based on academic research rather than fantasies, gut feelings, and political preferences. (Scroll down for English)

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Vom Zenit abwärts: Bedingungen des Niedergangs radikal rechter Parteien - Empirische Politik UDE

Sabrina J. Mayer Achim Goerres Verena Benoit (Please scroll down for an English language version of the article) Die AfD gewann bei der Landtagswahl 2016 in Sachsen-Anhalt 24,3 Prozent der Zweitstimme...

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our School of Politics and International Relations at @ucddublin.bsky.social is hiring two permanent (!) Assistant Professors in any field of political science, international relations, political theory, or development. Deadline: 9 November Start date: 30 August 2027 my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2), UCD School of Politics and International Relations, Permanent
Applications are invited for a permanent post of a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2) within UCD School of Politics and International Relations.

The UCD School of Politics & International Relations (SPIRe) is a globally ranked, research-active school with teaching and research expertise across the fields of political science, international relations, normative political theory, international development, and other areas. It is committed to the highest standards in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research supervision. The school is home to a number of research centres, and further information can be found at: https://www.ucd.ie/spire/about/

95 Lecturer/Asst Professor Above The Bar (7943) Salary Scale: €66,055 - €104,600 per annum

Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines.

Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 9th November 2026.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.

UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.

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Andreas Goldberg @acgoldberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📢🎓 PhD position in our "Perceptions of Democracy in the Age of Populism" project 💶 Good salary & money for conference travels 📝 Interdisciplinary supervision team 🌍 Trondheim 🇳🇴 lively student city with great nature 🗓️ DL 10.10. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Thanks for sharing & RT! #polisky #EUsky

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Ph.D. Position in European Studies (307748) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Ph.D. Position in European Studies (307748), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Saturday, October 10, 2026

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📣 Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl - nog maar eens over de normalisering van uiterst rechts gedachtegoed. Directe aanleiding was het rapport van AIVD en NCTV over de strategische normalisering vanuit de rechts-extremistische beweging. 👇

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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 29/09/2026

Opinie: Zaak van PVV’er Maikel Boon laat zien dat handhaving integriteit tekortschiet

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Opinie: Zaak van PVV’er Maikel Boon laat zien dat handhaving integriteit tekortschiet

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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Horrific video out of Kyiv shows scientists and researchers jumping out of windows after a russian strike on Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences.

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Werner Krause @krausewe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy to see our new paper on mainstream-to-challenger defection in print! w/ @denis-cohen.bsky.social & @aigneranna.bsky.social Check out Denis' summary below! Thanks to @nilssteiner.bsky.social, @conradziller.bsky.social & @ackermannk.bsky.social for organizing this SI! tinyurl.com/5aa9wrmb

First page of the journal article "From the center to the fringes: A comparative test of attitudinal explanations for mainstream-to-challenger defection" by Denis Cohen, Werner Krause, and Anna Aigner, published in Electoral Studies. The page shows the journal head, author affiliations at the University of Mannheim and the University of Potsdam, keywords, a link to the replication dataset, and the full abstract.

Dot plot showing net balances of vote switching between mainstream and challenger parties, in percentage points, across 16 west European elections from 1973 to 2025. Each election is a point with a 95% credible interval, ordered left to right from most negative to most positive. Values run from about −6 to +15 points; positive values mean net gains for challengers. German elections are labeled individually and mostly sit between −4 and +4 points. Germany's February 2025 election, highlighted in red, is a clear outlier at nearly +10 points, placing it among the highest in the series alongside the Netherlands 2002, Greece 2012, Denmark 1973, and Italy 1992.

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Interested in political legacies and political behavior in post-communist Europe? My review is now out in PRX. It draws on 200+ articles and discusses many conceptual and empirical problems in legacy research, along with ideas for addressing them and where the field could go next.

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Political behavior and historical legacies in post-communist Europe

Thirty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, political behaviour in post-communist Europe continues to diverge from patterns in Western Europe, contributing to a research paradigm centred on ex...

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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🏳️‍🌈 When does rejecting homosexuality predict radical-right support? Álvaro Calvo-Rodríguez studies 21 European countries: the link grows where gender issues polarise and radical-right parties lean on religious tradition — and weakens when they stress Islam instead. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Description of the article "When does rejection of homosexuality matter? Gendered opportunity structures and radical-right support" by Álvaro Calvo-Rodríguez, published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 3. Small-multiple line charts for the same 16 countries, comparing the same rejection-of-homosexuality link (solid line) with within-country change in radical-right parties' anti-Islam salience (dashed line). In many countries, including Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, rising anti-Islam salience coincides with a flatter or weaker link.

Figure 4. Three-panel line chart of the predicted probability of feeling close to a radical-right party across levels of rejection of homosexuality, for high versus low anti-Islam salience, at low, mean and high gender polarisation. Where gender polarisation is low, high anti-Islam salience flattens or even reverses the link; where it is high, rejection of homosexuality still goes with greater radical-right closeness under high anti-Islam salience.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In Sweden, Social Democrats giving up doesn't mean that Left-Green-Center govt is now impossible. Left Party being blamed by Social Dems for the failure, which is seen by some as a maneuver to put pressure on the Left Party should the Social Dems get a second crack at forming a govt. Which it could.

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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

France’s far-right National Rally (RN) party and its allies have secured a record 14 seats in the rightwing-dominated Senate in elections, effectively quadrupling its number in the 348-seat chamber just months before a presidential poll www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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France’s far-right National Rally surges in Senate elections

Marine Le Pen hails ‘historic victory’ as her party and allies win enough seats to form caucus just months ahead of presidential poll

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Lotem Halevy @lotemhalevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The leaky pipeline" in Higher Ed no one wants to touch. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news... It can take ONE professor. A professor who is smart enough and cares enough to put 2 and 2 together.

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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 28/09/2026

Stormachtige opkomst radicalere Vannacci dwingt Italiaanse premier Meloni terug in rol van populistische campaigner

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Stormachtige opkomst radicalere Vannacci dwingt Italiaanse premier Meloni terug in rol van populistische campaigner

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Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@tomjanmeeus.bsky.social in de @nrc.nl vandaag: ‘Waarom Den Haag maar blijft vergeten hoe de normalisering van extreemrechts begon’. En hoe het remigratieracisme wordt overgenomen door JA21 en de BBB, terwijl VVD’ers in de Malieveldrellen geen politieke motieven zagen.

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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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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How do ordinary people gradually get used to extreme ideologies? Katja Hoyer speaks to Anya Pearson about why it was so important to her to tell the real-life stories of local residents in Weimar, Germany, during the rise of Nazism. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/we-need...

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"We Need to Understand how Ordinary People Gradually get Used to Extreme Ideologies": Interview with Katja Hoyer

Anya Pearson interviews Katja Hoyer, the German-British historian, journalist, and author whose acclaimed book Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe was published earlier this year. Drawing on...

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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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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In het 8-uur journaal van @nieuws.nos.nl mocht ik kort duiding geven bij AIVD-NCTV rapport over normalisering extreemrechts

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In het 8-uur journaal van @nieuws.nos.nl mocht ik kort duiding geven bij AIVD-NCTV rapport over normalisering extreemrechts

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Bert Huisman @berthuisman.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

“Maar ook traditionele media moeten verantwoordelijkheid nemen en stoppen een doorgeefluik te zijn.”

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