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...

The fear that allowing foreign residents to vote in local elections would benefit left-wing parties turns out to be wrong.

This analysis of 1.2 million policy documents from 185 countries identifies global inequalities in whose knowledge is cited in policymaking. Governments in the Global South rely more on foreign source...

Racial Inequality in War

Flera rapporter visar att unga kvinnor går allt mer åt vänster medan de unga männen går åt höger. Vad beror det på och får det några konsekvenser?

January 6, 2026

Recent research has suggested that the rise of the radical right in rural regions can partly be explained by rural identities. Yet, the nuances of how cultural identities and political allegiances ar...

What can reverse democratic decline?

The EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences invites interested researchers and prospective applicants to learn more about the PhD programme. Throughout the day, seminars, workshops, and workin...

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