👏 Huge congratulations to Loop contributor Daniela Irrera, who has just stepped into post as the brand new Chair of European Consortium for Political Research!
💡 Side note: Daniela is also co-editor (with Hana Kubátová) of our
⛓️ #ConstraintsOnAcademicFreedom thread!
🖱️ Explore the series: theloop.ecpr.eu/?s=%E2%9B%93

🏗️Earlier this year, construction workers from India began arriving in Israel to mitigate the country's labour shortage
🧱While the scheme is helping reduce India's unemployment, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan argues it is also a #SoftPower exercise by the Modi government
bit.ly/3y0eqda

🇨🇳 @DrJamesFDownes & Mathew Wong re-evaluate the #BeltAndRoadInitiative 's impact by examining macroeconomic linkages between China and other economies. They find the economic impact of the BRI is limited, and determined largely by pre-BRI economic factors
bit.ly/3xUCi1L

🌊 #IlliberalWave No.36
🇦🇫 In August 2021, Marzia Saramad was working for UNICEF in Kabul when the #Taliban seized control.
She explains how Afghans had a form of liberal democracy forced upon them without consent.
What we're seeing now is the backlash
bit.ly/3xQku7Z

'Our findings indicate that for any organisation aiming to make its mark in the increasingly competitive world of policy advice, the key to success lies not just in standing out, but in smart alignment with the institutional context and political currents.' #Thinktank

In the 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections, Turkish #opposition parties suffered catastrophic defeat. But to everyone's surprise they secured their victory in this year's local #election . 🇹🇷
🗳️ What factors contributed to this sudden shift?
📝 Find out in the

🧠How do think tanks establish a unique position in a saturated policy advisory landscape?
🇧🇪 Bert Fraussen and Valerie Pattyn show that Belgian think tanks set themselves apart from other actors by prioritising long-term, evidence-based policy advice
bit.ly/3WawXxi

(3) A short article highlighting our key findings will be published in The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR next week! (4/4)

🔮 #FutureOfPopulism 78
🗞️Supporters of populism are avid news consumers, yet tend to endorse rhetoric that antagonises the press
📰Clara Juarez Miro IPKW – Department of Communication, UNIVIE shows how emotion & identity shape populist supporters' worldviews & their view on journalism
bit.ly/44cgxXy

🌊 #IlliberalWave No.35
🗣️Viktor Orbán has been dismantling Hungary's independent media until only voice is left: his own
🇭🇺 Diana Maria Prisecaru argues that 13 years of carefully crafted messages has gifted Orbán the anti-gender movement he always wanted
bit.ly/3U8a378

Sane, concise, to the point. A realist analysis of the local elections.

77🔮 #FutureOfPopulism by Donatella Bonansinga

'Thinking about populism as an ‘emotional’ phenomenon in a ‘rational’ world is an outdated idea. All politics can be emotional. But it is important to recognise that populism is linked to specific affective dynamics'

Populism in Action Project

Across the board, women and women’s rights organizations mobilizing for democracy face pushback, threats, and even violence.

Saskia Brechenmacher, Erin Jones, and Ozge Zihnioglu explain how women grapple with these challenges in The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR:
theloop.ecpr.eu/womens-roles-i…

💶As climate policy costs rise, right-leaning voters experience cognitive dissonance.
✈️As a result, writes Sofia Henriks of Statsvetenskap Lund, they worry less about climate impact when there is an increase in private costs.
🌐But what about the left-leaning voters? bit.ly/3W1p5Oz

We've seen heated debates how the Turkish opposition triumphed in 2024 local elections. In The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR, among all other hypotheses, Sultan Tepe and I argue that it was the 'shift from alliance to party-centered competition' that mattered most. theloop.ecpr.eu/opposition-tri…

🇹🇷 In 2023 presidential & parliamentary elections, Turkish opposition parties suffered catastrophic defeat.
🗳️ Pelin A. Musil of Institute of International Relations Prague & Sultan Tepe of UI Political Science explore the factors that contributed to their surprise victory in 2024 local elections
bit.ly/4aypBYR

Congrats to Donatella Bonansinga for an interesting new blog post about emotions and populism.

🇨🇴 Colombians are growing more frustrated at their government's failure to progress. This signals a peculiar democratic deficit: #OligarchicRule . Jan Boesten & colleagues argue that #oligarchy offers new insights into Latin America's democratic delinquents
bit.ly/4aTPT7F

🖥️ Not all #ConspiracyTheories that spread on social media remain popular over time.
🕸️ Today, Courtney Blackington & Frances Cayton🇺🇦 argue that conspiracy theories which map onto salient cleavages are more likely to persist and spread online
bit.ly/3VPnuLV

🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.77
Donatella Bonansinga argues the divide between rationality & emotionality in politics is rooted in cultural misperceptions.
Populism is peculiarly emotional, tapping into specific affective states, with differences between left and right
bit.ly/3PVTHxi