💡New on the AUTHLIB Blog 💡 Do illiberal governments make a difference in educational and cultural policies? Péter Radó and mikolab from the CEU Democracy Institute explore their impact in Hungary and Poland. authlib.eu/illiberal-gove…

📢 Applications are now open! The Scuola Normale Superiore Scuola Normale (Florence, Italy) invites applications for the 2024 PhD Summer School on 'Visual Analysis and Contentious Politics' organized on May 29 - June 1, 2024. 🤓 authlib.eu/sns-summer-sch…

Really excited to see this article out in Ethnic and Racial Studies In it, Luke Shuttleworth, Kevin Okonkwo, Flo Bremner and I examine how the far-/extreme right are mainstreamed in documentary films and provide recommendations for best practices for filmmakers 1/ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢Young researchers of social movements & political participation! 🤓Apply until Feb 18 for a 2-day workshop on May 16-17 at Scuola Normale in Florence 🇮🇹 to discuss your research with leading scholars. All disciplines are welcome! Details 👇 standinggroups.sisp.it/movimentisocia…

🧑‍🏫🧑‍🎨 What impact do illiberals have on educational & cultural policies? How have Fidesz🇭🇺 & PiS🇵🇱 affected these policy areas? 🎥Péter Radó & mikolab discussed their AUTHLIB working paper on the topic w/ Ágnes Kende & Zsolt Enyedi at CEU Democracy Institute youtube.com/watch?v=olZKTd…

🪪Does 'illiberalism' matter when it comes to immigration and citizenship policy in Europe? 📽️Dimitry Kochenov & Elena Basheshka Central European University explored it discussing their recent working paper w/ Boldizsar Nagy & Alíz Nagy at CEU Democracy Institute. Watch our recording here👇 youtube.com/watch?v=1JGEdC…

🥁I am particularly happy to announce the first online seminar series organized by our GENDER AND SUCCESS - ERC PROJECT project at Institutt for politikk og forvaltning 🥁 Special thanks to our speakers Sophie Kopsch Anastasia Barone Giada Bonu Rosenkranz LauraChaquésBonafont Emanuela Lombardo @CoffeHilde Marc Geddes Join us!

A wonderful thesis defense and lively discussion to finish a 4-year PhD journey 🎉❤️ with Hans-Joerg Trenz Alberta Giorgi Phillip Ayoub on BlueSky @payoub.bsky.social Manuela Caiani and Ondřej Císař

I make the case for a 'material' turn in the study of 'right-wing populism' in this piece for The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR. That means going beyond the current focus on discourse and voters to unpack the class forces and interests represented by this party family. Three reasons to do so 👇1/5

🇸🇰 The Slovak presidential election brought the government-backed Peter Pellegrini's victory. But the real winner is PM Fico, argues Juraj Marusiak. ❓What led to Pellegrini's victory? ❓How will it impact 🇸🇰 politics? Find out on the Authlib Blog ⤵️ authlib.eu/presidential-e…

🔥NEW PAPER 💡Right-wing authoritarian politics do not rely solely on “politics of fear”, argue Franziska Wagner & Zsolt Enyedi Central European University CEU Democracy Institute ❗️In power, such leaders use positive affective appeals as emotional governance 📖Open access on Frontiers - Political Science frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

🗳️New on the AUTHLIB Blog🗳️ "The case of Hungary shows that governments can be the most efficient super-spreaders of disinformation", writes Peter Kreko (visiting fellow Engaging Central Europe German Marshall Fund) about state-sponsored disinformation in the Hungarian EP campaign. authlib.eu/state-funded-d…

New article fresh out of the oven! 🥳A wonderful collaboration with @kralj_karlo comparing the movement party framing strategy of left and right-wing actors in Serbia. Many thanks to our SI editors Fred Paxton and Endre Borbáth. Inbox for pdf. link.springer.com/article/10.105…

🇪🇺🗳️European Parliamentary Elections🗳️🇪🇺 The far right will not dominate the new European Parliament, but its normalization, facilitated by the mainstream, has long-term consequences for European policymaking & democracy, writes Zsuzsanna Vegh German Marshall Fund authlib.eu/creeping-influ…

Dimitry Kochenov Elena CEU Democracy Institute Piotr Zagórski - @pzag.bsky.social mikolab Tomas Cirhan 🦔🎓 SWPS University Charles University LiliiaSablina And we conclude with an assessment of the transnationalization of the radical right via ideas, frames, ties and events, conducted by Manuela Caiani & presented by Ivan Tranfić

And that is a wrap to our #CES2024! Thanks CES SciencesPo Lyon Université Lumière Lyon 2 for such a great conference, and thanks to everyone who joined our discussions! If you are interested in the future of democracy in Europe and illiberal challenges to it, follow AuthlibEU!

Ready for one more conference, this time Stockholm ❤️ Södertörns högskola on anti-gender politics in CEE and the Baltic region with brilliant feminist and gender scholars! Presenting a snippet of my doctoral thesis that will hopefully turn into a paper 🤞

5⃣ Karlo Kralj and Ivan Tranfić examine the framing strategy of the far-right Dveri and the green Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own (NDB), both from 🇷🇸 Link to the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.105…

📢What a way to start 2025! Our SI Mobilization "Weaving the Transnational Anti-gender Networks" is finally out😍! Very proud to introduce insightful new research with papers by Kristopher Velasco Emanuela Lombardo Dominika Tronina Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 & many others LINK: meridian.allenpress.com/mobilization/i…

The Guardian prioritises "populism" in its framing as expected One could think racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia etc were the more concerning elements that have been normalised Populist hype is a hell of a drug...