Happy (UK) pub day to DEMOCRACY'S RESILIENCE TO POPULISM'S THREAT and huge thanks to the Cambridge University Press Bookshop for this wonderful display! Cambridge University Press - Politics Cambridge University Press

Thanks Ryan E Carlin for participating in our new series! Thrilled to have you coming.

Great article about economic insecurity and its causal role in populism! Interesting that the effect on right-wing populism is clearer than on the left-wing populism. And of course it's always nice to see outside support for our work in Age of Discontent Rachel Navarre

So happy to report that I'll be spending the Spring 2025 semester (along with Hank) as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the University of Manchester! So excited to start an extremely important project on democratization and popular organization with Fernando Rosenblatt.

At long last, we are excited to share this new Comparative Political Studies piece, inspired by the work of Edward Telles, Rosario Aguilar Gladys Mitchell-Walthour @ProfClealand, @prof_jmorgan Daniel E Moreno Elias Dinas Jennifer hochschild Andrew Janusz Marcus Johnson Gabriel S. Lenz & others! doi.org/10.1177/001041…

Random notes about the Portuguese election in this thread throughout the next few days. Let's start with a look at how fast the radical right Chega has grown in comparison with its existing Southern European counterparts. (1)

Hey all! Had a great conversation with DemocracyWorks about our new book (w/Rachel Navarre and Steve Utych), focused on the solutions to democratic discontent we discuss in The Age of Discontent. democracyworks.simplecast.com/episodes/rhode…

.Matthew Rhodes-Purdy joins us this week on Democracy Works to discuss political discontent and how it destabilizes democracy. He is one of the authors of "The Age of Discontent, out now from Cambridge University Press Listen to the interview: democracyworks.simplecast.com/episodes/rhode…

NIMBYs love weaponizing making the perfect the enemy of the good. Generous social housing policy > market housing policy sure, but market > ridiculous antisocial current housing market and zoning rules

It's official: starting next year I will be an Associate Professor with tenure at Clemson!

📚Summer Reading Goals. I'm reading recent scholarship on populism: just finished Julio F Carrión's book (I recommend!), and really looking forward to new ones from Kurt Weyland and Matthew Rhodes-Purdy/Rachel Navarre /S. Uytich. Also revisiting some classics of Cent. Amer. history.

4/6 New Books: The Age of Discontent - Populism, Extremism, and Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Democracies, by Matthew Rhodes-Purdy, Rachel Navarre, and Stephen Utych cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/the-a…

Another exciting announcement: proud to introduce our US Scholars heading to the UK for 2024-25! Join us in wishing them a wonderful adventure across the Atlantic! Learn more about our US Scholars and other Fulbrighters here: fulbright.org.uk/our-community/…

Thrilled to announce that Age of Discontent has won the David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics from the ISPP International Society of Political Psychology! ISPP Steve Utych Rachel Navarre cambridge.org/core/books/age…

Exciting news! Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @aysed_9 and I are thrilled to have received a DOD grant to study U.S. security cooperation with Pakistan and the Philippines! Exciting work ahead on critical defense partnerships in an era of info warfare & great power competition 🇺🇸🇵🇰🇵🇭

Glad to know #ageofdiscontent is helping people understand what's happening...less glad to know it's still very relevant to US politics. dailykos.com/stories/2024/1…

Apropos of nothing everyone should read this article on left populism in Latin America. Compared to technocratic leftism, populist leaders successfully activated poor + working class constituencies, cutting the gordian knot of political-economic inequality muse.jhu.edu/article/639902

Data beatings will continue until morale improves.

New technologies don't necessarily mean new politics. To understand why, check out this great new book on political party use of new information and communication techs by Fernando Rosenblatt Rafael Piñeiro and coauthors: bit.ly/4fdTGyJ