It is really worth listening to what Tim Walz has to say about (progressive) politics. For the contemporary left also in Europe, Walz has an important message that goes against the Zeitgeist of how these parties have seen themselves and their voters. 🧵 open.spotify.com/episode/4NtWPs…

Important research-based account by Vicente Valentim on how elite rhetoric has normalized the far right and how this normalization has contributed to the far-right riots we are currently witnessing. Essential reading to understand what's going on right now verfassungsblog.de/uk-riots-racis…

There is research on the implications of social status for voting, but how are perceptions of status formed? This great EJPR journal paper by Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social traces the economic and cultural roots of status, specifically occupation and race. Worth reading! ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

📘 August issue How do voters react to local school and hospital closures? 🗳️ Using data from 🇩🇰 from 2005-2019, Niels Nyholt finds that mayors lose support 📉 and right-wing #populist parties increase their support 📈 bit.ly/44xDSRY #OA #VotingBehaviour

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - The PopuList: A Database of Populist, Far-Left, and Far-Right Parties Using Expert-Informed Qualitative Comparative Classification (EiQCC) - cup.org/3zLWaW1 - Matthijs Rooduijn, Prof. Daphne Halikiopoulou, Caterina Froio (@caterinafr.bsky.social), Paul Taggart et al

As more and more scholars are threatened by authoritarianism and war, Scholars At Risk is in dire need of support. Political scientist (Peter) Luca Versteegen is running the Idre Mountain Marathon to collect donations for Scholars at Risk. You can donate here 👇 gofundme.com/f/donate-for-s…

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Reading Tip! I get the impression that this excellent article by Tom van der Meer & Bastiaan Rijpkema has not gotten the readership it deserves. Essential reading for people concerned about democratic erosion! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

In light of the UK extreme-right (ER) riots & Tommy Robinson's role in them, our conditionally accepted British Jnl Poli Sci paper w/Florian Foos shows a causal effect of media exposure to extreme right actors, incl. Robinson, on support for extreme right views: osf.io/preprints/soca… 1/11

Such an important piece to better understand the role of the media in normalizing the far right. I so wish that there'd be an actually critical reflection within the media on how they treat the far right. I am sure many researchers would be happy to contribute.

“How to perform a crisis”. Faber doet het eens voor… 👉 Het uitroepen van een ‘crisis’ is een vast onderdeel van het radicaal rechts-populistische draaiboek: montesquieu-instituut.nl/id/vmd2960hmsm…

Our article examining if citizens understand the concept of populism has been published by Acta Politica today.

How do citizens perceive democratic norms, and how do these perceptions influence their support for democracy? Our new study, across 14 countries, digs into the social norms that sustain—or undermine—democratic stability. #Democracy link to paper: shorturl.at/axCq0 🧵

Uitstekende reportage van Haro Kraak over de extreemrechtse Geuzenbond en GNSV. Hopelijk voor altijd duidelijk voor Nederlandse universiteiten waar ze mee te maken hebben volkskrant.nl/ts-bc7d2402/

⚠️ Just two days left to apply, deadline is this Friday! If you are into polcomm, social media, and data: please apply if you want to do a PhD 🥳⚠️

A nice review of the quickly-expanding comparative research on affective polarization -- including comments from Jim Adams on our work (with Will Horne) on how types of ideological disputes and economic circumstances relate to partisan dislike. knowablemagazine.org/content/articl…

🍻Does alcohol availability influence support for radical right-wing parties? 🍻 In my latest paper, I explore whether a decreasing number of places with alcohol-serving permits affects support for the radical right in Sweden. OA here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

More systematically: The share of asylum seekers in a district and the share of foreign born in a district is negatively correlated with the AfD vote. There is also no positive correlation between the change of these and voting for the AfD x.com/Julius_Ktxt/st…

🚨 My book is out today: academic.oup.com/book/57946 🚨 2024 has been full of elections. In many, radical-right politicians made important electoral gains. My book hopes to contribute to debates on the rise of these politicians by putting forward a theory around social norms. 1/23

It‘s great to see some coverage of the far right success in Germany that takes seriously the perspective of those most negatively affected and most threatened by the far right. Glad to have contributed to this piece by Ashifa Kassam theguardian.com/world/article/…