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⛓️ ConstraintsOnAcademicFreedom No.10
✍️ Responding to @hanakubatova.bsky.social atova.bsky.social's blog piece, @adamstandring.bsky.social underlines the moral necessity of orgs like @ecpr.bsky.social taking a political stance in the face of violence in Palestine bit.ly/3WqVcr7

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🗳️ Using Israel as a case study ahead of the 2019 elections, Liron Lavi and Clareta Treger argue that citizens hold a multi-dimensional perception of political representation.
But are voters represented on the dimensions important to them? bit.ly/3VTFCmd

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🔮 FutureOfPopulism No.85
@frederikhenriksen.bsky.social analyses anti-systemic populist movements during the Covid pandemic. Such movements rely on alternative news media to establish their own digital information environments - and these echo chambers fuel ideological partisanship
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🗳️ Compared with the 2019 UK election, Brexit is almost invisible in the 2024 campaign. Monika Brusenbauch Meislová explains why Brexit has become the elephant in the room, and argues that the main political parties' deafening silence on the issue is damaging the UK’s interests
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⛓ ConstraintsOnAcademicFreedom No.9
Every place that enjoys academic freedom owes its existence to practices developed in all parts of the world. In the midst of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic institutions, can we rediscover Edward Said's utopia of a free university?
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✅ On 1 July 2024, Hungary will begin its second EU presidency.
💡 Kaja Kaźmierska argues that Viktor Orbán's presidency could have a positive impact on Hungarian people, bringing the EU closer to them.
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🗳️ Following the European election results, Ursula von der Leyen faces an uphill struggle to confirmation as President of the Commission for a 2nd term, writes @catherinedevries.bsky.social
❓ How will she satisfy very different demands from the various groupings?
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🗳️ What will be the outcome of the recent parliamentary elections in Bulgaria?
🇧🇬 Results suggest a return to government made up of status quo parties & a likely end to any prospects of political reform, writes Dragomir Stoyanov
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🇧🇬 Bulgaria has endured longstanding corruption, decades of mass protests, and a shrinking population.
🗳️ In June 2024, Bulgarians voted in the sixth parliamentary elections in three years. Bulgaria's political crisis, however, is far from over, writes Ivaylo Dinev of @zois.bsky.social
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🗣️ When political leaders choose to speak out against antisemitism, often a Muslim antagonist is just around the corner.
❓ @sbvanoosten.bsky.social asks, are politicians' concerns about antisemitism genuine? Or are they exploiting antisemitism to discredit Muslims?
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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine met fierce resistance from Ukrainian military & society.
But the war is also being waged in the information space.
Katsiaryna Lozka & Vera Axyonova argue Ukrainian think tanks are important contributors to diplomacy efforts to win hearts & minds
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🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.84
✅ Populist attitudes are responsive to perceived improvements in the democratic system
🟪 In a blog based on @EPSRjournal research, Marie-Isabel Theuwis & Rosa Kindt argue that this makes them a useful means to assess democratic quality bit.ly/3XwAyGY

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⛓️ ConstraintsOnAcademicFreedom No.7
🗣️ When institutions like ECPR speak collectively on political controversies, @hanakubatova.bsky.social argues, they take academic freedom away from individual scholars and their dissenting views. Now is the time for institutional neutrality bit.ly/3KPhZGi

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🌐 The Council of Europe’s treaty on Artificial Intelligence marks a significant achievement in multilateral AI governance. Nonetheless, Mahmoud Javadi suggests that it could foreshadow potential challenges, if not failure, for similar UN efforts
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📺 Media outlets are not neutral actors in immigration debates.
📰 But while the media may shape how much we think about immigration, it doesn't influence our positions towards the issue, write João Miguel Carvalho @mcarmoduarte.bsky.social & Didier Ruedin
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‘Populism’ and ‘power’ have an uneasy relationship. Giorgos Venizelos argues we must look beyond populism’s content or outcomes, and turn instead to populism’s function of constructing collective identities through discursive / affective performativity.

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During the pandemic, the British government regularly displayed a chart plotting UK mortalities against other countries, until it revealed the UK to be the worst in Europe.
@williamlallen.bsky.social & Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij show how visual comparisons can influence public perception bit.ly/4bUNTwN

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🔮 FutureOfPopulism No.83   
When mainstream politicians close or merge local schools and hospitals, some communities are left without nearby services. Niels Nyholt reveals how citizens negatively affected by political decisions are more likely to vote for right-wing populist parties
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Central Asia has traditionally been in Russia’s geopolitical orbit. But @nikolamikovic.bsky.social argues the region has key strategic importance in facilitating Europe-Asia trade. The EU therefore now seeks to strengthen economic, political and security ties with Central Asian states
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💰 Party competition sometimes resembles an auction, where parties seek to ‘buy’ elections through spending promises.
🗳️ In his blog on 'Auction Politics', Rory Costello reveals how parties that do not expect to be in government are also more likely to over-promise on spending
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On the brink of war, what influences decision-makers to attack another country? ❇️ In the NEW ECPR Press book, @femkebakker.bsky.social investigates the theoretical microfoundations of democratic peace

🦅🕊️ Her fascinating analysis is set to prove hugely influential in the field bit.ly/3xxWG8Y
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James F. Downes argues that the imminent elections to the European Parliament will likely lead to record representation for populist far-right parties.
🗳️ Lack of unity and ideological divisions, however, will make it difficult for those parties to wield any real power.
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🔮 FutureOfPopulism
🎙️ Lone Sorensen says political communication is important to the study of populism
📺 Populist ideology & performance interact to create meaning
📻 Populists adapt communications according to media
🗣️ Populists talk about political communication as a democratic deficit
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🗳️ Young people make productive legislators who work hard and get reelected.
With European Parliament elections imminent, voters could boost youth representation in European politics.
@grahn.bsky.social argues this matters because young people are growing disillusioned with democracy bit.ly/3Kqn1bZ

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🗳️ The ANC has governed South Africa since 1994.
Now, it is bracing for a watershed election.
Knowledge Mwonzora, Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism & Democracy, Nelson Mandela University, outlines prospects for the ANC's ousting by the challenge from former President Zuma bit.ly/453o1MW

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⛓️ ConstraintsOnAcademicFreedom No.7
A group of scholars has called upon ECPR to condemn Israel's military campaign in Gaza. ECPR declined. This, argues Vladimir Bortun, was misguided, but it also represents an opportunity to debate ECPR's mission – and the purpose of political science bit.ly/3QV2QXA

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🗳 Far-right parties are growing increasingly hostile towards LGBTQ rights. In the European Parliament elections, 6–9 June, such parties are expected to make major gains. @grahn.bsky.social shows that non-straight voters might, through mobilisation, help keep far-right forces at bay
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🔮 FutureOfPopulism No.81
@drphilphil.bsky.social argues that European left-wing populist parties become more moderate as a consequence of their participation in government. Here, he draws on recent examples from Podemos in Spain, Syriza in Greece, and Die Linke in Germany
PoliSky
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Today, Olga Vlasova scrutinises global data on sanctions, and explores historical precedents, uncovering the complexities surrounding the lifting of sanctions.
Olga's analysis offers valuable insights for policymakers navigating the delicate balance of international relations
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♟ AutocraciesWithAdjectives No.28
Recent coups in the Sahel have been beneficial for Russia. Marcel Plichta & Christopher Faulkner argue that Moscow's mercenaries in the Sahel aren't to blame for the democratic retrenchment, but their presence is emboldening African military dictators bit.ly/4bxbjrG

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⭐ Happy EuropeDay to all our followers!
🗳️ As we approach EUelections2024, which take place from 6–9 June, Jaap Hoeksma argues that the EuropeanUnion is resolving its problems of democratic legitimacy by becoming a democratic international organisation
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❌ CompulsoryVoting boosts turnout, but may also encourage invalid voting. Furthermore, it gives voters few opportunities to express discontent or disinterest.
🗳️ Shane P. Singh, Carolina Plescia and Sylvia Kritzinger argue that a NoneOfTheAbove (NOTA) option could solve this problem shorturl.at/jpyMT

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Erik Jones & @vanghel.bsky.social redefine the EU as a system of common resource pools. This, they argue, is the only way to understand its transformation under the pressure to enlarge. Enlargement means less exclusivity, so how are the ‘goods’ that the EU provides affected?shorturl.at/kADHX

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👽I have written a short article about #populism in power - scrutinising some core assumptions about it.

It's based on my book.

Read below, and share!
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🌊 #IlliberalWave No.37
Natália Noskovičová delves into the illiberal mobilisations of the Czech and Slovak Alliances for Family and National Marches for Life. Here, she navigates the religious and secular strategies of anti-gender movements in the heart of Europe bit.ly/3y5VGsP

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Our analysis of Belgium’s think tanks suggests that their survival hinges less on the specific policy issues for which they advocate, and more on the particular advocacy tactics they employ.

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🔮 FutureOfPopulism 79 
Three myths about populism's fate in power:  
1⃣ becomes mainstream 
2⃣ turns authoritarian 
3⃣ fails/succeeds to implement policies 
@giorgosvenizelos.bsky.social debunks these myths, arguing we must look at how populism constructs collective identities 
PoliSky
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🏗️ Earlier this year, construction workers from India began arriving in Israel to mitigate the country's labour shortage.
🚧 The scheme is helping reduce India's unemployment rate, but Lakshmy Ramakrishnan argues we should also see it as a soft-power exercise by the Modi government bit.ly/3y0eqda

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🛻 James F Downes & Mathew Wong re-evaluate the BeltAndRoadInitiative's impact by examining macroeconomic linkages between China and other economies.
🚚 They find that the economic impact of the BRI is limited, and determined largely by pre-BRI economic factors
PoliSky
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🌊 IlliberalWave 36
In August 2021, Marzia Saramad was working for UNICEF in the Afghan 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
GenderingIlliberalism
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