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🇺🇸 Trump’s 2025 tariff shock marks a turn toward a near-isolationist US #TradePolicy. 💱Yet, in their piece based on @IntOrgJournal research, @andduer & @al_invernizzi argue the international trading system is likely to weather the storm #TrumpTariffs ⤵️ https://t.co/fy9oL4nMc3
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Trump’s 2025 tariff shock marks a sharp turn toward a near-isolationist US trade policy. Yet given that US protectionism is expected to ease, Andreas Dür and Alessia Invernizzi argue that the...
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@ECPR_TheLoop invites pitches for the Future of Populism blog series, co-edited by @petraguasti.bsky.social and myself. 🔍 Any country, method, approach. 🎓 PhD students & ECRs especially encouraged. ✍️ Submit via The Loop 👉
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💪 Through strongman toughness or maternal guardianship, populists model idealised versions of a nation’s citizens + naturalise exclusion. ♀️♂️ Selina Mabrouki shows how #populist leaders exploit gendered role models as tools of emotional persuasion. 👇 https://t.co/Xwt9e6CZv4
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Populist leaders don’t just claim to represent the people – they embody them. Through strongman toughness or maternal guardianship, populists model idealised versions of a nation’s citizens, and they...
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🎈 #RepresentativeDisconnect No.4 🔗 Can we reconnect political institutions + citizens? 🔃 Dario Castiglione says we must first rethink democratic representation as a process of mutual engagement; then re-imagine its political practices + institutions. 👇 https://t.co/xGAQNvLczd
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In his introductory piece for this series, Luca Verzichelli asked whether we can re-establish a connection between political institutions and citizens. Dario Castiglione suggests we can. But first,...
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🗳️ 🇺🇸 New NYC mayor #ZohranMamdani's electoral campaign prioritised face-to-face interactions with voters. 🗣️ Portia Roelofs argues that this is a standard part of Nigerian political practice + offers the potential for a new kind of accountability. 👇 https://t.co/X7BzfeeJN9
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The new Mayor of New York’s electoral campaign prioritised face-to-face interactions with voters. Western commentators have struggled to find a language for this new ‘politics of listening’. Portia...
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🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.33 💭 #DigitalViolence research must account for its metapolitical dimension. 🗣️ S D Fernández reveals how proponents of the far-right metapolitical project are shaping public discourse to fit their anti-democratic interests. 👇 https://t.co/TojPUoSkng
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Research on digital violence must account for its metapolitical dimension. Silvia Díaz Fernández reveals how proponents of the far-right metapolitical project are shaping public discourse to fit...
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⛓#ConstraintsOnAcademicFreedom 13 🇵🇸 Birzeit Uni in the #WestBank recently halted teaching to mourn a student, killed by Israeli gunfire nearby. The case, says S Fraiese, reveals how freedom crumbles in the world outside academe before it reaches campus. https://t.co/3foFsaoM8q
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On 23 November 2025, Birzeit University in the Palestinian West Bank halted all teaching to mourn one of its law students, killed by Israeli gunfire in a nearby village. The case, says Serena...
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Amid hostile nuclear rhetoric and coercion, publicly available emerging technologies can help prevent nuclear escalation, argues @jamiewithorne @ECPR_TheLoop: https://t.co/ZdrV075yfj 2/14
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Technology is not a cure-all. But it can help reduce the risk of nuclear weapons crises. Jamie Withorne shows how increasingly accessible information can harness transparency and 'fact check' the...
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📣 Call for Co-Editor @pdyearbook 💡 We're seeking a skilled political scientist to join the editorial team of its unique & extensive resources for tracking political developments, PDY and PDYinteractive 📆 21 month-term, starts 1 April 2026 ⌛ 31 Jan https://t.co/7ZZOFeNZUx
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I’m delighted to share my latest piece for @ECPR_TheLoop , where I explore how the Science of Democracy 2.0 challenges conventional democratic theory and what it means for institutions, parties, and citizen-led innovation.
🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.129 💭 @GulayIcoz explores how this rejuvenated series challenges conventional #DemocraticTheory + opens new pathways for citizen-led innovation while raising critical questions about institutional grounding + feasibility. 👇 https://t.co/9EHARgglMC
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🤝 Alexandros Ntaflos argues that the unexpectedly cordial #TrumpMamdani meeting reflects shared populist appeals to 'the people' + pragmatic calculations of institutional power. But as new policies emerge, left-right divisions will reassert themselves.⬇️ https://t.co/jcpqnwWnJ7
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Alexandros Ntaflos argues that Trump and Mamdani’s unexpectedly cordial meeting reflects shared populist appeals to 'the people', and pragmatic calculations of institutional power. But as concrete...
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🎈#RepresentativeDisconnect No.3 😷 Zsófia Papp & @BonnahNkansah show during #C19, Hungarians judged the quality of democracy more by govt performance. Their findings reveal when citizens in backsliding regimes accept violations of democratic standards.👇 https://t.co/nKvX5Ss5en
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Zsófia Papp and Godfred Bonnah Nkansah show that during Covid-19, Hungarians judged the quality of democracy less by procedural norms and more by government performance. Their findings reveal when...
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🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.129 💭 @GulayIcoz explores how this rejuvenated series challenges conventional #DemocraticTheory + opens new pathways for citizen-led innovation while raising critical questions about institutional grounding + feasibility. 👇 https://t.co/9EHARgglMC
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Gulay Icoz explores how the rejuvenated Science of Democracy series – Science of Democracy 2.0 – challenges conventional democratic theory. Here, she explains how it opens new pathways for citizen-...
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☢️ #NuclearPoliticsParadox No.31 🌍 The global nuclear order is more crowded than ever, with new actors + rules constantly emerging. @CarmenWunderlic & Martin Senn say, however, that this is less chaos than a continuous process of ordering + disordering. 👇 https://t.co/JZ84HSJ8h6
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The global nuclear order is more crowded than ever, with new actors, rules, and arenas constantly emerging. Carmen Wunderlich and Martin Senn argue, however, that this is less chaos than a continuous...
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🎈 Introducing our new #RepresentativeDisconnect series, led by @REDIRECT_USiena's @LucaVerzichelli 🎈 Luca seeks proposals exploring ways to reconnect public opinion, parties, policymakers, leaders, citizens and associations with political institutions 🎈
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📉 @EliasKoch_ finds that opposition parties become more confrontational towards the govt when losing in the polls. 🫵 But what does this mean for political systems thriving on an antagonistic relationship between the opposition + the executive? ⬇️ https://t.co/lbVLoI0bIM
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Elias Koch finds that opposition parties become more confrontational towards the government when losing in the polls, and particularly when their support drops below the previous election result. But...
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🎈 #RepresentativeDisconnect No.1 Luca Verzichelli kicks off our @ECPR_TheLoop series on democratic disconnect, urging new tools and ideas to reconnect citizens and institutions in today’s challenged democracies. #RepresentativeDisconnect #Democracy #PoliticalScience #REDIRECT
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My first piece giving back to the academic community, @ECPR_TheLoop, that I've been part of for a while. Here's to many more thoughtful, engaging, and policy-relevant works. Thank you @ECPR_TheLoop.
🇩🇪 The German government is selling its record #WageIncrease as 'support for workers'. 💰 But the wage hike also reveals a shift in how the country thinks about migration and economic planning, writes @ChimdiCCC. 👇 https://t.co/E4sFKSxKj7
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🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.32 👩💻 Do digital spaces threaten or enhance political equality? 📱 @JanaBelschner analysed 875,000 Twitter exchanges during Germany's 2021 election and reveals complex patterns in #OnlineToxicity between citizens + elites. 👇 https://t.co/cvAyLLp8rE
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Jana Belschner analysed 875,000 Twitter exchanges during Germany's 2021 election. Here, she reveals complex patterns in online toxicity between citizens and elites. Politicians’ behaviour matters,...
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🎈#RepresentativeDisconnect No.2 @mimprota95 & Elisabetta Mannoni reveal an ideological gap between young men + women across Europe ♂️↔️♀️. This gap, strong in the UK but absent in Norway, may relate to perceptions of the 'winners + losers' of feminism. 👇 https://t.co/cwRxmaX5SQ
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Who benefits from feminism, and who loses from it? Marco Improta and Elisabetta Mannoni reveal an ideological gap between young men and women across Europe. This gap – strong in the UK, but absent in...
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