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New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

here is hoping that future historians are going to find it at least as difficult as us to explain to readers some of the insanity we are now witnessing daily from parts of the political establishment

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

it was always going to end badly but more than a handful of people were happy to close their eyes before where the Republican party (&media&voters) had been trending for the past 15 years

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

not that I disagree with the sentiment but having seen the near total non-response at EU universities to the opportunities created by Brexit, I'm not holding my breath

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Can the EU stop making overly complex rules? 1 / The EU is great at regulating - but sometimes too great. A look inside how policies are made, why simplification efforts often come too late, and what needs to change. 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the predictable outcome of the bad-faith moral panic we co-produced for years"

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

every Monday this term I'm teaching a class on judicial politics and every Monday there is new US material for discussing "what do you think are the scope conditions of government compliance with judicial decisions"

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the Single Market"

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I'm hoping one positive externality of Musk will be greater attention on the role of oligarchs for government. Most oligarchs prefer to orchestrate state capture from the shadows, but in the ongoing American situation we get to witness it tweeted live

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

we truly are living in the stupidest timeline

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

So I’m curious, if the US invades Canada would that falsify the democratic peace theory or prove the US is no longer a democracy?

submitted 25 days ago • 34 comments

I was already following enough governments doing state capture, this is completely unnecessary from my perspective

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

has Brexit produced any tangible benefits for UK citizens? no. But without it the continent would have many more tedious discussions about leaving the EU, so thank you England for sparing us that

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This is #Belgrade right now. Citizens have responded to the students’ call for a 24-hour blockade and protest, shutting down one of the main highways in the city. Could this be the end of #AleksandarVučić? I hope so. I stand in solidarity with Serbian students and citizens fighting for democracy!

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

the first veto of 2025. And Hungary's 17th overall as far as I have been able to tell: michalovadek.github.io/eu-veto-trac...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

big protests all over the country despite government spreading conspiracy theories about foreign influence and coup attempts. Elite and mass opposition to backsliding has been arguably effective so far. The government's majority in the parliament is very brittle

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Learn from world-class experts in their field of advanced research methods at this year's Oxford Spring School. Join Text Analysis course tutor @movadek.bsky.social for a hands-on introduction to the world of computational text analysis: www.politics.ox.ac.uk/research-cen...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

this week I'm sparing a thought for the working paper from like a year ago which said that the global retreat from democracy is just academic vibes

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

"...one of the things that is most alarming...is just how easy it is to actually control people...It doesn’t take gulags. The reality is that if you have the ability to overwhelm the media ecosystem with lies, you make the cost of engaging in public debate so high that it becomes...existential..."

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

a nice birthday present from the University of Toronto-UCL Strategic Challenges Fund in the form of a grant award for a project with @tommasopavone.bsky.social on the role of memory in democratic backsliding. Looking forward to working with Tom on this exciting idea (which will take us to Slovakia!)

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

Workshop announcement: for the third year running @uclspp.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social are teaming up to bring together some of the most exciting early career researchers in Law and Courts, this year also joined by @dnaurin.bsky.social. Apply by 31 March with @icuervo.bsky.social!

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

EU inter-state litigation always an exciting prospect ⚖

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment