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Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support - Volume 65 Issue 1

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Resentment and democracy under strain ✊

@mfilsinger.bsky.social & Steffen Wamsler of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social show how #SGRD shapes not only radical political support, but also citizens’ commitment to democracy 🏛️ drawing on survey data 📊 across six European countries

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The would-be autocrats’ toolkit: what do incumbents do when they undermine democracy? | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core The would-be autocrats’ toolkit: what do incumbents do when they undermine democracy? - Volume 18 Issue 1

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The would-be #Autocrats’ toolkit 🛠️

@jmvanlit.bsky.social & Carolien van Ham analyse incumbent-led autocratization between 1990 & 2023, producing a toolkit allowing a ore systematic study of #Autocratization

Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility This article examines the flexibility of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). It asks under what conditions modifications to the original National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) have ...

📢 New publication

@afernandezpasarin.bsky.social and @joanmiroartigas.bsky.social have just published a great paper at @jeppjournal.bsky.social

Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility

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Does public participation in supranational policymaking enhance the European Commission’s legislative agenda-setting success? Under what conditions does public participation in supranational policymaking help the European Commission strengthen its legislative agenda-setting power and minimise the change of legislative pro...

Delighted to see our article out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social! Right on time to make a contribution to the debate on the @ec.europa.eu's new initiative to reform its Better Regulation policy. Open access & part of @erc.europa.eu ERC project CONSULTATIONEFFECTS.
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For decades, the #ECB avoided actively promoting the euro globally. That era may be ending. The ECB has begun reforming its foreign liquidity lines — but Europe still isn’t thinking big enough about monetary power.

New @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social insight
Read here: buff.ly/Cr4aLFO

📢 New free virtual course | ReCIPE

Key Concepts for Economies in Conflict and Fragile Settings (Part 2) - starting 2 March 2026

When: Mondays, 15:00–16:00 GMT
Format: Virtual + Recording available

🔗 More info: grp.cepr.org/recipe/cours...
📝 Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Big cities' mayors and authoritarian leaders really don't mix. Curious as to why would that be. Hmmm...

A new interesting article by Nicholas Stowell, Yuzhu Zeng and Jacek Kugler is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled "Retirement challenges amidst demographic changes". Enjoy it here: is.gd/ATszoU

Africa Still Matters — An EU Opportunity With an absent US, the EU has a great opportunity to strengthen a vital partnership and prove itself a serious global contender.

Africa Still Matters: An EU Opportunity | “A more assertive EU approach focused on security, technology, and economic cooperation could counter authoritarian influence and shape long-term stability.” Federico Donelli
https://cepa.org/article/africa-still-matters-an-eu-opportunity/

The Future of US Bases in Europe: General (Ret.) Gordon B. Davis Maintaining a robust US presence in Europe is “essential to defending American interests,” Maj. Gen. “Skip” Davis says.

The Future of US Bases in Europe: General (Ret.) Gordon B. Davis | “A large-scale withdrawal would make US power projection slower, costlier, and less effective.” Gordon B. Davis

Poland Prepares for Drone War With Russia Europe needs to tackle Russia's hybrid warfare, a Polish deputy defense minister warned as he unveiled new anti-drone systems.

Poland Prepares for Drone War With Russia | “Europe needs to get on the front foot to tackle Russia’s hybrid warfare.” Cezary Tomczyk

What We Learned From the Greenland Affair There are lessons from the recent debate about Greenland's role in transatlantic security to digest for both the US and Europe.

What We Learned From the Greenland Affair | "There are lessons to digest for both the US and Europe." @apolyakova.bsky.social cepa.org/article/what...

Europe’s New Cyber Rules Target China — and US Proposed legislation attempts to reduce dependency on risky tech vendors. Good luck.

Europe’s New Cyber Rules Target China — and US | "Proposed legislation attempts to reduce dependency on risky tech vendors. Good luck." Ieva Ilves https://cepa.org/article/europes-new-cyber-rules-target-china-and-us/

NEW: Kremlin officials continue to reiterate Russia's commitment to its original war aims and reject Western security guarantees for Ukraine.

Read the full Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 25, 2026: isw.pub/UkrWar012526

More Key Takeaways ⬇️ (1/4)

NEW: Some Iranian officials have continued to leak damning information about the regime’s brutal crackdown to Western media, which indicates that some regime personnel may oppose the regime’s crackdown. (1/3)

Read the Iran Update, January 25, 2026: isw.pub/IranUpdate01...

Administration Les élections : fondement de la démocratie

#VendrediLecture 📚

À quelques semaines des #Municipales2026, @ffaucher.bsky.social se penche sur "Ce que voter veut dire", en comparant les rituels français et britanniques.

À lire dans la revue Administration sur @cairninfo.bsky.social
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@scpo-research.bsky.social

Calls for a digital euro increasingly invoke monetary sovereignty, often on the grounds that Europe must retain control over its payment systems. This column argues that this reasoning conflates two distinct elements within the monetary system: money and payments. Sovereignty has never depended on universal access to public money or control over payment rails, but on legal authority over the unit of account and the capacity of the central bank balance sheet to absorb risk. Private money anchored by public backstops is the historical norm. The main competitive challenge today arises at the level of broad money, where stablecoins compete with bank deposits rather than with cash or central bank money. In this context, the digital euro is best understood as a symbolic response to payment-system dependence and fiscal fragmentation, rather than a functional requirement for monetary sovereignty.

Lucrezia Reichlin argues that the digital euro is best understood as a symbolic response to payment-system dependence and fiscal fragmentation, rather than a functional requirement for monetary sovereignty.
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New Special Issue in @the-peio.bsky.social: Public Opinion and International Organizations. In the SI intro, we map the field, place the SI papers & identify ways forward: rdcu.be/eXt2R with @jonastallberg.bsky.social, 🙏 @adreher.bsky.social, reviewers & SI authors #Polisky #InternationalRelations

🏭 Europe’s emissions trading system is an ally, not an enemy, of industrial competitiveness

✒️ Read the Analysis by Thomas Mramor & @tagliapietra.bsky.social
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🌱 Better #regulation in the European Union needs a fresh start

Anne Bucher and Elizabeth Golberg find that while the system underpinning the EU's better regulation is robust, there remain substantial weaknesses in its application to overcome.

📑 Read here: buff.ly/1Ex6y7N
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⏰ Time to make a European Union-India trade deal happen

🤝 With the 16th EU-India summit now underway, the time has never been better to agree a new trade deal.

📑 Read the paper by Ignacio Garcia Bercero and André Sapir, first published 7 July 2025, to learn why.
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READ: Syrian Government Offensive Forces Syrian Kurdish Group to Capitulate

Read the full report here: isw.pub/SyrianGovern...

The US-backed, Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capitulated to the Syrian government in a ceasefire agreement on January 18.

NEW: The United States’ framework for sustaining success against ISIS in northeastern Syria is collapsing.

Read more from the January 19 Iran Update: isw.pub/IranUpdate01...

Other Key Takeaways:

💰Do voters punish local politicians for raising taxes?

➡ Using close local ballot votes in California, J Courbe & @jpayson.bsky.social find little backlash after tax hikes, except for business taxes, where organized interests mobilize www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

❔ When democracy erodes at home, the EU loses clout abroad?

🥁 Nea Solander finds that the EU’s ability to promote democracy internationally is strongly tied to the state of democracy within the Union

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🧱 🏃♂️ An additional hurdle to overcome neoliberalism (next to ideas and intersts): de-polititization

🔎 @mandelkern.bsky.social compares challenges to neoliberalism in Sweden (2014-2018) and Israel (2011-2019)

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🤔 How does the German government justify its border policies?

@lisaherbig.bsky.social, @olgaeisele.bsky.social, @kgattermann.bsky.social, @theresakuhn.bsky.social examine speeches and press conferences from 2013 until 2023 ⤵️

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🐎 Which horse should left parties bet on: economic equality or equal rights?

💡 @alexanderhorn.bsky.social, Carsten Jensen & @dweisstanner.bsky.social find that the centre-left wins votes when it does both, while the postmaterialist left gains with equal rights

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What People Really Think About Taxing the Rich – the surprising beliefs behind progressive taxation « Political Science and International Relations# « Cambridge Core Blog For decades, political leaders, economists, and business elites have repeated a familiar warning: tax the rich too much, and everyone will suffer. Higher taxes on the wealthy, they argue, might reduce...

A new blog post by @beckerbastian.bsky.social, @bcastanho.bsky.social and Hanna Lierse - t.ly/Cs6xb !
The article, entitled “Taxing your cake and growing it too: public beliefs on the dual benefits of progressive taxation”, is available here: tinyurl.com/2cc7x4jf