Did you present a paper at APSA on European politics and happen to be proud of it? Did you 👀 a paper at APSA on European politics that you wish you had written? Then submit it for the @apsa-europe-polsky.bsky.social best paper award.
Committee: @pkostad.bsky.social, Ines Wagner & me
Deadline: 15/03
This is wonderful news, Vicente! Congratulations!!!
Nick Vivyan, Chris Hanretty (@chanret.bsky.social) and I have a new book out: “Idiosyncratic Issue Opinion and Political Choice”. The core of the book is making the argument that citizens’ views about political issues neither reduce to an ideological orientation nor to a lack of substance. (1/10)
Map showing tens of thousands of protests across the US between Trump's inauguration last year and January 31, 2026.
The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
🎤📢 The recording of the public panel 'Political Masculinities in Europe' @BrIAS is now available online.
🦸♀️🔥Welcome by Karen Celis.
🎓🪒Interventions by @payoub.bsky.social @tomekbesta.bsky.social @elinbja.bsky.social @veralomazzi.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l_J...
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social
Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout?
We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out
doi.org/10.1086/740816
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And this response is also especially important bsky.app/profile/juli...
This is a fantastic piece (congrats!), well worth a careful read:
Political Masculinities in Europe – Public Panel
🗓 11 Feb, 10:30–12:00, BrIAS (Brussels)
🎙 With Karen Celis, @payoub.bsky.social @tomekbesta.bsky.social @elinbja.bsky.social @veralomazzi.bsky.social and me!
This panel is part of a NWO-VICI Grant
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The CfP is out for a great annual PhD student workshop run out of our department: www.conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...
Apologies for being self-referential but
Thanks so much, Markus!!
Figure 1. Pre-colonial cave paintings (reproduced as sketches) near Guruve in Zimbabwe. Source: Garlake (Reference Garlake1992, 450–616); see also Mehra et al. (Reference Mehra, Lemieux and Stophel2019).
Why “rooted”? Translating human rights locally matters now more than ever. Local history may help defang opponents’ “foreignness” claims. E.g., we draw on pre-colonial cave paintings to show queer presence long before colonial laws. (3/3)
Key takeaway: rooted messages are one way to talk about LGBTQI people in hard contexts. An indigeneity frame reduced hostility toward LGBTQ neighbors; a liberation frame nudged support for equal rights. Movement without backlash is important where LGBTQI people have low visibility. (2/3)
Out now with @adamsharris.bsky.social in @bjpols.bsky.social : We test “rooted” activist frames for LGBTQI tolerance—grounded in local history & national narratives—in Zimbabwe. Biggest thanks to the many people who helped get this off the ground. (1/3) Read here:
Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit!
@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.
Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.
Apply 👇
Today is the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Disability shapes people’s lives in many ways — including how they participate in elections. To mark the day, here’s a selection of our research on this important topic.
Really excited to share my new article published in @electoralstudies.bsky.social!
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We have a vacancy at UCL for a new permanent lecturer in British and Comparative politics, working as part of the Constitution Unit
My latest article is now up on ASR. In it, we argue that the U.S. LGBTQ movement is in the midst of a widespread, conflictual process of generational turnover—with important implications for the future of the movement.
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🌈 Join us next Thursday December 4 for our last webinar of the year!
👉 @payoub.bsky.social and Samuel Whitt will present their amazing work on the Budapest Pride and how it impacted Hungary.
📆 Mark your calendars!
APSA Latinas/os Travel Grant. Reimbursement support for in-person travel to Vancouver, with priority given to participation in Latina/o politics. Apply by November 28, 2026:
Note, it is possible to come despite the 'sales ended' note on the invite -- just DM me the names and I'll pass on the organizers :)
For any interested folks in London tomorrow at 18:15, I so appreciate @govandopp.bsky.social's selection and invitation to give the Leonard Schapiro Memorial lecture this year: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/illib...
Big news from the CJEU that brings two early cases in my 2016 book (Poland and Germany, with the marriage in Berlin) back into the spotlight: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Lesbian and gay party leaders receive lower leadership evaluations than straight leaders in the UK, and the effects are consistent across genders. Interesting yet discouraging findings in our BJPS paper. @josephfcozza.bsky.social @gdilandro.bsky.social Andrea Aldrich @utgovernment.bsky.social
Grateful to @elpais.com and editor Pablo León Sánchez for picking up our intervention on Cuomo–Mamdani and the concept of reputational (i.e. how not to use it!). elpais.com/sociedad/lgt...
