Happy to start March 💜 with a newly created research group on Gender and Politics 👉🏽 genderandpolitics.sns.it at @sns.it !
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Happy to start March 💜 with a newly created research group on Gender and Politics 👉🏽 genderandpolitics.sns.it at @sns.it !
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This is bleak.
If you happen to be in Madrid, don’t miss the opportunity to join us. 8M is approaching, and having @francescafeo.bsky.social is a good way to remember the need to recognize and study the existence of gender inequalities in the political realm. Are you going to miss it?
There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.
This is one heck of a study by the Ohio State credit data crew, led by Alec Rhodes.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
I've seen him present on it a few times. Very excited to see it out in print.
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:
La propuesta de Zucman aportaría a nuestro país más justicia económica: un impuesto del 2% a los ultrarricos con más de 100 millones de euros. Supondría una recaudación de 5.200 millones.
España puede ser referente.
elpais.com/economia/202...
I am extremely honored, and equally perplexed, that my book has received the Stein Rokkan Prize.
Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with this project along the way. So much of the book is the result of feedback by kind people who took the time to listen and read. Thank you.
How does cinema shape how we think about migration?
In my new article I analyse 410 films, documentaries & TV series from 1940–2024 to explain how migration is represented on screen.
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academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
It has been great to navigate this paper with amazing @gefjonoff.bsky.social . Started expecting angry right-wing men to feel threatened by feminism and found out more than one surprise 👇
Deadline fast approaching, 20th February!
You are/know of an early career researcher interested in social movements? Look no further, do join us for the 2026 Cosmos Summer School cosmos.sns.it/all-events/c...
The Spanish right supports banning the use of burka and niqab in public spaces. The argument for the policy seems to be (partly) that it will promote the emancipation of women.
We happen to have evidence that a similar policy in France had the *opposite* effect.
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elpais.com/espana/2026-...
Lost autonomy events, that is, sudden transformative shocks symbolizing a loss of autonomy for minorities, can be profoundly disruptive, eliciting pro-secessionist backlashes www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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
🧵I am happy to announce a new article in Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social, “Are the Politically Active Better Represented?”, co-authored with @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, and Anders Sundell.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
My new piece about Resistance 2.0 is up at @theguardian.com! Give it a read to understand why we should expect much more confrontation and disruption this time around. Thanks for the suggestions @victorerikray.bsky.social @sociologistray.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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New in TSQ: Austin Vo, Katherine Furl (@katherinefurl.bsky.social), Todd Lu, and Neal Caren (@haphazardsoc.bsky.social) examine how people view the disruptiveness and effectiveness of various protest tactics.
Read more at bit.ly/4kmN2KJ
20 years of #protest #survey #data now available @gesis.org! 📝 The ipb has systematically processed and harmonized a collection of 31 protest surveys collected over 20 years at various #demonstrations in 🇩🇪 and 🇵🇱, on #peace, #climate, #trade, #migration, & more. For more information:
Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina Adam Scharpf Christian Gläßel Abstract: Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.
Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
NEW: Omar Lizardo, "The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Thank you @socquarterly.bsky.social, @jonathancoley.bsky.social & editorial team for a great, honest review process!
NEW IN TSQ
Donatella della Porta, Federica Stagni, Stella Christou, and Martín Portos (@mportosg.bsky.social) discuss how pro-Palestine student camps served as eventful forms of protest that transformed social relations, identities, and temporal horizons.
Read more at bit.ly/3YDwq7d
Our latest piece "Prefigurating Democracy: The Pro-Palestinian Student Camps as Eventful Protests" is just out in @socquarterly.bsky.social!! 💫🇵🇸 doi.org/10.1080/0038...
🥳 New year, new publication
📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social
With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.
We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.
Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.
sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
Some really interesting findings for all of us later bloomers who struggled to connect across fields and build a base of broad knowledge:
"Across the highest adult performance levels, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...