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Elia Zorina
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📚 Commissioning Editor @springernature.com
🗃️ ex-PhD candidate '25 @polscileiden.bsky.social, democratic legitimacy beliefs, voting behavior, political parties https://who-opposes.netlify.app/
🎓 MA '20 @ceu-polsci.bsky.social
💪 '17 Alumna Bard-Smolny CCE
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Our paper is published in OA in West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social! What a milestone 🥳
🧵 New research on what citizens expect from opposition parties in democracy published in @wepsocial.bsky.social. @elinazorina.bsky.social and I surveyed people in Canada, Denmark, Netherlands & UK to understand their views on opposition roles. doi.org/10.1080/0140...
💡Another insightful public discussion on NATO’s evolving relationship with Ukraine and Russia organized by @clingendael.bsky.social and moderated by Niels Drost 🎙️Speakers: Elizaveta Gaufman, Han Bouwmeester, Bob Deen, and Hubert Smeets
June 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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📢 ‘We’re already at war – we’re just acting as though we’re not’ 🌍

During the Just Peace Dialogues from 16 to 22 June in The Hague, institute member Daniel Thomas will call for greater awareness – and dialogue.

Read the interview here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
‘We’re already at war – we’re just acting as though we’re not’
Professor of International Relations Daniel Thomas is clear: anyone taking peace in Europe for granted is shutting their eyes to reality.
www.universiteitleiden.nl
June 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Our paper is published in OA in West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social! What a milestone 🥳
🧵 New research on what citizens expect from opposition parties in democracy published in @wepsocial.bsky.social. @elinazorina.bsky.social and I surveyed people in Canada, Denmark, Netherlands & UK to understand their views on opposition roles. doi.org/10.1080/0140...
June 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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What happened in the Netherlands and what will happen next? I wrote a short piece about the collapse of the Dutch government for @ukandeu.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/when-not-if-...
When, not if: the fall of the Dutch cabinet - UK in a changing Europe
Simon Otjes explains the recent fall of the government in the Netherlands prompted by the radical right-wing populist  PVV under Geert Wilders.
ukandeu.ac.uk
June 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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🚨 New Paper in the Journal of European Public Policy 🚨

Think anti-immigration sentiment is here to stay? 🧠 Think again.

New research by Alessia Aspide (in which I play a small role) reveals a new insight: when people understand immigration as a solution to fiscal crisis, attitudes shift 1/2
Immigration can help ageing countries reduce public debt by easing fiscal pressure. Yet this narrative is rarely heard in media or political discourse.

🔍 How does the public react when the fiscal benefits of immigration are made visible?

Check out our latest publication 👇🏽 @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social
The mass politics of public debt, immigration, and austerity
Several European governments are confronting both high public debt and ageing populations. Policymakers will confront the unpopular choices of austerity, increasing immigration, or continuing to le...
doi.org
June 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
new books’ haul and an advertisement for our BIG SUMMER CHOIR concert with Pandora Studio on June 8th! Tickets here: lnkd.in/dvSSmMSp
May 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Just over half a year ago, the Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics was published. This means that authors working at Dutch universities, can now share a copy of their chapters online for free access, according to Dutch copyright law. My own chapters are linked below 👇
May 29, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Go buy Mateo’s book! Brilliant work published by @leidenup.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
let me jump on the bandwagon of the continuous conversation on the generative AI, education, political polarization and the technology's role in these: now that #grok is available in Europe for some time and has advanced its functionality, I went on X to play around with it and examine some things
May 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In 2018 I came across an expose of “Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship” project (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievan...). This attempt “to highlight perceived poor scholarship by submitting bogus papers to academic journals” has blown my mind but raised many questions
Grievance studies affair - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
May 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
shared the last five years at @unileiden.bsky.social with these power ladies: @aspidea.bsky.social and @kjbrown.bsky.social. Could not be happier to be part of Alessia’s defense to celebrate our new Dottoressa 🎓
May 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Last Friday I had the privilege of listening to a panel of wonderful speakers and participating in the international symposium on “Democracy, Stability and Peace: Is the Future Feminine?” at @unileiden.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM