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Giada Pasquettaz
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PhD candidate at the University of Konstanz. Another scholar pondering populism, recently fled from X to here.
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na-wehl.bsky.social
Very excited about the lineup for our #ComparativePolitics & #PoliticalEconomy colloquium in the winter @uni-konstanz.de !!

▶️Hannah Werner @ipz.bsky.social
▶️Fabio Franchino
▶️ @ashelshehawy.bsky.social
▶️Kevin Munger @eui-sps.bsky.social
▶️@rdassonneville.bsky.social
▶️@svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
giadapasquettaz.bsky.social
New semester, new great lineup for our #InternationalStudies seminar with amazing speakers at @uni-konstanz.de

➡️ Gabriella Gricius @ggricius.bsky.social
➡️ Fabio Franchino
➡️ Livia Schubiger
➡️ Kenneth Schultz
➡️ Giorgio Malet @giorgiomalet.bsky.social
➡️ Timon Forster @timonforster.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
giadapasquettaz.bsky.social
Just watched Dead to Rights. Hard not to think of Sanseito’s rising nationalist–populist rhetoric, its anti-migration stances also vs Chinese.

Japan’s gov’t has acknowledged wartime wrongdoing but never issued a direct apology for the massacre. Ambiguity keeps the wound open & fuels mistrust.
August 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
giadapasquettaz.bsky.social
My new my new home for the next two months. Excited to dive into this new adventure at the Monash University!
@monashuniversity.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
giadapasquettaz.bsky.social
With some delay from @ipsa.org, I made it through Seoul’s heatwave and the rainy season. Grateful to have been part of such a vibrant and stimulating environment. Had so many energising conversations with brilliant scholars from all over the world. Still buzzing with ideas!
August 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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maxheermann.bsky.social
(1) In the new In_equality magazine by @excinequality.bsky.social, we draw on original survey data from 9 countries to argue that public support for mutlilateral health policy is more robust than populists want to make you believe.
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excinequality.bsky.social The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social · Jul 18
🎉 New Issue Alert! The eighth issue of In_equality magazine is here: 7 Years of Research. Looking Back and Ahead. This edition dives into our research over the past seven years and takes a look at what’s next. Read it here (also available in German): t1p.de/hfl2c @Uni Konstanz
July 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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ecpr-polcom.bsky.social
🚨 New #PolComm ECR Club Session coming up! 🙌

🕺 Join us tomorrow (12 June) at 🕰️ 1pm for a discussion of 🎇 Memes during the Czech Elections 🗳️

w/ ✨ Martina Paulenova, Ofra Klein & Ana Langer. ✨

🖥️ Check events.ecpr.eu/Events/Event... for more details and registration/zoom link! 🔗

@ecpr.bsky.social
Memeing the Candidates: Exploring Polarization and Incivility in Commenters’ Responses to Anti-Populist Memes during the 2023 Czech Presidential Elections
European Consortium for Political Research
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June 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
giadapasquettaz.bsky.social
Wrapped up a fantastic week at the #ECPR Joint Sessions—grateful for the inspiring discussions and brilliant colleagues. Big thanks to Lisbeth Zimmermann and @raffaelemstr.bsky.social for organizing a great workshop on the international politics of the far right!
@ecpr.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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catherinedevries.bsky.social
Guess Merz' version of 'whatever it takes' didn’t include managing fragmented ranks in his own party & the coalition.
florianfoos.bsky.social Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · May 6
Can mainstream parties just get their act together maybe?
May 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
giadapasquettaz.bsky.social
Branded as undemocratic, the #AfD now flips the populist script exploiting Merz's failed vote to frame CDU and SPD as the real enemies of the people.
Celebrating a democratic deadlock as a response to anti-democratic criticism.

I need 🍿
May 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
giadapasquettaz.bsky.social
Amen.
tabouchadi.bsky.social Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · May 1
Populism is not undemocratic per se. It is a euphemism for the kind of political and social system the current far right wants to establish. If we continue to describe their threat as populism, politicians will continue to say "in a democracy, it can't be wrong to do what the people want". 2/
May 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
giadapasquettaz.bsky.social
"populist backlashes are not always successful. Populism as a thin ideology provides a thin basis for multilateral reform coalitions, making (partial) exit a more likely outcome than reform."
[Populism and backlash towards IC]

🤼Reality vs Academia

breakingthenews.net/Article/Hung...
Hungary's parliament approves ICC exit
Hungary's parliament approved on Tuesday a bill to withdraw the country from the International Criminal Court (ICC) after obtaining necessary support from more than two-thirds of its members.Hungarian...
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April 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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populismpsa.bsky.social
📢 PUBLICATION ALERT!

New article by @lazaroskaravasilis.bsky.social in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social re-examines how 'the elite' is constructed in populist discourse, using the cases of Die Linke and AfD. A crucial contribution to populism studies!

Read here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What we talk about when we talk about ‘the elite’ in populism studies: re-examining an often-neglected term in the cases of Die Linke and AfD
Populism studies have almost exclusively focused on understanding the phenomenon of populism based on how ‘the people’ are constructed as a political subject. Indeed, most of the relevant literatur...
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April 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
giadapasquettaz.bsky.social
My new office wall meme
bcastanho.bsky.social Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · Apr 22
I know I'm the last person who should be posting this...
Meme of Bernie Sanders saying "I'm once again asking you to stop correlating populist attitudes with everything. they don't matter
April 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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bcastanho.bsky.social
I know I'm the last person who should be posting this...
Meme of Bernie Sanders saying "I'm once again asking you to stop correlating populist attitudes with everything. they don't matter
April 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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breunig.bsky.social
Terrific lineup for our Comparative Politics & Political Economy series this summer,incl @clandwehr.bsky.social @finseraas.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social @ccavaille.bsky.social @anewq.bsky.social & @valentimvicente.bsky.social . Thanks for organizing @tobiastober.bsky.social @na-wehl.bsky.social
Comparative Politics and Political Economy speaker series at the University of Konstanz
March 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
giadapasquettaz.bsky.social
So it happened ("ooh that's a big one"), now who is next in the line?
Meloni? Wilders? Le Pen? Now that Trump has normalized the withdrawal from IOs, we could expect that more populists will claim the same, supported by their audience already critical towards international governance.
January 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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polstudies.bsky.social
What is the far-right’s foreign policy outlook? @thorstenwojczewski.bsky.social tests a proposed theoretical framework through a comparative analysis of two German right parties. In @polstudies.bsky.social: https://buff.ly/40yvuTA (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
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January 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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lseblogs.bsky.social
#RadicalRight parties made significant gains at the ballot box during 2024.

Drawing on his recent book @oxunipress.bsky.social, @valentimvicente.bsky.social @ieuniversity.bsky.social argues that this success owes much to the normalisation of their views.

@lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
How the normalisation of the radical right has fuelled their electoral success
Radical-right parties made significant gains at the ballot box during 2024. Vicente Valentim argues this success owes much to the normalisation of their views. Last year was a year full of election…
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January 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
giadapasquettaz.bsky.social
Right now on the other social.

South Korea: coup d'etat.
Scholars: in 1952 I published this paper about Korea that explains exactly why we shouldn't be surprised.

Today I'm expecting, at least, papers about Jean-Marie Le Pen and Pierre Poujade that explains EM défaite.
December 4, 2024 at 7:27 AM
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bcastanho.bsky.social
Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Political scientist: The cup is affectively polarized
vidadiv.bsky.social Adiv Gonzalez Muñoz @vidadiv.bsky.social · Nov 23
Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Quantum physicist: the cup is half full AND half empty.
adamrothman.bsky.social Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Nov 23
Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Historian: The cup, 1789-1914
November 23, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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maxheermann.bsky.social
The Easter basket wasn't empty! 🐣🐤

Great to see our (w @leuffen.bsky.social & @julianschuess.bsky.social) article on the link between fairness concerns and public support for (differentiated) EU integration published open access in the European Journal of Political Research: doi.org/10.1111/1475...
Abstract: This article analyses whether and how fairness considerations affect citizens’ support of European Union (EU) policies and integration. While past literature has revealed that perceptions of procedural and substantive fairness impact on public opinion at the level of the nation state, we know less about the fairness-support nexus when it comes to international cooperation. We here make use of the case of differentiated integration (DI) to experimentally dissect normative and utility-oriented considerations in the evaluation of EU policies. DI as an instrument to overcome heterogeneity-induced gridlock has been linked to both autonomy and dominance, and it can generate winners and losers in the EU. Our experiments reveal that citizens largely support DI. However, they are opposed to forms of DI which impose negative externalities on a subgroup of EU member states. This holds irrespective of the affectedness of citizens’ own member states.
April 4, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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jellekoedam.bsky.social
🚨 Job Opportunities 🚨

Multiple postdocs on Daniele Caramani’s ERC project on “Global Cleavages” at the EUI!

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A few days left to apply:

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ERC Advanced Grant GLOBAL - Call for applications - The European Governance and Politics Programme
3 post-doctoral Research Fellowships in the ERC Advanced Grant project “Global Cleavages: The Shape of Political Conflict across World Regions in Historical Perspective” (GLOBAL, 2023-28) led by PI Da...
europeangovernanceandpolitics.eui.eu
March 14, 2024 at 7:14 AM