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A collaborative global platform on democracy and development.
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🏞️ @buzogany.bsky.social & Mihai Varga: Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🏞️ @buzogany.bsky.social & Mihai Varga: Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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✍️ Through moral panic, religious symbolism, and populist framing, a marginal political actor launched a powerful cultural counteroffensive in Greece, revealing how influence in populist politics often exceeds electoral weight, Stavroula Koskina writes. 🇬🇷🇬🇷
🧑💻 Read it now:
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January 13, 2026 at 3:07 PM
✍️ Through moral panic, religious symbolism, and populist framing, a marginal political actor launched a powerful cultural counteroffensive in Greece, revealing how influence in populist politics often exceeds electoral weight, Stavroula Koskina writes. 🇬🇷🇬🇷
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/4rj456j3
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/4rj456j3
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🗣️ AUTHLIB has explored the discourse of illiberal actors and the role of emotions in political communication.
📄 Carsten Q. Schneider @cqschneider.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social discussed if and how political leaders’ public speech can act as an early warning signal of democratic decline.
📄 Carsten Q. Schneider @cqschneider.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social discussed if and how political leaders’ public speech can act as an early warning signal of democratic decline.
January 9, 2026 at 11:15 AM
🗣️ AUTHLIB has explored the discourse of illiberal actors and the role of emotions in political communication.
📄 Carsten Q. Schneider @cqschneider.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social discussed if and how political leaders’ public speech can act as an early warning signal of democratic decline.
📄 Carsten Q. Schneider @cqschneider.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social discussed if and how political leaders’ public speech can act as an early warning signal of democratic decline.
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Tomorrow is the day - please join us for what promises to be an engaging conversation with @lgamboa.bsky.social, Michael Coppedge, and Paola Bautista de Alemán. See you at 2pm in the Hesburgh Center!
Join us this Fri., Jan. 16, for a flash panel on Venezuela with @lgamboa.bsky.social, Michael Coppedge, and Paola Bautista de Alemán. Moderated by @aperezli.bsky.social at the Hesburgh Center. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4sy6Dv3
January 15, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Tomorrow is the day - please join us for what promises to be an engaging conversation with @lgamboa.bsky.social, Michael Coppedge, and Paola Bautista de Alemán. See you at 2pm in the Hesburgh Center!
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🎙️ In this podcast, Omer Bartov analyzes Israel’s war in Gaza, launched after the October 7 terror attacks, and how Western countries responded to it.
🎧 Listen to it:
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🎧 Listen to it:
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January 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM
🎙️ In this podcast, Omer Bartov analyzes Israel’s war in Gaza, launched after the October 7 terror attacks, and how Western countries responded to it.
🎧 Listen to it:
👉 tinyurl.com/ypns8vxj
🎧 Listen to it:
👉 tinyurl.com/ypns8vxj
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Join us this Fri., Jan. 16, for a flash panel on Venezuela with @lgamboa.bsky.social, Michael Coppedge, and Paola Bautista de Alemán. Moderated by @aperezli.bsky.social at the Hesburgh Center. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4sy6Dv3
January 12, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Join us this Fri., Jan. 16, for a flash panel on Venezuela with @lgamboa.bsky.social, Michael Coppedge, and Paola Bautista de Alemán. Moderated by @aperezli.bsky.social at the Hesburgh Center. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4sy6Dv3
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The final @authlibeu.bsky.social conference organized by amazing colleagues in Budapest. A project that meant a lot to me - it enabled me to study radical and extremist groups in CEE, while also further developing our team's research agenda on democratic innovations.
January 11, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The final @authlibeu.bsky.social conference organized by amazing colleagues in Budapest. A project that meant a lot to me - it enabled me to study radical and extremist groups in CEE, while also further developing our team's research agenda on democratic innovations.
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Je suis particulièrement heureux de la publication de cet entretien mené pour la revue Mondes arabes il y a déjà trois ans, mais qui sort enfin, avec Neil Ketchley, professeur de science politique à l'Université d'Oxford.
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January 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Je suis particulièrement heureux de la publication de cet entretien mené pour la revue Mondes arabes il y a déjà trois ans, mais qui sort enfin, avec Neil Ketchley, professeur de science politique à l'Université d'Oxford.
shs.cairn.info/revue-mondes...
shs.cairn.info/revue-mondes...
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It was a great pleasure to speak at the “Mapping the Illiberal Challenge” closing conference of @authlibeu.bsky.social at the CEU.
Presenting the key arguments and recommendations of my upcoming policy paper, “How to Better Protect and Support Civil Society in the EU?”, I argued for:
THREAD 1/5
Presenting the key arguments and recommendations of my upcoming policy paper, “How to Better Protect and Support Civil Society in the EU?”, I argued for:
THREAD 1/5
January 12, 2026 at 1:50 PM
It was a great pleasure to speak at the “Mapping the Illiberal Challenge” closing conference of @authlibeu.bsky.social at the CEU.
Presenting the key arguments and recommendations of my upcoming policy paper, “How to Better Protect and Support Civil Society in the EU?”, I argued for:
THREAD 1/5
Presenting the key arguments and recommendations of my upcoming policy paper, “How to Better Protect and Support Civil Society in the EU?”, I argued for:
THREAD 1/5
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❗ Illiberal forces impact policies and institutions. AUTHLIB studied their influence across various policy areas.
🔥 Mieke Verloo (Radboud University) analyzed how illiberals influence knowledge production and research in service of their authoritarian agenda creating a mutually reinforcing cycle.
🔥 Mieke Verloo (Radboud University) analyzed how illiberals influence knowledge production and research in service of their authoritarian agenda creating a mutually reinforcing cycle.
January 9, 2026 at 1:41 PM
❗ Illiberal forces impact policies and institutions. AUTHLIB studied their influence across various policy areas.
🔥 Mieke Verloo (Radboud University) analyzed how illiberals influence knowledge production and research in service of their authoritarian agenda creating a mutually reinforcing cycle.
🔥 Mieke Verloo (Radboud University) analyzed how illiberals influence knowledge production and research in service of their authoritarian agenda creating a mutually reinforcing cycle.
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🔖 We kicked off the day with AUTHLIB's consortium head, Zsolt Enyedi @zsolt.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social introducing the research focus of the project & @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @gmfus.bsky.social highlighting some of the main achivements of the past 3.5 years.
January 8, 2026 at 11:34 AM
🔖 We kicked off the day with AUTHLIB's consortium head, Zsolt Enyedi @zsolt.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social introducing the research focus of the project & @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @gmfus.bsky.social highlighting some of the main achivements of the past 3.5 years.
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🎙️ In our new podcast, Alla Myzelev discusses the stiliagi, a youth subculture in the late Stalinist and early post-Stalinist Soviet Union. The first part emphasizes how gender and sexuality complicate standard readings of youth subcultures as purely liberatory.
🎧 Listen now:
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🎧 Listen now:
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January 8, 2026 at 3:09 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, Alla Myzelev discusses the stiliagi, a youth subculture in the late Stalinist and early post-Stalinist Soviet Union. The first part emphasizes how gender and sexuality complicate standard readings of youth subcultures as purely liberatory.
🎧 Listen now:
👉 tinyurl.com/3zv8k8p7
🎧 Listen now:
👉 tinyurl.com/3zv8k8p7
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⚖️ Our second discussion explored liberal norms underpinning democracy, their defense, and the difficulties in re-establishing the rule of law.
💭 @profmarlenewind.bsky.social (Uni Copenhagen) discussed if we see a renaissance of political constitutionalism and drew attention to attacks on courts.
💭 @profmarlenewind.bsky.social (Uni Copenhagen) discussed if we see a renaissance of political constitutionalism and drew attention to attacks on courts.
January 8, 2026 at 4:23 PM
⚖️ Our second discussion explored liberal norms underpinning democracy, their defense, and the difficulties in re-establishing the rule of law.
💭 @profmarlenewind.bsky.social (Uni Copenhagen) discussed if we see a renaissance of political constitutionalism and drew attention to attacks on courts.
💭 @profmarlenewind.bsky.social (Uni Copenhagen) discussed if we see a renaissance of political constitutionalism and drew attention to attacks on courts.
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💥Our panel on parties and illiberalism did not only showcase the variety of illiberalism in Europe but also the variety of methods used by the AUTHLIB team.
📊 @jrovny.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social showed the varieties of parties' illiberalism through the Chapel Hill Expert Survey.
📊 @jrovny.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social showed the varieties of parties' illiberalism through the Chapel Hill Expert Survey.
January 8, 2026 at 5:17 PM
💥Our panel on parties and illiberalism did not only showcase the variety of illiberalism in Europe but also the variety of methods used by the AUTHLIB team.
📊 @jrovny.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social showed the varieties of parties' illiberalism through the Chapel Hill Expert Survey.
📊 @jrovny.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social showed the varieties of parties' illiberalism through the Chapel Hill Expert Survey.
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La traduction du livre de Mohamed Naeem par Victor Salama vient de paraitre. J'ai eu le plaisir d'écrire une courte préface qui essaie d'en restituer quelques enjeux.
December 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
La traduction du livre de Mohamed Naeem par Victor Salama vient de paraitre. J'ai eu le plaisir d'écrire une courte préface qui essaie d'en restituer quelques enjeux.
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✍️ In her op-ed, Mariana Paterlini explains how COP30 exposed the geopolitical trap of green extractivism and why Latin America must reclaim sovereignty and rights to shape a truly democratic climate future. ♻️♻️
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👉 tinyurl.com/mtjcmza5
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December 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
✍️ In her op-ed, Mariana Paterlini explains how COP30 exposed the geopolitical trap of green extractivism and why Latin America must reclaim sovereignty and rights to shape a truly democratic climate future. ♻️♻️
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/mtjcmza5
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/mtjcmza5
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On #HumanRightsDay, we’re spotlighting the young people across the Global South who are demanding governance systems that deliver dignity, equity, justice, and real economic opportunity.
Their message is clear: human rights must be at the center of reimagining democracy.
Their message is clear: human rights must be at the center of reimagining democracy.
December 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
On #HumanRightsDay, we’re spotlighting the young people across the Global South who are demanding governance systems that deliver dignity, equity, justice, and real economic opportunity.
Their message is clear: human rights must be at the center of reimagining democracy.
Their message is clear: human rights must be at the center of reimagining democracy.
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✍️ The #COP30 summit “exposed how populism has reshaped global climate governance, replacing cooperation with confrontation, facts with opinions, and urgency with delay,” Deborah Martinez writes in her op-ed. ♻️♻️
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/348nw4k7
🧑💻 Read it now:
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December 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
✍️ The #COP30 summit “exposed how populism has reshaped global climate governance, replacing cooperation with confrontation, facts with opinions, and urgency with delay,” Deborah Martinez writes in her op-ed. ♻️♻️
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/348nw4k7
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/348nw4k7
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To strengthen democracy, collaborations must stretch beyond party lines.
On Monday, Dec 1 from 12-1:15ET, we are cohosting a virtual event with the National Democratic Institute on big tent coalitions, featuring @jennifermccoy.bsky.social !
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On Monday, Dec 1 from 12-1:15ET, we are cohosting a virtual event with the National Democratic Institute on big tent coalitions, featuring @jennifermccoy.bsky.social !
Register here:
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November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
To strengthen democracy, collaborations must stretch beyond party lines.
On Monday, Dec 1 from 12-1:15ET, we are cohosting a virtual event with the National Democratic Institute on big tent coalitions, featuring @jennifermccoy.bsky.social !
Register here:
On Monday, Dec 1 from 12-1:15ET, we are cohosting a virtual event with the National Democratic Institute on big tent coalitions, featuring @jennifermccoy.bsky.social !
Register here:
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🎙️ In the new episode of our podcast series produced in cooperation with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @nateschenkkan.bsky.social examines transnational repression: a practice where states pursue individuals and groups beyond their own borders.
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🎧 Listen to it now:
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December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🎙️ In the new episode of our podcast series produced in cooperation with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @nateschenkkan.bsky.social examines transnational repression: a practice where states pursue individuals and groups beyond their own borders.
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/mvbfhx4t
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/mvbfhx4t
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Pretty excited to share this. We worked on a monster for the past year, getting LLMs (AI, those ChatGPT kinds of things) to qualitatively code the levels of populism in political speeches with holistic grading. Enjoy. populism.byu.edu/large-langua...
Large Language Model Prompt
<b>Citation Requirement Statement</b><br/> <br/>This code and accompanying prompt design were developed by Eduardo Ryô Tamaki and Yujin J. Jung, with additional contributions from the broader project ...
populism.byu.edu
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Pretty excited to share this. We worked on a monster for the past year, getting LLMs (AI, those ChatGPT kinds of things) to qualitatively code the levels of populism in political speeches with holistic grading. Enjoy. populism.byu.edu/large-langua...
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🌍 AUTHLIB Special Issue Highlight
In AUTHLIB's special issue, Melek Aylin Özoflu (Özyeğin University) & Giray Gerim (Istanbul University) examine how AKP uses civilizational identity to justify its illiberal turn in Türkiye.
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In AUTHLIB's special issue, Melek Aylin Özoflu (Özyeğin University) & Giray Gerim (Istanbul University) examine how AKP uses civilizational identity to justify its illiberal turn in Türkiye.
Read open access ⤵️
Legitimizing Illiberalism: The Construction of Civilizational Identity by the Justice and Development Party in Türkiye | Article | Politics and Governance
Melek Aylin Özoflu, Giray Gerim
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November 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🌍 AUTHLIB Special Issue Highlight
In AUTHLIB's special issue, Melek Aylin Özoflu (Özyeğin University) & Giray Gerim (Istanbul University) examine how AKP uses civilizational identity to justify its illiberal turn in Türkiye.
Read open access ⤵️
In AUTHLIB's special issue, Melek Aylin Özoflu (Özyeğin University) & Giray Gerim (Istanbul University) examine how AKP uses civilizational identity to justify its illiberal turn in Türkiye.
Read open access ⤵️
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Reflexiones sobre la erosión democrática en EEUU y su impacto en América Latina
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reflexiones sobre la erosión democrática en EEUU y su impacto en América Latina
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🎙️ In our new podcast, @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social examines the progress of undoing the consequences of eight years of illiberal rule in Poland, and the challenges that lie ahead. 🇵🇱🇵🇱🧑⚖️
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/2ywn387b
🎧 Listen to it now:
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November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social examines the progress of undoing the consequences of eight years of illiberal rule in Poland, and the challenges that lie ahead. 🇵🇱🇵🇱🧑⚖️
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/2ywn387b
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/2ywn387b
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🔖AUTHLIB Publication
📊 Using #ESS data, Radosław Markowski @uniwersytetswps.bsky.social & Michał Kotnarowski examine how illiberal & authoritarian attitudes shape legitimacy in Central & Eastern Europe.
👓 Read open access in our special issue: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
📊 Using #ESS data, Radosław Markowski @uniwersytetswps.bsky.social & Michał Kotnarowski examine how illiberal & authoritarian attitudes shape legitimacy in Central & Eastern Europe.
👓 Read open access in our special issue: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
Alternatives to Liberal Democracies and Their Consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe | Article | Politics and Governance
Radoslaw Markowski, Michał Kotnarowski
www.cogitatiopress.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🔖AUTHLIB Publication
📊 Using #ESS data, Radosław Markowski @uniwersytetswps.bsky.social & Michał Kotnarowski examine how illiberal & authoritarian attitudes shape legitimacy in Central & Eastern Europe.
👓 Read open access in our special issue: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
📊 Using #ESS data, Radosław Markowski @uniwersytetswps.bsky.social & Michał Kotnarowski examine how illiberal & authoritarian attitudes shape legitimacy in Central & Eastern Europe.
👓 Read open access in our special issue: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...