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Jens Rydgren
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Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University | Research on nationalism, populism, radical right-wing parties and voters; Class politics; Ethnic relations | Hammarby IF football supporter

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Jens Rydgren is a Swedish writer, political commentator and a professor of sociology, at Stockholm University. Specialising in research of political sociology, for many years he has studied populist right-wing parties. In 2002 he defended his thesis Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization: The Case of the French National Front in a debate with Sidney Tarrow of Cornell University. He has appeared as an expert on right wing populist parties, including the Sweden Democrats, in various news media. .. more

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 13h
Glad to see our paper on religious cleavages in Western Europe (with @melff.bsky.social & Kamil Marcinkiewicz) out at the @ejprjournal.bsky.social ! 



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Nicholas Toloudis @toloudis.bsky.social · 15h
About the cosmetics billionaire who encouraged Trump to take over Greenland.
How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory
US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island
www.theguardian.com

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Stiftelsen Expo @stiftelsenexpo.bsky.social · 16h
På vissa orter verkar närvaron av högerextrem organisering närmast gå i arv. Små samhällen i den så kallade periferin som haft en högerextrem närvaro i närmare 100 år. Svart överlämning har det kommit att kallas, men hur kommer det till uttryck och varför har rasismen bitit sig fast?
Svart överlämning
På vissa orter verkar närvaron av högerextrem organisering närmast gå i arv. Små samhällen i den så kallade periferin som haft en högerextrem närvaro i närmare 100 år. Svart överlämning har det kommit...
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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 18h
Ja, den tillfälliga uppgången berodde nog mest på att M gjorde ett katastrofval.

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 20h
Snyggt! Ja, och att de - om man tittar på den senaste peaken - drog fel slutsatser av valstugsvalet 2002, och intalade sig att uppgången berodde på Leijonborgs kravliberalism och att partiet behövde mer av den.

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WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · 1d
🎉 Online first:

“The Ecologism/Productivism cleavage: reassessing the transformation of cleavage politics in Western Europe”

by Florent Gougou & Simon Persico

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
The abstract of the article "The Ecologism/Productivism cleavage: reassessing the transformation of cleavage politics in Western Europe" by Florent Gougou and Simon Persico, published in the journal West European Politics. Pairwise correlations between ecologism and four key political cleavages in public opinion across 12 Western european countries. Data: European Value Study 2017. Figure showing theoretical argument about the sequence of formation of the productivism/ecologism cleavage linked to the productivist revolution.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 1d
Danish newspaper @politiken.dk opens ENGLISH LANGUAGE section of its coverage of Greenland. Resource to understand local coverage, analysis, politics, and public opinion ⬇️

politiken.dk/tag/main/gre...
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Get the latest news about the tensions between United States, Denmark and Greenland from Politiken Edition. US President Donald Trump is causing tremors with his statements about Greenland. He calls...
politiken.dk

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Soziologisches Institut SUZ - Universität Zürich @sociology-uzh.bsky.social · 1d
An der Universität Zürich ist auf den 1. August 2027 eine Professur für Soziologie zu besetzen.

The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in sociology starting on 1 August 2027.
Professur für Soziologie – Professorship in Sociology
An der Universität Zürich ist auf den 1. August 2027 eine Professur für Soziologie zu besetzen. The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in sociology starting on 1 August 2027.
www.suz.uzh.ch

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 1d
A postdoc is available at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social in a Horizon project on 'the emotional expressions of grievance politics and implications for democratic governance':

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD118/r...
Research Fellow in Emotions and Grievance Politics at University of Southampton
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Fellow in Emotions and Grievance Politics on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk

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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 2d
Now published: Our analytical paper on strategic, far-right/illiberal reversal of meanings of key social & political concepts: “We put family at the centre of social life”: On Conceptual flipsiding of the “family” in discursive-political strategies of PL populist far-right" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 2d
Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our
Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...
Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination
The process of strategically redefining key liberal-democratic and other widely accepted social and political concepts by the far-right and other illiberal actors has recently become a widespread, ...
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 3d
A new study published in PLOS ONE provides evidence that a person’s political ideology and their capacity for analytical thinking shape how they gather information, reports Eric W. Dolan. www.psypost.org/conservative...
Conservatives and liberals tend to engage in different evidence-gathering strategies
New research shows that liberals typically seek comprehensive statistical comparisons to evaluate policies, whereas conservatives are more likely to rely on categorical data points or specific…
www.psypost.org

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 3d
This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime.
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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks for referring to our research, @donmoyn.bsky.social!

For those who want to understand the actions of authoritarian security organizations, here is the info kit of our forthcoming book “Making a Career in Dictatorship”.

It includes short chapter summaries and more:
tinyurl.com/599d6uc5

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 3d
Reactionary Politics in South Korea by Myungji Yang
Compelling analysis of the on-the-ground, internal dynamics of far-right actors in South Korea, examining their communities and worldviews.
📚 https://cup.org/3L5OUu9

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 4d
In Sweden, for example, there are discussions about revoking citizenship. Hence, the legal-constitutional question is key.

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 4d
The radical right’s master frame remains ethnic nationalism. Remigration is simply one of its logical consequences. First came stopping (or minimizing) immigration; next is pushing people with migrant backgrounds to leave. Expect further radicalization.
kai-arzheimer.com Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 4d
'Remigration' is on its way to become a #farright master frame, but what does it actually mean? In Germany (somewhat unsurprisingly), that's 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 a legal-constitutional question, with implications for the #AfD. Excellent reporting by Correctiv - in German, but worth a click on 'translate'
Zwei Jahre nach der Potsdam-Recherche: Von angeblichen „Deportationslügen“ bis zum möglichen AfD-Verbotsverfahren
Erfahren Sie, wie sich die Debatte um Remigration und AfD-Verbot zwei Jahre später entwickelt hat und welche politischen Spannungen bestehen.
correctiv.org

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 4d
'Remigration' is on its way to become a #farright master frame, but what does it actually mean? In Germany (somewhat unsurprisingly), that's 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 a legal-constitutional question, with implications for the #AfD. Excellent reporting by Correctiv - in German, but worth a click on 'translate'
Zwei Jahre nach der Potsdam-Recherche: Von angeblichen „Deportationslügen“ bis zum möglichen AfD-Verbotsverfahren
Erfahren Sie, wie sich die Debatte um Remigration und AfD-Verbot zwei Jahre später entwickelt hat und welche politischen Spannungen bestehen.
correctiv.org

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 5d
Och man kan inte heller utesluta det intellektuellt slappa svaret att han är galen. Men det finns, speciellt om man zoomar ut från Trump och ser bredare på det amerikanska ledarskapet, systematik i galenskapen. Ideologi spelar också roll, och vad den ideologin ska kallas sparar vi till en annan tråd

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 5d
Det finns en lång rad möjliga svar, varav du pekar på flera stycken. Ytterligare ett är att Trump har varit fastighetsentreprenör betydligt längre än vad han har varit politiker. Att förvärva mark (territorium) billigt och spekulera i ev värdeökning ligger i hans habitus. Ju mer mark desto bättre.

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 6d
Tråkigt! Svea och Mari är värvade som anfallare, och så har vi Stella som nog kan ta stora steg i år. Kan bli bra ändå. Men håller med, skulle kännas skönt med ytterligare nyförvärv.

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 6d
We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites!

It will be held on August 20-21st, 2026 in Oslo. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood and not just papers using WhoGov.

You can find the call here: bit.ly/whogovminico...

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 6d
Ja, Hammarby är kvar på X. Och jag instämmer: de borde definitivt lämna. De hart ett konto här på Bluesky också, men de postar inget.

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Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social · 7d
Open-access link to Michał Krzyżanowska, Natalia Krzyżanowska & @jensrydgren.bsky.social's introduction to a special issue of Social Semiotics on the far-right's promiscuous "conceptual flipsiding" & inversion of liberal democratic discourses for illiberal ends

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 7d
Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread:

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 7d
PLEASE SHARE

📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity”

Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)).

Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles.

Links in🧵

#commsky

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Sofia Mirjamsdotter @mymlan.bsky.social · 7d
Påminner stockholmare om detta!

www.facebook.com/events/19523...
Nej till 13- åringar i fängelse! Manifestation 13 januari 16:30 Mynttorget, Stockholm
Event in Stockholm, Sweden by Kerstin Olsson on Tuesday, January 13 2026 with 2.7K people interested and 208 people going.
www.facebook.com

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 8d
Ja, det är illa. Hade hoppats mycket på henne i år. Om det är sant så sällar jag mig till pessimisterna :)

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 8d
Det kommer säkert att göras också. Januari är lång. Och Elin Sörum tror jag kommer att vara en förstärkning. Och det plockades in en etablerad spelare från NWSL så sent som i går. Min poäng är bara att "talang" inte är statiskt - en del av dem blir toppspelare redan i år.

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 8d
Ja några till behövs nog, men samtidigt tror jag att många av de unga spelarna kommer att ta stora steg i år. Koivisto är bra redan nu och kommer att bli bättre. Bea kan bli riktigt bra. Svea har vi inte sett än men gjorde det bra i Peking. Fanny skulle kunna bli en toppspelare redan i år.