Julia Simon
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Rule of law backsliding across regime types: a comparative analysis of the role of party cohesion in shaping backsliding dynamics - Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
The rule of law around the world has increasingly been eroded by elected governments seeking to expand their power. A traditional mechanism against rule of law backsliding is the horizontal and vertic...
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Marko Kukec, Matthew Stenberg & my new paper proposes to expand our perspective on democratic backsliding to include backsliding dynamics related to party cohesion. We study 6 cases across various regime types+forms of territorial state organization. Available OA: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Warum ist das kein großes Thema der Presse?
„In der Partei heißt es, Klöckner habe als Schatzmeisterin die Idee aufgebracht. Gerade im Digitalbereich brauchte die Partei eine Frischzellenkur, und frisches Geld.“
Sie planten eine „CDU App GmbH“: Die Verbindungen zwischen Julia #Klöckner und dem Koblenzer Unternehmer und „Nius“-Eigentümer Frank #Gotthardt sind intensiver als bisher bekannt. Zum Artikel von @mickbroecker.bsky.social im Berlin.Table: table.media/berlin/talk-...
August 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Warum ist das kein großes Thema der Presse?
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Entlang des Entwurfs des Bundeshaushaltsgesetzes 2025 sollen die Deutsch-Amerikanischen Zentren um 45 Prozent gekürzt werden. Das trifft die transatlantische Bildungsarbeit ins Mark und gefährdet wichtige Demokratieförderung in der breiten Gesellschaft in Deutschland.
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Muss Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz Mitarbeiter kündigen?
Die Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz, mit Sitz in Kaiserslautern, bekommt den Geldhahn zugedreht. Das sieht zumindest ein Gesetzentwurf des Bundes vor. Das gleiche blüht auch den restlichen zehn A...
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August 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Entlang des Entwurfs des Bundeshaushaltsgesetzes 2025 sollen die Deutsch-Amerikanischen Zentren um 45 Prozent gekürzt werden. Das trifft die transatlantische Bildungsarbeit ins Mark und gefährdet wichtige Demokratieförderung in der breiten Gesellschaft in Deutschland.
www.swr.de/swraktuell/r...
www.swr.de/swraktuell/r...
Marko Kukec, Matthew Stenberg & my new paper proposes to expand our perspective on democratic backsliding to include backsliding dynamics related to party cohesion. We study 6 cases across various regime types+forms of territorial state organization. Available OA: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Rule of law backsliding across regime types: a comparative analysis of the role of party cohesion in shaping backsliding dynamics - Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
The rule of law around the world has increasingly been eroded by elected governments seeking to expand their power. A traditional mechanism against rule of law backsliding is the horizontal and vertic...
link.springer.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Marko Kukec, Matthew Stenberg & my new paper proposes to expand our perspective on democratic backsliding to include backsliding dynamics related to party cohesion. We study 6 cases across various regime types+forms of territorial state organization. Available OA: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📢 Publication alert: Robert Csehi's and my chapter on the TikTok Campaigns of Fidesz and the Rassemblement National in the 2024 EP Elections in “The 2024 European Parliament Elections” edited by Michael Kaeding, Alexander Hoppe, and Manuel Müller is now out (OA): link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
The Populist Far Right and Europe’s Young Voters: Comparing the TikTok Campaigns of Fidesz and the Rassemblement National in the 2024 European Parliamentary Elections
Far-right populist parties have continued to gain relevance in the most recent European Parliament elections. This chapter focuses on the underresearched nexus between these parties and young people i...
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July 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
📢 Publication alert: Robert Csehi's and my chapter on the TikTok Campaigns of Fidesz and the Rassemblement National in the 2024 EP Elections in “The 2024 European Parliament Elections” edited by Michael Kaeding, Alexander Hoppe, and Manuel Müller is now out (OA): link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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CfP! 💥 "Long Live the King! Authoritarian Right-Wing Populism and Democratic Backsliding in the United States." This peer-reviewed publication aims to critically examine recent political developments in the U.S. through interdisciplinary lenses! @jusimon.bsky.social @profausberlin.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
CfP! 💥 "Long Live the King! Authoritarian Right-Wing Populism and Democratic Backsliding in the United States." This peer-reviewed publication aims to critically examine recent political developments in the U.S. through interdisciplinary lenses! @jusimon.bsky.social @profausberlin.bsky.social
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It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
March 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down rules regulating the discharge of water pollution, narrowing the landmark Clean Water Act in an unusual case that featured sewage and an effort by one of the nation’s greenest cities to take on the Environmental Protection Agency.
Supreme Court strikes down EPA rules on discharge of water pollution
The justices found the EPA cannot impose generic prohibitions against violating water quality standards.
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March 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down rules regulating the discharge of water pollution, narrowing the landmark Clean Water Act in an unusual case that featured sewage and an effort by one of the nation’s greenest cities to take on the Environmental Protection Agency.
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As #ISA2025 continues, this is your reminder that Global Society has an open call for special issue proposals. These can relate to any area of global and international studies, and interdisciplinary scholarship is welcomed. Drop us an email or click the link below for details.
We are accepting special issue proposals! We welcome proposals relating to any area of global and international studies as well as interdisciplinary scholarship. For more info, contact us or follow the link below 👇
1. globalsociety@kent.ac.uk
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March 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
As #ISA2025 continues, this is your reminder that Global Society has an open call for special issue proposals. These can relate to any area of global and international studies, and interdisciplinary scholarship is welcomed. Drop us an email or click the link below for details.
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Welcome to the Great Emboldening, where ideas and actions that might have been unthinkable, objectionable, or reputationally risky in the past are now on the table, @cwarzel.bsky.social writes.
The Great Emboldening
Jeff Bezos is stepping over the redline—and he’s not alone.
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March 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Welcome to the Great Emboldening, where ideas and actions that might have been unthinkable, objectionable, or reputationally risky in the past are now on the table, @cwarzel.bsky.social writes.
This is great, thank you! I was such a pleasure working with @globalsociety.bsky.social and the scholars who contributed these highly insightful research papers
Our monthly picks for February have been the articles in Global Society 39(1), a special issue titled "Authoritarian Governmentality and Counter-Conduct from the Local to the Global", organised by @jusimon.bsky.social. All these articles are available below:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/3...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/3...
Global Society
Authoritarian Governmentality and Counter-Conduct from the Local to the Global. Volume 39, Issue 1 of Global Society
www.tandfonline.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This is great, thank you! I was such a pleasure working with @globalsociety.bsky.social and the scholars who contributed these highly insightful research papers
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If everyone used footnotes instead of endnotes
February 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If everyone used footnotes instead of endnotes
This is a terrific contribution to our 2025 @globalsociety.bsky.social special issue "Authoritarian Governmentality and Counter-Conduct from the Local to the Global". Thanks again to Simin and Abigail for being part of the project!
Our fifth monthly pick is "Counter-Conducts: A Foucauldian Analytics of Popup Civic Actions in Mexico" by Simin Davoudi, Abigail Schoneboom (both @newcastleuni.bsky.social) and Ana Díaz-Aldret (Universidad de Guadalajara).
#OpenAccess #Foucault #CounterConduct
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#OpenAccess #Foucault #CounterConduct
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Counter-Conducts: A Foucauldian Analytics of Popup Civic Actions in Mexico
This paper draws on Foucault’s concept of counter-conduct to move beyond the binary understandings of civil society and social movement. Using illustrative examples of popup civic actions in the af...
www.tandfonline.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This is a terrific contribution to our 2025 @globalsociety.bsky.social special issue "Authoritarian Governmentality and Counter-Conduct from the Local to the Global". Thanks again to Simin and Abigail for being part of the project!
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As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately"
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority | CNN Politics
Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through leaders across the Capitol and across the country: How much should they rel...
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February 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
What a nice surprise!
Our first monthly pick for February, "‘After Neoliberalism’ and on the ‘Dark Side’? Governmentality and Counter-Conduct in Times of Growing Autocratisation" by Julia Simon (@unibremen.bsky.social), is #OpenAccess!
#Neoliberalism #CounterCulture #Autocracy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Neoliberalism #CounterCulture #Autocracy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘After Neoliberalism’ and on the ‘Dark Side’? Governmentality and Counter-Conduct in Times of Growing Autocratisation
The political world today in many ways seems vastly different from the context in which the concepts of governmentality and counter-conduct were initially elaborated by Foucault in the late 1970s. ...
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February 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What a nice surprise!