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🎄 Happy holidays everyone! We at @polstudies.bsky.social wish you a restful and rejuvenating time! We're taking a short break from social media for the holidays but we're still accepting articles.

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December 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
How do youth bulges reshape political participation in Africa? @michaelkumove.bsky.social & Karin Dyrstad examine age-period-cohort effects showing rising protest & declining turnout as youth ratios grow. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/28U1J2a

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Do Youth Bulges Affect Voting and Protesting? An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis - Michael Kumove, Karin Dyrstad, 2025
Most African countries are experiencing a youth bulge, where a very large proportion of their populations are made up of young people. How might this affect pol...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📝 We hope you enjoyed the #PSNotes we highlighted this month. Click the hashtag to check all the latest cutting-edge research contributions that we've published in 2025 in this new format.

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December 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Automation ‘losers’ prefer the radical right, but have they become more authoritarian? @gregoriobuzzelli.bsky.social, @francesconicoli.bsky.social & S Sacchi find no deep ideological shift among routine workers: buff.ly/Bo9bpQB

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December 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📝 How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/lC7RH6t

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December 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Why do interest organizations network with their opponents? @marcelhanegraaff.bsky.social, Andrea Pritoni, @wmjunk.bsky.social & @michelecrepaz.bsky.social examine the logic of brokerage. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/2moFPgZ

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December 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📝 Do patterns of coalition management affect governance outcomes in multiparty presidential regimes? Chaisty & Power examine how cabinet proportionality predicts accountability and public goods. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/v9ivWYQ

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December 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Does the public disapprove of leaders who back down to initiate negotiation with non-state armed actors? Zlatin Mitkov & Michael Yekple examine leader-public interactions during domestic security crises: buff.ly/tnYuzNL

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December 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📝 How does electoral volatility influence party system polarization? Juliusz Gastev explores the relationship in the Latin American context from 1992 to 2018. Read the research note OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/8uwlW9u

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December 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Politics for Survival: W Lu, S Fan & W Chen examine ideological control in authoritarian regimes from a bottom-up perspective, wherein firms not only comply but also utilize the control to advance their interests: buff.ly/GPEToGx

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December 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📝 What drives party support for deliberative democracy in Europe? Sergiu Gherghina & Bettina Mitru find support is shaped by left ideology, governing status, party novelty & manifesto length - not electoral strength or populism. OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/onjD7yS

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December 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Kimonos, Ponchos and Blue Jeans: Rafael Shimabukuro explores the role of clothing in populism through an analysis of Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s one-time autocrat (1990–2000). Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/ugMhqzt

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December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📝 What gets a country elected to the UN Security Council? Gary Uzonyi explores the role of regional relative democracy - read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/ig6y9j8

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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Who deserves representation, and when? August De Mulder, Ine Gevers & @zeljkopoljak.bsky.social unpack the temporal dynamics of politicians’ claims of representation on social media: buff.ly/ad5RiqW

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December 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📝 How do different types of #polarization affect political #corruption? Áron Hajnal analyses a panel of 153 countries (2000-2021) to examine this & how regime type moderates these effects. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/qjFVoBg

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December 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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My paper "Technical Legitimacy" has just been accepted for publication in @polstudies.bsky.social. A preprint available here for those who just can't wait for the typeset version: www.trymnf.com/files/papers...
December 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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For the AfD's foreign policy outlook, see my piece in @polstudies.bsky.social : Theorizing Far-Right Foreign Policy: Insights From Germany. Available here: doi.org/10.1177/0032...
December 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Who Do People Prefer to Be in Charge? Tessa Haesevoets, @verschuerebram.bsky.social, Kim Dierckx, Alain Van Hiel & Arne Roets examine UK Citizens’ preferences for politicians, citizens, experts & AI in policymaking: buff.ly/KNC1VtV

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December 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Who commits religious discrimination, and why? Brendan Szendro's article 'Defining the Contours of Religion, State, and Modernity' examines this question. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/LcRUzqQ

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December 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Perceived Democraticness of Parties From Citizens’ Perspectives: @chankaming.bsky.social & Laura B Stephenson use evidence from Canada to examine this subject. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/NInK4Kl

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December 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
What drives populists to accept expert advice? Cross-country study by A Peresman, @thoruplars.bsky.social, @honoratam.bsky.social & @m-b-petersen.bsky.social compares how populists & non-populists evaluate expertise: buff.ly/e3JweIV

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December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/lC7RH6t

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December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Politics Vs Economics: @daparicio95.bsky.social, Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll, Arne Risa Hole & Emili Tortosa-Ausina examine how Spain’s asymmetric fiscal system has shaped regional inequality: buff.ly/2lndh6r

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December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Inequality matters for ethnic conflict. But do group elites actually frame a situation as unjust? In a recent article (doi.org/10.1177/00323217251401758), @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, Christina Zuber and I analyse “grievance frames” in social media posts of ethnic organisations.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM