Sofia Ammassari
@ammassarisofia.bsky.social
Research Fellow at Griffith University 🇦🇺
populist radical right • political parties • women’s and youth political participation
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populist radical right • political parties • women’s and youth political participation
sofiaammassari.com
Pinned
I’m over the moon that my 1st book, based on my PhD, will be published w/ Oxford University Press.
“Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right” investigates women’s involvement in PRR parties as party members.
I already have a full draft, so I hope I can share this labour of love w/ you soon 💜
“Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right” investigates women’s involvement in PRR parties as party members.
I already have a full draft, so I hope I can share this labour of love w/ you soon 💜
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Excited to share that I’ve been awarded a PI-Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for my project "What Citizens Think They Should and Can Do in Democracies”. The project comes with 1 PhD (co-supervised w/ a proper academic adult) and 2 RA positions + funding for interviews and surveys.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Excited to share that I’ve been awarded a PI-Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for my project "What Citizens Think They Should and Can Do in Democracies”. The project comes with 1 PhD (co-supervised w/ a proper academic adult) and 2 RA positions + funding for interviews and surveys.
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🤖 AI chatbots can persuade voters 🗳️
@cvargiu.bsky.social and I were recently asked to review a piece for @nature.com, now out, and wrote a short digest about it
TLDR: chatting with a LLM can change your mind, even if facts provided are not always accurate
check it out 👇
#chatbots #persuasion
@cvargiu.bsky.social and I were recently asked to review a piece for @nature.com, now out, and wrote a short digest about it
TLDR: chatting with a LLM can change your mind, even if facts provided are not always accurate
check it out 👇
#chatbots #persuasion
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds
Conversations with AI can sway people’s political views. Concerningly, a chatbot’s facts are not always accurate, especially when it supports right-wing positions.
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
🤖 AI chatbots can persuade voters 🗳️
@cvargiu.bsky.social and I were recently asked to review a piece for @nature.com, now out, and wrote a short digest about it
TLDR: chatting with a LLM can change your mind, even if facts provided are not always accurate
check it out 👇
#chatbots #persuasion
@cvargiu.bsky.social and I were recently asked to review a piece for @nature.com, now out, and wrote a short digest about it
TLDR: chatting with a LLM can change your mind, even if facts provided are not always accurate
check it out 👇
#chatbots #persuasion
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A philosopher and a neuroscientist walk into a bar and say 'we should write a paper on AI'. Ten years later, a political scientist (?) joins them and says 'I want in - let's write it'. Delighted to see finally this piece out in Big Data & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A philosopher and a neuroscientist walk into a bar and say 'we should write a paper on AI'. Ten years later, a political scientist (?) joins them and says 'I want in - let's write it'. Delighted to see finally this piece out in Big Data & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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What issues matter most to #Voters? 😬
@gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups care about different issues--and that what people care about isn’t the same as what they think about those issues. 🧭🗳️
@gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups care about different issues--and that what people care about isn’t the same as what they think about those issues. 🧭🗳️
Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation
buff.ly
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
What issues matter most to #Voters? 😬
@gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups care about different issues--and that what people care about isn’t the same as what they think about those issues. 🧭🗳️
@gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups care about different issues--and that what people care about isn’t the same as what they think about those issues. 🧭🗳️
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New article by @rmuriaas.bsky.social and I: While seniority can benefit all parliamentarians and serve as a powerful resource, it does not confer power equally. Women face structural barriers to accessing seniority, and even when they attain it, their legitimacy and influence remains contested.
Staying Power: Unpacking Seniority as a Gendered Informal Institution in Parliament
Abstract. Political seniority—commonly understood as accumulated parliamentary tenure—is an underexamined informal institution that structures access to po
academic.oup.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
New article by @rmuriaas.bsky.social and I: While seniority can benefit all parliamentarians and serve as a powerful resource, it does not confer power equally. Women face structural barriers to accessing seniority, and even when they attain it, their legitimacy and influence remains contested.
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When and why protests reinforce institutional politics on the far right? "Protests of the Far Right" ed. with @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it is under contract @oxfordunipress.bsky.social with a terrific lineup of contributors who helped us covering & comparing 14 countries.
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
When and why protests reinforce institutional politics on the far right? "Protests of the Far Right" ed. with @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it is under contract @oxfordunipress.bsky.social with a terrific lineup of contributors who helped us covering & comparing 14 countries.
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So, here's an interesting paper (if, perhaps, unsurprising). X posts are hostile to women politicians, Instagram, less so.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10....
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
So, here's an interesting paper (if, perhaps, unsurprising). X posts are hostile to women politicians, Instagram, less so.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10....
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Today's podcast is with Sarah Cameron about the 2025 Australian Election Study. We discuss generational and gender splits, Peter Dutton's (lack of) popularity, changing attitudes to the USA and voter dealignment.
www.tallyroom.com.au/63669 #auspol
www.tallyroom.com.au/63669 #auspol
Podcast #158 – The 2025 Australian Election Study
Ben was joined by Sarah Cameron from Griffith University, to discuss the results of the 2025 Australian Election Study, including Peter Dutton’s unpopularity, foreign policy, voter dealignmen…
www.tallyroom.com.au
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Today's podcast is with Sarah Cameron about the 2025 Australian Election Study. We discuss generational and gender splits, Peter Dutton's (lack of) popularity, changing attitudes to the USA and voter dealignment.
www.tallyroom.com.au/63669 #auspol
www.tallyroom.com.au/63669 #auspol
Back from Melbourne after the @auspsa.bsky.social conference ✨
I enjoyed taking part in the plenary on the future of the discipline.
It touched on some big questions - the rise of AI, the open science movt, the harsh realities of the academic job market.
A timely & thought-provoking discussion.
I enjoyed taking part in the plenary on the future of the discipline.
It touched on some big questions - the rise of AI, the open science movt, the harsh realities of the academic job market.
A timely & thought-provoking discussion.
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Back from Melbourne after the @auspsa.bsky.social conference ✨
I enjoyed taking part in the plenary on the future of the discipline.
It touched on some big questions - the rise of AI, the open science movt, the harsh realities of the academic job market.
A timely & thought-provoking discussion.
I enjoyed taking part in the plenary on the future of the discipline.
It touched on some big questions - the rise of AI, the open science movt, the harsh realities of the academic job market.
A timely & thought-provoking discussion.
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A rare benefit of being awake in the middle of the night (day 10 of jetlag!): you get to see this drop into your mailbox.
Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.
Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A rare benefit of being awake in the middle of the night (day 10 of jetlag!): you get to see this drop into your mailbox.
Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.
Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.
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I wrote a short essay on the state of party membership in Europe for the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
www.kas.de/en/web/wisse...
www.kas.de/en/web/wisse...
Party membership in Europe
The decline of mass parties and its significance for the future of representative democracy
www.kas.de
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I wrote a short essay on the state of party membership in Europe for the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
www.kas.de/en/web/wisse...
www.kas.de/en/web/wisse...
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🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots
www.cambridge.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
It was a pleasure to give a seminar at the Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba last Friday about our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) on the transnationalisation of the populist right.
Thanks to Oscar Gracia Landaeta, Andrés Laguna-Tapia & Claudia Muriel for being excellent hosts 💕
Thanks to Oscar Gracia Landaeta, Andrés Laguna-Tapia & Claudia Muriel for being excellent hosts 💕
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It was a pleasure to give a seminar at the Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba last Friday about our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) on the transnationalisation of the populist right.
Thanks to Oscar Gracia Landaeta, Andrés Laguna-Tapia & Claudia Muriel for being excellent hosts 💕
Thanks to Oscar Gracia Landaeta, Andrés Laguna-Tapia & Claudia Muriel for being excellent hosts 💕
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Call for Abstracts: Together with @kirareneekurz.bsky.social, I'm editing a @cogitatiopag.bsky.social Issue on #YouthWings in #Europe! 🤓 We especially invite contributions focusing on countries in Central, Eastern & Southern Europe. Feel free to get in touch! www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Call for Abstracts: Together with @kirareneekurz.bsky.social, I'm editing a @cogitatiopag.bsky.social Issue on #YouthWings in #Europe! 🤓 We especially invite contributions focusing on countries in Central, Eastern & Southern Europe. Feel free to get in touch! www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
All good things come to an end 🥲
The last seminar of our South American trip (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) will take place at Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba, this Friday.
Looking forward to further exchanges about the transnationalisation of the PRR with UPB students and colleagues!
The last seminar of our South American trip (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) will take place at Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba, this Friday.
Looking forward to further exchanges about the transnationalisation of the PRR with UPB students and colleagues!
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
All good things come to an end 🥲
The last seminar of our South American trip (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) will take place at Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba, this Friday.
Looking forward to further exchanges about the transnationalisation of the PRR with UPB students and colleagues!
The last seminar of our South American trip (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) will take place at Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba, this Friday.
Looking forward to further exchanges about the transnationalisation of the PRR with UPB students and colleagues!
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Jeez it's good when you see great work from great people getting funded (part 1). Big congrats to some of the best in Australian political science - @duncanmcdonnell.com, @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & Ferran - on this big and important grant!
I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties".
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Jeez it's good when you see great work from great people getting funded (part 1). Big congrats to some of the best in Australian political science - @duncanmcdonnell.com, @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & Ferran - on this big and important grant!
Career milestone unlocked - my first ever large research grant ✨🥹
I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties".
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
October 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Career milestone unlocked - my first ever large research grant ✨🥹
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Number of unique speakers in the Australian parliament, by gender, 1998-2025. By Lindsay Katz and @inessadeangelis.bsky.social.
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Number of unique speakers in the Australian parliament, by gender, 1998-2025. By Lindsay Katz and @inessadeangelis.bsky.social.
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Last week I finally got my ECPR SG Extremism & Democracy Best Paper Prize 2024 🪵🏆 — probably the classiest wooden block I own!
Still thrilled and grateful to @ecpr-ead.bsky.social and the jury @ammassarisofia.bsky.social @kai-arzheimer.com @caterinafr.bsky.social
Still thrilled and grateful to @ecpr-ead.bsky.social and the jury @ammassarisofia.bsky.social @kai-arzheimer.com @caterinafr.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Last week I finally got my ECPR SG Extremism & Democracy Best Paper Prize 2024 🪵🏆 — probably the classiest wooden block I own!
Still thrilled and grateful to @ecpr-ead.bsky.social and the jury @ammassarisofia.bsky.social @kai-arzheimer.com @caterinafr.bsky.social
Still thrilled and grateful to @ecpr-ead.bsky.social and the jury @ammassarisofia.bsky.social @kai-arzheimer.com @caterinafr.bsky.social
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Coming up next Thursday at noon in Lima: @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & I will be presenting our research on the transnational populist right at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
I'm looking forward to good discussions and the local ceviche.
(states of emergency etc. permitting, of course).
I'm looking forward to good discussions and the local ceviche.
(states of emergency etc. permitting, of course).
October 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Coming up next Thursday at noon in Lima: @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & I will be presenting our research on the transnational populist right at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
I'm looking forward to good discussions and the local ceviche.
(states of emergency etc. permitting, of course).
I'm looking forward to good discussions and the local ceviche.
(states of emergency etc. permitting, of course).
I really enjoyed presenting our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) on the rise of the transnational populist right at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.
Great audience and really thoughtful questions throughout - exactly the kind of exchange that makes giving seminars so rewarding!
Great audience and really thoughtful questions throughout - exactly the kind of exchange that makes giving seminars so rewarding!
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I really enjoyed presenting our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) on the rise of the transnational populist right at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.
Great audience and really thoughtful questions throughout - exactly the kind of exchange that makes giving seminars so rewarding!
Great audience and really thoughtful questions throughout - exactly the kind of exchange that makes giving seminars so rewarding!
After a wonderful couple of weeks in Brazil, it's time to move on to the next stop of our South American trip ➡️ 🇦🇷
I'm excited to present our research (@duncanmcdonnell.com) on the transnationalisation of the populist radical right on Wednesday at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires!
I'm excited to present our research (@duncanmcdonnell.com) on the transnationalisation of the populist radical right on Wednesday at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires!
October 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
After a wonderful couple of weeks in Brazil, it's time to move on to the next stop of our South American trip ➡️ 🇦🇷
I'm excited to present our research (@duncanmcdonnell.com) on the transnationalisation of the populist radical right on Wednesday at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires!
I'm excited to present our research (@duncanmcdonnell.com) on the transnationalisation of the populist radical right on Wednesday at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires!
It was great to present our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com ) on the transnationalisation of the PRR at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
It was also a pleasure to chat with their very talented graduate students afterwards, and to stroll around the beautiful campus.
It was also a pleasure to chat with their very talented graduate students afterwards, and to stroll around the beautiful campus.
October 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It was great to present our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com ) on the transnationalisation of the PRR at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
It was also a pleasure to chat with their very talented graduate students afterwards, and to stroll around the beautiful campus.
It was also a pleasure to chat with their very talented graduate students afterwards, and to stroll around the beautiful campus.
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I'm so pleased to see our new article out in Perspectives on Politics.
Since I moved to Australia, I've heard many people say "you'll never publish in a top US journal with Australia as your only case" (and they weren't wrong to think that).
But yesterday, we did.
Thread by Josh about it below:
Since I moved to Australia, I've heard many people say "you'll never publish in a top US journal with Australia as your only case" (and they weren't wrong to think that).
But yesterday, we did.
Thread by Josh about it below:
🎉 New publication out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with @duncanmcdonnell.com and Michelle Evans!
We expected public bias to work against aspiring Indigenous political candidates in Australia. Instead, we found the opposite - an 'inverted hierarchy' of bias.
Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S153...
We expected public bias to work against aspiring Indigenous political candidates in Australia. Instead, we found the opposite - an 'inverted hierarchy' of bias.
Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S153...
October 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I'm so pleased to see our new article out in Perspectives on Politics.
Since I moved to Australia, I've heard many people say "you'll never publish in a top US journal with Australia as your only case" (and they weren't wrong to think that).
But yesterday, we did.
Thread by Josh about it below:
Since I moved to Australia, I've heard many people say "you'll never publish in a top US journal with Australia as your only case" (and they weren't wrong to think that).
But yesterday, we did.
Thread by Josh about it below: