Cristina Chiva
@cristinachiva.bsky.social
Academic specialising in gender, comparative politics and European / EU politics. Currently working on gender and democratic resilience against autocratisation. She/her.
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The US government is now targeting anyone applying for a H-1b visa that have worked on "activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others."
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The US government is now targeting anyone applying for a H-1b visa that have worked on "activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others."
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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For some reasons, @eppgroup.bsky.social has decided to emulate Orban’s autocratic playbook and target civil society actors. This comes at a time where EPP AFCO Chair previously did his best to normalise fake judges and anti-rule of law pseudo “experts”
Last week, we called on the progressive groups in the European Parliament to boycott the working group set up by the @eppgroup.bsky.social that will scrutinise, stigmatise and ultimately harm civil society actors.
Last night, they did.
Read our boycott letter: buff.ly/o1wqpnx
Last night, they did.
Read our boycott letter: buff.ly/o1wqpnx
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
For some reasons, @eppgroup.bsky.social has decided to emulate Orban’s autocratic playbook and target civil society actors. This comes at a time where EPP AFCO Chair previously did his best to normalise fake judges and anti-rule of law pseudo “experts”
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@saskiabr.bsky.social and I wrote in @foreignpolicy.com about the dismantling of gender equality architecture in U.S. foreign policy, including offices that were created more than six decades ago with bipartisan consensus. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/13/t...
Trump Erases Women From Foreign Policy
The White House has overturned the decades-old bipartisan policy consensus that female empowerment serves U.S. interests.
foreignpolicy.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
@saskiabr.bsky.social and I wrote in @foreignpolicy.com about the dismantling of gender equality architecture in U.S. foreign policy, including offices that were created more than six decades ago with bipartisan consensus. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/13/t...
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2020 Polish Const. Tribunal imposes near-total abortion ban.
2022 U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Today Germany delays Const. Court appointment after anti-abortion groups target pro-choice nominee.
Abortion rights under attack - court by court, country by country.
p.dw.com/p/4xJLb
2022 U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Today Germany delays Const. Court appointment after anti-abortion groups target pro-choice nominee.
Abortion rights under attack - court by court, country by country.
p.dw.com/p/4xJLb
Germany's Bundestag postpones vote on judges' appointment – DW – 07/11/2025
The CDU/CSU union pushed for postponing the vote on one of the judges, citing plagiarism suspicions. The union's junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats, were outraged by the decision.
p.dw.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
2020 Polish Const. Tribunal imposes near-total abortion ban.
2022 U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Today Germany delays Const. Court appointment after anti-abortion groups target pro-choice nominee.
Abortion rights under attack - court by court, country by country.
p.dw.com/p/4xJLb
2022 U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Today Germany delays Const. Court appointment after anti-abortion groups target pro-choice nominee.
Abortion rights under attack - court by court, country by country.
p.dw.com/p/4xJLb
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Indeed, measures similar to Reform's Trump-style book bans for children have already been found in breach of ECHR rights to freedom of expression - www.ilga-europe.org/news/europea...
July 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Indeed, measures similar to Reform's Trump-style book bans for children have already been found in breach of ECHR rights to freedom of expression - www.ilga-europe.org/news/europea...
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Does higher state capacity go together with lower risk of democratic breakdown? Many political scientists certainly believe so!
Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.
Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.
July 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Does higher state capacity go together with lower risk of democratic breakdown? Many political scientists certainly believe so!
Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.
Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.
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Our Element is out! 🎉
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
www.cambridge.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Our Element is out! 🎉
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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A very important book. I’ll be putting on my reading lists
Our Element is out! 🎉
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
www.cambridge.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A very important book. I’ll be putting on my reading lists
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With @sarahbush.bsky.social & @laurenrprather.bsky.social we document the rise of low-quality election monitors who legitimate host elections regardless of fraud & show that authoritarian-led regional IOs--esp. those anchored by Russia--have pioneered the tactic
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Zombies ahead: Explaining the rise of low-quality election monitoring - The Review of International Organizations
The international election monitoring regime has become considerably more complex in the twenty-first century. Although the number of organizations engaged in high-quality election monitoring has plat...
link.springer.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
With @sarahbush.bsky.social & @laurenrprather.bsky.social we document the rise of low-quality election monitors who legitimate host elections regardless of fraud & show that authoritarian-led regional IOs--esp. those anchored by Russia--have pioneered the tactic
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The autocrat needs enemies. Great, short explainer by @pepinneff.bsky.social
The moral panic presidency: Donald Trump’s ignoble legacy of disharmony and demonisation - ABC Religion & Ethics
Moral panics are evidence of American weakness — they signal societal insecurities that provide an opportunity for external enemies to amplify racism, sexism and transphobia as part of their larger destabilisation efforts.
www.abc.net.au
June 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The autocrat needs enemies. Great, short explainer by @pepinneff.bsky.social
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Checking in from parental leave to share my latest paper with @carnegiedcg.bsky.social!
What's behind the contemporary anti-gender backlash? How does it manifest across different countries and regions? And why has it been difficult to mount an effective response?
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What's behind the contemporary anti-gender backlash? How does it manifest across different countries and regions? And why has it been difficult to mount an effective response?
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🆕| The backlash against gender equality playing out across the world is not just a passing "culture war." Rather, it is a key front in a broader cultural and political realignment.
Read @saskiabr.bsky.social's latest for @carnegieendowment.org👇
Read @saskiabr.bsky.social's latest for @carnegieendowment.org👇
The New Global Struggle Over Gender, Rights, and Family Values
Heated political struggles over gender playing out in several regions of the world are more than just isolated or temporary reactions to recent progressive reforms: They are a key front in a larger…
carnegieendowment.org
June 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Checking in from parental leave to share my latest paper with @carnegiedcg.bsky.social!
What's behind the contemporary anti-gender backlash? How does it manifest across different countries and regions? And why has it been difficult to mount an effective response?
🔽 🔽 🔽
What's behind the contemporary anti-gender backlash? How does it manifest across different countries and regions? And why has it been difficult to mount an effective response?
🔽 🔽 🔽
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Gender conflict subtly but powerfully shaped South Korea’s election.
South Korea election: Lee Jae-myung takes over a country split by gender politics
Gender conflict subtly but powerfully shaped South Korea’s election.
tcnv.link
June 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Gender conflict subtly but powerfully shaped South Korea’s election.
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✍️Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser examines how far-right actors harness anti-feminist rhetoric to mobilize voters, resist the expansion of rights, and contest the very meaning of democracy.
Read it 👉: tinyurl.com/8mbkfumm
Read it 👉: tinyurl.com/8mbkfumm
June 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
✍️Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser examines how far-right actors harness anti-feminist rhetoric to mobilize voters, resist the expansion of rights, and contest the very meaning of democracy.
Read it 👉: tinyurl.com/8mbkfumm
Read it 👉: tinyurl.com/8mbkfumm
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The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration.
My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...
My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...
A candle in the dark: the CJEU rules against criminalising parents for smuggling their children
Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Bologna, taken by Ввласенко , via Wikimedia Commons Introd...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration.
My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...
My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...
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This is a very interesting observational paper for those working on gendered dynamics of far-right, descriptive rep & femonationalism
Does women's descriptive rep. lower anti-gender discourse among far-right? No, it *increases* it (according to parl speech data 2009-2023)
doi.org/10.1177/1465...
Does women's descriptive rep. lower anti-gender discourse among far-right? No, it *increases* it (according to parl speech data 2009-2023)
doi.org/10.1177/1465...
May 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This is a very interesting observational paper for those working on gendered dynamics of far-right, descriptive rep & femonationalism
Does women's descriptive rep. lower anti-gender discourse among far-right? No, it *increases* it (according to parl speech data 2009-2023)
doi.org/10.1177/1465...
Does women's descriptive rep. lower anti-gender discourse among far-right? No, it *increases* it (according to parl speech data 2009-2023)
doi.org/10.1177/1465...
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@politico.eu: "The bill says threats to national sovereignty include influencing public opinion, promoting democratic debate, or challenging state-defined values like Christian culture and traditional family roles."
Orbán’s Fidesz party proposes Russia-style crackdown on Hungary’s civil society
The new bill fits into a pattern of democratic backsliding for the Central European country.
www.politico.eu
May 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
@politico.eu: "The bill says threats to national sovereignty include influencing public opinion, promoting democratic debate, or challenging state-defined values like Christian culture and traditional family roles."
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Ecem Nazlı Üçok (@ecprgender.bsky.social) explores how student protests in Turkey, Serbia, and Georgia reflect more than isolated unrest — they reveal a transnational wave of political mourning 🙁, democratic erosion 📉, and Gen Z-led resistance ✊.
➡️ bit.ly/4d9s8uC
➡️ bit.ly/4d9s8uC
How Gen Z students are leading transnational resistance
Ecem Nazlı Üçok explores how student protests in Turkey, Serbia, and Georgia reflect more than isolated unrest — they reveal a transnational wave of political mourning, democratic erosion, and Gen Z-l...
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May 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Ecem Nazlı Üçok (@ecprgender.bsky.social) explores how student protests in Turkey, Serbia, and Georgia reflect more than isolated unrest — they reveal a transnational wave of political mourning 🙁, democratic erosion 📉, and Gen Z-led resistance ✊.
➡️ bit.ly/4d9s8uC
➡️ bit.ly/4d9s8uC
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Some rare good news for trans people – the transphobic amendment to the Data Bill was defeated by a large margin. It would have forced trans people to out themselves virtually daily, putting people's safety and dignity at risk, so it's great to see MPs reject it comprehensively.
May 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Some rare good news for trans people – the transphobic amendment to the Data Bill was defeated by a large margin. It would have forced trans people to out themselves virtually daily, putting people's safety and dignity at risk, so it's great to see MPs reject it comprehensively.
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Is Ernst Fraenkel’s dual state theory a useful template for making sense of Trump’s assault on the rule of law?
WILLIAM SCHEUERMAN on what the theory might have gotten wrong by presuming that capitalism and economic actors favor legal predictability.
verfassungsblog.de/trump-2-0-as...
WILLIAM SCHEUERMAN on what the theory might have gotten wrong by presuming that capitalism and economic actors favor legal predictability.
verfassungsblog.de/trump-2-0-as...
May 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Is Ernst Fraenkel’s dual state theory a useful template for making sense of Trump’s assault on the rule of law?
WILLIAM SCHEUERMAN on what the theory might have gotten wrong by presuming that capitalism and economic actors favor legal predictability.
verfassungsblog.de/trump-2-0-as...
WILLIAM SCHEUERMAN on what the theory might have gotten wrong by presuming that capitalism and economic actors favor legal predictability.
verfassungsblog.de/trump-2-0-as...
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Germany's AfD's positions designated as "incompatible with the free democratic order" by the federal office for the protection of the constitution.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence
The AfD came second in Germany's February elections and has a record number of seats in the new parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Germany's AfD's positions designated as "incompatible with the free democratic order" by the federal office for the protection of the constitution.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...