📈 Los jóvenes españoles giran a la derecha.

Es un vuelco histórico: nunca en 40 años se habían ubicado tan a la derecha. Nunca habían sido el grupo más de derechas.

Hasta ahora. Hilo 👇

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#VendrediLecture 📚

What is Politics?
edited by Colin Hay
@politybooks.bsky.social

Exploring what it means to 'think politically' in these troubled times, this cutting-edge textbook reveals the many dimensions of politics.

👉 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

cc @scpo-research.bsky.social

Suite à sa publicisation sur la liste professionnelle des politistes, je me permets de vous partager un pétition contre la suppression des APL pour les étudiant(e)s étrangèr(e)s. Le droit d'étudier dignement vaut pour tout le monde.
www.change.org/p/non-%C3%A0...

J'ai un peu eu l'impression de m'être perdu dans la cour des grands, mais la présentation et les échanges qui ont suivi était absolument passionnants. Je recommande !

(Et quel bonheur d'avoir de telles interventions dispos au format podcast)

The Spanish centre-right is taking a tumble and the far-right is on the rise.

I was lucky enough to present some new causal work on Friday at LSE showing that the PP does better when it signals distinctiveness from VOX.

~1.5K tests, same result. Rejecting far-right benefits centre-right

( @jcostalopez.bsky.social )

... and by thanking Dr @julianmhoerner.bsky.social for making me adopt the mnemonic lens!

📄 I'll end this post with a recommendation to read Marc Esteve-Del-Valle's and Julia Costa López's article on how Vox mobilised memory online during the 2019 elections - one of these works that you find so well constructed you wish you had written them yourself: doi.org/10.1080/2374... ...

💡 Some further exciting research could probably be done on how political actors (previous legislators included) discursively construct such oppositions and how they bridge them to their core ideological claims (i.e. territorially rooted nativism in the case of Vox).

The 12th of October has to be a day of reparation, not of celebration" (Telegram post, translation my own). Indeed, doesn't really make you want to party.

This is nonetheless a good example of how mnemonic (cultural) cleavages can impact contemporary politics.

🟣 Podemos' leader and former minister Ione Belarra (radical left), on the other end, argues that "Spain shouldn't celebrate as its National Day on the day which reminds of the genocide and pillaging of Latin American peoples. [end on next post]

⚔️ But current political parties have different views on this

🟢 Vox's leader Santiago Abascal (far right) loves that day, and even congratulates "the Spaniards who are proud to be Spaniards" and who "honour their History" (X post, translation my own). You can already feel the 'cultural war' thing.

⚖️ The law n°18/1987, which was adopted by the Socialists and reaffirms the 12th of Oct as the National Day, says that it "symbolizes the historical anniversary on which Spain [...] begins a period of linguistic and cultural projection beyond the boundaries of Europe" - a pretty way of putting it ✨

For those who might not know, this is the day on which Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492.

But I won't spend too much time defining it, since the most exciting part of this probably is... to see how political actors argue on how to frame it 💘.

French politics have been quite intense this week, but how about I keep talking about my own obsessions anyway?

🇪🇸 Today was the National Day of Spain, or Spanishness Day ('Día de la Hispanidad').

Mais qui est donc cet esprit clairvoyant qui nous gratifie de toute sa clairvoyance ?
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

📣 Manifesto Project Data & Corpus Update 2025 is here! What's new? 🧵:

Au sujet de l'affaire Bayou.

In sum, we show that specialization on certain issues, as put forth in issue ownership theories, is rather exceptional. Tunnels of attention are the rule: parties permanently take up issues from each other. The emergence and dynamics of tunnels, we argue, should be looked at in depth. 8/8

#VendrediLecture 📚

How do just transition policies emerge? By comparing Spain and Ireland, Matteo Mandelli shows they are championed by coalitions of advocates of the green transition and representatives of the social groups most impacted by this transition.

👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Grâce à @pascalriche.bsky.social, j'ai eu le plaisir de pouvoir décrypter avec Nonna Mayer le phénomène du "gender gap" électoral aux Etats-Unis et ailleurs dans le monde.

www.nouvelobs.com/idees/202411...

@cedurkheim.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social