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Assistant prof at IE University. Previously EUI and Oxford. Researching what we think is ok to do in a democracy & how that changes. Book on the normalization of the radical right: https://academic.oup.com/book/57946 More at www.vicentevalentim.com

A escritora e ilustradora franco-iraniana Marjane Satrapi, conhecida sobretudo pela novela gráfica "Persepolis" e pela respetiva adaptação ao cinema, por Vincent Paronnaud e Marjane Satrapi, em 2007, morreu em Paris aos 56 anos. A família e amigos divulgaram a notícia.

Comunidade Cultura e Arte

One of the many things I had never grasped before @valentimvicente.bsky.social’s seminal theory articulated it so clearly: “There’s no way back to the time before normalization.Anyone who can openly express far-right views today has no reason to return to an earlier time” www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

Einst unterschätzten Umfragen die Zustimmung zur SVP-Minarett- bzw. Ausschaffungsinitiative. Heute gehen Wählende ebenso wie Politiker:innen offen mit ihrer Zustimmung zur SVP-VI „für eine 10 Millionen-Schweiz“ um. Die Normalisierung der radikalen Rechte, auch in der Schweiz

Using the norms-based approach proposed by @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Paul Reimers & @larsrumpf.bsky.social investigate the far-right exclusion mechanisms on a local/district council level in German politics in @pvs-journal.bsky.social, e.g. rhetorical cordon sanitaire: doi.org/10.1007/s116...

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Predoc position on foreign and security policy attitudes in the Baltic Sea region (3.5 yrs, 65%) Research on democratic resilience and societal responses to security crises. Open to different approaches and interests. Deadline: 30 June 2026 🔗 www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

In this paper, we examine whether local politicians in German district councils (Kreistage) adhere to social norms of demarcation from the populist far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD). Within Europe, Germany stands out as a rare example of consistent far-right exclusion at the federal and state levels.Recent research suggests that social norm adherence, rather than strategic calculations, explains the persistence of such cordons sanitaires. However, little is known about whether this explanation applies at the local level. We test the norms-based approach by analyzing the sentiment of council speeches at Germany’s district level—an environment with minimal strategic incentives for ostracism. Using a novel corpus of 18,598 speeches in nine districts, we examine whether the AfD is addressed more negatively in speeches than other parties are and whether party position explains variation in these responses. We complement the quantitative analysis with a qualitative exploration of different critique types directed at the AfD. Our results strongly support the norms-based explanation of rhetorical ostracism, as all parties demarcate themselves from the AfD. However, we find significant differences between center-left and center-right parties driven by ideological, and actor-level factors. Our study not only provides the first empirical examination of parliamentary reactions to the AfD in local contexts but also enhances our understanding of contemporary far-right politics and mainstream responses.

Stellenausschreibung Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

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So, hier kommt der versprochene 🧵 zu „Die Normalisierung der radikalen Rechten“ von @valentimvicente.bsky.social (Springer VS, mit knapp 80€ zwar teuer, aber für wiss. Literatur nicht ungewöhnlich - Hinweise zur wirklich hohen Lesbarkeit am Ende) 1/16

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