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From 🇮🇹 Postdoc, University of Zurich 🇨🇭 Previously PhD, Oxford 🇬🇧

Francesco Raffaelli

The call for papers for #EPOP2026 in Liverpool (17–19 September) is now open! We welcome submissions across all areas of research on elections, public opinion and parties. Deadline: 26 April Submit your proposals here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/eve... @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

2mo

As I have been arguing for almost a decade, populism is a secondary feature for most populist actors. Moreover, the main current threat to liberal democracy comes from the far right, which at least in Europe and U.S., is primarily nativist. In fact, some are barely populist anymore.

Very happy to share that I am going to be the new Director of the Democracy unit at the @wzb.bsky.social Berlin Social Science Center. I am excited to form a new research unit on democratic politics and to engage with people in Berlin and elsewhere to make liberal democracy more resilient.

1mo

Great to be in Milan at @bocconi.bsky.social's P&I Clinic to present our project (w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social) on how 🇬🇧🇮🇹 people update their class and religious identity to 'match' their immigration preferences! Updated version of the preprint 👉 osf.io/preprints/so...

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EPOP

Can attitudes change our identities? 🪪 Group-based anti‑immigration appeals nudged participants to newly claim “working‑class” or “Christian” even without strong objective ties or changes to policy views - showing instrumental belief justification. #Identity #Immigration Read the study recap:

1mo

📣 New paper out in BJPolS 📣

Cas Mudde

Manchester's map looks a bit like Berlin's and Vienna's - green core with social democratic red ring around it, radical right in the poor suburbs, traditional right in the rich ones..

Tarik Abou-Chadi

Francesco Raffaelli

Yup. Cultural conflicts eat up the categories of "old" politics and spit them out as something completely different. @fraraffaelli.bsky.social and I have a paper about this 👇

26d

Institut für Staatswissenschaft / Department of Government

1mo

Excited to present this project on immigration and group identities *tomorrow* (May 14) at the QPE Early Career Workshop at @kingsqpe.bsky.social Program 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/kingsqp... For the great London weather 👇🏻

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Lena Maria Huber

🚨🚨 Job: Please share 🙌 - what? PhD position in my DFG-funded project on how citizens understand their role in democracy. - when? Application deadline Jul 1, job start Sept 1 or soon thereafter - how? www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Leonardo Carella

Francesco Raffaelli

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Peter Luca Versteegen

🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF doi.org/10.31235/osf... We usually think that social identities precede preferences We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹