🌍✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day ✨🌍
This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics
📚 Explore the research and join the conversation
linktr.ee/ecpr.collect...
#IWD #WomenInPolitics
🌍✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day ✨🌍
This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics
📚 Explore the research and join the conversation
linktr.ee/ecpr.collect...
#IWD #WomenInPolitics
🌍✨ Celebrating International Women’s Day ✨🌍
This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting a collection of articles exploring women’s representation, participation, and gender equality in politics
📚 Explore the research and join the conversation
buff.ly/9wGrwYE
#IWD #WomenInPolitics
Participants attending various ECPR events. The text reads: International Women’s Day #IWD2026. ECPR logo in the top right.
💐 Today's the day! Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay with our journals and blog
🎀 Enjoy a round-up of curated #OpenAccess research exploring issues of gender and the representation of women in politics
📚 Drawn from the full span of our publications portfolio linktr.ee/ecpr.collect...
#IWD2026
Feel free to get in touch with me or @asheinze.bsky.social if you have any questions!
*Call for Abstracts*
The abstract submission is now open for our (w/ @asheinze.bsky.social) special issue:
Party Youth Wings Across Europe: Organisation, Influence, and the Future of Party Democracy
We still have a few spots open (e.g. several countries in Southern Europe and CEE or the UK) 😊
Read more: www.authlib.eu/wp-content/u... @AuthlibEU
Poland 🇵🇱
#MartaŻerkowska-Balas et al: 🇵🇱 demonstrates regression & contestation. Judicial and media reforms have undermined liberal safeguards. Yet electoral competition and civic mobilisation still serve as crucial arenas of polarised conflict.
Italy 🇮🇹
#ManuelaCaiani & #BatuhanEren highlight heterogeneity of 🇮🇹 illiberal sphere - parties, social & more fluid movements. Importantly, 🇮🇹 functions as a transnational hub where domestic populism connects to European far-right networks, shaping national & EU-level politics.
Hungary 🇭🇺
@zsolt.bsky.social #BalintMikola & @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social show illiberalism in a consolidating 🇭🇺 electoral autocracy: institutional capture, constitutional engineering, & patronage networks entrenching power. Majoritarian legitimacy is invoked to hollow out remaining liberal checks.
Great Britain 🇬🇧
#AlexBaxter discusses how Brexit reshaped democratic competition. Illiberal pressure appears via securitisation, protest restrictions, and executive strain.
Strategic accommodation by mainstream actors is key.
France 🇫🇷
@caterinafr.bsky.social et al illustrate the illiberal dynamics of discursive convergence. RN reframes debates on judicial independence, media pluralism, laïcité, & equality in ways that challenge liberal norms. Radical-right frames migrate into mainstream competition
Czech Republic 🇨🇿
@alesmichal.bsky.social and I show that while institutions remain intact, for now, the discursive pressure is rising.
Technocratic populist (ANO) and radical-right (SPD) mobilization normalizes illiberal frames.
No systemic rupture — yet. But vigilance matters.
Austria 🇦🇹
#MarvinStecker et al highlight that 🇦🇹downgrade to “electoral democracy” reflects more than FPÖ success.
The FPÖ mainstreamed anti-elite and anti-science narratives.
Voters still support “democracy” — but trust erodes, and liberal norms weaken
Across cases, decline is rarely dramatic.
• normalisation of anti-liberal discourse
It unfolds through:
• normalization of anti-liberal discourse
• strategic weakening of oversight institutions
• exploitation of the gap between democratic ideals and democratic satisfaction
Core insight:
@veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social: The illiberal challenge in Europe is neither uniform nor monolithic. Illiberal actors differ in ideology, strategy & voter base; combining nationalist, religious, xenophobic, & populist narratives in distinct ways. Understanding this variation is 🗝️
What does illiberalism actually look like across Europe - in parties, voters, and institutions?
The new @authlibeu.bsky.social Country Papers, edited by the ✨ @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social, provide one of the most systematic comparative mappings to date.
www.authlib.eu/country-pape... 🧵👇
🔮 Since its launch in 2023, @petraguasti.bsky.social & @mattiazulianello.bsky.social's broad-spectrum #FutureofPopulism thread has explored the rise of populist parties worldwide + speculated on how populist movements will develop in the years to come.
📖 Read the story so far: bit.ly/3ZxqIEp
♀️ Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science everyone! 🌈 Since the backlash is real, I want to thank all the amazing and inspiring (female) colleagues who make #PoliticalScience more diverse, more fun, and more relevant. Happily, the following list can never be complete 👇 #WomenInScience
And here’s the news celebration on @ecpr.bsky.social :
ecpr.eu/News/News/De...
Huge thanks to @ecprtheloop.bsky.social the Loop team, and especially Kate.
To potential authors: Let’s keep the proposals coming — here’s to the next 100! 🔮
Celebrating the 100th post in the Future of Populism series 🔮 with a brilliantly written blog by @mattiazulianello.bsky.social 🌳🌲! His PopulisTree brings clarity to decades of research on populism. 🎉 Read the post 👇
theloop.ecpr.eu/making-sense... 🌀
⚡NEW issue out now! 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjcs21/4... 🙌 @adamfagan.bsky.social @lenkabustikova.bsky.social @andreapirro.it @grigopop.bsky.social @tranfi.bsky.social
@vmonastiriotis.bsky.social
🎉🏆 @calderarocha.bsky.social has won our 2025 Joni Lovenduski PhD prize in #Gender & #Politics
⭐ Her 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐯𝐞 dissertation on Far-Righting Feminism: Criminalising Street Harassment in France and Britain earned the Jury's recognition!
More 👉https://buff.ly/pIRwJmD
@petraguasti.bsky.social
🎤 Friday continues with featured roundtable on Illiberalism in Europe, featuring Larissa Böckmann, Andrej Zaslove, @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social and the one and only @petraguasti.bsky.social. Details can be found here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... #ECPRgc25
It was great sharing this panel on #unpolitics with @paultaggart.bsky.social and @petraguasti.bsky.social! Thanks to Robert Csehi for the comments on my paper on "Unpolitics in the European Parliament: Fraying the ‘cordon sanitaire’ after the 2024 elections"!
#ecprgc25
🗣️ Feeling inspired by the Illiberalism in Europe roundtable earlier at #ecprgc25?
👀 Check out The Loop blog pieces from speakers @leoniedejonge.bsky.social, Andrej Zaslove & @petraguasti.bsky.social.
✍️ bit.ly/45uKu69
✍️ bit.ly/45MEiYn
✍️ bit.ly/4mgVDP8
An amazing and important article by Zuzana Uhde for #InstitutSYRI
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
#openaccess #transantionallabour
Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.
New book share. UCL Press published our Sciences of the Democracies last week in open access PDF.
Link: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sci...
A core implication of the book is that it seeks to revive basic descriptive research to lay the groundwork for stronger and more inclusive theories of democracy.
Democratization can happen anywhere you are and everywhere you may go.
#SciencesOfDemocracies
Proud to have been a part of this project led fearlessly and tirelessly by #JeanPaulGagnon
Out tomorrow incl. #OpenAccess with @uclpress.bsky.social
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
