Endre Borbáth

📢 I’m over the moon to share that my Emmy Noether project, The New Climate Divide will be supported by @dfgpublic.bsky.social !✨ It includes a 6-year postdoc position and two 4-year PhD positions, which I’ll be advertising soon. If ClimateDivide sounds intriguing, stay tuned! 👀 Short 🧵👇

🇭🇺 How did Hungary's opposition finally end sixteen years of Orbán rule? @eborbath.bsky.social, @miklossebok.bsky.social and Andrea Szabó argue TISZA beat Fidesz by changing the subject — from war, sovereignty and Brussels to public services and corruption. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

I’ve been saying this for years re Global North/Global South, but by extension: people in the West/Global North (yes it is vaguely defined but iykyk) have so much to learn about politics, capture and mobilization from what they think is the “periphery”. Eastern Europe teaches us all this year.

Throughout Europe, young people are demanding radical change. For a long time, the compromise offered by European social democracy read something like this: we provide incremental change to improve people's lives. Incrementalism equals realism and radicalism equals idealism. While we may believe ...

I am extremely honoured and proud to have received the Basil Chubb Prize for the best PhD thesis in Political Science 2025 from @psaireland.bsky.social for my work on mainstream party reactions to the radical right in Europe!

Hi all! I'm looking for people to try out my new collaborative writing platform. Think: Overleaf or GDocs for Mkdown LaTeX HTML Typst Quarto Free, open source, and full-featured. Many editors, chat, comments, track changes, history, AI, mobile, templates, etc Would ❤️ any feedback! librepaper.org

Very proud of this piece with @tommasopavone.bsky.social, now out at JOP, where we use the empirical setting of Slovakia - an eroding democracy with a recent experience of backsliding - to gauge the potential of the past to affect present-day attitudes: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🤩 See you in Berlin next week! On 5th and 6th October, our annual conference takes place at the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 😱 Registration on the spot is also possible‼️ Program 👉️ buff.ly/4KWYi1h.

A nice surprise this morning: Google Scholar let me know that my work has now passed 1,000 citations. It means a lot to know that the work has been read, discussed, used, and built upon. Thank you to everyone who has engaged with it, especially my collaborators, mentors, and students! :)

With COVID-19 we may be witnessing a generation in the making. It is the most named event among the young, irrespective of status, region or ideology. The young were the ones who bore the containment measures. Older people, who ran by far the highest risk of dying, hardly mention it. 6/6

New article with @bcastanho.bsky.social out now in @ejprjournal.bsky.social !  ✨ We map protest mobilization calls by MPs across Europe to disentangle the role of radicalism and populism in explaining party involvement in protest politics. 🪧 doi.org/10.1017/S147...

EuroWEPS 14 is here! We'll meet in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social and discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars especially welcome to apply! Deadline is Sept 11.

“To understand views in Canada, we now turn to our Commonwealth correspondent in London who wants to tell us about the mysterious British soul.” www.badbaltic.com/if-eastern-e...

📄 And another working paper: **Pretty much all citizens say they support democracy.** But what do they mean by that? We ask whether voters from different partisan camps mean the same thing when they talk about "democracy." Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨New paper Like most things in democracies, achieving climate action in the form of sustainable policy needs a significant amount of political mobilization. We investigate when & where this is more likely to happen across places on the climate frontline: the Global South🧵 📌 osf.io/preprints/so...

One of my empirical-work econ takes is that I think academia should be *more* open to publishing work based on best-we-can-do weak data, as long as there's really no other way to address the question and that work is very clear about what it can and can't actually say.

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We're hiring a six-year Postdoc @stawi-univie.bsky.social, starting in Oct 2026 (or thereafter). Research: political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅 Deadline: 20 Aug 2026 Apply here: tinyurl.com/dyf9bt7h

Turkey keeps creating fascinating party names. The Good Party (İYİ Parti) was already a great example. The new CHP splinter takes newness "as a winning formula" to another level: it's literally called the New Party. Check out our recent paper on party names and branding 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

I am proud to have presented my work with @eborbath.bsky.social on automating core sentence coding yesterday evening at @epssnet.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone there for a great panel and especially to @laiacastro.bsky.social for discussing our paper!

Off to a conference marathon: first @ces-europe.bsky.social in Dublin, then @epssnet.bsky.social in Belfast. At CES, @dnwildi.bsky.social and I present papers on the climate divide and LLM claims analysis. In Belfast, @dasalgon.bsky.social presents our Chile/Spain movement parties paper. ☕/🍻? DM me!

One week left to apply to the two doctoral researcher positions below! ⏳ Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Why do our societies seem so deeply divided when most citizens actually occupy a broad political middle ground? @steffenmau.bsky.social, @thomaslux.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social unpack this paradox in Trigger Points, pub. today @brisunipress.bsky.social, Foreward @mikesavagelse.bsky.social

A fully funded 2-year postdoc for my ERC project on climate politics, comparative politics and political economy. Deadline: 29 July 2026, 10am CET Starting date: Jan 2027 (flexible) Feel free to reach out next week at EPSS if you’d like to discuss the position www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

I am very much looking forward to presenting the first results from our ClimateDivide project at this superb conference next week! 🌳⚡🌳Hope to see some familiar faces too. PS: 🔎 We have two PhD positions in the project, spread the news and don't hesitate to reach out. climatedivide.eu

Free for a limited period from the latest issue of @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - APSA Presidential Address: Epistemic Institutions and the Populism Dilemma: Reimagining Political Science as a Vocation amid Democratic Breakdown - cup.org/4sMuEhv - Taeku Lee

The recording of my lecture “The Populist Radical Right – A Threat to Democracy?” is now on YouTube. It opened Heidelberg University’s Ruperto Carola lecture series on “Wehrhafte Demokratie”. Watch here: youtu.be/jshrUXaqv7s?... Looking forward to the rest of the series!

Looking forward to presenting some work in progress with @dasalgon.bsky.social & @eborbath.bsky.social at @powimz.bsky.social today!

We are hiring 2 PhD candidates at Heidelberg University to research individual-level participation, group formation, and identities around the emerging divide in climate politics! For more infos see below or contact me - apply until 21. June!

I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!

I’m happy to open Heidelberg’s Ruperto Carola lecture series on “Wehrhafte Demokratie” with: “The Populist Radical Right – A Threat to Democracy?” I'll discuss why these parties rise, how they mobilize, and when they represent a threat to democracy. ⏰Mon 11 May, 18:15 📍Aula der Alten Universität

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

German SPD, Greens, and Linke will stop posting on X. An important step and signal. X and its owner have long become a megaphone for the far right, a venue that is actively used to encourage abuse and violence. It‘s simply shameful how many in politics, media, and academia still actively post there.

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

This is a really interesting article. All of it has lessons, but the part that really struck me is the way populist culture war issues weren't tackled head on, but were instead effectively dismissed as far less relevant or important to people than issues of corruption and public service decline.

Do protests change elections? Prior research: "yes, and dramatically so." But is that always true? What about protests in the last few years? Our latest working paper challenges prevailing logic. Our finding: most recent protests have failed to do anything to influence elections.

Much of the coverage of the Hungarian election has focused on Orbán. We know less about the strategy behind Péter Magyar’s and Tisza’s breakthrough. I’ve written a short piece for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social on why this challenge succeeded.

🚨 New paper in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social: Nils-Christian Bormann and I propose to model the electoral effects of ethnic and other cleavages with a new *Covoting Regression Model*. A short on the method and our results on ethnic voting in Sub-Saharan Africa. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

It's weird that all these accounts I follow for other reasons (US politics, international politics, UK, etc.) are posting about Hungary. You gotta give it to Orban, he made HU "interesting" -- in a bad way. I am looking forward to HU going back being an obscure, boring, normal country.

Orbán congratulated Magyar. It's really a historic moment.

Periodic reminder: this isn’t just an election. It’s either a popular uprising against Orbán or an authoritarian mobilization to keep him in power. (And it can absolutely be both.)

This article is the best summary I’ve seen so far of the institutional hurdles Tisza would face, even if it wins on Sunday. tvpworld.com/92544224/hun...

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...