European Political Science

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The editors of @epsjournal.bsky.social are accepting proposals for Special Issues in 2027 on the theme of: 'The political challenges facing the world today'. Find out how to contribute to a special issue - https://cup.org/47WB5pk DEADLINE - 31st of October 2026

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🎉 More open research is here! 🌍📚 🔓 From Volume 25 (2026), all our articles accepted will be #OpenAccess! 🤝 Thanks to @ecpr.bsky.social’s partnership with @universitypress.cambridge.org. ✨ #OpenAccessWeek buff.ly/0LVvQ1H

⏰️ Not long left! 📣 Contribute to a Special Issue of our journal📣 The editors are accepting proposals for Special Issues in 2027 on the theme: 'The political challenges facing the world today'. ⏰️ Submissions are open until Saturday 31 October 👉️ buff.ly/U1ckbCE

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬 '...powerful analytical tool for understanding populism, legitimisation, and ideological confrontation...' Zhenjun Wang reviews 'Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice (2nd edn.)' by Paul Chilton @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2026 👉️ buff.ly/AiYCMLW

❇️ FirstView - 📊Dataset John F. Brüne, Sophie Potts & Elisabeth Bergherr introduce a structured dataset and ParliamentLab, an interractive application, to support the exploration of voting behavior in the European Parliament from 2004 to 2022. 👉️ buff.ly/sYkYfSG

❇️ FirstView - 🎓️ Teaching&Learning Emilia S. Heo & @felixroesch.bsky.social explore the pedagogical use of artistic means in international relations by investigating drawing as a creatinve learning method to understand peace&war. 👉️ buff.ly/7ZyCKlb

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬 ‘...concise, rigorous & highly teachable...’ @karolinanugumanova.bsky.social reviews "Different and Unequal? Gendered Political Participation in European Democracies." by Bolzendahl & @hildecoffe.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2026 👉️ buff.ly/X7A6LAb

❇️ FirstView - Research @federicazardo.bsky.social intorduces the MigFund dataset, a comprehensive resource that traces the European Union’s financial commitments to migration and asylum from 2000 to 2023. 👉️ buff.ly/rDFeyxR

❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research Jessy Bally extends the use of Bordieu's field theory to analyse democratic innovations, reflecting on the way promoters of democratic innovations constitute a social space a ‘reform space’. 👉️ buff.ly/TMXrqWS

That's everything for our 🍃 September issue🍃 📗Volume 25 Issue 3 🔍 2 Research articles, 🎓️ 2 Teaching&Learning, 📊 1 dataset & 📖 4 Book Reviews 🔓 💯 #OpenAccess ✍️ 15+ contributors 🕵️ & many more anonymous referees 👉️ buff.ly/Cv3KZZE

🍃 September issue 📖 Book Review 💬'...a timely and analytically rich contribution...’ Ondrej Voznak reviews "Great Power Competition and Middle Power Strategies" Edited by Vinod K. Aggarwal & Margaret A. T. Kenney. @springer.springernature.com, 2023 👉https://buff.ly/w5AyBMW"

🍃 September issue 📖 Book Review 💬'...a highly interesting read...’ Katinka Linnamäki reviews ""The Birth and Death of Liberal Democracy in Hungary: The Populist Logic of Polarisation as Hegemony" by @emiliapalonen.bsky.social @helsinkiupress.bsky.social, 2025 👉️ buff.ly/f2jx0Xj

🍃 September issue 📖 Book Review 💬'...a significant contribution to the terminological understanding of the concept...’ Mălina-Maria Rîndașu reviews "Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat: Countering Global Alarmism", by Kurt Weyland @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2024 👉 buff.ly/ho4XGUz

🍃 September issue 📖 Book Review 💬'...an original and valuable addition to the study of populism...’ Guy Gerba @ucc.ie reviews "The Populist Style: Trump, Le Pen and Performances of the Far Right" by @theoaiolfi.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social, 2025 👉 buff.ly/4F9RF8s

🍃 September issue 📄 Policy Commentary Yannis Karagiannis, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social & Alba Tort Llorens explain policy failures in the 2023 revision of EU Horizontal Guidelines by drawing on historical-institutionalist process tracing. 👉 buff.ly/0z4ykJ1

🍃 September issue 📊Dataset @fhublet.bsky.social presents BLUE_EP dataset, covering European Parliament elections between 2019 and 2024 and providing results for 90,000 EU27 Local Administrative Units and 500 parties/list in each election. 👉️ buff.ly/U3oAsYh

🍃 September issue 📊Dataset Olga Lavrinenko introduces the FEMPOWER dataset, covering the period 1980–2023 for around 9,000 women’s organisations active worldwide. 👉️ buff.ly/StWswFM

🍃 September issue 🎓Teaching&Learning  S. Gherghina, G.M. Fuentes & P. Tap identify how political science courses prepares students for activities within political parties by considering interviews with political science students from Romania, Spain and the UK. 👉️ buff.ly/Nu4BzlM

🍃 September issue 🔍️ Research Weiqing Song, Mengdie Zhou, & Ziqing Yang use a combination of bibliometric analysis and documentary analysis of Chinese scholarly literature to reveal the Chinese understanding of European strategic autonomy (ESA). 👉 buff.ly/f2asS9c

🍃 September issue 🔍️ Research Jacob Cox and Austin Horng-En Wang explore whether blame-shifting strategies extend beyond domestic political competition to external actors. 👉 buff.ly/UmdihZu

🍃 September Issue Out Now!🍃 Volume 2️⃣5️⃣ Issue 3️⃣ 📗For our third issue of the year, with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, we explore populism, governance, public policy and international relations. 👉️ buff.ly/Cv3KZZE

❇️ FirstView - 📖 Book Review 💬'...undoubtedly a must-read masterpiece...’ Brent H. F. Yan reviews "Supernatural Politics: Mao Zedong and the Drive to Eliminate Religion in China, 1949–79" by S. A. Smith. ( @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2026) 👉https://buff.ly/faDRaYi

Thank you so much to all the colleagues who packed the room today! And a huge thank you to Daphne, Cristobal, Luca, Amanda, Luana and Simon for your generosity, participation, and fantastic insights. Thanks again everyone!

EPS Roundtable on 'Resisting Illiberalism' is in full swing!🐸🪧 Chaired by EPS Editor @ljramiro.bsky.social & an exceptional group of scholars @dafnoukos.bsky.social, C Rovira Kaltwasser, @lucatomini.bsky.social, A Driscoll, @luanarusso.bsky.social & @simonbornschier.bsky.social. #ecprgc2026

Attending #ecprgc26? Join us for a roundtable on Illiberalism with an exceptional group of scholars D Halikiopoulou @dafnoukos.bsky.social C Rovira Kaltwasser L Tomini @lucatomini.bsky.social A Driscoll L Russo @luanarusso.bsky.social S Bornschier @simonbornschier.bsky.social Thu 10/09 14:00

📚️ Looking for free and engaging literature to read on your journey to the #ecprgc26? 👀 Take a look at our curated collection of standout articles & Loop Posts on #resistingilliberalism and join us for our panel on Thursday 10th of September! 👉 buff.ly/LYEl3OJ

❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research @manuelkogel.bsky.social & @zinnatullin.bsky.social synthesise causal evidence on affective polarisation, providing a valuable overview of contemporary research. 👉️ buff.ly/eFEgq3S

📣 Not long till #ecprgc26 Join our EPS Featured Roundtable on 'Resisting Illiberalism' chaired by EPS Editor @ljramiro.bsky.social. See you soon 🐸 🪧 👉️ buff.ly/xQZzh0s

📣 Can't wait to see you at #ecprgc26 💭 Exchange ideas with EPS Editor - Luis Ramiro Book your slot here 👉️ buff.ly/uNVPBmE

⭐️ Free to Read ⭐️ 🐸 Will you be attending the EPS Roundtable on Resisting Illiberalism at the #ecprgc26? 👀 Take a look at our curated collection of standout articles & Loop Posts on #resistingilliberalism and join us for our panel on Thursday 10th of September! 👉 buff.ly/LYEl3OJ

📣 3 weeks to #ecprgc26 Come and join us to the EPS Featured Routable on 'Resisting Illiberalism' chaired by our own @ljramiro.bsky.social. We can't wait to see you there 🐸🪧 👉️ buff.ly/xQZzh0s

❇️ FirstView - 📊Dataset @fhublet.bsky.social presents BLUE_EP dataset, covering European Parliament elections between 2019 and 2024 and providing results for 90,000 EU27 Local Administrative Units and 500 parties/list in each election. 👉️ buff.ly/U3oAsYh

We hope you've enjoyed the ☀️ June Issue ☀️ ✒️ Edited by Linda Basile & Stella Ladi 📖 @ljramiro.bsky.social 👏 Thanks to all our brilliant contributors & to the anonymous reviewers 🕵️ who help to make each manuscript the best it can be

That's everything from our ☀️June Issue☀️ 📗Volume 25 Issue 2 🌟 1 Special Issue, 🗣️ 1 Debate, 🔍 7 Research articles, 💼 2 on the Profession, 📊 1 dataset & 📖 3 Book Reviews 🔓 💯 #OpenAccess ✍️ 30+ contributors 🕵️ & many more anonymous referees 👉️ buff.ly/gaA1mHj

⭐️ FREE to read ⭐️ 📣 Will you be at #ecprgc26 in September? Why not take a look 👀 at our curated collection of standout articles & Loop Posts on #resistingilliberalism and join us for our panel on Thursday 10th of September! 👉 buff.ly/LYEl3OJ

☀️ June Issue 📖 Book Review 💬'...an innovative approach...’ Mariana Vahlis reviews "Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro", Edited by @jpolga.bsky.social & Raul Sanchez Urribarri @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2025 👉https://buff.ly/82Ml3uG

☀️ June Issue 📖 Book Review 💬'One of the book’s greatest strengths is its commitment to the realist paradigm’ Greg Shaw reviews "The EU’s Strategic Dilemma in the Ukraine War", by Viktor Jakupec @springer.springernature.com, 2025 👉 buff.ly/6BStSqq

📣 New from EPS: Volume 25, Issue 2 @epsjournal.bsky.social 💻️ Browse topics on democratic innovations, democratic accountability, transnational governance, political participation and digitalisation buff.ly/xW5Pp6U All articles are #OpenAccess on @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org 👇️

💥 Political Violence and Radicalism: #OpenAccess Collection 🎙️ Complementing #ecprgc26 roundtable moderated by @epsrjournal.bsky.social and @ejprjournal.bsky.social eds Featuring research from @prxjournal.bsky.social, @epsjournal.bsky.social, @ejir.bsky.social, & @ecprtheloop.bsky.social

☀️ June Issue 📖 Book Review 💬'...begins with a useful engagement with the history and sociology of public intellectuals...’ Tyler Robinson reviews "How Slavoj Became Žižek: The Digital Making of a Public Intellectual" by Eliran Bar-El @uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025 👉 buff.ly/VSbU5IR

📣 We can't wait to see you all at #ecprgc26 🐸 Resisting Illiberalism 📆 Thursday 10th of September ⏰ 14:00 - 15:45 CEST 📌 Faculty of International and Political Studies, Ground Floor, Room: 027 ➡️ buff.ly/xQZzh0s

☀️ June Issue 🌟 Special Issue @robertofalanga.bsky.social @inescampos.bsky.social Doris Fuchs & Graham Smith conclude this Special issue by illustrating how democratic innovations have developed in different ways across Europe, Latin America and Australia. 👉️ buff.ly/zHyxkJA

☀️June Issue 🌟 Special Issue @stephene.bsky.social & @oliverescobar.bsky.social compares UK historical trajectories of democratic innovation via collaborative governance, participatory budgeting, referendums and mini-publics. 👉️ buff.ly/IJ4rzns

NEW ISSUE from @epsjournal.bsky.social - European Political Science - Volume 25 - Issue 2 - https://cup.org/3RQzTiT cc @ecpr.bsky.social

📣 Contribute to a Special Issue of our journal, 📗 European Political Science (EPS) @epsjournal.bsky.social is accepting proposals for Special Issues in 2027 on the theme: 'The political challenges facing the world today'. ⏰️ Submissions are open until Saturday 31 October buff.ly/U1ckbCE

Latest issue from @epsjournal.bsky.social - European Political Science - Volume 25 - Issue 2 - https://cup.org/3RQzTiT #OpenAccess

☀️ June Issue 🌟Special Issue Francesco Veri & @nenadstojanovic.bsky.social examine how configurations of three key institutional dimensions – consensus democracy, federalism, & direct democracy – shape the adoption of minipublics in Switzerland 👉 buff.ly/iIQvGRS

☀️ June Issue 🌟 Special Issue Ernesto Ganuza & Alfredo Ramos analyses, though the sociological concept of 'field', the expansion of democratic innovations in Spain. 👉️ buff.ly/51hnwG8