Léonie de Jonge

🥩 Protecting the Prosciutto, Saving the Schnitzel 🍗 Hot off the press: our new exploratory study in Environmental Sociology on why the far right mobilizes against lab-grown meat. We compare 5 countries (🇺🇸🇳🇱🇩🇪🇦🇹🇮🇹) & see interesting patterns 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2325... 🥂 @manesweisskircher.bsky.social 👏

Across Europe and US, far-right parties are framing cultured meat as a threat to national identity, traditional food, and rural livelihoods. Our article of the week unpacks the links between far-right politics and food. By @manesweisskircher.bsky.social & @leoniedejonge.bsky.social buff.ly/8l48sw3

Jetzt online: Spannender Vortrag von @pabloschmelzer.bsky.social zu rechter Gewalt in den 1990ern, dahinterstehende Ordnungsvorstellungen & staatliche Reaktionen, und Kommentar von @leoniedejonge.bsky.social aus aktueller, internationaler & politikwiss. Perspektive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWzj...

Een partij zonder uitgesproken ideologisch profiel, zoals Mona Keijzers Project2029, maakt weinig kans om zich af te zetten tegen de concurrentie. Zeker op de rechterflank, waar de politieke ruimte beperkt is. 👉 www.groene.nl/artikel/de-p...

📣 Nieuwe column voor de @groene.nl, over de politieke ark van Mona Keijzer www.groene.nl/artikel/de-p...

📝 New paper in Party Politics (open access) with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @janberz.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social @sarahwagner.bsky.social 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... When a mainstream party accommodates the radical right, do its potential coalition partners pay too? 🧵

#NeuesausderForschung Neue Paper & Publikaitonen zu: "New" Right Thought, emerging epicenters of autocratization, violations of cordon sanitaires, cultural backlash & cultured meat.

@manesweisskircher.bsky.social & @leoniedejonge.bsky.social position the strategic deployment of the far-right's agitation against lab-grown meat in a broader fight around certain national identity markers, influencing policy outcomes and the stance of center-right parties:

This is a wonderful study @lwestheuser.bsky.social & Koen Damhuis, showing the unique contribution qualitative research can make to a field dominated by quantitative studies (but, of course, created by qualitative scholars). 👏

We are so excited to launch the call for papers for our second @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference in Rotterdam next year. Please consider submitting a proposal! Big thanks for Ofra Klein and her team at @essb-erasmusuni010.bsky.social for making this possible 👏

📖 This is such a thoughtful, thought-provoking and deeply challenging paper by Anna Jochymek, on the methodological risks and advantages of women’s positionality in researching the far right. Plus: nine scholarly commentaries that engage with this piece. 👏 doi.org/10.1111/amet...

The final paper of my PhD is now out in @democratization.bsky.social! I ask how and why regime type impacts far-right mobilization. My starting point was a paradox: the far right is global, yet most of what we know about it comes from research on a handful of countries in Western Europe 1/9

Enorm belangrijke bijdrage van @sterknikki.bsky.social en collega’s over de normalisering van uiterst rechts rechts gedachtegoed op tv: "Neonazi’s verweren zich bij de rechter met ‘op televisie zeggen ze het ook’": www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

New book out 🔥 The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right. (Elements in the History and Politics of Fascism @universitypress.cambridge.org) How is the success of the Iberian far right linked to the memory of Franco and Salazar? doi.org/10.1017/9781009588072

📣 Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl - nog maar eens over de normalisering van uiterst rechts gedachtegoed. Directe aanleiding was het rapport van AIVD en NCTV over de strategische normalisering vanuit de rechts-extremistische beweging. 👇

In unserem Strategiepapier „The day After“ ist vom Verstummen der Bundeszentrale für politischen Bildung die Rede - gestern gab es eine interessante Bundestagsdebatte zur Zukunft der BpB, die einen Eindruck in Anlässe für vorauseilendem Gehorsam vermittelt www.ardmediathek.de/video/phoeni...

De ongeevenaarde @leoniedejonge.bsky.social over democratische weerbaarheid en uiterst rechts #mustread

👇 Belangrijk en bijzonder actueel rapport van NCTV en AIVD over strategische normalisering vanuit extreemrechtse kringen. Het doel is, om de kennis en het bewustzijn hierover vergroten. www.nctv.nl/actueel/nieu...

Meanwhile in the Netherlands…

Aus gegebenem Anlass. Dieses Papier von Kolleg:innen bündelt Strategien für die demokratische Zivilgesellschaft angesichts einer rechtsextremen Landesregierung. Nicht normalisieren, nicht vereinzeln lassen, nicht abhängig bleiben, nicht nur reagieren, sich jetzt vorbereiten. tinyurl.com/ycy492pj

Wilders is hondsdol, Stoffer is in de Heer, De Vos is fascistoïde. Dan lijkt Eerdmans een keurig alternatief

The curious case of Belgium 🇧🇪- Read more about it here doi.org/10.1017/gov.... and here 👇

🔥 👏 @akm0803.bsky.social

🏆 Are you an early career researcher? 🎤 Did you present at the @ecpr.bsky.social general conference as part of the Extremism & Democracy section (@ecpr-ead.bsky.social)? 🥁 Then your paper qualifies for the 2026 E&D Best Paper Prize! 🖇️ Submit by 18 Sept. to ecprextremismanddemocracy@gmail.com

🏋️‍♀️ Tomorrow (Thursday), my two brilliant PhD candidates are presenting their fascinating research on far-right fitness. 💪Their paper examines how different far-right actors use fitness practices for political purposes. Not to be missed! #ecprgc26 @ecpr.bsky.social ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

opportunity structures: L. Manucci. “Back to the Future? The Electoral Breakthrough of Far-Right Parties”. In: Government and Opposition (2024), pp. 1-21. dx.doi.org/10.1017/gov.2024.26.

🏋️‍♀️ Tomorrow (Thursday), my two brilliant PhD candidates are presenting their fascinating research on far-right fitness. 💪Their paper examines how different far-right actors use fitness practices for political purposes. Not to be missed! #ecprgc26 @ecpr.bsky.social ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

🏛️ What a timing to discuss the #mainstreaming and #normalisation of the #farright with so many colleagues and friends at the #ecprgc26 in Kraków this week. Happy for the exchange and for the opportunity to present some ongoing work with @leoniedejonge.bsky.social tomorrow at 11:15! 📝

Column | Hoog tijd dat alle democratische spelers gezamenlijk de instrumenten van de weerbare democratie daadwerkelijk in werking zetten. www.groene.nl/artikel/aan-...

If you like cats 🐈‍⬛ and are curious about why far-right politicians like them, too, don’t miss our (furry) presentation (with the great @sabinedvolk.bsky.social & Esmee Bakker) this afternoon @ecpr.bsky.social #ecprgc26 ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl — mijn take op de deelstaatverkiezing in Saksen-Anhalt: het succes van de AfD is nadrukkelijk geen Oost-Duits fenomeen en zeker niet alleen een Oost-Duits probleem. 🗳️ www.groene.nl/artikel/aan-...

🪩 Busy conferencing with the @unituebingen.bsky.social IRex PoliSci team in Krakow this week for the @ecpr.bsky.social general conference. You will find us & exciting new research (mostly) here, in the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social section: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... 🐈‍⬛

Wednesday, at 18:15: we’ll have the business meeting of the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social. Do join us — it’s a very supportive community of scholars, very valuable in such challenging times! @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @larboe.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social @sajuria.com

Off to the @ecpr.bsky.social Conference in Kraków to present and discuss research on the far right, political violence, and democratic resilience. These topics feel, unfortunately, all the more timely in light of yesterday’s election in Germany and broader developments across Europe.

Nach der Landtagswahl in #Sachsen-Anhalt stellt sich die Frage mit neuer Dringlichkeit: Würde Regierungsverantwortung die AfD „entzaubern“? 📊 Unsere Analyse von 1.307 Regierungen in 57 Demokratien zeigt: Die radikale Rechte wird dadurch nicht schwächer, im Schnitt gewinnt sie rund 6 Prozentpunkte.

📚 Hot off the press: In this new piece, Gabriele Abels and I look at the role of Germany’s #federal electoral system in the rise of the #AfD – a particularly relevant question ahead of the upcoming elections in #SaxonyAnhalt and beyond. 👉 doi.org/10.5771/9783...

The hard copy just arrived at my office 🤩. No better way to start your @ecpr.bsky.social conference than with this panel!

Der Politikwissenschaftler Christian Stecker @pluggedchris.bsky.social forderte in seinem Beitrag bei uns flexible Mehrheiten statt Koalitionszwang & hermetischer Brandmauer gegen die AfD. Julia Reuschenbach @juliareuschenbach.bsky.social & Frank Decker sind anderer Meinung. Hier geht es zur Debatte

🎂 So happy to learn that our article on young #AfD voters is now fully grown up, with proper volume/page numbers. 🙃 I'm even happier to see that it's the most-read article in #GermanPolitics. 🤩 Thank you all for your interest! 💘 doi.org/10.1080/0964... For our main findings, see the thread below. 👇

Für die LpB BaWü durften wir das Dossier zum Thema Rechtsextremismus überarbeiten. Es bietet einen wissenschaftlich fundierten Überblick über Begriffe, Akteur:innen, Strategien, Ursachen & Auswirkungen. Danke an @sabinedvolk.bsky.social die tolle Koordination! 📖 www.demokratie-bw.de/rechtsextrem...

populism and the #RadicalRight L. de Jonge. “The Populist Radical Right and the Media in the Benelux: Friend or Foe?” In: The International Journal of Press/Politics 24.2 (2019), pp. 189-209. dx.doi.org/10.1177/1940161218821098.

All those surprised by this should remember that, back in 2020, Politico already included Götz Kubitschek and Viktor Orbán among its "Dreamers" in its “Class of 2020“, an annual ranking of “the people shaping European politics and policy“.

The federal government isn’t America’s only authoritarian institution: Backlash at Yale to its negotiations with Trump shine a light on the danger of smaller authoritarian structures in civil society. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sachsen-Anhalt und MV sind an die AfD verloren? Noch nicht. Denn in beiden Ländern stemmen sich weiter Engagierte gegen Rechtsextremismus und wollen bei den Wahlen das Ruder noch rumreißen. Wir haben ihnen die taz-Titelseite gewidmet und 19 der Aktiven auf 4 Seiten porträtiert taz.de/Vor-den-Wahl...

"Dus wat te doen met de pen?" NRC Ombudsman over extreemrechts www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Wir beobachten nicht nur die Rückabwicklung der Fortschritte, die dank #metoo und anderen Bewegungen erreicht wurden, sondern die Umdeutung von jungen Männern als Opfer progressiver Politik. Dass das jetzt sogar zunehmend von den Grünen kommt, ist überraschend ... www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

3 Lesenswerte Artikel zum #noAfD Parteitag in #Erfurt ⏺️ Anika Leister für @t-online.de www.t-online.de/nachrichten/... ⏺️ @akm0803.bsky.social & @fabihillebrand.bsky.social für @spiegel.de www.spiegel.de/politik/deut... ⏺️ @sebfriedrich.bsky.social für Überrechts www.ueberrechts.de/p/afd-partei...

☀️ Day two of the @ecpr.bsky.social E&D summer school on concepts & methods for research on the far right. Today is all about the politics of visibility, media access and social media platforms.