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Romeo Marcantuoni

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Ph.D. candidate at Waseda University and part-time lecturer. Researching the politics of emotion, parties, and conspiracy beliefs with a focus on Japan.

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 19d

The article @robfahey.net and I wrote on Sanseito is finally out (open access). We describe the party’s conspiracy worldview and how it shapes its policies and organizational features. I may do a thread to include the work I have done since finalizing the draft.
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Fighting the Cabal from the Diet: Sanseitō and the Role of Conspiracy as Political Ideology | Asia-Pacific Journal | Cambridge Core

Fighting the Cabal from the Diet: Sanseitō and the Role of Conspiracy as Political Ideology - Volume 23

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 5h

What do you even do about the damn building

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 22h

The only thing I accept, with reservation, is his song with Hikaru Utada. But it'd still be better without him.

Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 22h

His earlier work as the teenage frontman of a very bad post-hardcore band isn't any better either.

Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 22h

You forgot Skrillex

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 3d

It's like "Romeo and Juliet" meets "West Side Story"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 5d

“Please look away Atreyu, I don’t want you to see me lock in”

molly ✨ @brat.fm · 5d

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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 5d

Today I showed the designers that you can name cells in spreadsheets and use the names in formulas (i.e. "=PLAYER_LEVEL" instead of "=C12"). You can then use the Name Manager to track or rename them. I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess not, so sharing that tidbit here.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 6d

My main problem with this is not so much the dominance of quantitative methods in “top-20” journals but rather the dominance of the exclusive use of quantitative methods — in many cases causality could and should have been established by a (nested) qualitative study. *

Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 6d

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 6d

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 7d

Worth noting Prof. Curtis can still fill a room at LDP headquarters when he comes to Japan. He's well-connected in the party and has lots of friends in senior leadership, so I doubt he says any of this lightly or casually.

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 7d

It’s kind of a fact of life that the LDP will collapse. Nothing lasts forever, and they have been on a downward slope in resources, members, and votes since the 70s.

Emily @suika.bsky.social · 7d

"[Gerald Curtis, professor emeritus of political science at Columbia University] said Takaichi's victory is 'going to hasten the decline and the eventual collapse of the LDP.'"

"Curtis does not expect much to be accomplished by Takaichi as prime minister."

Gerald Curtis: Takaichi victory hastens LDP's collapse; 'not if, when'

Veteran Japan watcher worried about what comes after the 'most boring election'

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 7d

Matteo Renzi 🇮🇹, Emmanuel Macron 🇫🇷 & Pieter Omtzigt 🇳🇱were all hailed as democratic saviors who would deliver a “post-populist” politics. In different ways, all three have done incredible damage to the politics in their countries, leaving the “populists” (= far right) even more entrenched.

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 8d

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 8d

I bought some climbing shoes that are marketed as good at exactly that verb so idk

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 8d

In many ways I consider myself to be rather a fan of inefficiencies

Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 8d

I agree with a lot he says in this speech, but I doubt I agree with his definition of “efficiency” which seems more or less aimed at (what I would argue are) complementary liberal institutions

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 9d

My subway take: AI will actually be good because it’ll make the internet so useless that we will have to reset our relationship to it

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Rob Fahey @robfahey.net · 10d

A meme format from Arrested Development. Two characters are speaking; one asks the other, "how about we try to win back votes from a populist right-wing party by publicly legitimising and agreeing with their agenda?" The other responds, "well, did it work for those people?" The first character replies, "No, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... but it might work for us."

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 10d

Do they not have political scientists consulting at LDP HQ Everything we know about trying to win back votes from anti-establishment far-right parties says that you can't do it unless you turn them into a pariah (make explicit that coalition/cooperation with Sanseito is against the LDP's values)

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 10d

The Takaichi win in specific but also the whole LDP presidential election in general is likely to put wind in the sails of Sanseitō, which has seen its economic and law-and-order messaging on immigration become a focal point. We can expect more parroting ultimately benefiting the far right

How established parties reduce other parties’ electoral support: the strategy of parroting the pariah

In every democracy, established political parties are challenged by other parties. Established parties react in various ways to other parties’ presence. A key hypothesis in the relevant literature ...

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 10d

We understood most of the other variables at play here, but perhaps we underestimated the gender dynamics in the new party landscape that's unfolding.

Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 10d

The first post was August. This is September. Note as well the higher share of female undecideds.

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Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social · 10d

If that is in part the play here, then that raises questions about just how conservative she can be.

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