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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti
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WZB Berlin Social Science Center/FU Berlin
Web: http://saldiviagonzatti.com/
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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social · Oct 20
"Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda" - for the @theguardian.com, @ashifakassam.bsky.social summed up our study.

@tevoelker.bsky.social and I answered some questions to put our results into context. Give it a read!

Study: bit.ly/4hhRFUN
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 18
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely. The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
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juliet-turner.bsky.social
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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chjncke.bsky.social
Ende letzter Woche stufte das US-Außenministerium #AntifaOst als ausländische Terrororganisation ein. Mit dem epd sprach über das Label:

www.evangelisch.de/inhalte/2496...
www.evangelisch.de
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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comptext.bsky.social
SAVE THE DATE! We are pleased to announce that the 8th COMPTEXT Conference will take place at the Institute of Data and AI (lnkd.in/ebN7za_Q) of the University of Birmingham, 23-25 April 2026, with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social serving as the lead local organiser. Call for Papers coming soon!
University of Birmingham photo
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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mikecowburn.bsky.social
🚨🎉New Publication Friday 🎉🚨

Campaigning in the Age of Platforms: A Longitudinal Analysis of German Parties & Politicians

w/ @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social & @andersoloflarsson.bsky.social

Out now in Political Communication.

#polisky #commsky

doi.org/10.1080/1058...
Campaigning in the Age of Platforms: A Longitudinal Analysis of German Parties & Politicians
Social media platforms now play a central role in election campaigns for parties and politicians. Yet comparatively little research has compared how these actors use these platforms during and outs...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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hajogu.bsky.social
💡New publication with @tevoelker.bsky.social and @swenhutter.bsky.social:

"Civil Society and Democracy" In: List, R.A., Anheier, H.K., Toepler, S. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society

link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
Civil Society and Democracy
link.springer.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
miami herald apparent scoop: venezuela strikes are imminent www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...
www.miamiherald.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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wystrach.de
Welchen Beitrag leisten »Mainstream-Parteien« zur Normalisierung von #rechtsextreme​m Gedankengut? Wie die extreme #Rechte die #Politik der Mitte beeinflusst, haben @tevoelker.bsky.social und @dasalgon.bsky.social von der @wzb.bsky.social in ihrer #Studie zu »Far-right #AgendaSetting« erforscht:
Wie die extreme Rechte die Politik der Mitte beeinflusst
Welchen Beitrag leisten Parteien der Mitte in westlichen Demokratien zur Normalisierung von rechtsextremem Gedankengut und Themen? Einen erheblichen, wie Teresa Völker und Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti...
www.wzb.eu
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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stephen-cornford.bsky.social
Next week my partner, Lenka Vrablikova, will become a liver donor to her identical twin Katka. They are raising money to cover the costs this life-saving surgery . Please donate if you are able to:

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-katka...
October 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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argohdes.bsky.social
We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)!

If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
October 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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tevoelker.bsky.social
I'm very excited, extremely grateful and deeply honoured to receive the Best Dissertation Award from the German Political Science Association(DVPW)!
dvpw.bsky.social DVPW @dvpw.bsky.social · 27d
🏆 Der #DVPW #Dissertationspreis 2025 wird geteilt und geht an Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social und Julian Michel @julianpolsci.bsky.social!

Beide Arbeiten leisten einen herausragenden Beitrag zur Erforschung der #Stabilität von #Demokratie.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🥳
Graue Kachel mit weißer und schwarzer Schrift. Unten Links das Logo der DVPW. Am rechten Seitenrand Portraits von Teresa Sophia Völker und Julian Michel. Text: Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft. Dissertationspreis 2025: "Mainstreaming the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates" (Freie Universität Berlin) Dr. Teresa Sophie Völker, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). "The Subnational Roots of Democratic Stability" (University of California, Los Angeles) Prof. Julian Michel, Hong Kong Baptist University.
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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mierkezat.bsky.social
Our recent paper on civil society and cleavage formation (w @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social) was featured in the Research-in-Brief series at @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social. Check out their summary of the project here 😊 cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/news/civil-s...
Civil Society, Cleavages, and Political Parties in Western Europe
CDDRL Research-in-Brief [4-minute read]
cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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chrauh.bsky.social
@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:

#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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chjncke.bsky.social
Our new article "Far-right contention in civil society"@europeansocieties.bsky.social is out now: direct.mit.edu/euso/article...

Check the thread below for a summary ⬇️
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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curdknupfer.bsky.social
I contributed some quotes citing our research to this @euobserver.com piece on the German center-right's relation to the far right.
🔗 euobserver.com/migration/ar...

TDLR: We are witnessing a shift in the party of Merkel's "Yes we can" towards ethno-nationalist frames widely used by the far right.
Germany's Merz under pressure from CDU to abandon 'firewall' against AfD
As Germany prepares for five state elections next year, chancellor Friedrich Merz's center-right CDU faces a dilemma over how to handle the surging influence and popularity of the far-right Alternativ...
euobserver.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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hajogu.bsky.social
💫New paper out with @chjncke.bsky.social in @europeansocieties.bsky.social:

📝"Far-right contention in civil society: Multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets"

🧵A short thread about the paper:
Title and Abstract of the paper "Far-right contention in civil society: multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets". Authors: Hans Jonas Gunzelmann, Christin Jänicke Abstract: Over the past decade, the far right has been on the rise in civil societies across Europe. Civil society organizations have been challenged by the far right in governments, political parties, and within their own ranks. However, there is little systematic research on how the far right stirs conflict within civil society. Civil society research has tended to ignore ‘uncivil’ society and has instead focused on social capital and cohesion. Research on the noninstitutional side of the far right has been growing but has largely neglected the consequences for established civil society organizations and their members. This article addresses these blind spots by providing a conceptual framework and a methodology for studying the far right in civil society, which is applied to a case study. First, we construct a conceptual framework that adapts the contentious politics paradigm to the study of civil society. We delineate far-right contention within civil society and construct typologies of the action repertoires, actors, and targets. Second, we develop a methodology that combines different lenses to expand our view on far-right contention in civil society. We propose a mixed-methods research design for mapping far-right contentious events. Third, we apply our conceptual framework and methodology to the case of Germany by empirically mapping the action repertoires, actors and targets. Our findings fundamentally shift the scholarly understanding of the far right in civil society: We find that far-right contention in civil society goes well beyond adversarial actions by far-right actors. This has important implications for researchers and practitioners.
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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ejprjournal.bsky.social
Delighted to see @theguardian.com covering the findings of a 🇩🇪 study by @dasalgon.bsky.social and @tevoelker.bsky.social on how political opponents can unintentionally amplify far-right narratives #AfD 🗞️

📘 Read their article in our First View, or check out the coverage 📰
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
buff.ly
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
Mit WDR 3 Resonanzen habe ich heute über die Aussagen von Friedrich Merz gesprochen, darüber wie sein Kurs die radikale Rechte normalisiert und stärkt und warum er vielleicht mal öfter mit jungen Frauen sprechen sollte.

www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...
Konservativer Anti-Migrationskurs befeuert die AfD
Wenn konservative Kräfte die Narrative von Rechtspopulisten übernehmen, hilft das den Rechts-Außen-Parteien statt sie zu schwächen. Das zeigt die EU-weite Forschung des Politologen Tarik Abou-Chadi.
www1.wdr.de
October 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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tevoelker.bsky.social
Wie die AfD die Rhetorik der anderen Parteien beeinflusst&die Debatte zu Migration bestimmt. Die Ergebnissen unseres Papers mit @dasalgon.bsky.social in der @tagesschau.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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curdknupfer.bsky.social
If you've been reading that fantastic new paper by @dasalgon.bsky.social & @tevoelker.bsky.social on how mainstream parties lose if they adopt far-right issues:
We looked at a case study & found similar dynamics for media.
This was partly based on data from Daniel & Teresa!❤️
bsky.app/profile/curd...
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
dasalgon.bsky.social
"Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda" - for the @theguardian.com, @ashifakassam.bsky.social summed up our study.

@tevoelker.bsky.social and I answered some questions to put our results into context. Give it a read!

Study: bit.ly/4hhRFUN
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 18
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely. The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
Great write-up of an important study by @tevoelker.bsky.social and @dasalgon.bsky.social. Far-right actors have been very successful in setting the political agenda. Many in politics and media still ignore this. They argue "immigration is important to people, hence we need to talk about immigration"
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 18
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely. The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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casmudde.bsky.social
“Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right”

How much more research do journalisten, politicians, pundits and strategists need before they finally change course?
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Reposted by Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti
theguardian.com
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely. The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
dasalgon.bsky.social
In our new article, @tevoelker.bsky.social and I show how far-right actors have increased their influence on mainstream parties' agenda-setting.

For the @euobserver.com, Hannah Kriwah has written about our study, and I had the pleasure to comment on it.

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
Article by the EUobserver on "Mainstream loses control of agenda by mimicking far-right, study finds".
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM