Prof David Farrell, UCD
@davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social
Full Professor UCD Politics. Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Member of the Academia Europaea. Representative politics, electoral systems, deliberative minipublics https://people.ucd.ie/david.farrell he/him. Personal account.
Thanks for sharing. And congratulations
🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Thanks for sharing. And congratulations
Couch(es) potatoes
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Couch(es) potatoes
The Irish government needs to take this issue far, far more seriously than it has to-date. By all means hold on to the neutrality agenda if that is the view of government, but not spending adequately on defence is a serious abdication of responsibility.
Ouch
Despite these high stakes, Ireland has no dedicated intelligence agency, just four working navy vessels and the smallest defence budget in the EU. In fact, the only thing the Irish navy can do when it spots a suspicious ship lurking is say “hello”.
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Irish government needs to take this issue far, far more seriously than it has to-date. By all means hold on to the neutrality agenda if that is the view of government, but not spending adequately on defence is a serious abdication of responsibility.
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Party People!
Researching how parties defend or challenge democracy? Working on far-left/right parties or tech’s role in shaping them? Using innovative methods such as experiments?
➡️Submit your panel/paper to our Section “Political Parties and the Future of Democracy” h7.cl/1jU0Q
⏱️5 January
#ecprgc
Researching how parties defend or challenge democracy? Working on far-left/right parties or tech’s role in shaping them? Using innovative methods such as experiments?
➡️Submit your panel/paper to our Section “Political Parties and the Future of Democracy” h7.cl/1jU0Q
⏱️5 January
#ecprgc
📣 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 #ecpgrc26
📍 2026 General Conference, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University
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📍 2026 General Conference, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University
🔔 Submit across 68 sections buff.ly/l3a5JY5
📆 Proposal deadline: Mon 5 Jan buff.ly/4BpQzsQ
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General Conference 2026, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
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November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Party People!
Researching how parties defend or challenge democracy? Working on far-left/right parties or tech’s role in shaping them? Using innovative methods such as experiments?
➡️Submit your panel/paper to our Section “Political Parties and the Future of Democracy” h7.cl/1jU0Q
⏱️5 January
#ecprgc
Researching how parties defend or challenge democracy? Working on far-left/right parties or tech’s role in shaping them? Using innovative methods such as experiments?
➡️Submit your panel/paper to our Section “Political Parties and the Future of Democracy” h7.cl/1jU0Q
⏱️5 January
#ecprgc
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🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
That's a cowardly act by the BBC, which has great potential to draw even more attention to the fact you wished to state but that they're censoring.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
That's a cowardly act by the BBC, which has great potential to draw even more attention to the fact you wished to state but that they're censoring.
Crumb removers at our Bull Island coffee stop this afternoon
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Crumb removers at our Bull Island coffee stop this afternoon
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After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
Meet Tilly our new girl
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Meet Tilly our new girl
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This, from the Guardian, is Ryanair at its very worst.
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This, from the Guardian, is Ryanair at its very worst.
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
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We had a time. RIP David Hanly.
# MorningIreland
# MorningIreland
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We had a time. RIP David Hanly.
# MorningIreland
# MorningIreland
This looks fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
A very timely research project on the myth that bringing far-right parties into government coalitions will somehow “expose” them — a strategy that simply doesn’t work.
📣 New op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung: What the data say about the “Brandmauer”
I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies
➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election)
tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2
I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies
➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election)
tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This looks fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
Ganging up on foxy
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Ganging up on foxy
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Government departments, agencies, media organisations, journalists and universities (!) - anyone for whom truth actually matters - get off, delete or at least suspend X accounts
#XOff
#XOff
Couldn’t agree more
Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Government departments, agencies, media organisations, journalists and universities (!) - anyone for whom truth actually matters - get off, delete or at least suspend X accounts
#XOff
#XOff
Couldn’t agree more
Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Couldn’t agree more
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UCD Graduate Studies and I have produced a Research Group Handbook template for supervisors and researchers.
The template outlines core topics, resources, and policies that groups can adapt to their needs.
➡️ Template and details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...
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The template outlines core topics, resources, and policies that groups can adapt to their needs.
➡️ Template and details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...
@ucddublin.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
UCD Graduate Studies and I have produced a Research Group Handbook template for supervisors and researchers.
The template outlines core topics, resources, and policies that groups can adapt to their needs.
➡️ Template and details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...
@ucddublin.bsky.social
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The template outlines core topics, resources, and policies that groups can adapt to their needs.
➡️ Template and details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...
@ucddublin.bsky.social
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We bring together timely and original scholarship with the aim to explore how genAI can both contribute to and provide solutions to disinformation.
The special section was completed as a follow up to our international scientific conference organised by @edmo-eu.bsky.social at @ascor.bsky.social
The special section was completed as a follow up to our international scientific conference organised by @edmo-eu.bsky.social at @ascor.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
We bring together timely and original scholarship with the aim to explore how genAI can both contribute to and provide solutions to disinformation.
The special section was completed as a follow up to our international scientific conference organised by @edmo-eu.bsky.social at @ascor.bsky.social
The special section was completed as a follow up to our international scientific conference organised by @edmo-eu.bsky.social at @ascor.bsky.social
Big bird’s arrived
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Big bird’s arrived
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Trump doesn’t have to call on House Republican to vote to release the file.
Trump can order Bondi and Patel to release the files. Tomorrow.
The question is, has he already ordered Bondi and Patel to destroy some of the files after they went through them months ago.
Trump can order Bondi and Patel to release the files. Tomorrow.
The question is, has he already ordered Bondi and Patel to destroy some of the files after they went through them months ago.
Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Trump doesn’t have to call on House Republican to vote to release the file.
Trump can order Bondi and Patel to release the files. Tomorrow.
The question is, has he already ordered Bondi and Patel to destroy some of the files after they went through them months ago.
Trump can order Bondi and Patel to release the files. Tomorrow.
The question is, has he already ordered Bondi and Patel to destroy some of the files after they went through them months ago.
Sunny Howth from cloudy Dalkey
November 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Sunny Howth from cloudy Dalkey
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Join me on a live podcast next Thursday, November 20th, to celebrate World Philosophy Day.
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Join me on a live podcast next Thursday, November 20th, to celebrate World Philosophy Day.
Our temporary lodger who we’re calling Arthur. Found abandoned in the Clonskeagh area
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our temporary lodger who we’re calling Arthur. Found abandoned in the Clonskeagh area
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Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.
Glad to know we're in the same club :)
It's even funnier than this - because the survey is on harassment and everyone is now feeling very harassed...
An expert survey I was contacted by exposed its recipient list and now I'm in a "remove me too please" snowball. Don't people ever learn not to "reply all"?
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Glad to know we're in the same club :)