Duncan McDonnell
@duncanmcdonnell.com
Professor of Politics | 🇮🇪🇦🇺| Australian Research Council Future Fellow | populism and party youth wings | https://duncanmcdonnell.com/
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Duncan McDonnell
@duncanmcdonnell.com
· Oct 28
I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties".
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
I'm still jet-lagged from South America so getting on a plane was the last thing I wanted to do, but...once I arrived, it was good to be in Melbourne at the AusPSA conference and catch up with old friends.
And today I had the pleasure of presenting in front of living Australian legend Antony Green!
And today I had the pleasure of presenting in front of living Australian legend Antony Green!
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I'm still jet-lagged from South America so getting on a plane was the last thing I wanted to do, but...once I arrived, it was good to be in Melbourne at the AusPSA conference and catch up with old friends.
And today I had the pleasure of presenting in front of living Australian legend Antony Green!
And today I had the pleasure of presenting in front of living Australian legend Antony Green!
Reposted by Duncan McDonnell
A rare benefit of being awake in the middle of the night (day 10 of jetlag!): you get to see this drop into your mailbox.
Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.
Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A rare benefit of being awake in the middle of the night (day 10 of jetlag!): you get to see this drop into your mailbox.
Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.
Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.
Also coming very soon (i.e. in 4 hours), I'll be speaking on this AusPSA panel on populism, with a star cast of @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Rachel Busbridge, @benmoffitt.bsky.social (and me).
If I can somehow manage to have a nap before then, I'll be the happiest person in Melbourne.
If I can somehow manage to have a nap before then, I'll be the happiest person in Melbourne.
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Also coming very soon (i.e. in 4 hours), I'll be speaking on this AusPSA panel on populism, with a star cast of @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Rachel Busbridge, @benmoffitt.bsky.social (and me).
If I can somehow manage to have a nap before then, I'll be the happiest person in Melbourne.
If I can somehow manage to have a nap before then, I'll be the happiest person in Melbourne.
A rare benefit of being awake in the middle of the night (day 10 of jetlag!): you get to see this drop into your mailbox.
Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.
Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A rare benefit of being awake in the middle of the night (day 10 of jetlag!): you get to see this drop into your mailbox.
Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.
Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.
Having won this last year, there are few people I'd be happier to see take the title than Ben Moffitt - a truly world-class researcher and a nice guy too!
Rather gobsmacked & honoured to find that I have been named Australia's top researcher in political science by The Australian!
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November 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Having won this last year, there are few people I'd be happier to see take the title than Ben Moffitt - a truly world-class researcher and a nice guy too!
Reposted by Duncan McDonnell
In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @jholloway.bsky.social, Michelle Evans, & I discuss the key findings from our recent @poppublicsphere.bsky.social article on prospective Indigenous candidates:
theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
Indigenous political candidates face less voter bias than parties might think: new research
A world-first study involving 4,000 Australian adults shows political parties shouldn’t assume Indigenous candidates will face voter rejection.
theconversation.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @jholloway.bsky.social, Michelle Evans, & I discuss the key findings from our recent @poppublicsphere.bsky.social article on prospective Indigenous candidates:
theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @jholloway.bsky.social, Michelle Evans, & I discuss the key findings from our recent @poppublicsphere.bsky.social article on prospective Indigenous candidates:
theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
Indigenous political candidates face less voter bias than parties might think: new research
A world-first study involving 4,000 Australian adults shows political parties shouldn’t assume Indigenous candidates will face voter rejection.
theconversation.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @jholloway.bsky.social, Michelle Evans, & I discuss the key findings from our recent @poppublicsphere.bsky.social article on prospective Indigenous candidates:
theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
theconversation.com/indigenous-p...
I didn't have “walking back from the supermarket into the middle of Kaiser’s rally” on my agenda for this evening in Santiago…
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I didn't have “walking back from the supermarket into the middle of Kaiser’s rally” on my agenda for this evening in Santiago…
Reposted by Duncan McDonnell
It was a pleasure to give a seminar at the Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba last Friday about our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) on the transnationalisation of the populist right.
Thanks to Oscar Gracia Landaeta, Andrés Laguna-Tapia & Claudia Muriel for being excellent hosts 💕
Thanks to Oscar Gracia Landaeta, Andrés Laguna-Tapia & Claudia Muriel for being excellent hosts 💕
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It was a pleasure to give a seminar at the Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba last Friday about our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) on the transnationalisation of the populist right.
Thanks to Oscar Gracia Landaeta, Andrés Laguna-Tapia & Claudia Muriel for being excellent hosts 💕
Thanks to Oscar Gracia Landaeta, Andrés Laguna-Tapia & Claudia Muriel for being excellent hosts 💕
Reposted by Duncan McDonnell
🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots
www.cambridge.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
Reposted by Duncan McDonnell
Thrilled that my first (ever!) and first single-authored article is out in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social 🎉
PRR parties have built a shared transnational discourse on issues like immigration & culture wars. But do their digital publics also take part in this discursive transnationalisation?
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PRR parties have built a shared transnational discourse on issues like immigration & culture wars. But do their digital publics also take part in this discursive transnationalisation?
A 🧵
Transnational publics of the populist radical right: patterns of topic convergence across Europe and the United States
In recent years, populist radical right parties (PRRPs) have constructed a shared transnational discourse around issues like immigration and culture wars. However, we do not know how their publics ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Thrilled that my first (ever!) and first single-authored article is out in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social 🎉
PRR parties have built a shared transnational discourse on issues like immigration & culture wars. But do their digital publics also take part in this discursive transnationalisation?
A 🧵
PRR parties have built a shared transnational discourse on issues like immigration & culture wars. But do their digital publics also take part in this discursive transnationalisation?
A 🧵
Tomorrow at UPB in Cochabamba: our final presentation of what has been an excellent South American fieldwork and seminars trip.
I'm looking forward to meeting the faculty and students, seeing a new city, and being at a lower altitude than La Paz for a couple of days.
I'm looking forward to meeting the faculty and students, seeing a new city, and being at a lower altitude than La Paz for a couple of days.
All good things come to an end 🥲
The last seminar of our South American trip (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) will take place at Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba, this Friday.
Looking forward to further exchanges about the transnationalisation of the PRR with UPB students and colleagues!
The last seminar of our South American trip (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) will take place at Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba, this Friday.
Looking forward to further exchanges about the transnationalisation of the PRR with UPB students and colleagues!
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Tomorrow at UPB in Cochabamba: our final presentation of what has been an excellent South American fieldwork and seminars trip.
I'm looking forward to meeting the faculty and students, seeing a new city, and being at a lower altitude than La Paz for a couple of days.
I'm looking forward to meeting the faculty and students, seeing a new city, and being at a lower altitude than La Paz for a couple of days.
It was a pleasure to present today at PUCP in Lima with @ammassarisofia.bsky.social about our research on the transnationalisation of the populist radical right.
Great audience participation & such impressive students too.
Now we have a couple of much needed days off and then move on to Bolivia!
Great audience participation & such impressive students too.
Now we have a couple of much needed days off and then move on to Bolivia!
October 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It was a pleasure to present today at PUCP in Lima with @ammassarisofia.bsky.social about our research on the transnationalisation of the populist radical right.
Great audience participation & such impressive students too.
Now we have a couple of much needed days off and then move on to Bolivia!
Great audience participation & such impressive students too.
Now we have a couple of much needed days off and then move on to Bolivia!
Coming up tomorrow, at PUCP in Lima:
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Coming up tomorrow, at PUCP in Lima:
Reposted by Duncan McDonnell
Jeez it's good when you see great work from great people getting funded (part 1). Big congrats to some of the best in Australian political science - @duncanmcdonnell.com, @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & Ferran - on this big and important grant!
I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties".
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Jeez it's good when you see great work from great people getting funded (part 1). Big congrats to some of the best in Australian political science - @duncanmcdonnell.com, @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & Ferran - on this big and important grant!
I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties".
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties".
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
Coming up next Thursday at noon in Lima: @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & I will be presenting our research on the transnational populist right at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
I'm looking forward to good discussions and the local ceviche.
(states of emergency etc. permitting, of course).
I'm looking forward to good discussions and the local ceviche.
(states of emergency etc. permitting, of course).
October 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Coming up next Thursday at noon in Lima: @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & I will be presenting our research on the transnational populist right at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
I'm looking forward to good discussions and the local ceviche.
(states of emergency etc. permitting, of course).
I'm looking forward to good discussions and the local ceviche.
(states of emergency etc. permitting, of course).
La Bombonera yesterday evening.
I’ve been to lots of big games, including all 4 Italian derbies, but I’ve never seen a curva like that. Constant singing for 90 minutes, even when Boca conceded goals. Just amazing.
I’ve been to lots of big games, including all 4 Italian derbies, but I’ve never seen a curva like that. Constant singing for 90 minutes, even when Boca conceded goals. Just amazing.
October 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
La Bombonera yesterday evening.
I’ve been to lots of big games, including all 4 Italian derbies, but I’ve never seen a curva like that. Constant singing for 90 minutes, even when Boca conceded goals. Just amazing.
I’ve been to lots of big games, including all 4 Italian derbies, but I’ve never seen a curva like that. Constant singing for 90 minutes, even when Boca conceded goals. Just amazing.
Our very talented PhD researcher @fravittonetto.bsky.social has just published his first article. His supervisors are immensely proud!
In the thread below, Francesco goes through some of his main findings.
There's much more to come from this project and this rising star!
In the thread below, Francesco goes through some of his main findings.
There's much more to come from this project and this rising star!
Thrilled that my first (ever!) and first single-authored article is out in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social 🎉
PRR parties have built a shared transnational discourse on issues like immigration & culture wars. But do their digital publics also take part in this discursive transnationalisation?
A 🧵
PRR parties have built a shared transnational discourse on issues like immigration & culture wars. But do their digital publics also take part in this discursive transnationalisation?
A 🧵
Transnational publics of the populist radical right: patterns of topic convergence across Europe and the United States
In recent years, populist radical right parties (PRRPs) have constructed a shared transnational discourse around issues like immigration and culture wars. However, we do not know how their publics ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Our very talented PhD researcher @fravittonetto.bsky.social has just published his first article. His supervisors are immensely proud!
In the thread below, Francesco goes through some of his main findings.
There's much more to come from this project and this rising star!
In the thread below, Francesco goes through some of his main findings.
There's much more to come from this project and this rising star!
One island too many.
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
One island too many.
What @ammassarisofia.bsky.social says ⬇️
Really impressive set-up & group of people at Torcuato Di Tella.
And they're right across the road from the Estadio Monumental!
Really impressive set-up & group of people at Torcuato Di Tella.
And they're right across the road from the Estadio Monumental!
October 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
What @ammassarisofia.bsky.social says ⬇️
Really impressive set-up & group of people at Torcuato Di Tella.
And they're right across the road from the Estadio Monumental!
Really impressive set-up & group of people at Torcuato Di Tella.
And they're right across the road from the Estadio Monumental!
Buenos días Buenos Aires.
(view of Recoleta cemetery from the apartment balcony)
(view of Recoleta cemetery from the apartment balcony)
October 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Buenos días Buenos Aires.
(view of Recoleta cemetery from the apartment balcony)
(view of Recoleta cemetery from the apartment balcony)
I had a lot of fun yesterday evening presenting on the transnational populist radical right with @ammassarisofia.bsky.social at the University of São Paulo.
It has been so heartening on this trip to meet engaged graduate researchers who not only come to seminars, but ask really smart questions too!
It has been so heartening on this trip to meet engaged graduate researchers who not only come to seminars, but ask really smart questions too!
October 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I had a lot of fun yesterday evening presenting on the transnational populist radical right with @ammassarisofia.bsky.social at the University of São Paulo.
It has been so heartening on this trip to meet engaged graduate researchers who not only come to seminars, but ask really smart questions too!
It has been so heartening on this trip to meet engaged graduate researchers who not only come to seminars, but ask really smart questions too!
Reposted by Duncan McDonnell
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
The Inverted Hierarchy: How #Public #Bias Can #Favor #Potential #Indigenous #Candidates
By @jholloway.bsky.social, @duncanmcdonnell.com & Michelle Evans
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
The Inverted Hierarchy: How #Public #Bias Can #Favor #Potential #Indigenous #Candidates
By @jholloway.bsky.social, @duncanmcdonnell.com & Michelle Evans
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
October 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
The Inverted Hierarchy: How #Public #Bias Can #Favor #Potential #Indigenous #Candidates
By @jholloway.bsky.social, @duncanmcdonnell.com & Michelle Evans
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
The Inverted Hierarchy: How #Public #Bias Can #Favor #Potential #Indigenous #Candidates
By @jholloway.bsky.social, @duncanmcdonnell.com & Michelle Evans
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
After an excellent couple of weeks of fieldwork and seminars in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, the South American tour continues on Thursday at 5.30 pm with this seminar by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me at the University of São Paulo.
October 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
After an excellent couple of weeks of fieldwork and seminars in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, the South American tour continues on Thursday at 5.30 pm with this seminar by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me at the University of São Paulo.