Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social Hungarian journalist. News junkie. Former Brussels correspondent. Lives in Leuven. @eublogo on X
Zselyke Csaky @zecsaky.bsky.social Senior research fellow CER @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social. Mostly EU stuff, sprinkled with some democracy & Central Europe. Past lives Freedom House, EUI, Bloomberg.
Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com Doctoral candidate, researching what happens when the far right is in power | Radicalism/extremism & democracy, pol behaviour, "gender stuff" | Rooted in 🇦🇹🇭🇺, now in 🇺🇸 | views mine but often based on research | #firstgen Arbeiterkind gabrielagreilinger.com
Zsuzsanna Vegh @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social Political analyst | Hungary | Radical right + intl affairs & democracy | Working with GMF, ECFR | Views are my own
Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social Independent investigative reporter.
http://www.benryan.net
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social Your Canadian Public Aggregator For Polling, Data, and Other Related Canadian Content // 338Canada Contributor // Consider Supporting: http://ko-fi.com/polling 🇨🇦🇺🇦
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Leon Heckmann @leon-heckmann.de Macrofinance, election modeling, and history of money | how does this fit into a balance sheet? | Teilzeitstreuner durch Mitteleuropa | private account
Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social Political Scientist at JGU Mainz, Germany.
Research on public opinion, elections, parties, and democracy (more at: https://www.nilssteiner.com/).
Co-Chair of the AK Wahlen (@dvpw.bsky.social).
Associate editor at @pvs-journal.bsky.social.
Kelly Jones @kellysjones.bsky.social PhD candidate: law, metaphor, and the far-right
Associate Editor, Journal of Right-Wing Studies
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Holger Kiik @holgerkiik.bsky.social Epistemology of Democracy; Challenges & Innovations of Democracy; Critical thinking; Philosophy https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Meos-Kiik
Half-baked thoughts. Occasional pics of cats, nature or stuff that surprises me.
🇪🇪 stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦
Citizen Participation @oliverescobar.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social Communication scholar and media psychologist. Exploring the abyss of digital communications and how to foster democratic resilience. || Associate Professor Digital Democracy Centre University of Southern Denmark / Complexity Science Hub, Vienna
Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social Professor of Law, Dean of @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest, and co-director of @goodlobbyprofs.bsky.social. Usual disclaimers.
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social Transformations of Democracy unit at WZB Berlin - Director Daniel Ziblatt https://wzb.eu/en/research/dynamics-of-political-systems/transformations-of-democracy
Chitralekha Basu @chitbazoo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Empirical Democratic Theory, University of Cologne. 🇮🇳 🇸🇬 🇬🇧
www.chitralekhabasu.com
Petra Guasti @petraguasti.bsky.social Associate Professor of Democratic Theory at IPS FSV UK • 2018/2019 Democracy Visiting Fellow at Harvard Ash • EC member at ECPR
Dr. Danielle Lupton @proflupton.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. Come for the politics, stay for the pop culture and dog photos. She/Her. All views are my own.
www.daniellelupton.com
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Rowan Harris @rowanharris.bsky.social Deliberative Democracy @ Shared Future CIC | Climate Change and Water Security | Archaeology and History Enthusiast
Transparent Citizens Assemblies @edsurridge.bsky.social Stand and vote for Transparent Deliberative Democracy
100s of non binding Citizens Assemblies have been, rubbished & hidden by broken democracy in many countries.
Form your countries political party for AI assisted Citizens Assemblies in all government
David Mair @davidmair4.bsky.social Science & knowledge for policy, democracy, public governance and public administration at European Commission’s Joint Research Centre but personal views only.
https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/evidence-informed-policy-making_en
Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social Professor for Comparative Politics @uni_mainz
| Democracy | Political Participation | Inequality | Responsiveness & Populism
jen forestal @seejenspeak.bsky.social political theorist, assoc professor at Loyola Chicago. studying digital technologies, democratic practices, (software) architecture, & civic engagement. she/her
Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvandesande.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy. Research on protest, radical democracy and communalism. Member of @doorbraak.eu. Has a trombone and is not afraid to use it. Opinions my own.
Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social Polisci PhD
/ Managing editor @spsr.bsky.social
/ Postdoc University of St. Gallen
/ Research on political communication and behavior
https://alexgeisler.netlify.app/
Franziska Maier @franziskamaier.bsky.social 👩🔬Political scientist at Uni Stuttgart working on democratic preferences, identity, deliberation.
✨Fan of pop culture, books, feminism, food, fun facts and social media if it works again 🙏
Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social Professor of Political Communication, Democracy at Dublin C Uni || Director FuJo Future Media Democracy Society || Deliberation || Citizens Assembly|| Disinformation- D DemocracyNet @democracynet.bsky.social DemocracyNet is an international, non-partisan and non-profit association of researchers in democracy studies.
democracynet.eu
Hans Asenbaum @hansasenbaum.bsky.social Senior research fellow @ Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Uni Canberra. He/him 🏳️🌈 Author of The Politics of Becoming. Open Access https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-becoming-9780192858870?cc=us&lang=en&
Thorsten Sterk @thorstensterk.bsky.social It‘s the democracy, stupid!
www.buergerrat.de/en
Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social Polisci Prof U Toronto. Study democracy/dictatorship & Ukraine. Books: Revolution & Dictatorship (PUP 2022); Pluralism by Default (JHUP 2015); Competitive Authoritarianism (CUP 2010)
C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com Political sociologist @uni-kiel.de
Non-Resident Fellow @gppi.bsky.social
Private account
Author, THE POLITICS OF MILITARY FORCE (2020)
Co-editor, POPULISM AND WORLD POLITICS (2nd ed. 2026)
🏠 https://www.frankstengel.com
https://linktr.ee/frankstengel
Andreas Hövermann @andreashoev.bsky.social Sociologist & SocPsychologist @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social & @WSIinstitut.bsky.social -- Work and Democracy -- resarch on Transformation, Prejudice, Anomie & Right-Wing Populism/Extremism
https://andreas-hoevermann.com
Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Hamburg. Empirical social scientist researching polarization & democracy from a political psych perspective.
I do research and I run.
https://lucaversteegen.com
Tobias Widmann @twidmann.bsky.social Associate Professor in PolSci @AarhusUni | PhD @EUI_EU | Political Communication | Political Behavior | Political Psych | Computational Political Science
Rebecca Kittel @rebeccakittel.bsky.social PostDoc FU Berlin & Research Affiliate WZB | PhD from EUI | Populism, Parliamentary Behaviour, Party Communication, Protest Behaviour, Text-as-Data | https://rebecca-kittel.eu/
Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social Associate Prof & Author at Uni of Southampton; USSR-born; speaker of ENG/ESP/CAT/AZ/RUS/FR/TR/...
www.lalamuradova.com
Empathy in Politics • Democracy • Climate Change • Democratic Innovations • Emotions • Deliberation • Autocracies
🏋♀️📚⛰️🕺
Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social Associate professor of Political Science at FSU. Studies globalization, democratic institutions, & the EU. My no-longer-new book is still for sale: https://amzn.to/2Hycbj3
All opinions my own and do not represent my employers or anyone else.
Dr. Alexandra “Ali” Cirone @alicirone.bsky.social Faculty at the London School of Economics;
Co-Director, EMAP/EMPP;
Governance Innovation Council, Meta
Studying lotteries in democracy and tech, participatory tech, HPE, political economy
acirone.com
Bettina Kohlrausch @bettikohlrausch.bsky.social Research Director at WSI (https://www.wsi.de/de/index.htm). Professor for social transformation at University of Paderborn. Research on work and social integration, anti-democratic attitudes, gender inequality, democracy at work
Melissa Schwartzberg @maschwar.bsky.social Princeton. Specialist in democratic theory. Supermajority rule skeptic before it was cool. Co-author of Democratic Deals: A Defense of Political Bargaining (Harvard UP, 2024).
Ian O'Flynn @delibnet.bsky.social Promoting work on deliberative democracy
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/ianoflynn.html
tetsuki tamura @ttya70.bsky.social 政治学・政治理論研究者。熟議民主主義、ベーシック・インカム、政治理論とフェミニズム。どうでもいいつぶやきもあり。democratic theory, deliberative democracy, the welfare state & basic income, feminism & political theory
https://researchmap.jp/tetsuki.tamura/?lang=english
Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland│Swiss & Comparative Politics, Democracy, Political Institutions, Federalism, (Intergovernmental) Lobbying│Also @leewas.bsky.social @chplusplus.bsky.social │Views my own
Shai Agmon @shaiagmon.bsky.social Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Political Philosophy | UCL Philosophy & EISPS | Academic Director @molad-institute.bsky.social | bylines @haaretzcom.bsky.social.
David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social Political scientist. Political behavior + methods. Spatial analysis.
Speaking in a personal capacity. Opinions expressed are my own.
Jared McDonald @jaredamcdonald.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Mary Washington.
Author-Feeling Their Pain: Why Voters Want Leaders who Care
Mostly interested in public opinion research and Kansas Jayhawk basketball.
Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi Unjust society is unsustainable -> democracy is non-negotiable.
Sustainability transition & modeling circular economy @ Finnish Environmental Institute (Syke) as a profession; defence of Finland and democracy as a hobby.
Technology, Power, and Domination @digipolicy.bsky.social Research group “Technology, Power, and Domination” @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/digital-infrastructures-in-democracy/technology-power-and-domination/
James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social Political Science prof at University of Chicago. Democratic theory, egalitarianism, global justice. Will hammer like button on any dog pics.
Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory and History of Ideas at @unigreifswald.bsky.social, working on democratic theory, constituent power, Habermas, European Union, exit politics, digitalization.- S Simone Chambers @simonechambers.bsky.social Political Theorist. Professor of Political Science UCI. Works in democratic theory
Mark Fisher @markfisher.bsky.social Asst Prof at Georgetown // Ancient Greek Political Thought // History of Democratic Theory // Humanistic Perspectives on AI
Seraphine Arnold @seraphinearnold.bsky.social PhD student at University of Stuttgart
Political Theory and Empirical Democracy Research ▫️ Democratic Innovations @demolabs.bsky.social 
Afsoun Afsahi @afsounafsahi.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Political Theory @UBCPoliSci working on Democratic Theory, Historical Injustice, Gender, Race, and Disability. Formerly @UniAmsterdam. Uninvited settler. Dog lover and gardening enthusiast. She/her
Alice el-Wakil @anewq.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Political theory, democracy, referendums, democratic innovation, representation
David Guerrero @david-guerrero.bsky.social republicanism, free speech, political economy of communication, political theory, intellectual history… | miembro de www.sinpermiso.info
Henrik D Kugelberg @henrikdku.bsky.social Assistant professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Warwick. Working on the political philosophy of artificial intelligence, public reason, and the digital public sphere.
www.henrikdkugelberg.net
Friderike Spang @friderikespang.bsky.social https://friderikespang.com/
Postdoctoral Researcher
@Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
@Center for Environmental & Technology Ethics Prague
Political philosophy, environmental & animal ethics.
Also interested in everything on emotions.
Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social Associate Professor in Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures at Southampton University.
Visiting Professor at Democratic Innovations Research Unit, Frankfurt University.
https://rikkidean.com/
Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social Social philosophy | ethics | philosophy of #mentalhealth | #autotheory I philosophy of self-harm l philosophy of lived experience
Dyspraxia = constant typing mistakes
Social media is the perfect place to let lose my love of non-sequiturs
#philsky
Daniel Tourinho Peres @danieltperes.bsky.social Filosofia e Política. Professor na UFBA.
Curto muito: música, final dos 70, 80 - Punk e Pós-Punk. Também um bom samba e bossa-nova e jazz. E Artes Plásticas, em especial Pintura. Louco por tênis.
Alguns textos meus: https://substack.com/@danielperes
Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social Normative Theory of Civ-Mil | Senior Lecturer (AP) Tel Aviv University PoliSci | Head of U.S. Research at the INSS | Napper extraordinaire | Kartofellophile
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.
Amadeus Ulrich @amadeusulrich.bsky.social Political theorist at Goethe University Frankfurt and Normative Orders, working on political realism, critical theory and the liberalism of fear
Adrian Blau @adrianblau.bsky.social Professor of Politics at King's College London. I work on politics, philosophy & history. My surname rhymes with "flaw". BlauBlog: http://adrianblau.wordpress.com (He/him)
Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social I work on social and political theory, history of ideas, & historical sociology. Postdoc and ext. lecturer at RUC/incoming assistant professor at CBS. He/him. Skeets=personal opinion/objective truth≠employer. Danish Marxism. 🇵🇸 Homepage: mikkelflohr.com
Ayala Panievsky @panievsky.bsky.social Presidential Fellow at City University of London | populism in power, media under attack, future of news | ex Haaretz, Gates-Cambridge, Molad | Out now: https://footnotepress.com/books/the-new-censorship/
Karim Jebari @karimjebari.bsky.social Philosopher and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm.
Frieder Vogelmann @frieder-vogelmann.net political epistemology || social philosophy || critical theory
Prof @ University of Freiburg
David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social Dyslexic diabetic. Eclectic philosopher and political theorist. Art and cricket lover. Artisan kimchi maker. Recovering poet. Fortunate man. Interested in all things human (and some non-human). Apparently now meant to add FBA to all social media profiles.
Tom Theuns @tomtheuns.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. Political Theory & European Politics, Leiden Uni | Democracy | EU
private handle: views mine
Out now: PROTECTING DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE Hurst/OUP https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781911723745
Prev. UWC; Maastricht; Oxford; Sciences Po
Alasia Nuti @alasianuti.bsky.social Political theorist. Historical injustice, gender and sexuality, resistance, political liberalism, and democratic erosion. Senior Lecturer at the UoY. Books: Injustice and the Reproduction of History, and Politicizing Political Liberalism (with G. Badano)
Erik Severson @eseverso33.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Political Science at UBC. Writing a dissertation on the democratic politics of attention
Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social Philosopher and applied mathematician at UC Irvine. Author of The Misinformation Age and Origins of Unfairness. Irish dancer. Mother. Mother of Chickens.
Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina. Democratic Theory. Book: The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy. Bylines Dissent, Boston Review, etc
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social Philosophy professor. ‘Nietzsche's Immoralism’ & ‘Politics After Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left.' Continental, political, ethics, Marxism, existentialism. www.donovanmiyasaki.com
Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago. Previously a postdoc at Stanford Ethics. Alumna of the University of Chicago and El Colegio de México.
Political theory + ethnographic methods 🌱
www.yunablajer.com
John Parkinson @jrparkinson.bsky.social Professor of Social & Political Philosophy at Maastricht University. Half Tigger, half Eeyore.
Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social Senior Scientist at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna #AUTNES 🇦🇹
Neeraj Prasad @neerajprsd.bsky.social Associate Professor at Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. Good Authority Fellow. PhD, The Fletcher School, Tufts University. Ex-World Bank (Dev Research). Website: www.neerajprasad.com
Antonin Lacelle-Webster @antolw.bsky.social External Postdoctoral Associate ISPS Yale | PhD Political Theory (UBC) | Democratic innovation, democratic theory, and the politics of hope and disappointment
Michael A. Strebel @micastre.bsky.social Political scientist | SNSF-Ambizione fellow at University of Bern | Working on institutional change, public opinion, and elites in local & urban settings | https://michaelstrebel.com/
Spencer Mckay @spencermckay.com Democratic theorist, giant lobster enthusiast, former public servant
Dov H. Levin @dovlevin.bsky.social Asso. Professor of IR, HKU. Foreign election interference (& interventions)|Strategic Public Diplomacy| FP preferences| US Foreign Policy| War & Peace. Book on foreign election interference "Meddling in the Ballot Box" at OUP. Opinions are mine only
Mike Cowburn @mikecowburn.bsky.social Research Fellow, @demolaw.bsky.social, Zeppelin Universität
Intra-Party Politics | Candidate Selection | Legislative Politics | PolComm | Primaries
Author: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries https://tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx
www.mikecowburn.com
Toby S. James @tobysjames.bsky.social Professor of Politics & Policy, @UEA
Electoral Integrity Project co-Director
Policy Studies Editor: @policy-studies.bsky.social
Researching and teaching on: democracy, electoral integrity, political science.
https://tobysjames.com
Antje Wiener @antjewiener.bsky.social Prof PoliSci & Law Hamburg - International Relations Norm Contestation Theory - By-Fellow Hughes Hall Cambridge - Editor Global Constitutionalism
Currently Senior Global Fellow, St Andrews
⛵️RYA YM 🥋4th kyu
P ≠ prof role & RP ≠ endorsement
Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social Political theorist and Dean at the King's University in Edmonton. Pluralism, democracy, history of political thought, but don’t expect much.
York Centre for Social Justice and Democracy @ycpt.bsky.social News from the Political Theory group at the University of York. https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/cpt/
Katarina Pitasse @katepitasse.bsky.social Humboldt PostDoc and JYQA Fellow at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt | Moral and Political Philosophy
Robert Talisse @roberttalisse.bsky.social Political Philosopher | W Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt | extremely amateur self-taught guitarist
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social The Digital Democracy Centre SDU is an interdisciplinary hub at the University of Southern Denmark
https://www.sdu.dk/en/ddc
• #dkmedier #dkpol #dkforsk #democracy #digital #AI •