🚨 Join our junior scholars leadership team on populism! Want to connect with peers, collaborate on events, and help shape a vibrant research community on populism? We're inviting new members to join the OPUS Steering Committee. Apply by April 30: forms.gle/dWJzmgSDPWeqi8…

#April23 holds profound significance in Turkey as National Sovereignty and Children’s Day. On this date, which symbolizes both democratic foundations and hope for the future, Murat Somer explores the increasingly exacerbating democracy–autocracy divide in the country.

✍️ In the second part of his article, Murat Somer explores the Turkish democracy movement’s evolving strategies, emerging alliances, and political stakes for #Turkey’s future. 🇹🇷 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ms8ftkjw

🚨1) Delighted to see the Open Access Introductory Article to our Special Issue "Germany’s Central Role in EU-Turkey Relations and Its Implications for EU Foreign Policy" in German Politics co-edited w. Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Funda Tekin & Julie Smith online! 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢🎙️New Review of Democracy podcast episode out now! Honored to host Francis Fukuyama & Beatriz Magaloni to talk about their powerful piece on performance legitimacy, delivery, and trust in democracy, published in Journal of Democracy. 🎧Tune in here → tinyurl.com/w4y8x92b

The political landscape in #Turkey shifts by the hour, but some moments demand pause. My new Review of Democracy article explores how the campaign against #İmamoğlu fits into a broader strategy to suppress dissent, its deeper symbolism and potential political fallout. Take a look. 👇

How much #inequality can #democracy handle? Join the CEU Democracy Institute annual conference, happening today and tomorrow: “Excessive Wealth Concentration and Democracy” 🔴 Live stream: youtube.com/live/zs5GqWF8Q…

So grateful for this opportunity to join Robert Nemeth as Co-Managing Editor at Review of Democracy!✨ I look forward to building on the incredible work of Oliver Garner, continuing to push critical conversations forward, and helping shape spaces where ideas can resonate beyond academia. 🙌

Today’s political headlines from #Turkey mirror the warnings in Berk & Sebnem Gumuscu 's latest analysis in Journal of Democracy. In this two-part episode, Berk and I explore the #AKP’s march toward hegemonic rule, President #Erdoğan’s endgame, and what might still turn the tide.👇

Always a pleasure to converse with Berk! 🎙️ Another thoughtful, sharp exchange on the future of #Turkey’s opposition and the struggle for #democracy on Review of Democracy podcast. 👇 🔗 tinyurl.com/te3m6wkr If you haven’t listened to Part I yet 👇 🔗 tinyurl.com/mw9dpb83

Inspiring day at #BudapestForum2025 with brilliant speeches and panels on (#sustainable) #democracies. Special appreciation for Mayor Gergely Karácsony once again voicing strong support for Ekrem İmamoğlu (International) and pro-democratic resistance in #Turkey. Budapest Forum CEU Democracy Institute Political Capital

"From Competitive Authoritarian to Hegemonic: Berk Esen on the Decline of Turkish Democracy and the Prospects for Its Revival" with Berk and Ece Özbey. [3/5] revdem.ceu.edu/2025/08/25/ber…

✍️ The problem with sustainability plans lies not in the strategic intentions but the very language of these agendas, which build invisible walls that decide from the start who and what is excluded, Deborah Martínez writes in her op-ed. ♻️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/nhkuyy2n

Join us and our journal, Review of Democracy, for this discussion! 🗓️Oct 20, 5:30pm CET / 11:30am ET 🔴 Online on YouTube 🗣️László Bruszt (DI) 🗣️Pedro Abramovay (Open Society Foundations) 🗣️Carsten Q. Schneider (Central European University) 🗣️Fiona Tregenna (University of Johannesburg) 🗣️Zsuzsanna Szelenyi (DI) Details: 👉cutt.ly/Br29HVVs

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