Queste le parole di Donatella della Porta sul Corriere Fiorentino di oggi.

Ci vediamo lunedì alle 11:00 a Palazzo Vegni a #Firenze per presentare questa iniziativa della Scuola Normale Superiore.

#cultura #libri #censura #usa #italia #freedom #libertà #ricerca #research #sociology #politicalscience #politics

The Early TDG Builders

A new democracy will not come about by magic. A few people will have to put this new way together.

Are you one of these "few people"?

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=31&id=555

Addendum: From what I can see, the political scientists will only create a system similar to the one we already have.

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#revolution #politicalscience

'As long as there has been an Islamic Republic, the United States has fantasized about deposing it, and as long as there has been anything like an Iranian nuclear infrastructure, Israel has thought about bombing it. It is within reason to assume that the current joint operations against Iran—dubbed Epic Fury—are one of the maximalist options from a long series of both individual and joint war plans whose specific pedigree go back to at least the 1990s'

#iran #israel #usPol #war #politicalScience

https://thebaffler.com/latest/clinging-to-a-scheme-burton

https://dailynous.com/2026/03/19/on-liberty-now-officially-has-two-authors/

#politicalscience

#rewatch - 📲 FPTV's Laith Marouf talks to Dr Jamal Wakim, Prof. of Int'l Relations & #politicalscience at the Lebanese University, about the failed plot to use #nowruz celebrations in #iran as a cover for covert-operations, and how that is related to the assassinations of security officials like Ali Larijani

Also: Attack on Pars #gas field, the regional and global ramifications of all of that, and the situation in #lebanon and #iraq

Rec. on MAR-15 - FPTV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viUN5f1cLBM

Hi! #fedihelp #DANA #Valencia  
I'm gathering up academia-related mentions of the #CLER ("Comités Locals d'Emergència i Reconstrucció"), and I got this handful so far:
https://comiteslocals.org/category/universitats/

So, if you're in the social sciences (#geography, #climate, but also #politicalscience or #anarchist studies I guess?), could you help us find the ones I missed?

Or, even better, contact us, do some research and publish your own?

Thanks a bunch!

'The foundations on which parties seek stability have become febrile and fragile...Single parties can no longer reflect the deep and various tensions that make up the country. They struggle even to manage the differences within their own ranks'

#ukPol #politicalScience

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/03/britain-has-entered-the-age-of-bloc-politics

My thought is that going ad hom means "I have to change the topic to my interlocutor's traits because I lost the argument over the actual topic at hand."

But here's how it pencils out more formally.

"Using a large-language model, we identify “conflict entrepreneurs”—legislators who frequently use personal insults—and document their behavior and its correlates. Our descriptive findings reveal a stark but asymmetric pattern: personal attacks occur in both parties but are more frequent among Republicans and are strongly associated with greater media coverage but show no corresponding positive relationship with fundraising, vote margins, legislative success, or personal wealth. Furthermore, this rhetorical style does not simply reflect constituent sentiment; we find no correlation between a legislator’s use of insults and the partisan animosity in their district. These documented patterns suggest a political incentive structure where the pursuit of media visibility alone sustains a form of discourse that may be corrosive to democratic norms, even without apparent electoral or financial rewards."

#PoliticalScience

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/3/pgag038/8524399?login=false