This weekend, the popular Dutch politician Pieter Omtzigt founded his new political party: 'New Social Contract'.
One of the parties' main concerns right now is that it would get too many votes/seats (as it may destabilize the party). So this party does not focus on winning as many votes as possible, but on not winning too many votes.
Unique it seems! Or do you know of examples of other political parties around the world which wanted to avoid winning too many votes?
I'm writing about Internet bills proposed by the Russian State Duma that either did not go anywhere (e.g. Milonov's 2017 social-media-by-passport proposal) or only much later and/or in heavily redacted form (such as the 2020 social media law).
Which other bills should I include? I'm trying to get a sense of the overall dynamics of proposals being floated at various times. Vague leads or hunches welcome!
I’m truly honored to have been chosen for the U30 young leader interview series by a prestigious Swiss newspaper. I had the privilege to discuss my thoughts on revamping Switzerland’s pol system to tackle the 21st c. challenges. Sharing the spotlight with Marco Odermatt, the Olympic medalist and world champion alpine ski racer, feels absolutely unreal! @politicalscience
🗓️ ✅ Have you marked your calendar yet for September 14, at 5-6.30pm?
The #regroup public event, hosted by the Jagiellonian University, will be hybrid 📽️, so everyone can attend and learn about Covid-19 and the rule of law in Poland. 🇵🇱🦠
#FreeToRead deep historical analysis of the Great Wall, censorship, marital fertility, commercial trust, artisanal skill transmission & more in Asia-Pacific Economic History Review special issue. Thoughtful intro & overview by guest eds Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma http://ow.ly/q1in50PlUr7
Fernandes & Won: The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on #Twitter
in @polcommjournal
"Our findings show that users amplify the radical right’s original message via weak ties and cascade effects in making negative quoted tweets. Ultimately, denouncing the radical right backfires and helps nascent illiberal parties to reach out to more users in the network and gain more users."
In the US, one of the groups that is most opposed to choice are Evangelical Christians
but in the 1970s, these same people were pro choice
partly cause it was their enemy the Catholics who were forced birthers, and partly cause abortion helped remove "undesirables"
unbelievable but true: the evangelicals became forced birthers for political reasons !!!!!!!!
@mjb@socialpsych@politicalscience This is really useful for helping to understand the challenges for democratization and the relative ease of backsliding, even when the most oppressive people from dominant groups are in the minority.
@Marielle_W@politicalscience But if Apple are not making money from Russia, then why would they be so attentive to what Roskomnadzor wants? I just checked, and the podcast is also not available in Denmark.
@anderspuck@politicalscience That is, indeed, quite puzzling. I already wondered whether the removal was geographically limited or global (since Meduza did not specify thus point) - thanks for confirming that it appears restricted elsewhere as well
Large language models (LLMs) and parliaments: a common conversational architecture. Short thread 🧵
LLMs respond to a logic of responsiveness to linguistic input that in some ways lies at the heart of the logic governing parliamentary activity: it can be argued, to a great approximation, that both parliamentary work and the functioning of LLMs have in common the fact that they use language as a key element. (1/n)
Large language models (LLMs) and parliaments: a common conversational architecture. Short thread 🧵
LLMs respond to a logic of responsiveness to linguistic input that in some ways lies at the heart of the logic governing parliamentary activity: it can be argued, to a great approximation, that both parliamentary work and the functioning of LLMs have in common the fact that they use language as a key element. (1/n)
Large language models (LLMs) and parliaments: two worlds closer than they seem. A brief thread 🧵
LLMs respond to a logic of responsiveness to linguistic input that in some ways lies at the heart of the logic governing parliamentary activity: it can be argued, to a great approximation, that both parliamentary work and the functioning of LLMs have in common the fact that they use language as a key element. (1/n)