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bastianherre.bsky.social

Researcher @ourworldindata.org. I make research on democracy, human rights, armed conflict, and violence easier to access and understand. he/him

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🚨New paper alert!🚨 @anthlittle.bsky.social and I are excited to share “Presidential Election Concessions.” We present a new global dataset on concessions in presidential elections in all countries worldwide from 1980 to 2024 /1

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☢️ I've collected 800+ resources for those working on WMD issues in my "LearnWMD Spreadsheet" learnwmd.wixsite.com/learnwmd/the... Recently, I've gone through and updated all links & information. I've also broken out the OSINT resources into their own tab. Be sure to check it out!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

How could @ourworldindata.org maps be better? Do you experience any annoyances or pain points when you interact with our maps? Is there something you wish you could do that you currently can’t? What’s the next cool thing we could build on top of our maps? Any notes welcome! Thank you 🙏

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

submitted 14 days ago • 32 comments

I look at democracy data for a living, and the US indeed seems to be in a constitutional crisis right now - but this move by Polity makes me take it less seriously, not more. Here’s why:

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.

submitted 16 days ago • 51 comments

120 million people are displaced worldwide. Advocates try to promote refugee inclusion by providing information that corrects common misperceptions, and by sharing refugee narratives that try to generate empathy; do these work? (1/9)

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

This article has some nice visualizations of the State of the Nation's Progress Report: The US is growing faster than other countries, but falling behind on important indicators of well-being. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...

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On American aid cuts/disruptions: www.africanistperspective.com/p/american-a...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Global average life expectancy has more than doubled since 1900

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

How do autocrats stay in power? Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇

submitted 34 days ago • 88 comments

Genuinely horrifying. 20 million people receive HIV antiviral treatment from the program annually. Mothers with HIV would transmit it to their infants at birth if not for perinatal antiviral treatment. This should be resumed as soon as possible. Every day of delay means more lives lost.

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

🚨New publication! We introduce the “U-Turn” as a new regime transformation where autocratization is closely followed by and linked to subsequent democratization. Key findings: • 52% of autocratizations become U-Turns, • 73% when focusing on the last 30 years www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

I liked this blog post by @jedkolko.bsky.social, about why official statistics get revised. There are things to rightly be concerned about. But often, revisions are a good thing: they correct errors, make the data more comparable, or improve its coding. www.slowboring.com/p/major-data...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems. We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵

submitted 79 days ago • 12 comments

Blog: The Tenth Recipient Test. The median size for a bilateral aid country relationship (US aid to Vanuatu, UK aid to Cameroon for eg) is about $1.5 million. Only 7% of bilateral relationships are >$100m. 'Country programs' make little sense below that level.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

In 2023, PEPFAR provided life-saving therapy against HIV to 20.5 million people

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve had many interesting conversations about the election & what the next Trump administration will bring. Is the US set to slide into authoritarianism? Will we wall ourselves off from the world? Is it a new dawn of American prosperity? Might Trump remake the whole political landscape? 🧵 1/N

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

Our World in Data is on Bluesky. You can find us here! go.bsky.app/RC8Wsup

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

The US military spends much more per service member than other major powers

submitted 108 days ago • 4 comments

The UK spends about £74 per person on overseas aid

submitted 119 days ago • 2 comments

We @ourworldindata.bsky.social now have a topic page on foreign aid! It allows you to explore data on who gives and receives foreign aid, the different types of assistance, and a few examples of when it has been successful. A thread on what the page has in store:

submitted 129 days ago • 3 comments

Their work was truly formative for me, and I was thrilled to have James as my doctoral advisor. I always appreciated how open he was to my research challenging his work. Congratulations to him, Daron Acemoglu, and Simon Johnson!

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments