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chrisvsteinert.bsky.social
SNF-Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zurich with a focus on Human Rights, International Organizations, and Conflict Research Homepage: www.christophsteinert.de
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"Outgroup Avoidance" w/ @aasiegel.bsky.social & Alex Scacco is conditionally accepted at @thejop.bsky.social! I am rly proud of this paper & I think it has important implications for folks studying prejudice reduction and depolarization! Check it out! www.chagaiweiss.com/papers/inpro...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Published at PLOS one: "X under Musk’s leadership: Substantial hate and no reduction in inauthentic activity." journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

It's called the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 16 days ago • 210 comments

The defunding of #USAID and US humanitarian aid in general will have devastating effects on the global humanitarian system. More than 40% of all official humanitarian aid comes from the US. The system is completely dependent on US contributions.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Wissenschaftsförderung wird gestrichen. JD Vance bezeichnet Dozent*innen als "Feind". Geisteswissenschaften sind allesamt Ausdruck einer kulturmarxistischen Agenda um die USA zu schwächen. Antiintellektualismus ist Faschismus und Antisemitismus inhärent.

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

Some good news for democracy in otherwise bleak times: 73% of all countries with recent autocratization episodes experience a recovery of democracy levels shortly thereafter! See @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social's thread 👇 for the findings from our most recent article!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Come work with my wonderful colleague @siljahausermann.bsky.social – not just one of the smartest people I know, but also an enormous supporter of junior scholars. There is no better place to start your academic career.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

🆕 Content alert on Methods Bites & Workshop Video Recording ▶️ "Computationally Analyzing Politicians’ Body Language Using Pose Estimation" 👤 Oliver Rittmann (MZES, University of Mannheim) 🔗 Blogpost: socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/article/comp... 🔗 Video Recording: youtu.be/w6orbDvQSN4

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

New in AJPS: Does prolonged contact change locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings? In short, no. We find no evidence of change despite up to 720 hours of contact together in a vocation program experiment in Afghanistan Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Even though much of the reporting stopped, the Syrian authorities never stopped imprisoning, torturing, and killing people.

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Beyond happy that @chrisvsteinert.bsky.social and my paper on protest mobilization and political imprisonment was awarded the Will H. Moore prize. Many thanks to PSSI and the award committee! #contentiousky Paper: shorturl.at/eQRZ3

submitted 309 days ago • 1 comment

New publication 💹 What are politicians’ attitudes towards men’s engagement in the representation of gender equality? My new paper in @wepsocial.bsky.social shows that gender equality is still perceived as a policy field that is primarily suited to women MPs. #polisky doi.org/10.1080/0140...

submitted 329 days ago • 0 comments

We are hiring: shorturl.at/bptuG Please share widely. - 3-year quant postdoc. - 100% research and data collection. - On violent conflict and humanitarian law. - Grade 7 salary (more than most UK postdocs). - Works with me in a large team across politics and law.

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See my Policy Perspective @CSS_ETHZurich for a detailed discussion of the policy implications. A big thanks to @IPW_HSG and @GESSuniMannheim for making this research project possible! (7/7) css.ethz.ch/en/center/CS.... (7/7) #HumanRights #EqualityForAll

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The findings have important policy implications for the @UN. The UN Special Procedures should make their complaint mechanism more accessible by raising awareness in low-income countries and by allowing complaints in languages other than English, French, or Spanish. (6/7)

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Individual-level analyses from China and Belarus demonstrate that political prisoners with a high socioeconomic status such as lawyers and professors are more likely to be represented in international human rights bodies compared to farmers or workers. (5/7)

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This translates into unequal representation of victims of human rights abuse in the complaint mechanism. Low-income countries, where human rights abuses tend to be more common, are systematically under-represented (4/7)

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While claiming universal openness, the UN Special Procedures accept only complaints written in English, French, and Spanish, which excludes many victims of human rights abuse. See minute 5:05 in this UN promotion video: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

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This applies even in the case of the universally open complaint mechanism of the @UN Special Procedures. Despite being open to everyone, socioeconomic elites are more likely to submit human rights complaints as they have better complaint resources. (2/7)

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Are international human rights bodies remedies for elites? My new study shows that socio-economic elites are more likely to file complaints to UN human rights bodies, while marginalized groups from low-income countries are underrepresented (1/7) academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

submitted 337 days ago • 0 comments

Very happy to see "Preventing Dissent: Secret Police and Protests in Dictatorships" now published as a "just accepted" paper in @thejop.bsky.social! It's joint work with Ioannis Choulis and Abel Escribà Folch, examining how the presence of secret police organisations affects protests.

submitted 373 days ago • 1 comment

How did membership in China's Belt and Road Initiative shape voting behavior in the UN General Assembly? We (my excellent colleague David Weyrauch and me) provide novel empirical evidence on this question in our research paper in Research & Politics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 378 days ago • 0 comments

"only a minority of articles [published in political science] share the supporting data and code" osf.io/preprints/so... #polisky #metasci

submitted 402 days ago • 1 comment

🔉CfP Workshop "Navigating Change. The Resilience of Territorial Autonomy " 📅June 13-14, 2024, @ECMI Flensburg ❗Fully funded! More here: ecmi.de/infochannel Polisky Conflictsky

submitted 449 days ago • 0 comments

The UN Special Procedures operate a human rights complaint mechanism for individuals. Despite being open for all individuals in principle, complaints are primarily filed by socioeconomic elites from high-income countries. My policy brief explains how language hurdles impede the access

submitted 440 days ago • 0 comments

📣Hi #Econsky: Analysing helpline & shelter data on links between Cv19 and domestic violence in Germay & assessing whether economic pressures were driving the increase in violence. Any hints on open source economic data from GER for 2020 I could use? Needs to be at monthly and state/Bundesland level

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Are political institutions persistent? A large literature on the long-term effects of precolonial African institutions assumes as much. But so far, we lacked quantitative evidence for this. In our new PSRM paper, @carlmc.bsky.social and I investigate this... doi.org/10.1017/psrm... polisky

submitted 471 days ago • 2 comments

New paper with Abel Escribà Folch, studying the logic of autocrats' recruiting foreign legionnaires, out in Democratization. Legionnaire recruitment is associated with increased personalization and decreases the risk of coup attempts and mass protests. Available open access!

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