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💡 How does V-Dem Collect Data and Construct the Dataset? 1,400+ country experts from all over the world have now completed the online surveys, assessing the democratic development in 2024 in their countries and areas of expertise. Watch or read in 🧵1(5) #polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

DoD terminates Minerva grants and State Dept eliminates Title VIII summer language institutes on the same day. Coming on the heels of COVID, there’s going to be gaping holes in international expertise in the US for a generation. /slow clap

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This is truly devastating news, not only for scholars and scientists, but also for the United States as a great power with global influence. Senseless, heartless, cowardly, and stupid.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Nemtsov. 10 years gone, murdered as he prepared a report on why Putin needed war in Ukraine.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Super interesting project! In light of recent discussions would be fascinating to see how this indicator compares to the V-Dem indicator of a similar concept, as well as intercoder reliability stats on the coding of the new indicator.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It is not only embarrassing; it will also make a peace agreement less likely by encouraging the kremlin to up the ante. So embarrassing and counterproductive.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

THERE IS NO AMERICAN CONSTITUENCY FOR AN ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA. Even the GOP hates it. It’s just that Russia, for reasons we STILL do not know, owns Trump.

submitted 4 days ago • 118 comments

I am sick to my stomach. I am grateful for the absence of pretense, for the absolute clarity for anybody who cares to know.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Belarus, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, North Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Hungary, Israel, Mali, Marshall Islands, Nicaragua, Niger, Palau, Russia, Sudan, United States. I guess this is the OECD now.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

A slightly positive 🧵 in a dark time. Research on dictatorships and democratic backsliding suggests that the American experiment with authoritarianism could be brief. There are five reasons for this:

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Honoured to have been part of this panel on Russia’s forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children, organised by Liliia Oprysk at the UiB Law faculty, with @yuliaioffe.bsky.social, Gaiane Nuridzanian and Svitlana Arabadzhy. Recording available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNf...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to share my new article in the American Journal of Political Science (@ajpseditor.bsky.social)! "Endogenous Opposition: Identity and Ideology in Kuwaiti Electoral Politics" explores how authoritarian elections generate opposition to incumbent autocrats. Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ukrer...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

I feel like we'd at least warrant republic status.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Check out this awesome postdoc opportunity with my friend @jonathanpolk.bsky.social at Lund: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... So much great work to be done in this area and working with Jon would be fantastic!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Join us for this stellar panel on Russia's 🇷🇺 deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian 🇺🇦 children — 10 am tomorrow 🇳🇴 We will examine accountability under international law and provide a historical perspective on Russia’s colonial policies. Welcome to ☕🥯 or follow the discussion online 👨‍💻👩‍💻

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I want to hear a lot more from JB Pritzker and AOC, and a lot less from Schumer and Jeffries

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Norwegian scholars are particularly well represented in this issue! (not a complaint)

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

⏰One month left to submit panel proposals and paper abstracts for the DEMSCORE Conference 2025, June 9-10 in Gothenburg. 📆 Abstract and Proposal Submission Deadline: March 16, 2025 www.demscore.se/events/demsc... #PoliSky @ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Deadline end of this week. These are great jobs - take a peek if you’re on the academic job market and consider applying! If you have questions feel free to get in contact.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Democracy researchers please take note, and tell relevant colleagues: The Dep. of Pol. Sci. in Gothenburg is hiring a new Director for the V-Dem Institute. The Director will also serve as permanent (tenured) member of the Dep., with reduced teaching responsibilities during their tenure as Director.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Just published in the @ajpseditor.bsky.social. You have likely heard of the “dictator’s dilemma,” in which repression reduces knowledge of discontent and thus loosens an autocrat’s grip on power. But when does the dilemma hold? And what do dictators do to ease it? We have answers.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Filipe nails it. The Trump admin just forced the Justice Department to openly engage in corruption, and there is zero cost! No consequence! Trump is now stronger than he was a week ago. We now know more about what Congress will allow, and every Justice Department lawyer now knows what he can do

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

This is an amazing opportunity to work with excellent collaborators on absolutely crucial work!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This is an amazing opportunity to work with excellent collaborators on absolutely crucial work!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The share of the world economy under regimes that rest on clientelistic political relationships and the use of public resources for political legitimation—in short, neopatrimonialism—has been increasing in this century.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This is going to sit with me for a long time

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

The Russian we should fear the most is not Putin, it's Ayn Rand. Though being very worried about Putin is still good policy.

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

I don’t know if Bluesky saying “stop doing nothing, go there with a camera crew and object” played any role in this, or if Democrats would’ve done it on their own regardless. But some went there with cameras, and people on here were right to urge them to (and to realize it’s far from a fix alone).

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

There’s a large chunk of the Dem Party that believes they lost in 2024 for defending unpopular minorities and not focusing on pocketbook issues enough. And they seem to believe that they can apply that lesson to the current democratic crisis. It’s not only deeply cynical but wildly wrong.

submitted 26 days ago • 25 comments

все было навсегда пока не кончилось

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submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

submitted 28 days ago • 509 comments

Look, I am just a small town scholar of mass murder, so let me ask a simple, naive question: And then what?

submitted 30 days ago • 89 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 32 days ago • 3 comments

Really interesting project!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 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 35 days ago • 88 comments

My school @ucdpolitics.bsky.social has 2 positions (deadline Feb 21) one in Global Governance, one in Environmental Politics. They're called "Ad Astra Fellows" but between you & me they're basically tenure-track posts. It's a good deal. You get a PhD line & annual €5000 research budget for 5 years.

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

Hello BlueSky, nice to meet you! The V-Dem Institute is an independent research institute and the Headquarters of the V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) project, based at the University of Gothenburg, SE. The V-Dem project is a unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. #Polisky 1(3)

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

The owner of Twitter and richest man in the world is a Nazi. I would really appreciate it if world governments reacted appropriately.

submitted 39 days ago • 13 comments

Pretty much exactly 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the richest man in the world uses the Nazi salute at the inauguration of his close ally as US president. What should rationally not be surprising is still so deeply shocking and simply difficult to comprehend.

submitted 39 days ago • 25 comments