Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...
Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?
Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:
tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
Job 🚨: The European Institute (@lse-ei.bsky.social) at LSE is hiring an assistant prof in International Migration. I'm not in the hiring committee but happy to answer Qs about the department, LSE or this bloody weather that is actually pretty pretty today.
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
📊 New paper out in Democratization!
How do autocrats actually stay in power?
👉 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Co-authored with Wooseok Kim, @eugenian.bsky.social , Ksenia Northmore-Ball, and @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social.
🚨Jobs!🚨
3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!
Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
📢 📢 Call for Papers
IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop
Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social
🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)
📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026
Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy
#pleaseRT
‼️ Two weeks left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP project 👇.
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI.
We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!
Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Want to present your paper to a great community of autocracy researchers next April in Oxford? Then submit your abstract to us at the Autocracy and Regime Change SG for the PSA 2026 Conference.
The deadline is this Friday, details below.
🤔 Do surveys exaggerate democratic support due to social desirability bias (SDB)?
➡️ Using survey-mode variation & list experiments in 24 countries, @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social & @aarslew.bsky.social find no evidence that SDB inflates democratic attitudes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
With the new term a new season of @apsgworkshop.bsky.social is also about to start! See the excellent line up below and sign up to the mailing list to recieve meeting invites!
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🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
Why do some people keep voting throughout their lives while others drop out? And how do authoritarian elections - even uncompetitive ones- shape citizens’ habits?
Ksenia Northmore-Ball and I tackle these questions in my new paper, now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.
🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨
We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.
We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.
Are regimes with higher nr's of core supporters more durable? Are regimes with more diverse coalitions of supporters more durable?
In this (published today) @cpsjournal.bsky.social article, @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social , and @torewig.bsky.social I answer "Yes" to both Qs.
Honored to share that our book Money Flows: The Political Consequences of Migrant Remittances
with David Doyle @hectorsolaz.bsky.social & @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social was awarded the APSA Migration & Citizenship Best Book Award!
Grateful to the committee & thrilled to see our work recognized. 🙏🏼
Apply to EuroWEPS 12/13! We're organizing the next EuroWEPS workshops at Bocconi (Nov 14) and EUI (Dec 15) to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is Sep 30
📢 New Publication 📢
📄 Review article in Nature Climate Change
It examines how resistance to climate policy is reshaping politics & why populist right parties are the main beneficiaries?
(with Valentina Bosseti, Italo Colantone & Giorgio Musto)
Short 🧵
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We are looking for 1–2 postdoctoral researchers to join the project “Political Violence in Democracies”, led by @hannefjelde.bsky.social
📌 Full-time, 2-year postdoctoral position
📆 Start Date: Dec 1, (or by agreement)
📍 Location: Uppsala
⏳ Apply by: Oct 1
Read more: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Please share:
@pavisuri.bsky.social and I are delighted to share details for the political economy of development section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026
We welcome great work and fresh ideas! Please spread the word among interested colleagues not on here
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
So happy to see this out! We have data on 5,000+ voters and 26,000 candidates exploring the effects of sexism across 4 countries 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺
TLDR: gendered patterns of political competition strongly shape success rates of women candidates. Sexism may lead to voter abstention in the US.
More in the paper!
🚨📢 New article out!
"Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies"
(AKA my PhD Thesis intro revisited :)
Huge thanks to Max Alyukov, @gulnazsharaf.bsky.social, Tomila Lankina, @jpaulgoode.bsky.social, @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social & anon rev for advice & support 🙏
Cover of book, titled „The Politics of Human Rights“ by Sabine Carey, Mark Gibney, and Anita Gohdes. Picture shows a woman kneeling in front riot police during a BLM protest in the US.
Coming soon: our introduction to the politics of human rights 🥳📚
Preorder available here: www.cambridge.org/highereducat...
@sabinecarey.bsky.social
Very happy to announce the publication of Workplace Politics, with @szakonyi.bsky.social and Ora John Reuter. Drawing on data from 8 countries with a deep-dive on Russia, we examine when, why, and how politicians and employers pressure their workers to vote in elections. academic.oup.com/book/60445
Green and black cover
"Explores how partisanship in electoral autocracies emerges as a powerful social identity shaped by family and community networks."
The Autocratic Voter by @natalie-letsa.bsky.social, Coming Soon
#Politics #Autocracy 💙📚
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We are looking for a lecturer in Comparative European Politics at Oxford. Join an incredibly stimulating intellectual environment. It is a 5-year position that should be great for early career researchers. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Amazing and so well deserved!! Huge congratulations!
New paper alert! 📣
@chrisblattman.bsky.social, Arthur Yu, and I reexamine the autocratic growth penalty—the finding that autocracies systematically underperform democracies in economic growth.
TL;DR, the penalty is concentrated in personalist, not institutionalized autocracies.
Details👇 1/X
Excited to announce the #OxfordLLMs tuition-free AI workshop for social scientists!
Join us for 5 days of lectures, coding tutorials, and collaborative research, to learn hot to use LLMs for social science🙂
Dates: 22-26 September
Venue: @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
llmsforsocialscience.net
