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Join us next week for the first workshop of the season! @fabiolaschwarz.bsky.social and @kpaula.bsky.social (TU Munich) will present their work on internet shutdowns and protests in diverse political regimes. Lisa Garbe (@wzb.bsky.social) and Ryan Shandler (Georgia Instit of Techn) will discuss!

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New Publication! Why do authoritarian leaders introduce multi-candidate elections? In ‪‪@democratization.bsky.social, Dima Kortukov examines the role of governance in motivating the adoption of political reforms in the USSR (1985–1989) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z3TUQ...

New Publication Alert! ‪@semuhi.bsky.social‬, ‪@lucanway.bsky.social‬, and S. Levitsky have just published on @jodemocracy.bsky.social‬ on whether the private sector can safeguard democracy. Check it out: www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/can...

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New Publication Gorazd Ordanoski and @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social have just published "Patterns of incumbents’ repression during autocratization" on how antidemocratic incumbents attack accountability measures while autocratizing and applying it to Hungary and North Macedonia doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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New Publication! 📣 When do governments limit digital rights through law? Read "Legalizing Control: The Rise of Restrictive Internet Regulation in Sub-Saharan Africa" by @realmps.bsky.social in @democratization.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1351... For a quick overview, read the 1-pager below.

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New Publication! As authoritarian actors increasingly turn to Big Tech platforms to repress dissidents, pro-democracy activism experiences notable changes @vmtran.bsky.social and co-authors' latest piece examines an under-analysed phenomenon of pro-democracy platform advocacy doi.org/10.12688/ope...

📢 LMU Munich is hiring! Join the DFG-funded project on Democratic Persuasion. 🔹1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹1 PhD (70%) Start: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 Work on democracy, political psychology & persuasion research. More details: [email protected]

📢 Research Assistant Position ‪@felixwiebrecht.bsky.social & @ozlemtuncel.bsky.social are looking for support for a project on Electoral Politics and Higher Education in Turkey Required: Fluency in Turkish and experience with quantitative data Apply by 10 June: gsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

New Publication Alert! "A Warning from Above: How Authoritarian Anti-Protest Propaganda Works." by Minh Trinh and @maitruong0526.bsky.social in World Politics dx.doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

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New Publication Alert! In this study @svshen.bsky.social compares Chinese cities with similar goals and conditions, participating in the same experiments, but achieving different decarbonization results to draw governance lessons on effective decarbonization doi.org/10.1111/psj....

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New Publication Alert! Read @onglynette.bsky.social and Kevin Luo's new piece on Stability Maintenance, Preventive Repression, and Contentious Politics in China under Xi Jinping’s Rule here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New Publication! 📣 Did you ever think that all these measures for "hybrid" autocracies out there are kinda the same? Read "Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?" by @jonaswschmid.bsky.social in @democratization.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2vmyrw8e

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Join us next week to close the season with Pau Vall-Prat (UC3M) presenting "Autocratic Power Sharing and Democratic Outcomes"! @rokuppers.bsky.social (@lsemethodology.bsky.social) and Felipe González (@qmul.ac.uk) will discuss. Note this is one hour later than usual! (12pm EST, 6pm CET)

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Join us next week!! Polisky Dictatorsky On April 22 at 5pm ECT, Mai Van Tran (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) will present "Social Media's Algorithmic Affordances for Authoritarian Repression: Evidence from Myanmar" and Jennifer Whitten-Woodring (UMass) and @eddieyang.bsky.social(Purdue) will discuss

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New Publication Alert! @bernatpuertas.bsky.social l & A. Escribà-Folch propose opposing theories of the effects of foreign aid and FDI on personalization of power in autocracies and find that neither aid nor FDI are associated with personalism. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

New Publication Alert! Read "Endogenous opposition: Identity and ideology in Kuwaiti electoral politics" by @danieltavana.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Join us next week! Polisky Dictatorsky On Tuesday April 8 at 11:00-12:00pm EST/5:00-6:00pm CET Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed (Toulouse) will present "Monopolizing Clientelism During Regime Transition" followed by comments by @shalaby12.bsky.social (Wisconsin-Madison) and @biffpm.bsky.social (@harvard.edu)

New Publication! @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social, @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social & @staffanlindberg.bsky.social introduce the party-system democracy index (PSDI), a new global measure on regime preferences across party systems. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Check these new publications by @chankaming.bsky.social on the erosion of election trust across borders! - The Spillover of the US Capitol Insurrection: doi.org/10.1017/S000... - Autocratization spillover: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

New Publication Alert! Polisky Dictatorsky Yan Long's new book Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Pandemic Politics in China demonstrates how democratic foreign interventions enhance authoritarian apparatus. Check it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Polisky Dictatorsky 📣 Join us next week! On March 25, @danielkuhlen.bsky.social (Humboldt University) will present "Crackdowns Increase Public Safety: Causal Evidence from El Salvador" and Kaitlyn Chriswell (Brown University) and @igoracacio.bsky.social (Cal State, Fullerton) will discuss.

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Polisky Dictatorsky Join us next Tuesday! @dkofanov.bsky.social (Pittsburgh) will present "Local Democratization and Public Finance: Lessons from the 1870 Municipal Reform in Cities of the Russian Empire" @stasavage.bsky.social (NYU) and Maria Carreri (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) will discuss