Check out or new article — published today in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social — where we discuss and provide guidelines for the construction and use of datasets. We draw on our lessons from three major data collection efforts on education policies and systems 👇

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 (English in comment) An meinem Lehrbereich ist zum 1.2.26 eine Postdoc-Stelle (100%) zu besetzen. Gesucht wird ein*e Kandidat*in mit Kenntnissen in quantitativen Methoden sowie Expertise in einschlägigen Themenbereichen. Mehr hier: www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Auss...

Thanks to the great help by @rstrauch.bsky.social, Gabriele Spilker and the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" @excinequality.bsky.social, version 5.0 of the "Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database" (coverage until 2022) is now available at mmadatabase.org!

We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)! If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!

"There is still a substantive fraction of voters who are not swayed by even a strong media reaction against right-wing ideology after an attack – and there is evidence that those who do distance themselves from the far right might revert to their old views once social pressure recedes"🤯

🚨 New article out! “Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000... We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany. Short summary thread below 👇

Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021. This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏 A short 🧵

Great place and fantastic team to do a PhD or Postdoc! Apply!

🚨 New paper out! 🚨I'll post a summary thread with the main findings shortly.

NEW - Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments - https://cup.org/47i6oKQ - @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social & Ina Lyftingsmo Kristiansen #OpenAccess

And if you want to learn more about how people make a career in dictatorship, pre-order the authors' (Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social) new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship": global.oup.com/academic/pro...

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

We know that Putin and other dictators try to build a new world order. Soft power plays a crucial role in this. Today, Russia hosts the Intervision 2025 – a competitor event to the Eurovision Song Contest. Which regimes participate in this contest? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervi...

🚨🚨🚨Announcing a special issue on “Political Violence in Democracies” published by @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social and edited by @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, U Daxecker, and me. In this very long 🧵, I will introduce the special issue with its 14 articles. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Fantastic special issue - Thanks so much for putting it together @laiabalcells.bsky.social @apvjustino.bsky.social @andrearuggeri.bsky.social 💪 [full disclosure: our article is part of it as well]

🚨🚨 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.

We just released version 3.1 of WhoGov, a global dataset on members of government from 1966-2023. The update fixes the mistakes that came to our attention while creating the Paths to Power dataset + mistakes users have notified us of More additions and updates to WhoGov are on their way, including:

📣1 PhD fellow position open at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. 👉We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science. 📅Deadline: September 1st, 2025 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Coming soon: our introduction to the politics of human rights 🥳📚 Preorder available here: www.cambridge.org/highereducat... @sabinecarey.bsky.social

🎓📢 We’re hiring! Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability) 💼 Permanent position 📍 Münster, Germany 🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025 jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy? 🚨 At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE)—organized jointly with @dkofanov.bsky.social & @tinepaulsen.bsky.social—we discuss state-of-the-art research on a regular basis. ‼️ We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️ Link & info in post #2.

Great opportunity in a beautiful city!

Summer party vibes at DYNAMICS this week – with amazing pizza! 🍕☀️ Huge thanks to our alumnus @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social , who served up one delicious pie after another. Thanks to everyone who made it such a fun evening 💛 @dynamics.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social

Fantastic opportunity in a great group and a great city!

🚀 Launching the Humboldt Governance Lab @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social! We deliver evidence-based insights and policy advice on today’s key challenges to democracy. 🌐 hu-govlab.de Follow us for research, updates & collaborations. #GovLab #Democracy #PolicyResearch

Direktor*in (m/w/d) im Bereich Demokratieforschung für eine neu einzurichtende Abteilung am WZB gesucht. 🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...

Happy to be part of this super interesting workshop. Looking forward to it!

Excited about our upcoming @iast.fr workshop on autocratic politics & democratic backsliding! Join us if you are in the Toulouse area or passing through on your way to #epsa. Program,registration link, & add'l info on our workshop's website: tinyurl.com/iast-autocracy Registration is required. ☝️

American education being picked clean

What's the future of historical political economy in Europe? To find out, we (w/ @cathrinmohr.bsky.social @lhaffert.bsky.social) conducted a survey and workshop. Here are our main take-aways. Special thanks to all who participated!

Fantastic paper! Happy to see this finally out!

We are looking for a new colleague (Research Fellow) at Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim. Very lively, active and intellectually fruitful environment. Join us! Please share! www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en/news/i...

A great lineup! Looking forward to the talks!

Ever felt uneasy about how concepts & measures of "grey zone" autocracies are used interchangeably across the literature? Then check out my 🚨new paper🚨 in @democratization.bsky.social and get some substance to back up your gut feeling: tinyurl.com/ypdm2kna Or at least read the main points below ⬇️

Out now! "GERDA: The German Election Database." GERDA provides comprehensive municipal, state, and federal election results at the municipality level between 1990 and 2021. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New semester, new job! Very happy to report that I've started as Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics @ Humboldt University this April. I'm very much looking forward to the new chapter in Berlin at a great department! 🥳

2 AP positions at Leiden: peace studies / IR and security & rule of law: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies... www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Wegen großer Nachfrage haben wir nun die Rohdaten hinter "So hat Ihre Gemeinde gewählt" www.zeit.de/politik/deut... -> github.com/ZeitOnline/b... und "So hat Ihr Wahlkreis seit 1949 gewählt" www.zeit.de/politik/deut... -> github.com/ZeitOnline/b... auf Github frei zugänglich gemacht.

Great postdoc opportunity in computational social science in beautiful Konstanz 👇

EuroWEPS 11 is here! We'll meet in Bergen on May 16 to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is March 30.

Our data paper on the Regime Support and Opposition Groups data was just published in @bjpols.bsky.social ! Co-authored with @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social and @torewig.bsky.social Here comes a relatively long thread (as is appropriate for a long-term project)

I started the year with a great personal achievement. After years in the making, our book manuscript is ready and under contract with Oxford University Press. So stay tuned for deep insights into the security apparatus of dictatorships. Small preview 👇

Super happy that my mail ballot for the German elections found its way to Norway and arrived in the mail today, two days *after* the actual election took place.

We're hiring a Professor of Military Strategy and Technology @hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiesecurity.bsky.social! More details here: apply.interfolio.com/163523

We are looking for a student assistant at Humboldt. No German required. If you want to get better at causal inference, spatial statistics and historical political economy, do apply! Happy to answer any questions.

Yeees! 💫 The preliminary program for our Workshop on the Political Economy of Autocratic Rule & Democratic Backsliding (June 23-24, just before EPSA) at IAST/TSE is out. Pair your Madrid trip with a stop in Toulouse. Registration opens soon! Check out speakers here: www.iast.fr/conferences/...

Just a reminder! Come join our wonderful department. We are hiring a senior lecturer and associate senior lecturer @uupeace.bsky.social

Do you research political elites and do you fancy a trip to Oslo on September 1-2, 2025? Then apply to the 𝘞𝘩𝘰𝘎𝘰𝘷 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴. The deadline is April 4th. We have funding, so we may be able to help finance your trip! You can find the call for papers here: bit.ly/WhoGovWorksh...

@sunny369.bsky.social did a similar app with her ISO data shiny.uio.no/standat/

This looks like a super useful tool. Excellent documentation & resource. Thanks @sebastianvanbaalen.se !