Only just catching up to this fascinating little mini-controversy. I will say that one of the advantages of keeping up with fandom is it puts you more in contact with women's iddy sexual or romantic preferences, and so makes this phenomenon obvious... nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/this-inter...

Another story of 1. Admin sends fascist order 2. Media reports on it 3. People are outraged, say no 4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake” Lesson is defy fascist orders kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...

reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness" neocons: abolish ICE david brooks: communist manifesto Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

🆕📝🚨 Glad to see this one out in International Journal of Cultural Policy. With data from @authlibeu.bsky.social, we review cultural policies of 🇭🇺Orbán, 🇵🇱Kaczyński, 🇨🇿Babiš, and 🇸🇰Fico. A short thread👇 1/4 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @schaferd.bsky.social @jsuchanek.bsky.social

Excited to see our article out: "Opposition to Government and Back" coauthored with @franziskawagner.bsky.social and @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social. We show that illiberal far right parties pull conservative parties to the right on immigration, and that inclusion is not an effective containment strategy.

APSA panel accepted!! I'm excited to be co-organizing a panel on democratic backsliding and opposition resistance, featuring @cristyramirezp.bsky.social, @dnsltr.bsky.social, @beattyriedl.bsky.social, and @schaferd.bsky.social, with @lgamboa.bsky.social and @orcunselcuk.bsky.social as discussants!

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

I feel like wikipedia is the only institution that was actually ready for this.

It's painful to see democratic breakdown in the US described so clearly. We knew the threat was real. Trump ran an openly authoritarian campaign after trying to overthrow the last election. In the last 3 weeks, he's followed the Project 2025 plan for consolidating executive power.

Sneak preview of something useful that I'm working on in the hope that enough of you are enthusiastic that I actually manage to finish it. Features nice plots too! TL;DR: Every time you dichotomised some continuous data, it was probably fine.

Is there an up-to-date dataset of US Congress floor speeches (both house and senate)? I know govinfo.gov publishes the congressional record, but they are pdf, and I don't want to scrape. Stanford has a dataset that ends in 2017. I'm hoping there's a university that maintains a ready-to-use dataset

This is outstanding work, outstanding news, and an encouraging sign of how sunlight is the best disinfectant against the Musk virus

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. 🧵👇

Eminent political scientists sound the alarm at the prospect of overturning the NC Supreme Court election in a new amicus brief www.aclu.org/cases/griffi... NC's "path is thus broadly comparable to the path of a country like Hungary" Now seeking to throw out an election on pretextual grounds

Having published a book recently, I found it sometimes hard to understand how the process worked (and luckily, had very kind mentors who helped). I have uploaded a short document detailing how my experience went, in case others find it helpful: www.vicentevalentim.com/_files/ugd/a...

It remains astounding to me, as someone who had a few small interactions with Marc, how much a little criticism directed at him turned him into such a baby. Like literally none of what he says here is accurate.

I’m excited to share DIME v4.0 is live! This release covers through the 2024 cycle and contains records for 850M+ itemized political contributions and ideological scores for millions of candidates, PACs, and donors. stanford.io/3DJDCYm

"Why America’s economy is soaring ahead of its rivals: The country’s outperformance is rooted in long-term productivity growth that is the envy of the developed world." 🇺🇸 https://buff.ly/3Zhe7EH "Other advanced economies show little sign of this dynamism."

Best academic-pop culture crossover reference ever. The article addresses the repercussions of opposition failure. Opposition coalitions can end electoral authoritarianism, but risk greater repression: "if you come for the king, you best not miss." doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Unbelievable. Republican leaders are blocking additional relief from Hurricane Helene because they think it’ll be politically expedient! www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Deadline Saturday (6/15)! Apply for the 2024 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) program that awards between 20 and 25 grants yearly of between $10K-$15K to support doctoral dissertation research in political science. #polisky politicalsciencenow.com/2024-apsa-do...

🎺In our #NewIssue!🎺 'Democratic Backsliding, Conflict, and Partisan Mobilisation of Ethnic Groups: Local Government Control and Electoral Participation in Turkey' by Reşat Bayer & Özge Kemahlıoğlu Read it here 👇https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13608746.2023.2255017 #polisky

Still feels wild everytime I use this card to get into the building

📢 📢 📢 OPEN DATA RELEASE 📢 📢 📢 New large-scale comparative dataset on (negative) campaigns and candidate personality worldwide NEGex 2.0 is now available: osf.io/mekwg/ Covers all nat elections worldwide (2016-2020) ✅ 142 national elections ✅ 720 candidates ✅ 457 parties Data is open & free

As good an introduction as any on this platform! This year I'm working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Central European University's Democracy Institute. The "AuthLib" project aims to map the Varieties of Illiberalism! fb.watch/ndmPxLpTIK/?...