📢LAPIS abre nominaciones 2025: 🔹 Best Paper Award (deadline: 23 enero) Más info: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

📢 Call for Nominations – LAPIS (2025) Now open: 🏆 Best Paper Award (deadline Jan 23). 🔗 More info: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

📢 LAPIS abre nominaciones 2025: 🔹 Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award (deadline: 16 enero) 🔹Más info: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

📢 Call for Nominations – LAPIS (2025) Now open: 🏆 Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award (deadline Jan 16) 🔗 More info: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

Autocratic capture comes to cities in Texas if this law passes.

As the US threatens Venezuela, top military commanders might note that Venezuela is a member of the International Criminal Court and it has refused to sign an "Article 98 waiver" with the US. That means that Americans could be brought before the ICC on war crimes charges.

Resistance to democratic backsliding is in many ways a fight to buy time. Not caving is key in that regard. It allows a very slow legal battle to play out.

Compare Harvard's resistance aided by law with Northwestern's negotiations and eventual cave-in: www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

As a newly minted Michigander I am proud to be represented by @slotkin.senate.gov. Thanks for speaking up Senator!

Postdoc Opportunity! Purdue University The Center for American Political History, Media, and Technology (CAPT) seeks a Postdoctoral Research Fellow specializing in research at the intersection of media, politics, and technology in modern America. networks.h-net.org/jobs/69524/p...

11) Erosión democrática en Estados Unidos: una alerta roja para la región / Por @lgamboa.bsky.social latinoamerica21.com/es/

Reflexiones sobre la erosión democrática en EEUU y su impacto en América Latina

This is the kind of campaign unleashed against the few Republicans opposing redistricting in Indiana…How can non-Republicans counteract that kind of pressure?

New article out in @polstudies.bsky.social! Why do opposition parties in authoritarian regimes so often fail to coordinate, even when unity could help them win? doi.org/10.1177/0032... In this article, we highlight two overlooked drivers of opposition fragmentation 🧵

People think the closest example to what is happening in the US is Hungary. I think is Guatemala (2017-2023) where the Corrupt Pact co-opted state institutions and undermined state capacity to enhance impunity and corruption

You know who else refused to swear in democratically elected members of congress? Nicolas Maduro (2015) Just saying…

In case you missed it! Here is last week’s Charlemos where the awesome @jolechartre.bsky.social discusses her amazing research

It's today!

I won't get tired to repeat it. Due process not only protects minorities and marginalized communities, it protects US ALL.

- What is the current "boat strike" death toll? (43) - How much of cocaine supplies (est) actually transit Venezuela? (10-13%) - How much US-bound fentanyl comes from South America? (none) We all need credibly sourced information right now. And here is a new @wola-org.bsky.social fact sheet:

Join us for this fantastic Charlemos featuring the great @jolechartre.bsky.social who will be discussing her award winning research! Time: Monday 27, 2025: 3-3:30 pm ET (Online) You can register here: forms.monday.com/forms/e0aefb...

Just a reminder that Republicans own this shutdown

Those comparing this government with Orban’s give it to much credit. This administration is nothing more than an obscene corruption and impunity racket, like the Corrupt Pact in Guatemala or Dina Boluarte and her allies in congress in Peru www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Organizers estimate 5000-6000 people in South Bend, IN (pop about 100,000), with massive and loud support from most of the cars on a big football weekend. #NOKINGS2

This is how democracy looks like #NoKings in South Bend IN

Brown rejected the compact! www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

More extra-judicial killings. So far these attacks have costed 27 lives. Trump alone decided they were guilty and deserved to die. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

One week left to apply! The Kellogg Institute’s Visiting Fellowship Program supports interdisciplinary research on global democracy through seminars, lectures & exchange at Notre Dame. Don’t miss your chance! Applications close October 1, 2025. kellogg.nd.edu/opportunitie...

¡Queda una semana para postular! El “Kellogg Institute’s Visiting Fellowship Program: (docentes, posdoctorales y Hewlett) impulsa la investigación sobre democracia global en Notre Dame. Cierra el 1 de octubre de 2025. ¡Solicita ya! kellogg.nd.edu/opportunitie...

“Officially released and officially approved information” = state propaganda…. But sure, the Democrats are the ones trying to turn the US into a surveillance communist state….

It was an awesome panel. So much interesting work!

🧡 “El uso del derecho como herramienta de transformación en América Latina”. Acceso abierto: ➡️ publicaciones.dejusticia.org/items/ab2fac... @redpolitologas.bsky.social @lawtransform.bsky.social @andreacastagnola.bsky.social @egocantos.bsky.social

Great piece. The plan cannot be to wait for elections in 2026. If we do nothing these will be rigged. Democrats need a plan and a message. A shutdown can give them a spotlight. How they use that spotlight matters A LOT. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Yeii Utah! I cannot be more impressed with the organizations leading this effort and the judges who, putting aside partisanship are helping protect democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

📢 Convocatoria abierta | LASA 2026 ¡Falta una semana! LAPIS patrocina paneles sobre instituciones políticas para LASA 2026. ¡Los paneles seleccionados tienen aceptación garantizada! Postula antes del 8 de agosto aquí: 🔗 forms.gle/EhLLj5fkdWba...

📢 Call for Applications | LASA 2026 One week left! LAPIS is sponsoring panels on political institutions for LASA 2026! Selected panels are guaranteed acceptance. Submit your proposal by August 8 using this form: 🔗 forms.gle/EhLLj5fkdWba...

THIS!!! Gerrymandering is always undemocratic. But this belongs to a different league: When the districts gerrymandered in 2021 were not enough to guarantee victory in 2026, Trump, asks Abbott to manipulate electoral law and gerrymander districts AGAIN.

Join us in 2026-27 at the Kellogg Institute! kellogg.nd.edu/opportunitie...

Congratulations to all our @notredame.bsky.social and former @kellogginstitute.bsky.social political science fellows: @jolechartre.bsky.social , @bgarciaholgado.bsky.social and @natanski.bsky.social whose dissertations won several APSA awards this year. You should check their work! 👇

IMPORTANT INFORMATION!!!

The deadline is August 8! If you are thinking about attending LASA 2026, this is a great opportunity to get the panel accepted (before you commit to paying membership and conference fees) and give more visibility to the papers.

La fecha límites es el 8 de Agosto... Anímense! Si están pensando en ir a LASA 2026 esta es una gran oportunidad para garantizar que el panel sea aceptado (antes de tener que comprometerse a pagar membresía y conferencia) y darle algo más de visibilidad a las ponencias.

LAPIS está buscando excelentes paneles!! Las aplicaciones se cierran el 8 de Agosto!

“If American democracy is to prevail, pro-democracy forces must follow the handbook that has enabled oppositions to stop would-be autocrats in other countries,” writes @lgamboa.bsky.social. “The alternative may be to find that democracy has slipped away while they wait.”

Thanks to drastic policy changes in the US and Big Tech’s embrace of the second Trump administration, many people are moving their digital lives abroad. Here are a few options for browsers, search engines, and email providers to get you started.