What's happening in ICE also seems to go in the FBI. The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇 🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!

Kein besserer Start in den Morgen als mit einem starken ZEIT-Artikel meines großartigen Hertie-Kollegen Christian Gläßel und @ascharpf.bsky.social: www.zeit.de/politik/ausl... (Freebie-Link)

Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social for featuring our work on the staffing of secret police organizations and how it is related to ICE. Our forthcoming book delves deeper into the authoritarian security apparatus and examines who serves where and why: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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]

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 👇

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 👉ERC Project DEMOLAW 🏦Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen 🤓Public Policy, Comp. Text Analysis, R/Python, #NLProc ⏰3+1 years 📆Deadline: 05/11/2024 🎓Postdoc: short.sg/j/49273108 🎓Predoc: short.sg/j/49278053 ❗️Please share

Are you an expert in dealing with lobby registers, transparency laws, corporate registers and the like? You want to understand how autocrats and their regimes influence foreign democracies? We (@alexdukalskis.bsky.social) have some funds to hire someone for some work on a freelance basis. ⬇️

In a follow-up article in @thejop.bsky.social, we study how sportswashing works and what publicity/image effects autocracies achieve from hosting sports events Case: 2022 ⚽ World Cup in Qatar doi.org/10.1086/730728

Just learned that our APSR article on sports mega events in autocracies has won the Best Article Award by @apsa.bsky.social's Democracy & Autocracy section 🥳🍾 @pearceaedwards.bsky.social 🙏 to the committee: @annemeng.bsky.social Jean Hong, Lisa Mueller, Anibal Perez-Linan doi.org/10.1017/S000...

@alexdukalskis.bsky.social and I had the pleasure talking to @cjcmichel.bsky.social about our new paper on dictators and their contracting of Western PR firms. The exchange is part of the podcast series by the Human Rights Foundation. Check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

🚨 4-year postdoc position in computational social science at University of Zurich. Come work with me and @fgilardi.bsky.social at @ipz.bsky.social ! Application deadline is June 30. Job ad & details: ⬇️ www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns... polisky csssky socsky commsky

✨ Call for papers ✨ Digital Democracy Workshop University of Zurich, 24-25 October 2024 Submission deadline: 2 June 2024 Pls share widely! democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/news/24-25-1...

Last week, Christian Gläßel and I kicked off our DFG-funded Anatomy of the Authoritarian Security Apparatus project w. a book workshop @hertiesecurity.bsky.social Natasha Lindstaedt Erica Frantz @belengonzalez.bsky.social Kristen Harkness @smsaideman.bsky.social, @feiyonah.bsky.social Yuri Zhukov

Which dictatorships hire Public Relations (PR) firms, under what conditions, and with what effects? Christian Gläßel, @alexdukalskis.bsky.social, and I offer first answers with data on 7k contracts between autocracies and US-based PR firms (1945–2022).

The new "Research Handbook on Authoritarianism" is now out! We (+ Christian Gläßel & @ascharpf.bsky.social ) contribute with a chapter on the competence-loyalty trade-off in the security apparatus of autocracies. 🧵👇

Super happy that our article on the conflict potential of illegal sand mining in Africa is now published online (and open access) with @EnvSecJournal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm hiring a postdoc! > Aug 2024 - July 2027 > PhD completed or close to completion > Interest in digital technology & politics > Causal inference and/or computational social science > Salary: CHF 81,400/yr Pls help me spread the word! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

We are planning the first WhoGov Workshop to be held in Oslo on the 29-30th of August 2024. We welcome all research using WhoGov in some capacity and we have funding to cover travel expenses for participants. Find the call for papers through the link or use the QR code: bit.ly/WhoGov_Workshop

New paper in the Journal of Peace Research with Tabea Palmtag and @tobirommel.bsky.social! 🥳 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We have been collecting a lot of data on evolving public opinion on international cooperation in the DISINTEGRATION project. Some of this data is now publicly available for download in the SWISSUbase repository. Check it out!

We are advertising a Pre-Doc/PhD position at Humboldt. You get a nice office in the heart of Berlin, free coffee, and a tremendous community of scholars working on cutting-edge social science. Your own project can be on whatever excites you! Deadline is Feb 21. Ad is below. POLISKY

Attention: Open call for a Ph.D. scholarship in my Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (we include all sub-fields). Excellent PhD Programme, great salary and it's in the middle of wonderful Copenhagen! Deadline for application: 25 February 2024. Start date: 1 September 2024

Henry A. Kissinger died last week. Few people know that as an academic he used a soft power campaign to get foreign politicians, intellectuals, and cultural figures enthusiastic about the United States. Who did Kissinger target with his soft power campaign? polisky

Small feature in the ZDF Heute about Saudi Arabia's role in international sports. www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

There will be another TOPIQ talk @ipz.bsky.social tomorrow 5pm CET (online) Andrew McNeil will present new work on the effects of (lacking) social mobility on political discontent. Registration here: www.urpp-equality.uzh.ch/en/registrat...

Very much looking forward to our annual Digital Democracy Workshop Thu and Fri this week! 📔 28 papers 📈 Record number of 100+ participants 🎓 Keynote by Atoosa Kasirzadeh: "AI Existential Risks and the Problem of Alignment" democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/app/uploads/... (pdf)

Women in Conflict Studies (WICS) Virtual Professional Development Sessions are back! Check out the fall 2023 schedule here: www.womeninconflictstudies.org/events.html Thanks to all the volunteers who make these sessions possible!

The Department of Political Science of the University of Zurich (lovingly known as IPZ) is on Bluesky @ipz.bsky.social

If you know of recent PhDs/postdocs with interest in quant. (ideally mixed-method) research on pol violence/repression/armed actors PLEASE direct them to me! Am looking to appoint Humboldt Fellows to work with me for a year. Esp looking for ppl from Global South. No German citizens/German degree.

Work with me at FU Berlin! I am hiring two student assistants for my DFG-funded project, “Identifying and Evaluating the Impact of Policy Interventions for Increasing Citizenship Acquisition Rates in Germany”.   👉 bit.ly/45lyCkI

Searching for a podcast today? 🎙 A very insightful episode of The Tickets on “Global Sport and Denmark - Small Country, Big Impact” featuring @ascharpf.bsky.social 👇🏼

🚨 I have an opening for a PhD position (4-year) in my team in the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, starting Jan 1, 2024. Join our vibrant research environment and come to beautiful Zurich, Switzerland! Focus of the position is on studying the #digitaltransformation of politics.

Excited to share on 🟦 as well: My project on Multidimensional Polarization received a 4-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation 🎉 🚨 Please help me share the ad for the PhD position on the project! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... polisky PSJMinfo

We are launching another round of the Zurich Talks on the Politics of Inequality TOPIQ. This edition will be on Social Mobility and Electoral Change with a Keynote by Torben Iversen (Oct 10, 5pm). Online and open for everyone! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/forschung...