Publication alert ❗📘👀 New open access article on autocratization and democratic survival on @ejprjournal.bsky.social together with the brilliant Guido Panzano (Kiel): what configuration of resistance actions account for democratic survival during autocratization? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Geehrt wird sie für ihr herausragendes Engagement in Forschung und Lehre und ihre bedeutenden wissenschaftlichen Beiträge zur Erforschung der digitalen Parteienkommunikation. Wir gratulieren @jasfitzpatrick.bsky.social zu dieser außergewöhnlichen, hochdotierten und hochverdienten Auszeichnung!

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

It was a very special day when my book arrived, and I got to open the package with my family :) Constitutional Change under Autocracy explores how autocrats use constitutional amendments not as mere legal tweaks, but as strategic tools.

By way of preparing for teaching and making sense of current events, I spent today trying to synthesise the demand-side literature on democratic backsliding (see figure below). The starting point of most of this literature is simple: Do voters punish politicians who violate democratic norms, or do

🎧 JETZT REINHÖREN: #Forschungspodcast #MindsOfMainz – #DerGutenbergTalk | Folge 28: Demokratie im Fokus: Warum Politische Theorie heute die Gesellschaft bewegt | mit Prof. Claudia Landwehr 👉 www.magazin.uni-mainz.de/minds-of-main…#Demokratiei#Politikwissenschaftf#PolitischeTheorieie

📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database! The data now covers - > 3.000 parties - 1.100 parliamentary elections - 402 presidential elections - 2.044 cabinets across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31). All info: ppeg.wzb.eu We hope that data is helpful to the community!

Join us! Die Abteilung für Innenpolitik & Politische Soziologie sucht zum 01.04. eine*n neue*n Kollegin*en. Wir bieten: volle Promotionsstelle (EG13) für drei Jahre (Verlängerung um 3 Jahre möglich), flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen, kollegiales & forschungsstarkes Team. Mehr Informationen hier👇

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

Now also with page numbers: In this article published in ZfVP, I reconstruct the concept of anti-pluralism and examine why, from a theory-conceptual perspective, it is particularly well suited to identify potential autocratizers 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s122...

@sonjapriebus.bsky.social Aleksandra Maatsch& me are organizing a workshop on 'Opposing challenges to democracy across contexts' in Frankfurt (Oder) 26-27 March 2026. Do you have a paper that might fit? ➡️Call for Papers (📆Deadline: 05/12) www.dvpw.de/informatione...

Pretty excited to share this. We worked on a monster for the past year, getting LLMs (AI, those ChatGPT kinds of things) to qualitatively code the levels of populism in political speeches with holistic grading. Enjoy. populism.byu.edu/large-langua...

Together with @kenbenoit.bsky.social we offer a hands-on workshop on @instats.bsky.social for qualitative researchers to use LLMs for annotating texts, images, audio, etc. without requiring deep programming skills but with the full flexibility and fun of R. instats.org/seminar/ai-p...

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 🧵

Are you conducting research combining qualitative cross-case methods (comparative case studies or QCA) with process tracing? ➡️ ** We are looking to show-case your work** ⬅️ 🧵 1/

🚨 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...

Very proud of my PhD student @kwalz.bsky.social who successfully defended his thesis on "Pathways to breakdown resilience" today and is now Dr. (des.) Kevin Walz 🎉 Watch out for his book to learn how accountability can stop autocratization! In Picture: Kevin🧑‍🎓, Natasha Wunsch, 2nd supervisor and me 😀

Heute um 16 Uhr begrüßen wir Natasha Wunsch (Université de Fribourg) in unserer #Forschungswerkstatt. Das Thema ist wirklich spannend: "Democratic Commitment: Why Citizens Tolerate Democratic Backsliding". Alle sind herzlich willkommen!

Diesen Mittwoch in der Forschungswerkstatt Politikwissenschaft @powimz.bsky.social : Nathasha Wunsch stellt ihr neues Buch vor! 16 Uhr in P5 - wir freuen uns schon 🎉

Im Rahmen unserer Forschungswerkstatt bieten wir im Wintersemester 2025/26 wieder ein spannendes Programm zu verschiedenen Themen an. Wie immer gilt: alle sind herzlich willkommen!

📢Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive. Read the recently published article in #ISPR. Together with Katrin Kinzelbach and @silindberg.bsky.social (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0192...

Application period for New Europe College (Bucharest) fellowships in humanities and social sciences: nec.ro/fellowships/... Especially if you recently got your PhD and are looking for a 1-year fellowship it is a wonderful place to work, with a scholarship that will completely cover expenses here

@liampert.bsky.social, @mattgrossmann.bsky.social, and I are thrilled to launch SenateData, a new repository pertaining to the US Senate. We have variables on facets like bills, and members, including original data on senator characteristics and an associated R package. github.com/IPPSR/Senate...

#CfP: Call for panels for the Second International Congress for Political Theory in Germany. The #TheoryCongress will take place from 5 to 7 October 2026 at the University of #Passau. Proposals for panels can be submitted until 6 November.

Party leaders often face a tough choice: should they join forces with other parties in pre-electoral coalitions or run alone? The stakes are even higher when opposition parties try to unseat an authoritarian incumbent.

Exciting lineup for our (@powimz.bsky.social) research colloquia—the Forschungswerkstatt and the Democracy Seminar—this coming winter semester! I’m looking forward to welcoming many great guests and hearing from my colleagues.

They say: once there’s a paper 📝, it’s real… 🎉 #MEDem in #EPS @ecpr.bsky.social The paper outlines how MEDem will strengthen #OpenScience by making data #FAIR in #DemocracyResearch – and how scholars across Europe are joining forces to build a truly open #ResearchInfrastructure ⚙️

It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

LMU Professors from various disciplines share their perspectives on the role of AI in science www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

I'm happy to share two updates about my book 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 (OUP/Hurst) ► A paperback edition will come out next year, in Hurst’s Spring catalogue ► The book is now also available on Oxford Scholarship Online, making it freely accessible to subscribers: academic.oup.com/book/60892

Ready to integrate ChatGPT and open-source LLMs into your research? Join Dr. @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social for our online course on AI-assisted Text Analysis. - Full hands-on setup - Reproducible workflows in R - Critical reflection on ethics 📅 23-25 Feb, 2026 🔗 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/mc-ekomex...

🚨📢 I am hiring a PhD candidate /research assistant in Swiss Politics and/or Comparative Politics (100%)! 🚨📢 Je recrute un·e assistant·e diplômé·e en science politique en politique suisse et comparée! Please join me @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland! Thanks for sharing! polisky @sspunil.bsky.social

Great news! 😁I am very happy to introduce the new ECPR Research Network on Comparative Regime Studies🎉 A new space for scholars working on #democracy, #autocracy, #hybridregimes, #autocratization #democratization, and everything in between.👇 ecpr.eu/group/compar...

Das Institut @powimz.bsky.social bei der #ecprgc25. Tolle Vorträge, inspirierender Austausch und interessante Eindrücke.

The @powimz.bsky.social crowd enjoys the sunset cruise at the @ecpr.bsky.social conference in Thessaloniki. 😎 Together with @clandwehr.bsky.social, @arminschaefer.bsky.social, @stallbaum.bsky.social, @lionmert.bsky.social & @kwalz.bsky.social.

@powimz.bsky.social at #ECPRGC25 in Thessaloniki

📄 🚨 New Research on Polarization, Fragmentation, and Democracy in @democratization.bsky.social Nils-Christian Bormann and I explore the impact of ideological polarization and fragmentation on the democratic systems of interwar Europe: lnkd.in/erjJr9qF #polarization #democracy #data #history (1/4)

Registration is NOW OPEN for #KOMEX2026 ✨ Excellence. Affordability. No flights. In-person @uni-konstanz.de or online via #ekomex Learn from top scholars in: 🧠 R, Python, NVivo, QCA, Process Tracing, ML, SNA & more 🗓️ Feb 2026 🔗 Join: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/kon... @methodsnet.bsky.social

Today is election day in Bolivia! I've been closely following the country since the start of my PhD and honestly this could be one of the most consequential elections the country has ever faced. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

I'm delighted to see this article out in @govandopp.bsky.social! Jonas Wenker and I show that losing an election has a far stronger negative effect on populist voters than on non-populist ones. For populists, losing signals that the system is broken. 1/5 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

Stellungnahme der DVPW zum Positionspapier des Wissenschaftsrates zu Personalstrukturen im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem 👉 www.dvpw.de/informationen/infos/details/news/stellungnahme-der-dvpw-zum-positionspapier-des-wissenschaftsrates-zu-personalstrukturen-im-deutschen-wissenschaftssystem

📖 | In June 2025, South Korea held a snap presidential election following the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol. Jung Kim explores the paradox of South Korean democracy - strong enough to resist autocracy, yet vulnerable to elite dysfunction.

Are policy and process preferences structured by the same ideological dimensions? In a new paper now out in journals.sagepub.com/toc/iptb/21/2 I argue that policy preferences are associated with support for different logics of collective decision-making. More empirical research in the making!

Greatly looking forward to talks by @fabioellger.bsky.social and @blfirestone.bsky.social in our Democracy Seminar series on Thursday this week 🎉 @powimz.bsky.social

🚨 Newest Comparative Political Data Set released!🚨 Updated until 2023 Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data @leuphana.bsky.social @uniluzern.bsky.social @ipz.bsky.social

Our highly regarded, peer-reviewed journals are now on BlueSky! 🎉 Follow along for the latest research, journal news and publication opportunities: 💜 @epsrjournal.bsky.social 💚 @epsjournal.bsky.social 🩵 @pdyearbook.bsky.social 💙 @ejprjournal.bsky.social 🧡 @prxjournal.bsky.social #AcademicSKy

For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !

🎧 HÖRTIPP: #Forschungspodcast #MindsOfMainz – #DerGutenbergTalk | Folge 24: Wehrhafte #Demokratie – ein Bekenntnis zu Freiheit und gemeinsamen Werten | mit Prof. Kai Arzheimer 👉 www.magazin.uni-mainz.de/minds-of-mai... @kai-arzheimer.com @powimz.bsky.social #Politikwissenschaft #Innenpolitik