Join us next week! @lisayfan.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) will present her work on expressions of loyalty by female elites. Jakob Tolstrup (Aarhus) and @parzetterberg.bsky.social (@uu-polisci.bsky.social) will discuss.

📣 Translate your academic expertise into public-facing policy briefs published in partnership with the Westminster Foundation for Democracy! 🚨 Next week Friday's deadline is fast approaching! Full details below 👇

@jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social and I wrote the ‘last word’ for the latest Political Insight issue @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social. We discuss the global rise of authoritarianism, its implications for domestic and international politics, and the future of democracy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Join us next week! @javierpadilla.bsky.social (@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social) will be presenting his work on how oligarchic cleavages shape liberalization and democratization and @alucardi1.bsky.social (@itam-mx.bsky.social) and @emisimison.bsky.social (@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social) will discuss.

With the new term a new season of @apsgworkshop.bsky.social is also about to start! See the excellent line up below and sign up to the mailing list to recieve meeting invites! 👇

Excited to announce the publication of my article in Comparative Political Studies on how crises shape the ideological legitimation strategies of authoritarian regimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Blame #Shifting in #Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from #Turkey By @edwardgoldring.bsky.social, @jonaswschmid.bsky.social & Fulya Apaydin doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year's WhoGov workshop on Political Elites! It is amazing to see so much great research presented on political elites and meet so many great people. And thank you to @inalkristiansen.bsky.social and @jonaswschmid.bsky.social for co-organizing the event

The 2025 Best Paper Award for the best paper on autocracies and/or regime change presented at the PSA Annual Conference 2025 goes to... @tjermanova.bsky.social with "Beyond Coordination: The Authoritarian Constitution at the Centre of Intra-Regime Conflict in Post-1979 Iran." Congratulations! 🥳

The 2025 Best PhD Paper Award for the best article/chapter written by a current PhD candidate goes to... @linettelim.bsky.social PhD candidate at @ucddublin.bsky.social for her chapter "Foreign Bogeymen: The Use of Anti-Foreign Media Propaganda in China" Congratulations!! 🥳

📢 This is a great opportunity to translate academic research on autocracies into policy-relevant and public-facing briefs! Full details on the CfP by @psaautocracy.bsky.social and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy below 👇

🚨New publication! By now, we know 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 democratic institutions autocratizers undermine, yet we (w/ Gorazd Ordanoski) ask: 𝑯𝒐𝒘 do they attack them? We present three sequential repressive steps: 1️⃣ legitimization rhetoric 2️⃣ legal engineering 3️⃣ coercive control 🔓🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 You only have today and tomorrow left to apply! Get your applications in for the next series of @apsgworkshop.bsky.social! 👇

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Less than a week left to apply to present your work in our Fall 2025 season. Don't miss this opportunity of getting feedback from the APSG community!

Only a few more days left to apply for the next season of the @apsgworkshop.bsky.social 👇

📣 Research Assistant Position! @ozlemtuncel.bsky.social and I are looking for support for a project on higher education and electoral politics in Turkey. Are you: ▪️Ideally, a PhD student ▪️Fluent in Turkish ▪️Familiar with quantitative data Then please apply here: gsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

From March 2025 - Party Systems, Democratic Positions, and Regime Changes: Introducing the Party-System Democracy Index - cup.org/4iPyIIn - @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social, @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social & @silindberg.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Do you have any new publications or CfPs to share with the APSG community? Do you work on authoritarian politics and are in the academic market (or will soon)? Let us know!! forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq...

Only a few more days to submit papers for the @psaautocracy.bsky.social Awards 👇

NEW - Legislative Cooptation in Authoritarian Regimes: Policy Cooperation in the Kuwait National Assembly - cup.org/4iVKa4R - @danieltavana.bsky.social & Erin York #OpenAccess

We have two awards to give away for research on autocracies and/or regime changes 👇

Join us next week to close the season with Pau Vall-Prat (UC3M) presenting "Autocratic Power Sharing and Democratic Outcomes"! @rokuppers.bsky.social (@lsemethodology.bsky.social) and Felipe González (@qmul.ac.uk) will discuss. Note this is one hour later than usual! (12pm EST, 6pm CET)

The Call for Papers for our Fall 2025 Workshop series is now OPEN! Polisky Dictatorsky To apply complete this form by May 31st: forms.gle/SvZv98ke4QUT... You can find more information here on the CfP: apsg.work/cfp/

🚨New article! At a time when aid for civil society is widely cut, we show that this type of aid has helped improve CSO independence and democracy. To keep seeing these benefits, policymakers should invest more in earmarked democracy aid via CSOs, not less. More in @adeagafuri.bsky.social's 🧵 👇

There is still time to share your updates in our next Monthly Newsletter! 📰 Polisky Dictatorsky Just let us know about your recent publications, awards, CfP, etc. here: forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq... To receive the newsletter subscribe at: mailchi.mp/fe045331c9c7...

🚨New article! At a time when aid for civil society is widely cut, we show that this type of aid has helped improve CSO independence and democracy. To keep seeing these benefits, policymakers should invest more in earmarked democracy aid via CSOs, not less. More in @adeagafuri.bsky.social's 🧵 👇

We wrapped up #PSA25 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social! @psaautocracy.bsky.social lined up brilliant papers. Kudos to @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social @jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social for bringing together this community. Stay tuned for their future planned activities!

Join us next week!! Polisky Dictatorsky On April 22 at 5pm ECT, Mai Van Tran (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) will present "Social Media's Algorithmic Affordances for Authoritarian Repression: Evidence from Myanmar" and Jennifer Whitten-Woodring (UMass) and @eddieyang.bsky.social(Purdue) will discuss

Your weekend reading (and my new article) is out today @poppublicsphere.bsky.social. In this article I develop a novel theory of autocratic revolving doors - the phenomenon of autocratic elites returning to a cabinet position under democracy. doi.org/10.1017/S153...

🚨 Only three days until the PSA @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Annual Conference and the Autocracy and Regime Change Group has a jam-packed programme! Get ready for our Annual General Meeting, a session with publishing tips for early career researchers, a drinks social, and six amazing panels! 👇

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📣 Calling UK-China experts! 📣 The Foreign Affairs Committee @houseofcommons.parliament.uk has launched an inquiry into the UK Government’s ongoing Audit of UK-China relations. Please consider submitting evidence via link below. Topics include 🧵👇 committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...

Join us next week! Polisky Dictatorsky On Tuesday April 8 at 11:00-12:00pm EST/5:00-6:00pm CET Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed (Toulouse) will present "Monopolizing Clientelism During Regime Transition" followed by comments by @shalaby12.bsky.social (Wisconsin-Madison) and @biffpm.bsky.social (@harvard.edu)

New Publication! @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social, @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social & @staffanlindberg.bsky.social introduce the party-system democracy index (PSDI), a new global measure on regime preferences across party systems. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Check these new publications by @chankaming.bsky.social on the erosion of election trust across borders! - The Spillover of the US Capitol Insurrection: doi.org/10.1017/S000... - Autocratization spillover: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Several new great papers on authoritarian politics out! Catch up on all of them with the @apsgworkshop.bsky.social newsletter 👇

Very happy to see this out! Together with Abel Escribà-Folch @politiquesupf.bsky.social @ibei.org we explore whether foreign aid and FDI have opposing effects on dictators' personalism levels 🧵👇

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Still six days to the application deadline for the V-Dem Directorship position!

Polisky Dictatorsky Our March Newsletter is out next week! 📰 Do you have any updates you want to share with the APSG community? 📢 Tell us here!: forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq...

Polisky Dictatorsky 📣 Join us next week! On March 25, @danielkuhlen.bsky.social (Humboldt University) will present "Crackdowns Increase Public Safety: Causal Evidence from El Salvador" and Kaitlyn Chriswell (Brown University) and @igoracacio.bsky.social (Cal State, Fullerton) will discuss.

🚨 Check out our new article out in @bjpols.bsky.social We created a new party-system democracy index showing that changes in how much support there is for democracy in the overall party system are significant predictors of regime changes across the globe 👇

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Polisky Dictatorsky Join us next Tuesday! @dkofanov.bsky.social (Pittsburgh) will present "Local Democratization and Public Finance: Lessons from the 1870 Municipal Reform in Cities of the Russian Empire" @stasavage.bsky.social (NYU) and Maria Carreri (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) will discuss

Check out the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference and submit your papers on challenges to democracy 👇 Deadline is on Monday!

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Join us next week Tuesday! Li Shao (Zhejiang) will present "The Fall of Eros: How repressive polarization shapes marriage relationships in China" discussed by @xiaoxiaoshen.bsky.social (@yale.edu) and @willrhobbs.bsky.social (@cornelluniversity.bsky.social) To attend subscribe: eepurl.com/iJc9FY

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