Join us next week to start the season! @yezhang.bsky.social (@mitpolisci.bsky.social) presents "Political Control in the Workplace: How Autocrats Use Firms to Discipline Citizens". Lynette H Ong (@utoronto.ca), @woldense.bsky.social (Minnesota), & @linshengqiao.bsky.social (@utoronto.ca) discuss

Look at this amazing season!

Come join us 15-16 June 2026 in London! The CfP for our 4th Annual Conference, co-organized with @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social, is open until 1 Feb! We invite scholars of authoritarianism at all career stages to apply here: forms.gle/5eQ1NHMtK5GS... For more information: tinyurl.com/2ap6attd

The last newsletter of the year is out! If you have news or updates you want to share with the APSG community in 2026, do let us know here: forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq...

Come join us 15-16 June 2026 at @qmulsse.bsky.social for our 4th APSG Annual Conference co-organized with @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social ! To apply, fill this form by 1 February 2026: forms.gle/5eQ1NHMtK5GS... For more information visit: apsg.work/call-for-pap...

Our November Newsletter is out! Have news and updates you want to share with the community? Let us know! forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq... December's newsletter will be earlier than usual so hurry up!

Are you a bachelor or master's student interested in authoritarian politics? @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social is recruiting an intern to work on authoritarian political parties and with the APSG team in-person at the University of Gothenburg. Email your application by Nov 28 to [email protected]

Join us next week! Malika Talgatova (@tum.de) will be presenting "Targeted Media Repression: General Consequences and the Role of Collaborative Networks" @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social (Oxford) and @bardiarahmani.bsky.social (@weatherheadcenter.bsky.social) will discuss

Save the Date! Remember that our 4th APSG Summer Conference will take place June 15-16, 2026 at @qmulsse.bsky.social with support from the @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social. Put it in your calendars and stay tunned for the Call for Papers!

The clock is ticking! ⌛ You have until Sunday to submit your proposal for the Spring!

Join us tomorrow!

Our October Newsletter is out and full with updates from the APSG communities! 📰 Have anything to share? Let us know! forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq...

Join us next week! Tiffany Simon (@harvardkennedy.bsky.social) will present "Happiness as Control: The Political Consequences of Entertainment Policy in Saudi Arabia" and @andrewleber.bsky.social (@tulanepolisci.bsky.social) and @aasiegel.bsky.social (@colorado.edu) will discuss

I made it, I got a reviewer recommending me to read my own work #AcademicMilestone

Our Call for Papers for the Spring 2026 is still open! Submit your proposal by November 9th using this link: forms.gle/SvZv98ke4QUT... For more information visit: apsg.work/cfp/

Do you have any updates to share with the APSG community? Let us know here and we will include them in our October Newsletter! forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq...

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Join us next week! Anna Lia Brunetti (@univie.ac.at ) & @beluabdala.bsky.social (@unisalzburg.bsky.social) will be presenting their work on the moderating role of citizen's meanings of voting. Sarah Birch (KCL) and Carolien van Ham (@radboudpol.bsky.social) will discuss.

Join us tomorrow!

Our Call for Papers for the Spring 2026 is now open! Submit your proposal by November 9th using this link: forms.gle/SvZv98ke4QUT... For more information visit: apsg.work/cfp/

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.

Any news or updates to share with the @apsgworkshop.bsky.social community? Let us know! Our September newsletter will be out soon!

Join us today!

Join us next week! I'll be wearing multiple hats this time around!

The new season of @apsgworkshop.bsky.social is starting soon!! Save the dates!

Another monthly newsletter is out! 📰 Do you have any news or updates you would like us to include in the next one? Let us know! forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq...

Our July's newsletter is out! If you are not getting it yet, subscribe here: mailchi.mp/fe045331c9c7... To share your news in our August newsletter fill this form: forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq...

New Publication Gorazd Ordanoski and @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social have just published "Patterns of incumbents’ repression during autocratization" on how antidemocratic incumbents attack accountability measures while autocratizing and applying it to Hungary and North Macedonia doi.org/10.1080/1351...

Check your inbox! Our June's newsletter is out! If you have anything you want to share with the APSG community, let us know here: forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq...

There is still time to make part of June's Newsletter! Polisky Dictatorsky

Are you wrapping the semester with news to share with the APSG community? Let us know here and we will include them in our June newsletter! forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq...

One more day to submit your proposal!

Our monthly newsletter is out! Have news and updates to share in with us? Let us know! forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq... Want to receive the newsletter? Subscribe! mailchi.mp/fe045331c9c7...

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!

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

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...

Polisky Dictatorsky You have time until May 31 to apply to present your work next Fall!

(self)nominations are open for the Best PhD Paper Award of the PSA in Autocracy and Regime Change! Looking forward to reading them!

Our April Newsletter, full of news and updates from the community, is out! To share your news for the May one, fill this form: forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq... To receive it, subscribe at: mailchi.mp/fe045331c9c7...

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)

Our CfP for next semester is already open! Send your proposal by May 31!

Anything you want to share with the @apsgworkshop.bsky.social community? Let us know!

Polisky Dictatorsky Do you have new publications, call for papers, or other updates to share with the APSG community? Let us know! forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq...

🚨Event alert: "Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier", May 28-29 @qmul.ac.uk. Info + registration here: www.claspblog.org/events/mater...

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...

My book "Resistance to Gender Quotas in Latin America" is out, and it's *open access*! The book explores the puzzle of gender quotas—a policy to increase women's representation, adopted when men, who may be affected by these policies, are the majority of legislators. academic.oup.com/book/59749

Another newsletter with the most recent publications and updates from the APSG community is out!

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.