And they are here!

Come join us in the best team I was ever part of!

My book with Alejandro is now out in all formats. Go request it at your university's library! If you want to buy instead, use the code LMUA2025 to get a 20% discount in CUP's website

My first preprint is up! Qualitative Methods in the Digital Era: How computation entangles fieldwork? Drawing on 8 years collecting multiple types of data on Brazil’s environmental state, I reflect on how abductive fieldwork is changing. Comments welcomed osf.io/preprints/so...

New publication! Fascinating new book by @ascharpf.bsky.social and Christian Glaessel shows how notorious phenomena of authoritarianism are triggered by banal career problems. Essential reading for anyone interested in how authoritarian organizations and regimes work global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Happening today! Come join us if you are in London!

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Come join us! We are nice, I promise!

Join us next week! On February 24, @gmelios.bsky.social (LSE) will present "Propaganda, party mobilisation and Electoral Oppression". @felixhaass.bsky.social (Humboldt), @serkant.bsky.social (Sabancı), & @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) will comment.

The digital version is finally out! Go check it!

You still have time to add these great workshops to your calendar!

Our first newsletter of the year is out! To stay updated on the APSG community, subscribe here: mailchi.mp/fe045331c9c7... To send us your updates, please fill this form: forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq...

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!

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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...

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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!