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🤓 On Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 14:00-15:30 CET, we will be discussing Anna Fruhstorfer's anticipated monograph, Constitutional Change under Autocracy, just out with Oxford University Press.

The ICON-S CEE Chapter is delighted to invite everyone to our next online roundtable about an exciting new book! 😊

Why are legislatures in some authoritarian regimes more powerful than others? @emisimison.bsky.social (@qmulsse.bsky.social) and Alejandro Bonvecchi (UTDT-Conicet) tackle this question Lawmaking under Authoritarianism doi.org/10.1017/9781... Polisky

Two new articles in Party Politics With @gessler.bsky.social Measuring party positions and issue salience with mass media and manifesto data" doi.org/10.1177/1354... With Hanspeter Kriesi "Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe" doi.org/10.1177/1354... Feedback very welcome!

Als der Krieg endete, war Simone Veil keine 18 und Vollwaise. Sie sei sich oft vorgekommen wie eine Außerirdische, kaum jemand wollte die Geschichten der Überlebenden hören. Noch Jahre später, da war sie  längst aufgestiegen zu einer bekannten Juristin

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.

I’m really looking forward to discussing our research in the upcoming PRD webinar, organised by the brilliant @jenny-oser.bsky.social. Join us next Wed, 14 Jan, for a timely conversation on how democracy can be promoted online - and what research tells us about what actually works. More details ⬇️

My colleague @mariamsalehi.bsky.social and I are organizing this event this coming Monday to discuss USA, Venezuela and the politics of force with excellent guest! Join us @interactfu.bsky.social, FU Berlin, or online.

Das @manifestoproj.bsky.social analysiert seit vielen Jahren politische Texte - aber unser Datensatz ist voll mit Zahlen. In einem Artikel in den neuen WZB-Mitteilungen haben meine Kolleg:innen und ich anhand von sechs Zahlen beschrieben, was wir da eigentlich so machen. 🔍🖥️📄

The datasets from our @protestinstitut.bsky.social project ‘20 years of protest survey data’ are finally online for scientific re-use. We processed 30+ datasets, covering protests on peace, climate, trade, migration, equality & more. Now available @gesis.org 👇 search.gesis.org?source=%7B%2...

If you are thinking about pursuing a political science PhD and are interested in authoritarian politics, broadly understood, consider applying for this funded opportunity:

Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend. Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

#AdventInFemDur Tür 22 🎄 Björk (geb. 1965) – ja, auch sie ist eine #Komponistin, nicht nur singende Frontfrau einer Band, deren Musik jemand anderes schreibt. Habe sie ausgewählt, weil mir genau diese Musik ihrer "Overture" in 🕯️ de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B... 🎁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5oF...

Just published: the second edition of Debating Nationalism available at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/debating-... for less than 20 GBP!

Russian repression against Crimean #Tatars in occupied Ukraine follows a pattern. Using a new geo-coded event dataset, researchers Elmira Muratova & @felixschulte.bsky.social#Tatarsmap human rights violations & explain why repression is often carried out on Thursdays. More on the #KonKoop DataLab blog ⤵️

I talked to philsopher and Writer @leaypi.bsky.social in my podcast FREIHEIT DELUXE. It‘s a perfect conversation for This Sunday.. www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/frei...

Podcast: Law, Utopianism and Feminist Utopias in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction With Prof @aoifemod.bsky.social and Dr Ruth Houghton (Newcastle University) covering their work on Feminist Utopias, Constitutionalism and Imperialism in the Utopian and Dystopian Fiction podcast series. bit.ly/3RXn1nu

Check out my new Etched in Marble conversation with Lea Ypi. Philosopher, novelist, author of Free & Indignity, Ypi uses writing to push ideas into daylight. Not as way to prove she’s right, but to see what survives when doubt is allowed in. catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-... 🧵

Die @bpb.de hat sich von X verabschiedet und wird deswegen massiv von rechts kritisiert. Ich denke, da sollte man mal reinfolgen.

As part of a special issue of @iojournal.bsky.social w/ an amazing cast of scholars, Rebecca Cordell & I wrote a piece on the future of human rights given the rise of authoritarian powers and alliances. Check out "Authoritarianism, Global Politics, and the Future of Human Rights" open access here:

Morgen sind: Daniel Ziblatt, Thomas Weber, Daniel Siemens, Tamara Ehs, Heike Klüver u.v.a. im GORKI Theater in Berlin. Und im Livestream ab 19.30h – im Rat der Geschichte: Was hilft gegen die AfD? www.gorki.de/de/der-rat-d...

INDIGNITY is out today in the USA with @fsgbooks.bsky.social! Many thanks to everyone who helped bring it out on the other side of the Atlantic & for all the wonderful reviews already out! I will do a few events in the next couple of weeks - will share updates here! us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

📯 Publication alert! The newest issue of CONTENTION engages with moral shocks, backlash protest & critical junctures, and addresses the conditions and effects of transformative events. It was co-edited by Jannis Julien Grimm and @myriahmed.bsky.social www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Ich habe mit der Magdeburger Volksstimme über eine doppelte Gefahr für die CDU nach der Landtagswahl gesprochen: "Mord" in blau-schwarzer Koalition oder "Selbstmord" in einer überdehnten Anti-AfD-Koalition mit Einigungszwang. Etwas Empirie im thread...

The new book by @kathiprager.bsky.social 'A Game as Mindless as Love: The Life of Satirist Karl Kraus' is magnificent, especially for former Berliners like me who have always struggled to understand the coexistence of reactionary and progressive elements in Vienna around 1900. 1/2

Great write-up of an important study by @tevoelker.bsky.social and @dasalgon.bsky.social. Far-right actors have been very successful in setting the political agenda. Many in politics and media still ignore this. They argue "immigration is important to people, hence we need to talk about immigration"

Free for one week! The next article in Emergency Response Research and Documentation in Comparative Perspective: Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project: Intertwined Experiences and Methodologies by Natalia Otrishchenko, Artem Kharchenko, Valentyna Shevchenko doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

das buchkind ist jetzt schon draußen im leben und mit anderen unterwegs, denen es hoffentlich viel zu sagen hat. schickt doch bilder, wenn ihr es seht!

This Thursday, we celebrate the retirement and work of Michael Minkenberg, one of the most underrated scholars of far-right politics. I will give an online keynote but there is also a great in-person panel with, among others, @andreapirro.it & @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social Sign up here! 👇

Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A 🧵 on our findings...

🚨 Why do people protest against authoritarian regimes even when facing extreme danger? 🚨 In our new paper on Romania's 1989 Revolution, we find that communities exposed to the communist Gulag showed 5x higher dissent levels. doi.org/10.1177/0010... 1/🧵

Der Oktober steht für einmal ganz im Zeichen meiner Serbienexpertise. Ich freue mich riesig auf diese Veranstaltung mit @akm-stiftung.bsky.social Gemeinsam mit @krstorevic.bsky.social @philinebickhardt.bsky.social und @agashi.bsky.social fragen wir uns wo das Land 25J nach Milošević steht

Great experience publishing in @globcon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Fast, efficient & very helpful reviewer reports. Great interdisciplinary journal also for comparativists!

Our new article is out in Social Movement Studies! We compare workers’ protests in Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy & Romania – from protest tactics to building alliances after Covid-19. It presents the first comparative data of workers’ protests since Covid-19, based on local sources.

Something I have been working on is starting to feel real, the proofs of Constitutional Change under Autocracy have arrived. I could not be more excited! Publication is expected in early 2026.

Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests. doi.org/10.1080/1474...

Hoping this thread kicks off some new/renewed interest in @ganghof.bsky.social ‘s work.

📢 Join us for a one-day workshop "Russia’s Right-Wing and the War" 🗓️ 26.09.25 📍 Edwin-Redslob-Str. 29 🖋️Please sign up at [email protected]! ℹ️ shorturl.at/YTWM6 Co-organizer @scripts-berlin.eu Funded by @dfg.de

We've tried to do something better than the 'grey literature' standard with the GSoD report this year. We worked with some amazing designers to produce an interactive online report that enables the reader to see what's behind the summary data in the graphs.

🔔 Very happy to see our paper published open access on cleavage theory and civil society! 📖 We have tried to sketch a new research agenda, that I think has a lot of potential. I very much enjoyed working on this! Check Alex's thread below 👇 & read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Wissenschaftskommunikation ist Teil meiner Arbeit und nicht mein Privatvergnügen." Genau deshalb muss der Umgang mit Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit systematisch erfolgen und darf nicht an Individuen hängenbleiben. Auch wenn gerade bei kommunizierenden Forscherinnen die "Kritik" ad personam erfolgt.

If you prefer to listen to your books, the audio book version of Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social was released today. Get it wherever you get your audio books - Audible, Amazon, Apple, Storytel, your library, etc.

Zahlreiche Menschen haben sich 2015 spontan für Geflüchtete eingesetzt – ein beispielloser Moment zivilgesellschaftlicher Mobilisierung. @claraberg.bsky.social hat für ihre Dissertation erforscht, wie sich solches Engagement verstetigen lässt.  www.wzb.eu/de/news/was-...

Edgar Grande and @dasalgon.bsky.social examine the role of political trust in protests 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Am 18. Juli hat die EU neue #Sanktionen gegen #Russland verabschiedet, u.a. eine verschärfte Ölpreisdeckelung. Sebastian Hoppe forscht am ZOiS zur politischen Ökonomie Russlands. In der ZOiS-Expertenstimme beschreibt er, wie die versch. Maßnahmen wirken könnten: www.zois-berlin.de/presse/exper...

Stellungnahme zur Causa „Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf“ Knapp 300 Rechtswissenschaftler:innen, darunter zahlreiche Professor:innen und ehemalige Richter:innen des BVerfG, kritisieren den Umgang mit Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf. Die gesamte Stellungnahme gibt es hier: verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahm...

Die Aktion Brosius-Gersdorf: eine Probe auf die Handlungsfähigkeit der latenten rechten Mehrheit. Mein Gastkommentar im Deutschlandfunk. www.deutschlandfunk.de/kommentar-zu...