The methodology business cycle (Ok I'm trademarking that for a future paper 🤣)

🚨 New article out! “Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000... We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany. Short summary thread below 👇

Join us tomorrow at @uio.no for the 3rd C-REX/CIR meeting on Democracy and Extremism. Presentations by @chknutsen.bsky.social & @jacravn.bsky.social, followed by comments from parliamentary leader T. Brenna (Labour Party) & H. Nordby Lunde (former Conservative MP). www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/aktuel...

Ser frem til å innlede til dette frokostmøtet sammem med @chknutsen.bsky.social om demokratiets motstandskraft i møte med det ekstreme i regi av @crexuio.bsky.social og CIR forskergruppen ved @statsvitenskap.bsky.social www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/aktuel...

Hereby confirming that I’ve also been honored 😀 Thanks again for the great collaboration, @adridelrio.bsky.social and @plutscher.bsky.social !

Now I also got it @adridelrio.bsky.social @chknutsen.bsky.social :-) Thanks @apsa.bsky.social for mentioning our #education dataset: Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Data: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Check out or new article — published today in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social — where we discuss and provide guidelines for the construction and use of datasets. We draw on our lessons from three major data collection efforts on education policies and systems 👇

Donald Trumps plan to subvert the midterms is underway From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Thanks @apsa.bsky.social for the mention to my coauthored #education dataset with @chknutsen.bsky.social and @plutscher.bsky.social in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Data: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

It just got 10% dumber. Not a joke: Trump just imposed an additional 10 percent tariff on Canada because he still doesn't understand that Reagan was a vehement free trader. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

the federal government is waging war on citizens living in areas that didnt vote for donald trump, its insane

New version (0.6.0) of my #rstats package {democracyData} xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/ with @freedomhouse.bsky.social data to 2024, as well as several other sources, plus minor improvements all around

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable. Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

The self-censorship continues... "I was the editor of Governing, a magazine and website covering state and local governments. But after facing increasing internal censorship pressures — largely to avoid critical coverage of President Donald Trump — I refused to go along, and I resigned."

“Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for the president … are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout, underscoring potential ethical conflicts.” The language of “ethical conflicts” here is a comical insult to the reader. But saying “rancid corruption” would be rude.

48 chapters on various aspects of Norwegian politics. Including one by @sirianned.bsky.social and myself on the historical development and current state of Norwegian democracy: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Very proud to have been a part of this project and to see my first co-authored article out in the world! Read @jacobnyrup.bsky.social excellent thread for more info on the data! 🥳

Super excited to finally see this project out in the wild! What a journey it's been! Looking forward to see how people will use this awesome data. See thread below for more details from @jacobnyrup.bsky.social.

Check out the data paper (open access) and the publicly available data: We hope that many people will use it in their research and for other purposes.

Great project, great people, great department! (From a completely unbiased member of the same department)

We are already thinking about the next steps. We are currently building a website presenting the data. Here, we will add interactive visualizations and useful information.

We also see where British cabinet members attended university. Unsurprisingly, Oxford and Cambridge graduates dominate.

We also show how the data can be used to give new insights in different fields. Do democracies or autocracies have the best educated cabinet members? Turns out that leaders are better educated in democracies, but cabinet members have about the same level of education across regimes.

However, we were by no means able to do this ourselves, so @peterla.bsky.social and @inalkristiansen.bsky.social joined the project. Moreover, we got help from an army of RAs and scholars spread across 6 continents, speaking +15 languages. We are enormously grateful to everyone who helped!

What if we google all the cabinet members in WhoGov and note down what they did before joining government? (This was before LLMs, not sure they are too helpful with this but that is a discussion for later day). Luckily, @chknutsen.bsky.social had secured funding from the Research Council of Norway

Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021. This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏 A short 🧵

‘Fredsprisen til María Corina Machado er … mer enn en personlig anerkjennelse. Den er en påminnelse om at demokratiets fremtid hviler på dem som våger å protestere … .’ @mariannedahl.bsky.social i @aftenposten.no www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...

How do different forms of state capacity protect democracy? D Andersen, @chknutsen.bsky.social & @skaaning.bsky.social argue coercive & administrative capacity affect stability in distinct ways depending on threat: buff.ly/2yUrCqu @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

An excellent (although deeply depressing) piece by Thomas Edsall, with some great interviews with top US political scientists. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

How am I meant to code this for WhoGov and Paths to Power?

Selling out democracy when they could easily win the fight

Velkommen til frokostdebatt fredag 19. september! Meld deg på her👉 www.uio.no/om/aktuelt/u... @unioslo-jus.bsky.social @statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social @uio.no

Let’s go with the idea that these drones over Poland mistakenly ended up there. All the more reason for NATO to announce a no-fly-zone over Western Ukraine in order to prevent such unfortunate mistakes in the future. Simple. Close the skies.

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Why do some people keep voting throughout their lives while others drop out? And how do authoritarian elections - even uncompetitive ones- shape citizens’ habits? Ksenia Northmore-Ball and I tackle these questions in my new paper, now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

For the love of democracy, STOP using "colour revolution" as a slur!! The colour revolutions were real, enthusiastic, domestic social mobilizations against corruption and electoral fraud. The claim that they were malign outside interference is literal russian propaganda.

I’m very happy to share that the first paper of my PhD, «From the streets to the ballots: Protests, polls and Polarization in Hong Kong» has been published online in @democratization.bsky.social It is open access, and you can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ezra Klein is right and it matters he's saying this. The question is not "funding the government" or "shutting down the government." It's funding *this* government versus shutting down *this* government. It's not the definite article existing independent of who's in power. It is who's in power.

One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say. Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV). It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more. #ERCStG

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

Looking much forward to seeing @matthiasdilling.bsky.social present his new book at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social tomorrow at the Comparative Institutions and Regime-seminar series.

Trump er ved at forandre USA til det vi i diktaturforskningen kalder for et personalistisk regime. Det er et regime, hvor lederen siger "hop", så er der kun ét svar: "Hvor højt?". Eller hvis lederen siger, at 2+2 = 5, ja, så er den officielle version, at 2+2 altså er lig fem. 1/4

Intervjuet i Aftenposten: Det ser dessverre bare verre og verre ut i USA. Mellomvalget blir nøkkelen for om det amerikanske demokratiet overlever Trump, tror jeg. (Og det kommer ikke til å bli et vanlig mellomvalg) www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/93R...

Introducing the Opposition Movements and Groups Dataset 1789–2019 in @cpsjournal.bsky.social together with @mariannedahl.bsky.social @chknutsen.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @hannefjelde.bsky.social @torewig.bsky.social Read about the paper👇 Or dive right into the data👉 www.prio.org/data/39

Read the full article in Comparative Political Studies: doi.org/10.1177/0010...