@au.dk is hiring 3 postdocs (2 yrs) on personality cults & strategic communication in autocracies, led by Jakob Tolstrup & Alexander Baturo. They're looking for profiles with text-as-data, survey experiments and/or Chinese politics experience. Start fall 2026. Looks like a great opportunity!

Helpful thread on friction between 🇰🇷 and 🇮🇱

Really interesting thread on international election observers ahead of Hungary’s election.

Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026. international.au.dk/about/profil...

🚨 new article alert 🚨 @rtapscott.bsky.social and I have a new article @africanaffairs.bsky.social that provides new descriptive data about the popularity of Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Museveni’s son and likely preferred successor. academic.oup.com/afraf/advanc... 1/4

Two weeks left to apply!

My book - “Purges” - has a release date (August 15) and a front cover. I started work on this as my PhD dissertation at the end of 2017 - excited for it to finally be coming out! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... 📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications... 📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky 1/3

Consider applying to join Nuffield College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford as an associate professor in IR. This excellent post is for a non-tutorial fellowship (very little undergrad teaching). Please feel free to reach out with any questions. lnkd.in/eR6qBDNb.

Interviewed today on ABC about the ROK intelligence assessment that Kim Ju Ae is being designated as successor. My takeaway: nothing has changed; Kim Jong Un hasn’t done anything new. ROK intelligence has just increased the confidence of their assessment that Kim Ju Ae will succeed Kim Jong Un.

🔎 Check this article ‘Blame Shifting in Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey’ by Edward Goldring, Jonas Willibald Schmid and Fulya Apaydin (IBEI). Read here 👉 t.ly/8uHxg @cambridge.org @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

Page proofs for my first solo publication🎉

We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds! You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/ It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below. The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.

We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites! It will be held on August 20-21st, 2026 in Oslo. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood and not just papers using WhoGov. You can find the call here: bit.ly/whogovminico...

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

Great interview. Well worth reading. One of my favourite sections below:

I’m puppy sitting this week. She prefers a ball but Philip Pullman is also acceptable.

My School is hiring fixed term and ongoing lecturers in public policy. I have nothing to do with hiring but love working in Melbourne and happy to answer any Qs about working and living here. Fixed: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/mCevCL7rxD... Ongoing: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/nzQ8CMwvyg...

Good thread 👇

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]

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Our latest @apsgworkshop.bsky.social call for papers is out 🥳 Apply and share with your PhD, postdoc, assistant professor colleagues that might be interested! Here is the link to submit your abstract: forms.gle/NTxcY7Ye2JKe... Deadline is 9 November

And if you want to learn more about how people make a career in dictatorship, pre-order the authors' (Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social) new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship": global.oup.com/academic/pro...

No apologies necessary! It’s an excellent book - check it out and go get yourself a copy.

With no apologies for the shameless self promotion, thanks to @alexdukalskis.bsky.social for his review of mine and @pward89.bsky.social’s book on succession in personalist autocracies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Grateful for the review; he does a great job of summarizing our arguments.

Please share widely! Great #PostDoc opportunity at one of Australia's top #PoliticalScience departments, on a #FutureFellowship on electoral resilience. 3yrs, great pay, and a workplace practically next to the Great Barrier Reef! Closing date is 1 Oct 2025 jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

Author copies for Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today! If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

@pward89.bsky.social and I were delighted to win the Best Article Award from APSA’s Democracy and Autocracy section for our @worldpolitics.bsky.social article “Elite Management Before Autocratic Leader Succession: Evidence from North Korea.” muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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...

New article out on blame shifting in autocracies…and we’ve got a video!

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - Blame Shifting in Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey - cup.org/4ggTyAv - @edwardgoldring.bsky.social, Jonas Willibald Schmid & Fulya Apaydin #FirstView

🚨 Call for Papers: 2026 WPSA Mini-Conference on Authoritarian Politics 🚨 Jun Sudduth, @paulschuler.bsky.social, and I are excited to see y’all in San Diego! We welcome formal and empirical papers on a broad range of topics. 📌 Apply here. Share with colleagues & students: forms.gle/Dv2SBEduFxSh...

My colleague Ferran Martinez i Coma has a three year, full-time postdoc available for his Australian Research Council project "Resilient Elections: How to Strengthen Our Democracies." Great project ✔️ Awesome supervisor ✔️ Excellent department ✔️ Lovely City ✔️ jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

Josef Woldense is running his fantastic ‘research presentation as storytelling’ workshop in a few weeks. It’s held virtually; details on how to sign up are below. @woldense.bsky.social

Favourite comment on my student evals: “I also lost a little bit of respect for Dr. Goldring when he was he was a Lewis Hamilton fan in the year of our lord 2025.”

Many thanks to @nknewsorg.bsky.social for inviting @pward89.bsky.social and I on to the podcast to talk about our book on elite management and succession in North Korea and elsewhere. Really enjoyed the discussion, especially as a “long time listener but first time caller”!

Deadline is now July 25th! @textvulture.bsky.social @jennargibson.bsky.social @edwardgoldring.bsky.social

Deadline is today! If you’ve got a paper on Korea, consider applying to the fourth cohort of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (KPSC): textvulture.github.io/presentation...

This is a great opportunity for youth #SNU #Korea

Haven’t celebrated a publication in person for a while. @fapaydin.bsky.social - you were with @jonaswschmid.bsky.social and I in spirit!

If you’ve got a paper related to Korean politics and would like feedback, consider submitting to the Korean Political Studies Colloquium. Junior scholars especially welcome! textvulture.github.io/presentation...

Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Floods. The world is not short of disasters. When faced with such events, autocrats often resort to blame shifting. But does this strategy work? In our forthcoming new paper with @edwardgoldring.bsky.social & @jonaswschmid.bsky.social, we unpack this question. Thread ⬇️

New paper on blame shifting in autocracies with @jonaswschmid.bsky.social & @fapaydin.bsky.social, just accepted at Perspectives. Full thread and link to pre-print below 👇

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs! Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🗓 Deadline: 25 August 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 🔹 Associate Professor 🗓 Deadline: 8 September 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

To point out the obvious, but doesn’t bode well for 🇺🇸🇰🇷 relations, especially tariff negotiations and future of 🇺🇸 troops in 🇰🇷

I got a review this week in which a reviewer suggested that we scale up the project and apply for an NSF grant. Have to wonder if they haven’t read the news for the past few months🤦

I will be teaching a class on spatial econometrics in July @ipsa.org Summer School for Social Science Research Methods at NUS. Registration is now open: fass.nus.edu.sg/methods-scho... We hope to see you in Singapore!

A reminder that my Element with @pward89.bsky.social on how dictators manage elites to facilitate succession is free to download for another five days: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

📢Applications Open for New Director of the V-Dem Institute V-Dem Institute and the Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg is looking for a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Science & Director of the V-Dem Institute. To application: shorturl.at/9rvmx 📆 March 27, 2025.