Political scientists are the ideal audience for #bluesky because alternating cat videos with long political screeds seems perfectly natural 😃

Even established authoritarian regimes consider arresting defiant judges an extreme tactic—a serious escalation usually reserved for after one-party rule is firmly entrenched. Seeing a judge arrested in the US today should alarm everyone who values democratic governance. This cannot be allowed. 🧵

Competitive authoritarianism implies the outcome is not predetermined; that there is "meaningful" contestation for power Trump et al. have 2-4 years to rig the next elections. Given their operational speed (and the Democrats ambivalence), the risk is they don't stop at competitive authoritarianism

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at least none of these are opposites of each other

kl. serviceskeet: die befragung von Frau Stark-Watzinger ist TOP 1 für die 78. Sitzung des Bildungsausschusses am Mittwoch um 11.30 Uhr. Über die "live" Seite der Mediathek auf der Webseite des Bundestages kann man die Sitzung verfolgen. #fördergeldaffäre

In case you missed it: German Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP) isn't too keen on respecting the freedom of research and teaching. #AcademicFreedom #Germany

How do we engage with authoritarian regimes and how do we study them? For the launch of the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Specialist Group on Autocracy and Regime Change, we discuss these timely issues! Join us in London or online and register here: forms.gle/Hvh4KRewuUr7... polisky dictatorsky

In diesem Spiel kann man nur verlieren. Es ist Zeit, Klartext zu reden. Statt uns in leeren Phrasen und Buzzwords zu verlieren, sollten wir realisieren, dass wir ein Problem mit Rechts haben.

Hey GermanPoliticSky, whats your take on the election results in Germany? European elections, but also the results of AfD in local politics... polisky

I am teaching tomorrow a class on local politics. In Saxony. Not sure yet, how this is gonna go.

I'm really excited about this conference beginning today. 🤩 Who else from the bluesky dictatorsky bubble will be here?

Excited to share a new R-package (written w/ @aaoritz.bsky.social)! "nuts: Convert European regional data in R" tinyurl.com/4yhbnpxn nuts allows to harmonize and aggregate European regional data across all NUTS versions (2006, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2021) & levels (NUTS-3 to NUTS-1). 1/4

Despite Wikipedia's NPOV policy, articles often carry sentiment. Take a look at this word cloud illustrating frequent terms in Russian-language Wikipedia articles about regional executives... not everyone's buying into the regime's narratives dictatorsky

Polisky Dictatorsky! We are accepting submissions for our Fall 2024 season of online workshops until May 31! We welcome presentations by early-career scholars studying authoritarian political regimes regardless of their methodological approaches. Find more information at: apsg.work/cfp/

Fröhliche Wettermoderator*innen in Radio und TV, die von Grillwetter und Freibad plappern oder Zeitungsartikel mit Sommerferien-assoziativer Bebilderung sind Teil des Problems. Sie helfen dabei, das heranrollende Unheil zu ignorieren, indem sie es als prima Sache framen.

📣Publication Alert: Our OA-article on competitiveness in Russian regional elections is now available. We emphasize inclusiveness and contestation and show that the regime systematically controls access to the electoral arena. Article: rdcu.be/dx6Yk Polisky dictatorsky

"Geld ohne Arbeit setzt völlig falsche Anreize" – Union will offenbar Aktiendividenden, Erbschaften und Mieteinnahmen verbieten www.der-postillon.com/2023/11/leis...

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🚨CALL FOR AUTHORS🚨 We are looking for authors willing to write a short entry (2.5k words) on the topics below for our Encyclopedia of Political Communication Interested? ➡️ Reach out asap via email ([email protected]) Plz repost for N and diversity @maxgroemping.bsky.social @dswirz.bsky.social

Autocrats employ elections to legitimize their rule. They claim universal suffrage, but my analysis of elections from 1970-2020 in electoral autocracies tells a different story: strategic and informal adjustments of suffrage to secure political survival. Read my article here Open Access! Dictatorsky

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I made a quick chart using Freedom House's 2023 data. The last few years have seen some countries fluctuating between 'Partially Free' and 'Not Free'. The trends look much more dramatic when looking at population-weighted data. PoliSky

UK 2021 census data and 2019 General Election results for constituencies 📊

Somebody asked me if I had plans for the fall. It took me a minute to realise she meant "Autumn" and not "The Collapse of Civilisation."

When Levitsky and Way publish a piece together on JoD, you know there is a new book coming... dictatorsky Comparativesky polisky

We do understand the #globalwarming caused by fossil fuels - for four decades it’s been going as predicted. But we don’t understand the surprise upward leap that is happening now. And that worries me.

CALL FOR PAPERS! Polisky Dictatorsky Do you work on autocracies, want to present your ongoing research, and receive in-depth feedback? We are organising our *5th Series*, starting Spring 2024! Please, submit your application by *30 October* here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For a project, I spend some days in Armenia... and I just have no words 🇦🇲

Niemandem ist gedient, wenn wir alle nur noch Wissenschaft verwalten statt sie zu machen, weil es anderswo keine vernünftigen Stellen gibt. #IchBinHanna

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Squirell in a nutshell 🥰

Hey dictatorsky, together with Stas Gorelik I am hosting a panel at #dvpw24 on pro-governmental rallies in autocracies. Looking forward to your submissions (deadline 31. october).

Might be interesting for the dictatorsky-folks... the submission website is now also up and running.

I've just updated PoliSkyData as a subfeed of Polisky. If you're on Polisky, you should now have access to PoliSkyData. For posting, use one of the following tags: PolDataSky|PoliSkyData|PolSciData|📊

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Hey PoliSky, i just set up a feed for sharing and finding new data! Tag @kristineichhorn.bsky.social to be added. Use PolDataSky|PoliSkyData|PolSciData|📊 for posting. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Hi all! I made a feed for folks who study authoritarian regimes. Tag @salahbhpolisci.bsky.social to ask to be added & use dictatorsky to post! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Hi @salahbhpolisci.bsky.social, I'd like to be added to the dictatorsky. Thx for organising!

📣CfP: Together with Erik Vollman I host a panel at #dvpw2024 on Digitalization & Autocratic Stability! We are looking for papers on the implications of #digitalization on regime stability and the dynamics of digital #autocracy. 📆Deadline: 31.10. ℹ️ www.dvpw.de/en/dvpw2024/... #polisky #polisci