So thrilled that @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellow @boesevanessa.bsky.social has received this prestigious and important grant for important work on the global evolution of democracy.

New article by @dziblatt.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.

Events such as these are what motivates me to pursue an academic career. Thanks to @fabioellger.bsky.social @hannohilbig.bsky.social @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social for hosting us & to all participants for constructive feedback on @antonkoenneke.de & my paper, and the great vibes. C u ➡ summer!

Excited to host the 4th iteration of the Transformations of Democracy Junior Scholars Workshop at WZB Berlin together with Hanno Hilbig! Amazing talks & exchanges with colleagues from Princeton, Harvard, UC Davis, Toulouse School of Economics, Copenhagen, Humboldt, Chemnitz, EUI, and beyond..

The WZB Transformations of Democracy unit hosted a great workshop on how ideas of Democracy evolve over time . A great group & lots of scholarly progress.

Need a measure of #democraticstock for your analyses? @acrowinghen.bsky.social Matthew Wilson & I just published the demstock R package & @vdeminstitute.bsky.social working paper It lets you create stock measures of most of the variables included in the V-Dem dataset 😃 🥳 Try it out!🙃

New op ed by @dziblatt.bsky.social and co authors How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Great new paper by our own @fabioellger.bsky.social and co authors @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @mgruenewald.bsky.social and @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social

Our IPI-TD speakers series continues next week May 6 with Professor Dan Slater (University of Michigan), presenting “Battles for Pluralism: Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Great Democratic Unknown”. @dnsltr.bsky.social

/1 Some news from our unit. A new and exciting paper from @blfirestone.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... ...with an accompanying and innovative public event

A call for papers!!!

1/ Our unit's new working paper by Daniel Ziblatt, Florian Bochert, Wolfgang Schroeder, on the surprising * endurance * of the firewall in Germany against the Radical right-- has been written up in the national weekly DER SPIEGEL...

Pleased to announce our semester speaker series!

In a democracy, when and where should majorities rule? And when should their powers be limited? Steve Levitsky and I propose a framework to think through these questions in a new piece in the January 2025 issue of 'Journal of Democracy' muse.jhu.edu/article/947880

📻 Radio interview mit @dziblatt.bsky.social im Deutschlandfunk ▶️ www.deutschlandfunk.de/wenn-minderh...

📰 Interview mit @dziblatt.bsky.social und Steven Levitsky in @spiegelmagazin.bsky.social [paywall] ▶️ www.spiegel.de/ausland/demo...

"Die Vereinigten Staaten laufen Gefahr, in eine Minderheitsherrschaft abzugleiten." Gastbeitrag von @dziblatt.bsky.social und Steven Levitsky in @zeit.de ➡️ www.zeit.de/2024/21/radi...

Ist Amerikas Demokratie noch zu retten? @dziblatt.bsky.social war zu Gast bei ttt - titel thesen temperamente ARD Hier geht's zum Clip: www.daserste.de/information/...

🗓️ Event Empfehlung: "Demokratie unter Druck: Was sie schwächt, was sie stärkt" mit @dziblatt.bsky.social und @ardenthistorian.bsky.social am 23. Mai um 18 Uhr im @wzb.bsky.social Mehr Infos und Anmeldung ➡️ www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal...

🚩 Wir haben Neuigkeiten: Am 15. Mai erscheint "Die Tyrannei der Minderheit" von @dziblatt.bsky.social und Steven Levitsky auf deutsch! Alle Infos ➡️ www.penguin.de/Buch/Die-Tyr...

New WZB Democracy working paper by @boesevanessa.bsky.social on the long-term trust effects of living under autocratic rule on individual citizens. - with @mbayerlein.bsky.social, Katrin Kamin and Scott Gates & Mansoob Murshed - link to paper: bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2023/v23... polisky

❗Job openings in our unit ❗ We currently have two job openings:   Postdoctoral Research Fellow Deadline for applications: 14.01.2024 www.wzb.eu/de/node/80075 Student Assistant Deadline for applications: 02.01.2024 www.wzb.eu/de/node/80074 Please share widely.

📌 Publication alert: New article by @fabioellger.bsky.social "The Mobilizing Effect of Party System Polarization. Evidence From Europe" published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social

Authoritarianism & disinformation go hand in hand. In a new @ecpr.bsky.social The Loop article, @klatt.bsky.social and @boesevanessa.bsky.social highlight the dangerous relationship.

📰 Interview with @dziblatt.bsky.social in Die Zeit: www.zeit.de/2023/45/usa-... [in German & paywall]

📌 New publication by @dziblatt.bsky.social with @hannohilbig.bsky.social and @danbischof.bsky.social in the American Political Science Review: "Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany" bit.ly/3S9qBfU