In a world where the US is turning into an authoritarian banana republic, Russia has wrecked its economy trying and failing to conquer its neighbor, and China is turning into a hyper-nationalistic totalitarian nightmare, it is surprising so many people are thinking that Europe is the failing one.

I guess this makes sense. My ‘nearest neighbor’ is @torewig.bsky.social, which is nice :) Not sure exactly who these British birders and Portuguese progressives are, but happy to be hanging out with you!

☀️☀️ Exciting news in Madrid! We are VERY happy to officially announce the creation of the Instituto Juan Linz (aka “IJL”). ijlinz.es The IJL ("Juan Linz Institute" in English) is dedicated to cutting-edge research and teaching in political science, sociology, economic history and more. thread 1/12

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Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates: “Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."

NEW PAPER ALERT! My paper, with @bjornhoyland.bsky.social , on how “policy loss” shapes support for the EU has just been published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Check it out! 1/

I really think there needs to spontaneous protests against ICE happening right now in front of every federal building in the country and especially in Washington D.C. Otherwise those opposed to the Trump administration will not gain enough momentum or control the narrative.

One thing most people don't understand is that we in the US enjoy greater wealth funded by other countries because they assume we are a stable and relatively friendly hegemon.

I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying

Seeing people do "here's the savvy take on how and why the US should acquire Greenland" and just feeling so *embarrassed* for them. Have some dignity. You don't need to be an apologist for the world's dumbest autocrat, you're not somehow sophisticated for seeing The Smart Play on imperial vainglory.

If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.

On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.

Nobelkomiteen burde åpenbart ikke bestå av politisk utnevnte medlemmer, men av fageksperter. Slik det er nå blir komiteen tilsynelatende litt for opptatt av å være «smarte» og taktiske, på en måte som nå har mislyktes spektakulært.

Nå er de for alvor i ferd med å våkne de anstendige folka i media, politikken og samfunnsdebatten som for få år siden mente advarslene om fascismen var alarmisme. Fremover vil det komme et rush av kommentarer om at «den gamle verden står i fare». Til det vil jeg si: Den gamle verden er død.

Greenland is happening. Not a joke, not trolling, not a distraction. He has already made up his mind and nobody who matters in the inner circle will try to talk him out of it. Some of them want it precisely because it will destroy NATO. There are no adults in the room. They really mean to do it.

I was losing track of what the Peace President was up to, so I made a map

More astonishing public comments from Danish PM on Greenland: “I believe one should take the American president seriously when he says that he wants Greenland. But I will also make it clear that if the US chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO..."

As I've long argued, the Greenland risk is underpriced A possible US intervention in Greenland is the biggest source of risk to the transatlantic alliance and intra-NATO and intra-EU cohesion, arguably far greater than those presented by Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Turns out defending international law in a world of predators is impossible if you don't have sufficient force to defend yourself.

By way of preparing for teaching and making sense of current events, I spent today trying to synthesise the demand-side literature on democratic backsliding (see figure below). The starting point of most of this literature is simple: Do voters punish politicians who violate democratic norms, or do

«Hvis det finnes et historisk mønster som sier noe om sammenhengen mellom multikultur, liberalisme og sosialt, økonomisk og politisk fremskritt, er det det helt motsatte av den nasjonalkonservative dommedagsprofetien.» www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/asle-t...

NEW - Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World - https://cup.org/49auQPf - @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @sirianned.bsky.social, Kristian Vrede Skaaning Frederiksen & @aykutozturk.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Newly released evidence from Portugal shows that taking exams on a computer reduces kids' scores A LOT. Old fashioned paper and pencil exams FTW!

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Happy to announce that I have received an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator grant for the project "Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge". AutoKnow will study how authoritarian regimes and politics affect scientific progress, contents and topics in different fields. www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...

Glimrende tekst av @torewig.bsky.social. Akademisk frihet er ingen naturlov, men et samfunnstrekk som må saklig forsvares på eget grunnlag, ikke med floskler. Hvis ikke vil den forvitre. www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/jon-he...

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Forestillingen om at autoritære stater er mer økonomisk effektive er i ferd med å bre seg igjen. Den er uten empirisk grunnlag. fasterplease.substack.com/p/i-love-pro...

Det kommer illevarslende meldinger om at Ukraina snart må oppgi Pokrovsk. Virkningen av dette nederlaget kommer til å bli overdrevet av mange. Derfor skriver jeg om hva dette betyr i dag. snoen.substack.com/p/pokrovsk-f...

"No" Ned said with sadness in his voice. "Now it ends.'

“Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men. This holds when controlling for characteristics of the presenter, paper, and audience. Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters.”

Det finnes etter hvert et ganske stort antall kvantitative studier på dette, som ser systematisk på læringsutfall korrelert med undervisningsformer, og de finner stort sett at tradisjonell lærersentrert undervisning gir bedre resultat. Se for eksempel her: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Relatert: Den siste Stortingsmeldingen om høyere utdanning anbefalte sterkt bruk av såkalt aktive læringsmetoder, med påstanden at "undersøkelser viser at studenter lærer mer". Jeg sjekket opp kunnskapsgrunnlaget som lå til grunn i referansene, var én eksperimentell studie basert på få studenter

In any somewhat functioning country this would lead to the fall of the government

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 🧵

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...

Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians

Both can be true: 1. Many bad faith actors are trying to impose conservative viewpoints on academia and should be resisted as threats to academic freedom 2. Viewpoint diversity (broadly defined) is good for free inquiry scatter.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/t... eternallyradicalidea.com/p/is-higher-...

Betting agency data strongly suggest an information leak of some kind in connection with the Nobel Peace Prize award. Between 00:40 and 02:00 last night, the Polymarkets probability of a Machado win rose from 4 % to 73 % www.vg.no/nyheter/i/o3...

RFK Jr is the OG p-hacker.

Fukuyama and Find Out

the history will continue until morale improves

🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social 'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇 Read the full article (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There is no organization called "antifa" - so, why label a non-existent group "terrorists"? This gives the regime maximum scope to hunt down opposition and critics. They label you "antifa", and then they come for you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We must support our colleagues working in autocratic regimes

I came of political age hating the Bush guys and now I have to get in the trenches with them against the guy from the apprentice I would like to file several complaints

Please share this information and the call for papers in your departments, serve lists, emails etc. so it reaches especially those who aren’t using this platform! We very much hope to see as many people attend the EPSS inaugural conference in 2026 so spread the word!

Not only is this coming for you, it is here and we are collectively behind in preparing.