Calibrating the Outrage: A Conversation about Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics - New Books Network
Your Monday morning podcast is my conversation with @robertblair.bsky.social. Substantive discussion of democratic erosion AND concrete ways for YOU to do something about it. FREE resources from the @demerosiondec.bsky.social
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19.05.2025 11:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Planning to teach on democracy next AY? Join as a Faculty Affiliate to access our cross-university Democratic Erosion syllabus and materials (you can use 1 week or all). We also support cross-university assignments. New version launching this fall!
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16.05.2025 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hi there -- if you are interested in #democratic erosion and democratic backsliding -- consider following the Democratic Erosion Consortium @demerosiondec.bsky.social as well as @robertblair.bsky.social
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13.05.2025 17:28 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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16.04.2025 16:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Federal Grant Cuts in Researchers’ Own Words (opinion)
Researchers whose federal grants have been terminated since the start of the Trump administration describe some of the myriad impacts.
New from @insidehighered.com: A powerful series on canceled research grants & how these cuts are derailing critical work. SSN supported 4 of the pieces by connecting SSN members with editor @elizabethredden.bsky.social and helping edit their drafts. 🧵
Read the full series. ⤵️
03.04.2025 18:31 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2
The deadline for submission of papers to the Boston/New England Area Working Group in African Political Economy (BWGAPE) is March 28 (Friday). Please consider applying! #polisky #EconSky @nlnathan.bsky.social
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20.03.2025 14:16 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Incredible discussion at yesterday's panel co-hosted by @ndidemocracy.bsky.social. Thank you to Tamara Cofman Wittes @tcwittes.bsky.social, Tom Carothers, Danny Choi @dhdannychoi.bsky.social, Agustina Giraudy, and all who joined to explore 2025 global trends in resisting democratic erosion!
16.01.2025 21:26 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The surprising causes and effects of democratic erosion
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New Trending Globally #podcast: The surprising causes and effects of democratic erosion — @robertblair.bsky.social discusses the nuanced reality of democratic erosion in the U.S. and globally, exploring its causes, signs, and potential solutions.
12.12.2024 19:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Would you sooner use ChatGPT to (a) grade student papers or (b) write an academic peer review? Assume forced choice
11.12.2024 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Still accepting applications to work with me as a postdoc next year. Remote work possible. Will review files beginning in Jan. Pls apply / share apply.interfolio.com/142214
02.12.2024 14:15 — 👍 3 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Great work by Sam Cuter, Phil Roessler, and @robertblair.bsky.social -- surprising results on whether elites in developing countries prefer #China vs other donors. And whether they like #transparency. #AidData, @the-peio.bsky.social, @iatistandard.org, @ryancbriggs.net, @ryanjablonski.bsky.social
28.11.2024 13:54 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What do elites want from the foreign aid they receive? Conjoint experiment in 141 countries w/ Sam Custer and Phil Roessler, now online @ajpseditor.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
21.11.2024 13:55 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Data Research Assistant Position - Job Advert.docx.pdf
The Democratic Erosion Consortium is hiring a Data Research Assistant. Applications still open. Ad is here: www.democratic-erosion.com/join-the-tea... Ideal for a current grad student. Please share / consider applying
11.12.2023 22:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1. Best Dissertation awarded in 2023:
Love Christensen Love.christensen@ps.au.dk
Robert Blair Robert_Blair@Brown.edu
Alex Coppock Alex.coppock@yale.edu
2. Best Paper Presented in 2023 at APSA:
Chaigai Weiss cmweiss@stanford.edu
Rajeshwari Majumdar majumdar@nyu.edu
Joshua Tucker NYU Joshua.tucker@nyu.edu
3. Best Book Published in 2023:
Nicholas Sambanis Nicholas.Sambanis@yale.edu
Danny Choi dannychoi@brown.edu
Mathias Poertner m.poertner@lse.ac.uk
4. Best Article published in Journal of Experimental Political Science (JEPS) in 2023
5. Best paper based on a pre-analysis plan published in JEPS in 2023
6. Best Replication published in JEPS in 2023:
All three awards have the same committee:
Jenn Jerit Jennifer.L.Jerit@dartmouth.edu
Scott Clifford scottaclifford@gmail.com
Bert Bakker B.N.Bakker@uva.nl
7. Best public service in 2023 :
Don Green dpg2110@columbia.edu
Macartan Humphreys macartan@gmail.com
Daniel Posner dposner@polisci.ucla.edu
Experimental Research Section Award nominations are open! Deadline for nominations is April 15.
I'm on the dissertation award committee with @robertblair.bsky.social and Love Christensen -- we want to read your dissertations whose main inferences are grounded in experimental design.
27.11.2023 14:44 — 👍 12 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
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Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. Studies rebel recruitment and indoctrination, gender and conflict, and terrorism during civil wars.
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Associate Professor (Docent) in War Studies, Swedish Defence University. Researching urban war and warfare, urbicide, military epistemics, politics of knowledge and expertise, urban peacebuilding, social theory.
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Cornell Assistant Professor specializing in security sector reform, policing, peacekeeping, and gender. Director of the Gender and Security Sector Lab sabrinamkarim.com
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