This article by Joep van Lit and Carolien van Ham is very useful for those interested in empirically studying democratic erosion in all its complexities.
26.02.2026 13:26 β π 39 π 14 π¬ 1 π 1
This article by Joep van Lit and Carolien van Ham is very useful for those interested in empirically studying democratic erosion in all its complexities.
26.02.2026 13:26 β π 39 π 14 π¬ 1 π 1
πDemocratic Resilience Syllabus π
I'm sharing my masterβs seminar syllabus on democratic resilience. I *loved* teaching it and had great students. I hope I get to do it again some day. β€οΈ
If you use it or adapt the syllabus, Iβd love to hear how it goes.
klaudiawegschaider.com/media/democr...
πAm 22. MΓ€rz 2026 ist in #Rheinland-Pfalz #Landtagswahl. Wir in der Abteilung Innenpolitik/Politische Soziologie des @powimz.bsky.social haben im Auftrag der Bundeszentrale fΓΌr politische Bildung Profile fΓΌr alle zur #Wahl stehenden #Parteien verfasst. β¬οΈ www.bpb.de/themen/parte...
23.02.2026 07:57 β π 10 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Teamed up with the excellent Jan HruΕ‘ka ( Masaryk Uni π¨πΏ / Adam Mickiewicz Uni PoznaΕ π΅π±) to explore how upper chambers can guard against democratic backsliding. A neglected topic.Our new piece in Democratization:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... β¨Free eprints: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
In our new paper in G&O, we show that US legislators have more people-centred process preferences, while German legislators are more balanced between people-centred and elite-centred preferences overall - but party affiliation matters.
Link to the paper:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Elections in #Slovenia next month. For those looking for a primer on the development of the party system over the past few decades and insights into the last elections in 2022 check out our article in @europe-asia.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
18.02.2026 10:33 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
β³ Final 7 days for Early Bird rates!
Join the MethodsNet Summer School 2026 in Vienna. Rigorous methodological training for researchers, by researchers. Secure your spot at the best rate before February 25.
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NEW PUBLICATION
βHow the Media Cordon Sanitaire Crumbles: Lessons from Germanyβ now out in @prxjournal.bsky.social
π doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2026.2621808
Iβm very happy that this paper is out β this project is particularly important to me.
SAVE THE DATE fΓΌr alle Fans der #Demokratieforschung: 1. bis 2. Oktober Jahrestagung des AK Demokratieforschung 2026 an der Humboldt-UniversitΓ€t zu Berlin @dvpw.bsky.social @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social @dvpw-regieren.bsky.social @akpf-dvpw.bsky.social @ecib-dvpw.bsky.social @dvpw-ipe.bsky.social
14.02.2026 08:36 β π 11 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0Und nun ist auch der Party-Check Rheinland-Pfalz online! Parteipositionen werden in den kommenden Tagen bei Dataverse hochgeladen.
13.02.2026 16:28 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
New article and special issue!
Just out in Comparative Political Studies: βCountering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Information, Legacies, Temporalities", the intro to a special issue on countering illiberalism in liberal democracies.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Out for @ejprjournal.bsky.social with @lucatomini.bsky.social!
With many data, e.g. @vdeminstitute.bsky.social & @demerosiondec.bsky.social, we show comparative patterns of democratic survival related to resistance actions during autocratization episodes in democracies.
Here: shorturl.at/gOhba
Publication alert βππ
New open access article on autocratization and democratic survival on @ejprjournal.bsky.social together with the brilliant Guido Panzano (Kiel): what configuration of resistance actions account for democratic survival during autocratization? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Geehrt wird sie fΓΌr ihr herausragendes Engagement in Forschung und Lehre und ihre bedeutenden wissenschaftlichen BeitrΓ€ge zur Erforschung der digitalen Parteienkommunikation.
Wir gratulieren @jasfitzpatrick.bsky.social zu dieser auΓergewΓΆhnlichen, hochdotierten und hochverdienten Auszeichnung!
π¨ Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim π¨
7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).
Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky
It was a very special day when my book arrived, and I got to open the package with my family :)
Constitutional Change under Autocracy explores how autocrats use constitutional amendments not as mere legal tweaks, but as strategic tools.
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
02.01.2026 21:21 β π 50 π 15 π¬ 1 π 2
π§ JETZT REINHΓREN: #Forschungspodcast #MindsOfMainz β #DerGutenbergTalk | Folge 28: Demokratie im Fokus: Warum Politische Theorie heute die Gesellschaft bewegt | mit Prof. Claudia Landwehr π www.magazin.uni-mainz.de/minds-of-mainβ¦
#Demokratie #Politikwissenschaft #PolitischeTheorie
π’π’ Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database!
The data now covers
- > 3.000 parties
- 1.100 parliamentary elections
- 402 presidential elections
- 2.044 cabinets
across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31).
All info: ppeg.wzb.eu
We hope that data is helpful to the community!
Join us! Die Abteilung fΓΌr Innenpolitik & Politische Soziologie sucht zum 01.04. eine*n neue*n Kollegin*en. Wir bieten: volle Promotionsstelle (EG13) fΓΌr drei Jahre (VerlΓ€ngerung um 3 Jahre mΓΆglich), flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen, kollegiales & forschungsstarkes Team. Mehr Informationen hierπ
02.12.2025 14:12 β π 28 π 30 π¬ 1 π 0
We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) π’ @politikuhh.bsky.social
3+3 years
Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester
Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour)
DL ποΈ 05/01
stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...
Thank you! That's a good question. My quick and pragmatic answear would be that the paper is strongly motivated by anti-pluralism (re)emerging in autocratization studies but lacking sufficient conceptualization in that literature.
01.12.2025 12:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Now also with page numbers: In this article published in ZfVP, I reconstruct the concept of anti-pluralism and examine why, from a theory-conceptual perspective, it is particularly well suited to identify potential autocratizers π
doi.org/10.1007/s122...
@sonjapriebus.bsky.social Aleksandra Maatsch& me are organizing a workshop on 'Opposing challenges to democracy across contexts' in Frankfurt (Oder) 26-27 March 2026.
Do you have a paper that might fit? β‘οΈCall for Papers (πDeadline: 05/12)
www.dvpw.de/informatione...
Pretty excited to share this. We worked on a monster for the past year, getting LLMs (AI, those ChatGPT kinds of things) to qualitatively code the levels of populism in political speeches with holistic grading. Enjoy. populism.byu.edu/large-langua...
21.11.2025 22:33 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Together with @kenbenoit.bsky.social we offer a hands-on workshop on @instats.bsky.social for qualitative researchers to use LLMs for annotating texts, images, audio, etc. without requiring deep programming skills but with the full flexibility and fun of R.
instats.org/seminar/ai-p...
New article out in @polstudies.bsky.social!
Why do opposition parties in authoritarian regimes so often fail to coordinate, even when unity could help them win?
doi.org/10.1177/0032...
In this article, we highlight two overlooked drivers of opposition fragmentation π§΅
Are you conducting research combining qualitative cross-case methods (comparative case studies or QCA) with process tracing? β‘οΈ ** We are looking to show-case your work** β¬
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π¨ Job alert! π¨
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An meinem Lehrbereich ist zum 1.2.26 eine Postdoc-Stelle (100%) zu besetzen. Gesucht wird ein*e Kandidat*in mit Kenntnissen in quantitativen Methoden sowie Expertise in einschlΓ€gigen Themenbereichen. Mehr hier: www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Auss...
Picture of Claudia Landwehr, Kevin Walz and Natasha Wunsch
Very proud of my PhD student @kwalz.bsky.social who successfully defended his thesis on "Pathways to breakdown resilience" today and is now Dr. (des.) Kevin Walz π
Watch out for his book to learn how accountability can stop autocratization!
In Picture: Kevinπ§βπ, Natasha Wunsch, 2nd supervisor and me π