@felixhaass.bsky.social
Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics @ Humboldt University | political violence & democracy | the inner workings of dictatorships https://felixhaass.de/
Cover of book, titled „The Politics of Human Rights“ by Sabine Carey, Mark Gibney, and Anita Gohdes. Picture shows a woman kneeling in front riot police during a BLM protest in the US.
Coming soon: our introduction to the politics of human rights 🥳📚
Preorder available here: www.cambridge.org/highereducat...
@sabinecarey.bsky.social
🎓📢 We’re hiring!
Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)
💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025
jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...
🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy? 🚨
At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE)—organized jointly with @dkofanov.bsky.social & @tinepaulsen.bsky.social—we discuss state-of-the-art research on a regular basis.
‼️ We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️
Link & info in post #2.
Great opportunity in a beautiful city!
14.07.2025 09:14 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Summer party vibes at DYNAMICS this week – with amazing pizza! 🍕☀️
Huge thanks to our alumnus @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social , who served up one delicious pie after another. Thanks to everyone who made it such a fun evening 💛
@dynamics.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social
Fantastic opportunity in a great group and a great city!
09.07.2025 18:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚀 Launching the Humboldt Governance Lab @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social!
We deliver evidence-based insights and policy advice on today’s key challenges to democracy.
🌐 hu-govlab.de
Follow us for research, updates & collaborations.
#GovLab #Democracy #PolicyResearch
Das WZB von oben. Foto: Nadim Bazze
Direktor*in (m/w/d) im Bereich Demokratieforschung für eine neu einzurichtende Abteilung am WZB gesucht.
🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...
Congratulations & welcome to Berlin! We're lucky to have you in DYNAMICS 🥳
12.06.2025 09:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Happy to be part of this super interesting workshop. Looking forward to it!
05.06.2025 06:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excited about our upcoming @iast.fr workshop on autocratic politics & democratic backsliding! Join us if you are in the Toulouse area or passing through on your way to #epsa.
Program,registration link, & add'l info on our workshop's website: tinyurl.com/iast-autocracy
Registration is required. ☝️
American education being picked clean
04.06.2025 06:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Super cool! 🥳 Congrats, liebe Melanie!
20.05.2025 13:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What's the future of historical political economy in Europe? To find out, we (w/ @cathrinmohr.bsky.social @lhaffert.bsky.social) conducted a survey and workshop. Here are our main take-aways. Special thanks to all who participated!
13.05.2025 05:36 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0Fantastic paper! Happy to see this finally out!
02.05.2025 16:05 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are looking for a new colleague (Research Fellow) at Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim. Very lively, active and intellectually fruitful environment. Join us! Please share!
www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en/news/i...
A great lineup! Looking forward to the talks!
24.04.2025 13:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations!
20.04.2025 19:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ever felt uneasy about how concepts & measures of "grey zone" autocracies are used interchangeably across the literature? Then check out my 🚨new paper🚨 in @democratization.bsky.social and get some substance to back up your gut feeling: tinyurl.com/ypdm2kna Or at least read the main points below ⬇️
20.04.2025 18:10 — 👍 76 🔁 28 💬 5 📌 2
Out now! "GERDA: The German Election Database." GERDA provides comprehensive municipal, state, and federal election results at the municipality level between 1990 and 2021.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you! Looking forward to seeing you in June!
15.04.2025 19:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Danke, Sascha!
15.04.2025 19:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Danke dir!
15.04.2025 19:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Danke!
15.04.2025 19:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Obviously, I'm very sad to leave my fantastic colleagues in Oslo at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social . Thanks everyone for a terrific time in Norway and, of course, for the wonderful farewell party! Ha det bra og takk for alt ❤️
14.04.2025 19:59 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
we're visiting Brandenburg Gate
Despite the combined chaos of moving homes, setting up things @HU and starting teaching this week, I dragged the family to an obligatory visit to the Brandenburg Gate. Little Thea was not impressed, though, but mostly hungry. 😅
14.04.2025 19:59 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0New semester, new job! Very happy to report that I've started as Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics @ Humboldt University this April. I'm very much looking forward to the new chapter in Berlin at a great department! 🥳
14.04.2025 19:59 — 👍 79 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0
2 AP positions at Leiden: peace studies / IR and security & rule of law:
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
Wegen großer Nachfrage haben wir nun die Rohdaten hinter "So hat Ihre Gemeinde gewählt" www.zeit.de/politik/deut... -> github.com/ZeitOnline/b... und "So hat Ihr Wahlkreis seit 1949 gewählt" www.zeit.de/politik/deut... -> github.com/ZeitOnline/b... auf Github frei zugänglich gemacht.
20.03.2025 10:53 — 👍 70 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 0Great postdoc opportunity in computational social science in beautiful Konstanz 👇
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