Asmus Leth Olsen

I don't think Matt Yglesias is a Nazi collaborator

Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...

Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?

Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:

tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

Forfatter: DR vil faktatjekke mere. Det er en farlig vej at gå - Altinget DR vil styrke demokratiet med fakta og verificering, men risikerer at bidrage til en misvisende forestilling om sandt og falsk. Demokratiet lider ikke af for lidt fakta, men af manglende vilje til uen...

Veloplagt forskerkritik af Philip Larsen: www.altinget.dk/artikel/forf...

"Can AI automate policy evaluation?" Looks like an amazing project - AI is changing science production in very deep ways: ape.socialcatalystlab.org

"Vil du med hjem og se min samling af .md-filer?"

Contender for worst logo of all time

Trump right now on the psychological benefits of owning Greenland:

>>who the hell wants to defend a license agreement<<

🫣

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Linked Greenland Push to Nobel Prize Snub, Officials Say

"President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize" 🙃 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

What is something nice I can say about Delaware? bsky.app/profile/donm...

Bipartisan group of lawmakers to visit Denmark as Trump threatens to take over Greenland President Trump's remarks about taking Greenland by military force have prompted bipartisan criticism from lawmakers who have said they do not support acquiring the Danish territory in such a way.

I would like to announce my own goodwill mission to Denmark this May, where I will meet @asmusletholsen.bsky.social and the King.
www.cbsnews.com/news/congres...

New stuff bsky.app/profile/jose...

This is a really cool paper. It shows that role models can influence how people think about college majors & working in government. But it also shows that effects fade over over time which should constrain our expectations about how one shot interventions like training actually can change behavior.

My first working paper is now live!

Can minority role models help diversify the bureaucracy of the future?

This: In the same week that Vance expressed concern that France and the United Kingdom had nuclear weapons, he said Denmark was not a very good ally to the US. It is shameful.
bsky.app/profile/thom...

Tak til chatten:
>>“Imaginaries” is a conceptual Swiss army knife: high-status, flexible, theoretically respectable, and safely non-positivist. Its heavy use reflects not conceptual laziness, but a field where epistemological signaling through titles has become central to publication success.<<

I will turn in a late review of the Burden book by "Pam Grier and Ronald McDonald".

Curious to know why @donmoyn.bsky.social is spelled correct.

ah okay the correction in the above is for the review not the book. A little odd that it is added as a line in the actual review.

<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the article title to read more.

My first name is made up in two novel ways in this review (just before the reviewers point out that the book under review spells @alasdairroberts.bsky.social wrong in two different ways). An the authors are Norwegians - brothers from another mother! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

True enough. In Public Administration Simon Calmer Andersen has a lot of Aarhus based field experiments. Like this very impressive study: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Some great published field experiment in Polsci have been conducted in Aarhus -- the Southampton of Denmark.....

Students’ motives for restricting academic freedom: Viewpoint discrimination and prosocial concerns | PNAS We advance the understanding of so-called &ldquo;cancel culture&rdquo; at the university by presenting the results of three survey experiments among university...

"viewpoint discrimination is a key motivator behind these student demands. While the desire to restrict academic freedom also reflects an interest in upholding prof. academic standards... these principles are applied unevenly & predominantly to conservative viewpoints" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Good morning. A coda (from me) on this replication business.

While I understand the impulse, it is disheartening that most of the discussion generated by this replication is about the replication "process" -- both the APSR's process and my own process.

What could we be talking about instead?

I have now read the response by Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega again with a clearer eye.

Multiple claims in this response are untrue or seek to obscure the truth.

My interest has always been the accuracy of the scientific record, so I feel compelled to note some of these claims here.

incredible that we can turn correcting coding errors into litigation about the process in which we are allowed to transmit this information

We have now published our 6th book on the state of Danish democracy, this time focusing on the government: unipress.dk/media/ohvdt3...

Based on the largest survey of gov bureaucrats in Danish history, conclusions are overall positive.

But some findings show deeper systemic problems 👇

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Glad for at være med her: "Reformator er et dansk tidsskrift stiftet med det formål at give plads til kvalificerede løsningsforslag på udfordringer i det danske samfund....og dermed være med til at gøre et godt samfund endnu bedre." tidsskrift.dk/reformator

What's happening in ICE also seems to go in the FBI.
The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇

🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!

How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism

New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

Deadline for application to @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 conference is this Friday 7th of November.

There's been an amazing response to the call for papers so far, we hope for even more great proposals this week.

Here is the call for papers: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...