Elizabeth Nugent

Here's the working paper: osf.io/preprints/so... Feedback much appreciated!

Is exile a dead end – or a launching pad for opposition? A recent New York Times investigation offers a glimpse into the life of former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. After losing […]

@isadesisto.bsky.social + I have been investigating the role of exiles in contentious politics back home. This @goodauth.bsky.social piece draws on a working paper in which we find exile involvement escalates revolutions -- they're longer and more violent: goodauthority.org/news/is-exil...

Displaced but Defiant: Sudanese Art in Times of War Sudanese artists who have been displaced to Cairo persist in creating spaces to share their own testimonies of war, exile, memory, and home.

“The war took many things from me. But I wake up each morning and try.” In this earlier piece, Nada Wanni traces how Sudanese artists who have been displaced to Cairo persist in creating spaces to share their own testimonies of war, exile, memory, and home. timep.org/2025/09/10/d...

Read Yanilda Gonzalez on why this comparison makes sense: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

BJPolS abstract about a study on the effects of authoritarianism in the former German Democratic Republic, focusing on gender disparities in education and authoritarian values post-reunification. The text emphasizes methodological approach and historical analysis.

From October 2025 -

The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination - cup.org/3WCwC5v

- Nourhan A. Elsayed, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, @riazsascha.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

YouTube video by Deportation Data Project Introduction to Deportation Data Project ICE Data

The Deportation Data Project just posted a 60 min webinar that introduces the recently-released data from ICE for reporters and advocates.

We discuss what fields are in the data and answer questions about specific uses like counting arrests by area.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vBA...

New article on Fast Track by Huseyin Emre Ceyhun, “Restive Regions: Sequential Complementarity of Repression and Cooptation in Authoritarian Survival,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

"Disguised Repression: Targeting Opponents with Nonpolitical Crimes to Undermine Dissent" by Jennifer Pan, Xu Xu, and Yiqing Xu. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🧵 on my paper, ‘System Justification in Authoritarian Regimes’ (recently accepted at @thejop.bsky.social)

This is fascinating and I’m so glad to learn of this paper. Some of my other research on repression looks at what actual/threatened violence does to political identities, at the level of superordinate ‘opposition’ identity and/or the level of specific group identities. Thanks for posting!

Labels can impact politics. My paper @apsrjournal.bsky.social "What Happens When You Can't Check the Box?" shows when Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans are excluded from identity categories, they assert MENA identity when answering relevant political questions.
doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Egypt announces pardon for top activist who's spent 6 years behind bars Egyptian authorities on Monday announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by Egypt’s state TV.

Egyptian authorities announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah after six years in prison, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by state TV.

One of the Nassau Hall tiger sits bathed in orange light against a chevron inspired background of Princeton's black and orange. Princeton Politics 2025 Job Market Candidates. Princeton University Logo. Princeton Politics Logo.

Introducing our 2025 job market candidates! We’ll share more about each student and their work in the days ahead, but in the meantime, you can meet all of our candidates here: politics.princeton.edu/graduate/job...
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This Thursday at noon EST I'll be joined by @adamprz.bsky.social, Sue Stokes, Steve Levitsky (stevelevitsky.bsky.social), and @dziblatt.bsky.social on a webinar to talk about the state of American democracy. Please come! Registration here: www.crowdcast.io/c/civicforum.... Please share.

No one wanted to hear this years ago when @tompepinsky.com said it. Maybe now.

Tried to explain this to a senior colleague recently, who suggested I was overreacting - thanks to @abuaardvark.bsky.social for saying it more clearly and eloquently

I hope you’re right 🤞

Ugh exactly. I think public opinion matters in non-democracies, and I know it doesn’t determine (all) outcomes.

I really want to believe that American public opinion still matters. It makes me feel better that most Americans don’t support these policies. But other non-democracies demonstrate that once institutions have been politically weaponized, public opinion matters significantly less.

Targeting international students cuts into U.S. soft power Here’s how the Trump administration’s visa restrictions erode the U.S. image abroad.

My latest piece in @goodauth.bsky.social about how targeting international students is bad not just for the U.S. economy & innovation, but also 🇺🇸 reputation globally. goodauthority.org/news/targeti...

WEEK 15 WEEK 15

From Przeworski:

"There are currently more than 1 million foreign students in the US, they support 378 thousand jobs, and contribute $43.8 billion to the economy. But these numbers dwindle in importance in comparison to the scientific and cultural impact of US universities around the world."

Our article on legislative cooptation and opposition in the Kuwait National Assembly is finally out at @bjpols.bsky.social!

Key findings: bsky.app/profile/dani...

Article link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

The Niehaus Center at Princeton is hiring a Research Specialist. We hope to hire someone to start this summer. Information here:

main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/20778/r...

Per usual, @roxanegay.bsky.social saying what I’m thinking

Great turnout at the Hands Off protest in Princeton (despite the weather). It's festive, but there's also palpable anger.

Now online!

"During moments of political crises, there may be good reasons to avoid discussing current events & controversial topics in the classroom. Yet, it is precisely during these challenging times that students may want to be entrusted with difficult conversations" #polisky

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Check out this webinar next Monday: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
and call for abstracts for an expense-paid June conference in Cairo:
www.arabpsn.org/events/call-...
both on the theme of the "politics and war" in MENA, convened by @arabpsn.bsky.social, CEDEJ, and Middle East Studies at AUC.

Remembering the counterrevolution: disappointment, denial, and demobilization While scholars carefully study when revolutions succeed and how they are overturned, far less attention has been paid to the public’s experience of revolution and counterrevolution as well as their...

How do counterrevolutions shape collective memory? In their latest article, @ernugent.bsky.social and Michael T. Hoffman explore disappointment & demobilization in Egypt. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....