Chan Ka Ming (Bo)

W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" - Universität Münster Universität Münster bietet Stelle als W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" in Münster - jetzt bewerben!

🎓📢 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...

The cover is here! 🎉 Thrilled to share the design for The Making of International Status—coming out soon with Oxford University Press @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Can’t wait for this to be out in the world!

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

shorturl.at/kcTbG

European Conference on Politics and Gender, Newcastle University, 15-17 June 2026 Call for Sections and Section Chairs

📣 Call for Sections & Section Chairs #ECPG26

European Conference on Politics and Gender @ecprgender.bsky.social
📆 15–17 Jun 2026 @nclpolitics.bsky.social

Section Chairs will refine the theme, call for contributions and select Panels & Papers
✅ Submissions from teams of 2+

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📢 University of Warwick is hiring two Assistant Professors (apply by 17 July 2025):

•International Relations (Conflict & Security): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR672/a...

•International Organisations: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR770/a...

#PoliSciJobs #PolScijobs

For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !

Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies

Our Element is out! 🎉

Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

An unexpected consensus among diverse ways to measure democracy We show that behind decades of disagreements over how to classify regime types, there is an unexpectedly strong consensus about which countries have been democratic in which years. We match many-va...

Not exactly answering the Q, but it reminds me of this article.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗

📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣
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wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... ⁣

#Polisky
@epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

Cooperate But Divided at Heart: Analysis of an Opposition Elite Survey During Autocratization - Au Nok Hin, Chan Ka Ming, Ng Ka Lun, 2024 When opposition elites cooperate to counteract authoritarian incumbents, they often deemphasize their fissures. But behind the scenes of cooperation, will their...

🏆 Political Studies Review has announced the winner of its 2024/5 Best Paper Prize.

Read the prize-winning article here: doi.org/10.1177/1478...

Browse all shortlisted papers: journals.sagepub.com/page/psw/col...

#PoliSci #OpenAccess @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

The 2025 Canadian Election Study (CES) team is pleased to announce our very first hackathon. Early career scholars are welcome to apply by Sept. 5 and selected projects will get pre-release access to the 2025 CES. Full call here: c-dem.ca/wp-content/u...

Cooperate But Divided at Heart: Analysis of an Opposition Elite Survey During Autocratization - Au Nok Hin, Chan Ka Ming, Ng Ka Lun, 2024 When opposition elites cooperate to counteract authoritarian incumbents, they often deemphasize their fissures. But behind the scenes of cooperation, will their...

We would like to thank the PSR editorial team @psrjournal.bsky.social for choosing our work.
This article is in Open Access
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Key findings: Using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov metric, we find that opposition factions share similar economic attitudes. Yet, despite their cooperative behavior, they still hold divided attitudes on the center-periphery and democratization strategies dimensions.

To tackle this challenge, we take advantage of an electoral shock in Hong Kong back in 2019, in which the opposition won a landslide victory. We conducted a survey with opposition elites and asked them questions related to the economy, center-periphery, and democratization strategies.

Although this question affects the tenacity of cooperation and political developments, previous research hasn’t provided an answer. This challenge is driven by the fact that opposition elites in hybrid regimes are often small in size. Thus, it is difficult to tap into their political attitudes.

In hybrid regimes, opposition elites do cooperate to counteract authoritarian incumbents from time to time. Yet, less is known about whether their attitudinal divisions remain and if so, on what dimensions?

Delighted that our paper "Cooperate but Divided at Heart: Analysis of an Opposition Elite Survey During Autocratization" is selected as the 2024 Political Studies Review's Best Research Article. A🧵on this research

Patterns of incumbents’ repression during autocratization How do incumbents attack accountability during autocratization? The literature focuses on what democratic institutions autocratizers undermine, yet incumbents’ steps in attacking accountability mea...

🚨New publication!

By now, we know 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 democratic institutions autocratizers undermine, yet we (w/ Gorazd Ordanoski) ask:

𝑯𝒐𝒘 do they attack them?

We present three sequential repressive steps:
1️⃣ legitimization rhetoric
2️⃣ legal engineering
3️⃣ coercive control

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

The Direction and Meaning of Left-Right in Postcommunist Societies Abstract. Positioning on the left-right scale is often regarded as a heuristic that enables citizens to reduce the information costs involved in navigating

New paper out in IJPOR! We (w Ian McAllister) use @ess-survey.bsky.social and other survey data to examine East/West differences in the use and meaning of left-right.

academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior 2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices!

Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

I had the pleasure of reading the first draft. If you are studying autocratization and transnational learning, this is an article you can't miss. Thanks @turnbulldugarte.com for the shout out of my recent article in @bjpols.bsky.social. For more, see bsky.app/profile/chan...

Less than a week left to apply to present your work in our Fall 2025 season. Don't miss this opportunity of getting feedback from the APSG community!

The Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship program. Share this post! @apsa.bsky.social, @poscresearch.bsky.social

Does Priming Democratic Vulnerability Make Citizens Punish Undemocratic Behavior? - Political Behavior Recent instances of public support for democracy-violating political leaders have sparked an important stream of research suggesting that such leaders may gain support by representing citizens’ politi...

Emphasizing that democracy itself is at risk is quite ineffective in reducing support for undemocratic behavior - experimental evidence from 10 countries now open access in @polbehavior.bsky.social

AND this adds a satisfying *The End* to my dissertation.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hey folks, would anyone know if/how one can access data on littering in Switzerland with some level of detail (ideally, at the municipal level and with time gaps smaller than one year)?

Thanks so much in advance for any leads! 🙏

🇪🇺🇦🇫 Published Today in CPS 🇪🇺🇦🇫

“Stand by those who share our values” – how refugees fleeing the Taliban improved European attitudes toward immigration

Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os...

Thread: 1/8

📢📢📢 JOBS: 4 postdocs 📢📢📢

Uni Münster has opened a call for 4! postdoc positions. I'm involved in one hiring and really hope that suitable candidates (in particular quants) apply!

Why would you apply? Check out @thiloalbers.bsky.social FAQ!

sites.google.com/site/tnhalbe...

A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋

New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social

We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸
doi.org/10.1086/736698