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Gorazd Ordanoski and @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social have just published "Patterns of incumbents’ repression during autocratization" on how antidemocratic incumbents attack accountability measures while autocratizing and applying it to Hungary and North Macedonia doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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New Publication! 📣
When do governments limit digital rights through law? Read "Legalizing Control: The Rise of Restrictive Internet Regulation in Sub-Saharan Africa" by @realmps.bsky.social in @democratization.bsky.social
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New Publication!
As authoritarian actors increasingly turn to Big Tech platforms to repress dissidents, pro-democracy activism experiences notable changes @vmtran.bsky.social and co-authors' latest piece examines an under-analysed phenomenon of pro-democracy platform advocacy
doi.org/10.12688/ope...

📢 LMU Munich is hiring!
Join the DFG-funded project on Democratic Persuasion.
🔹1 Postdoc (100%)
🔹1 PhD (70%)
Start: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
Work on democracy, political psychology & persuasion research.
More details: A.Wuttke@lmu.de

📢 Research Assistant Position
‪@felixwiebrecht.bsky.social & @ozlemtuncel.bsky.social are looking for support for a project on Electoral Politics and Higher Education in Turkey
Required: Fluency in Turkish and experience with quantitative data
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New Publication Alert!
"A Warning from Above: How Authoritarian Anti-Protest Propaganda Works." by Minh Trinh and @maitruong0526.bsky.social in World Politics dx.doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

One more day to submit your proposal!

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Policy experiments are crucial for fostering innovation and mitigating risks and can serve as catalysts for transformative changes. This study investigates the governance of policy experiments in Chi...

New Publication Alert!
In this study @svshen.bsky.social compares Chinese cities with similar goals and conditions, participating in the same experiments, but achieving different decarbonization results to draw governance lessons on effective decarbonization
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(PDF) Stability Maintenance, Preventive Repression, and Contentious Politics in China under Xi Jinping’s Rule PDF | The recent authoritarian turn in Chinese politics under Xi Jinping has invigorated interest in the concept of “public security,” a metamorphosis... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

New Publication Alert!
Read @onglynette.bsky.social and Kevin Luo's new piece on Stability Maintenance, Preventive Repression, and Contentious Politics in China under Xi Jinping’s Rule here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different? There is a wide range of labels, such as electoral autocracy, hybrid regimes, or multiparty autocracy, and corresponding empirical measures to describe and measure political regimes that combine au...

New Publication! 📣
Did you ever think that all these measures for "hybrid" autocracies out there are kinda the same? Read "Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?" by @jonaswschmid.bsky.social in @democratization.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2vmyrw8e

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Join us next week to close the season with Pau Vall-Prat (UC3M) presenting "Autocratic Power Sharing and Democratic Outcomes"!
@rokuppers.bsky.social (@lsemethodology.bsky.social) and Felipe González (@qmul.ac.uk) will discuss.
Note this is one hour later than usual! (12pm EST, 6pm CET)

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On April 22 at 5pm ECT, Mai Van Tran (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) will present "Social Media's Algorithmic Affordances for Authoritarian Repression: Evidence from Myanmar" and Jennifer Whitten-Woodring (UMass) and
@eddieyang.bsky.social(Purdue) will discuss

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New Publication Alert!
@bernatpuertas.bsky.social l & A. Escribà-Folch propose opposing theories of the effects of foreign aid and FDI on personalization of power in autocracies and find that neither aid nor FDI are associated with personalism.
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library How do opposition elites succeed in authoritarian elections? Existing theories of authoritarian politics suggest a pivotal role for elections in enhancing the survival of incumbent dictators. Yet, in...

New Publication Alert!
Read "Endogenous opposition: Identity and ideology in Kuwaiti electoral politics" by @danieltavana.bsky.social
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Join us next week! Polisky Dictatorsky
On Tuesday April 8 at 11:00-12:00pm EST/5:00-6:00pm CET Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed (Toulouse) will present "Monopolizing Clientelism During Regime Transition" followed by comments by @shalaby12.bsky.social (Wisconsin-Madison) and @biffpm.bsky.social (@harvard.edu)