Svend-Erik Skaaning

Interesting! Should be room to discuss this when we both visit Carl Henrik in a month from now :-)

The findings will hopefully deepen our understanding of public commitment to democracy and inform strategies to strengthen it.

Through a multifaceted theoretical framework and comparative experimental surveys, DEMTRAP investigates when and why citizens come to see democracy as costly, how crises and polarization shape these beliefs, and what this means for democratic resilience.

Although democracies generally perform as well as or better than autocracies, many people believe democracy can be too slow or divided to solve major problems. Such views may erode support for democratic norms and open the door to authoritarian leaders.

Happy to announce that I, together with @kristianvsf.bsky.social, have received DKK 3,167,689 from Independent Research Fund Denmark to pursue the project Democratic Tradeoff Perceptions (DEMTRAP). We will explore citizen perceptions of possible tradeoffs between democracy and effective governance.

New article out on the relationship between different dimensions of state capacity and modes of democratic breakdown.

New version (0.6.0) of my #rstats package {democracyData} xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/ with @freedomhouse.bsky.social data to 2024, as well as several other sources, plus minor improvements all around

And another great potential read for graduate students on the measurement of "waves" of democratization and autocratization by @skaaning.bsky.social especially helpful for students thinking about periodization (including thinking about the contemporary "moment").

doi.org/10.1080/1351...

🚨 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.

How do different forms of state capacity protect democracy? Andersen, @chknutsen.bsky.social & @skaaning.bsky.social argue coercive & administrative capacity affect stability in distinct ways depending on the threat: buff.ly/Q4HDylB

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

How do different forms of state capacity protect democracy? D Andersen, @chknutsen.bsky.social & @skaaning.bsky.social argue coercive & administrative capacity affect stability in distinct ways depending on threat: buff.ly/Q4HDylB

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

Happy to have been part this new publication on the relationship between different dimensions of state capacity and modes of democratic breakdown!

Forlaget har vist udskiftet linket til bogen. Den kan nu tilgås her: unipress.dk/udgivelser/d...

@chknutsen.bsky.social @liserakner.bsky.social @m-b-petersen.bsky.social @torewig.bsky.social @suthank.bsky.social @annebind.bsky.social @leneholmp.bsky.social @1864.bsky.social

Min bog - Dansk demokrati i perspektiv - skrevet med David Andersen og udarbejdet i forbindelse med Magtudredningen 2.0 er netop udgivet! Gratis E-bog og gratis lydbog er tilgængelige her:
unipress.dk/udgiv.../d/d...

📣 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...

After 10 years of doing research in Historical Political Economy, this fall I’ll finally get a chance to teach a survey course on the field & I’m really looking forward to it! 😊

I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with many essential contributions to this growing field.

Thanks again for organizing! It was, indeed, a great workshop!

What a pleasure to direct this amazing @ecpr.bsky.social Joint sessions workshop on citizens democratic commitment with Hannah Werner - thanks to all participants for the exciting papers and stimulating discussions!

The same haircut - and the best. Welcome to the club ;-)

🛎️New WP with @morganlcj.bsky.social @timallinger.bsky.social and @danbischof.bsky.social

Against the surge of conjoints and other hypothetical experiments in relation to democratic backsliding, we study the consequences of using hypotheticals versus real-world scenarios.

osf.io/preprints/os...

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar.

We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads.

What we find is disturbing:

osf.io/preprints/os...

This might be of interest to: @chknutsen.bsky.social; @torewig.bsky.social; @sirianned.bsky.social; @mariannedahl.bsky.social; @janvogler.bsky.social; @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social; @tomginsburg.bsky.social; @jerggutmann.bsky.social; @stefanvoigt.bsky.social; @jdoucette.bsky.social

The article closes with an examination of the association between de jure constitutional provisions and de facto observance of the rule of law. A two-way fixed effects regression analysis covering most independent countries from 1850 to 2010, identifies a NEGATIVE but substantively weak association.

It also examines the co-variation with alternative measures. The pairwise correlations with the V‑Dem index are 0.88 (Freedom House), 0.89 (World Governance Indicators), and 0.91 (World Justice Project).

The paper presents the theoretical (minimalist, procedural) underpinning of the definition and selection of indicators from different parts of the V-Dem experts survey. It also demonstrates that the indicators tap into a common underlying dimension and show high levels of scalability.

A global, historical rule of law index - Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft This article introduces the V-Dem Rule of Law Index, capturing formal-procedural aspects of de facto adherence to rule of law principles. It relies on information from fifteen V-Dem indicators based o...

My paper, A Global, Historical Rule of Law Index, offering a description and evaluation of the V-Dem Rule of Law Index, has now been published: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy."

Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?

We’re looking for:
🔹 1 Postdoc (100%)
🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%)
Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
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Interested in debates about how to measure democracy and/or the use of observable and judgmental indicators? Then check out this piece.

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...

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 ⬇️