Philipp Lutscher

This is disastrous for media researchers.

Thanks @karstendonnay.bsky.social for writing this great summary and our collaboration!

Large EU-grant to Tore Wig to study the state of science in autocracies - Department of Political Science Will scientific progress slow down if more countries in the world become autocratic? That is one of the questions political science professor Tore Wig will seek to answer with two million euros from t...

Congratulations to @torewig.bsky.social on receiving an ERC Consolidator Grant!🌟His project, "Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge (AutoKnow)," will examine how authoritarian rule affects scientific knowledge production.
www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...

Only if there is some financial reward, my guess.

King, pope, Jedi, Superman: Trump’s social media images exclusively target his base and try to blur political reality Campy, exaggerated and partisan, many White House social media posts target the president’s base. But the communications approach may pose a risk to democracy.

Just came across this excellent piece (that also mentions our study on Trump's authoritarian style pol comm: theconversation.com/king-pope-je... (study: shorturl.at/BEMMu)

Now I also got it @adridelrio.bsky.social @chknutsen.bsky.social :-) Thanks @apsa.bsky.social
for mentioning our #education dataset:
Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Data: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

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If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!

Thanks @apsa.bsky.social for the mention to my coauthored #education dataset with @chknutsen.bsky.social and @plutscher.bsky.social in @cpsjournal.bsky.social.

Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Data: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

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The title page of a paper listing the title: "Blame Shifting in Autocracies Following Large-scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey"; the authors: Edward Goldring, Jonas Willibald Schmid, and Fulya Apaydin; and the abstract: "Large-scale disasters, particularly when handled poorly, often spark popular outrage and threaten an autocrat’s hold on power. Autocrats frequently employ blame shifting strategies to redirect public anger and weather these storms. We examine whether blame shifting after a large-scale disaster helps or hurts an autocrat’s popularity through a mixed-methods research design in the electoral autocracy of Turkey in April-July 2023, following the February 2023 earthquakes. An online survey experiment (n=3,839) identifies the effects of blaming the aftermath of the earthquake on the opposition, a force majeure, private construction companies, or a govern- ment minister, while focus groups explore the mechanisms behind these effects. We find that blaming the opposition or a force majeure leads to a backlash, especially among those more able to critically evaluate information. Focus groups reveal that these backlash effects are driven by voters’ dismay at electoral opportunism and the incumbent’s polarizing language following a large-scale disaster."; and the note that the paper is forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics.

After large-scale disasters autocrats often shift the blame on others to save their popularity. Our 🚨new paper🚨, just accepted at Perspectives on Politics, shows that this tactic is prone to backfire. With @edwardgoldring.bsky.social & @fapaydin.bsky.social . shorturl.at/v6wIV%E2%AC%...

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The age of leaders increases more rapidly than the age of the population: here seen as the share over 65 for both leaders and the population.

We would see the same trend if we look at the mean, median, within country, and so on.

We updated our manuscript w/ @chknutsen.bsky.social and @draege.bsky.social on propaganda in Turkey osf.io/preprints/os... --- all comments welcomed.

I just found NotebookLMs AI podcast function. Pretty cool. Here a summary of our article on propaganda in the US (t.co/f3DtlZnR3I) -- Link to the AI podcast: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/1e9...

So glad to finally see this in print!

Would be interesting to do a similar survey now again!

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@tboeggild.bsky.social, @plutscher.bsky.social, @jacobnyrup.bsky.social & Sascha Göbel find that European citizens support for #Ukraine does not falter due to economic concerns. They become more supportive when presented with arguments related to principles such as democracy.

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Anyone access to this article?

www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Thanks for sharing :)

In a new article in R&P we show that support for Ukraine increases significantly when coupled with human rights and democracy. Contrary, support 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 decrease when people are reminded of the costs associated with supporting Ukraine /w @plutscher.bsky.social @tboeggild.bsky.social & Sascha Göbel

Thanks. Yes, we use this approach in another "classical experiment" project.

Yeah, I am in touch with some economists at our Uni to work on that further... but this sounds like a good strategy for my project (1) conjoint like design, (2) actually testing the arguments!

This article inspired me: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks Alex. I have some ideas how to combine both, would be great to get in touch.

Thanks!

Thanks for all your answers! Yes, I also thought about designing a conjoint first (perhaps even one that updates on priors) and then in a second step "test" the persuasiveness.