Kristian Frederiksen

📢 New article 🌟
👥 @anjaneundorf.bsky.social , @sirianned.bsky.social (ISV), @kristianvsf.bsky.social, @aykutozturk.bsky.social
👉 Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World
📗 Open Access in British Journal of Political Science
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Dagens #FT26 Valg-Vitaminer (Hot take #2 fra forskerkontoret)

Hvilket parti har egentlig mest glæde af, at valgkampen so far har handlet meget om formueskat?

Vi har ikke tal på formueskat specifikt, men på skat mere generelt. Se nedenstående figur.

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Men hvad så med udlændinge i valgkampen til folketingsvalget 24. marts 2026?

Lidt ekstra #FT26 Popcorn (Hot take #3 fra forskerkontoret)

Prøv lige at se den skæve fordeling i nedenstående figure!

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Effects of Accurate Data on Firm Decision-Making: Evidence from AI Hallucinations (QJE 2029)

Thrilled about our first DEMNORM paper and that it has been conditionally accepted at @thejop.bsky.social!

🚨New WP: Can an AI voter guide (grounded in information from a nonpartisan, fact-checked source) help voters’ decision making? 🚨

We built and evaluated an LLM-based chatbot that provided voting info in CA & TX (N=2,474) right before the 2024 election. 🧵👇

These insights may be useful for future governments seeking to rehabilitate democratic institutions in other currently backsliding democracies, too (say, the United States).

The results show that public opinion paved the way for democratic restoration following the 2023 election (i.e., anti-democratic sentiment did not increase), but elites might jeopardize this positive response by attempting to restore democracy in a confrontational, aggressive manner.

We study the crucial case of Poland and demonstrate important policy implications for how the current government led by Donald Tusk can best go about rebuilding democratic institutions.

The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy - Kristian Frederiksen, Robb Willer, Michael Bang Petersen, 2026 Abundant prior research has analyzed the mass public’s role in democratic backsliding. Comparatively little research has studied democratic restoration, the reh...

Great to see "The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy" with @robbwiller.bsky.social and @m-b-petersen.bsky.social out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I still remember vividly reading this NYT headline in October 2024, sitting in a coffee shop in Boston, a fortnight before the presidential election

#Minneapolis

Tusind tak Laura ☺️

Mange tak!

Thanks a lot Marta!

Tusind tak, C H!

Not sure about that, but huge thanks! Hope you're doing well too ☺️

Tusind tak ☺️

Thanks a lot!

🎉 tusind tak! Næsten så stort som at vinde eliteworkshoppen!

Mange tak Michael 🙌🏼

Tusind tak Søren!

Many, many thanks Valentin! I hope you are doing well 😊

Thanks Tobias! After the lift at your defense I knew nothing was impossible 😉

Tusind tak!

Mange tak Frederik!

🙌🏼 grateful for your mentorship

Extremely happy and relieved to share that I've been hired as an Associate Professor in Political Science in Aarhus from February 1. Time to go get these ba⭐ds trying to undermine democracy and/or the sovereignty principle. And teach a whole lot of course. I will keep you posted!

Joint work with the brilliant
@kristianvsf.bsky.social
@sirianned.bsky.social
@aykutozturk.bsky.social

Open access article here 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our 32-country conjoint study on which societal characteristics citizens prioritize is now published at @bjpols.bsky.social

w. excellent @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @aykutozturk.bsky.social