New paper: *Rulers on the Road*. We map emperors’ itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire from 719 to 1519 and shed light on how they projected power without centralized bureaucracies. Very fun project with -- deactivated legacy account -- Clara Neupert-Wentz & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/npKQ4

And just like that... :) academic.oup.com/qje/advance-ar…

#OpenAccess -

Pre-Modern Institutions and Later Support for Autocrats in Democratic Elections - cup.org/3TGNZSi

- @jonathandouce17

#FirstView

My article on parliamentary constraints and economic development is now out in the issue of AJPS!

Do socioeconomic disparities between ethnic groups influence whether a country democratizes and remains democratic?

Very happy to see my article addressing this question is now online at Journal of Politics @[email protected]. 🧵👇

doi.org/10.1086/726949

I can now also be found here

If somebody has a spare code for the other place I would be grateful

Lasse Aaskoven from the University of Southern Denmark is organizing the annual 'Danish Historical Political Economy Workshop' again in 2024.

The workshop will be on Feb. 15th, 2024.

I attended last year & the comments were super helpful.

Send proposals to: [email protected]

Excited to start at Aalborg Universitet - now as an Associate Professor!

Does democracy reduce socioeconomic inequality between ethnic groups?

Excited that my article addressing this question is now online (open access) at @ajpseditor. 🧵👇

doi.org/10.1111/ajps.1…

Accepted 🙏

A project close to my heart: we pay homage to an exemplary group of academics. Many lost their lives. Those who survived saw their personal lives shattered, their careers forcefully upended, and many lost loved ones in the Holocaust.

One sentence review of “The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy” by (Tore Wig Andreas Forø Tollefsen Brendan Apfeld and John Gerring): buy it if you have any interest in democratization!
My slightly longer review can be found at Perspectives on Politics: bit.ly/3oIPvqp

Think Europeans are getting increasingly fed up with their democracies? You might be in for a surprise!

The Eurobarometer 50-year data tells a different story. Here are the numbers you usually don’t see.

A brief 🧵👇🏾 1/5

Free access until the 12th of June 2023 -

Early-Adulthood Economic Experiences and the Formation of Democratic Support - cup.org/3LROZ0D

- Suthan Krishnarajan, Jonathan Doucette & David Andersen (@AarhusUni)

What role did the Catholic Church play in European state formation?
In our new Oxford University Press book, Jørgen Møller and I argue that the Church was the main engine behind external and internal political fragmentation in pre-modern Europe. 1/N