Come work with us! We have a two-year postdoc position available in our project on content moderation with Molly Roberts and Yannis Theocharis. You can find the ad here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/149….

Liberale Demokratie und unabhängige Wissenschaft stehen unter Druck. Das Junge Akademie Magazin #30 „Demokratie & Wissenschaft “ zeigt verschiedene Perspektiven auf, wie sie sich gegenseitig bedingen oder stärken können.
Jetzt Herunterladen oder Bestellen: diejungeakademie.de/de/publikation…

Cool to see that this article by me Saipira Furstenberg Sebastian Hellmeier & Redmond Scales is the most read piece in the last 6 months at the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

If you're interested in transnational repression check it out here open access:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

👩‍🎓  #Academicjob  👨‍🎓
We are looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) for our research department “Transformations of #Democracy ” (Director: Daniel Ziblatt ).
🚨 Apply until January 14, 2024.
👉 wzb.eu/en/jobs/postdo…
WZB Democracy Fabio Ellger Sebastian Hellmeier Heiko Giebler

Come join us for this conference!

Cool to see that this recent article w/ Saipira Furstenberg Sebastian Hellmeier & Redmond Scales is one of the most read Journal of Conflict Resolution articles in the last 6 months

'The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns & Transnational Repression'

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

📢New Job Openings: Postdoctoral researcher(s) in Political Science at the V-Dem Institute
Please share widely!
Application and all details at web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/…
Deadline: November 15

🗞️Liberal democratic systems lead to a permanent increase in economic #growth . In their study, WZB-researcher Vanessa A. Boese-Schlosser & Markus Eberhardt (@UoNEconomics) show which democratic institutions make this effect possible. #EconTwitter #democracy
👉wzb.eu/en/news/democr…

🚨 New op-ed in The New York Times by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt : 'Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices.' A deep dive into how Republican leaders' actions endanger democracy. ➡️nytimes.com/2023/09/08/opi… 🧵1/6

New article published, which traces the rise and fall of pandemic-related protests and changes in protest issues, and explores potential explanations for differences in the prevalence of pandemic-related protest issues between countries. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/205316….

🗞️How did protest issues change globally over the course of the #pandemic ? WZB-researcher Sebastian Hellmeier found significant variations across countries in his paper for Research & Politics. 🧵1/2
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

📚 New paper out in Research & Politics! The paper describes protest dynamics during the #COVID19 pandemic and explores cross-country variation in protest issues.
Check it out; it's open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… WZB Democracy Uni Konstanz Department of Politics & Public Admіn

Come work with me! Full-time scientific staff member (research fellow, m/f/d) for two years with expertise in empirical research as well as in research data management for the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS): fu-berlin.de/universitaet/b…

New dataset alert: The episodes of regime transformation (ERT) dataset captures 680 episodes of regime transformation from 1900 to 2019 and offers novel insights into regime change over the past 120 years.

Our article on 'Episodes of regime transformation' is finally out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… Staffan I. Lindberg @[email protected] Matthew Wilson Seraphine F. Maerz Amanda B. Edgell Sebastian Hellmeier

Trending in #IR :
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1) Dataset: Colombian peace process

2) French nuclear weapons 2023 (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

3) Episodes of regime transformation (@jpr_journal)

4) An emotions agenda for peace (@CoCo_journal)

5) Meanings of Internationalism (@millennjournal)

Friends: I’m pleased to announce that Tyranny of the Minority, my new book with Steven Levitsky is out on 9/12. Preorder your copy here
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1) Trump, Russia & Ukraine (@iajournal_ch)

2) White Supremacists as Terrorists (@secstudies_jrnl)

3) COVID, global hierarchies & racial capitalism

4) 🇳🇿Maori foreign policy & China

5) Authoritarian Crackdowns & Transnat'l Repression

Pleased to share new research in Journal of Conflict Resolution by me, Saipira Furstenberg Sebastian Hellmeier & Redmond Scales

'The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression'

And it's open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

What is autocratization, how can we measure it? Our (co-authored with Amanda B. Edgell Matthew Wilson Sebastian Hellmeier Staffan I. Lindberg @[email protected]) freshly-published article in J of Peace Research offers a new framework and dataset on #democratization and #autocratization : doi.org/10.1177/002234…