Asmus Leth Olsen
@asmusletholsen.bsky.social
Professor of Public Administration, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. www.asmusolsen.com. Foto: Freja Wille.
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What's happening in ICE also seems to go in the FBI.
The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇
🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!
The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇
🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!
New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
What's happening in ICE also seems to go in the FBI.
The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇
🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!
The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇
🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!
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New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
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Deadline for application to @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 conference is this Friday 7th of November.
There's been an amazing response to the call for papers so far, we hope for even more great proposals this week.
Here is the call for papers: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
There's been an amazing response to the call for papers so far, we hope for even more great proposals this week.
Here is the call for papers: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
epssnet.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Deadline for application to @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 conference is this Friday 7th of November.
There's been an amazing response to the call for papers so far, we hope for even more great proposals this week.
Here is the call for papers: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
There's been an amazing response to the call for papers so far, we hope for even more great proposals this week.
Here is the call for papers: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Final call for this one 📝
bsky.app/profile/fgil...
bsky.app/profile/fgil...
Looking forward to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social meeting in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026!
All political scientists encouraged to submit a paper. For work on public policy & administration, consider section I’m co-chairing w/ @asmusletholsen.bsky.social
⏳ 7 Nov 2025
🔗 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
All political scientists encouraged to submit a paper. For work on public policy & administration, consider section I’m co-chairing w/ @asmusletholsen.bsky.social
⏳ 7 Nov 2025
🔗 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Final call for this one 📝
bsky.app/profile/fgil...
bsky.app/profile/fgil...
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Looking forward to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social meeting in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026!
All political scientists encouraged to submit a paper. For work on public policy & administration, consider section I’m co-chairing w/ @asmusletholsen.bsky.social
⏳ 7 Nov 2025
🔗 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
All political scientists encouraged to submit a paper. For work on public policy & administration, consider section I’m co-chairing w/ @asmusletholsen.bsky.social
⏳ 7 Nov 2025
🔗 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
October 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Looking forward to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social meeting in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026!
All political scientists encouraged to submit a paper. For work on public policy & administration, consider section I’m co-chairing w/ @asmusletholsen.bsky.social
⏳ 7 Nov 2025
🔗 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
All political scientists encouraged to submit a paper. For work on public policy & administration, consider section I’m co-chairing w/ @asmusletholsen.bsky.social
⏳ 7 Nov 2025
🔗 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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Very interesting spillover effects into other domains and within families! Congratulations!!
🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨
➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
hopeful findings👇🏽
➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
hopeful findings👇🏽
October 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Very interesting spillover effects into other domains and within families! Congratulations!!
I would win a Nobel for Econ envy
October 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I would win a Nobel for Econ envy
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▶️ Public Policy & Administration
👉🏽 Section chairs: @fgilardi.bsky.social & @asmusletholsen.bsky.social
📢 Our section welcomes research that addresses today’s most pressing issues in public policy and public administration. >>>
4/
👉🏽 Section chairs: @fgilardi.bsky.social & @asmusletholsen.bsky.social
📢 Our section welcomes research that addresses today’s most pressing issues in public policy and public administration. >>>
4/
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
▶️ Public Policy & Administration
👉🏽 Section chairs: @fgilardi.bsky.social & @asmusletholsen.bsky.social
📢 Our section welcomes research that addresses today’s most pressing issues in public policy and public administration. >>>
4/
👉🏽 Section chairs: @fgilardi.bsky.social & @asmusletholsen.bsky.social
📢 Our section welcomes research that addresses today’s most pressing issues in public policy and public administration. >>>
4/
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First single-authored paper finally published in @bppjournal.bsky.social! 🎉
With 3 experiments, I tested whether perceiving corruption leads to corrupt intentions & dishonest behaviors among 1,356 pub employees.
I found: NO overall causal relationship.
Paper➡️ lnkd.in/eJyCyVrC
Find out more! 👇
With 3 experiments, I tested whether perceiving corruption leads to corrupt intentions & dishonest behaviors among 1,356 pub employees.
I found: NO overall causal relationship.
Paper➡️ lnkd.in/eJyCyVrC
Find out more! 👇
July 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
First single-authored paper finally published in @bppjournal.bsky.social! 🎉
With 3 experiments, I tested whether perceiving corruption leads to corrupt intentions & dishonest behaviors among 1,356 pub employees.
I found: NO overall causal relationship.
Paper➡️ lnkd.in/eJyCyVrC
Find out more! 👇
With 3 experiments, I tested whether perceiving corruption leads to corrupt intentions & dishonest behaviors among 1,356 pub employees.
I found: NO overall causal relationship.
Paper➡️ lnkd.in/eJyCyVrC
Find out more! 👇
Go see @josephinearnfred.bsky.social who has ventured into econ-land at The University of Chicago to present our work with
@mschaeffer.bsky.social on “Diversifying the Bureaucracy of Tomorrow”, Session 6.A, Education 10, 4:20pm, Saieh Hall 021. Full schedule: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ob2mhwi9zj...
@mschaeffer.bsky.social on “Diversifying the Bureaucracy of Tomorrow”, Session 6.A, Education 10, 4:20pm, Saieh Hall 021. Full schedule: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ob2mhwi9zj...
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September 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Go see @josephinearnfred.bsky.social who has ventured into econ-land at The University of Chicago to present our work with
@mschaeffer.bsky.social on “Diversifying the Bureaucracy of Tomorrow”, Session 6.A, Education 10, 4:20pm, Saieh Hall 021. Full schedule: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ob2mhwi9zj...
@mschaeffer.bsky.social on “Diversifying the Bureaucracy of Tomorrow”, Session 6.A, Education 10, 4:20pm, Saieh Hall 021. Full schedule: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ob2mhwi9zj...
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The one and only @josephinearnfred.bsky.social is at #apsa2025 with two great papers:
-- Diversifying the Bureaucracy of Tomorrow, Sat, 8:00am PDT
-- Global Beliefs about Women in Top-Level Bureaucracy, Fri, 4:00pm PDT
Experimental work on diversity in bureaucracy both globally and in Denmark!
-- Diversifying the Bureaucracy of Tomorrow, Sat, 8:00am PDT
-- Global Beliefs about Women in Top-Level Bureaucracy, Fri, 4:00pm PDT
Experimental work on diversity in bureaucracy both globally and in Denmark!
September 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The one and only @josephinearnfred.bsky.social is at #apsa2025 with two great papers:
-- Diversifying the Bureaucracy of Tomorrow, Sat, 8:00am PDT
-- Global Beliefs about Women in Top-Level Bureaucracy, Fri, 4:00pm PDT
Experimental work on diversity in bureaucracy both globally and in Denmark!
-- Diversifying the Bureaucracy of Tomorrow, Sat, 8:00am PDT
-- Global Beliefs about Women in Top-Level Bureaucracy, Fri, 4:00pm PDT
Experimental work on diversity in bureaucracy both globally and in Denmark!
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We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).
You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).
You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
September 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).
You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).
You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
The one and only @josephinearnfred.bsky.social is at #apsa2025 with two great papers:
-- Diversifying the Bureaucracy of Tomorrow, Sat, 8:00am PDT
-- Global Beliefs about Women in Top-Level Bureaucracy, Fri, 4:00pm PDT
Experimental work on diversity in bureaucracy both globally and in Denmark!
-- Diversifying the Bureaucracy of Tomorrow, Sat, 8:00am PDT
-- Global Beliefs about Women in Top-Level Bureaucracy, Fri, 4:00pm PDT
Experimental work on diversity in bureaucracy both globally and in Denmark!
September 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The one and only @josephinearnfred.bsky.social is at #apsa2025 with two great papers:
-- Diversifying the Bureaucracy of Tomorrow, Sat, 8:00am PDT
-- Global Beliefs about Women in Top-Level Bureaucracy, Fri, 4:00pm PDT
Experimental work on diversity in bureaucracy both globally and in Denmark!
-- Diversifying the Bureaucracy of Tomorrow, Sat, 8:00am PDT
-- Global Beliefs about Women in Top-Level Bureaucracy, Fri, 4:00pm PDT
Experimental work on diversity in bureaucracy both globally and in Denmark!
The past hour this social media platform has not been a kinder or more sane place than X…
September 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The past hour this social media platform has not been a kinder or more sane place than X…
There has never been a more important time to study public policy and public administration. With @fgilardi.bsky.social
, I’m chairing the section on these topics for the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference, in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026. Send us your best work: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
, I’m chairing the section on these topics for the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference, in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026. Send us your best work: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
epssnet.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
There has never been a more important time to study public policy and public administration. With @fgilardi.bsky.social
, I’m chairing the section on these topics for the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference, in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026. Send us your best work: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
, I’m chairing the section on these topics for the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference, in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026. Send us your best work: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.
Reposted by Asmus Leth Olsen
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
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New, from me (and featuring @asmusletholsen.bsky.social): I traveled to Copenhagen for the Mikkeller beer festival.
My purpose was to resolve the question: Can AI make you a better beer drinker?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/can-ai-mak...
My purpose was to resolve the question: Can AI make you a better beer drinker?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/can-ai-mak...
Can AI Make You A Better Beer Drinker?
At the Mikkeller beer festival in Copenhagen
donmoynihan.substack.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New, from me (and featuring @asmusletholsen.bsky.social): I traveled to Copenhagen for the Mikkeller beer festival.
My purpose was to resolve the question: Can AI make you a better beer drinker?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/can-ai-mak...
My purpose was to resolve the question: Can AI make you a better beer drinker?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/can-ai-mak...
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From @pamherd.bsky.social & I @nytimes.com: How Republicans plan to use administrative burdens to kick eligible people off of Medicaid, all to pay for a regressive tax cut.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
Opinion | Republicans Will Use Paperwork to Kick Americans Off Health Care
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
From @pamherd.bsky.social & I @nytimes.com: How Republicans plan to use administrative burdens to kick eligible people off of Medicaid, all to pay for a regressive tax cut.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
Happy to have chaired this years Radin award with the help of a hard-working committee of previous winners - congrats to Jessica and Elizabeth bsky.app/profile/pmra...
🎉 Congratulations to Jessica Lasky-Fink and Elizabeth Linos, Winners of the 2025 Beryl Radin Award!
🥳 Please join us in celebrating Jessica and Elizabeth on this well-deserved recognition!
🌐 Read more: www.pmranet.org/assets/Secre...
🥳 Please join us in celebrating Jessica and Elizabeth on this well-deserved recognition!
🌐 Read more: www.pmranet.org/assets/Secre...
May 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Happy to have chaired this years Radin award with the help of a hard-working committee of previous winners - congrats to Jessica and Elizabeth bsky.app/profile/pmra...
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"“I am writing to inform you that effective immediately, Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked,” according to a letter sent to the university by Kristi Noem"
*all* Harvard internationals may be out now
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
*all* Harvard internationals may be out now
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"“I am writing to inform you that effective immediately, Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked,” according to a letter sent to the university by Kristi Noem"
*all* Harvard internationals may be out now
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
*all* Harvard internationals may be out now
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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I've talked to Altinget about threats to civil society in Europe. We discussed the European Court of Auditors' new recommendations about more transparency, but also conditionality connected to EU's values.
Read in this interview why this can be a problem (in Danish)
www.altinget.dk/civilsamfund...
Read in this interview why this can be a problem (in Danish)
www.altinget.dk/civilsamfund...
Lobbyismeforsker er bekymret over anbefaling om værdier som betingelse for EU-støtte til ngo’er - Altinget
EU’s revisionsret anbefaler at styrke kontrollen med, om ngo’er, der modtager EU-støtte, overholder unionens værdier. Men det er en farlig vej at gå, som i sidste ende kan risikere at svække civilsamf...
www.altinget.dk
April 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I've talked to Altinget about threats to civil society in Europe. We discussed the European Court of Auditors' new recommendations about more transparency, but also conditionality connected to EU's values.
Read in this interview why this can be a problem (in Danish)
www.altinget.dk/civilsamfund...
Read in this interview why this can be a problem (in Danish)
www.altinget.dk/civilsamfund...