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Carl Henrik Knutsen
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Political science professor, University of Oslo; Research group leader, CIR group; Researcher, PRIO; co-PI, V-Dem

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Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social · 1d
In a new study (OA) in @epsjournal.bsky.social
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@chknutsen.bsky.social & I study the global distribution of polit. science depts.
Political science is today a truly global discipline & we find few differences along the democracy–autocracy continuum:
doi.org/10.1017/S168...

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 1d
#OpenAccess from @epsjournal.bsky.social -

The politics behind political science: A cross-national perspective - https://cup.org/3ObeH5g

- @jjungblut.bsky.social, Nils B. Weidmann & @chknutsen.bsky.social

#FirstView
The image is a cover for "European Political Science" by ECPR. It features the text "EPS" and "#OpenAccess" on a greenish-brown background with a pattern of small squares.

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 1d
Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...

Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?

Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:

tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 3d
Rubio may have signed up to this extremist rubbish for the sake of his own pathetic career. That doesn't mean that Europe has to.
janeijking.com Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 3d
Now the “new alliance” needs to “rebuke the forces of civilizational erasure that today menace America and Europe alike”. 4/4

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 3d
“I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future”

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 5d
📣CfA for a Postdoctoral Fellow Position in political science (3-4 years) as part of the ERC project “Waging of War” (WOW) - PI Scott Gates. The application deadline is March 16th, 2026.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (295112) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (295112), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, March 16, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no

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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 6d
Download and read Policy Brief No. 43 “Democracy Aid: What’s in it for Donor Countries?” at the V-Dem website: v-dem.net/media/public...

You can find all V-Dem Institute Policy Briefs and other publications on the V-Dem website: v-dem.net/publications/
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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 6d
Altruistic motivations aside, looking at purely self-interested motives of donors, is there still a rationale for supporting democracy abroad?
YES, says a new #PolicyBrief from V-Dem Institute:
Democracy Aid: What’s in it for Donor Countries? v-dem.net/media/public...
👇 1(3) #Polisky #SocialScience
First page of V-Dem Institute Policy Brief Number 43, showing key insights and policy recommendations.

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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 12d
New publication!
Collecting data is key for social science. @adridelrio.bsky.social, Woseeok Kim, @chknutsen.bsky.social, @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, Agustina S. Paglayan & @eugenian.bsky.social suggest how to enhance transparency and replicability based on education datasets
tinyurl.com/yskszsdt

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17d
“.. for most Trump investors, the year has been brutal. But .. for the President and his family, the money-making shows no sign of slowing.”

@newyorker.com
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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · 19d
New explainer from me, on understanding ICE as a paramilitary force, in more than one sense of the term 👇
theconversation.com/ice-not-only...
ICE not only looks and acts like a paramilitary force – it is one, and that makes it harder to curb
ICE, created in response to 9/11, meets most definitions of paramilitary forces. Critics worry it’s gone beyond its writ of immigration enforcement.
theconversation.com

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 20d
Trump's relentless bullying of Ukraine presented as a "peace process" is making us sound like broken records. Like, how many times do we have to say that asking Ukraine to withdraw from its most fortified region in exchange for another useless Budapest memorandum offer is a dumb proposition?

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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 21d
🥉“Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic Backsliding”.
Working Paper 140 from 2023 is the third most viewed (4,080 times). v-dem.net/media/public...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 21d
📢 New article
👥 Carl Henrik Knutsen (ISV), Sirianne Dahlum (ISV), Magnus Bergli Rasmussen & Tore Wig (ISV)
👉 Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival
📗 Open Access in Comparative Political Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival, 1789–2020 - Carl Henrik Knutsen, Sirianne Dahlum, Magnus Bergli Rasmussen, Tore Wig, 2025
All political regimes rely on coalitions of supporters to govern and remain in power. We discuss, specify, and test arguments pertaining to how the numerical si...
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 22d
NEW PAPER ALERT! My paper, with @bjornhoyland.bsky.social , on how “policy loss” shapes support for the EU has just been published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Check it out!
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Ashok Swain @ashoswai.bsky.social · 22d
We are hiring a Professor!
The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, the world’s leading research environments in the field, is now recruiting a Professor. We welcome applications from internationally recognized scholars. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Professor of Peace and Conflict Research
Uppsala University announces a vacancy for a permanent position as  Professor of Peace and Conflict Research   At the Department of Peace and Conflict Research  The Department is one of the
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22d
Spoke to folks in Kharkiv and Kyiv - people are freezing to death while being bombed daily for hours. It’s a humanitarian crisis. Tweets of “how incredibly strong Ukrainians are” and “prayers” aren’t enough. They need help. Now.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 23d
Even in the AI era, learning to quickly "read" an academic article is an essential skill.

When I started grad school, I thought I had to read every word, in order, for every article I "read".

I don’t do that anymore.

Here’s how I "read" most academic articles:

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23d
So America is on edge, angry and reaching a boiling post--and this is President Trump's latest tweet.

Serious Nero fiddling while Rome is burning vibes...

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 23d
Who cares and has ever cared about the location of a book publisher? How much time have researchers wasted on figuring out this information?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23d
So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24d
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23d
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 23d
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

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24d
Ultimately you're not supposed to believe it. It not mattering is the point. The bolder the lie, the greater the impunity. The ultimate victory for evil is not convincing you, it's the truth being irrelevant.
markgongloff.bsky.social Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 24d
We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 24d
We updated the dashboard so it now runs on Internet Explorer as well. If you are interested in seeing where Cuban members of government are born (or most other countries for that sake) now is your chance:

ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/

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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 25d
📊 New paper out in Democratization!
How do autocrats actually stay in power?

👉 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Co-authored with Wooseok Kim, @eugenian.bsky.social , Ksenia Northmore-Ball, and @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social.
Strategies of political control and regime survival in autocracies
How do autocrats establish political control? Understanding the strategies autocrats use to generate mass compliance and elite loyalty remains a central question in comparative politics. Despite su...
www.tandfonline.com

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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 25d
Gratulerer så mye, Kristian!

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 26d
All countries on the Board of Peace are ruled by men and their median age is 66.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 26d
The New Trumpian Anarchy, where you bully allies abroad while you send your militia to kidnap 5-year-olds at home.

@dandrezner.bsky.social @foreignaffairs.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26d
Everyone in America should have to see these cases and think about what they mean for the kind of society we are becoming. They killed a mom in her minivan. And now they have grabbed this poor sweet kid, used him as bait to grab his dad, and sent him to a detention center in Texas.