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Postdoctoral researcher in political science | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | academic freedom | democracy
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Jul 1
Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can their resilience be improved? Together with Aurel Croissant, I’ve developed a conceptualization of democratic resilience as resilience performance and resilience capacity.
Read the full article here (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0032...
Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis - Aurel Croissant, Lars Lott, 2025
Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can their resilience be improved? Answering these questions requires valid conceptualization and reliab...
doi.org
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kunkakom.bsky.social
The billions of research funds channeled into the pockets of Elsevier and other commercial publisher in return for very little actual value is one of academia's big inefficiencies that will eventually be replaced by more attractive Community-run alternatives
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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ascharpf.bsky.social
Wie lässt sich das brutale Vorgehen von Trump's ICE Agenten erklären? Und warum erinnert es so sehr an Diktaturen und ihre Geheimpolizei? Unser neues Buch liefert Antworten - wie wir heute in der @zeit.de erklären.

Buch: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
Wenn @valentimvicente.bsky.social im Deutschlandfunk ist, dann sollte man sich das natürlich auf jeden Fall anhören
kathrinkuehn.bsky.social Kathrin Kühn @kathrinkuehn.bsky.social · 25d
Krisen, Frust oder Angst vor dem sozialen Abstieg, das sind einige Ansätze, um das zu erklären: Warum so schnell viel mehr Menschen radikal rechte Parteien unterstützen, nicht nur in D. Seltener wird geschaut, inwiefern die Einstellungen schon da waren. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe... 1/
Rechtsextremismus - Warum die radikale Rechte so stark wird
Rechtsradikale Parteien profitieren von nachlassender Stigmatisierung. Forschung zum politischen Verhalten zeigt, dass extreme Positionen offener gelebt werden.
share.deutschlandradio.de
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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polstudies.bsky.social
How can resilience of democratic procedures, processes & principles be improved? Aurel Croissant & @larslott.bsky.social present a novel conceptualization & measurements of democratic resilience: buff.ly/N25dyXQ (OPEN ACCESS)

@vdeminstitute.bsky.social @fau @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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apefau.bsky.social
📺 Am Samstag waren Prof. Katrin Kinzelbach und Dr. Lars Lott bei der Eröffnung der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft 2025 im BR-Studio Nürnberg dabei und haben über ihre Arbeit zum Thema #Wissenschaftsfreiheit berichtet!

Zur Aufzeichnung geht's hier:
nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/eroeffnung
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nacht-der-wissenschaften.de
October 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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larslott.bsky.social
📢Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive. Read the recently published article in #ISPR. Together with Katrin Kinzelbach and @silindberg.bsky.social (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0192...
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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nielsmede.bsky.social
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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silindberg.bsky.social
New article out with excellent @larslott.bsky.social and @Katrin Kinzelbach. OA, online first:
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October 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
larslott.bsky.social
📢Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive. Read the recently published article in #ISPR. Together with Katrin Kinzelbach and @silindberg.bsky.social (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0192...
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
larslott.bsky.social
Auf der Suche nach einer Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich der empirischen Menschenrechtsforschung? An der @fau.de suchen wir eine*n Postdoc für 3+3 Jahre für unser Team. tinyurl.com/4d3w3th6
www.pol.phil.fau.de
October 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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medzihorsky.bsky.social
The global retrenchment of academic freedom, as estimated by V-Dem and FAU:

2008-2015: mostly at the lower part of the scale
2015-2024: the upper part of the scale moves as well

More by FAU at: academic-freedom-index.net

@vdeminstitute.bsky.social
A chart showing a summary of the Academic Freedom Index in 2008, 2015, and 2024.
September 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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larslott.bsky.social
Is research performance related to academic freedom? A preprint co-authored with @lutzb.bsky.social conducts a large-scale empirical analysis on the national level to this question. osf.io/2mh8f #academicfreedom #AcademicFreedomIndex Short 🧵
September 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
larslott.bsky.social
Is research performance related to academic freedom? A preprint co-authored with @lutzb.bsky.social conducts a large-scale empirical analysis on the national level to this question. osf.io/2mh8f #academicfreedom #AcademicFreedomIndex Short 🧵
September 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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dziblatt.bsky.social
A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today

www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...
Warnings From Weimar
Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.
www.foreignaffairs.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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jacobnyrup.bsky.social
Lowering recruitment standards in police organizations is standard authoritarian practice. It makes it easier to hire people who will do the regimes bidding "no matter what it is". They have worse outside options and are hired for their loyalty, not their competence.
F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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polstudies.bsky.social
How can resilience of democratic procedures, processes & principles be improved? Aurel Croissant & @larslott.bsky.social present a novel conceptualization & measurements of democratic resilience: buff.ly/Z7psEZm (OPEN ACCESS)

@vdeminstitute.bsky.social @fau @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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polstudies.bsky.social
How can resilience of democratic procedures, processes & principles be improved? Aurel Croissant & @larslott.bsky.social present a novel conceptualization & measurements of democratic resilience: buff.ly/Z7psEZm (OPEN ACCESS)

@vdeminstitute.bsky.social @fau @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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chknutsen.bsky.social
Does higher state capacity go together with lower risk of democratic breakdown? Many political scientists certainly believe so!

Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.
July 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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larslott.bsky.social
Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can their resilience be improved? Together with Aurel Croissant, I’ve developed a conceptualization of democratic resilience as resilience performance and resilience capacity.
Read the full article here (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0032...
Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis - Aurel Croissant, Lars Lott, 2025
Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can their resilience be improved? Answering these questions requires valid conceptualization and reliab...
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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scottlgreer.bsky.social
Not convinced by every word but figure 4 captures the American predicament: strong civil society & civic culture combined with cratering trust, institutional dysfunction, intense polarization and one autocratizing party. That’s why it’s so hard to predict the US future.
Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis - Aurel Croissant, Lars Lott, 2025
Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can their resilience be improved? Answering these questions requires valid conceptualization and reliab...
journals.sagepub.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
larslott.bsky.social
Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can their resilience be improved? Together with Aurel Croissant, I’ve developed a conceptualization of democratic resilience as resilience performance and resilience capacity.
Read the full article here (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0032...
Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis - Aurel Croissant, Lars Lott, 2025
Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can their resilience be improved? Answering these questions requires valid conceptualization and reliab...
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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aykutozturk.bsky.social
Are you using online surveys in your research? Recruiting participants through paid ads? Then @anjaneundorf.bsky.social and I have an article you’ll want to read:

academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
Advertising Online Surveys on Social Media: How Your Advertisements Affect Your Study
June 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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danpemstein.com
A few years ago, @danweitzel.net, John Gerring, @skaaning.bsky.social and I were curious how well one could predict subjective democracy measures using easy(ish) to code observables. Turns out, *quite* well, even out of sample. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Measuring electoral democracy with observables Most cross-national indices of democracy rely centrally on coder judgments, which are susceptible to bias and error, and require expensive and time consuming coding by experts. We present an approach to measurement based on observables that aim to preserve the nuanced quality of subjectively coded democracy indices. Our observable-to-subjective score mapping is free of idiosyncratic coder errors arising from misinformation, slack, or biases. It is less susceptible to systematic bias that may arise from coders’ inferences about a country’s regime, for example, from the ideology of the ruler. The data collection procedure and mode of analysis are fully transparent and replicable, and the procedure is based on random forests and is cheap to produce, easy to update, and offers coverage for all polities with sovereign or semisovereign status, surpassing the sample of any existing index. We show that this expansive coverage makes a big difference to our understanding of some causal questions.
April 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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skaaning.bsky.social
Who supports free speech, and how consistent is the support? Together with @suthank.bsky.social, I’ve conducted a survey of citizens in 33 countries for The Future of Free Speech. A lot of interesting findings (see 🧵 + link): futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...
futurefreespeech.org
April 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
Marine Le Pen is going to jail and won't be able to run in 2027. Judges have applied the law in a case that has exposed extraordinary amounts of criminal activities. Don't make this a question of public opinion or what the far right and foreign leaders think of it. It's the rule of law at work.
March 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM