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Martin Søyland @martigso.bsky.social · Jul 28

@vldjuve.bsky.social og jeg har skrevet litt om formelle og uformelle regler og institusjoner i møte med anti-demokratiske bevegelser. Nå er et godt todsptidspunkt for å ta en titt på deler av det norske systemet. klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

Også vi må være på vakt

Det norske demokratiet er basert på uskrevne normer. I turbulente tider bør vi vurdere strengere regler.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Jun 13

In over 99.5 percent of protest events in April and May, we recorded no injuries, arrests, or property damage — an unprecedentedly tiny fraction for a movement of this size and geographic dispersion.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Jun 13

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.

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Vilde Lunnan Djuve @vldjuve.bsky.social · Jun 12

Awesome, Jonas!!! Really cool paper 👏

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Martin Søyland @martigso.bsky.social · May 20

Jeg lurer på hva som er en bedre grunn enn dette til å ikke syns at stemmeplikt er så viktig likevel. Siden hun har over 60% fravær over alle voteringer.

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Dr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social · Mar 25

Incredible scenes from #Istanbul tonight where thousands of students are marching towards Şişli to protest against Erdogan.

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Tore Wig @torewig.bsky.social · Mar 10

1/3 A central question in institutional political science is, who governs? A central question in political sociology is, which social groups govern? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social , @chknutsen.bsky.social , @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social take a novel approach to these questions.

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Mar 10

NEW -

Behind the Throne: Regime support coalitions around the world, 1789-2020 - cup.org/41ytCt3

- @chknutsen.bsky.social, @sirianned.bsky.social, @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social & @torewig.bsky.social

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BJPolS abstract discussing the support and opposition of various regimes from 1789-2020, utilizing a "regime support dataset" to analyze different features of these regimes. The abstract outlines the methodology, scope, and historical analysis of political and social changes on a global scale.

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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · Mar 10

Neither could it have been done w.o. a common template for identifying regimes and providing experts relevant information about time periods and regimes to code. The underlying HRD data are described here by @vldjuve.bsky.social , @torewig.bsky.social and me: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · Mar 10

Our data paper on the Regime Support and Opposition Groups data was just published in @bjpols.bsky.social !

Co-authored with @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social and @torewig.bsky.social

Here comes a relatively long thread (as is appropriate for a long-term project)

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · Feb 26

Very happy to share our new article in JoP @thejop.bsky.social, where we explore how parties forge links with social groups (here: social classes) through different appeals and how citizens respond to such appeals.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Feb 18

A dictatorship hosting another dictatorship to negotiate with an aspiring dictatorship about the future of a democracy that’s not represented.

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Vilde Lunnan Djuve @vldjuve.bsky.social · Feb 10

This one of my favorite projects, leveraging output from two huge data collection efforts (NAVCO and HRD) and answering a question that has been on my mind for years. So happy it's out, and so happy for yet another smooth and rewarding collab with the great @chknutsen.bsky.social

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Vilde Lunnan Djuve @vldjuve.bsky.social · Feb 10

Hence we conclude that "nonviolence is a key component in many successful campaigns for democracy, also absent full-fledged revolutions."

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Vilde Lunnan Djuve @vldjuve.bsky.social · Feb 10

Crucially, when we distinguish between a) violent vs nonviolent mass movements and b) democratizing vs non-democratizing incumbent-led transitions, only nonviolent mass movements are associated with incumbents opening up their regimes through directed democratizaton.

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Vilde Lunnan Djuve @vldjuve.bsky.social · Feb 10

We run a range of models with data covering the years 1900-2019 and find a really robust association between citizen mass movements and incumbent-led regime change. This sheds light on why mass action is so strongly associated with regime change and democratization, even if revolutions are so rare.

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Vilde Lunnan Djuve @vldjuve.bsky.social · Feb 10

Can citizen action translate into incumbents changing their regimes from within? @chknutsen.bsky.social and I find that the answer is yes in our latest piece, “Citizen Action and Elite Responses: Opposition Mass Movements and Regime Change From Within”, now out in JCR: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · Jan 22

"Camus’ brand of pessimism is apt, simultaneously acknowledging that sense of being cosmically screwed while knowing that finding purpose, and even some kind of hopefulness, is possible in a world that promises nothing."

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Be Like Sisyphus

How to embrace hopeful pessimism in a moment of despair

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Suthan Krishnarajan @suthank.bsky.social · Jan 10

🚨 Only 3 weeks left to apply! 🚨
Postdoc position in Advertising Democracy. An excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team and do impactful research.

Suthan Krishnarajan @suthank.bsky.social · Dec 3

Join our team! 🚨

We are hiring 2 postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University.

We are looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies.

Feel free to share!👇🏾

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Postdoctoral positions in Political Science at Aarhus University – Advertising Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Dec 23

Maria Corina Machado is in hiding. Although her movement won the election, Venezuela's dictatorial president has not left office. Still, she told me, she's an optimist:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

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Ben Yoel @benyoel.bsky.social · Dec 15

Are you planning to attend APSA 2025? I'm putting together a panel proposal on democratic backsliding, democratic resilience, and opposition to democratic backsliding for APSA with Erica Frantz. I'm looking for other authors and discussants with interests in those topics. Thanks in advance!!

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Dec 16

with Tim Miller
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Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

The billionaires rushing to get on board with Trump, and contributing millions for his inauguration, may have missed this key detail: Enhancing the power of a leader—to bend the rules and undermine th...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Dec 16

We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Jun 28

📣1-3 PhD fellow positions open at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.
👉We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science.
📅Deadline: September 1st, 2024
🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

1-3 PhD Research Fellowships (264970) | University of Oslo

Job title: 1-3 PhD Research Fellowships (264970), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, September 1, 2024

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Jun 28

📣We are hiring! Please share!
👉Postdoc 3-4 years, part of the ERC Project “Systemic Effects of Crises on Policy-Making in Modern Democracies"
🇳🇴 Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
📅 Deadline: September 10th, 2024
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (264998) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (264998), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 10, 2024

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Martin Søyland @martigso.bsky.social · Aug 15

Erna Solberg har vært borte fra 96.9% av alle voteringene i Stortinget denne perioden. 32 ganger har hun stemt ja og 70 ganger nei. 3188 mulige voteringer.

30 representanter over 50% fravær. Legger ved snitt over parti i Rick & Morty theme.

Graph showing absence from voting in the Norwegian parliament across all parties in the 2021-2025 parliamentary session. Presented in the Rick & Morty theme from the tvthemes R-package.

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