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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 10d

And if you want to learn more about how people make a career in dictatorship, pre-order the authors' (Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social) new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship":

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 20d

No apologies necessary!

It’s an excellent book - check it out and go get yourself a copy.

Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · 20d

With no apologies for the shameless self promotion, thanks to @alexdukalskis.bsky.social for his review of mine and @pward89.bsky.social’s book on succession in personalist autocracies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Grateful for the review; he does a great job of summarizing our arguments.

Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond

Published in Asian Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · 20d

With no apologies for the shameless self promotion, thanks to @alexdukalskis.bsky.social for his review of mine and @pward89.bsky.social’s book on succession in personalist autocracies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Grateful for the review; he does a great job of summarizing our arguments.

Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond

Published in Asian Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · 22d

Please share widely! Great #PostDoc opportunity at one of Australia's top #PoliticalScience departments, on a #FutureFellowship on electoral resilience. 3yrs, great pay, and a workplace practically next to the Great Barrier Reef!
Closing date is 1 Oct 2025
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1

Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 23d

Author copies for

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!

If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · 25d

If you enjoyed the article, we also have a short book with @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Spotted in the wild at APSA!🎉

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · 25d

@pward89.bsky.social and I were delighted to win the Best Article Award from APSA’s Democracy and Autocracy section for our @worldpolitics.bsky.social article “Elite Management Before Autocratic Leader Succession: Evidence from North Korea.” muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · Sep 8

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

#Blame #Shifting in #Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from #Turkey

By @edwardgoldring.bsky.social, @jonaswschmid.bsky.social & Fulya Apaydin

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · Sep 8

New article out on blame shifting in autocracies…and we’ve got a video!

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Sep 8

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -

Blame Shifting in Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey - cup.org/4ggTyAv

- @edwardgoldring.bsky.social, Jonas Willibald Schmid & Fulya Apaydin

#FirstView

Image of a smoky industrial landscape with the text "Perspectives on Politics" and the hashtag "OpenAccess" overlaid on a blue banner.

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 Call for Papers: 2026 WPSA Mini-Conference on Authoritarian Politics 🚨

Jun Sudduth, @paulschuler.bsky.social, and I are excited to see y’all in San Diego! We welcome formal and empirical papers on a broad range of topics.

📌 Apply here. Share with colleagues & students:
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Mini-Conference on Authoritarian Politics, WPSA 2026

April 2-4, 2026 Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California Contact us: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

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Lee Morgenbesser @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social · Sep 1

My colleague Ferran Martinez i Coma has a three year, full-time postdoc available for his Australian Research Council project "Resilient Elections: How to Strengthen Our Democracies."

Great project ✔️
Awesome supervisor ✔️
Excellent department ✔️
Lovely City ✔️

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1

Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · Aug 14

Josef Woldense is running his fantastic ‘research presentation as storytelling’ workshop in a few weeks. It’s held virtually; details on how to sign up are below. @woldense.bsky.social

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · Jul 31

Favourite comment on my student evals:

“I also lost a little bit of respect for Dr. Goldring when he was he was a Lewis Hamilton fan in the year of our lord 2025.”

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · Jul 25

Many thanks to @nknewsorg.bsky.social for inviting @pward89.bsky.social and I on to the podcast to talk about our book on elite management and succession in North Korea and elsewhere. Really enjoyed the discussion, especially as a “long time listener but first time caller”!

NK News @nknewsorg.bsky.social · Jul 24

How North Korea’s Kim rulers manage elites to guarantee regime survival

North Korea’s ruling Kim family has orchestrated not one but two leadership successions during its over seven decades in power, and may well be preparing for a third. But the success of such transitions in authoritarian states is far from certain and depends in large part on how rulers manage the elites that compose their […]

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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jul 17

Deadline is now July 25th! @textvulture.bsky.social @jennargibson.bsky.social @edwardgoldring.bsky.social

Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jul 15

Deadline is today! If you’ve got a paper on Korea, consider applying to the fourth cohort of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (KPSC): textvulture.github.io/presentation...

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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jul 15

Deadline is today! If you’ve got a paper on Korea, consider applying to the fourth cohort of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (KPSC): textvulture.github.io/presentation...

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · Jul 12

Congrats, Kyuri! Enjoy the move and let me know if/when you come thru Melbourne:)

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CedarBough T. Saeji @thekpopprof.bsky.social · Jun 24

This is a great opportunity for youth #SNU #Korea

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · Jun 23

Haven’t celebrated a publication in person for a while. @fapaydin.bsky.social - you were with @jonaswschmid.bsky.social and I in spirit!

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · Jun 17

If you’ve got a paper related to Korean politics and would like feedback, consider submitting to the Korean Political Studies Colloquium. Junior scholars especially welcome!

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · Jun 11

Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Floods. The world is not short of disasters. When faced with such events, autocrats often resort to blame shifting. But does this strategy work? In our forthcoming new paper with @edwardgoldring.bsky.social & @jonaswschmid.bsky.social, we unpack this question. Thread ⬇️

Jonas W. Schmid @jonaswschmid.bsky.social · Jun 11

After large-scale disasters autocrats often shift the blame on others to save their popularity. Our 🚨new paper🚨, just accepted at Perspectives on Politics, shows that this tactic is prone to backfire. With @edwardgoldring.bsky.social & @fapaydin.bsky.social . shorturl.at/v6wIV%E2%AC%...

The title page of a paper listing the title: "Blame Shifting in Autocracies Following Large-scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey"; the authors: Edward Goldring, Jonas Willibald Schmid, and Fulya Apaydin; and the abstract: "Large-scale disasters, particularly when handled poorly, often spark popular outrage and threaten
an autocrat’s hold on power. Autocrats frequently employ blame shifting strategies to redirect
public anger and weather these storms. We examine whether blame shifting after a large-scale
disaster helps or hurts an autocrat’s popularity through a mixed-methods research design in the
electoral autocracy of Turkey in April-July 2023, following the February 2023 earthquakes.
An online survey experiment (n=3,839) identifies the effects of blaming the aftermath of the
earthquake on the opposition, a force majeure, private construction companies, or a govern-
ment minister, while focus groups explore the mechanisms behind these effects. We find that
blaming the opposition or a force majeure leads to a backlash, especially among those more
able to critically evaluate information. Focus groups reveal that these backlash effects are
driven by voters’ dismay at electoral opportunism and the incumbent’s polarizing language
following a large-scale disaster."; and the note that the paper is forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics.

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · Jun 11

New paper on blame shifting in autocracies with @jonaswschmid.bsky.social & @fapaydin.bsky.social, just accepted at Perspectives. Full thread and link to pre-print below 👇

Jonas W. Schmid @jonaswschmid.bsky.social · Jun 11

After large-scale disasters autocrats often shift the blame on others to save their popularity. Our 🚨new paper🚨, just accepted at Perspectives on Politics, shows that this tactic is prone to backfire. With @edwardgoldring.bsky.social & @fapaydin.bsky.social . shorturl.at/v6wIV%E2%AC%...

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
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🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
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