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Ina L Kristiansen
@inalkristiansen.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate @ University of Oslo - MPhil in Peace and Conflict Studies - Interested in political elites in autocratic regimes
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Journal of Peace Research @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social · 5d
📣 New Special Issue! 📣
Our new special issue on Political Violence in Democracies is now out! 📖
This very timely special issue has been guest edited by @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, Ursula Daxecker and @neerajprsd.bsky.social.

Check out the complete issue here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/jpra/62/5
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 2d
On October 13, 2025, Palina Kolvani @palinakolvani.bsky.social will defend her PhD thesis “The State of Numbers: Political Economy of Official Statistics”. The defense is open to anyone interested. For time and place, see 👇
www.sv.uio.no/isv/forsknin...
Disputation Palina Kolvani - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV)
Master of Science in Political Science Palina Kolvani will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science: The State of Numbers: Political Economy of Official Statistics
www.sv.uio.no
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5d
Very possibly no political official in history has made so much corrupt money at a pace like this. Mobutu and Marcos looted a greater share of their countries’ wealth over decades but in absolute terms and in speed, Trump shamelessly puts them to shame.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d
“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.”

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David Szakonyi @szakonyi.bsky.social · 5d
Come work with us!
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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 7d
Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u...
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.
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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 7d
Happy and thankful that our WP "Debating threats to authoritarian rule: Inclusion and Discrimination in the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia" has won the David Olson Award 2025!

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 8d
My department is hiring a PhD student in Political Science with an orientation towards Politics & AI.

This is part of WASP-HS, an interdisciplinary research cluster on AI’s impact on people and society.

Come and be my colleague!

Submission date: 15 Nov. 2025

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD student in Political Science with an orientation towards Politics & AI
The Department of Political Science is a dynamic and strong education and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The Department aims to be nationally leading an
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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 9d
This seems important in a world where so many countries are turning against immigration:

"A structural estimation of a model of endogenous growth and migrations suggests the increased immigration to the US since 1965 may have increased innovation and wages by 5%."
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 9d
Forthcoming in the AER: "Immigration, Innovation, and Growth" by Stephen J. Terry, Thomas Chaney, Konrad B. Burchardi, Lisa Tarquinio, and Tarek A. Hassan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Immigration, Innovation, and Growth
(Forthcoming Article) - We propose a novel identification strategy to isolate exogenous immigration shocks across US counties, by interacting quasi-random variations in the composition of ancestry acr...
www.aeaweb.org
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 9d
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":

global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 12d
Umeå University's Department of Political Science is hiring 1-2 PhD students. The working conditions in Sweden for PhD students are excellent, and Umeå is a beautiful city!

www.umu.se/en/work-with...
1-2 PhD students for the Department of Political Science
www.umu.se
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Solveig Bjørkholt @sunny369.bsky.social · 14d
🚀 StanDat Database Update & Move!

The database has moved and been upgraded:

solveig.shinyapps.io/standat/
StanDat - International Standards Database
solveig.shinyapps.io
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19d
Dozens of people were killed in El Fasher, Sudan, on Friday when paramilitary forces fired a missile into a mosque during morning prayers, local medics and aid workers said. At least 84 bodies were recovered from the wreckage, including several women and children.
Dozens Killed in Missile Strike on Sudan Mosque: ‘Harrowing Beyond Description’
A doctor who spoke with The Times last week was among those killed when a missile hit a mosque on Friday as paramilitaries stepped up their brutal siege of the city of El Fasher.
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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 19d
How am I meant to code this for WhoGov and Paths to Power?
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 19d
🇦🇱 Albania's AI minister "Diella" addressed the parliament for the first time.

👀 Diella said she has been "hurt" by opposition lawmakers who called her unconstitutional.
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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 19d
"We cannot put the press in unreliable hands. It must be in the hands of the most faithful, most trustworthy, most politically steadfast people devoted to our cause." - Nikita S. Khrushchev, 1957

www.nytimes.com/1957/09/29/a...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20d
Trump: “I read someplace that the networks were 97% against me…They give me only bad publicity or press. I mean, they’re getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr.”
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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 21d
David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."
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Darin Self @darinself.com · 20d
Selling out democracy when they could easily win the fight
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21d
Cowards. Shameless, morally bankrupt cowards.
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Lee Morgenbesser @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social · 22d
Having written about the "autocrat's playbook" for many years now, I argue in this piece that Trump is fundamentally different to the likes of Chávez, Erdoğan, Fujimori, Modi, Orbán, Ortega, and Putin. His "mad king" persona means that he wrecks just about everything he touches...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22d
Could Trump really be canny and mad at the same time?
www.thebulwark.com/p/crazy-or-c...
Crazy or Cunning: The Trump Contradiction
Critics’ two big theories explaining Trump are associated with different kinds of autocrats.
www.thebulwark.com
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Jamie Withorne @jamiewithorne.bsky.social · 21d
My first attempt at a blog is now live. Check out my substack here: open.substack.com/pub/jamiewit...
Another nuclear blog???
Yes, but at least it's not a podcast (:
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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 22d
Join us next week!
@javierpadilla.bsky.social (@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social) will be presenting his work on how oligarchic cleavages shape liberalization and democratization and @alucardi1.bsky.social (@itam-mx.bsky.social) and @emisimison.bsky.social (@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social) will discuss.
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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · 22d
Utrolig spennende og å få 12 millioner kroner til å forske på partienes rolle i å etablere den norske velferdsstaten ved hjelp av omfattende historisk datamatrialet og naturlig eksperimenter.

Les mer her: www.usn.no/forskning/fo...
Får 12 millioner til forskning på politiske partier og velferdsstaten - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge
USN-statsviter er med i eksklusivt selskap av erfarne forskere som får penger fra Forskningsrådets FRIPRO-ordning.
www.usn.no
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Ina L Kristiansen @inalkristiansen.bsky.social · 22d
Congrats! This looks like a great paper 🤩
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Marianne Dahl @mariannedahl.bsky.social · 22d
📢 New paper alert: How does war shape democratic values?
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine
by @kristinmbakke.bsky.social, Marianne Dahl & Kit Rickard. 📖 Published in the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social special issue on Political Violence in Democracies.
👇🧵
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Sep 3
Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved

A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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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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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 24d
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.
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Ina L Kristiansen @inalkristiansen.bsky.social · 24d
Congrats!!
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