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Lars Lott
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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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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · 7d
Übers Teilen würden wir uns freuen: @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @humanrights-fau.bsky.social @alicja-plkwcz.bsky.social @krajewskimarkus.bsky.social @argohdes.bsky.social
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · 7d
Werde Teil unseres internationalen Teams und profitiere von interdisziplinären Austausch, u.a. am Exzellenzcluster „Transforming Human Rights".
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · 7d
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
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Juraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 15d
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

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A chart showing a summary of the Academic Freedom Index in 2008, 2015, and 2024.
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
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 🧵
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
We find an average treatment effect of a 20% decline in research performance when academic freedom declines substantially. But we do not find any statistically significant effect on the top 10% or top 1% publications, as measured by citation counts in their subject category and publication year. 8/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
However, we also explored the effect of academic freedom decline episodes on national performance. We thereby tested whether the current global crisis in academic freedom affects research performance. 7/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
Results can be summarized as follows: Whereas differences between countries in enabling AF are related to differences in their national performance, changes in enabling AF within a country are not reflected in annual performance differences to that extent as the differences between the countries. 6/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
We found a positive and statistically significant effect of the ‘between AF’ variance on bibliometric indicators with a pooled effect size of 1.7969 (95%-CI = 1.4647; 2.1290]). ‘within AF’ has a positive pooled effect size of 0.0266 but is statistically not significant at conventional levels. 5/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
We applied three different identification strategies, namely two-way fixed effects regressions, within-between random effects regression, and difference-in-differences estimators, and used different bibliometric indicators to calculate the effect of AF on national performance. 4/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
To determine whether China is an exception and to explore the relationship between academic freedom (AF) and national knowledge production, our study examines the association between an index measuring national AF and bibliometric indicators, such as publication counts. 3/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
The remarkable increase in publications from China over the past two decades raises questions about the assumed dependence of effective science production on academic freedom, which is supposed to protect science from external influences. 2/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
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 🧵
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
Results can be summarized as follows: Whereas differences between countries in enabling AF are related to differences in their national performance, changes in enabling AF within a country are not reflected in annual performance differences to that extent as the differences between the countries. 6/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
We found a positive and statistically significant effect of the ‘between AF’ variance on bibliometric indicators with a pooled effect size of 1.7969 (95%-CI = 1.4647; 2.1290]). ‘within AF’ has a positive pooled effect size of 0.0266 but is statistically not significant at conventional levels. 5/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
We applied three different identification strategies, namely two-way fixed effects regressions, within-between random effects regression, and difference-in-differences estimators, and used different bibliometric indicators to calculate the effect of AF on national performance. 4/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
To determine whether China is an exception and to explore the relationship between academic freedom (AF) and national knowledge production, our study examines the association between an index measuring national AF and bibliometric indicators, such as publication counts. 3/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
The remarkable increase in publications from China over the past two decades raises questions about the assumed dependence of effective science production on academic freedom, which is supposed to protect science from external influences. 2/
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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Aug 28
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
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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · Aug 22
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
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Jul 25
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
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Jul 11
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
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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · Jul 3
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.
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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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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · Jul 1
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...
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