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Jeffrey Stephen Kopstein is an American social scientist who specializes in interethnic violence, anti-liberal tendencies, and minority voting patterns… more

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A very sensitive reading of "The Assault on the State."
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pw-portal @pw-portal.bsky.social · Sep 1
Stephen Hanson & @jeffkopstein.bsky.social beobachten weltweit eine Rückkehr vormoderner Herrschaftsformen. Unser Rezensent @lennardgott.bsky.social findet in ihrem Buch das politikwissenschaftliche Vokabular, um die spezifische Staatsfeindlichkeit von Trump & Co. besser zu verstehen. #polisky
Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein: The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future
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Stephen Hanson & @jeffkopstein.bsky.social beobachten weltweit eine Rückkehr vormoderner Herrschaftsformen. Unser Rezensent @lennardgott.bsky.social findet in ihrem Buch das politikwissenschaftliche Vokabular, um die spezifische Staatsfeindlichkeit von Trump & Co. besser zu verstehen. #polisky
Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein: The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future
www.pw-portal.de
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by Jeffrey Kopstein

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We feel it in our bones... "with each concession, autocrats become bolder, defenses grow weaker, and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden autocrats, leading ultimately to the demise of democracy itself."
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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Aug 28
A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today

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Warnings From Weimar
Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.
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by Daniel Ziblatt — Reposted by: Jeffrey Kopstein, Lisa W. Fazio, Jan W. Mueller , and 12 more

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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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But there's the issue of students with accommodations.

by Jeffrey Kopstein

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Theres no bowing. There's also no more papers. Just in class assignments. Once you've solved the problem of me grading dozens of chatgpt papers (which i refuse to do), let me know. Then we can go back to education. Until then its blue books and essay. I also want to do communist style oral exams!
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Can't one of the methods convert? for the sake of the parents.
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You and your bourgeois arithmetic. Wrecker
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Intimate Violence by Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Winner of the Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social SciencesWhy do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave...
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by Jeffrey Kopstein

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Cornell University Press will soon release a well-priced paperback version of "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust," a book I wrote with Jason Wittenberg. Unfortunately, it still speaks to important questions of our day. (link in first comment)
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My sense is it's an over used word, bordering on an empty signifier at this point.
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Looking forward to this.
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Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies @europeatharvard.bsky.social · Apr 3
Attacks on the modern state are intensifying globally. Join Stephen Hanson & @jeffkopstein.bsky.social to discuss their book on how to defend modern government against those who seek to destroy it. @dziblatt.bsky.social

🗓️4/8, 4pm
🔗https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/04/the-assault-on-the-state
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Attacks on the modern state are intensifying globally. Join Stephen Hanson & @jeffkopstein.bsky.social to discuss their book on how to defend modern government against those who seek to destroy it. @dziblatt.bsky.social

🗓️4/8, 4pm
🔗https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/04/the-assault-on-the-state
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by Jeffrey Kopstein

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@www.bsky.social "Does Military Service Make Individuals Susceptible to Political Violence? Attitudinal and Behavioral Evidence" osf.io/preprints/so...
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Multi-university study including @ucirvine.bsky.social professor @jeffkopstein.bsky.social maps link between explicit and implicit antisemitic content that circumvents online censorship, social stigma | Findings in @plosone.org highlight hidden ways hate speech spreads

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Multi-university study maps link between explicit and implicit antisemitic content that circumvents online censorship, social stigma
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The Assault on the State
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · Mar 23
After mass firings, the IRS will be forced to close audits of wealthy taxpayers.

Audits of rich individuals and corporations will soon be closed — without action — due to a lack of personnel to complete them.

Millions upon millions in revenue will be lost.

“All of a sudden, these cases…
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After mass firings, the IRS will be forced to close audits of wealthy taxpayers.

Audits of rich individuals and corporations will soon be closed — without action — due to a lack of personnel to complete them.

Millions upon millions in revenue will be lost.

“All of a sudden, these cases…
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by Jeffrey Kopstein

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New article at PLOS (my first with a large team): dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Hidden in plain sight: antisemitic content in QAnon subreddits
When is online content antisemitic? This matter is highly contested, except in the case of explicit language. Yet implicit antisemitic content and conspiracy narratives about Jews have been on the ris...
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by Jeffrey Kopstein

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Sie haben Recht, dass es sich um mehr als nur die Finanzkrise von 2008 handelt. Wir gehen im Buch ausführlicher auf die Angelegenheit ein.
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by Jeffrey Kopstein

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An interview I did with der Spiegel on Trump's and others' #AssaultOnTheState
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(S+) US-Politologe über die Trump-Regierung: »Wir sind wie Schlafwandler auf den Abgrund zugetaumelt«
Verwandelt Donald Trump die USA in eine Autokratie? Es ist noch schlimmer, sagt der US-Politologe Jeffrey Kopstein. Trump legt die Axt an den modernen Staat. Und damit an das Leben in Sicherheit, Gesu...
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#Trump is attacking the “Deep State” to make the US his own – turn it into a family business, historian @jeffkopstein.bsky.social argues.

Society will pay a high price.

Highly recommended #interview by @bredow.bsky.social at @spiegel.de.

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(S+) US-Politologe über die Trump-Regierung: »Wir sind wie Schlafwandler auf den Abgrund zugetaumelt«
Verwandelt Donald Trump die USA in eine Autokratie? Es ist noch schlimmer, sagt der US-Politologe Jeffrey Kopstein. Trump legt die Axt an den modernen Staat. Und damit an das Leben in Sicherheit, Gesu...
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Well explained by @jeffkopstein.bsky.social and Steve Hanson in their important new book on patrimonialism www.amazon.com/Assault-Stat...
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by Jeffrey Kopstein

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What to understand about our patrimonial president. New rules of the game.My latest co-authored piece. www.persuasion.community/p/sins-of-th...
Sins of the Father
The United States is joining the ranks of patrimonial states. It’s nothing short of a revolution.
www.persuasion.community
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by Jeffrey Kopstein

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We call it harvesting in www.amazon.com/Assault-Stat...
The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future
Amazon.com: The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future (Audible Audio Edition): Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein, L.J. Ganser, Tantor Audio: Audible Books & Originals
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In today's Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch uses The Assault on the State to highlight a key source and vulnerability of Trump's power.
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One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
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It's almost as if Trump read Weber....
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chris mihm @chrismihm.bsky.social · Feb 19
Paging Stephen Hanson and @jeffkopstein.bsky.social: seems a bit on the nose patrimonial to me?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...
‘Long Live the King’: Trump Likens Himself to Royalty on Truth Social (Gift Article)
A fondness for regal themes was apparent as the president applauded his administration’s move to kill congestion pricing in New York.
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Paging Stephen Hanson and @jeffkopstein.bsky.social: seems a bit on the nose patrimonial to me?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...
‘Long Live the King’: Trump Likens Himself to Royalty on Truth Social (Gift Article)
A fondness for regal themes was apparent as the president applauded his administration’s move to kill congestion pricing in New York.
www.nytimes.com
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by Jeffrey Kopstein

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Heres a start: www.amazon.com/Assault-Stat...
The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future
Amazon.com: The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future: 9781509563159: Hanson, Stephen E., Kopstein, Jeffrey S.: Books
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