Anti-Immigrant Attitudes & Political Participation in Europe: Andrej Kokkonen & Jonas Linde find a general political participation gap between pro- and anti-immigrant citizens. More in Political Studies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… (OPEN ACCESS)

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Postdoctoral position focusing on lessons from the war in Ukraine. 'This project aims to further scientific research and empirical lessons regarding how civil society may contribute to enhancing resilience in war.'
Apply by 25 April.

Försvarshögskolan
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Want to be part of Norway's ESS team? We have just announced a four-year postdoctoral research fellow position in political science at the University of Bergen: 
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New article with Andrej Kokkonen in Political Studies. We find a general political participation gap between pro- and anti-immigrant citizens. The size of the gap is however contingent on peoples' ideological left-right placement. Open Access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Min krönika mot sakerhetisering av fotboll I Aftonbladet ⚽️
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As promised yesterday, I'm very pleased to announce:

The first annual Historical Political Economy Conference

To be held USC on either Oct 18-19 or 19-20, 2024

Co-organized by Dr. Allison Spencer Hartnett and myself

Super excited to see our paper on historical cadastral institutions and economic growth forthcoming at @jpe! Many thanks to colleagues, reviewers and the editor whose comments helped us improve the paper a lot. Happy Easter!
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I am ECSTATIC to announce that Jeff Jenkins (Jeff Jenkins) and I have signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to edit a new book series titled:

HISTORICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

We will seek submissions beginning today. A few thoughts on what we are looking for…
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Dags igen för kursen ”Det svenska kulturlandskapets historia” på Göteborgs universitet! Ges på kvartsfart/distans (15 hp). För den som vill fördjupa sig i landskapets historia med hjälp av historiska kartor och spåren på marken😊 gu.se/studera/hitta-…

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Pre-Modern Institutions and Later Support for Autocrats in Democratic Elections - cup.org/3TGNZSi

- @jonathandouce17

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How controlling the distribution of salt explains the Huguenot rebellions, the shape and size of states in the Holy Roman Empire, Charles of Anjou's empire, and even the Sun King's reign in France ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-inven…

Andrej Kokkonen, Jørgen Møller & Anders Sundell discuss why the transfer of power is so problematic in an authoritarian context, which trade-offs autocrats face when trying to address the problem, and how they affect political stability.

More chapters of the Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics are out👇
With Barbara Geddes on how autocracies begin, Daniela Donno on democracy promotion, Tomila Lankina on social structure and autocracy & Erica Frantz on personalist dictatorship👇

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Jag skriver på DN Debatt om fredlig konflikthantering och vikten av att fortsätta stödja Ukrainas försvarskamp.
Jag skriver mer om fredsförhandlingar tex i gästkrönikor på Sveriges största #säkpol blogg Lars Wilderäng och på @SVDDebatt, länkar i kommentarerna.
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Significant Police Presence in the Capital City of Moscow tonight as Russians are allowed to lay Flowers for Opposition Leader, Alexei Navalny at a Memorial outside of the FSB Headquarters to the Victims of the Soviet Gulag System.

We have an opening for a postdoc position in the ERC project Contested Frontiers: Understanding the constitutional politics of settler-state peripheries, PI Aaron Spitzer.

Deadline: 29th February 2024.

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I'm happy to share that my paper 'Burghers into Peasants: Political Economy of City Status in Congress Poland' has been awarded the 2023 Quality of Government Best Paper Award by the Quality of Government Institute QoG-Data Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg! 1/2 gu.se/en/news/winner…

Meet the new editorial team for the American Political Science Review [American Political Science Review], the oldest and most prestigious political science journal in the world. #APSR politicalsciencenow.com/meet-the-new-e…

The first chapters of my OUP Handbook of Authoritarian Politics are out! academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

Michael Albertus reveals new trends in authoritarian redistribution; Koch discusses geographies of authoritarianism; and Weyland writes on hybrid regimes in historical perspective👇👇

Happy to announce the publication of Democratization and Autocratization: Concepts, Currents, Causes, Consequences, and Challenges (with Jørgen Møller) routledge.com/Democratizatio…. It offers comprehensive discussions of concepts, theories, and empirics related to political regimes.