The US should allow Ukraine to strike legitimate military targets in Russia’s rear with US-provided weapons. Russia’s sanctuary shields hundreds of legitimate military targets in rear areas that Ukrainian forces are capable of striking. (1/4)

This wonderful book on Stein Rokkan, the man and his work, is finally out in print.👇

Rokkan was a pioneer of macro-historical comparative research. And, as David Collier writes in his blurb, he was 'a giant in the social sciences.'

For information: ecpr.eu/Shop/ShopProdu…

Dette (fra Dag Wollebæk) er det beste innlegget i norsk rusdebatt på årevis og alle redaksjoner som skal dekke ruspolitikk bør lese det grundig. nettavisen.no/norsk-debatt/l…

Tunisia has, like many societies, long struggled w/ anti-Black racism as the scholar Huda Mzioudet ≠ Low-Budget Pharaoh documents.

But following President Saied’s Feb. 2023 “great replacement” speech, Tunisia rapidly morphed into the most violently anti-Black environment I’ve ever experienced 🧵

🇬🇪A multidimensional campaign by the pro-Russian party Georgian Dream is currently underway. Let's take a closer look at GD and oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili's use of personal threats, violence, disinformation, and double communication.
🧵Here is a thread about the alarming…

Ever heard “those unemployed people are staying home even though they could be working”? This idea, that everyone contributes their fair share to the welfare system, is crucial. Otherwise, the fundamental principles of social solidarity and redistribution are undermined. [1/n]

Do citizen trade-off self interest and principles when supporting international partners? Happy to share a new article /w 𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 Troels Bøggild and Sascha Göbel in Research & Politics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Preach.

Presidents often try to drag their militaries into their self-coups. Why do militaries sometimes obey and other times refuse?

Some initial thoughts for Journal of Democracy, extending the findings of my book:
journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusi…

Dette time.com/6972021/donald…

A new paper: “In Europe, Democracy Erodes from the Right” in Journal of Democracy.

Joint research with Johanna Lutz, Filip Milačić, and Elena Avramovska at FES Democracy of the Future available at:

journalofdemocracy.org/articles/in-eu…

This paper should be mandatory reading for political scientists.

Not quite the only study using WhoGov to study women's access to cabinets anymore. But awesome to see it in print in the American Political Science Review! Here are some other great studies that uses WhoGov to study women's access to cabinets;

Vil du bli medlem hos oss?

Nå er det mulig å søke medlemskap! Vi ser etter dyktige og motiverte unge forskere fra hele landet innen samtlige fagfelt!

Søknadsfrist er 9.juni kl. 23.59

les mer på: akademietforyngreforskere.no/soknad2024/

Join us all for the last Authoritarian Political Systems Group for this term 👇

The Routledge Books Handbook of Autocratization (Eds. Aurel Croissant & Luca Tomini) will be out later this month:

40 chapters on autocratization, including one (Ch. 6) on economic development and autocratization by Svend-Erik Skaaning and myself:

routledge.com/The-Routledge-…

Since its the first of May its probably fitting to present the latest working paper 'Smothering Socialism'.

It documents how Norwegian elites responded to democratization by substantially limiting local governments power to set taxes and granting elites a veto over tax-increases

📢 Next Tuesday (8am PST, 11am EST, 4pm UKT)

Palina Kolvani (Oslo) will present her work 'Who Counts? Electoral Fraud and Bureaucratic Careers'.

Inga A.-L. Saikkonen (@AboAkademi) & Cole Harvey (Oklahoma State) will discuss.

As part of our research on itinerant rule, we have an open 2/3-year postdoc position with Swedish working conditions! Please spread and get in touch if interested! Deadline 29 May.
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New article: “The Language of Responsibility in the United Nations Security Council, 1946–2020” with Felix Haass & Holger Niemann in International Studies Quarterly
Article: doi.org/10.1093/isq/sq…
Preprint: felixhaass.de/www/manuscript…
Data/Code: t.ly/ChKOG