🎤 The speaker for the 20th session of the PBC will be @ludwigschulze.bsky.social, PhD Researcher at the European University Institute, who will be presenting “Land and Freedom: The Political Consequences of Land Reform in East Germany”

📍 Join us on Zoom!
Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Offene Stellen / Open Positions

🚨Job alert 🚨

I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026.

If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026.

📤 Please share widely!

www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...

Congratulations, Alba!

Postdoctoral Position in Computational Social Science Deadline: 15.03.2025

Want to work with us? stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, liebe Elena!

Finally out in @polanalysis.bsky.social (w/ @stefan-scholz.bsky.social, @zacharyst.bsky.social, @keremoglu.bsky.social and Bastian Goldlücke): "Improving Computer Vision Interpretability: Transparent Two-Level Classification for Complex Scenes" Available #OpenAccess at doi.org/10.1017/pan....

♟️Autocracies are giving more women political power, but that isn't necessarily good news for democracy International observers generally praise the rise in female politicians in autocracies, but the inclusion of women in politics can also be a means by which autocrats polish their image without real re...

Together \w @jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social, I wrote a blog post for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social on women in autocratic cabinets and how dictators treat their political elites.

theloop.ecpr.eu/autocracies-...

Improving Computer Vision Interpretability: Transparent Two-level Classification for Complex Scenes Treating images as data has become increasingly popular in political science. While existing classifiers for images reach high levels of accuracy, it is difficult to systematically assess the visual f...

New paper forthcoming in PA, w/ @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @zacharyst.bsky.social, @keremoglu.bsky.social and Bastian Goldlücke! We propose a method that makes image classification more transparent by identifying which objects on images are related to the outcome. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2407.03786

The limits of sportswashing. How the 2022 FIFA World Cup affected attitudes about Qatar Non-democratic regimes have increasingly been hosting major sports events to boost their visibility and image abroad, which sparked debates about the potential for “sportswashing”. Using the case of t...

How do European publics perceive autocratic hosts of sport events?

New study in PLOS ONE w/ Johannes Gerschewski,
@heikogiebler.bsky.social, Sebastian Hellmeier & Michael Zürn.

➡️ doi.org/10.1371/jour...

with @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, Alex Gamero-Garrido, Esteban Carisimo, Alberto Dainotti, Alex C. Snoeren

Mapping How Autocrats Retain Control Over Internet Infrastructure Study shows how authoritarian governments exert considerable control over infrastructure at home and abroad through gov…

Our study on autocrats' control over the Internet infrastructure is featured on Internet Society's Pulse Blog @internetsociety.bsky.social

pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/mapping...

Ich durfte mit dem Deutschlandfunk über unsere neue Studie zur Internet-Infrastruktur in Autokratien und Demokratien sprechen.

@unikonstanz.bsky.social

www.deutschlandfunk.de/autokratisch...

Check out our new comparative study on the Internet topology in democracies and autocracies, led by @keremoglu.bsky.social ! Final version of the article is now available at doi.org/10.1093/pnas....

We find that non-democratic state providers retain control at the transit level domestically and at the access level internationally in other autocracies.

How is the Internet infrastructure set up in autocracies and democracies?

New study at PNAS Nexus with @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, Alex Gamero-Garrido, Esteban Carisimo, Alberto Dainotti, Alex C. Snoeren.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

@profmusgrave.bsky.social Could you add me to the Polisky list, please? Thanks a lot!