@au.dk is hiring 3 postdocs (2 yrs) on personality cults & strategic communication in autocracies, led by Jakob Tolstrup & Alexander Baturo. They're looking for profiles with text-as-data, survey experiments and/or Chinese politics experience. Start fall 2026. Looks like a great opportunity!
Helpful thread on friction between 🇰🇷 and 🇮🇱
Really interesting thread on international election observers ahead of Hungary’s election.
Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026.
international.au.dk/about/profil...
2nd: Muhoozi is less popular than Museveni across the country, including in the ruling family’s home western region.
In short, the ruling NRM has its work cut out if Muhoozi is his father’s anointed successor.
Hopefully the first of several articles from Rebecca and me on succession in Uganda.
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A few key takeaways:
1st: our data provide evidence of the widely held belief that Muhoozi is far less popular than his father.
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Museveni won a seventh presidential election in Jan 2026, but he’s 81 and there’s lots of evidence that he’s grooming Muhoozi - famous for Tweets that proposed, among other things, invading Kenya - to succeed him.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🚨 new article alert 🚨
@rtapscott.bsky.social and I have a new article @africanaffairs.bsky.social that provides new descriptive data about the popularity of Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Museveni’s son and likely preferred successor.
academic.oup.com/afraf/advanc...
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Two weeks left to apply!
JZ and Jang Song Thaek-inspired
My book - “Purges” - has a release date (August 15) and a front cover. I started work on this as my PhD dissertation at the end of 2017 - excited for it to finally be coming out!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Two map graphs show the state of liberal democracy according to the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index for 2025 and 2024. The higher the score (or darker blue), the more democratic the country. Lower scores (or dark red) mean less democratic. While North and South America, Western Europe and Oceania are mostly in the blue, most parts of Asia and Africa are in the red in 2025. In comparison to the map for 2024, the map graph for 2025 shows democratic backsliding in some traditionally stable democracies in Western Europe and North America, in particular the USA, United Kingdom and Italy.
📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026
💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d...
📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications...
📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra...
#PoliSky #PoliSciSky
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Consider applying to join Nuffield College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford as an associate professor in IR. This excellent post is for a non-tutorial fellowship (very little undergrad teaching). Please feel free to reach out with any questions.
lnkd.in/eR6qBDNb.
Congratulations! Very exciting to hear!!
Interviewed today on ABC about the ROK intelligence assessment that Kim Ju Ae is being designated as successor.
My takeaway: nothing has changed; Kim Jong Un hasn’t done anything new. ROK intelligence has just increased the confidence of their assessment that Kim Ju Ae will succeed Kim Jong Un.
🔎 Check this article
‘Blame Shifting in Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey’ by Edward Goldring, Jonas Willibald Schmid and Fulya Apaydin (IBEI).
Read here 👉 t.ly/8uHxg
@cambridge.org
@poppublicsphere.bsky.social
Page proofs for my first solo publication🎉
We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds!
You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/
It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below.
The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.
We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites!
It will be held on August 20-21st, 2026 in Oslo. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood and not just papers using WhoGov.
You can find the call here: bit.ly/whogovminico...
If you are thinking about pursuing a political science PhD and are interested in authoritarian politics, broadly understood, consider applying for this funded opportunity:
Great interview. Well worth reading. One of my favourite sections below:
I’m puppy sitting this week. She prefers a ball but Philip Pullman is also acceptable.
My School is hiring fixed term and ongoing lecturers in public policy. I have nothing to do with hiring but love working in Melbourne and happy to answer any Qs about working and living here.
Fixed:
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/mCevCL7rxD...
Ongoing:
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/nzQ8CMwvyg...
Good thread 👇
Are you a bachelor or master's student interested in authoritarian politics? @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social is recruiting an intern to work on authoritarian political parties and with the APSG team in-person at the University of Gothenburg. Email your application by Nov 28 to fabio.angiolillo@gu.se
We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI.
We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!
Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Our latest @apsgworkshop.bsky.social call for papers is out 🥳
Apply and share with your PhD, postdoc, assistant professor colleagues that might be interested!
Here is the link to submit your abstract: forms.gle/NTxcY7Ye2JKe...
Deadline is 9 November
And if you want to learn more about how people make a career in dictatorship, pre-order the authors' (Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social) new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship":
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
No apologies necessary!
It’s an excellent book - check it out and go get yourself a copy.
With no apologies for the shameless self promotion, thanks to @alexdukalskis.bsky.social for his review of mine and @pward89.bsky.social’s book on succession in personalist autocracies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Grateful for the review; he does a great job of summarizing our arguments.