Just arrived: MAKING A CAREER IN DICTATORSHIP.
Featuring original visualizations throughout, the book reconstructs an entire military organization using career data from 15k officers.
A deep dive into how the security apparatus in autocracies really works.
Excited to finally hold it in my hands.
How does an authoritarian leader build — and maintain — a fiercely loyal security force?
And how much of that playbook shows up in developments around the U.S. Department of Homeland Security?
We followed @donmoyn.bsky.social’s invitation and wrote a guest post - based on our new book 👇
Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...
Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?
Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:
tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
The @financialtimes.com calls Trump's Board of Peace "a fledgling club of autocrats".
A data-based view fully supports that:
What's happening in ICE also seems to go in the FBI.
The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇
🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!
Kein besserer Start in den Morgen als mit einem starken ZEIT-Artikel meines großartigen Hertie-Kollegen Christian Gläßel und @ascharpf.bsky.social: www.zeit.de/politik/ausl... (Freebie-Link)
Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social for featuring our work on the staffing of secret police organizations and how it is related to ICE.
Our forthcoming book delves deeper into the authoritarian security apparatus and examines who serves where and why:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Fantastic special issue - Thanks so much for putting it together @laiabalcells.bsky.social @apvjustino.bsky.social @andrearuggeri.bsky.social 💪
[full disclosure: our article is part of it as well]
I started the year with a great personal achievement.
After years in the making, our book manuscript is ready and under contract with Oxford University Press.
So stay tuned for deep insights into the security apparatus of dictatorships.
Small preview 👇
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
👉ERC Project DEMOLAW
🏦Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen
🤓Public Policy, Comp. Text Analysis, R/Python, #NLProc
⏰3+1 years
📆Deadline: 05/11/2024
🎓Postdoc: short.sg/j/49273108
🎓Predoc: short.sg/j/49278053
❗️Please share
Are you an expert in dealing with lobby registers, transparency laws, corporate registers and the like?
You want to understand how autocrats and their regimes influence foreign democracies?
We (@alexdukalskis.bsky.social) have some funds to hire someone for some work on a freelance basis. ⬇️
In a follow-up article in @thejop.bsky.social, we study how sportswashing works and what publicity/image effects autocracies achieve from hosting sports events
Case: 2022 ⚽ World Cup in Qatar
doi.org/10.1086/730728
Just learned that our APSR article on sports mega events in autocracies has won the Best Article Award by @apsa.bsky.social's Democracy & Autocracy section 🥳🍾
@pearceaedwards.bsky.social
🙏 to the committee: @annemeng.bsky.social Jean Hong, Lisa Mueller, Anibal Perez-Linan
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
@alexdukalskis.bsky.social and I had the pleasure talking to @cjcmichel.bsky.social about our new paper on dictators and their contracting of Western PR firms.
The exchange is part of the podcast series by the Human Rights Foundation.
Check it out!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
🚨 4-year postdoc position in computational social science at University of Zurich. Come work with me and @fgilardi.bsky.social at @ipz.bsky.social !
Application deadline is June 30. Job ad & details: ⬇️
www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
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✨ Call for papers ✨
Digital Democracy Workshop
University of Zurich, 24-25 October 2024
Submission deadline: 2 June 2024
Pls share widely!
democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/news/24-25-1...
Last week, Christian Gläßel and I kicked off our DFG-funded Anatomy of the Authoritarian Security Apparatus project w. a book workshop @hertiesecurity.bsky.social
Natasha Lindstaedt Erica Frantz @belengonzalez.bsky.social Kristen Harkness @smsaideman.bsky.social, @feiyonah.bsky.social Yuri Zhukov
Which dictatorships hire Public Relations (PR) firms, under what conditions, and with what effects?
Christian Gläßel, @alexdukalskis.bsky.social, and I offer first answers with data on 7k contracts between autocracies and US-based PR firms (1945–2022).
The new "Research Handbook on Authoritarianism" is now out! We (+ Christian Gläßel & @ascharpf.bsky.social ) contribute with a chapter on the competence-loyalty trade-off in the security apparatus of autocracies. 🧵👇
Super happy that our article on the conflict potential of illegal sand mining in Africa is now published online (and open access) with @EnvSecJournal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I'm hiring a postdoc!
> Aug 2024 - July 2027
> PhD completed or close to completion
> Interest in digital technology & politics
> Causal inference and/or computational social science
> Salary: CHF 81,400/yr
Pls help me spread the word!
jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
We are planning the first WhoGov Workshop to be held in Oslo on the 29-30th of August 2024. We welcome all research using WhoGov in some capacity and we have funding to cover travel expenses for participants.
Find the call for papers through the link or use the QR code: bit.ly/WhoGov_Workshop
New paper in the Journal of Peace Research with Tabea Palmtag and @tobirommel.bsky.social! 🥳
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We have been collecting a lot of data on evolving public opinion on international cooperation in the DISINTEGRATION project. Some of this data is now publicly available for download in the SWISSUbase repository. Check it out!
Very cool, congrats Adam! ✨💪
Congratulations! ✨ Very much looking forward to reading it 🙂
Congratulations Amelie! A great place and an absolutely brilliant team to be part of! 😊🎉
We are advertising a Pre-Doc/PhD position at Humboldt. You get a nice office in the heart of Berlin, free coffee, and a tremendous community of scholars working on cutting-edge social science. Your own project can be on whatever excites you! Deadline is Feb 21. Ad is below.
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Attention: Open call for a Ph.D. scholarship in my Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (we include all sub-fields). Excellent PhD Programme, great salary and it's in the middle of wonderful Copenhagen! Deadline for application: 25 February 2024. Start date: 1 September 2024
Henry A. Kissinger died last week.
Few people know that as an academic he used a soft power campaign to get foreign politicians, intellectuals, and cultural figures enthusiastic about the United States.
Who did Kissinger target with his soft power campaign?
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