Book Talk | Making a Career in Dictatorship | Zeppelin Universität The Secret Logic Behind Repression And Coups: Book Talk with Prof Dr Adam Scharpf, University of Copenhagen

📚 Book Talk am Bodensee

🗓 Do, 23.04.2026
🕖 19:15–20:45
📍 Zeppelin Universität

Für alle, die sich für Politik, Geschichte & Autokratien interessieren. Ich freue mich auf den Austausch!

Vielen Dank an @debremaria.bsky.social & @steffenhurka.bsky.social für die Einladung.

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Postdoctoral Researcher/Assistant Professor Position in Political Science as part of the ERC-funded Lobbying (A)symmetry Project The research project “Lobbying (A)symmetry: The Dynamics Behind Informed Policy” (LOBBYMETRY) led by Associate Professor Wiebke Marie Junk (Department of P

📣We are hiring! The LOBBYMETRY project invites applications for a 2-3 year PostDoc / Assistant Professor.

Focus: understanding informational lobbying and evidence selection in policymaking through participant observation.

Deadline: 26 May

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Three 2-year Postdoctoral positions at Aarhus University: Projects on personality cults and strategic communication in autocracies - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

@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!

Karrieredruck als Kriegsressource: Deshalb lässt Putin jetzt an Eliteuniversitäten Soldaten rekrutieren Wenn Studierenden die akademische Laufbahn verwehrt bleibt, wird ihnen die Armee als Ausweg verkauft und damit Gewalt belohnt. Doch das birgt Gefahren – auch für Russlands Führung.

Putins Regime rekrutiert jetzt sogar an Eliteuniversitäten!

Was dahinter steckt – und warum Karrieredruck eine wichtige Rolle spielt – erklären wir in unserem neuen Op-Ed im Tagesspiegel. 👇

Amazing! Thanks Federico.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our audiobook giveaway for Making a Career in Dictatorship!

The three winners have now been contacted - congratulations, and enjoy listening!

If you didn’t win this time, don’t worry: we’re planning more free giveaways in the near future. Stay tuned!

🎧 Audiobook Giveaway Lottery!

Dive into the secret logic behind repression & coups with our new audiobook:

"MAKING A CAREER IN DICTATORSHIP"

I’m giving away 3 FREE copies!

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2️⃣ Do it by Monday 12 PM (noon)

After that, I’ll randomly select 3 winners and send the audiobook links!

Argentina 1976–1983: mapa del terror y la memoria Recorrido desde la Casa Rosada, donde se anunció el inicio del autodenominado Proceso de Reorganización Nacional el 24 de marzo, hasta los tribunales en los que, ya en democracia, la Justicia argentin...

Today is the 50 year anniversary of the onset of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina.

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3-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Public Administration, particularly citizen-state interactions The Department of Political Science and Public Management invites applications for one 3-year postdoctoral researcher in relation to the CALi project (funded by DFF, titled “Navigating the System – Ci...

📢 We're hiring! | PostDoc Position (3 years) in CALi-project (Citizens' Administrative Literacy)

I'm looking for a PostDoc researcher to join my DFF-funded project on Administrative Literacy at the @pa-sdu.bsky.social

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Amazing! Big congrats to all of you.

Our new book, MAKING A CAREER IN DICTATORSHIP (Oxford University Press), is available in hardcover.

Oxford offers 30% off with the code at checkout for the hardcover 👇 Code: AUFLY30 (or simply get the much cheaper softcover)

Unlock the secrets of navigating authoritarian regimes!

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 👇

Herzliche Glückwünsche - zum Geburtstag und zum Grimme Preis! 🥳

Authoritarian Persuasion at Home and Abroad: The Partial Effectiveness of Foreign Influencers in Propaganda Work - Siyu Liang, Lachlan McNamee, 2026 How do authoritarian regimes make propaganda persuasive? This study evaluates the impact of foreign influencers in propaganda. Social media videos and state bro...

Foreign influencers help authoritarian regimes: while they may not sway domestic audiences already saturated with propaganda, they can reshape the perceptions of more credulous foreign publics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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.

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Sehr gerne!

Vielen Dank Jens. Das freut uns sehr! Bei Fragen stehen Christian und ich jederzeit gerne zur Verfügung.

Thank you so much, Sabine!

What do PhD students and ICE agents have in common? Career pressure People who are under pressure in their professional lives are willing to act brutally to climb the career ladder. And this can be exploited, new Copenhagen study shows.

Together with his colleague Christian Gläßel from Hertie School, @ascharpf.bsky.social #UCPH has set out to investigate what it is that has ordinary people committing atrocities: uniavisen.dk/en/what-do-p...

Thank you so much, Fiona – also for your excellent feedback in the book workshop!

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Thanks so much Anita! What a great time it was! 🤩

Thank you so much for your kind words, Rahel.

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Last but not least:

We are tremendously grateful for the feedback and support by friends, peers, and colleagues, including:

@feiyonah.bsky.social
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Invitation:

If you’re using the book in your teaching, please get in touch!

We'd be happy to present it to your students or answer questions during an online "Meet the Authors" session.

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The book has been years in the making. We actually started working on it back in grad school.

With all the news about eroding democracies and growing autocracies around the globe, we hope it helps protect societies and human rights today and in the future.