Authoritarian Politics
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@apsgworkshop.bsky.social
@svshen.bsky.social
political scientist + environmental engineer @ Stanford Doerr | author @ Cambridge UP - Political Regulation Wave, Compliance with Policy | http://svshen.com
@danieljschulte.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer, Political Science Department, University College London Researching morality politics, authoritarianism, women’s rights, backsliding, methods; Turkey, Russia, Poland. Website: https://danieljschulte.com/
@semuhi.bsky.social
@idos-research.bsky.social Ph.D., University of Toronto. German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial Fellow I study autocracy, repression, and polarization. Previously, forecasting work at Maidan Analytics. https://semuhi.github.io
@adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social
Protest & contentious politics. Autocracy, populism. Geopolitics, critical raw materials, extractive industries. Knowledge production, Central Asia asel.doolotkeldieva@gmail.com
@isaliba.bsky.social
Research, Advice & Teaching on Human Rights | Democracy | Authoritarianism | Academic Freedom | Fieldwork | Shrinking Space Associate: GPPi, CARPO & Hertie School B4: Amnesty, Bundestag, WZB, CSS 👨🏾🎓Humboldt Uni | ETH Zürich | Uni Hamburg www.ilyassaliba.com
@heissenstat.bsky.social
Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University. Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS) Middle East History and Politics Very unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
@ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social
Marie Curie Fellow @ShefUniPolitics- #criminology and #sociology scholar- critical studies on men and masculinities, gendered violence, anti-gender movements, psychosocial studies, migration studies, LGBTQ studies, gender sensitive design and research
@jannisgrimm.bsky.social
Repression/resistance/(non)violence • Director of Research Unit Radical Spaces @interactfu.bsky.social • pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will • https://www.jannisgrimm.com/
@tzyang.bsky.social
Incoming Asst Prof @Emory, PPRF @Nuffield @Oxford, PhD @WashU. Censorship, Propaganda, Public Opinion in Autocracies. LGBTQ 🏳️🌈 politics. tonyziruiyang.org
@donnachadcu.bsky.social
Professor of Politics, Dublin City University (DCU) Ukraine | Russian imperialism | South Caucasus | Central Asia | Belarus | Moldova | unrecognised states | Irish history, politics and foreign policy
@aarslew.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @AarhusUni. Researching how public opinion dynamics sustain regimes or facilitate regime change. Comparative politics | Political behavior | Authoritarianism | Democracy https://www.lauritsaarslew.com
@hyyppati.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher Univ Helsinki, civil wars, civilian agency, rebel governance, political violence, Syria. Member of board of NSMES and editorial board of Babylon.
@thomaskupka.bsky.social
Posts [🇬🇧🇩🇪] about: + #Philosophy of #Science + Political & Legal Theory + Welfare #Economics + Financial #Markets + #ClimateJustice Trying to learn Norwegian | #Norge 🇳🇴 No *Likes* — if I find sth interesting, I respond directly | http://www.thomaskupka.de
@kkrakows.bsky.social
Political scientist at DPE, King’s College London, studying conflicts: https://krzyskrakowski.github.io/
@elinbja.bsky.social
Professor at Uppsala University. Member of UPPGAP. Director of FIIN. Studies gender and masculinities in politics, authoritarianism, violence, corruption.
@gissounia.bsky.social
Lawyer specialized in international criminal and human rights law. Founder & director of @slpjustice.bsky.social.
@elifsarigenc.bsky.social
Adj. Asst. Professor @portlandstate-Studies Elections, Parties, Identities, Polarization & Women's Representation in Turkey & MENA. Femicide is political.
@ammars.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Politics & IR at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies - MENA politics, political economy and repression/violence
@inesromaoduarte.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Political Science at EUI | Institutional Quality, Democratic Erosion, Political Economy | I'm also a full-time mum
@donaldk.bsky.social
Interest in Cross-Strait Relations. Critics and Reviews of all things Economics, Culture, Politics, and Chinese.
@oonuch.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative & Ukrainian Pols UoM Democracy in wartime, GeoPols EU DisInfo Vote Protest Identity Polls 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇦🇷🇪🇺 📚Zelensky Effect 📚Mapping Mass Mobilization Visit. Prof College D’Europe Prev Oxford Nuffield/St Antonys; Harvard; UofT
@tarasenkogeorgy.bsky.social
PhDing in Government @ Cornell Fellow @ Center on Global Democracy / Doing Behavioral & Computational Political Economy while enjoying Political Theory and Intellectual History/ HSE University & Leiden University alum 🏳️🌈 #ArmUkraineNow georgytarasenko.com
@bogatyrev.bsky.social
- completing my PhD at Bocconi University, soon joining LSE as postdoc - working on political behavior and accountability for illiberals & authoritarians + quant methods - 🏳️🌈 he/they https://sites.google.com/view/konstantin-bogatyrev/
@kaimthaler.bsky.social
Global Studies prof at UC Santa Barbara, views own. Proud Mainer. Conflict, violence, statebuilding, protest, democracy & authoritarianism. COYS. kaithaler.com
@inalkristiansen.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ University of Oslo - MPhil in Peace and Conflict Studies - Interested in political elites in autocratic regimes
@evandermaat.bsky.social
Tenured scholar of genocide, authoritarian politics, and elite rivalry at Leiden University. Argue that mass killing is driven by elite rivalry in authoritarian regimes. Dad to two terrible little dictators. Husband and co-conspirator.
@janeesberg.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at UPenn. Authoritarianism and conflict, esp in Latin America. Aspiring cat lady. http://janeesberg.com
@daveasiegel.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. Associate Editor (Formal Theory) of the AJPS. daveasiegel.com
@mthompsonbrusstar.com
now: postdoc, UC San Diego 21CCC soon: assist. prof. of political science, Trinity College, CT always: bureaucracy, China, history, text
@davidstroup.bsky.social
Sr. Lecturer of Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester. Researching the everyday politics of ethnicity under authoritarianism and Islamophobia in the PRC.
@royatalibova.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, studying political violence, historical political economy, and political economy of conflict & development. royatalibova.com
@dianakudaibergen.bsky.social
Political Sociologist, Decolonial Writer, Central Asian to the core. Lecturing at @UCLSSEES. Most of the times you can find me writing or rummaging around the steppe, deserts and valleys. Fellow at Homerton College, previously at Cambridge Sociology
@christiangoebel.bsky.social
Prof of China Studies, Uni Vienna. Political scientist working on state-society relations, protest, government responsiveness in China. Data hoarder, computational methods.
@matthewcebul.bsky.social
Political scientist studying civil resistance, democratic erosion, and US foreign policy in the Middle East. Lead Research Fellow at HKS Nonviolent Action Lab; formerly US Institute of Peace. Lives for Korra the cat, epic fantasy, and "draw a card."
@mtthboisdron.bsky.social
🇫🇷🇪🇺🇭🇺🇷🇴 Docteur en histoire (Sorbonne Université) | XXe s. | Histoire politique | Histoire des relations internationales | Histoire de l’Europe médiane | 📚➡️ https://cv.hal.science/matthieu-boisdron
@isadeli.bsky.social
Researcher, Policy Advisor | United States Foreign Affairs and the Middle East | Security and Defense Policy | PhD in International Relations | usinmena.substack.com
@rudyakmarina.bsky.social
China scholar @UniHeidelberg | Decoding (Global) China & CCP, #ChineseAid, 🇨🇳-🇷🇺& 🇨🇳-Central Asia relations | ex aid-worker | 🌹 www.decodingchina.eu www.deconspirator.eu
@askanweidemann.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher @GIGA Hamburg, PhD candidate @Goethe University Frankfurt, into Chinese politics, digital governance, political participation
@bamiller.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, The London School of Economics. I specialize in Chinese politics, authoritarian politics, and computational social science methods. (they/them) http://blakeapm.com
@mariellew.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Internet Governance at Maastricht University | Internet censorship | Platform governance | Russian politics & political communication
@mariajo121.bsky.social
Political Scientist @GIGA Hamburg working on authoritarianism, repression and legitimation, mainly in Middle East & North Africa MECAM Publication Manager She/her No Covid. Mom. Cyclist. For future
@edwardschatz.bsky.social
Central Asianist, Political Scientist, University of Toronto Posting mostly about politics and society in Central Asia.
@azadehakbari.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. Digital Transformation, University of Twente 🇮🇷🇩🇪 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow for the project authoritarian smart cities www.Azadeh-Akbari.com Co-Director @Survstudiesnet.bsky.social Founder @surveillancemw.bsky.social *personal account*
@jeremywallace.bsky.social
China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
@efinkel.bsky.social
Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Historian of WWIII. Study horrible things that happen to good people, write books, despair. Lviv-Haifa-Jerusalem-Madison-New Haven-Washington-Bologna. Intent to Destroy is out: https://tinyurl.com/ybfn7
@sgehlbach.bsky.social
University of Chicago, Political Science and Harris School. Director, PhD Program in Political Economy. Autocracy/Eurasia/HPE. Broadstreet blogger. Cards fan but o/w Chicago patriot. 🇺🇦
@jpaulgoode.bsky.social
Russia, Eurasia, nationalism, propaganda, autocracy Editor of Communist and Post-Communist Studies (@cpcs.bsky.social) Co-lead of East European & Transatlantic Network (@eetn.bsky.social) McMillan Chair of Russian Studies, EURUS, Carleton University
@danaelkurd.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Profile by Molly Crabapple • Header my grandfather's publications danaelkurd.com to contact
@colejharvey.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science; PhD UNC-CH; election manipulation, authoritarianism, former USSR region https://www.colejharvey.com
@arifekose.bsky.social
PhD researcher at University of East Anglia - UK. Interested in the political theory of authoritarianism and rhetoric. I analyse authoritarianism through political speeches - currently analysing Erdogan's (president of Turkey) speeches. Loves movies 🎬
@ktai.bsky.social
Probably somewhere in an archive near berlin. phd-ing @ MIT Political Science on Chinese politics, technology policy, bureaucracy & GDR computing. Also at mstdn.social/@ktai
@biffpm.bsky.social
postdoc @ Harvard Weatherhead 24-25 & asst prof @ Yale 25-. Networks, contentious politics, MENA. Peripatetic product of the garden state. https://biffpm.github.io/
@lmorgenbesser.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Griffith University | Fellow, Australian Research Council | Authoritarian politics, democratization, dictators, election observation, Southeast Asian politics.
@argohdes.bsky.social
Studying repression, the internet, and contentious politics. Professor @thehertieschool. Consultant @hrdag. she/her. Wrote a book on repression in the digital age: https://www.anitagohdes.net/book.html
@andrejkokkonen.bsky.social
Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. Interested in historical political economy and political behavior.
@danieltavana.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Penn State. I work on elections, identity, and political behavior in the Middle East and North Africa. danieltavana.com
@felixhaass.bsky.social
Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics @ Humboldt University | political violence & democracy | the inner workings of dictatorships https://felixhaass.de/
@annemeng.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Politics at UVA. Author of Constraining Dictatorship. Authoritarian Politics & Democratic Erosion. http://www.annemeng.com/
@edebruin.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Hamilton College. Studying civil-military relations, civil war, policing. Author of HOW TO PREVENT COUPS (Cornell UP). www.ericadebruin.com.
@annagbusse.bsky.social
Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician.
@beattyriedl.bsky.social
Professor @ Cornell University, Director Center on Global Democracy. Teach/research Democracy & Authoritarianism, African politics. Host, Ufahamu Africa podcast
@rgolar23.bsky.social
Political scientist @ Dublin City University | avid martial artist | amateur chef Website: rgolar.weebly.com
@thaliagerzso.bsky.social
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at @uoypolitics.bsky.social I study African politics, democracy, and political institutions (mainly courts and legislatures) www.thaliagerzso.com
@torewig.bsky.social
Political Science Professor at University of Oslo. Working on political violence, war, democracy and autocracy. Visiting 24-25 Nuffield College & DPIR Oxford University.
@adridelrio.bsky.social
MSCA Postdoctoral fellow. University of Oslo. Research on elite politics, dictatorships, democratization, and education. Website: www.adelrio.com
@plutscher.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher @UniOslo & non-resident fellow @DigDemLab: technology, autocracies, contentious politics and quantitative methods (he/him; FirstGen); https://philipplutscher.net/
@maxgroemping.bsky.social
Political Scientist at @griffithuniversity.bsky.social, Brisbane / Assoc. Editor @democratization.bsky.social/. Interest groups, authoritarian politics, disinformation, electoral integrity, trust.
@elvinongpolsci.bsky.social
Political scientist at the National University of Singapore. Currently, Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Yale. I study democratization and opposition parties in autocratic regimes. Mostly East and Southeast Asia. Especially Malaysia and Singapore.
@lucanway.bsky.social
Polisci Prof U Toronto. Study democracy/dictatorship & Ukraine. Books: Revolution & Dictatorship (PUP 2022); Pluralism by Default (JHUP 2015); Competitive Authoritarianism (CUP 2010)
@jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social
Political Scientist. Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Royal Holloway. Researching autocracies and quantitative methods. https://janinabeiser.weebly.com
@ascharpf.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen Researching dictatorships and the dark side of politics | https://www.adamscharpf.net/
@alexdukalskis.bsky.social
Research & teach on authoritarian states and human rights @ucdpolitics.bsky.social Publications: https://tinyurl.com/bdfcnf8u Associate Editor @cpcs.bsky.social & Academic Freedom Officer @psaireland.bsky.social
@aykutozturk.bsky.social
Political scientist at the University of Glasgow. Studies comparative political behavior, democracy and authoritarianism, Turkish politics, online survey methods. https://aozturk.net
@palinakolvani.bsky.social
PhD fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
@jacobnyrup.bsky.social
I (try to) advance knowledge on the politics of dictatorships, political elites, comparative politics, and 💵🏠 as Associate Professor at University of Oslo. I also collect loads of data on governments.
@chknutsen.bsky.social
Political science professor, University of Oslo; Research group leader, CIR group; Researcher, PRIO; co-PI, V-Dem
@onglynette.bsky.social
http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
@hanslueders.bsky.social
Hoover Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University | Researching migration, representation, authoritarianism | Writing a book about the political consequences of internal migration in rich democracies https://www.hanslueders.com
@salahbhpolisci.bsky.social
Postdoc for the Baker Institute of Public Policy at Rice University. Former USIP Peace Scholar. Ph.D. from University of Central Florida. Military coups, democratization, & authoritarian politics. Admin of "Dictatorsky" feed www.salahbenhammou.com
@yuhuawang.bsky.social
Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies @ Harvard Government Department | HPE & Chinese Politics
@hhuang.bsky.social
Information, opinion, and equilibrium. hhuang.org. “as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded.”
@vicshih.bsky.social
Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
@xiaobolu.bsky.social
Comparative Political economy, Authoritarian Parties, Chinese Politics Associate Professor of Government, UT-Austin. Very infrequent social media user.
@howardhliu.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at @UofSC | Repression | Violence | Authoritarian Politics | Network analysis | Conflict
@rachaelmclellan.bsky.social
Opposition and local politics in autocracies. Dundonian in exile on the West Coast (of Scotland).
@adamwt.bsky.social
PhDing in Political Science at UCSD. Once journalist. Authoritarianism | China | bureaucracy | diplomacy | text analysis | mixed methods A feed for Chinese politics & policy: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:doce3n3wwji3qtenc7ktcu5r/feed/aaacdrgczzosm
@austinsmatthews.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, East Carolina University. Dictatorships, regime change, and political violence.
@edwardgoldring.bsky.social
Lecturer at University of Melbourne. Comparative authoritarianism, elite politics, and North Korea. A political science account with some sport 🟡🟢
@scottrw630.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism, migration, and the Middle East. https://www.scott-williamson.com
@osamet.bsky.social
Opposition parties, authoritarianism, and democratization in Southeast Asia and beyond. PhD candidate @ UC Berkeley orensamet.com
@dnsltr.bsky.social
James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for Emerging Democracies @ University of Michigan (@umichDemocracy). SE Asia, authoritarianism, democracy, history. Personal heroes include Thomas Mann, Michael Mann, & Aimee Mann.
@tompepinsky.com
Teacher, researcher, globalist, republican. Banned from Russia, because dictators fear the truth. Currently clean on OPSEC. tompepinsky.com
@darinself.com
Assistant Professor of Political Science -- My work is on democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties. Unsure of what to post on BlueSky when its cloudy outside.
@realmps.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ the Hertie School | Authoritarianism, the Internet, and Civil War | Sports and Cats