Erica Chenoweth

chenoweth.bsky.social

21 October 2026 22:45

In a new paper with @matthewcebul.bsky.social, Jonathan Pinckney, and Zoe Marks, we ask how the public assesses whether a protest movement is peaceful or not, whether a movement is legitimate, and whether a movement is likely to succeed. 1/

S. Erdem Aytaç

seaytac.bsky.social

21 October 2026 08:36

🚨🚨 Publication day! Very happy to see this piece finally in print! I show that partisan elite discourse can shape citizens' understandings of democracy. Link to the paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1RP8V...

Jasmin Rath

jasminrath.bsky.social

19 October 2026 13:08

📝 New paper in Party Politics (open access) with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @janberz.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social @sarahwagner.bsky.social 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... When a mainstream party accommodates the radical right, do its potential coalition partners pay too? 🧵

VoxEU @ CEPR

voxeu.org

18 October 2026 19:27

Michael Callen et al. use AI to analyse 120 years of newspaper coverage and produce an index of uncertainty about a country's core institutions. They find that nearly every major shift in a country's democracy score happened when this index was high. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Jake Grumbach

jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

16 October 2026 20:33

This David Bateman article on "democracy-reinforcing hardball" came out in Comparative Political Studies but here it is ungated (it's important) www.davidalexbateman.net/uploads/1/1/...