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Anna Grzymala-Busse
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Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician.

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Anna Maria Grzymala-Busse is an American political scientist. She is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies in the department of political science at Stanford University. She is also a senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and director of The Europe Center at Stanford University. Grzymala-Busse is known for her research on state development and transformation, religion and politics, political parties, informal political institutions, and post-communist politics. Previously, she was the Ronald Eileen Weiser Professor at University of Michigan. .. more

Political science 73%
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
His hair is back to receding despite the transplant, but to compensate, he’s now sporting what looks like a modest B cup.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
Well, sigh, that thread is out of order, but I hope it's still useful!

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
The ideal time to have your workshop? Roughly when you are 75% done, so there's enough for the discussants tto sink their teeth into, but it's not entirely finished, so you can implement even big changes without feeling like you're destroying your masterpiece.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
And please feel free to ask questions! I organized, benefited from, and perpetrated many book workshops and would be glad to help.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
Don't make the workshop too long: 2.5 hours on Zoom is plenty, half a day in person also works (then you have the discussion about publishing, etc over lunch). Schedule a larger chunk for the theory at the outset, then smaller chunks for the individual chapters.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
Give each of the participants an assignment: one or two chapters that they are particularly well suited to discuss. You can have more than one discussant per chapter! Start off with theory and contributions, then the subsequent chapters.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
(These are most likely going to be blurbers for your book, *and* possibly tenure letter writers for junior scholars, so choose carefully: ask around for advice!)

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
Choose your discussants so they complement each other: a big ideas person, a methods person, someone with specific expertise, someone who can really speak to the topic.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
Book workshops are *fantastic.* Whether or not resources are an issue, the Zoom version (2-3 hours) works incredibly well and makes it much easier for participants to attend.

Other book workshop tips 🧵:
casmudde.bsky.social Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 3d
I wish more schools had money to organize book workshops. I have attended one today that was intellectually so stimulating. As any good book workshop, it will not only make the manuscript that was being discussed better, but it will make the future work of all the participants better.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 3d
I wish more schools had money to organize book workshops. I have attended one today that was intellectually so stimulating. As any good book workshop, it will not only make the manuscript that was being discussed better, but it will make the future work of all the participants better.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
Imagine for a second if Southern Democrats and a MAGA-style GOPE formed a coalition in the early 1960s to stifle any civil rights. That's the relevant counterfactual.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
It's not an argument about what the priorities of the Left should be: it's an empirical statement about why and how democracies survive, and how they erode.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
The Covid funds (€18B?) are still frozen, and there was another small tranche frozen last year, but the EU response has been pretty anemic for the 11 years of his rule (and counting.) The EU remains a huge source of revenue.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
That’s exactly it. Without a Conservative party committed to basic liberal democratic principles (individual rights, rule of law, losing elections, accepting opposition and criticism etc), you do not have a democracy.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
That’s a double edged sword: eg, EU funding has kept the Orban regime afloat (the withholding of some cohesion/ covid funds notwithstanding.)

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 3d
The big difference is that with PR, they are one party among many. If they are in power, it’s in a coalition (Sweden, Netherlands).

The disaster scenario is when they win the absolute majority and govern alone (Poland, Hungary, US)

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 4d
Mainwaring 1993 ftw, always and forever

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 5d
I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 5d
Oh, I think his victory *is* important, and it's very much a slap in the face of MAGA. My bigger point is that the margin of initial victory doesn't seem to predict subsequent success.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 5d
But yes, absolutely, the NYC mayoral election is pretty unique.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 5d
To me the lesson is that the winning candidates tailored their message to their constituencies. Mamdani could be a democratic socialist, Spanenberger was more moderate: both consistently advocated for affordability and against corruption.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 5d
He ran against a vastly unpopular misogynist murderous lifetime pol, and a NY stalwart who was a Republican token...

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 5d
More like 1935

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 5d
On the other hand, life in the European Soviet satellites has vastly improved: people are so much better off (richer, freer) by 1995 or in 2025 than they were in 1975.

(notable and horrific exceptions: FYR and Albania in the mid-1990s)
edburmila.bsky.social Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · 5d
If I offered you in a time machine and told you to pick living in the Soviet union in 1975, Russia in 1995, or Russia in 2025 and you aren’t sure which of those would give you the best standard of living you need to go read a book, any book.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 5d
Zohran Mamdani won with 50.4%.

Eric Adams won in 2021 with 67%.

Bill de Blasio won in 2017 with 66%
casmudde.bsky.social Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 5d
The far-right and its centrist enablers are grossly overestimating the resistance to a Mamdani-type candidate in the 2026 Midterms. Their Trump Stockholm Syndrome prevents them from seeing how unpopular he is. Most people will accept almost any alternative to the current GOP!

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Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · 5d
If I offered you in a time machine and told you to pick living in the Soviet union in 1975, Russia in 1995, or Russia in 2025 and you aren’t sure which of those would give you the best standard of living you need to go read a book, any book.

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Anna Grzymała-Busse

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 5d
The far-right and its centrist enablers are grossly overestimating the resistance to a Mamdani-type candidate in the 2026 Midterms. Their Trump Stockholm Syndrome prevents them from seeing how unpopular he is. Most people will accept almost any alternative to the current GOP!

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 15d
How did the interview go, sweetheart?
popovaprof.bsky.social Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 15d
I don't find it super convincing.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 15d
I don't find it super convincing.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 17d
Most likely, but at least it's harder to intimidate voters in the first place. You can post thugs at polling stations but not in front of everyone's mailbox.