Carl Henrik Knutsen

@chknutsen.bsky.social

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Political science professor, University of Oslo; Research group leader, CIR group; Researcher, PRIO; co-PI, V-Dem

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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 4d

New publication!
Collecting data is key for social science. @adridelrio.bsky.social, Woseeok Kim, @chknutsen.bsky.social, @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, Agustina S. Paglayan & @eugenian.bsky.social suggest how to enhance transparency and replicability based on education datasets
tinyurl.com/yskszsdt

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9d

“.. for most Trump investors, the year has been brutal. But .. for the President and his family, the money-making shows no sign of slowing.”

@newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · 11d

New explainer from me, on understanding ICE as a paramilitary force, in more than one sense of the term 👇
theconversation.com/ice-not-only...

ICE not only looks and acts like a paramilitary force – it is one, and that makes it harder to curb

ICE, created in response to 9/11, meets most definitions of paramilitary forces. Critics worry it’s gone beyond its writ of immigration enforcement.

theconversation.com

Reposted by Carl Henrik Knutsen, S. Laurel Weldon

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 12d

Trump's relentless bullying of Ukraine presented as a "peace process" is making us sound like broken records. Like, how many times do we have to say that asking Ukraine to withdraw from its most fortified region in exchange for another useless Budapest memorandum offer is a dumb proposition?

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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 13d

🥉“Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic Backsliding”.
Working Paper 140 from 2023 is the third most viewed (4,080 times). v-dem.net/media/public...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 13d

📢 New article
👥 Carl Henrik Knutsen (ISV), Sirianne Dahlum (ISV), Magnus Bergli Rasmussen & Tore Wig (ISV)
👉 Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival
📗 Open Access in Comparative Political Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival, 1789–2020 - Carl Henrik Knutsen, Sirianne Dahlum, Magnus Bergli Rasmussen, Tore Wig, 2025

All political regimes rely on coalitions of supporters to govern and remain in power. We discuss, specify, and test arguments pertaining to how the numerical si...

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Reposted by Steve Peers, Andrew Watt, Carl Henrik Knutsen , and 11 more Steve Peers, Andrew Watt, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Antje Wiener, Stefan Müller, Catherine E. De Vries, Kurt Vandaele, Michelle Everson, Ben Worthy, Werner Krause, Bjørn Høyland, Nicolai von Ondarza, Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos, Roman Senninger

Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 14d

NEW PAPER ALERT! My paper, with @bjornhoyland.bsky.social , on how “policy loss” shapes support for the EU has just been published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Check it out!
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Reposted by Carl Henrik Knutsen, Mark J. Brandt, Victor Asal , and 2 more Carl Henrik Knutsen, Mark J. Brandt, Victor Asal, Nazita Lajevardi, Jens Rydgren

Ashok Swain @ashoswai.bsky.social · 14d

We are hiring a Professor!
The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, the world’s leading research environments in the field, is now recruiting a Professor. We welcome applications from internationally recognized scholars. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Professor of Peace and Conflict Research

Uppsala University announces a vacancy for a permanent position as Professor of Peace and Conflict Research At the Department of Peace and Conflict Research The Department is one of the

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14d

Spoke to folks in Kharkiv and Kyiv - people are freezing to death while being bombed daily for hours. It’s a humanitarian crisis. Tweets of “how incredibly strong Ukrainians are” and “prayers” aren’t enough. They need help. Now.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Ian Hussey , and 1 more Richard S.J. Tol, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Ian Hussey, Andreas Steinmayr

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 14d

Even in the AI era, learning to quickly "read" an academic article is an essential skill.

When I started grad school, I thought I had to read every word, in order, for every article I "read".

I don’t do that anymore.

Here’s how I "read" most academic articles:

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 15d

So America is on edge, angry and reaching a boiling post--and this is President Trump's latest tweet.

Serious Nero fiddling while Rome is burning vibes...

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 15d

Who cares and has ever cared about the location of a book publisher? How much time have researchers wasted on figuring out this information?

Reposted by Carl Henrik Knutsen, Erica Chenoweth, Janet Murray , and 4 more Carl Henrik Knutsen, Erica Chenoweth, Janet Murray, Tom van der Meer, Claire L. Adida, Klaus Oschema, Magda Teter

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15d

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15d

Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Nandita Sharma, Will Jennings , and 11 more Ben H. Ansell, Nandita Sharma, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Rosemary A. Joyce, Anders Nilsson, Robert C. Richards, Miranda J. Lubbers, Alessandro Rigolon, Noah L. Nathan, Richard M. Carpiano, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Peter Jacobs

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15d

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 15d

I still remember vividly reading this NYT headline in October 2024, sitting in a coffee shop in Boston, a fortnight before the presidential election

#Minneapolis

Reposted by Carl Henrik Knutsen, Tom van der Meer, Johanna Laakso , and 2 more Carl Henrik Knutsen, Tom van der Meer, Johanna Laakso, Mary James, Michael Gentile

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15d

Ultimately you're not supposed to believe it. It not mattering is the point. The bolder the lie, the greater the impunity. The ultimate victory for evil is not convincing you, it's the truth being irrelevant.

Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 15d

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 16d

We updated the dashboard so it now runs on Internet Explorer as well. If you are interested in seeing where Cuban members of government are born (or most other countries for that sake) now is your chance:

ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/

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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 17d

📊 New paper out in Democratization!
How do autocrats actually stay in power?

👉 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Co-authored with Wooseok Kim, @eugenian.bsky.social , Ksenia Northmore-Ball, and @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social.

Strategies of political control and regime survival in autocracies

How do autocrats establish political control? Understanding the strategies autocrats use to generate mass compliance and elite loyalty remains a central question in comparative politics. Despite su...

www.tandfonline.com

Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 17d

Gratulerer så mye, Kristian!

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 18d

All countries on the Board of Peace are ruled by men and their median age is 66.

Reposted by Carl Henrik Knutsen, Daniel W. Drezner

Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 18d

The New Trumpian Anarchy, where you bully allies abroad while you send your militia to kidnap 5-year-olds at home.

@dandrezner.bsky.social @foreignaffairs.com

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Reposted by Carl Henrik Knutsen, Ameet Sarpatwari, Trevon D. Logan , and 3 more Carl Henrik Knutsen, Ameet Sarpatwari, Trevon D. Logan, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller, Timothy D. McBride

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18d

Everyone in America should have to see these cases and think about what they mean for the kind of society we are becoming. They killed a mom in her minivan. And now they have grabbed this poor sweet kid, used him as bait to grab his dad, and sent him to a detention center in Texas.

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 18d

How do different forms of state capacity protect democracy? D Andersen, @chknutsen.bsky.social & @skaaning.bsky.social argue coercive & administrative capacity affect stability in distinct ways depending on threat: buff.ly/6lpO8S3

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 18d

US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties

SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · 18d

Trump’s Board of Peace has now officially been recognized as an international organization, according to the White House.

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 18d

I can't decide whether Trump's Bored of Peace is:

a) A joke.

b) A global coalition of Bond villains and an existential threat to peace and democracy everywhere.

c) A global grift operation of hitherto unseen scale.

d) All of the above.

Reposted by Carl Henrik Knutsen, Nicolai von Ondarza

Jana Puglierin @jpuglierin.bsky.social · 18d

I keep returning to one passage from Trump’s Davos speech. “You need ownership to defend something,” he said. “You can’t defend it on a lease. Who the hell wants to defend a licence agreement, or a lease?”
Taken seriously, this logic is devastating. 1/4

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18d

Happening right in front of us. Talking about canceling elections.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump: "Sometimes you need a dictator."

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 21d

Do fiscal deficits threaten finance ministers’ survival equally across regimes? Jonas Willibald Schmid & Lasse Aaskoven argue deficits raise removal risks in democracies but not autocracies. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/ZPhKNKm

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky