Scott Gehlbach

@sgehlbach.bsky.social

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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. 🇺🇦

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Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 12h

Really looking forward to the first annual Workshop on Organizational and Political Economics in Chicago (OPEC!) this coming Saturday.

@luozhaotian.bsky.social has done fabulous work pulling this together.

1st Workshop on Organizational and Political Economics in Chicago | Becker Friedman Institute

bfi.uchicago.edu

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 6d

Hyde Parkers, our alderman, Desmon Yancy, is holding a town hall this evening at MSI. Let your voice be heard!

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 6d

When my father was alive, he used to bring surplus food to a pantry in my hometown. I just spoke with folks there—they have a huge line today, and it’s going to get worse. If you typically make end-of-year charitable donations, this might be a good year to move up a gift. I am sending mine now.

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 9d

Film History!

Project MUSE - Film History: An International Journal

muse.jhu.edu

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 11d

Am I dreaming?

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 11d

This is cool.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17d

This is located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, close to Fullerton and Sheffield. It's a densely populated area near DePaul University. I'm pleased to see the community standing up against these despicable individuals.

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 18d

If this be the price to bring down the king, so be it. But I, like many, am furious. Why, I wonder? Because I, like many, visited the White House with family and with fellow high-schoolers. I internalized the message that the White House is our house and that the president is just a guest.

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 18d

Andrassy is the best street I have ever walked. Built for a promenade, made for a protest.

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 18d

This is a very, very big protest. Heroes Square alone is really big. Orban is really in trouble

Joost @almodozo.bsky.social · 18d

Today, Hungarians protest again. And a traveler captured an image of the crowd, snaking up Andrassy Boulevard to Heroes Square, from their RyanAir flight. Who needs drones?

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 18d

This is a very, very big protest. Heroes Square alone is really big. Orban is really in trouble

Joost @almodozo.bsky.social · 18d

Today, Hungarians protest again. And a traveler captured an image of the crowd, snaking up Andrassy Boulevard to Heroes Square, from their RyanAir flight. Who needs drones?

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 22d

Total elapsed time from “I feel like I’m 25 again!” to “I’m not 25 anymore.” #TornCalfMuscle

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 23d

Loving Chicago—and America.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 24d

can't wait for the next Putin-Trump summit, Hungary is a historic place to settle Ukrainian security issues

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 28d

Among the people pictured here, as of today, only @ethanbdm.bsky.social is not wanted on criminal charges in Russia. Ethan, there is still time!

Sergei has always been on the right side of history. The FSB is just catching up.

www.fsb.ru/fsb/press/me...

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 29d

Let the information cascade.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29d

Find a rally. Show up.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · Oct 12

Next Saturday's anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest is expected to be the largest single demonstration in U.S. history.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29d

Find a rally. Show up.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · Oct 12

Next Saturday's anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest is expected to be the largest single demonstration in U.S. history.

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · Oct 9

Paper here.

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · Oct 9

Personalist autocracy is bad for growth. My WP with @chrisblattman.bsky.social and Arthur Yu featured in the @economist.com.

The new age of the African Big Man

Ageing autocrats are not a relic of a bygone age. They are a template for the future

economist.com

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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · Oct 6

To keep the lights on under fire, Ukraine has built secret battery parks across the country.

Their locations remain classified — hidden from Russian missiles, but crucial in surviving blackouts during massive attacks.

www.kyivpost.com/post/61515

Ukraine Builds Secret Battery Network to Keep Power On During Russian Attacks

The batteries serve as backup power, automatically kicking in if a power plant goes offline, helping prevent blackouts and giving engineers time to restore the main grid.

www.kyivpost.com

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · Oct 5

Oct 18, people.

Indivisible Lincoln Square @indivisiblels.bsky.social · Oct 4

Governor Pritzker says the President is sending 300 National Guard troops to Chicago.

🤝Chicago will find the strength to fight back and defeat the Trump regime.

Please read the statement from the Hands Off Chicago Coalition.
And make sure to join us October 18 to say "Hands Off Chicago!"

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Indivisible Lincoln Square @indivisiblels.bsky.social · Oct 4

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · Oct 4

Paul, why? Asking for a non-linked-in friend.

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · Oct 4

My father-in-law Evgeny Belodubrovsky died Thursday. Once described in the NYT as an “ebullient lover of Russian history and literature,” he was a survivor of the siege of Leningrad and a patriot of St. Petersburg, his true hometown. He was a collector of stories, an organizer, a writer, a father…💙

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Volha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social · Sep 29

Why did Southern whites who didn’t own slaves defend slavery, an institution that hurt their own economic prospects?
In a new Broadstreet post, Michele Rosenberg explains how planter elites relied on clientelistic relationships to capture political support: www.broadstreet.blog/publish/post...

www.broadstreet.blog

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · Sep 28

If you want to read a good book with Klein and Coates as characters:

Political Competition: Theory and Applications | Department of Political Science

In this book, John Roemer presents a unified and rigorous theory of political competition between parties. He models the theory under many specifications, including whether parties are policy oriented...

politicalscience.yale.edu

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · Sep 27

I believe this is the moment that President-Elect Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and @ksonin.bsky.social compared the length of their prison sentences imposed in absentia.

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · Sep 27

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · Sep 25

Southwest flight attendant: If you have a connection here in Chicago, just skip it. Go downtown instead. There is so much to do, so many places to eat. You will be less happy anywhere else.

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · Sep 22

Searching in HPE or related fields? Check out these great students/postdocs on the market!

HPE candidates on the job market

Job market season is here.

www.broadstreet.blog

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · Sep 18

Not a coincidence that the organizational core of Navalny’s movement was an anti-corruption organization.

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