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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%
Sociology 17%
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 16h
We need a support brigade, is what.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 21h
Hahah. Sob.

I'm teaching Erosion of Democracy this quarter.
erinkaylockwood.bsky.social Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 21h
Anyway, thoughts and prayers to anyone teaching Introduction to International Relations this semester/quarter/term ...

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Anna Grzymała-Busse

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 21h
Anyway, thoughts and prayers to anyone teaching Introduction to International Relations this semester/quarter/term ...

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 2d
The USSR invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, kidnapping the country’s leaders. In 1956, the Soviet Union invaded Hungary and had its leader executed.

Of course, the Soviet Union was not a democracy, but a single party regime ruled by elderly hypocrites.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 7d
The obsequiousness is equally pathetic and enraging.
A letter from the FTC repeatedly referring to “President Trump’s FTC,” as if the Commission was not a US institution but a personal creation of a man who is barely aware of its existence.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 13d
This was a personal favorite:

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 13d
afaik, it's print or bust. Sociologists don't mess around.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 13d
Local woman saves mailman from turkeys, writes social science canon, invents a subfield.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 13d
But you will find the scissors in a minute or so, when they stab you bc they were under your leg the whole time

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 14d
Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.

Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.

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View of Theda Skocpol in Conversation with Edwin Amenta on Sociology, Political Science, Higher Education, and U.S. Politics | Sociologica
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 14d
National Archives in Prague in the late 1990s. No heat, diesel trucks backed into the courtyard and spewed fumes that permeated the building and lightly kippered all the researchers, and a very kind archivist kept plonking coffee right onto the KSČ Politburo documents I was carefully transcribing.
appuhn.bsky.social Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 15d
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

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Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 15d
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Nina Jankowicz, Cathy N. Davidson , and 8 more

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NPR @npr.org · 21d
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 24d
This is delicious, @dandrezner.bsky.social:
Watching today’s politics toy with an institution of MIT’s complexity and importance is like watching a toddler play with Sèvres porcelain.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 24d
Ha, yes. They see illiberal populists at the helm and think these are easily persuadable allies who'd leave the EU to do Trump and Russia a solid. Also, Brexit never happened.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 24d
Yes, two of the biggest beneficiaries of EU funding should be easy pickings for the Trump/ Russia efforts to convince Poland and Hungary to leave the EU.

www.statista.com/chart/18794/...?

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Dec 3
congratulations and all good wishes!

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 30
See, a government list of "media offenders" is very different from federal censorship, which thankfully ended earlier in the year.
Screenshot of January 2025 "Presidential Action" purporting to restore freedom of speech and end federal censorship

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 26
yeah, I actually like that stuff, if done properly

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 26
wow, that came out of nowhere didn't it

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 26
pudding-like things can be made edible, with enough really good vanilla or raspberry syrup. But all family events featured loads of unsweetened whipped cream, and every time I demurred, I got hit with the full guilt-disbelief-ridicule complex, bc how could you not love aerated grease?

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 26
it's fluffy spackle

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 26
so bad

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 26
Jesus, that's just chaos and violence

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 26
also parent of three, and you have to at least *try* and if that fails, apologize profusely. I once bought a drink to the guy sitting next to us.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 26
donuts good. whipped cream is of the devil

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 26
I have yet to recover from toddler #2 carefully scraping something off the grocery floor and then nibbling on it with great interest as I ran down the aisle to intercept. Please read my parenting book

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 26
Team Chupacabra all the way

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 25
Or, "all human beings are equal in fundamental dignity" (George 2008), but some are more equal than others

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Nov 25
Great going, until RG notes that some "young men" subscribe to far-right anti-democratic ideology that no "girl" has.