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Edward Goldring
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Senior Lecturer at University of Melbourne. Comparative authoritarianism, elite politics, and North Korea. A political science account with some sport 🟡🟢
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jacobnyrup.bsky.social
We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI.

We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!

Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
October 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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fabioangiolillo.bsky.social
Our latest @apsgworkshop.bsky.social call for papers is out 🥳

Apply and share with your PhD, postdoc, assistant professor colleagues that might be interested!

Here is the link to submit your abstract: forms.gle/NTxcY7Ye2JKe...

Deadline is 9 November
October 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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argohdes.bsky.social
And if you want to learn more about how people make a career in dictatorship, pre-order the authors' (Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social) new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship":

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September 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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alexdukalskis.bsky.social
No apologies necessary!

It’s an excellent book - check it out and go get yourself a copy.
edwardgoldring.bsky.social Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · Sep 19
With no apologies for the shameless self promotion, thanks to @alexdukalskis.bsky.social for his review of mine and @pward89.bsky.social’s book on succession in personalist autocracies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Grateful for the review; he does a great job of summarizing our arguments.
Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond
Published in Asian Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
edwardgoldring.bsky.social
With no apologies for the shameless self promotion, thanks to @alexdukalskis.bsky.social for his review of mine and @pward89.bsky.social’s book on succession in personalist autocracies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Grateful for the review; he does a great job of summarizing our arguments.
Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond
Published in Asian Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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maxgroemping.bsky.social
Please share widely! Great #PostDoc opportunity at one of Australia's top #PoliticalScience departments, on a #FutureFellowship on electoral resilience. 3yrs, great pay, and a workplace practically next to the Great Barrier Reef!
Closing date is 1 Oct 2025
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1
Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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alexdukalskis.bsky.social
Author copies for

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!

If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.
September 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
edwardgoldring.bsky.social
@pward89.bsky.social and I were delighted to win the Best Article Award from APSA’s Democracy and Autocracy section for our @worldpolitics.bsky.social article “Elite Management Before Autocratic Leader Succession: Evidence from North Korea.” muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
September 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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poppublicsphere.bsky.social
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

#Blame #Shifting in #Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from #Turkey

By @edwardgoldring.bsky.social, @jonaswschmid.bsky.social & Fulya Apaydin

doi.org/10.1017/S153...
September 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
edwardgoldring.bsky.social
New article out on blame shifting in autocracies…and we’ve got a video!
September 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -

Blame Shifting in Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey - cup.org/4ggTyAv

- @edwardgoldring.bsky.social, Jonas Willibald Schmid & Fulya Apaydin

#FirstView
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September 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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tzyang.bsky.social
🚨 Call for Papers: 2026 WPSA Mini-Conference on Authoritarian Politics 🚨

Jun Sudduth, @paulschuler.bsky.social, and I are excited to see y’all in San Diego! We welcome formal and empirical papers on a broad range of topics.

📌 Apply here. Share with colleagues & students:
forms.gle/Dv2SBEduFxSh...
Mini-Conference on Authoritarian Politics, WPSA 2026
April 2-4, 2026 Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California Contact us: pschuler@arizona.edu; jsudduth@iu.edu; zirui.yang@emory.edu
forms.gle
September 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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lmorgenbesser.bsky.social
My colleague Ferran Martinez i Coma has a three year, full-time postdoc available for his Australian Research Council project "Resilient Elections: How to Strengthen Our Democracies."

Great project ✔️
Awesome supervisor ✔️
Excellent department ✔️
Lovely City ✔️

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1
Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
edwardgoldring.bsky.social
Josef Woldense is running his fantastic ‘research presentation as storytelling’ workshop in a few weeks. It’s held virtually; details on how to sign up are below. @woldense.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
edwardgoldring.bsky.social
Favourite comment on my student evals:

“I also lost a little bit of respect for Dr. Goldring when he was he was a Lewis Hamilton fan in the year of our lord 2025.”
July 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
edwardgoldring.bsky.social
Many thanks to @nknewsorg.bsky.social for inviting @pward89.bsky.social and I on to the podcast to talk about our book on elite management and succession in North Korea and elsewhere. Really enjoyed the discussion, especially as a “long time listener but first time caller”!
July 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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eunajo.bsky.social
Deadline is now July 25th! @textvulture.bsky.social @jennargibson.bsky.social @edwardgoldring.bsky.social
eunajo.bsky.social Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jul 15
Deadline is today! If you’ve got a paper on Korea, consider applying to the fourth cohort of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (KPSC): textvulture.github.io/presentation...
July 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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eunajo.bsky.social
Deadline is today! If you’ve got a paper on Korea, consider applying to the fourth cohort of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (KPSC): textvulture.github.io/presentation...
July 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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thekpopprof.bsky.social
This is a great opportunity for youth #SNU #Korea
June 24, 2025 at 5:58 AM
edwardgoldring.bsky.social
Haven’t celebrated a publication in person for a while. @fapaydin.bsky.social - you were with @jonaswschmid.bsky.social and I in spirit!
June 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
edwardgoldring.bsky.social
If you’ve got a paper related to Korean politics and would like feedback, consider submitting to the Korean Political Studies Colloquium. Junior scholars especially welcome!

textvulture.github.io/presentation...
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June 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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fa190.bsky.social
Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Floods. The world is not short of disasters. When faced with such events, autocrats often resort to blame shifting. But does this strategy work? In our forthcoming new paper with @edwardgoldring.bsky.social & @jonaswschmid.bsky.social, we unpack this question. Thread ⬇️
jonaswschmid.bsky.social Jonas W. Schmid @jonaswschmid.bsky.social · Jun 11
After large-scale disasters autocrats often shift the blame on others to save their popularity. Our 🚨new paper🚨, just accepted at Perspectives on Politics, shows that this tactic is prone to backfire. With @edwardgoldring.bsky.social & @fapaydin.bsky.social . shorturl.at/v6wIV%E2%AC%...
The title page of a paper listing the title: "Blame Shifting in Autocracies Following Large-scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey"; the authors: Edward Goldring, Jonas Willibald Schmid, and Fulya Apaydin; and the abstract: "Large-scale disasters, particularly when handled poorly, often spark popular outrage and threaten an autocrat’s hold on power. Autocrats frequently employ blame shifting strategies to redirect public anger and weather these storms. We examine whether blame shifting after a large-scale disaster helps or hurts an autocrat’s popularity through a mixed-methods research design in the electoral autocracy of Turkey in April-July 2023, following the February 2023 earthquakes. An online survey experiment (n=3,839) identifies the effects of blaming the aftermath of the earthquake on the opposition, a force majeure, private construction companies, or a govern- ment minister, while focus groups explore the mechanisms behind these effects. We find that blaming the opposition or a force majeure leads to a backlash, especially among those more able to critically evaluate information. Focus groups reveal that these backlash effects are driven by voters’ dismay at electoral opportunism and the incumbent’s polarizing language following a large-scale disaster."; and the note that the paper is forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics.
June 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
edwardgoldring.bsky.social
New paper on blame shifting in autocracies with @jonaswschmid.bsky.social & @fapaydin.bsky.social, just accepted at Perspectives. Full thread and link to pre-print below 👇
jonaswschmid.bsky.social Jonas W. Schmid @jonaswschmid.bsky.social · Jun 11
After large-scale disasters autocrats often shift the blame on others to save their popularity. Our 🚨new paper🚨, just accepted at Perspectives on Politics, shows that this tactic is prone to backfire. With @edwardgoldring.bsky.social & @fapaydin.bsky.social . shorturl.at/v6wIV%E2%AC%...
The title page of a paper listing the title: "Blame Shifting in Autocracies Following Large-scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey"; the authors: Edward Goldring, Jonas Willibald Schmid, and Fulya Apaydin; and the abstract: "Large-scale disasters, particularly when handled poorly, often spark popular outrage and threaten an autocrat’s hold on power. Autocrats frequently employ blame shifting strategies to redirect public anger and weather these storms. We examine whether blame shifting after a large-scale disaster helps or hurts an autocrat’s popularity through a mixed-methods research design in the electoral autocracy of Turkey in April-July 2023, following the February 2023 earthquakes. An online survey experiment (n=3,839) identifies the effects of blaming the aftermath of the earthquake on the opposition, a force majeure, private construction companies, or a govern- ment minister, while focus groups explore the mechanisms behind these effects. We find that blaming the opposition or a force majeure leads to a backlash, especially among those more able to critically evaluate information. Focus groups reveal that these backlash effects are driven by voters’ dismay at electoral opportunism and the incumbent’s polarizing language following a large-scale disaster."; and the note that the paper is forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics.
June 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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rsenninger.bsky.social
📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
June 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM