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@jacobnyrup.bsky.social
I (try to) advance knowledge on the politics of dictatorships, political elites, comparative politics, and 💵🏠 as Associate Professor at University of Oslo. I also collect loads of data on governments: https://bit.ly/whogov.
Pinned
Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments - Volume 55
www.cambridge.org
Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021.
This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏
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This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏
A short 🧵
Demokraterne er et håbløst og generelt uinspirerende og svagt parti, mens republikanerne er en fanatisk dødskult. USA har virkeligt brug for et nyt politisk system.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Demokraterne er et håbløst og generelt uinspirerende og svagt parti, mens republikanerne er en fanatisk dødskult. USA har virkeligt brug for et nyt politisk system.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
One week left to apply for the postdoc position -- the deadline is on the 17th of November: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
(and two weeks left to apply for the PhD positions, the deadline is on the 24th of November: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...)
(and two weeks left to apply for the PhD positions, the deadline is on the 24th of November: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...)
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
One week left to apply for the postdoc position -- the deadline is on the 17th of November: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
(and two weeks left to apply for the PhD positions, the deadline is on the 24th of November: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...)
(and two weeks left to apply for the PhD positions, the deadline is on the 24th of November: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...)
Novelty and fad dances are dances which are typically characterized by a short burst of popularity, although some have longer-lasting lives. Some iconic steps are "Gangnam Style", "YMCA", the "Macarena", and "the $40 billion bailout by American tax payers"
Argentina President Javier Milei doing the “Trump dance” at Mar-a-Lago after getting an $40 billion bailout.
Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.
Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Novelty and fad dances are dances which are typically characterized by a short burst of popularity, although some have longer-lasting lives. Some iconic steps are "Gangnam Style", "YMCA", the "Macarena", and "the $40 billion bailout by American tax payers"
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A peaceful protest against the performance of Russian ballerina Maria Khoreva will take place today and tomorrow by the main entrance of Liceu Theater, Barcelona.
The participants will be holding portraits of Ukrainian artists killed by Russia - actors, writers, dancers, singers.
The participants will be holding portraits of Ukrainian artists killed by Russia - actors, writers, dancers, singers.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A peaceful protest against the performance of Russian ballerina Maria Khoreva will take place today and tomorrow by the main entrance of Liceu Theater, Barcelona.
The participants will be holding portraits of Ukrainian artists killed by Russia - actors, writers, dancers, singers.
The participants will be holding portraits of Ukrainian artists killed by Russia - actors, writers, dancers, singers.
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
- George Orwell, 1984.
- George Orwell, 1984.
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
- George Orwell, 1984.
- George Orwell, 1984.
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The Nuffield PPRF is an amazing postdoc - a brilliant community, lovely college, and yes, great food. And, usually, also with a family of ducks.
We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics - Nuffield College Oxford University
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The Nuffield PPRF is an amazing postdoc - a brilliant community, lovely college, and yes, great food. And, usually, also with a family of ducks.
Great new teaching material for courses in autocratic politics, showing why too much power in the hands of one person can result in idiotic outcomes
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Great new teaching material for courses in autocratic politics, showing why too much power in the hands of one person can result in idiotic outcomes
Nothing says patriot as spying for a foreign power that regularly threatens to invade your country
Lawmakers accuse AfD of spying on German army on behalf of Russia
German MPs claim the far-right AfD acts as a "sleeper cell loyal to Russia," following numerous parliamentary enquiries into military and critical infrastructure.
www.euronews.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Nothing says patriot as spying for a foreign power that regularly threatens to invade your country
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Der gik intet som helst galt. Hvis man bilder sig ind, at et spritnyt socialt medie på et par år skal nå på omgangshøjde med Twitter (der har næsten to årtier på bagen), har man spist søm.
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Der gik intet som helst galt. Hvis man bilder sig ind, at et spritnyt socialt medie på et par år skal nå på omgangshøjde med Twitter (der har næsten to årtier på bagen), har man spist søm.
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Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
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(This was obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes $50bn ago. Autocracies - no matter how much oil they can drill, how many foreign advisors they can hire, and how slick their PR - remain highly inefficient at allocating resources in the long run.)
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
(This was obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes $50bn ago. Autocracies - no matter how much oil they can drill, how many foreign advisors they can hire, and how slick their PR - remain highly inefficient at allocating resources in the long run.)
This is good: "In the end, the bizarre idea that a choice must be made between Trump and the economy reflects something deeper: a broad reluctance to accept that Trump is really, really unpopular"
Trump Humiliation Worsens as Fresh Info Reveals Scale of GOP Losses
The results showed that Democrats don’t have to choose between attacking Trump and highlighting the economy. In fact, they are often inseparable.
newrepublic.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is good: "In the end, the bizarre idea that a choice must be made between Trump and the economy reflects something deeper: a broad reluctance to accept that Trump is really, really unpopular"
Det burde være en kæmpe nyhed, at den amerikanske præsident åbent erklærer, at han er klar til at undergrave demokratiet, så USA bliver til et diktatur og oppositionen aldrig får magten igen. Men det er bare en almindelig onsdag i 2025.
Trump: "They're gonna make DC a state and they're gonna make Puerto Rico a state. So now they pick up two states, four senators. They're gonna pick up electoral votes. It's gonna be a very, very bad situation. Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power."
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Det burde være en kæmpe nyhed, at den amerikanske præsident åbent erklærer, at han er klar til at undergrave demokratiet, så USA bliver til et diktatur og oppositionen aldrig får magten igen. Men det er bare en almindelig onsdag i 2025.
One of the best consequences of tonight's elections would be if elected Republicans, fearing future electoral losses, finally start doing their damn jobs: govern, show that Congress matters, oppose and constrain lame duck Trump, and try to stop some of the madness unfolding in the White House.
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
One of the best consequences of tonight's elections would be if elected Republicans, fearing future electoral losses, finally start doing their damn jobs: govern, show that Congress matters, oppose and constrain lame duck Trump, and try to stop some of the madness unfolding in the White House.
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Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n
Job Details
my.corehr.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n
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This week's comic: When Worlds Collide
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This week's comic: When Worlds Collide
We live in a strange world when the US president threatens to invade other countries every other week and people just shrug their shoulders as a response
Following on from my post yesterday, in case there was any doubt, Trump is threatening war with Nigeria.
Nigeria has a population of nearly 233 million.
Nigeria has a population of nearly 233 million.
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We live in a strange world when the US president threatens to invade other countries every other week and people just shrug their shoulders as a response
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An authoritarian...
stifles dissent/speech
persecutes opponents
bypasses legislature
uses military domestically
defies courts
declares false emergencies
vilifies groups
controls info/media
controls universities
creates cult of personality
uses power for profit
manipulates law to stay in power
stifles dissent/speech
persecutes opponents
bypasses legislature
uses military domestically
defies courts
declares false emergencies
vilifies groups
controls info/media
controls universities
creates cult of personality
uses power for profit
manipulates law to stay in power
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
An authoritarian...
stifles dissent/speech
persecutes opponents
bypasses legislature
uses military domestically
defies courts
declares false emergencies
vilifies groups
controls info/media
controls universities
creates cult of personality
uses power for profit
manipulates law to stay in power
stifles dissent/speech
persecutes opponents
bypasses legislature
uses military domestically
defies courts
declares false emergencies
vilifies groups
controls info/media
controls universities
creates cult of personality
uses power for profit
manipulates law to stay in power
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Excited to share this article on the relationship between formal executive constraints and conflict recurrence!
📣New publication alert!📣
How do executive constraints influence the risk of conflict recurrence in post-conflict regimes?
@sverke.bsky.social (@statsvitenskap.bsky.social/MF vitenskapelig høyskole) explores how executive constraints can act as promises of minority & individual-rights protection.
How do executive constraints influence the risk of conflict recurrence in post-conflict regimes?
@sverke.bsky.social (@statsvitenskap.bsky.social/MF vitenskapelig høyskole) explores how executive constraints can act as promises of minority & individual-rights protection.
October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Excited to share this article on the relationship between formal executive constraints and conflict recurrence!
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The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.
October 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.
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This is a bad idea. Recruiting talented people from other countries is a good thing. American universities have been very good at it in particular. Recruiting talented people tends to benefit everyone. We should keep doing it. I am speaking in short sentences for the benefit of the Governor.
Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is a bad idea. Recruiting talented people from other countries is a good thing. American universities have been very good at it in particular. Recruiting talented people tends to benefit everyone. We should keep doing it. I am speaking in short sentences for the benefit of the Governor.
Heartbreaking: “Nathaniel Redmond, director of the Yale school of public health, said on Tuesday that the “horror, scale, and velocity of killing” in El Fasher had left pools of blood visible from satellites.”
Sudan siege ends in bloodbath despite pleas for mercy
Evidence emerges of atrocities committed by the paramilitary RSF after it seized control of El Fasher
on.ft.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Heartbreaking: “Nathaniel Redmond, director of the Yale school of public health, said on Tuesday that the “horror, scale, and velocity of killing” in El Fasher had left pools of blood visible from satellites.”
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Donald Trump: Best in Show
October 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Donald Trump: Best in Show