Edward Goldring
@edwardgoldring.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at University of Melbourne. Comparative authoritarianism, elite politics, and North Korea. A political science account with some sport 🟡🟢
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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...
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
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...
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...
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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
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
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
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
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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
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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No apologies necessary!
It’s an excellent book - check it out and go get yourself a copy.
It’s an excellent book - check it out and go get yourself a copy.
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.
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
No apologies necessary!
It’s an excellent book - check it out and go get yourself a copy.
It’s an excellent book - check it out and go get yourself a copy.
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.
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
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.
Grateful for the review; he does a great job of summarizing our arguments.
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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
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
Closing date is 1 Oct 2025
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 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
Closing date is 1 Oct 2025
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
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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.
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
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.
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.
@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
@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...
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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...
#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
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...
#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...
New article out on blame shifting in autocracies…and we’ve got a video!
September 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
New article out on blame shifting in autocracies…and we’ve got a video!
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#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
Blame Shifting in Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey - cup.org/4ggTyAv
- @edwardgoldring.bsky.social, Jonas Willibald Schmid & Fulya Apaydin
#FirstView
September 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
#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
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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🚨 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...
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
🚨 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...
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...
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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...
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...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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...
Great project ✔️
Awesome supervisor ✔️
Excellent department ✔️
Lovely City ✔️
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
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
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
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.”
“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
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.”
“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.”
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
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”!
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Deadline is now July 25th! @textvulture.bsky.social @jennargibson.bsky.social @edwardgoldring.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 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Deadline is now July 25th! @textvulture.bsky.social @jennargibson.bsky.social @edwardgoldring.bsky.social
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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
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...
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June 24, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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
Haven’t celebrated a publication in person for a while. @fapaydin.bsky.social - you were with @jonaswschmid.bsky.social and I in spirit!
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...
textvulture.github.io/presentation...
textvulture.github.io
June 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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...
textvulture.github.io/presentation...
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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 ⬇️
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%...
June 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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 ⬇️
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 👇
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%...
June 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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 👇
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📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!
Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:
🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
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🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
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
📣 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...
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...