Fabio Angiolillo
@fabioangiolillo.bsky.social
Jemolo Research Fellow Nuffield College, Oxford & Postdoc V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg
Comparative politics, autocracies, political parties | China & East Asian politics
Co-founder @apsgworkshop.bsky.social
https://www.fangiolillo.com
Comparative politics, autocracies, political parties | China & East Asian politics
Co-founder @apsgworkshop.bsky.social
https://www.fangiolillo.com
Pinned
Party Systems, Democratic Positions, and Regime Changes: Introducing the Party-System Democracy Index | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Party Systems, Democratic Positions, and Regime Changes: Introducing the Party-System Democracy Index - Volume 55
www.cambridge.org
🚨New publication!
We introduce the party-system democracy index (PSDI), a new global measure on regime preferences across party systems.
Key findings
1. PSDI predicts both democratization & autocratization
2. Changes in PSDI can signal a looming regime change
Open access🔓
🧵
tinyurl.com/tcms7muj
We introduce the party-system democracy index (PSDI), a new global measure on regime preferences across party systems.
Key findings
1. PSDI predicts both democratization & autocratization
2. Changes in PSDI can signal a looming regime change
Open access🔓
🧵
tinyurl.com/tcms7muj
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
Save the Date!
Remember that our 4th APSG Summer Conference will take place June 15-16, 2026 at @qmulsse.bsky.social with support from the @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social.
Put it in your calendars and stay tunned for the Call for Papers!
Remember that our 4th APSG Summer Conference will take place June 15-16, 2026 at @qmulsse.bsky.social with support from the @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social.
Put it in your calendars and stay tunned for the Call for Papers!
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Save the Date!
Remember that our 4th APSG Summer Conference will take place June 15-16, 2026 at @qmulsse.bsky.social with support from the @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social.
Put it in your calendars and stay tunned for the Call for Papers!
Remember that our 4th APSG Summer Conference will take place June 15-16, 2026 at @qmulsse.bsky.social with support from the @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social.
Put it in your calendars and stay tunned for the Call for Papers!
🚨 Are you or do you know a student interested in authoritarianism? I am recruiting an intern to work on authoritarian parties with me starting January '26!
The position is in-person in Gothenburg, Sweden & the deadline to apply is 28 November 2025. Email your application to fabio.angiolillo@gu.se
The position is in-person in Gothenburg, Sweden & the deadline to apply is 28 November 2025. Email your application to fabio.angiolillo@gu.se
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🚨 Are you or do you know a student interested in authoritarianism? I am recruiting an intern to work on authoritarian parties with me starting January '26!
The position is in-person in Gothenburg, Sweden & the deadline to apply is 28 November 2025. Email your application to fabio.angiolillo@gu.se
The position is in-person in Gothenburg, Sweden & the deadline to apply is 28 November 2025. Email your application to fabio.angiolillo@gu.se
Just a few days left to apply!!
The clock is ticking! ⌛
You have until Sunday to submit your proposal for the Spring!
You have until Sunday to submit your proposal for the Spring!
Our Call for Papers for the Spring 2026 is still open!
Submit your proposal by November 9th using this link: forms.gle/SvZv98ke4QUT...
For more information visit: apsg.work/cfp/
Submit your proposal by November 9th using this link: forms.gle/SvZv98ke4QUT...
For more information visit: apsg.work/cfp/
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Just a few days left to apply!!
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.
A United States that is disintegrating and no longer a leader in Asia
As Trump 2.0 hollows out US state capacity, the Asia Pacific must prepare for a world without US leadership
eastasiaforum.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
@chinabooksreview.com just published my review of Yu Hua's 余华 *City of Fiction*《文城》(2021, tr. 2025).
"Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century."
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...
"Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century."
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...
Yu Hua: Fictional Cities | China Books Review
The bestselling Chinese novelist foregrounds individual suffering in the chaos of modern Chinese history. In his latest novel in translation, gratuitous violence shows the limits of fiction.
chinabooksreview.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@chinabooksreview.com just published my review of Yu Hua's 余华 *City of Fiction*《文城》(2021, tr. 2025).
"Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century."
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...
"Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century."
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...
In just a few days!
Join us next week!
Tiffany Simon (@harvardkennedy.bsky.social) will present "Happiness as Control: The Political Consequences of Entertainment Policy in Saudi Arabia" and @andrewleber.bsky.social (@tulanepolisci.bsky.social) and @aasiegel.bsky.social (@colorado.edu) will discuss
Tiffany Simon (@harvardkennedy.bsky.social) will present "Happiness as Control: The Political Consequences of Entertainment Policy in Saudi Arabia" and @andrewleber.bsky.social (@tulanepolisci.bsky.social) and @aasiegel.bsky.social (@colorado.edu) will discuss
October 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In just a few days!
Send in your proposal to present your work next semester!!
Our Call for Papers for the Spring 2026 is still open!
Submit your proposal by November 9th using this link: forms.gle/SvZv98ke4QUT...
For more information visit: apsg.work/cfp/
Submit your proposal by November 9th using this link: forms.gle/SvZv98ke4QUT...
For more information visit: apsg.work/cfp/
Apply to Present Your Work!
Complete the form to be considered for the Authoritarian Political Systems Group Spring 2026 Season. Read the Seminar Rules before applying.
forms.gle
October 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Send in your proposal to present your work next semester!!
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
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 🙏
A short 🧵
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 🧵
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
October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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 🙏
A short 🧵
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 🧵
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
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications
The Art of Learning from Rejection
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
-4 days to apply!! Come and join us in Oxford next year!
🚨 The Call for Papers for PSA26 in Oxford closes soon! 🚨
We would love to host your paper at the 2026
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
conference.
More details here: www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa-a...
Deadline this Friday (17 October)! ❗
We would love to host your paper at the 2026
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
conference.
More details here: www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa-a...
Deadline this Friday (17 October)! ❗
Events | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
The Political Studies Association (PSA)
www.psa.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
-4 days to apply!! Come and join us in Oxford next year!
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
Join us next week!
Anna Lia Brunetti (@univie.ac.at ) & @beluabdala.bsky.social (@unisalzburg.bsky.social) will be presenting their work on the moderating role of citizen's meanings of voting.
Sarah Birch (KCL) and Carolien van Ham (@radboudpol.bsky.social) will discuss.
Anna Lia Brunetti (@univie.ac.at ) & @beluabdala.bsky.social (@unisalzburg.bsky.social) will be presenting their work on the moderating role of citizen's meanings of voting.
Sarah Birch (KCL) and Carolien van Ham (@radboudpol.bsky.social) will discuss.
October 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Join us next week!
Anna Lia Brunetti (@univie.ac.at ) & @beluabdala.bsky.social (@unisalzburg.bsky.social) will be presenting their work on the moderating role of citizen's meanings of voting.
Sarah Birch (KCL) and Carolien van Ham (@radboudpol.bsky.social) will discuss.
Anna Lia Brunetti (@univie.ac.at ) & @beluabdala.bsky.social (@unisalzburg.bsky.social) will be presenting their work on the moderating role of citizen's meanings of voting.
Sarah Birch (KCL) and Carolien van Ham (@radboudpol.bsky.social) will discuss.
This is a great dataset and we will all use it a lot in the coming years!
New Working Paper 🚨
I am introducing the new dataset on Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR). It includes information on the composition of parliaments in 819 legislative terms in 130 autocracies from 1945 - based on over 200k individual-level observations.
tinyurl.com/48h68hmh
I am introducing the new dataset on Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR). It includes information on the composition of parliaments in 819 legislative terms in 130 autocracies from 1945 - based on over 200k individual-level observations.
tinyurl.com/48h68hmh
October 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is a great dataset and we will all use it a lot in the coming years!
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
📊 What does 2 years of global protests for #Palestine look like?
Nearly 48,000 demonstrations in 137 countries have been held since Oct 2023 —accounting for 15% of all protests worldwide. Explore our new infographic as the Gaza war enters its second year: acleddata.com/infographic/...
Nearly 48,000 demonstrations in 137 countries have been held since Oct 2023 —accounting for 15% of all protests worldwide. Explore our new infographic as the Gaza war enters its second year: acleddata.com/infographic/...
October 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
📊 What does 2 years of global protests for #Palestine look like?
Nearly 48,000 demonstrations in 137 countries have been held since Oct 2023 —accounting for 15% of all protests worldwide. Explore our new infographic as the Gaza war enters its second year: acleddata.com/infographic/...
Nearly 48,000 demonstrations in 137 countries have been held since Oct 2023 —accounting for 15% of all protests worldwide. Explore our new infographic as the Gaza war enters its second year: acleddata.com/infographic/...
Tomorrow!
Join us next week!
@lisayfan.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) will present her work on expressions of loyalty by female elites. Jakob Tolstrup (Aarhus) and @parzetterberg.bsky.social (@uu-polisci.bsky.social) will discuss.
@lisayfan.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) will present her work on expressions of loyalty by female elites. Jakob Tolstrup (Aarhus) and @parzetterberg.bsky.social (@uu-polisci.bsky.social) will discuss.
October 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Tomorrow!
Just a few days left to apply!
Translate your work into a policy brief on authoritarianism.
Translate your work into a policy brief on authoritarianism.
📣 Call for Papers: The Authoritarian Eco-System 📣
We are launching a new policy brief series w/ the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on authoritarian politics!
Deadline: 3 October 2025
Submit abstract (500 words) researcher’s profile, and CVs to: arc.psa.sg@gmail.com
Details? Read the call &🧵
We are launching a new policy brief series w/ the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on authoritarian politics!
Deadline: 3 October 2025
Submit abstract (500 words) researcher’s profile, and CVs to: arc.psa.sg@gmail.com
Details? Read the call &🧵
September 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Just a few days left to apply!
Translate your work into a policy brief on authoritarianism.
Translate your work into a policy brief on authoritarianism.
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada.
via @florianederer.bsky.social
via @florianederer.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada.
via @florianederer.bsky.social
via @florianederer.bsky.social
@jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social and I wrote the ‘last word’ for the latest Political Insight issue @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social.
We discuss the global rise of authoritarianism, its implications for domestic and international politics, and the future of democracy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
We discuss the global rise of authoritarianism, its implications for domestic and international politics, and the future of democracy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
journals.sagepub.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
@jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social and I wrote the ‘last word’ for the latest Political Insight issue @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social.
We discuss the global rise of authoritarianism, its implications for domestic and international politics, and the future of democracy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
We discuss the global rise of authoritarianism, its implications for domestic and international politics, and the future of democracy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Next Tuesday!
Join us next week!
@javierpadilla.bsky.social (@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social) will be presenting his work on how oligarchic cleavages shape liberalization and democratization and @alucardi1.bsky.social (@itam-mx.bsky.social) and @emisimison.bsky.social (@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social) will discuss.
@javierpadilla.bsky.social (@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social) will be presenting his work on how oligarchic cleavages shape liberalization and democratization and @alucardi1.bsky.social (@itam-mx.bsky.social) and @emisimison.bsky.social (@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social) will discuss.
September 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Next Tuesday!
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
In just 1h we will kick off the new season - join us!
Join us next week for the first workshop of the season!
@fabiolaschwarz.bsky.social and @kpaula.bsky.social (TU Munich) will present their work on internet shutdowns and protests in diverse political regimes.
Lisa Garbe (@wzb.bsky.social) and Ryan Shandler (Georgia Instit of Techn) will discuss!
@fabiolaschwarz.bsky.social and @kpaula.bsky.social (TU Munich) will present their work on internet shutdowns and protests in diverse political regimes.
Lisa Garbe (@wzb.bsky.social) and Ryan Shandler (Georgia Instit of Techn) will discuss!
September 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In just 1h we will kick off the new season - join us!
Here we go with a new series of workshops by @apsgworkshop.bsky.social 🥳
Come and join us on Tuesdays to learn more from fantastic ongoing research!
Come and join us on Tuesdays to learn more from fantastic ongoing research!
Fall 2025 schedule is out!
Remember to join our mailing list to join any or all of these great presentations!
mailchi.mp/fe045331c9c7...
Remember to join our mailing list to join any or all of these great presentations!
mailchi.mp/fe045331c9c7...
September 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Here we go with a new series of workshops by @apsgworkshop.bsky.social 🥳
Come and join us on Tuesdays to learn more from fantastic ongoing research!
Come and join us on Tuesdays to learn more from fantastic ongoing research!
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds
Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV).
It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more.
#ERCStG
It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more.
#ERCStG
Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites
- Department of Political Science
Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...
www.sv.uio.no
September 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV).
It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more.
#ERCStG
It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more.
#ERCStG
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs
We show:
1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...
We show:
1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...
December 17, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs
We show:
1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...
We show:
1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...
Reposted by Fabio Angiolillo
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵