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Ina L Kristiansen
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PhD Candidate @ University of Oslo - MPhil in Peace and Conflict Studies - Researching elite politics in autocratic regimes
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Ina L Kristiansen @inalkristiansen.bsky.social · 21d
Very proud to have been a part of this project and to see my first co-authored article out in the world! Read @jacobnyrup.bsky.social excellent thread for more info on the data! 🥳
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bjpols.bsky.social
NEW -

Turning a Blind Eye to Repression: Examining Popular Approval for State Crackdowns on Peaceful Protests in Russia - https://cup.org/4p03H7E

- @suthank.bsky.social & Jakob Tolstrup

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing the relationship between regime repression and dissent within the context of Russia. The text evaluates hypothesis through surveys and experiments, focusing on the public's response to repression.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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jamiewithorne.bsky.social
In this recent blog post I show how publicly available technologies like satellite imagery and SAR can be used to "fact check" aggressive nuclear rhetoric.
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
alisonkilling.bsky.social Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 5d
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...
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 7:08 AM
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statsvitenskap.bsky.social
📢 New article
👥 @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social, @haakongjerlw.bsky.social & @liserakner.bsky.social
🔎 The politics of litigating and adjudicating electoral disputes: Evidence from Zambia.
📖 Open access In Electoral Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
August 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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eui-eu.bsky.social
🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!

📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences

Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!

Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd

#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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alexvont.bsky.social
This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...
Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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November 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
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
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
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chknutsen.bsky.social
Check out or new article — published today in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social — where we discuss and provide guidelines for the construction and use of datasets.

We draw on our lessons from three major data collection efforts on education policies and systems 👇
October 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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sverke.bsky.social
Excited to share this article on the relationship between formal executive constraints and conflict recurrence!
jpeaceresearch.bsky.social Journal of Peace Research @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social · 11d
📣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.
October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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jacobnyrup.bsky.social
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
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Donald Trumps plan to subvert the midterms is underway
From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @theatlantic.com

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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kristianvsf.bsky.social
How do contemporary challenges of backsliding and war interact? We show that interstate conflict boosts support for undemocratic candidates, especially among Republicans who *do not prefer democratic Rs over undemocratic Rs* during interstate conflict.

Out in @bjpols.bsky.social with Lasse Laustsen
bjpols.bsky.social British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 14d
NEW -

Interstate Conflict Increases the Appeal of Undemocratic Candidates - https://cup.org/3Lx7bjx

"undemocratic candidates are evaluated more positively under conflict compared to peace"

- @kristianvsf.bsky.social & Lasse Laustsen

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing how threats of interstate conflicts affect American voters' support for candidates who violate democratic principles.
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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adridelrio.bsky.social
Thanks @apsa.bsky.social for the mention to my coauthored #education dataset with @chknutsen.bsky.social and @plutscher.bsky.social in @cpsjournal.bsky.social.

Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Data: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
October 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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argohdes.bsky.social
We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)!

If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
October 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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statsvitenskap.bsky.social
📣CfA for 1-2 Postdoctoral Fellow Positions in political science (3-4 years) as part of the ERC project “Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy” (GETGOV) - PI Jacob Nyrup. The application deadline is November 17, 2025.

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 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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statsvitenskap.bsky.social
📣CfA for 1-2 PhD Research Fellow Positions (3-4 years) in political science as part of the ERC project “Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy” (GETGOV) - PI Jacob Nyrup. The application deadline is November 24, 2025.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (3-4 years) (288543) | Universitetet i Oslo
Stillingstittel: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (3-4 years) (288543), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Oslo, Søknadsfrist: måndag 24. november 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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alexdukalskis.bsky.social
The U.S. government right now really hitting that sweet spot of blatant corruption of 1990s Central Asia, the weirdo personality cult of Gaddafi, the bad plastic surgery of Berlusconi’s Italy, the religious zeal of the Taliban, and the thuggish brutality of a right-wing Cold War dictatorship.
October 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr
The Trump Supremacy
[FREE TO READ] Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
on.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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allernelin.bsky.social
I am happy to see that Maiken Røed's, Vibeke Wøien Hansen's (@vibekewoien.bsky.social), and my paper on the relationship between party-interest group ties and political influence is one of the highly viewed articles in @polstudies.bsky.social

Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/h7NaH4Y
polstudies.bsky.social Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 22d
What are the political effects of organizational ties between parties & interest groups? Maiken Røed, @allernelin.bsky.social & @vibekewoien.bsky.social examine the relationship between party-interest group ties & political influence. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/h7NaH4Y

#PSHighlyViewed 6/10

#polsci
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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skaaning.bsky.social
New article out on the relationship between different dimensions of state capacity and modes of democratic breakdown.
polstudies.bsky.social Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Oct 10
How do different forms of state capacity protect democracy? D Andersen, @chknutsen.bsky.social & @skaaning.bsky.social argue coercive & administrative capacity affect stability in distinct ways depending on threat: buff.ly/2yUrCqu

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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felixhaass.bsky.social
🚨 New article out!

“Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social

👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany.

Short summary thread below 👇
Abstract for the article: How does right-wing terrorism affect electoral support for populist radical right parties (PRRPs)? Recent research has produced contrary answers to this question. We argue that only high-intensity attacks, whose motives and targets mirror PRRPs’ nativist agenda, are likely to generate a media backlash that dampens electoral support for PRRPs. We test this argument by combining high-frequency survey and social media data with a natural and survey experimental design. We find that right-wing terror reduced support for the radical right party Alternative für Deutschland after one of the most intense nativist attacks in recent German history. An analysis of all ninety-eight fatal right-wing attacks in Germany between 1990 and 2020 supports our argument. Our findings contribute to an understanding of how political violence triggers partisan detachment and have important implications for media responsibility in the aftermath of terrorist attacks.
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM