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Postdoctoral researcher in political science | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | academic freedom | democracy
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Jul 1
Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can their resilience be improved? Together with Aurel Croissant, I’ve developed a conceptualization of democratic resilience as resilience performance and resilience capacity.
Read the full article here (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0032...
Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis - Aurel Croissant, Lars Lott, 2025
Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can their resilience be improved? Answering these questions requires valid conceptualization and reliab...
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12d
Wenn @valentimvicente.bsky.social im Deutschlandfunk ist, dann sollte man sich das natürlich auf jeden Fall anhören
kathrinkuehn.bsky.social Kathrin Kühn @kathrinkuehn.bsky.social · 12d
Krisen, Frust oder Angst vor dem sozialen Abstieg, das sind einige Ansätze, um das zu erklären: Warum so schnell viel mehr Menschen radikal rechte Parteien unterstützen, nicht nur in D. Seltener wird geschaut, inwiefern die Einstellungen schon da waren. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe... 1/
Rechtsextremismus - Warum die radikale Rechte so stark wird
Rechtsradikale Parteien profitieren von nachlassender Stigmatisierung. Forschung zum politischen Verhalten zeigt, dass extreme Positionen offener gelebt werden.
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 13d
How can resilience of democratic procedures, processes & principles be improved? Aurel Croissant & @larslott.bsky.social present a novel conceptualization & measurements of democratic resilience: buff.ly/N25dyXQ (OPEN ACCESS)

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Alumni Politik FAU @apefau.bsky.social · 15d
📺 Am Samstag waren Prof. Katrin Kinzelbach und Dr. Lars Lott bei der Eröffnung der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft 2025 im BR-Studio Nürnberg dabei und haben über ihre Arbeit zum Thema #Wissenschaftsfreiheit berichtet!

Zur Aufzeichnung geht's hier:
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · 22d
📢Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive. Read the recently published article in #ISPR. Together with Katrin Kinzelbach and @silindberg.bsky.social (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0192...
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 21d
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
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Staffan I Lindberg /V-Dem Institute @silindberg.bsky.social · 22d
New article out with excellent @larslott.bsky.social and @Katrin Kinzelbach. OA, online first:
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · 22d
📢Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive. Read the recently published article in #ISPR. Together with Katrin Kinzelbach and @silindberg.bsky.social (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0192...
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Oct 1
Übers Teilen würden wir uns freuen: @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @humanrights-fau.bsky.social @alicja-plkwcz.bsky.social @krajewskimarkus.bsky.social @argohdes.bsky.social
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Oct 1
Werde Teil unseres internationalen Teams und profitiere von interdisziplinären Austausch, u.a. am Exzellenzcluster „Transforming Human Rights".
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Oct 1
Auf der Suche nach einer Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich der empirischen Menschenrechtsforschung? An der @fau.de suchen wir eine*n Postdoc für 3+3 Jahre für unser Team. tinyurl.com/4d3w3th6
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Juraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · Sep 23
The global retrenchment of academic freedom, as estimated by V-Dem and FAU:

2008-2015: mostly at the lower part of the scale
2015-2024: the upper part of the scale moves as well

More by FAU at: academic-freedom-index.net

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A chart showing a summary of the Academic Freedom Index in 2008, 2015, and 2024.
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
Is research performance related to academic freedom? A preprint co-authored with @lutzb.bsky.social conducts a large-scale empirical analysis on the national level to this question. osf.io/2mh8f #academicfreedom #AcademicFreedomIndex Short 🧵
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
We find an average treatment effect of a 20% decline in research performance when academic freedom declines substantially. But we do not find any statistically significant effect on the top 10% or top 1% publications, as measured by citation counts in their subject category and publication year. 8/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
However, we also explored the effect of academic freedom decline episodes on national performance. We thereby tested whether the current global crisis in academic freedom affects research performance. 7/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
Results can be summarized as follows: Whereas differences between countries in enabling AF are related to differences in their national performance, changes in enabling AF within a country are not reflected in annual performance differences to that extent as the differences between the countries. 6/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
We found a positive and statistically significant effect of the ‘between AF’ variance on bibliometric indicators with a pooled effect size of 1.7969 (95%-CI = 1.4647; 2.1290]). ‘within AF’ has a positive pooled effect size of 0.0266 but is statistically not significant at conventional levels. 5/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
We applied three different identification strategies, namely two-way fixed effects regressions, within-between random effects regression, and difference-in-differences estimators, and used different bibliometric indicators to calculate the effect of AF on national performance. 4/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
To determine whether China is an exception and to explore the relationship between academic freedom (AF) and national knowledge production, our study examines the association between an index measuring national AF and bibliometric indicators, such as publication counts. 3/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
The remarkable increase in publications from China over the past two decades raises questions about the assumed dependence of effective science production on academic freedom, which is supposed to protect science from external influences. 2/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
Is research performance related to academic freedom? A preprint co-authored with @lutzb.bsky.social conducts a large-scale empirical analysis on the national level to this question. osf.io/2mh8f #academicfreedom #AcademicFreedomIndex Short 🧵
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
Results can be summarized as follows: Whereas differences between countries in enabling AF are related to differences in their national performance, changes in enabling AF within a country are not reflected in annual performance differences to that extent as the differences between the countries. 6/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
We found a positive and statistically significant effect of the ‘between AF’ variance on bibliometric indicators with a pooled effect size of 1.7969 (95%-CI = 1.4647; 2.1290]). ‘within AF’ has a positive pooled effect size of 0.0266 but is statistically not significant at conventional levels. 5/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
We applied three different identification strategies, namely two-way fixed effects regressions, within-between random effects regression, and difference-in-differences estimators, and used different bibliometric indicators to calculate the effect of AF on national performance. 4/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
To determine whether China is an exception and to explore the relationship between academic freedom (AF) and national knowledge production, our study examines the association between an index measuring national AF and bibliometric indicators, such as publication counts. 3/
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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Sep 5
The remarkable increase in publications from China over the past two decades raises questions about the assumed dependence of effective science production on academic freedom, which is supposed to protect science from external influences. 2/
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