Stefani Langehennig
@steflangehennig.bsky.social
AP of the Practice at the University of Denver | political science PhD | CSS, public policy, legislatures | 🏳️🌈 she/her
https://steflangehennig.github.io/
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Authoritarian regimes frequently struggle to govern effectively because accurate information doesn't reach the leadership. Trump is basically designing a system to create this problem.
We don’t *know* that this administration is getting rid of any intelligence officer who provides information contrary to Trump’s decreed view; but we don’t not know that either.
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Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest national security senior officer to be purged.
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August 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Authoritarian regimes frequently struggle to govern effectively because accurate information doesn't reach the leadership. Trump is basically designing a system to create this problem.
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3. Who watches the Lords? Essentially it will be used by a relatively small group regularly (journalists, campaigners, academics) plus a smattering of the curious www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Accountability, analysis and avoidance: how PMO data impacts on Westminster
Parliamentary Monitoring Organisations [PMOs] seek to make legislators more accountable and reduce the potential moral hazards of delegation. This study of the UK finds that PMOs do reduce such haz...
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November 23, 2024 at 1:14 PM
3. Who watches the Lords? Essentially it will be used by a relatively small group regularly (journalists, campaigners, academics) plus a smattering of the curious www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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2. Me, @steflangehennig.bsky.social and Cat Morgan did some work on the impact of the @mysociety.org platform TheyWorkForYou on MPs and Peers (supported by Leverhulme). So, we have some idea of who might use it and what impact it might have. See our paper here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Who is Watching Parliament? Monitory Democracy at Westminster
Since 2004, a whole range of data tools and sources have allowed users to ‘watch’ what MPs and Peers are doing, in terms of how they are voting, their expenses
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November 23, 2024 at 1:14 PM
2. Me, @steflangehennig.bsky.social and Cat Morgan did some work on the impact of the @mysociety.org platform TheyWorkForYou on MPs and Peers (supported by Leverhulme). So, we have some idea of who might use it and what impact it might have. See our paper here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....