This is extraordinarily blatant

Reuters@reuters.com · 2w ago

Nicaragua's long-serving president, Daniel Ortega, said the Central American country will no longer hold elections, eliminating the possibility of an electoral challenge when his term ends next year and further ‌entrenching the rule he shares with his wife reut.rs/4fMmqSk

the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

Klopp and Liverpool “flew around in circles” over Nice with Mbappe” in a private jet with “five rooms or something” trying to reach an agreement, because they didn’t want to be seen. Wonder why we’re not making progress on climate change? www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Kylian Mbappe: Jurgen Klopp reveals how Liverpool tried to sign France striker

Jurgen Klopp says he "flew around in a circle" in a private plane with Kylian Mbappe and his family when he tried to sign him for Liverpool a decade ago.

bbc.com

A corrupt sports organisation running a tournament in a corrupt nation.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last mo.

Consistent with international law, FIFA determines that rules that apply to everyone else don’t apply to the US.

So Trump leant on Infantino and hey presto, suddenly Balogun is free to play again

Do group-based inequalities feel more unjust? In POQ, Leipziger et al. find limited evidence that intergroup inequality is perceived as more unfair and evokes stronger feelings of injustice than interpersonal inequality. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

From March 2026 - How Violations of Electoral Integrity Undermine Partisan Attachments - https://cup.org/4rkKiPC - @aarslew.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Gratis svinemørbrad, benzin, eller strøm til din elbil? Danske politikere har fået smag for at dele gaver ud til vælgerne (nyheder.tv2.dk/live/politik...) Men er det en god idé? Kort svar fra forskningen: næppe. Faktisk kan det give bagslag. En tråd.

Danmarksdemokraterne deler gratis svinemørbrad ud

Danmarksdemokraterne og Inger Støjberg vil dele gratis svinemørbrad ud på Nytorv i Aalborg lørdag fra klokken 10-11.30 – muligvis inspireret af Dansk Folkepart...

nyheder.tv2.dk

What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Very happy to see this out in @bjpols.bsky.social The last paper from my dissertation has found a home

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW - How Violations of Electoral Integrity Undermine Partisan Attachments - https://cup.org/4rkKiPC - @aarslew.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Much research concludes that partisans tolerate anti-democratic behavior, such as electoral subversion, because they rarely punish it at the ballot box. But refusing to vote against your party and actively supporting democratic subversion are not the same thing. My new paper in @bjpols.bsky.social:

Are regimes with higher nr's of core supporters more durable? Are regimes with more diverse coalitions of supporters more durable? In this (published today) @cpsjournal.bsky.social article, @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social , and @torewig.bsky.social I answer "Yes" to both Qs.

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Why do some people keep voting throughout their lives while others drop out? And how do authoritarian elections - even uncompetitive ones- shape citizens’ habits? Ksenia Northmore-Ball and I tackle these questions in my new paper, now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

Re. Trump’s comments on Kimmel, do you know who else have “bad ratings”?

🤔 Do surveys exaggerate democratic support due to social desirability bias (SDB)? ➡️ Using survey-mode variation & list experiments in 24 countries, @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social & @aarslew.bsky.social find no evidence that SDB inflates democratic attitudes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Det er altså ikke bare anklager for upassende bemærkninger om Kirks død, men også massivt pres fra den amerikanske regering. Altså repression og censur: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Journalisten@journalisten.dk · 11mo ago

Den amerikanske tv-station ABC stopper tv-værten Jimmy Kimmels aftenshow på ubestemt tid efter anklager, efter han har fået kritik for upassende bemærkninger om attentatet på den konservative aktivist Charlie Kirk.

Exactly!

Blue Georgia@bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 11mo ago

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

Check out this paper with @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social in @psrm.bsky.social. We examine whether social desirability bias contaminates survey measures of democratic support. tl/dr: we find no evidence to suggest that SDB inflates support for democracy in commonly used survey measures

Pedro Magalhães @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Long ago, in a study of the democratic attitudes in Germany, Dalton raised the possibility of “Fragebogendemokraten” (questionnaire democrats): people who hesitate to express their sincere dislike for “democracy” in surveys, providing instead the “socially desirable” response (1)

Long ago, in a study of the democratic attitudes in Germany, Dalton raised the possibility of “Fragebogendemokraten” (questionnaire democrats): people who hesitate to express their sincere dislike for “democracy” in surveys, providing instead the “socially desirable” response (1)

Arrived and all set for #APSA2025 with two papers: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy with @robbwiller.bsky.social and @m-b-petersen.bsky.social (Thur at 12) What Elites Believe About Opposing Trump with @aarslew.bsky.social and Martin Bisgaard (Sun at 8) See you at the conference!

Who supports free speech, and how consistent is the support? Together with @suthank.bsky.social, I’ve conducted a survey of citizens in 33 countries for The Future of Free Speech. A lot of interesting findings (see 🧵 + link): futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...

Steve Levitsky gives the canonical answer about whether defending democracy is the right answer electorally for Democrats - that can't be the question. *Society* has to defend democracy and the Constitution, or they could cease to exist. nymag.com/intelligence...

Spot the difference! Hint: one of them is a dictator, who ruled Turkmenistan for more than 20 years... #Trump #Gaza #Trumpgaza

Thrilled that my article has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 The article argues that low statistical power is a major impediment to acquiring cumulative knowledge on questions concerning cross-national differences: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Delighted that @gregoryeady.bsky.social and my paper "Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies" is now online @apsrjournal.bsky.social (Open access) More in this [1/14]

Does childhood exposure to coethnics impede or promote the acquisition of citizenship? In a new article in @pnas.org, I show that the modest presence of coethnic peers in school increases migrant children’s probability of getting 🇩🇰 citizenship later in life. 🧵👇 1/15 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Polisky Dictatorsky Our starter pack keeps on growing! Check it out!

Authoritarian Political Systems Group@apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 2y ago

We noticed there wasn't a starter pack on authoritarian politics yet – Now there is! go.bsky.app/UFHn7sS Spread and ask to join!

The victory march of democracy has ended What can we as researchers do? In the Scandinavian countries, a particular tool is available: Democracy & Power Studies. The Danish government appointed me as director of such a study. We started our work this year. A 🧵 on what we do & how we do it 1/8