🚨We are still accepting submissions for our Specialist Group's Best PhD Paper Award 2026! 🚨 The award is for the best article/chapter by a current PhD candidate. The paper *does not* have to have been presented at the PSA. Self-nominations welcome! Email us at arc.psa.sg@gmail.com by 19 June!

🚨 We are now accepting submissions for two of our Specialist Group's Awards 🚨 - Best Paper Award - Best PhD Paper Award Rules: anyone can nominate – self-nominations are welcome! – a paper for these awards by emailing arc.psa.sg@gmail.com Deadline: 25 May 2026 Details on the rules👇

We are excited to have won @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social's joint prize for Specialist Group of the Year! If you are a researcher studying autocracies, come join this great community!

Political Studies Association@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

*PSA Prize Winners* 🎉 Congratulations to Autocracy and Regime Change @psaautocracy.bsky.social as PSA Specialist Group of the Year joint prize winner. This group is recognised for remarkable energy and impact as a relatively new group and building an impressive group membership. ➡️ buff.ly/dvOF0Sa

🚨 Deadline is TODAY!

PSA Autocracy & Regime Change Specialist Group@psaautocracy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 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)! ❗

🚨 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)! ❗

🚨 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)! ❗

The 2025 Best PhD Paper Award for the best article/chapter written by a current PhD candidate goes to... @linettelim.bsky.social PhD candidate at @ucddublin.bsky.social for her chapter "Foreign Bogeymen: The Use of Anti-Foreign Media Propaganda in China" Congratulations!! 🥳

The 2025 Best Paper Award for the best paper on autocracies and/or regime change presented at the PSA Annual Conference 2025 goes to... @tjermanova.bsky.social with "Beyond Coordination: The Authoritarian Constitution at the Centre of Intra-Regime Conflict in Post-1979 Iran." Congratulations! 🥳

📣 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 now accepting submissions for two of our Specialist Group’s Awards 🚨 - Best Paper Award 📄 - Best PhD Paper Award 📔 Rules: anyone can nominate – self-nominations are welcome! – a paper for these awards by emailing arc.psa.sg@gmail.com Deadline: 19 May 2025 Details on the rules👇

🚨 Only three days until the PSA @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Annual Conference and the Autocracy and Regime Change Group has a jam-packed programme! Get ready for our Annual General Meeting, a session with publishing tips for early career researchers, a drinks social, and six amazing panels! 👇

📢 Calling scholars of autocracies and political transitions! We are the PSA Specialist Group on Autocracy and Regime Change. Follow us for updates on our activities and events!