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#Tanzania has banned rallies, again, ahead of #Sabasaba #protests, tomorrow My take on how rallies have changed, and how Tanzania has in @africa.theconversation.com Background reading: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... theconversation.com/tanzania-has...
Tanzania has banned political rallies again: what the government fears
Rallies hold great significance in Tanzania and are central to everyday political communication.
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Four signals that will tell us in the first hundred days where a Burnham premiership stands on ethics, integrity and standards in public life: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/centre-for-t...
Why the UK’s next Prime Minister needs to take a firmer stance on ethics and integrity | Centre for the Study of Corruption
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New piece out! Was #UFC250 about Trump connecting with 'the people,' or parading how much he stands above them? Thanks @lseblogs.bsky.social and @bjpir.bsky.social Original article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
At the UFC 250 White House event Trump flaunted the high, not the low | LSE United States Politics and Policy
Trump’s approach to the event marked out just how separate he is from his supporters and shows how he has reinvited “high” culture in his own image
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What can we see once we we admit that many 'populists' construct themselves as elites? I grapple with in my *new article* in @bjpir.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1369...
What can we see once we we admit that many 'populists' construct themselves as elites? I grapple with in my *new article* in @bjpir.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1369...
In print at last! Many leaders themself in elite terms, but they are analysed as populists anyway This creates a contradiction between the concept and the object of application If we ignore it, we deny how inegalitarian their ideas are Flip the script. Call them elitisms
BJPIR@bjpir.bsky.social · 3mo ago📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Populism’s elite-leader problem: From Bukele, Magufuli, and Trump to a theory of popular elitisms' by Dan Paget 🔗 buff.ly/I0GArcx @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
My chapter on 19th century plebeian internationalism is out now in The Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis 🎉 📕 Many thanks to the editors @julfaure.bsky.social, Matthew Humphreys, and David Laycock! If you'd like to read it, feel free to get in touch. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Financial crisis is being used to bypass tenure protections. University of Essex fired me & 11 others from the Business School in a clear targeting based on our philosophical orientation & social justice commitments. Please sign the public statement: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...
📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Populism’s elite-leader problem: From Bukele, Magufuli, and Trump to a theory of popular elitisms' by Dan Paget 🔗 buff.ly/I0GArcx @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
New article! My argument: it's high time we reckon with how many 'populists' are constructing themselves in elite terms Thank you to @bjpir.bsky.social for publishing! doi.org/10.1177/1369...
Liberal societies are those which offer refuge from the very people they empower—through individual choice, mobility, and the possibility of exit. This is the form of liberty that most clearly elevates the liberal project.
The Liberalism of Refuge | Journal of Democracy
Liberal societies are those which offer refuge from the very people they empower—through individual choice, mobility, and the possibility of exit. This is the form of liberty that most clearly…
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I am recruiting a three-year postdoc in anti-autocratic messaging They will play a key role in NEWREPUBLIC, a @erc.europa.eu funded research project They will join a five-person team at @sussex.ac.uk in Brighton, the UK's happiest (and coolest) city Join us! jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/dadf8116...
Research Fellow in Anti-Autocratic Messaging Ref: 42236 (Fixed Term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
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I am recruiting for two international PhD studentships in anti-autocratic ideas in Africa They will join a five-person team at Sussex Uni, just outside brighton, the UK's happiest (& coolest) city Join us! www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
PhD Studentships in the Ideas of Anti-Autocratic Movements in Africa : University of Sussex
PhD Scholarship, PhD Studentship in the Ideas of Anti-Autocratic Movements in Africa
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Tanzania’s October election was a sham. When people rose up in protest, the regime responded with a brutal crackdown. That reign of terror marks a turning point for the country, and there is no going back.
Tanzania Will Never Be the Same | Journal of Democracy
Tanzania’s October election was a sham. When people rose up in protest, the regime responded with a brutal crackdown. That reign of terror marks a turning point for the country, and there is no going back.
journalofdemocracy.org
Tanzania’s October election was a sham. When people rose up in protest, the regime responded with a brutal crackdown. That reign of terror marks a turning point for the country, and there is no going back.
Tanzania Will Never Be the Same | Journal of Democracy
Tanzania’s October election was a sham. When people rose up in protest, the regime responded with a brutal crackdown. That reign of terror marks a turning point for the country, and there is no going back.
journalofdemocracy.org
Tanzania's December 9 protests fizzled out. What does it mean? How do we make of the wider crisis? What lies behind it? And what changed in it? Here's my take in @jodemocracy.bsky.social www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
Tanzania Will Never Be the Same | Journal of Democracy
As Tanzania’s October 2025 sham election got underway, protests broke out across the country, sparking a brutal regime crackdown. That brief reign of terror marks a turning point for both the ruling…
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"There are reports of mass graves. There are reports of the dead being taken off the street. There are reports of the dead being disappeared from hospitals" The Terror unfolding in Tanzania @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
Tanzania swears in Samia Hassan as president, claiming 98% of vote - The World from PRX
Today in a ceremony hidden from public view Tanzania swore in Samia Hassan for a second term as president. She won with a landslide 98% of the vote in an election that has sparked nationwide protests,...
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Speaking now on this forum Currently discussing: how will the next CCM succession battle play out in light of the protests and the crackdown?
Prof Nic Cheeseman@fromagehomme.bsky.social · 9mo ago🚨 The Tanzanian government is attempting to cover up the grave human rights abuses it has committed in a desperate bid to stay in power. 🚨 Join us **today** at 5PM UK time/8PM Tanzania time for a space of solidarity and resistance. Set a reminder now: x.com/i/spaces/1RD...
President Hassan sought to strongarm the country’s election, meting out repression, violence, and arrests to anyone who dares challenge her. Tanzanians have seen enough.
Has Tanzania Reached Its Breaking Point? | Journal of Democracy
President Hassan promised Tanzanians freedom, transparency, and reform. Instead, she has delivered repression, violence, and arrests as she bars anyone who dares challenge her.
journalofdemocracy.org
Just out The protests may be ebbing, but Tanzania will never be the same again #Tanzania #IdiAminMama #Maandamano #Protest theconversation.com/tanzania-pre...
Tanzania: President Samia Hassan’s grip on power has been shaken by unprecedented protests
The regime once seemed untouchable. Now anything feels possible.
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Something is happening in Tanzania www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu... My take in @jodemocracy.bsky.social #Tanzania #idiaminmama #protest #maandamano #hatutakiccm
Has Tanzania Reached Its Breaking Point? | Journal of Democracy
President Hassan promised Tanzanians freedom, transparency, and reform. Instead, she has delivered repression, violence, and arrests as she bars anyone who dares challenge her.
journalofdemocracy.org
President Hassan sought to strongarm the country’s election, meting out repression, violence, and arrests to anyone who dares challenge her. Tanzanians have seen enough. Has Tanzania reached its breaking point?
Has Tanzania Reached Its Breaking Point? | Journal of Democracy
President Hassan promised Tanzanians freedom, transparency, and reform. Instead, she has delivered repression, violence, and arrests as she bars anyone who dares challenge her.
journalofdemocracy.org
#Nokings drew *mad* crowds It opens up a big question: what are the best messages to mobilise movements against autocrats? Big news: that's exactly the question I will be asking in this €1.5 million project I will be running @sussex.ac.uk funded by the @erc.europa.eu Details at www.danpaget.com
Dan Paget | Anti-autocratic ideas
How do we beat autocrats? What messages best mobilise movements to fight them?
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This article in The Chanzo makes for bitter-sweet reading Half op-ed Half euology for a democracy never realised thechanzo.com/2025/10/16/l...
Luhaga Mpina: Tanzania’s Opposition Dreams Dies in Court - The Chanzo
High Court’s final rejection of Mpina’s presidential challenge caps systematic dismantling of electoral competition, leaving President Samia facing token opposition in Tanzania’s October 29 poll.
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By putting @Lissu on trial and barring Mpina, Hassan has crossed new red lines She is not becoming as repressive as Magufuli, but more so My new analysis in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/tanzanias-sa...
Tanzania’s Samia Hassan has ushered in a new era of authoritarianism: here’s how
President Samia Hassan is relying on repressive tactics to eliminate her most significant competitors from the 2025 presidential race.
theconversation.com
How do consulting giants enable state capture? @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social talks to @devipillay.co.za on McKinsey’s role in South Africa, drawing on the Zondo Commission. 🔗Listen: bit.ly/KBspotify138 🔗Paper: lnkd.in/eczS5NAM #StateCapture #SouthAfrica #AntiCorruption
The second talk of the our Politics A-Level Masterclass has begun @sussex.ac.uk Prof. James Hampshire is approaching the subject of anarchism He is doing so through the case of Rev Sue Parfitt, who was arrested for her supprt for Palestine Action
The Politics A-Level Masterclass at @sussex.ac.uk has begun! Prof. Emily Robinson is speaking to school students who have come from near and far She is speaking about democrayc and participation in modern Briain
