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Elizabeth Nugent

@ernugent.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton | Politics of Authoritarianism + Religion in the Middle East | www.elizabethnugent.com

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Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the u.s. is shooting itself in the foot with a tactical nuke american universities are *so* good and it's a virtuous cycle: smart and ambitious people attend, elevating the whole enterprise. if we alienate the world, it becomes a vicious cycle headed in the opposite direction

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Applications from the United States to Sciences Po’s bachelor’s program surged 52% this academic year, while the number of Sciences Po students applying to study for a year in the United States has plunged by 50%. For the first time ever, America is not the first choice for its undergraduates”

Elizabeth Nugent@ernugent.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@isadesisto.bsky.social + I have been investigating the role of exiles in contentious politics back home. This @goodauth.bsky.social piece draws on a working paper in which we find exile involvement escalates revolutions -- they're longer and more violent: goodauthority.org/news/is-exil...

Is exile a dead end – or a launching pad for opposition?

A recent New York Times investigation offers a glimpse into the life of former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. After losing […]

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The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy@timep.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“The war took many things from me. But I wake up each morning and try.” In this earlier piece, Nada Wanni traces how Sudanese artists who have been displaced to Cairo persist in creating spaces to share their own testimonies of war, exile, memory, and home. timep.org/2025/09/10/d...

Displaced but Defiant: Sudanese Art in Times of War

Sudanese artists who have been displaced to Cairo persist in creating spaces to share their own testimonies of war, exile, memory, and home.

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Roxane Gay@roxanegay.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

Amanda Sahar d’Urso@asdurso.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Labels can impact politics. My paper @apsrjournal.bsky.social "What Happens When You Can't Check the Box?" shows when Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans are excluded from identity categories, they assert MENA identity when answering relevant political questions. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans

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Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 11mo ago

No one wanted to hear this years ago when @tompepinsky.com said it. Maybe now.

Everyday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable

Malaysia is a country that I know well, and whose political system I have studied closely for fifteen years. It is also a country whose political liberalization I have long awaited. Malaysia has a …

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Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"many ... wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different."

Elizabeth Nugent@ernugent.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I really want to believe that American public opinion still matters. It makes me feel better that most Americans don’t support these policies. But other non-democracies demonstrate that once institutions have been politically weaponized, public opinion matters significantly less.

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Democratization@democratization.bsky.social · last yr.

How do counterrevolutions shape collective memory? In their latest article, @ernugent.bsky.social and Michael T. Hoffman explore disappointment & demobilization in Egypt. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Remembering the counterrevolution: disappointment, denial, and demobilization

While scholars carefully study when revolutions succeed and how they are overturned, far less attention has been paid to the public’s experience of revolution and counterrevolution as well as their...

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