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Tamta Gelashvili @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The final paper of my PhD is now out in @democratization.bsky.social! I ask how and why regime type impacts far-right mobilization. My starting point was a paradox: the far right is global, yet most of what we know about it comes from research on a handful of countries in Western Europe 1/9

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Far right mobilization in hybrid regimes: evidence from Georgia and Ukraine

How and why does regime type impact far-right mobilization? Most of our knowledge about the far right comes from studies of Western democracies, leaving far-right mobilization in hybrid regimes und...

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Daniel A. N. Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com · 12/08/2026

Are politicians gatekeepers of democracy? Will they reject candidates for party leadership or coalitions to protect it? We ran pre-registered experiments on 2,000 Norwegian politicians. They do gatekeep, but it’s conditional. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Amalie Nilsen @amalienilsen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A huge thanks to everyone who provided feedback and helped with the survey design along the way, and especially to my two great PhD supervisors @haakongjerlw.bsky.social and @sirianned.bsky.social

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Amalie Nilsen @amalienilsen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

More broadly, these findings are important for understanding the role of protest amid rising polarization and democratic backsliding, as affective divides may, in turn, underpin broader illiberal or even anti-democratic sentiments.

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Amalie Nilsen @amalienilsen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I find little evidence that abortion protests further polarize attitudes toward abortion law itself. However, they increase in-group favoritism among anti-abortion sympathizers, suggesting that protests may shape not only issue attitudes, but also sentiments toward those with different views.

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Amalie Nilsen @amalienilsen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Excited to see this paper from my PhD published in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social Drawing on original experimental evidence from Poland, I examine whether protests over a deeply entrenched issue, namely abortion, induce polarization, not only ideologically but also affectively doi.org/10.1093/jopr...

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Journal of Peace Research @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

📣Want to guest edit JPR's 2028 Special Issue? Our call for proposals is now open! We welcome proposals on any topic within the broader study of peace and conflict. 📅 Proposal deadline: 30 September 2026 Read the full call and submission guidelines here: www.prio.org/journals/jpr...

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Call for proposals: Journal of Peace Research Special Issue 2028 – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

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UiO - Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

On June 15th, Master of Political Science Amalie Nilsen will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social : "The Protest Paradox: The Role of Mass Mobilization in Promoting and Challenging Liberal Democracy"

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Disputation: Amalie Nilsen - Department of Political Science

Master of Political Science Amalie Nilsen will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science: The Protest Paradox: The Role of Mass Mobilization in Promoting and Challenging Lib...

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Amalie Nilsen @amalienilsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

A huge thank you to the best supervisors, @haakongjerlw.bsky.social and @sirianned.bsky.social. I'm also very grateful to @mariannedahl.bsky.social, @felixhaass.bsky.social and Henrikas Bartusevičius for their valuable feedback on earlier drafts of the paper!

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Amalie Nilsen @amalienilsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Studying the electoral impacts of the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong, I find that the protests mobilized voter turnout and opposition support among citizens who identified as “Hongkongers,” but had the opposite effect among those who identified as “Chinese.”

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Amalie Nilsen @amalienilsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I’m very happy to share that the first paper of my PhD, «From the streets to the ballots: Protests, polls and Polarization in Hong Kong» has been published online in @democratization.bsky.social It is open access, and you can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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From the streets to the ballots: protests, polls and polarization in Hong Kong

Social movement research indicates that protests can influence voting behaviour through several informational and psychological mechanisms. Yet, we know little about the individual variation in how...

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