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Asmus Leth Olsen

@asmusletholsen.bsky.social
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Professor of Public Administration, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. www.asmusolsen.com & paopa.org Foto: Freja Wille.

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
EPSS in Copenhagen! Hope to see all of your there. Send your abstracts now.
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
EPSS in Copenhagen! Hope to see all of your there. Send your abstracts now.
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A surprisingly large part of declining measured scientific productivity is attributed to declining average quality of the researcher pool. Have a nice day! www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Self-Selection and the Diminishing Returns of Research
(Forthcoming Article) - We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability a...
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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 28/08/2026
Because so many of the horrible people trying to destroy the career of a black Guardian journalist are based on this site, just want to cross-post this. You are all being insane. You should stop.
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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 28/08/2026
*Jason Arday* approached a Guardian journalist to try to get him to cover claims like him receiving a severed pig's head in the mail. The journalist looked into those claims, found them to not be credible, and published an investigation. Now idiots are accusing The Guardian of murder. It's sick.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
New, from me: Everything seems awful, but Co. Kerry, Ireland is great. A photo essay on what to do if you visit (especially for Killarney and Dingle). Replies are open, so please add your own suggestions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to Kerry
Why you should visit the best county in Ireland
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Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This doesn't look good at all for Cambridge and Prof. Arday. The evidence presented so far is pretty damning.
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Case study: Why is AFD of 25%?
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!
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Assistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Our book The Brussels Bubble: Inside the European Union in the Digital Age with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org is out now OPEN ACCESS! We take you on an ethnographic journey behind the scenes of multilateralism, from Brexit to COVID-19 to Russia's war on Ukraine 👉 Find it here: tinyurl.com/m237ry4b
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Landing in Belfast for the European Political Science Society. Please share your favorite things to do, places to eat or drink. (Don’t bother recommending the Titanic museum (done it) or conflict tours).
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Daisuke SAKAI @monogragh.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
現在は行政研究の黄金期にあるが、かなりの論文が経済学ジャーナルに掲載されている。それらと行政研究ジャーナルの論文とはどう違うか?──を記述的に比較するというもの。 Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals doi.org/10.1017/S104...
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Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Fixed it
me, but with my avatars head on my human body
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Copenhagen is stocking up on high-end saisons and training staff to describe every style as “pleasantly tart” to maximize sales. @donmoyn.bsky.social is in town.
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Still funny
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
And how the do we get Econ to cite PA? Doing literature reviews behind enemy lines is a way forward. Here is a model example by @pamherd.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social — see: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... bsky.app/profile/asmu...
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Administrative Burdens in the Social Safety Net
(Winter 2025) - Administrative burdens shape people's experiences of, and access to, social safety net programs. They can undermine the goals these programs are trying to achieve. Such burdens are the...
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We (@karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social) are re-building the field of Public Administration from the ground up! Well, okay, we built a website with a table of papers. The Archive of PA outside PA is a living archive of PA research published outside PA journals. Go see: www.paopa.org
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Ea Blaabæk @blaabaek.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
When schools close, due to COVID-19 lockdown or holidays, the gender gap in reading increases. This is a challenge as boys already struggle more with reading skills than girls. New paper in @pnas.org with Emil Smith, @davidreimer.bsky.social & @madsjaeger.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Election day in Denmark Dutchification of the party system continues with record levels of party fractionalization. We will be more Dutch than the Dutch before the end of today. (The Dutch will still have way more narrative systemic reviews in Public Administration journals.)
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Michael Hankinson @hankinson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Building affordable housing ➡️ support for funding housing. Nearby homeowners ⬆️ support; renters ⬇️ support. Both are “the policy adjacent”—secondhand recipients & drivers of policy feedback. Forthcoming @ajpseditor.bsky.social ( doi.org/10.1111/ajps...) w/ A. Magazinnik & @msands.bsky.social 1/9
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 23/03/2026
#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social - Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals - cup.org/4bp1jna - @asmusletholsen.bsky.social, @karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social & Paul van Leeuwen #FirstView
Blue square with "PS" letters on the left, and a colorful gauge with a globe and needle pointing to the right on the right side. Hashtag "OpenAccess" is displayed below.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is great paper about interdisciplinarity: *points out that Econ is now doing a lot of high quality public administration research *Econ is also mostly ignoring traditional PA research, PA is a bit more attentive to Econ *Both groups would benefit from engaging much more with each other
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We got a paper in @pspolisci.bsky.social l on public administration beyond public administration journals A substantial share of quantitatively oriented PA research is being produced in top economics journals! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social Five stylized facts:
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Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals
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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 03/03/2026
I don't think Matt Yglesias is a Nazi collaborator
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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ... Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups? Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com: tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Veloplagt forskerkritik af Philip Larsen: www.altinget.dk/artikel/forf...
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Forfatter: DR vil faktatjekke mere. Det er en farlig vej at gå - Altinget
DR vil styrke demokratiet med fakta og verificering, men risikerer at bidrage til en misvisende forestilling om sandt og falsk. Demokratiet lider ikke af for lidt fakta, men af manglende vilje til uen...
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"Can AI automate policy evaluation?" Looks like an amazing project - AI is changing science production in very deep ways: ape.socialcatalystlab.org
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Project APE: Can policy evaluation be automated? Or is hallucinated slop unavoidable? Let's find out.
An open experiment: AI writes economics papers end-to-end, then competes against peer-reviewed research. Everything public—papers, code, data, failures.
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"Vil du med hjem og se min samling af .md-filer?"
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Contender for worst logo of all time
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump right now on the psychological benefits of owning Greenland: >>who the hell wants to defend a license agreement<< 🫣
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize" 🙃 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Linked Greenland Push to Nobel Prize Snub, Officials Say
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
What is something nice I can say about Delaware? bsky.app/profile/donm...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I would like to announce my own goodwill mission to Denmark this May, where I will meet @asmusletholsen.bsky.social and the King. www.cbsnews.com/news/congres...
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Bipartisan group of lawmakers to visit Denmark as Trump threatens to take over Greenland
President Trump's remarks about taking Greenland by military force have prompted bipartisan criticism from lawmakers who have said they do not support acquiring the Danish territory in such a way.
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
New stuff bsky.app/profile/jose...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is a really cool paper. It shows that role models can influence how people think about college majors & working in government. But it also shows that effects fade over over time which should constrain our expectations about how one shot interventions like training actually can change behavior.
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Josephine Arnfred @josephinearnfred.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My first working paper is now live! Can minority role models help diversify the bureaucracy of the future?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
This: In the same week that Vance expressed concern that France and the United Kingdom had nuclear weapons, he said Denmark was not a very good ally to the US. It is shameful. bsky.app/profile/thom...
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Tak til chatten: >>“Imaginaries” is a conceptual Swiss army knife: high-status, flexible, theoretically respectable, and safely non-positivist. Its heavy use reflects not conceptual laziness, but a field where epistemological signaling through titles has become central to publication success.<<
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
My first name is made up in two novel ways in this review (just before the reviewers point out that the book under review spells @alasdairroberts.bsky.social wrong in two different ways). An the authors are Norwegians - brothers from another mother! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"viewpoint discrimination is a key motivator behind these student demands. While the desire to restrict academic freedom also reflects an interest in upholding prof. academic standards... these principles are applied unevenly & predominantly to conservative viewpoints" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Students’ motives for restricting academic freedom: Viewpoint discrimination and prosocial concerns | PNAS
We advance the understanding of so-called &ldquo;cancel culture&rdquo; at the university by presenting the results of three survey experiments among university...
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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Good morning. A coda (from me) on this replication business. While I understand the impulse, it is disheartening that most of the discussion generated by this replication is about the replication "process" -- both the APSR's process and my own process. What could we be talking about instead?
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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I have now read the response by Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega again with a clearer eye. Multiple claims in this response are untrue or seek to obscure the truth. My interest has always been the accuracy of the scientific record, so I feel compelled to note some of these claims here.
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Aditya Dasgupta @adasgupta.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
incredible that we can turn correcting coding errors into litigation about the process in which we are allowed to transmit this information
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
We have now published our 6th book on the state of Danish democracy, this time focusing on the government: unipress.dk/media/ohvdt3... Based on the largest survey of gov bureaucrats in Danish history, conclusions are overall positive. But some findings show deeper systemic problems 👇 (1/3)
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Glad for at være med her: "Reformator er et dansk tidsskrift stiftet med det formål at give plads til kvalificerede løsningsforslag på udfordringer i det danske samfund....og dermed være med til at gøre et godt samfund endnu bedre." tidsskrift.dk/reformator
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Reformator – Tidsskrift for samfundsløsninger
Reformator er et dansk tidsskrift stiftet med det formål at give plads til kvalificerede løsningsforslag på udfordringer i det danske samfund samt at understøtte, at løsningsforslagene kan indgå i rel...
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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
What's happening in ICE also seems to go in the FBI. The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇 🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New from me: Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI. Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
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How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Deadline for application to @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 conference is this Friday 7th of November. There's been an amazing response to the call for papers so far, we hope for even more great proposals this week. Here is the call for papers: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Final call for this one 📝 bsky.app/profile/fgil...
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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Looking forward to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social meeting in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026! All political scientists encouraged to submit a paper. For work on public policy & administration, consider section I’m co-chairing w/ @asmusletholsen.bsky.social ⏳ 7 Nov 2025 🔗 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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