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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

„Wählen wir die Demokratie ab?“ Liberale Demokratien sind weltweit unter Druck — und autokratische Kräfte gewinnen an Einfluss Wie ernst ist die Lage? Was können wir tun? Darüber diskutiere ich nächste Woche am @ipz.bsky.social 📍Mo, 18.05., 18:15, Aula Uni Zürich Anmeldung 👇 ema.uzh.ch/RTKL3

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Just arrived: MAKING A CAREER IN DICTATORSHIP. Featuring original visualizations throughout, the book reconstructs an entire military organization using career data from 15k officers. A deep dive into how the security apparatus in autocracies really works. Excited to finally hold it in my hands.

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

How does an authoritarian leader build — and maintain — a fiercely loyal security force? And how much of that playbook shows up in developments around the U.S. Department of Homeland Security? We followed @donmoyn.bsky.social’s invitation and wrote a guest post - based on our new book 👇

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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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Belen Gonzalez @belengonzalez.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The @financialtimes.com calls Trump's Board of Peace "a fledgling club of autocrats". A data-based view fully supports that:

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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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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social for featuring our work on the staffing of secret police organizations and how it is related to ICE. Our forthcoming book delves deeper into the authoritarian security apparatus and examines who serves where and why: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Fantastic special issue - Thanks so much for putting it together @laiabalcells.bsky.social @apvjustino.bsky.social @andrearuggeri.bsky.social 💪 [full disclosure: our article is part of it as well]

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I started the year with a great personal achievement. After years in the making, our book manuscript is ready and under contract with Oxford University Press. So stay tuned for deep insights into the security apparatus of dictatorships. Small preview 👇

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Steffen Hurka @steffenhurka.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 👉ERC Project DEMOLAW 🏦Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen 🤓Public Policy, Comp. Text Analysis, R/Python, #NLProc ⏰3+1 years 📆Deadline: 05/11/2024 🎓Postdoc: short.sg/j/49273108 🎓Predoc: short.sg/j/49278053 ❗️Please share

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Are you an expert in dealing with lobby registers, transparency laws, corporate registers and the like? You want to understand how autocrats and their regimes influence foreign democracies? We (@alexdukalskis.bsky.social) have some funds to hire someone for some work on a freelance basis. ⬇️

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

In a follow-up article in @thejop.bsky.social, we study how sportswashing works and what publicity/image effects autocracies achieve from hosting sports events Case: 2022 ⚽ World Cup in Qatar doi.org/10.1086/730728

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Does sportswashing work? First insights from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

Just learned that our APSR article on sports mega events in autocracies has won the Best Article Award by @apsa.bsky.social's Democracy & Autocracy section 🥳🍾 @pearceaedwards.bsky.social 🙏 to the committee: @annemeng.bsky.social Jean Hong, Lisa Mueller, Anibal Perez-Linan doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup - Volume 117 Issue 3

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

@alexdukalskis.bsky.social and I had the pleasure talking to @cjcmichel.bsky.social about our new paper on dictators and their contracting of Western PR firms. The exchange is part of the podcast series by the Human Rights Foundation. Check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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‎Dissidents and Dictators: Whitewashing Dictators on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Dissidents and Dictators, Ep Whitewashing Dictators - May 30, 2024

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

🚨 4-year postdoc position in computational social science at University of Zurich. Come work with me and @fgilardi.bsky.social at @ipz.bsky.social ! Application deadline is June 30. Job ad & details: ⬇️ www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns... polisky csssky socsky commsky

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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

✨ Call for papers ✨ Digital Democracy Workshop University of Zurich, 24-25 October 2024 Submission deadline: 2 June 2024 Pls share widely! democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/news/24-25-1...

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

Last week, Christian Gläßel and I kicked off our DFG-funded Anatomy of the Authoritarian Security Apparatus project w. a book workshop @hertiesecurity.bsky.social Natasha Lindstaedt Erica Frantz @belengonzalez.bsky.social Kristen Harkness @smsaideman.bsky.social, @feiyonah.bsky.social Yuri Zhukov

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Which dictatorships hire Public Relations (PR) firms, under what conditions, and with what effects? Christian Gläßel, @alexdukalskis.bsky.social, and I offer first answers with data on 7k contracts between autocracies and US-based PR firms (1945–2022).

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Belen Gonzalez @belengonzalez.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

The new "Research Handbook on Authoritarianism" is now out! We (+ Christian Gläßel & @ascharpf.bsky.social ) contribute with a chapter on the competence-loyalty trade-off in the security apparatus of autocracies. 🧵👇

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Levke Aduda @levkea.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Super happy that our article on the conflict potential of illegal sand mining in Africa is now published online (and open access) with @EnvSecJournal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

I'm hiring a postdoc! > Aug 2024 - July 2027 > PhD completed or close to completion > Interest in digital technology & politics > Causal inference and/or computational social science > Salary: CHF 81,400/yr Pls help me spread the word! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

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UZH: Three-Year Post-Doctoral Research Position in the Research Group of Professor Fabrizio Gilardi

The Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich (http://www.ipz.uzh.ch) invites applications for a post-doctoral research position in the research group of Professor Fabrizio Gilardi (...

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

We are planning the first WhoGov Workshop to be held in Oslo on the 29-30th of August 2024. We welcome all research using WhoGov in some capacity and we have funding to cover travel expenses for participants. Find the call for papers through the link or use the QR code: bit.ly/WhoGov_Workshop

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Katrin Paula @kpaula.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

New paper in the Journal of Peace Research with Tabea Palmtag and @tobirommel.bsky.social! 🥳 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

We have been collecting a lot of data on evolving public opinion on international cooperation in the DISINTEGRATION project. Some of this data is now publicly available for download in the SWISSUbase repository. Check it out!

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Anselm Hager @anselmhager.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

We are advertising a Pre-Doc/PhD position at Humboldt. You get a nice office in the heart of Berlin, free coffee, and a tremendous community of scholars working on cutting-edge social science. Your own project can be on whatever excites you! Deadline is Feb 21. Ad is below. POLISKY

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Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Attention: Open call for a Ph.D. scholarship in my Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (we include all sub-fields). Excellent PhD Programme, great salary and it's in the middle of wonderful Copenhagen! Deadline for application: 25 February 2024. Start date: 1 September 2024

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PhD scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Henry A. Kissinger died last week. Few people know that as an academic he used a soft power campaign to get foreign politicians, intellectuals, and cultural figures enthusiastic about the United States. Who did Kissinger target with his soft power campaign? polisky

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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

There will be another TOPIQ talk @ipz.bsky.social tomorrow 5pm CET (online) Andrew McNeil will present new work on the effects of (lacking) social mobility on political discontent. Registration here: www.urpp-equality.uzh.ch/en/registrat...

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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Very much looking forward to our annual Digital Democracy Workshop Thu and Fri this week! 📔 28 papers 📈 Record number of 100+ participants 🎓 Keynote by Atoosa Kasirzadeh: "AI Existential Risks and the Problem of Alignment" democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/app/uploads/... (pdf)

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Ashley Leeds @bashleyleeds.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Women in Conflict Studies (WICS) Virtual Professional Development Sessions are back! Check out the fall 2023 schedule here: www.womeninconflictstudies.org/events.html Thanks to all the volunteers who make these sessions possible!

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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

The Department of Political Science of the University of Zurich (lovingly known as IPZ) is on Bluesky @ipz.bsky.social

Department of Political Science, University of Zurich

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Sabine Carey @sabinecarey.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

If you know of recent PhDs/postdocs with interest in quant. (ideally mixed-method) research on pol violence/repression/armed actors PLEASE direct them to me! Am looking to appoint Humboldt Fellows to work with me for a year. Esp looking for ppl from Global South. No German citizens/German degree.

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Giuseppe Pietrantuono @gpietran.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Work with me at FU Berlin! I am hiring two student assistants for my DFG-funded project, “Identifying and Evaluating the Impact of Policy Interventions for Increasing Citizenship Acquisition Rates in Germany”. 👉 bit.ly/45lyCkI

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Belen Gonzalez @belengonzalez.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Searching for a podcast today? 🎙 A very insightful episode of The Tickets on “Global Sport and Denmark - Small Country, Big Impact” featuring @ascharpf.bsky.social 👇🏼

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

🚨 I have an opening for a PhD position (4-year) in my team in the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, starting Jan 1, 2024. Join our vibrant research environment and come to beautiful Zurich, Switzerland! Focus of the position is on studying the #digitaltransformation of politics.

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Jelle Koedam @jellekoedam.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Excited to share on 🟦 as well: My project on Multidimensional Polarization received a 4-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation 🎉 🚨 Please help me share the ad for the PhD position on the project! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... polisky PSJMinfo

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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

We are launching another round of the Zurich Talks on the Politics of Inequality TOPIQ. This edition will be on Social Mobility and Electoral Change with a Keynote by Torben Iversen (Oct 10, 5pm). Online and open for everyone! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/forschung...

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