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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We are delighted that Tamar Mitts’ Safe Havens for Hate is the winner of the Best Book Award in the Information Technology and Politics Section, presented by @apsa.bsky.social! Read a preview of the book here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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devorahmanekin.bsky.social @devorahmanekin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Excited to share that my project on polarization and nonviolent resistance was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. So grateful to the many colleagues who supported the work along the way, and looking forward to the research ahead!

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LaGina Gause @laginagause.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Nice thread here! It’s incredibly important for thinking about violence and protest tactics. What counts as violence depends on who is protesting and who is observing those protests. So, one-size-fits-all judgments about whether specific tactics “work” would definitely benefit from more skepticism.

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devorahmanekin.bsky.social @devorahmanekin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Excellent op-ed on nonviolent protest from @robbwiller.bsky.social and @owasow.bsky.social on the importance of nonviolence here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o.... Some additional points worth noting:

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Opinion | This Is What Makes Protests Successful

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Noam Gidron @noamgidron.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.

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devorahmanekin.bsky.social @devorahmanekin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Yes, but tactics are perceived and covered through racialized lenses that frame them as threatening regardless of facts on the ground.

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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Jumping in with a favorite article, by Devorah Manekin and Tamara Mitts, which asks how ethnicity affects both the success of non-violent protests and the likelihood of observers judging a given protest as violent/non-violent. Spoilers: racialized folks can’t win. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance - Volume 116 Issue 1

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Politics and Social Change Lab @pascl-stanford.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

‬Big thanks to @devorahmanekin.bsky.social for an engaging talk on how affective polarization may shape nonviolent resistance!

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devorahmanekin.bsky.social @devorahmanekin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Large, sustained anti-government and anti-war protests taking place in both Israel and in Gaza.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.

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Resistance is alive and well in the United States

Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

bsky.app/profile/reil... this is bonkers and deeply disturbing. Private security, DOJ, DOGE, and the DC police together worked to take control over a private building the government *does not own* and dismiss the staff *whom the president does not employ,* removing them, it seems, with armed force

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I cannot overemphasize how important it is for you to contact your local papers and offer to give an interview about the protest you participated in. We got three articles and counting in local papers this week because of cold calls and unsolicited letters to the editor.

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Lior Sternfeld @liorsternfeld.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Msafer yatta in the Oscar’s, and brilliant speeches by Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham!!! A million congratulations, and may their vision lead our way. ברכות חמות ליובל אברה והצוות על הזכייה. נאומים מדהימים של באסל ויובל. הלוואי שנלך בדרך שהם מראים לנו.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Approaching majority opposition to basic 20th century second wave feminism among Republican men

More Republicans now believe that women should return to their traditional roles in society
As of November 2024, almost half of Republican men agree, up from 28 percent in 2022.
50% agree
48%
Republican men
37%
Republican women
25%
Democratic men
17%
Democratic women
11%
2016
2018
2020
2022
Source: Views of the Electorate Research Survey
2024
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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

If you sum it up, 49% of young German men voted for a right-leaning party, but only 28% of young women. Conversely, 59% of young women voted for a left-leaning party, but only 38% of young men. (BSW left out.)

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🚨 Postdoc Fellow at LSE in Political Behaviour 🚨 We're hiring a 2-3 year postdoc fellow at the LSE to join our great department (with some teaching in political behaviour and comparative European or EU politics) Please spread the word and reach out with questions! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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LSE Fellow in Political Behaviour

LSE Fellow in Political Behaviour, , LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university <p style="text-align: cen...

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Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

“Audacious.” What the fuck are these people doing.

Wretched power scribes at the NYT use praiseful language to describe Trump’s deranged casual genocide wishes

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 04/02/2025

A coalition of professors, diversity officers & restaurant worker advocates represented by Democracy Forward filed suit today to block Trump’s unlawful anti-DEIA actions. We'll continue using the power of the courts to challenge unlawful policies & fight to uphold decades of legal precedent. (1/3)

Diversity officers and professors sue to block Trump's DEI orders.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

My colleague @djpressman.bsky.social is tallying publicly reported acts of defiance and dissent among civil servants. Check it out here: drive.google.com/file/d/1AJzB...

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Demanding Law and Democracy.pdf

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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 24/01/2025

This is an interesting study on the relationship between economic inequality and democratic erosion: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Overall, certainly something worth pondering.

Screenshot of the first page of the paper.
Title: Income inequality and the erosion of democracy in the twenty-first century
Authors: Eli G. Rau and Susan Stokes
Significance:
In the 21st century, democracy is more often threatened by elected presidents and prime ministers than by military coup-makers. What are the causes of this rise in democratic erosion? Cross-national statistical analysis points toward one robust finding: The more unequal income distribution is in a democracy, the more at risk it is of electing a power-aggrandizing and norm-shredding head of government. Even wealthy and longstanding democracies, like the United States, are vulnerable if they are highly unequal (though national wealth might provide some resiliency). Therefore, policies that improve income equality may have the political effect of strengthening democratic systems.

Abstract:
Among the most pressing problems societies face today are economic inequality and the erosion of democratic norms and institutions. In fact the two problems—inequality and democratic erosion—are linked. In a large cross-national statistical study of risk factors for democratic erosion, we establish that economic inequality is one of the strongest predictors of where and when democracy erodes. Even wealthy and longstanding democracies are vulnerable if they are highly unequal (though national wealth might provide some resiliency). The association between inequality and risk of democratic backsliding is robust, and holds under different measures and structures of both income inequality and wealth inequality. The association is unlikely to be a case of reverse causation. For concerned citizens seeking to understand why so many democracies are eroding and how to stop this process, our study indicates that policies for ameliorating inequality are a promising path forward.

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

What are the dynamics & trajectories of nonviolent protest movements in our polarized age? When is nonviolent resistance most effective & which coalition allies benefit most? There's a pressing need for clarity on such questions; @devorahmanekin.bsky.social explored them in her CASBS fellows seminar

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