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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New Publication in Party Politics on altruism in the Vietnam Communist Party w/ @maitruong0526.bsky.social, Eitan Paul, Quynh Nguyen, Markus Taussig, and Linh Le. In a field experiment, we show that grassroots party members are more likely to exhibit altruistic behavior than non-party members.

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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

For Ph.D students in social sciences studying Southeast Asia, consider applying for the SEAREG Predissertation Fellowship. The fellowship provides up top $5k in funding for fieldwork. dcid.sanford.duke.edu/seareg-pre-d...

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SEAREG Pre-Dissertation Fellowship | Duke Center for International Development

The SEAREG Pre-Dissertation Fellowship assists social science Ph.D. students engaged in exploratory research who must travel to Southeast Asia in order to obtain the adva

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Comparative Political Studies @cpsjournal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Today we will return to the articles from Issue 14 of 2024, a special issue focusing on the topic of Gender and Authoritarian Politics. Please enjoy! #polisky #socialscience #ComparativePolitics #academicsky

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🚨 Call for Papers: 2026 WPSA Mini-Conference on Authoritarian Politics 🚨 Jun Sudduth, @paulschuler.bsky.social, and I are excited to see y’all in San Diego! We welcome formal and empirical papers on a broad range of topics. 📌 Apply here. Share with colleagues & students: forms.gle/Dv2SBEduFxSh...

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Mini-Conference on Authoritarian Politics, WPSA 2026

April 2-4, 2026 Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California Contact us: pschuler@arizona.edu; jsudduth@iu.edu; zirui.yang@emory.edu

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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

For all Southeast Asianist scholars, please consider submitting a paper proposal for SEAREG at UC-San Diego in December. dcid.sanford.duke.edu/seareg-thema...

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SEAREG Thematic Sessions | Duke Center for International Development

SEAREG Thematic Sessions - Duke Center for International Development

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Comparative Political Studies @cpsjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

In today’s thread, we will revisit the articles published in Issue 2 of our 2024 volume. We hope you find them insightful!

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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If this stands, and if it spreads, it would be a crushing blow to higher education in America -- and also a major new contributor to our trade deficits. Higher ed is one of the most reliable surplus drivers that our country can offer. Free link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students

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Mai Truong @maitruong0526.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... We started this project nearly five years ago, when we were both graduate students — I had just begun my third year of the PhD program at the University of Arizona. It's incredibly rewarding to see how far this work has come!

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Project MUSE - A Warning from Above: How Authoritarian Anti-Protest Propaganda Works

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend. “I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

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A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where? (Gift Article)

The immigrant does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts. He has essentially disappeared.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

David: Are you concerned about retaliation from the Trump administration because of this story?

Jeffrey: It’s not my role to care about the possibility of threats or retaliation. We just have to come to work and do our jobs to the best of our ability. Unfortunately, in our society today—we see this across corporate journalism and law firms and other industries—there’s too much preemptive obeying for my taste. All we can do is just go do our jobs.

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Page Fortna @pagefortna.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Letter to leadership of universities being targeted, to run in Chronicle tomorrow. Academic friends, pls sign if you are a US citizen and tenured (ie it’s safe for you to do so) “We Must Leverage the Strength of Our Institutions and Stand Together” Text in replies docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

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Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel

One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Backsliding in the US may be worse than other global cases. Hungary, Poland, and India at least followed Scheppele's "authoritarian legalism" model where laws were manipulated, but followed. Here, the laws are flouted flagrantly. This is more unapologetic and blatant. www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/p...

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Analysis: White House denies ignoring court order halting Venezuelan deportations | CNN Politics

The White House is denying that it violated a judge’s order Saturday to halt the deportations of Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, which, if it did occur, would take legal showdowns over the adm...

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Authoritarianism warning:

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The White House, not even DHS, the White House itself apparently, is directly deciding which permanent residents should be detained and deported based on their political speech. If this doesn’t scare you about the state of our democracy and liberties, I don’t know what will.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

REMINDER: Cutting IRS spending is not a “cost-cutting” move. Cutting the IRS lowers revenue. It’s a move to protect the wealthy, like Elon Musk. Auditing the rich returns $12 for every $1 spent. www.nber.org/papers/w31376

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Article title: Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting

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How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities? Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups exert little power. I propose the concept of agenda seeding to describe how activists use methods like disruption to capture the attention of media and overcome political asymmetries. Further, I hypothesize protest tactics influence how news organizations frame demands. Evaluating black-led protests between 1960 and 1972, I find nonviolent activism, particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, congressional speech, and public opinion on civil rights. Counties proximate to nonviolent protests saw presidential Democratic vote share increase 1.6–2.5%. Protester-initiated violence, by contrast, helped move news agendas, frames, elite discourse, and public concern toward “social control.” In 1968, using rainfall as an instrument, I find violent protests likely caused a 1.5–7.9% shift among whites toward Republicans and tipped the election. Elites may dominate political communication but hold no monopoly.

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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

If you are a Ph.D student studying SE Asia developing your prospectus, please consider this pre dissertation grant for fieldwork. The grant is up to $5000 and sponsored by the Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG). Feel free to contact me with any questions. dcid.sanford.duke.edu/seareg-pre-d...

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SEAREG Pre-Dissertation Fellowship | Duke Center for International Development

The Fellowship assists social science Ph.D. students engaged in exploratory research who must travel to Southeast Asia in order to obtain the advanced contextual knowledg

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

New summer reading:) Congrats @scottrw630.bsky.social! An awesome achievement 🥳👏

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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If you are near Boston from December 5-7, consider attending the Southeast Asia Research Group Annual Meeting (SEAREG). It features five outstanding fellows and cutting edge SEA research from top-SEA scholars. To attend, register here: dcid.sanford.duke.edu/seareg-2024-...

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2024 Winter SEAREG Conference | Duke Center for International Development

2024 Winter SEAREG Conference - Duke Center for International Development

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kamran @kamran-hakiman.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Inya Institute announces 2024 CAORC-INYA Scholars Fellowship for post-PhD Myanmar / Burma scholars. $4,000-4,400, application 5 January 2024. Polisky // SEAsiaSky

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2024 CAORC-INYA Scholars Fellowship Program for U.S. Postgraduate Scholars conducting Research Work ...

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Mai Truong @maitruong0526.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I am excited to share my new article in Government and Opposition! In this article, I first categorize protests under authoritarianism as either policy- or democracy-focused, based on (1) their primary goals or demands and (2) the specific solutions protesters seek to achieve these goals.

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Who Dominates the Coalition? Frame Salience and Public Support for Policy–Democracy Protest Coalitions under Authoritarian Rule

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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Tune in virtually or in-person on Thursday (Oct. 24 6pm PST) for our University of Arizona expert forecast for the 2024 Election results in Arizona. We have three great experts Drs. Samara Klar, Chris Weber, and Lisa Sanchez reviewing fresh polling data from AZ. See below for registration details.

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Brian Schaffner @bfschaffner.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

my newest @goodauth.bsky.social piece with Caroline Soler documents how pollsters are weighting polls differently now compared to 2016 and what that means for numbers they are putting out there goodauthority.org/news/pollste...

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Does weighting surveys make them more accurate?

Weighting survey factors like education and past votes is one way pollsters hope to boost the accuracy of 2024 election polls.

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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Anyone researching authoritarian politics -- Masaaki Higashijima and I are reviving the "Un-Democratic Politics" Mini-Conference April 17-19, 2025 at WPSA. If you have an abstract, please email if you're interested in joining!

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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

If you are a US citizen interested in studying an East Asian language, consider applying for the Blakemore Fellowship. I used the fellowship in grad school to study Vietnamese. It's a fantastic program. blakemorefoundation.communityforce.com/Funds/Search...

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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

For those interested in Southeast Asian politics, I have two announcements. First, SEAREG is hosting its annual conference December 6-8 at Boston University. Second, consider nominating an outstanding junior scholar as a SEAREG fellow. Details here: dcid.sanford.duke.edu/seareg/

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SEAREG | Duke Center for International Development

The Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG) highlights the best new research by young social scientists working on Southeast Asian politics and fosters a network of schola

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

In 1943, Arthur Koestler wrote that: "In this war we are fighting against a total lie in the name of a half-truth." What a turn of phrase. (Nazism was the "total lie," whereas the idea that the Allies were fighting against racism and for democracy is the "half-truth.")

Excerpt from "We Need a Fraternity of Pessimists," by Arthur Koestler, New York Times Magazine (November 7, 1943): "In this war we are fighting against a total lie in the name of a half-truth. This is a more modest formulation than those currently used, but if we tentatively accept it the present will probably appear less confused and the future less depressing. We call Nazism's New Order a total lie because it denies the specific ethos of our species, because by proclaiming that might is right it reduces civil law to jungle law, and by proclaiming that race is all, reduces sociology to zoology. With such a philosophy there can be no compromise: it must unconditionally surrender."

Koestler, continued: "We, on the other hand, live in a climate of half-truths. We fight against racialism, and yet racial discrimination is far from abolished in the Anglo-Saxon countries; we fight for democracy, and yet our mightiest ally is a dictatorship where at last two of the four freedoms are not operating. But such is the sticky, all-pervading influence of our climate that even to mention these facts, undeniable as they are, has the effect of a provocation. 'So why rub it in?' some will probably say. 'This is a battlefield, not a public confessional.' The answer to this is that on both sides of the Atlantic people are getting more restive the more victory approaches. There is a strange mood of uneasiness everywhere; the hangover seems to precede the celebration."

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

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Donghyun Danny Choi @dhdannychoi.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Please submit nominations for APSA's Experiments Section's best book award! We will consider books that either use or are about experimental research methods in the study of politics. (Reposting because there has been a change in the committee.) Polisky

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Alex Braithwaite @thebraith.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Reminder that we are hiring in international law or international organization polisky psjminfo

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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Please find my new paper on gender and clientelism in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. (journals.sagepub.com/eprint/H9VXS...) It's in an upcoming special issue on authoritarianism and gender edited by Marwa Shalaby and Lena Wängnerud

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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Are you/do you know an early career researcher (ABD/postdoc) interested in conflict forecasting, maritime security, and climate change? We're looking for you! Fantastic opportunity to work with the World Wildlife Fund on a cool project – PM me to learn more. And yes, we pay :-) Spread the word.

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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

We are hiring at the University of Arizona for Asst. Prof position in International Law and/or Organization. Please share. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Excited to share that our (@bcastanho.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social) paper will be out soon in AJPS! We investigate how women MPs adapt to their environment, finding that over time women speak in more masculine ways, particularly women in progressive parties. s.gwdg.de/ecTNEN

Abstract for the paper titled "Blending in or standing out? Gendered political communication in 24 democracies" that can be read at the link in this post

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