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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

📢 New paper out at World Development "Can Community Policing Improve Police-Community Relations in a Low-Income Country Setting?" With Rob Blair (@robertblair.bsky.social) & Anna Wilke (@awilke.bsky.social).

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Michael Albertus @mikealbertus.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

My interview with Democratic Erosion Consortium Directors @robertblair.bsky.social, Laura Paler, Jessica Gottlieb, and Julie Anne Weaver on their *new global dataset* on democracy! And on how to measure and understand democracy today, in the US & abroad michaelalbertus.substack.com/p/q-and-a-wi...

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Q&A with Directors of the Democratic Erosion Consortium

How their work helps us understand democracy & democratic erosion in the US and globally

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Your Monday morning podcast is my conversation with @robertblair.bsky.social. Substantive discussion of democratic erosion AND concrete ways for YOU to do something about it. FREE resources from the @demerosiondec.bsky.social #PoliSky #LawSky #AcademicSky newbooksnetwork.com/peacekeeping...

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Calibrating the Outrage: A Conversation about Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics - New Books Network

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Democratic Erosion Consortium @demerosiondec.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Planning to teach on democracy next AY? Join as a Faculty Affiliate to access our cross-university Democratic Erosion syllabus and materials (you can use 1 week or all). We also support cross-university assignments. New version launching this fall! democratic-erosion.org/teaching/tea...

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Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Hi there -- if you are interested in #democratic erosion and democratic backsliding -- consider following the Democratic Erosion Consortium @demerosiondec.bsky.social as well as @robertblair.bsky.social #History #PoliSky #LawSky #PolicySky #AcademicSky

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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 03/04/2025

New from @insidehighered.com: A powerful series on canceled research grants & how these cuts are derailing critical work. SSN supported 4 of the pieces by connecting SSN members with editor @elizabethredden.bsky.social and helping edit their drafts. 🧵 Read the full series. ⤵️

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Federal Grant Cuts in Researchers’ Own Words (opinion)

Researchers whose federal grants have been terminated since the start of the Trump administration describe some of the myriad impacts.

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Donghyun Danny Choi @dhdannychoi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The deadline for submission of papers to the Boston/New England Area Working Group in African Political Economy (BWGAPE) is March 28 (Friday). Please consider applying! #polisky #EconSky @nlnathan.bsky.social @evlieb.bsky.social @robertblair.bsky.social

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Democratic Erosion Consortium @demerosiondec.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Incredible discussion at yesterday's panel co-hosted by @ndidemocracy.bsky.social. Thank you to Tamara Cofman Wittes @tcwittes.bsky.social, Tom Carothers, Danny Choi @dhdannychoi.bsky.social, Agustina Giraudy, and all who joined to explore 2025 global trends in resisting democratic erosion!

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Watson School at Brown @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

New Trending Globally #podcast: The surprising causes and effects of democratic erosion — @robertblair.bsky.social discusses the nuanced reality of democratic erosion in the U.S. and globally, exploring its causes, signs, and potential solutions.

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Rob Blair @robertblair.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Would you sooner use ChatGPT to (a) grade student papers or (b) write an academic peer review? Assume forced choice

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Rob Blair @robertblair.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Still accepting applications to work with me as a postdoc next year. Remote work possible. Will review files beginning in Jan. Pls apply / share apply.interfolio.com/142214

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Mike Tierney @miketierneyir.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Great work by Sam Cuter, Phil Roessler, and @robertblair.bsky.social -- surprising results on whether elites in developing countries prefer #China vs other donors. And whether they like #transparency. #AidData, @the-peio.bsky.social, @iatistandard.org, @ryancbriggs.net, @ryanjablonski.bsky.social

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Rob Blair @robertblair.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

What do elites want from the foreign aid they receive? Conjoint experiment in 141 countries w/ Sam Custer and Phil Roessler, now online @ajpseditor.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Rob Blair @robertblair.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

The Democratic Erosion Consortium is hiring a Data Research Assistant. Applications still open. Ad is here: www.democratic-erosion.com/join-the-tea... Ideal for a current grad student. Please share / consider applying

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Data Research Assistant Position - Job Advert.docx.pdf

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Experimental Research Section Award nominations are open! Deadline for nominations is April 15. I'm on the dissertation award committee with @robertblair.bsky.social and Love Christensen -- we want to read your dissertations whose main inferences are grounded in experimental design.

1. Best Dissertation awarded in 2023:

Love Christensen Love.christensen@ps.au.dk
Robert Blair Robert_Blair@Brown.edu
Alex Coppock Alex.coppock@yale.edu

2. Best Paper Presented in 2023 at APSA:

Chaigai Weiss cmweiss@stanford.edu
Rajeshwari Majumdar majumdar@nyu.edu
Joshua Tucker NYU Joshua.tucker@nyu.edu

3. Best Book Published in 2023:

Nicholas Sambanis Nicholas.Sambanis@yale.edu
Danny Choi dannychoi@brown.edu
Mathias Poertner m.poertner@lse.ac.uk

4. Best Article published in Journal of Experimental Political Science (JEPS) in 2023

5. Best paper based on a pre-analysis plan published in JEPS in 2023

6. Best Replication published in JEPS in 2023:

All three awards have the same committee:

Jenn Jerit Jennifer.L.Jerit@dartmouth.edu
Scott Clifford scottaclifford@gmail.com
Bert Bakker B.N.Bakker@uva.nl

7. Best public service in 2023 :

Don Green dpg2110@columbia.edu
Macartan Humphreys macartan@gmail.com
Daniel Posner dposner@polisci.ucla.edu

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