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Dean Schafer

@schaferd.bsky.social
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AsstProf @MSState, Postdoc @CEU, PhD from @GC_PoliSci. Authoritarian Coalitions in Democracies. Network Analysis, Text-data, Panel Data, Field. Turkish, Arabic, MENA. www.deanschafer.com

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Adrian Del Rio @adridelrio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Can elite divisions undo dictatorships? @schaferd.bsky.social, @javierpadilla.bsky.social and I examine the electoral consequences of elite divisions in dictatorships. @politicsjournal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A thread 🧵
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.
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AUTHLIB @authlibeu.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
📚Our discussion introduces a journal special issue on illiberal politics in Europe edited by AUTHLIB's @zsolt.bsky.social, @petraguasti.bsky.social, @schaferd.bsky.social & Bálint Mikola. ✅ Browse all articles open access! www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
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Illiberal Politics in Europe
Thematic Issue, Vol 13 (2025)
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Trump is building a personalist regime where every university must bend the knee or lose funding and every business must bend the knee or face tariffs, H-1B fees, and regulatory blackmail. You can't cover each domain in isolation; they are all the same story.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Only just catching up to this fascinating little mini-controversy. I will say that one of the advantages of keeping up with fandom is it puts you more in contact with women's iddy sexual or romantic preferences, and so makes this phenomenon obvious... nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/this-inter...
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This internet poll is breaking men's brains!
And this is what we get when male fitness standards clash with female preferences.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Another story of 1. Admin sends fascist order 2. Media reports on it 3. People are outraged, say no 4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake” Lesson is defy fascist orders kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...
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BYU student's visa reinstated after unexpected revocation
A Japanese doctorate student at BYU will now be able to stay in the U.S. after his visa was revoked earlier this month.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness" neocons: abolish ICE david brooks: communist manifesto Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...
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UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in
AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...
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Piotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🆕📝🚨 Glad to see this one out in International Journal of Cultural Policy. With data from @authlibeu.bsky.social, we review cultural policies of 🇭🇺Orbán, 🇵🇱Kaczyński, 🇨🇿Babiš, and 🇸🇰Fico. A short thread👇 1/4 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @schaferd.bsky.social @jsuchanek.bsky.social
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Dean Schafer @schaferd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Excited to see our article out: "Opposition to Government and Back" coauthored with @franziskawagner.bsky.social and @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social. We show that illiberal far right parties pull conservative parties to the right on immigration, and that inclusion is not an effective containment strategy.
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Ben Yoel @benyoel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
APSA panel accepted!! I'm excited to be co-organizing a panel on democratic backsliding and opposition resistance, featuring @cristyramirezp.bsky.social, @dnsltr.bsky.social, @beattyriedl.bsky.social, and @schaferd.bsky.social, with @lgamboa.bsky.social and @orcunselcuk.bsky.social as discussants!
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/02/2025
See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...
Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I feel like wikipedia is the only institution that was actually ready for this.
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Dean Schafer @schaferd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It's painful to see democratic breakdown in the US described so clearly. We knew the threat was real. Trump ran an openly authoritarian campaign after trying to overthrow the last election. In the last 3 weeks, he's followed the Project 2025 plan for consolidating executive power.
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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 11/02/2025
Sneak preview of something useful that I'm working on in the hope that enough of you are enthusiastic that I actually manage to finish it. Features nice plots too! TL;DR: Every time you dichotomised some continuous data, it was probably fine.
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Dean Schafer @schaferd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Is there an up-to-date dataset of US Congress floor speeches (both house and senate)? I know govinfo.gov publishes the congressional record, but they are pdf, and I don't want to scrape. Stanford has a dataset that ends in 2017. I'm hoping there's a university that maintains a ready-to-use dataset
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 06/02/2025
This is outstanding work, outstanding news, and an encouraging sign of how sunlight is the best disinfectant against the Musk virus
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Sickos meme with 'sicko' replaced by 'political scientists'
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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
How do autocrats stay in power? Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Eminent political scientists sound the alarm at the prospect of overturning the NC Supreme Court election in a new amicus brief www.aclu.org/cases/griffi... NC's "path is thus broadly comparable to the path of a country like Hungary" Now seeking to throw out an election on pretextual grounds
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Having published a book recently, I found it sometimes hard to understand how the process worked (and luckily, had very kind mentors who helped). I have uploaded a short document detailing how my experience went, in case others find it helpful: www.vicentevalentim.com/_files/ugd/a...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/01/2025
It remains astounding to me, as someone who had a few small interactions with Marc, how much a little criticism directed at him turned him into such a baby. Like literally none of what he says here is accurate.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I’m excited to share DIME v4.0 is live! This release covers through the 2024 cycle and contains records for 850M+ itemized political contributions and ideological scores for millions of candidates, PACs, and donors. stanford.io/3DJDCYm
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Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME): Public version 4.0
Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME): Public version 4.0
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"Why America’s economy is soaring ahead of its rivals: The country’s outperformance is rooted in long-term productivity growth that is the envy of the developed world." 🇺🇸 buff.ly/3Zhe7EH "Other advanced economies show little sign of this dynamism."
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Dean Schafer @schaferd.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Best academic-pop culture crossover reference ever. The article addresses the repercussions of opposition failure. Opposition coalitions can end electoral authoritarianism, but risk greater repression: "if you come for the king, you best not miss." doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
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American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
Opposition coalitions under electoral authoritarianism have been associated with greater likelihood of opposition victory and democratization. I argue, however, that coalitions also entail significan....
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Ramin Skibba @raminskibba.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Unbelievable. Republican leaders are blocking additional relief from Hurricane Helene because they think it’ll be politically expedient! www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Mike Johnson won't commit to bringing House back before the election for more hurricane relief
In a letter to congressional leaders, Biden urged Congress to restore funding to the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program as it faces potential funding shortfalls.
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
Deadline Saturday (6/15)! Apply for the 2024 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) program that awards between 20 and 25 grants yearly of between $10K-$15K to support doctoral dissertation research in political science. #polisky politicalsciencenow.com/2024-apsa-do...
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APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Now Accepting Applications -
Applications for the 2024 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) are due June 15, 2024. The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant project provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research [...]
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South European Society & Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
🎺In our #NewIssue!🎺 'Democratic Backsliding, Conflict, and Partisan Mobilisation of Ethnic Groups: Local Government Control and Electoral Participation in Turkey' by Reşat Bayer & Özge Kemahlıoğlu Read it here 👇https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13608746.2023.2255017 #polisky
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Democratic Backsliding, Conflict, and Partisan Mobilisation of Ethnic Groups: Local Government Control and Electoral Participation in Turkey
Partisan mobilisation is critical for constituencies with low premobilisation participation, even in countries like Turkey with generally high levels of electoral turnout. We argue that parties app...
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Dean Schafer @schaferd.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Still feels wild everytime I use this card to get into the building
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
📢 📢 📢 OPEN DATA RELEASE 📢 📢 📢 New large-scale comparative dataset on (negative) campaigns and candidate personality worldwide NEGex 2.0 is now available: osf.io/mekwg/ Covers all nat elections worldwide (2016-2020) ✅ 142 national elections ✅ 720 candidates ✅ 457 parties Data is open & free
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Dean Schafer @schaferd.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
As good an introduction as any on this platform! This year I'm working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Central European University's Democracy Institute. The "AuthLib" project aims to map the Varieties of Illiberalism! fb.watch/ndmPxLpTIK/?...
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Meet the DI: Dean Schafer | ‼️ MEET THE DI ‼️ Our colleagues...
‼️ MEET THE DI ‼️ Our colleagues introduce themselves, and talk about their work in our video series. 📽️ Meet our Post-doctoral Fellow, Dean Schafer⤵️
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