Professor, @sampol.bsky.social; Project Manager, @vdeminstitute.bsky.social; Iowan; klmarquardt.com
Kyle Marquardt
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💡 2 PhD positions
🇳🇴 Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen
🗓️ 4 years
💶 Fully funded
👩🏫 25 % teaching
⏳ 11 August 2026
🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Ok, as we are waiting for crunch time, I’m sure you absolutely want to see this rocket political science plot:
The trend is clear, even if noisy: countries with higher liberal democracy scores also tend to perform better at #Eurovision #esc2026 (data: @vdeminstitute.bsky.social)
Come work at the best Department that exists (yes, I am biased).
Either arXiv’s new policy on LLM-generated text changes nothing, or you should be asking yourself some hard questions about work with your human coauthors.
New open-access window (2 weeks): Erica Marat & Aizada Arystanbek, Decolonial Disruptions in Central Asia (CUP Elements series Politics and Society from Central Europe to Central Asia).
Download: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
#CentralAsia #DecolonialStudies #MemoryPolitics
Congrats to Natalia Otrishchenko, Artem Kharchenko, and Valentyna Shevchenko, for winning the AAUS best article prize for their article “Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project: Intertwined Experiences and Methodologies”! (Article link in next post)
🚨New Bright Line Watch report on the rule of law in the US - joint w/@rickhasen.bsky.social's Strengthening Democracy Project at UCLA Law
The most comprehensive expert survey to date - 21 federal judges, 113 elite lawyers, and 193 law profs
brightlinewatch.org/erosion-of-t...
🧵 on findings below ⬇️
Excited to announce that my paper "Socioeconomic development and the uneven legacies of authoritarian repression" has been published at the Journal of Historical Political Economy. This grew out of my second year ("591") PhD paper. www.emerald.com/jhpe/article...
New book on democracy. #OpenAccess Seven Myths about Democracy by Jørgen Møller & Svend-Erik Skaaning, Routledge taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon.... Challenges (full or partial) misunderstandings about the meaning, trajectory, causes, and consequences of democracy.
Department of Comparative Politics UiB
📑❗️Our article with @grigopop.bsky.social and Graeme Robertson on the effects of Ukraine’s decentralization reform on satisfaction with public services (and democracy) in Ukraine 🇺🇦 was just published in Comparative Political Studies! doi.org/10.1177/0010...
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Decolonial Disruptions in Central Asia
This timely book challenges seven widespread misconceptions about democracy that continue to shape public and academic debates about its past, present, and
We are hiring! Please share 👉
💡 2 PhD positions
🇳🇴 Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen
🗓️ 4 years
💶 Fully funded
👩🏫 25 % teaching
⏳ 11 August 2026
🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Department of Comparative Politics UiB
Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social article "Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project: Intertwined Experiences and Methodologies" wins American Association for Ukrainian Studies' top article prize ukrainianstudies.org/aaus-announc...
