Incoming postdoc @ Stanford CDDRL| PhD candidate in Political Science at MSU | Predoc @ SNF Agora Institute, JHU | IPPSR Fellow | resistance to democratic erosion | Past: UChicago Visiting PhD student, Reichman University alum, EA @ JoP | benjaminyoel.com
Ben Yoel
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EPSS paper submitted! I will be presenting the early stage theory & results from my book project on foreign cues and public support for pro-democracy movements in backsliding contexts on Friday the 19th at 5:10pm and discussing several terrific papers. If you will be at EPSS, I would love to meet.
Ben Yoel
We are happy to release Version 4 of WhoGov, which expands WhoGov to 2025. It now contains data on cabinet members from 1966-2025.
The update is supported by UiO:Democracy and can be downloaded through GETGOV's page or through Nuffield College: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/whogov-datas....
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Ever since humans settled into communities, there have been political classes. A small elite governs, while the majority are governed. Yet, who are the people in the governing elite? GETGOV will answe...
Final paper from my dissertation sent out for peer review finally!
Tomorrow at 12pm ET/6pm CET. We will be speaking with activists from Israel's Protest Headquarters about Israel's autocratization as well as lessons learned and what the democracy protests in Israel mean for the country's upcoming critical election (scheduled to be held in October at the latest).
Tomorrow at 12pm ET/6pm CET. We will be speaking with activists from Israel's Protest Headquarters about Israel's autocratization as well as lessons learned and what the democracy protests in Israel mean for the country's upcoming critical election (scheduled to be held in October at the latest).
We are continuously validating and updating the data. I, for one, am very grateful to have been able to have previously advised from folks from the State Department, Freedom House, and others on measuring democratic erosion, drawing from the data and my experience working on this. More in the paper!
Panelists are all former government officials and activists who have played an instrumental role behind the scenes in helping manage the protests in Israel. We will discuss lessons learned, the successes and failures of the protests in Israel, and the country's upcoming election. All welcome!
We identify over 20,000 events pertaining to democratic erosion events in over 155 countries spanning the period from 2000-2024. In short, we find that, while democratic erosion events have sharply risen, so have resistance events. As such, democratic erosion is not inevitable.
