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Been thinking about Carlson’s Russian adventure. What gets me is his smugness, the belief he is doing something exceptional. Instead, Russia has been luring Western journalists like him for a century. He is merely the latest shill. The fact he is oblivious is the best bit 😂

It’s book release day! My monograph, Dialogue with the Dictator: Authoritarian Legitimation and Information Management in Putin’s Russia, is officially out with Cambridge University Press A short thread…

It’s just odd that the “authoritarian elections are so flawed they shouldn’t even be called elections” crowd only appears when Russia holds them… There is 90 years of research and 1000’s of flawed elections suggesting otherwise. Some perspective would be welcome…

Brian Klaas should know better: of COURSE Russia has had an election - just one lacking electoral integrity. Arguably more common, both historically and worldwide, than democratic contests.

🧵After much work with Nhu Truong and Maggie Shum, our Democratization special issue on "Agents of Resistance: Resolve and Repertoires Against Autocratization in Asia" is finally published! The introduction to the special issue is open access here: doi.org/10.1080/135103…

I am 100 percent confident I am 100 percent going to dislike this book.

Does the government’s #disinformation affect regime survival in democracy and autocracy? New comparative evidence has just been published in an article by Political Research Quarterly with Felix Wiebrecht #openaccess article: doi.org/10.1177/106591… Here's our findings:🧵👇

Congratulations to my PhD student Bogdan Mamaev on the publication his Cambridge Element "The Evolution of Authoritarianism and Contentious Action in Russia." A terrific achievement 🤓 cambridge.org/core/elements/… SGIR

PUBLISHED! I’m thrilled to see “On the Move: Autocratic Leaders, Security, and Capital Relocations” published in @Pol_Geog_Jl 🤓 Co-authored with Carl Henrik Knutsen and Tore Wig, it was one of the funnest projects I have ever worked on. Article & abstract- sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Why move the capital (of a country)? We code capital moves 1789-now, and find that it is a habit of autocrats. We argue relocations are used to guard against threats to regime. New publication in @Pol_Geog_Jl Lee Morgenbesser and Carl Henrik Knutsen sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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I had to do it.

I've started to do some research on sportswashing. Here is my first foray. Working with Kevin Filo, we argue that authoritarian regimes have made foolishly oversupplied the world with sportswashed products 🤓 theconversation.com/sportswashing-…

PUBLISHED! My chapter on "The Lost Works of Nondemocratic Rule" has been published in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics, edited by Anne Wolf 🤓 Updated abstract and free access below - academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

He is still alive?! 🤯

How do dictators manage elites to prepare for succession? In a new World Politics article, Peter Ward, 워드 피터，皮得 and I examine this question using quantitative & qualitative data on North Korea: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… 🧵 about the article & related work. 1/12

I shouldn’t have to issue this reminder, but it seems necessary. Good luck to all my American colleagues 🙏