Hace más de 2 años conocí el dolor de perder a una abuela. Volvió ese dolor. Mi amada abuela Graciela se montó en el vuelo con Francisco, rumbo al descanso eterno. Enérgica, amorosa, divertida, bondadosa. Mi abuela fue testimonio vivo de la mujer venezolana. Te amo. Vuela alto❤️

Cada día es más evidente que el presidente Trump no es un aliado de la restitución de la democracia en #Venezuela. En todo caso, sus acciones lo que podrían terminar logrando es normalizar el autoritarismo y las graves violaciones a los #DDHH que persisten en Venezuela.

View from Magdalen Tower this morning. Over 16,000 people attended this year's event 👏 📸 Instagram | BethStenlake #MayDay

BREAKING: Germany’s domestic intelligence service has officially classified the entire Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as right-wing extremist

📌New publication: Thrilled to see this piece with Senem Aydın-Düzgit online in German Politics! We examine Germany’s reaction to Turkey’s democratic track record and its rule of law support in 🇹🇷, using the concept of “status quo power”. 👇 tandfonline.com/eprint/RVH8AHK… A 🧵on findings:

The U.S. intelligence community has declassified its joint assessment from last month which finds that #Venezuela’s Maduro does not direct the Tren de Aragua prison gang, and “probably does not have a policy of coordinating with TDA.”

Congratulations to Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, Katerina Hatzikidi and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/43Q4CjY #Brazil #Populism

A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in Journal of Politics @[email protected] with Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte. We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right 🇬🇧🇪🇸 doi.org/10.1086/736698

Welcome to LASA 2025! Here we provide a handy and friendly summary of panels and events focused on Venezuela and Venezuelanists for today, May 23, 2025. Happy LASA! Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

Hoy hay 3 candidatos de la derecha con posibilidades de llegar a 2da vuelta en 🇨🇱 . Todos plantean reducir impuestos para reactivar crecimiento. ¿Qué dice la literatura sobre efectos de reducir impuestos? No afectan el crecimiento pero si aumentan la desigualdad 🤷‍♂️

My first academic article in 3 years has just been published in Democratization. I started working on it back in September 2021. Honestly, had I known in advance how hard it would be to complete this project, I probably wouldn’t have started it at all. 1/7 doi.org/10.1080/135103…

Third, Smart Vote gave people living under a repressive authoritarian regime a tool for expressing their dissent in a safe way and coordinating when all other avenues for collective action had already been destroyed. That, I believe, was the campaign’s main contribution. 6/7

Turkey detains five mayors in latest crackdown on opposition on.ft.com/4kngVJU

🧠Can affective polarization erode democratic support without strong party ties? ➡️Using a survey experiment in Chile’s 2022 plebiscite, L. Cox, P. Cubillos & Carmen Le Foulon show that subtle polarization cues reduce democratic commitment cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🔴EXCLUSIVA | Álvaro Leyva, excanciller colombiano durante este Gobierno, se reunió hace dos meses en Estados Unidos con asesores cercanos a la Administración de Donald Trump para buscar su apoyo a un plan para hacer caer a Gustavo Petro 🖋️ Juan Diego Quesada 🔗tinyurl.com/m6vzm3fv

Our latest article with Berk Esen Berk is published Journal of Democracy (free to read—link below): We argue that Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian regime may soon reach its material and coercive limits, inhibiting Turkey’s transition to hegemonic authoritarianism. Moreover,

The arrest of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu signals Erdoğan’s attempt to crush the opposition and shift Turkey from competitive to hegemonic authoritarianism. But resistance is growing. In our new Journal of Democracy article with Sebnem Gumuscu, we explain the autocratization process in

So much going on, but I'm pleased to share my study of the vernacular politics of gender construction. As a former pastry chef, I gathered data from 600 hours of cooking shows to unpack what I term "conservative gender edutainment." Read Sana cup.org/46pO43h

✝️Does the rise of evangelical Christians reshape electoral politics? ➡️ V. Araújo shows that Brazil’s evangelical boom is linked to lower voter turnout and greater conservatism, but not to a rise in electoral competition or polarization cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

📢 #ComunicadoCristosal | Tras 25 años de trabajo en El Salvador, suspendemos operaciones en el país ante la escalada de criminalización. Nuestra labor continúa, reorganizada y comprometida, desde Guatemala y Honduras. Para más información. ⬇️ #CristosalNoSeDetiene