Interested in how competitive authoritarianism in Turkey remained resilient in May 2023 elections? Here is our article with Berk and Sebnem Gumuscu published on SESP Starting from Saturday it will be open access!!

Can you #BuildAnAmericanVoter ?

A straight white Latina woman aged 25-34 from rural Iowa, who is agnostic and has a postgraduate degree has an:

🔵 85% chance of voting for Biden
🔴 15% Trump

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PRESS RELEASE: #Mexico institutes proceedings against #Ecuador and asks the #ICJ to indicate provisional measures bit.ly/4cVReww

The democracy-authoritarianism cleavage is once again rising in Turkish politics. Since the local elections, Ekrem İmamoğlu has been highlighting Turkey's importance in the global decline of democracy and the resilience of the opposition actors.

We were lucky to have Alejandro García Magos in my Populism class. He talked about Mexico's political culture and AMLO's populism. He is an engaging and passionate speaker on these subjects.

I'm hosting an online event this Friday at 2pm: discussion on authoritarianism in Latin America with Manuel Meléndez Sánchez 🇸🇻, Will Freeman, and (twitterless?) Carmen Martínez-Novo. All are welcome. Please distribute widely and please register!

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A huge mistake by President Daniel Noboa and an embarrassment for Ecuador in the region and the whole world.

Seçim sonuçlarını görselleştirmek için illa haritalar kullanmaya gerek olmadığını dile getirmiştim.
Türkiye'de 1963'ten 2024'e kadar gerçekleştirilen yerel seçim sonuçlarını 'heatmap' (ısı haritası) kullanarak görselleştirdim.
Tam boyutlu hali için: ozancanozdemir.github.io/secim_heatmap.…

Populist Storytelling and Negative Affective Polarization: Social Media Evidence from Mexico | Latin American Politics and Society | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3PVyaor

Congratulations to Vanessa Frazier, a Luther College grad who is currently chairing the United Nations Security Council.

Preliminary evidence suggests that Ekrem İmamoğlu benefited from incumbency advantage in Istanbul elections. He won in some areas that voted for the AKP on other ballots, indicating that some government supporters preferred İmamoğlu over Murat Kurum.

Hür ve müstakil stratejisinin tutmayacağı aylar öncesinden çok ama çok belliydi. Özellikle Özgür Özel'in CHP genel başkanı seçilmesiyle Akşener iyice ofsayta düşmüştü. Bugün gelinen durum hiç şaşırtıcı değil.

Next year, ISA and MPSA will both happen in Chicago, but in different months. I have never been to ISA before, but I consider attending it in 2025. Also, can we make sure that MPSA and ISA do not happen at the same time again?

Sunday 8 am panel alert! #MPSA2024

Dilara Hekimci-Adak and I are presenting an extension of our article on the democracy-authoritarianism cleavage. Our new project looks at the determinants of opposition coordination in the 2023 and the 2024 elections Turkey.

We hope you’re having a great time at MPSA! We’re thrilled to be offering 40% on our titles, as well as free shipping. Use code 14MPSA24 on our website to get the discount!

With my co-authors Dilara Hekimci-Adak, Pablo Hernández Borges, and Salomé Valdivieso at #MPSA2024

Less than a year after a bitter loss, the opposition dealt Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling party their largest electoral defeat in decades. The question is whether they can now build on their success.

NEW #onlineexclusive by Sebnem Gumuscu Berk
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Weyland's new book challenges the assumption that populism always destroys democracy. By analyzing cases in Latin America and Europe, he makes the case that populist leaders undermine democracy only when certain conditions are met.

MPSA has started today. You can pre-order my book with a 40 percent discount during the MPSA 2024 conference using the code 14MPSA24

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Ecuadorian security forces just *broke into the Mexican Embassy in Quito* to seize and arrest former Ecuadorian VP Jorge Glas.

In response, AMLO announced Mexico is breaking diplomatic relations with Ecuador.

This is going to hurt Ecuador a lot more than Mexico...