🚨 Calling scholars of autocracies and political transitions! 📚 The @PolStudiesAssoc Annual Conference 2025 is approaching! Join us in Birmingham from 14-16 April. Submit your abstract to the Autocracy & Regime Change Specialist Group by 18 October 2024. #PSA25. Details below👇.

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As part of our call for papers for #PSA25, we are excited to invite submissions for a panel co-sponsored by @CEDAR_Bham on authoritarian regime change in comparative perspective. In addition, we welcome submissions on autocracies and regime change broadly. Details👇

Submission deadline is the 18 October⏳🗓️. 🔗 Conference info: 💡 Submit your abstract here:

Submission process:. Head to Ex-Ordo 👉 to log in or create an account. Once logged in, click 'Dashboard', then hit the 'Submit Abstract' button. Make sure to select ‘Autocracy & Regime Change SG’ under 'Topics' to ensure we receive your abstract.

🙏Many thanks to the decision panel, @NilsWMetternich and @KTertytchnaya, and to all who submitted papers for the prize!.

🏆 The winner is Chan Ka Ming @ChanKaMing15 with the paper "Can authoritarians’ electoral success abroad change citizens’ satisfaction with democracy?"! 🏆.

🎉 We're thrilled to announce the winner of our Best Paper Award for the @polStudiesAssoc Annual Conference 2024! 🎉.

🚨 Today is your last chance to register for our launch event tomorrow 👇. Sign up here:

📢 Join us for our launch event this Friday! . We're looking forward to discussing how to engage with authoritarian regimes with leading experts!. Please register here to attend:

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This event may be of interest to our colleagues @PsaTurkish @psa_ecn @PSA_South_Asia @populismPSA @TheBFPG @InstituteGC @WFD_Democracy @ChathamHouse @CH_MENAP @Chathamhouse_As @ODI_Global @FCDOGovUK @FCDOHumanRights @FPCThinkTank @CHRussiaEurasia @IISS_org @IDS_UK @FCDOResearch.

(9/9)📲 Whether you're in policy-making, academia, or just interested in the politics of non-democratic states, mark your calendars and join us for an insightful afternoon!.

(8/9)🤝 There will be plenty of opportunities for networking throughout the event.

(7/9)🏆 We will also announce the winner of the award for the best paper on autocracy and regime change presented at this year's PSA Conference.

(6/9) Speakers: .🔹 Prof Natasha Lindstaedt (University of Essex) @TashLindstaedt .🔹 Graeme Ramshaw (Westminster Foundation for Democracy) @BN7WFD .🔹 Dr Barbara Piotrowska (King’s College London) @bm_piotrowska .Moderator: Dr Janina Beiser-McGrath (RHUL) @jbeisermcgrath.

(5/9)🕑 Panel 2: 2.45pm - 3.45pm "How researchers can gather and use evidence on non-democratic states.".

(4/9) Speakers: .🔹 Prof Nic Cheeseman (University of Birmingham) @Fromagehomme .🔹 Evie Aspinall (British Foreign Policy Group) @EvieAspinall_ .🔹 Amalia Khachatryan (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change) .Moderator: Dr Felix Wiebrecht (University of Liverpool) @FelixWiebrecht.

(3/9) 🕐 Panel 1: 1.15pm - 2.15pm "How democratic states can interact with non-democratic states in foreign policy.".

(2/9)🌟 We're thrilled to co-present this event with the RHUL Centre for Global Politics and Development. Dive deep into discussions on non-democratic states in the context of both foreign policy and academic research.