Associate Professor in Political Science @vicUniWgtn | Author of "Non-Democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization"
Wellington, New Zealand
Joined January 2011
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My new book, "Non-democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization" is finally out! abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.…
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Do you work on some aspect of international political economy? Want to live by the ocean and driving distance from Peter Jackson, James Cameron, and those Flight of the Concords guys? Shoot your shot and come work with me! jobs.ac.uk/job/DTJ580/lectur…
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Happy to share a thread on my new article out in American Journal of Sociology: “The Less Agreeable Side of Charisma: Donald Trump, Incredulous Onlooking, and Anti-structural Power.” /1 doi.org/10.1086/743490
My "Mechanisms of Personalization" is now fully published with an issue and volume number! tandfonline.com/eprint/V8C8T…
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My full response to Ted Chiang’s Atlantic essay on AI consciousness is up. In short, he’s a brilliant novelist doing bad philosophy of mind — conceptual confusions, appeals to vibes, and claims out of proportion to evidence. Link in comments!
ICYMI - new version of my {democracyData} package
New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/democrac…
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New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/democrac…
Possibly also worth noting that @freedomhouse no longer makes available a public-facing download of their latest Freedom in the World data so this version of democracyData only archives the 2025 release.
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Not sure who's still around that might be interested but tagging @OurWorldInData @RexDouglass @seskaaning
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It also includes various bug fixes, new tests, and documentation updates, many substantially made possible by Codex and Claude Code. Full changelog xmarquez.github.io/democracy…
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Includes extracts from VDem v. 16, Bertelsmann Transformation index 2026, EIU 2026, latest update from DD, Bjørnskov-Rode v6.2, LIED v. 6.9, the latest update from the World Bank's World Governance Indicators Voice and Accountability index, Anckar v. 3.0
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New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/democrac…
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An open source website on the Chinese Communist Party elite, with data visualizations. Every Central Committee (4,324), Politburo (168), and PBSC member from 1945–Present.
All data available for download, as promised. Link and some standout charts below🧵
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An open source website on the Soviet elite with data visualizations. Every Central Committee (4,480) and Politburo member (130) from 1917–1991.
All data made easily available for replication (compiled from books below and other sources)
sovietleadershipdata.pages.d…
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My adventures in vibecoding.— unpopularfront.news/p/i-buil…
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Okay, my authoritarian consolidation index POLYBIUS (after the historian) is live — I'm gonna run the search a couple times a day max to update it because otherwise I'll go broke. from API fees polybius.world/
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Pleased to share a new, open-access article on Interwar era authoritarian regimes in East-Central Europe. The first paper in a broader project on Interwar authoritarianism and lessons we can learn today on governance, institutions, and political order.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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New version 0.6.0 of my #rstats package {democracyData} xmarquez.github.io/democracy… With updated data from @freedomhouse and several other sources (to 2024), plus various small improvements. I had not updated this in a while!
Also of potential interest if they are still on this website to
@SevaUT
@carlhknutsen
@SeraphineMaerz
@MilanSvolik
@stevenvmiller
@DenisonBe
@fredericksolt
@JoeDNoonan
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