Professor of Political Science & DGS @GWtweets. Run @authwarning. Study democratization, autocracy, and democratic survival. Author of Shock to the System.
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Joined July 2020
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Michael K. Miller retweeted
new piece in Foreign Affairs with @schneierblog on how autocrats are using AI to deal with scheming viziers. free access
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Michael K. Miller retweeted
We're hiring in Comparative Politics here at GW (@GWtweets)! Come join our fantastic department, and plug your research directly into DC’s policy community
Work on all regions welcome
I'm on the committee and happy to answer any questions
gwu.jobs/postings/128521
Michael K. Miller retweeted
I don’t always stay up to date (hey, I retired in 2020), but sometimes when I catch up, I’m amazed at what I read. This book is an absolute tour de force!
@mkmdem is correct here: the book has made me think of democratization in a new way.
After 8 years, it's finally done. I'm thrilled to announce my book, Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democratization, is coming out at @PrincetonUPress. I promise it will make you think about democratization in a new way. /1 press.princeton.edu/books/pa…
Michael K. Miller retweeted
Today @ps_polisci published a symposium with many great contributions to the "measuring democracy and implications for global backsliding debate."
The symposium includes a shorter article version (open access) of the paper detailed in the long thread below.
A few months ago, @anthlittle & @annemeng 's paper on democracy measurement and democratic backsliding caught a lot of attention: teapaw.org/annemeng_/status/16157…
Together with 9 colleagues from the V-Dem project, we engage with L&M’s argument and analysis in a new working paper. A🧵:
Michael K. Miller retweeted
New to #firstview this week: @UCLA Julian Michel, @GWtweets @mkmdem, & @UCLA @MIgrationNerd examine how autocracies decide who is allowed to emigrate, with new data from East Germany.
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Michael K. Miller retweeted
Check out the recording of PS's Roundtable on Democratic Backsliding at APSA 2023!
youtube.com/watch?v=qJwSChva…
@anthlittle @annemeng_ @carlhknutsen
@dweitzel @dstreisman @gorokhovskaia
@StaffanILindber @robert_a_blair @mkmdem
Michael K. Miller retweeted
I want to thank @mkmdem for a very detailed, comprehensive, and generous review of my "Opposing Power" book, alongside 2 others, published in the latest issue of @PoPpublicsphere. His summary of my book is even better than my own! Open access! ♥️♥️♥️
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Michael K. Miller retweeted
According to our Authoritarian Threat Index, the 2022 midterm elections altered the threats to democracy in the United States but did not eliminate them. @ianbassin and @braderstorf break down exactly how. @authwarning protectdemocracy.org/work/th…
Michael K. Miller retweeted
Global
Albertus @mikealbertus & Menaldo. 2018. Authoritarianism & the Elite Origins of Democracy
Coppedge, Edgell @acrowinghen, Knutsen @carlhknutsen, & Lindberg @StaffanILindber (eds.). 2022. Why Democracies Develop and Decline
Miller. 2021. Shock to the System
Michael K. Miller retweeted
🍂 SEPTEMBER ISSUE 🍂
🆕 @annemeng_ presents an insightful #bookreview of 'Shock to the System: Coups, #Elections, and #War on the Road to #Democratization' (2021) by @mkmdem
👉 Read it at bit.ly/3UsqkU7
Michael K. Miller retweeted
Looking for a book on #democratization? Read the book note I wrote about @mkmdem's "Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democratization" (2021) at @JPR_journal - and then read the book! @PRIOresearch prio.org/journals/jpr/bookno…
Michael K. Miller retweeted
Would you like to learn more about democracy?
Try our new Democracy Data Explorer!
ourworldindata.org/explorers…
It provides several hundred interactive visualizations from eight leading democracy datasets.
A 🧵about what it includes:
Michael K. Miller retweeted
I read a book, I liked it! Congratulations to @mkmdem for his extraordinary new book. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Michael K. Miller retweeted
Many transitions arise from elite struggles when people are not aiming for or barely thinking about democracy, @mkmdem tells @DemParadox of the
@groupdemocracy podcast network. demdigest.org/shock-to-the-s…
Michael K. Miller retweeted
Republican Senators keep reciting the part of the Constitution that says states set voting rules
but they stop reading the clause halfway through so they don’t have to say the second half:
“but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations”.
Just amazing.
Michael K. Miller retweeted
I reviewed @mkmdem's new book, Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democratization. Read it here tinyurl.com/4fpy6f4n
I love this book! It reframes democratization as a CONTINUATION of existing elite arrangements rather than a total system upheaval 1/
Michael K. Miller retweeted
New research from Margaret Peters and Michael Miller examines the affect of emigration on political violence and protests.
@MigrationNerd @mkmdem
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Michael K. Miller retweeted
The state of Missouri commissioned a study to see if mask mandates worked. When the results came in, showing they saved lives, the state blocked publication in order to maintain its attempt to force cities like St. Louis to end their mask mandates: missouriindependent.com/2021…
