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3 Mar 2025
THE RISE OF DESPOTIC MAJORITARIANISM
I wrote this back when Biden took office, and commentators claimed US and global democracy had been saved.
It wasn't.
If you want a real preview of what's to come, here it is:
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For the last year, I paid a few £ a month for X's premium's 'basic' offering to manage my bookmarks. Today I saw X forcing Tommy Robinson content into my notifications (and countless others), and it reminded me I shouldn't be giving this company my money.
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Congratulations to Jean-Paul Gagnon, @bdmabrams and their co-authors! Their #OpenAccess book The Sciences of the Democracies published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4mAQi54 #PoliticalScience #Democracy #Governance
ALT Book cover titled "The Sciences of the Democracies" by Jean-Paul Gagnon and Benjamin Abrams et al., published by UCL Press. The text is white on a black background.
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7 Aug 2025
I'm excited to announce our book, THE SCIENCES OF THE DEMOCRACIES, is out today with @UCLpress !
This book is a manifesto and a blueprint for strengthening democracy, written with 36 world-leading scholars.
📖Learn more and get a copy open-access at: democracies.science
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Dr. Benjamin Abrams retweeted
30 Jun 2025
New Review Article on Fast Track by @bdmabrams “A Revolution in Revolutionary Theory?” ingentaconnect.com/content/c…
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9 Jul 2025
Delighted to be sharing this piece, on the history and future of revolutionary theory, in @Journal_CompPol!
30 Jun 2025
New Review Article on Fast Track by @bdmabrams “A Revolution in Revolutionary Theory?” ingentaconnect.com/content/c…
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10 Jun 2025
It was such a pleasure to speak on this Monday. Thank you @SociologyOxford for such a fantastic audience and stimulating engagement with my work!
5 Jun 2025
🌟 Join us on Monday for a seminar by Dr Benjamin Abrams!
His work explores a new theoretical model of resistance movements as a distinctive object of social scientific study.
📍 Online & in person
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Dr. Benjamin Abrams retweeted
Curious about cross-disciplinary research? Wondering how collaborating with colleagues from different fields can enhance your work? Participate in our workshop (30/5) for all UCL PhD and Early Career Researchers interested in collaborative social science! tinyurl.com/3n58bxt8
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11 Mar 2025
Are you an @APSAtweets member looking to attend international conferences such as @ECPR; @CEPSAnet ; @AMECIP; @afspinfos? APSA's International Committee will SPONSOR and FUND selected panels.
Submit your proposal here:
apsanet.org/programs/interna…
(RTs appreciated)!
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3 Mar 2025
THE RISE OF DESPOTIC MAJORITARIANISM
I wrote this back when Biden took office, and commentators claimed US and global democracy had been saved.
It wasn't.
If you want a real preview of what's to come, here it is:
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3 Mar 2025
3. Transfers of power from ordinary people to officeholders make people helpless to resist when presidents, prime ministers & their cronies do what they want.
4. Political elites use majorities (even thin ones) to justify what they do as 'representative' & claim even more power.
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3 Mar 2025
Add all this together and you get democracies without substance: empty shells that suck up political legitimacy in election time, and then throw people's votes back in their faces in government, whenever they screw them over.
Read here: berghahnjournals.com/view/jo…
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Dr. Benjamin Abrams retweeted
11 Dec 2024
The newest issue of Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest has been published! View the Table of Contents and more for Volume 12, Issue 1 here: conta.cc/3DiL2RT @bdmabrams
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Dr. Benjamin Abrams retweeted
10 Dec 2024
Exciting moment but I guess everyone knows how lucky I am to be making history as the first UCL SSEES Lecturer in Central Asian Politics and Society.
Here’s my short interview at a new job… ❤️
📢 New SSEES Academic Spotlight
In this edition, we hear from Dr Diana Kudaibergenova, Lecturer in Central Asian Politics and Society. She tells us what brought her to SSEES and shares her biggest professional achievements: bit.ly/41tRe3E
#ssees @CreativeCorazon
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BSA announces that Professor Claire Alexander, of @EthnicityUK, is this year’s winner of the Distinguished Service to British Sociology award, given to the person who has contributed most to the discipline by leading an extraordinary life as a sociologist tinyurl.com/4etd3sab
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Dr. Benjamin Abrams retweeted
6 Dec 2024
So excited to see this - we have an incredibly dynamic PhD group @UCLSociology who have taken it upon themselves to seek funding and organise the below event. I know it will be *fantastic*. @ucl
6 Dec 2024
Call for abstracts: Inaugural UCL Network Sociology PhD Student Conference. Don’t miss this chance to submit an abstract, contribute to the conversation and connect with your fellow PhD students! shorturl.at/Hsw26
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Dr. Benjamin Abrams retweeted
3 Dec 2024
We are moving to Bluesky, please follow us there: @uclsociology
.bsky.social
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2 Dec 2024
This chilling news gives should worry not only activists but all those who come close to them.
Family. Close friends. Scholars. Journalists. None can now assume they will not be targeted.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…
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2 Dec 2024
Especially concerning is police's use of 'rough ride' tactics: throwing people in the back of police vehicles without seatbelts, then driving violently at high speeds.
These tactics killed Freddie Gray in Baltimore in 2015. They have no place in the UK.
baltimoresun.com/news/crime/…
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Dr. Benjamin Abrams retweeted
8 Nov 2024
This looks set to be a wonderful event for anyone interested in thinking through generations and generational research. @IOE_London @UCLSocHistSci @UCLSocRes @UCL_IAS
7 Nov 2024
Register for our next event taking place on the 13th Nov (next week!) at UCL: ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/s…
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