Super excited to see this paper - with the all-time great Alex Baturo - published in @World_Pol. We conceptualized dictators as human resource managers to provide a unified theoretical explanation... dx.doi.org/10.1353/wp.2026.a…

We use novel measures of dismissals and reshuffles from two different datasets to test our theoretical observations (including the mechanisms). We also illustrate the logic of our argument with a short case study of elite management strategies under Putin in Russia.

Your weekend reading (and my new article) is out today @PoPpublicsphere. In this article I develop a novel theory of autocratic revolving doors - the phenomenon of autocratic elites returning to a cabinet position under democracy. doi.org/10.1017/S15375927240…

Selecting on the dependent variable here, but I want to give a shoutout to the four reviewers that provided really good comments that made the paper so much better. Whoever you are, I appreciate your insights and comments! The editorial staff @PoPpublicsphere was fantastic.

New publication alert @The_PEIO: Under what conditions are new democracies more committed to human rights? More specifically, what role do former autocratic elites play in shaping ratification of international human rights treaties? rdcu.be/d8GKI

The results show that returning autocratic elite reduce human rights treaty commitment by new democracies, particularly when the Ministry of Justice portfolio is held by a former autocrat.