Dr. Benjamin Abrams

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:

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.

@BesenyoJ @UCLpress @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop @APSAtweets @GerardoMunck @ESRC @Renew_Democracy @DemocracyDocket Thank you, Besenyő!

@bdmabrams @UCLpress @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop @APSAtweets @GerardoMunck @ESRC @Renew_Democracy @DemocracyDocket Congratulations!

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

@li_rongxin @UCLpress @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop @APSAtweets @GerardoMunck @ESRC @Renew_Democracy @DemocracyDocket thank you Maël!

@bdmabrams @UCLpress @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop @APSAtweets @GerardoMunck @ESRC @Renew_Democracy @DemocracyDocket big congrats

@allisonl @UCLpress @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop @APSAtweets @GerardoMunck @ESRC @Renew_Democracy @DemocracyDocket Thank you Allison!

@bdmabrams @UCLpress @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop @APSAtweets @GerardoMunck @ESRC @Renew_Democracy @DemocracyDocket Congratulations!

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

New Review Article on Fast Track by @bdmabrams “A Revolution in Revolutionary Theory?” ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny/c…

Delighted to be sharing this piece, on the history and future of revolutionary theory, in @Journal_CompPol!

It was such a pleasure to speak on this Monday. Thank you @SociologyOxford for such a fantastic audience and stimulating engagement with my work!

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

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/inter… (RTs appreciated)!

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/journals/…

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.

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:

@_claireamelia @Dept_of_POLIS @Cambridge_Uni Congrats Claire! I'd love to see your syllabus!

Excited to be joining @Dept_of_POLIS @Cambridge_Uni in January, and especially to teach an MPhil paper on Transnational Social Movements 🕺🌏🪧

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

@jgo34 @socscihist Nice!

The video companion (ie video recording) of my Presidential Address, "Reverberations of Empire: How the Colonial Past Shapes the Present," for the Social Science History Association is available here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… @socscihist

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… ❤️

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