Ellie Knott

Excited to offer this (hopefully helpful) intervention to citizenship studies, illustrating conceptual differences in democratic and authoritarian citizenship. The goal is to provide a framework for clearer comparative analysis and understanding changes such as democratic erosion

Citizenship with adjectives: conceptual precision in comparative research This paper argues for greater conceptual precision in citizenship studies, particularly as the field expands to include cases both globally and over time. It begins by defining citizenship as a for...

Finally, @saragoodman.bsky.social zooms out to lay out a framework for greater conceptual precision when working on "Citizenship with adjectives" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Citizenship and the democratic struggles in Montenegro and Serbia Scholarship has established the centrality of citizenship policies in the state-building agendas, but has hitherto neglected their linkages to democratic struggles in post-communist contexts. The p...

Jelena Dzankic analyses citizenship and the democratic struggles in Montenegro and Serbia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Szabolcs Pogonyi explores democratic decline and the rise of illiberal citizenship in Hungary www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tracing the demand- and supply-side of citizenship in Moldova during undulations of democracy Since independence, Moldova has experienced political turbulence with cycles of democratisation and democratic backsliding. Amid this turbulence, Moldova's citizenship regime has remained relativel...

I look at how and why Moldovan citizenship has changed in relation to the turbulent up and downswings of democracy in Moldova @lsemethodology.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Navigating authoritarian citizenship in India: a case study of the Irulars This article investigates the precarious citizenship of the Irulars, a semi-nomadic community from southern India, in the contemporary authoritarian moment in India. Drawing from five months of par...

@raghavivis.bsky.social explores authoritarian citizenship through the case of the Irulars, a semi-nomadic community from southern India www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Unequal citizenship: what difference can the enfranchisement of women make? A case study of Kuwait Today, unequal citizenship is prevalent in women’s unequal ability to confer citizenship on their children in 24 countries – including Kuwait. Historical and contemporary country cases suggest that...

@alsaz.bsky.social looks at unequal citizenship and (dis)enfranchisement through the perspective of women and children in Kuwait www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Democratic participation, constitutions and the making of citizens: lessons from Kenya and Tanzania How are citizens made? Who and what makes a citizen? Citizens are a defining element of a democracy, but does democracy define and create citizens? Does a higher degree of democratisation in consti...

Caroline Nalule examines the making of citizens by comparing democratic participation and constitution writing in Kenya and Tanzania www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exploring the link between democratisation and citizenship: comparing Kosovo and Albania The paper examines citizenship constellations in Kosovo and Albania as a means of exploring the way in which these citizenship regimes evolved in conjunction with uneven democratic development and ...

@gezimk.bsky.social's article compares democratisation and citizenship in Kosovo and Albania
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From colonial control to democratic citizenship: unpacking Taiwan’s legal reform and indigenous rights This paper examines the transformation of citizenship in Taiwan through democratisation and decolonisation, focusing on the pivotal role of the household registration system. Originating as a colon...

Jing-Han Chen & Yi-Chen Huang explore changes in Taiwanese citizenship during decolonisation and the impact on indigenous rights www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Redefining the demos: a tool for ethnodemographic security or a sign of backsliding? Evidence from Abkhazia Why does a population sometimes mobilise to ‘protect democracy’ but at other times does not mobilise in support of or against acts that indicate democratic backsliding? Using the case of Abkhazia, ...

The first article by @rameshg.bsky.social explores how the demos is redefined in Abkhazia as a tool of ethnodemographic security and whether and how this intersects with democratic backsliding www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The special issue looks at how democratisation and democratic backsliding intersect with citizenship across a range of case studies in central and eastern Europe, the Caucasus, sub-Saharan Africa, East and South Asia, and the Middle East

Citizenship in the global struggles for democracy This Special Issue explores the interplay between citizenship and democratic hardships in a global context. The ten contributions to this collection reflect on the range of contestations of citizen...

Very pleased to announce the publication of our recent special issue on "Citizenship in the global struggles for democracy", co-edited with Jelena Džankić and Szabolcs Pogonyi @scmrjems.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And it is largely just tying up loose ends of work previously done / written / researched. It feels both like coming up for oxygen and diving under water for a brief glimpse of the past and potential futures.

Doing 'deep' work on maternity leave is a peculiar vision of a peculiar life. It takes so much organisation (childcare), carving out of moments, and battling with the foggy layers of sleep deprivation. Is this how working will be in the next phase? Who knows.

Scott Gehlbach - 2026 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and Call for papers We invite submissions to a workshop on the economic history and historical political economy of Eurasia. The workshop will take place at th...

Amid everything else, a brief note to announce the CFP for the 2026 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Eurasia.

If you are an economist, historian, or political scientist working on Imperial Russia or the USSR, please consider applying.

July 17–18, Paris.

Attempting to strip someone of citizenship is always a transparent and hopeless effort to avoid responsibility for the underlying problem you claim to object to. Their citizenship is *why* they can be held accountable for the actions you object to.

Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness.

“Never used to be like this,” he insists.

It’s like they make (some?) postnatal wards deliberately shit and bleak but no one lets it slip til you're there. Glad you managed to make it home (from what I described as an airless prison) and congrats!

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Last year, he and his family raised over £2700, which helped to pay for a complete overhaul of @amenduk.bsky.social website. Every card bought this year will fund ongoing maintenance and improvements to these vital resources for future adrenocortical cancer patients and their loved ones.

If anyone is looking for Christmas cards, my partner has made some based on his sister, Sally's, art designs to raise money for the Adrenal Cortical Cancer Support charity (@amenduk.bsky.social). All proceeds go to the charity.
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New paper 🚨 “Vicarious denial: war crimes & online deliberation in Serbia” 🇷🇸 with @denisakost.bsky.social

We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.

For personal reasons (🐣), I’ve not been following recent Moldovan politics enough to comment more than yey PAS / Maia. But, I can comment just how much more coverage these elections and Moldova as a result are getting. Moldova’s visibility right now (and the reasons) is something worth observing.

Moldova has voted: PAS wins with 50.15%, beating the polls despite Russian interference.

The people chose a pro-EU, reform path. Meanwhile, the pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc (24%) calls for protests. PAS must now deliver reforms & lead Moldova toward EU accession.

#Moldova #Elections #EU

#Moldova With 55 seats in Parliament, pro-EU party PAS secures absolute majority.

Patriotic Bloc leader Igor Dodon calls for a peaceful protest at 12.00 and alleges irregularities in the voting process. He has yet to recognize the results.

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and Denisa Kostovicova, London School of Economics The profession has been increasing efforts to ensure ethical research in politics and international relations (IR) with robust institutional review procedures. But this ethics turn has not been evaluated systematically to date.

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and…

A cartoon of Putin and Trump walking down a red carpet, that turns into a huge bloodstain.

Blood red carpet. By Mykhailo Dunakovskiy.

The mental and admin load expected on new mothers (knee deep in stitches and waist high in sleep deprivation) is wild and the bureaucratic push back from the NHS is even more wild. Want your partner’s number on baby’s details? They’ll remove it. Want your partner to register at a GP? They can’t.

I am looking for a researcher (pre-doc) in my DFG-funded project "Violence Against Political Actors at the Grassroots Level" 👇