While artificial intelligence technologies are increasingly studied as drivers of “digital authoritarianism,” resistance to this process has remained underexplored. Our paper addresses this gap by asking why and how citizens resist AI-powered autocratization in consolidated democracies. We...

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become ubiquitous, research on their implications for democratization has blossomed. Will AI empower citizens and strengthen democracy or fuel the rise of autocracy? This special issue brings together diverse theoretical, conceptual, and empirical...

Vom Zappelphilipp war früher die Rede, wenn Kinder unkonzentriert und fahrig waren. Heute ist mehr bekannt über das Phänomen des „Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Syndroms“ – und es wird weltweit immer häufiger diagnostiziert. Dieser Anstieg ist nicht nur für die Medizin relevant, sondern...

Scholars exploring transitions to personalist rule focus on coercive power transfer to personalist rulers and argue that forming viable political coalitions, undermining power-sharing agreements, and mobilizing non-democratic institutions play a crucial role in transferring coercive power....

Conservative NGOs contesting women's rights in the United Nations are on the rise, and their activity is increasingly described as an antifeminist backlash. This article focuses a new theoretical lens on this development: socialization. It argues that conservative NGOs' socialization into...

The majority of countries in the world have laws setting the minimum age of marriage at 18 years old. This is a global legislative trend that intensified greatly in the 1990s. What explains this trend? To answer this question, I conduct quantitative analyses of factors influencing legislation...

Antifeminist mobilisation is growing in the United Nations. It is led by a coalition of certain post-Soviet, Catholic, and Islamic states; the United States; the Vatican; conservative nongovernmental organisations, occasionally joined by the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation, the League of...