Kevin Walz

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PhD Student in Political Science | Graduate Research Group Resilient Institutions at JGU Mainz | Democratic Resilience & Autocratization
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Kevin WalzSep 7, 2023

A great panel on "Autocracy and Authoritarianism" and Day 4 at #ecprgc23 is in the books. Glad that I could contribute by presenting some of my work on a three-dimensional conceptualization of Autocratization and its analytical application as well.

I really enjoyed the whole week by now. And definetly, I'm heading home with some very helpful suggestions and a lot of food for thought in my backpack 😊

@politicalscience

Kevin WalzAug 30, 2023
I'm going to stay at #ecprgc23 in Prague for the whole next week. I will also present a paper on differentiating forms of Autocratization in the panel on "Autocracy and authoritarianism". If anyone would like to exchange ideas over a coffee or beer, just get in touch! 😉
@ecpr
@politicalscience
Kevin WalzAug 8, 2023
Mickaël CANOUILAug 6, 2023

New Awesome Quarto list release!
What's new in #QuartoPub? let's find out!
Release: 2023-08-06

#Quarto #QuartoPub #extensions #templates #Python #RStats

https://github.com/mcanouil/awesome-quarto#featured-new-releases

GitHub - mcanouil/awesome-quarto: A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome!

A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome! - mcanouil/awesome-quarto

GitHub
Kevin WalzAug 5, 2023
@1010is10 @rstats you can do this 100%, and I think the solution for this is in the Quarto Guide. I have done this myself some months ago, but I cannot remember every detail, sorry.
Kevin WalzAug 5, 2023
@1010is10 @rstats Maybe the Guide about how to set up and structure a book project can help you: https://quarto.org/docs/books/
Creating a Book – Quarto

Quarto
Kevin WalzAug 3, 2023
aRtsy_packageAug 3, 2023
Today's artwork generated with #rstats and #ggplot2:
Show threadKevin WalzJul 31, 2023
@DewiLeBars Besides that, we should also keep in mind that the development of Democracy worldwide has always been a Story of conjunctures. Already Huntington observed 'waves of democratization' followed by smaller backlash waves. Sometimes rather young Democracies Fall back to Authoritarianism. Those patterns might point to problems with the consolidation of democratic regimes. But again: This is only one perspective and its much more complicated.
Show threadKevin WalzJul 31, 2023
@DewiLeBars It's complicated I guess - and I think most Political Scientists would agree on that. To me big part of the story is citizens' disaffection from democracy and the correlating willingness to support and elect would be autocratizers. The causes of that are highly complex again, and we don't have a one-fits-all explanation.
Kevin WalzJul 29, 2023
Show threadClaudia LandwehrJul 29, 2023

Next, the editorial office checks the status of your paper and finds out that only two reviewers have accepted the invitation although the journal policy requires three. They contact someone who owes them a favour or a member of their editorial board. This person will take only a quick glance at the paper and write a positive, but generic review. This is #Reviewer3.

So – what do you think of my theory?? (4/4)

Kevin WalzJul 29, 2023
Show threadClaudia LandwehrJul 29, 2023
People lower down on the ranked list, who are even less likely to accept, are invited to review. At some point, one of them will accept the review for reasons that have nothing to do with your paper (boredom, feeling guilty, bad day…). This is #Reviewer2, who will not like your paper and tell you that you must change absolutely everything in it – to turn it into a paper they would have liked to read. (3/4)