Communication, Networks and Contention

In an article published in Research and Politics, Rebecca Strauch and Nils Weidmann show that citizens in autocracies adapt digitally in response to political protest in their country, with an increased reliance on the Tor encryption network. This increase is particular prevalent for countries with high levels of digital censorship.

https://doi.org/10.1177/20531680221100440

Governments in autocracies do not respond to all protests with repression. Rather, this depends on protests going against the particular legitimacy claims the regime is built on. Eda Keremoglu, Sebastian Hellmeier and Nils Weidmann's work on this question has been published in Political Science Research and Methods.

https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2021.19

Gerlinde Theunissen and Nils Weidmann developed an approach to estimate local inequality from satellite images of nighttime lights. Their work has been published in Remote Sensing. 

https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13224624