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29.05.2019

Honorable Mention for the MMAD dataset

Our Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Dataset received an Honorable Mention at the Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award 2019 from the APSA Comparative Politics Section

15.05.2019

MMAD Version 2.0 is now available

Version 2.0 of our Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database (MMAD) has been been released

09.05.2019

New Article on Pro-regime Mobilization

Sebastian Hellmeier and Nils Weidmann's work on pro-regime protest has been published in Comparative Political Studies

08.01.2019

New AJPS Article on Aggregation in Event Coding

A new article by Scott Cook and Nils Weidmann discusses the problem of aggregating multiple reports for the coding of political events

06.10.2018

Online ethnic segregation in a post-conflict setting

Article by Annerose Nisser and Nils B. Weidmann now published in the European Journal of Communication

09.05.2018

Public Release of the MMAD Data

After years of work, we have finally released the first version of the "Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database" (MMAD).

20.04.2018

New DFG Research Project

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved Nils Weidmann's application for a project on DoS attacks in autocracies