Project DEMED

The V-Indoc dataset was publicly launched today, and the launch webinar was attended by 171 individuals. You can see the recording of the webinar HERE, and the slides for the presentation can be found HERE.

A new article by DEMED researchers Steven Finkel, Anja Neundorf, and Ericka Rascón Ramírez has just been published online at American Journal of Political Science. The article is entitled  "Can Online Civic Education Induce Democratic Citizenship? Experimental Evidence from a New Democracy." Click here to reach the article.

An article by DEMED researchers Anja Neundorf and Aykut Öztürk has just been published by PLOS One. The article explores how the use of various Facebook tools affects the recruitment of online research participants through advertisements. Click here to reach the article.

The Glasgow-based DEMED team ended the year with a visit to the Christmas market and a delicious dinner. We wish everyone Happy Holidays and a wonderful 2023! :) 

 

Cristina Chueca Del Cerro has joined the DEMED team. Visit Cristina's profile for more information.

Prof. Anja Neundorf and Dr. Aykut Ozturk organized the second session of Autumn 2022 series of DEMED webinars on the use of use of social media for research purposes. Michael Zoorob (Meta) was the guest speaker. You can reach more information on the session here.

Prof. Anja Neundorf will present the data from Work Package 1 at INPESS 2022 Conference as a keynote speaker. 

Prof. Anja Neundorf and Dr. Aykut Ozturk organized the first session of Autumn 2022 series of DEMED webinars on the use of use of social media for research purposes. Katrin Weller (GESIS&CAIS) and Indira Sen (GESIS) were guest speakers. You can reach more information on the session here.

Prof. Anja Neundorf and Dr. Ezgi Elci presented their work, entitled "Nostalgia and the threat to democracy" at European Politics Online Workshop. The presentation video is available here. 

The DEMED team co-organised a two-day workshop at the University of Oxford.

 

DAY 1 – 31 October 2022

9:00-9:15: Welcome and introductions

9:15-10:35: “World Education Reform Database (WERD): A New Global Dataset on Education Reforms” – Patricia Bromley, Rie Kijima, Lisa Overbey, Jared Furuta, Minju Choi and Heitor Santos

10:35-10:50: Break

10:50-12:10: “Schoolpol: Actors and Reforms” – Jane Gingrich and Anja Giudici

12:10-13:10: Lunch

 

13:10-1430: “Varieties of Indoctrination (V-Indoc): Introducing a global dataset on the politization of education and political communication” – Anja Neundorf, Eugenia Nazrullaeva, Ksenia Northmore-Ball and Katerina Tertytchnaya

14:30-15:50: “Historical Education Quality Database” – Agustina Paglayan

15:50-16:05: Break

16:05-17:25: “Education Policies and Systems across Modern History: A Global Dataset” – Carl Henrik Knutsen, Adrian del Rio Rodriquez and Philipp M. Lutscher

 

DAY 2 – 1 November 2022

9:00-10:20: “Education as a Window at Nation-Building: An Overview of the Nation-Building Policies (NBP) Dataset” – Matthias vom Hau, Emre Amasyali, Juliette Crespin-Boucaud and Chung-Ying Wu

10:20-10:35: Break

10:35-11:55: "The Global Development of Coverage and Generosity in Public Education" – Fabian Besche-Truthe, Kerstin Martens, Michael Windzio, Helen Seitzer, Dennis Niemann, Fabian Besche-Truthe, David Krogmann

12:00-13:00: Lunch

13:00-14:20: “Global dynamics of educational policy: The international spread and contextualization of school governance reforms” – Toni Verger

14:20-15:30 – Where to go next

 

Prof. Anja Neundorf and Dr. Aykut Ozturk have just released a new preprint, sharing results from their research on online surveys. The preprint entitled "Advertising Online Surveys on Social Media: How Your Advertisements Affect Your Samples." Click here to reach the preprint.

DEMED researchers, Anja Neundorf, Eugenia Nazrullaeva, Ksenia Northmore-Ball, and Katerina Tertytchnaya have recently published an article, named "The invasion of Ukraine has upended Russian education," on the Washington Post's the Monkey Cage blog. The article relies on expert surveys collected as part of the DEMED Project. 

Wooseok Kim has joined the DEMED team. Visit Wooseok's profile for more information.  

We just registered the pre-analysis plan of a new study part of WP3 that will be conducted in Turkey exploring the use of online civic education materials for democracy promotion. The registration is available here. 

Anja Neundorf and Sergi Pardos-Prado have just released a new preprint, sharing results from their research on authoritarian nostalgia in Spain. The preprint entitled "Authoritarian nostalgia, democratic support and radical right voting." Click here to reach the preprint.

DEMED held a team meeting to work on Work Package 3, preparing original civic education interventions and experimentally testing their impact on democratic support in Turkey.

DEMED researchers Anja Neundorf, Aykut Öztürk, Ksenia Northmore-Ball, Katerina Tertytchnaya, and Johannes Gerschewski,  have just released a new preprint, sharing results of their research on normative support for authoritarian regimes. The paper is entitled "A Loyal Base: Support for Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crisis." Click here to reach the preprint.

DEMED is hiring a new Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Democratic Politics. The post is for two years, starting on 1 September 2022. We are  looking for someone with a substantive background in the study of  authoritarian and/or democratic regimes and/or the politics of education. A strong quantitative background is essential. This postdoc will support Work Package 1, where we are currently collecting extensive expert coded data (by V-Dem) on indoctrination, creating unique data on education and media. 

Deadline: 21 February 2022

We offer:

• Salary: £36,382 - £40,927 per year (approx. 43,586 - 49,031 Euro)
• Budget for travel and research assistance
• An internationally leading research team
• A pleasant and stimulating working environment
• Glasgow’s high-quality of living and rich opportunities for culture
  and outdoor activities

 

Together with with the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project at the University of Gothenburg, we now started the data collection for a new expert survey on regime indoctrination, focusing on education policies and practices as well as media propaganda for over 100 countries from around the world. Until mid February, more than 1,000 eduction and media experts will complete our questionnaire. The data will be released publicly in 2023.

For more info, see our “call for experts.” 

Anja Neundorf and Aykut Ozturk have just released a handbook, describing how to use Facebook and Instagram to recruit online survey participants. Click here to reach the handbook.

Professor Neundorf is presenting the DEMED paper "Nostalgia and the threat to democracy" (with Elçi, E.) at the Politics Department, University of Leicester. (virtual event) 

Professor Neundorf will present the paper “A loyal base? Authoritarian system support in times of crisis: The case of Turkey (Neundorf, A., Gerschewski, J., Northmore-Ball, K., Ozturk, A. and K. Tertytchnaya)” at the Carlos III-Juan March Institute in Madrid, Spain (virtual).

For more information: https://ic3jm.es/en/activities/permanent-seminar/ 

Professor Neundorf gave a Keynote lecture on “The current state and the future of women in Political Methodology” in the Women in Political Methodology Speaker Series. More details here: http://zurichsummerschool.com/speaker-series/. (virtual event) 

Two papers from DEMED Project were presented at the American Political Science Association's 2021 Annual Meeting:

• Democratic Citizenship Through Adult Civic Education? A Review and Meta-Analysis

• Indoctrination, Citizen Support, and Political Regimes

 

DEMED working paper, entitled "A loyal base? Authoritarian system support in times of crisis: The case of Turkey" was discussed in the Virtual Workshop of Authoritarian Regimes. The paper was prepared by Anja Neundorf, Aykut Ozturk, Ksenia Northmore-Ball, Katerina Tertytchnaya, and Johannes Gerschewski.

Discussants were Jason Brownlee (UT Austin), Sabri Ciftci (Kansas State University), Henry Hale (George Washington University), and Bryn Rosenfeld (Cornell University). 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Eugenia Nazrullaeva, is taking up a new post as a LSE Fellow. Eugenia has made incredibly important contributions to DEMED in the last year. She will however remain connected to the project as a DEMED Research Affiliate. We all wish Eugenia the very best in her new post. 

DEMED researchers Steven Finkel, Junghyun Lim, Anja Neundorf, Aykut Öztürk, and Daniel Shephard  have just released a new preprint, sharing results of systematic review on civic education interventions. Click here to reach the preprint.

Prof. Anja Neundorf and Dr. Aykut Ozturk presented their working paper exploring the use of Facebook for survey participant recruitment at the General Online Research Conference 2021. The presentation video is available on YouTube. 

Professor Neundorf, Professor Finkel, and Dr. Rascon presented the DEMED research on civic education to the USAID Civil Society and Media Team (virtual event).

Five new research assistants have joined the DEMED team to support the country expert recruitment of Work Package 1.

Check out their profiles: 

• Isabel Kempner
• Anam Kuraishi
• Anna Sarasiti
• Yilin Su

DEMED researchers Anja Neundorf and Aykut Öztürk have just released a new preprint, sharing findings of their research exploring how the use of various Facebook tools affects the recruitment of online research participants through advertisements. Click here to reach the the preprint.

Anja Neundorf, Aykut Ozturk, Ksenia Northmore-Ball, Katerina Tertytchnaya, and Johannes Gerschewski virtually presented their co-authored working paper, entitled "A loyal base? Support for authoritarian regimes in times of crisis – The case of Turkey" in European Political Science Association Conference. 

Professor Neundorf presented the DEMED paper ‘Nostalgia and the threat to democracy’ (with Elçi, E.) at the Comparative Politics Department, University of Bergen. (virtual event) 

 

Aykut Ozturk presented their co-authored work with Prof. Anja Neundorf, entitled "Recruiting Research Participants through Facebook Advertisements," to a group of scholars and students from LSE. Their work discusses best practices to recruit survey participants through Facebook paid advertisements. 

Anja Neundorf and Aykut Ozturk presented a paper, entitled "Recruiting Survey Participants through Facebook Advertisements" in PolMeth Europe conference. The paper included their findings regarding the use of Facebook tools for the recruitment of survey participants. The study was conducted as part of DEMED Work Package 3.

Prof. Anja Neundorf will present her paper co-authored with Steve Finkel and Ericka Rascon Ramirez at the NYU Abu Dhabi Political Science Speaker Series. The title of the paper is "Can Online Civic Education Induce Democratic Citizenship?  Experimental evidence from a New Democracy?"

DEMED researchers have received training from Dr. Franziska Meinck (University of Edinburgh) on systematic review and meta-analysis.

Steve Finkel (University of Pittsburgh), Junghyun Lim (University of Pittsburgh), Anja Neundorf (University of Glasgow), and Aykut Ozturk (University of Glasgow) will conduct a systematic review of the civic education literature, starting from January 2021. 

 

The entire DEMED team came together for the first time. Due to COVID restrictions, the event took place online.

Prof. Anja Neundorf presented a working paper, titled "Can Online Civic Education Induce Democratic Citizenship Experimental Evidence from a New Democracy," at LSE Political Behavior Seminar. This paper is co-authored with Steven Finkel and Ericka Rascon Ramirez, and it explores how online civic education can induce democratic citizenship relying on online survey experiments conducted in Tunisia. 

Eugenia Nazrullaeva and Aykut Öztürk has joined the DEMED team. Visit Eugenia's and Aykut's profiles for more information.  

Prof. Anja Neundorf gave the keynote speech at the 4th Annual Democracy & Elections and Comparative Politics conference, organized at the University of Manchester. The theme of this year's conference was "Democracy Under Pressure." During her keynote speech, Prof. Neundorf introduced the DEMED and shared findings from the working paper entitled "Can Online Civic Education Induce Democratic Citizenship? Experimental Evidence from a New Democracy."

 Today marks the official start dat of DEMED Project, funded by ERC Consolidator grant. DEMED will run for five years, until August 2025.