PhD research & teaching
My PhD research at the University of Copenhagen, submitted in 2016, examined how much political culture can explain differences in democracy and regime change, by testing how culture and institutions shape each other in subnational regimes and regions, and among people whose border moved or who migrated. I now work with governments, funders and nonprofits on transformative AI; the papers remain here, each with an interactive edition.
Interactive editions
Each edition retells a paper with its evidence drawn as you scroll, and lists every number’s source.
Introduction · Chapter 1Can political culture really protect or doom democracy?What seven papers say about culture and institutions · The dissertation (PDF) ↗
Chapter 2 · Borders moveGetting to DenmarkTrust in Scandinavia · Scandinavian Political Studies, 2018 ↗
Chapter 3 · with Peter Thisted DinesenNordic trust may be younger than it looksSocial capital in the Scandinavian countries · Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics, 2017 ↗
Chapter 4 · People moveWhere you live matters more than where you grew upDinesen and Andersen · Political Geography, 2022 ↗
Chapter 5 · The centre and the regionsRegime change in miniatureA typology of subnational regime transitions · Dissertation chapter (PDF) ↗
Chapter 6 · The centre and the regionsTransitology in short pantsHow provinces leave authoritarian rule · Dissertation chapter (PDF) ↗
Chapter 7 · Culture and democracyChristian and Muslim regions are similarReligion and democracy in 492 African regions · Dissertation chapter (PDF) ↗
Chapter 8 · MethodsEverything happens somewhereGeographical information systems in political science · Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 2016 ↗
Essay · 2017The return of political culturePolitical culture in the Trump era · Comparative Democratization, 2017 (PDF) ↗Pictures, all via Wikimedia Commons: J. Jayalalithaa in New Delhi, 14 June 2016, Prime Minister’s Office, Government of India (Government Open Data Licence India); a voter at an electronic voting machine in Brasília, 5 October 2014, by Marri Nogueira for Agência Senado (CC BY 2.0, cropped); Carte générale de l’Afrique, Nouveau Larousse illustré, about 1911 to 1914 (public domain); Donald Trump caricature by DonkeyHotey, 2017, adapted from a photograph by Michael Vadon (CC BY 2.0, cropped); protest after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Istanbul, 25 October 2018, by Hilmi Hacaloğlu for Voice of America (public domain). The other pictures are credited on each edition’s page.
The dissertation · 2016
Studying Subnational Regimes, Immigrants and Moving Borders. The chapters below follow the order of the dissertation.
How much can political culture explain democracy and regime change?
Findings from Moving Borders Between Denmark and Germany
Published · Scandinavian Political Studies 41(1), 2018, 22–48 ↗
Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics
Published · Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics, 2017, 161–173 ↗
Immigrants' Political Participation Between Their Contemporary and Ancestral Countries
Published · Political Geography 98, 2022, Article 102650 ↗
An Organizing Typology of Subnational Regime Transitions
Unpublished dissertation paper · 2016
Transitology in Short Pants
Unpublished dissertation paper · 2016
Religion, Political Culture and Subnational Democracy in Africa
Unpublished dissertation paper · 2016
An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems in Political Science
Published · Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 118(2), 2016, 249–265 ↗
Research record
Each entry lists authors, publication status, venue and year. Unpublished papers are identified as dissertation papers.
A cross-disciplinary review of empirical claims about freedom of expression, social conflict, tolerance, and democratic resilience. The report assesses common arguments for restricting speech against their stated aims.
APSA Comparative Democratization Newsletter 15(2) (2017) ↗
The essay examines renewed claims about democratic norms and political culture after the 2016 US election and considers how such claims can be measured and tested.
Democratization 25(2) (2018), 370–372 ↗
A review of Jacqueline Behrend and Laurence Whitehead’s edited volume on territorial variation in democratic practice within large federal systems.
Teaching archive
Report · with Jacob MchangamaFreedom of expression: what’s the point?
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