Writing & media

I co-authored a report examining the stated reasons for restricting freedom of expression with Jacob Mchangama, then CEO of Justitia. It was featured by DR P1 Eftermiddag and Jyllands-Posten.

I wrote in Weekendavisen about teacher absenteeism, poor teacher skills and the consequences for development.

I published a piece on regime change, political culture and Donald Trump in the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Democratization Newsletter.

The Danish magazine Euroman profiled me in its July issue.

The Nordic Council of Ministers featured research by Peter Thisted Dinesen and me in a report on high levels of trust in the Nordic countries and the future of Nordic trust.

The Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s P1 Orientering interviewed me about The Gambia’s first post-Jammeh parliamentary elections.

In Politiken, I examined democratic successes in West Africa and the fall of Yahya Jammeh in The Gambia. A longer English version is available on Medium.

I wrote on videnskab.dk about Donald Trump’s election and research on authoritarian politics and democratic breakdown.

I was interviewed on Yahya Jammeh’s stand-off with ECOWAS in The Gambia by Politiken, TV2, DR P1 Morgen, Kristeligt Dagblad, TV2 NEWS, DR P1 Orientering, DR2 Dagen and Radio24Syv.

The Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s P1 Orientering interviewed me on whether democracy was in retreat globally.

I gave a lecture about successful authoritarian states such as Singapore and China at Hans Egedes Kirke.

DR Detektor asked me to discuss external support for democratization, human-rights protection and trade policy.

Med Andre Ord, the student magazine at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Political Science, interviewed me about my dissertation research on political culture and democratization.

I held a one-day course on geographic information systems for researchers and policy-makers.

I was interviewed on Ukraine’s post-Maidan parliamentary elections by DR Morgen, TV2 NEWS, Radio24Syv, P3 Nyhederne and P1 Morgen.

I spoke on a panel about India’s 2014 general election at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.

I gave a lecture on opposition to democracy and anti-democratic ideologies at CEPOS.

Weekendavisen published a piece I wrote about microfinance.

I wrote in Weekendavisen about the claim that authoritarian regimes achieve higher economic growth.

Jacob Mchangama and I wrote about tolerance and classical liberalism in the Danish journal Kritik.

Henrik Gade Jensen and I wrote a chapter about Georg Brandes’s social liberalism in the anthology Friheden Flyver, edited by Dennis Nørmark.

I edited the anthology 11 Konservative Tænkere with Henrik Gade Jensen.