Dr. Johannes Gerschewski
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D-10785 Berlin
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Johannes Gerschewski is research fellow at the WZB and academic coordinator of the Theory Network at the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS. In his research, he works both theoretically and empirically on questions of legitimacy, stability, and crisis proneness of democratic and autocratic regimes.
Since 06/2019
Research Fellow at Global Governance Unit, WZB; Academic Coordinator of Theory Network, Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)", Freie Universität Berlin
09/2024-12/2024
Thomas Mann Fellow, Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles
10/2023-09/2024
Interim professor in Political Theory and History of Ideas, Leibniz University Hannover
10/2021-04/2022
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship, European University Institute (EUI), Florence
10/2018-05/2019
Lecturer at Hochschule für Politik, Technical University Munich
10/2016-09/2018
Lecturer at Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
02/2011-09/2016
Research Fellow at the Democracy and Democratization Unit, WZB; 2014-2016 co-head of DFG-funded project "Critical Junctures and the Survival of Dictatorships"
08/2014-12/2014
Guest researcher, Transatlantic Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA), Harvard University
2008-2014 PhD; Dissertation on "Stabilizing Autocratic Rule. Legitimation, Repression, and Co-optation in East Asia's Autocracies", Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ("summa cum laude")
"Gero Erdmann-Award for Comparative Area Studies", awarded by Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft and Democracy Research Section of the German Political Science Association for best dissertattion in 2013 and 2014
10/2011-12/2011 Visiting PhD candidate at University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations
since 2011 Co-founder of Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences; in the following years co-organizer, moderator and lecturer
2001/2002-2008 Studies in Political Science, Philosophy and Economics (Magister Artium) as well as International Business and Cultural Studies (Diplom) at University of Passau, Freie Universität Berlin and Yonsei University, Seoul
Selected Publications
2024
Gerschewski, Johannes/Giebler, Heiko/Hellmeier Sebastian/Keremoğlu, Eda/ Zürn, Michael (2024): "The Limits of Sportswashing. How the 2022 FIFA World Cup Affected Attitdes about Qatar." In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 19, No. 8, e0308702.
Gerschewski, Johannes (forthcoming): "Ideology and Autocracy." In: Wolf, Anne, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Neundorf, Anja/Öztürk, Aykut/Tertytchnaya, Katerina/Northmore-Ball, Ksenia/Gerschewski, Johannes (2024): "A Loyal Base: Support for Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crises." In: Comparative Political Studies, online first.
Börzel, Tanja/Gerschewski, Johannes/Zürn, Michael, eds. (2024): The Liberal Script at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Conceptions, Components, Tensions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2023
Gerschewski, Johannes (2023): The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Boussalis, Constantine/Dukalskis, Alexander/Gerschewski, Johannes (2023): "Why It Matters What Autocrats Say: Assessing Competing Theories of Propaganda." In: Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 70, No. 3, pp.241-253.
2021
Gerschewski, Johannes (2021): "Explanations of Institutional Change. Reflecting on a 'Missing Diagonal.'" In: American Political Science Review, Vol. 115, No. 1, pp.218-233.
Gerschewski, Johannes (2021): "Erosion or Decay? Conceptualizing Causes and Mechanisms of Democratic Regression." In: Democratization, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp.43-62.
Tannenberg, Marcus/Bernhard, Michael/Gerschewski, Johannes/Lührmann, Anna/von Soest, Christian (2021): "Claiming the Right to Rule: Regime Legitimation Strategies from 1900 to 2019." In: European Political Science Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.77-94.
2020
Neundorf, Anja/Gerschewski, Johannes/Olar, Roman-Gabriel (2020): "How Do Inclusionary and Exclusionary Autocracies Affect Ordinary People?" In: Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 53, No. 12, pp.1890-1925.
Volpi, Frédéric/Gerschewski, Johannes (2020): "Crises and Critical Junctures in Authoritarian Regimes: Addressing Uprisings' Temporalities and Discontinuities." In: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp.1030-1045.
Dukalskis, Alexander/Gerschewski Johannes (2020): "Adapting or Freezing? Ideological Reactions of Communist Regimes in a Post-Communist World." In: Government & Opposition, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp.511-532.
2018
Gerschewski, Johannes (2018): "Legitimacy in Autocracies. Oxymoron or Essential Feature?" In: Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp.652-665.
Gerschewski, Johannes/Stefes, Christoph H., eds (2018): Crisis in Autocratic Regimes. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
2017
Dukalskis, Alexander/Gerschewski, Johannes (2017): "What autocracies say (and what citizens hear). Proposing four mechanisms of autocratic legitimation." In: Contemporary Politics, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 251-268.
2013
Gerschewski, Johannes (2013): "The Three Pillars of Stability: Legitimation, Repression, and Co-optation in Autocratic Regimes". In: Democratization, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp.13-38. [Recipient of the Frank Cass 2013 Award for Best Article by a Young Scholar]
Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)"