Jonas Willibald Schmid Postdoc
Contact
Name and title: Jonas Willibald SchmidPostdoc
ORCID0000-0001-8062-1330 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Political Science Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room F570Universitetsvägen 10 F, plan 4 ,5, 7
Postal address Statsvetenskapliga institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
I am a Postdoc on the DEMCOOP project at the Department of Political Science. I joined the department in 2025 after completing my PhD at the University of Oslo. Since June 2026, I only hold a 20% position at SU, and am mainly employed by the University of Oslo.
My main research interest lies in autocratic politics. I am particularly interested in elite dynamics, citizens' support for dictators, and the conceptualization and measurement of autocratic regimes. As part of the DEMCOOP project, my current research focuses on international cooperation, with an emphasis on how regime type shapes states' international behaviour. In my research, I mostly analyse observational data using quantitative methods and use (survey-)experimental methods.
For more information, visit my personal webpage.
I have mainly taught Quantitative Methods and Comparative Politics (with a focus on Autocratic Politics), and have experience in supervising M.A. students. I am particularly interested in thinking about how to teach and test students in times of ChatGPT, and have lectured on this topic as well.
At SU, I gave lectures in the introductory course on Comparative Politics, supervised B.A. students (Fall 25), and taught an M.A. course on Autocratic Politics (Spring 26).
Publications (see also my Google Scholar profile):
Austin S. Matthews and Jonas W. Schmid. Forthcoming. "The price of incompetence: Security failures and selective accountability in autocracies." Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Jonas W. Schmid, Faradj Koliev, and Jonas Tallberg. 2026. "The rise of autocracies and the transformation of global governance." WFD/PSA Policy Brief Series: The Authoritarian Ecosystem.
Jonas W. Schmid and Jacob Nyrup. 2026. "Governing for growth? Economic performance and finance minister removal across regime type." Political Research Quarterly. Online first.
Edward Goldring, Jonas W. Schmid, and Fulya Apaydin. 2026. "Blame-shifting in autocracies following large-scale disasters: Evidence from Turkey." Perspectives on Politics 24(3): 1021–1044.
Jonas W. Schmid and Lasse Aaskoven. 2025. "Constrainers vs. enablers? Fiscal deficits and the political survival of finance ministers across regime types." Political Studies. Online first.
Jonas W. Schmid. 2025. "Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: Same, same but different?" Democratization 32(6): 1565–1588. (Winner of the Frank Cass Prize for the best Democratization article by a young scholar)
Fulya Apaydin, Ferit Serkan Öngel, Jonas W. Schmid, and Erol Ülker. 2022. "When do workers support executive aggrandizement? Lessons from the recent Turkish experience." Industrial Relations Journal 53(2): 142–159.