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This is bleak.
I have a new VoxDev post out which discusses my forthcoming paper with James Robinson in the Annual Review of Economics. In it we put forward the idea that many African societies were organized around the goal of limiting centralization of authority. And they succeeded! 1/2
๐จMy first preprint is out on @socarxiv.bsky.social!
How do AI-generated content labels shape what people see as authentic on social media โ and do labels have unintended side effects? osf.io/preprints/so...
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For detailed overview of โPlutopopulism,โ see this thread: bsky.app/profile/owas... cup.org/4cfm0Az
Check out our new paper on the demographic foundations of trust in science in @poqjournal.bsky.social
The tldr is that w/ all of the radical shifts in trust in the US over the last 50+ years, the demographic predictors of trust in science have been rock steady(!)
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
This is much more praise than we (or at least I) deserve, but we'll take it ;)
Excited to welcome the fabulous @tinepaulsen.bsky.social today at our Politics Lecture Series at @humboldtuni.bsky.social. Come and join us!
Happening this afternoon! ๐ Come and join us!
Job ๐จ: The European Institute (@lse-ei.bsky.social) at LSE is hiring an assistant prof in International Migration. I'm not in the hiring committee but happy to answer Qs about the department, LSE or this bloody weather that is actually pretty pretty today.
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper โFraming Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backslidingโ is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)
๐จNew paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
New version (0.6.0) of my #rstats package {democracyData} xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/ with @freedomhouse.bsky.social data to 2024, as well as several other sources, plus minor improvements all around
Submit your most exciting work on migration to our section at the EPSS conference in Belfast (June 18-20, 2026). Deadline for submitting your abstract is November 7 ๐ฉ @epssnet.bsky.social
Whoaโmy book is up for pre-order!
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The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ยฑ any model you fit
The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.
tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8
Our article โUnsuccessful Candidates Are More Concerned About Electoral Fairness than Election Winnersโ is now online @thejop.bsky.social
Using RDD and elite survey data from Denmark, we show that losing candidates express greater concern about electoral fairness.
๐ doi.org/10.1086/734240
If you're attending #APSA2025 and interested in applying for a job at IE (see below), @guillermotoral.com, Zoe Xincheng Ge, and me will be at the Career Open House today at 4pm.
Consider dropping by!
connect.apsanet.org/apsa2025/car...
This is a paper I really care about. I feel the core message is very important for social scientists in general, and political scientists in particular.
"Quantitative Research in Political Science is Greatly Underpowered."
(with A+ co-authors)
Political science suggests liberals are more tolerant of the Supreme Court when it makes decisions they don't like. Kathryn Haglin, Soren Jordan, Alison Higgins Merrill and @joeura.bsky.social ask: does that still hold up with the new-look Court?
Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
New article out in World Development! ๐จ
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (ungated if u click now)
With Rachel Brulรฉ and @alyssarheinze.bsky.social, we explain and document some of the paradoxical (and actually inequality-building) consequences of Indiaยดs extensive gender quota system.
Multilateralism is not necessarily fading! There is still civilian support for it in different parts of the world. Using two sets of independent conjoint experiments, we show that civilians in Liberia prefer multilateral actors (the UN) to oversee (not rebuild) security sector reforms
The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social.
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๐ข EPSS 2026 Call for Papers! @hannaeback.bsky.social and I are excited to invite submissions for the Political Representation section at EPSS 2026 in Belfast. EPSS has some exciting new panel formats this year - read on! ๐งต
Please share: @alanjacobs.bsky.social and I are running a Jan '26 course at @gesis.org Cologne on
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๐ต๏ธProcess tracing + Bayesian inference + graphical causal models
All in two heady days.
training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...
Call for applications! The MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) is seeking two Postdoctoral Associates for the 2026โ27 academic year. We are looking for scholars demonstrating exceptional scholarly achievement and promise for policy-
relevant research. Please visit: tinyurl.com/33d2veuf
Just made this little diagram and it's so pretty! {ggdiagram} is really neat for these types of graphics #rstats
(code here: gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... )
๐จ Job Alert U. de Montrรฉal ๐จ
Assistant/Associate Prof: Politics or IR of China
If that sounds like you and you speak some French, please consider applying for this job.
Our dept is ultra-friendly, support is good, and Montrรฉal is amazing!
Reach out with any Q?s
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Congratulations, Jacob!!
๐จ New in Journal of Politics! ๐จ
Do radical right parties need to cut ties with old dictatorships to succeed?
๐ @sergipardos.bsky.social and my study of Spainโs VOX says: โ Not necessarily.