2) She will be joined by two discussants Aysenur Dal (Bilkent University) and Gizem Arikan (Trinity College Dublin).
You can find the joining links & more details here: psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/10/28/j...
1) Join us for the Turkish Politics Online Workshop this Monday at 15:00 (UK time) co-convened by @digdemsoyaltin.bsky.social & @aykutozturk.bsky.social
Aysenur Deger (Syracuse University) will present her work on how exposure to economic inequality deflects resentment from disadvantaged groups.
Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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@daniel-balinhas.bsky.social wrote a nice piece how to make the polarization research better by adding context info and power difference considerations: doi.org/10.1111/spc3...
Cover of the book 'Building Social Mobility: How Subsidized Homeownership Creates Wealth, Dignity, and Voice in India,' part of the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series. The illustration features a detailed cross-section of an apartment building with various people engaged in daily activities.
"... shows how a different form of public policy-subsidized home ownership-can transform poor people's lives by bolstering not just wealth but also agency and civic participation."
'Building Social Mobility' by @tanukumar.com.
Coming Soon - 📚 cup.org/3Hu4o9k 📚
The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!
📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
📍 ICC Belfast
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025
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What could go wrong?
Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.
Social mobility, self-selection, and the persistence of class inequality in electoral participation
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Paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social by Giacomo Melli and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellows Nan Dirk de Graaf & Geoffrey Evans
Helsinki (pop 657,000) has not had a single traffic death during the last twelve months.
poliisi.fi/-/helsingin-...
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
Is authoritarianism linked to religiosity? Here’s my bite-sized answer in an 80-second video! ⏱️📽️👇
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
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Don’t miss the deadline to apply for the @epovb.bsky.social Early Career Fellowship. Coming up next week! ⬇️📆
Advertising Online Surveys on Social Media: How Your Advertisements Affect Your Study
Are you using online surveys in your research? Recruiting participants through paid ads? Then @anjaneundorf.bsky.social and I have an article you’ll want to read:
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
Out now🎉 - Evidence (from distribution analyses and machine learning models on EES 2014-2024 data) of strong similarities and growing convergence in EU public opinion, particularly on economic issues. Common right-ward shifts on immigration, yes - but underlying drivers still vary. shorturl.at/KCx0S
Kinda done with “hot takes”, but into writing slow reflections.
I know, I’m clearly on the wrong platform.
Tired of takes? Same.
Respect the Marble is my Substack about writing & thinking with clarity when we're surrounded by speed & noise.
🔗 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
With much thanks to @ndelacerda.bsky.social & a great @chesdata.bsky.social team, we have a new JOP article (early access) comparing expert evaluations of party positions from Europe to Israel to North America to Australia. doi.org/10.1086/736578
1/ Happy to report an unfortunately timely new (open access!) pub in EPSR. A short 🧵: doi.org/10.1017/S175...
It's happening! 😍 Our first @ecpr.bsky.social standalone conference, from 9-10 June at @qmul.ac.uk!
👉 Registration for papers & panels is open! 🍿
👉 Kindly brought to you by @profannikawerner.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @sajuria.com @stijntvankessel.bsky.social 🙌
“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”
🎙️ Join us for our next OPUS Conversation with Dr. Jennifer McCoy as she presents her new book "Depolarizing Politics and Remaking Democracy", co-authored with Murat Somer.
🗓️ May 28 | 🕘 9–10 AM ET
👥10-15 min talk & Q&A session
🔗Register: tinyurl.com/jennifermccoy
"How Tinted Are Your Glasses? Gender Views, Beliefs and Recommendations in Hiring"
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