Today!

Good times at the @wpsa.bsky.social Annual Meeting - lots of great emerging research on authoritarianism. But this picture does not do justice to my beloved Sandy Eggo...

Learned a lot from other status committee members at our roundtable this afternoon at @wpsa.bsky.social looking forward to do more to support First Gen Scholars.

Great presentation from @linettesanchez.bsky.social on the political engagement of the children of undocumented parents #WPSA2026 @wpsa.bsky.social

Attending @wpsa.bsky.social this year? Don’t miss my brilliant co-author @ozlemtuncel.bsky.social presenting our collaborative research on Saturday. Check out the panel details below! 📑👇

Yesterday at our @wpsa.bsky.social exhibit we met @stanfordpress.bsky.social author Nancy Manring, pictured below holding her book A World of Wounds: Rebuilding a Bipartisan Environmental Movement and Cultivating Authentic Hope. #wpsa2026

The WPSA Welcome Reception will be taking place from 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm in Coronado Terrace!

Our 2026 Annual Meeting is taking place at the Manchester Grand Hyatt (1 Market Pl, San Diego, CA 92101) from Thursday, April 2nd to Saturday, April 4th, 2026.

ID Badges and the WPSA Information Desk can be found in the Coronado Foyer (on the 4th floor, located on the Harbor Tower side) until 5 pm.

Welcome to San Diego!
If you are already registered for the conference, badge pick up will be on the fourth floor in the Harbor Tower, Coronado Foyer. This is where you will also find our exhibitors.

Hear author Michael J. Illuzzi speak at the @wpsa.bsky.social critic panel. The event is at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego 3:15pm to 5:15pm. 

Michael J. Illuzzi authored Mending the Nation: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640638/

#WPSA #PoliticalScience #USPolitics #UPKansas

For folks who will be at @wpsa.bsky.social on Thursday and Saturday, I'll be presenting two co-authored papers:

10 am THU: Higher education expansion under authoritarianism (with @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social)

1:15 pm SAT: Removal of elected opposition mayors (with
@elifsarigenc.bsky.social)

Our @wpsa.bsky.social exhibit will open at 8 a.m. tomorrow (4/2) in the Coronado Foyer. Stop by to peruse a display of discounted books from @politybooks.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social @uvapress.bsky.social & more! #WPSA2026

Register for the 2026 WPSA Annual Meeting in San Diego!

To register, create an account on our MemberClicks page: www.wpsanet.org/login. After logging in, you will be able to access the registration form.

Our pleasure!

The annual BYU Redd Center funding season is here and we have INCREASED the $$$ amounts!

PLEASE share this as broadly as possible.

We accept applications from ANY discipline for projects focused on the intermountain states of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, & WY.

tinyurl.com/2026ReddAwards

Register for the 2026 WPSA Annual Meeting in San Diego!

To register, create an account on our MemberClicks page: www.wpsanet.org/login. After logging in, you will be able to access the registration form.

I recently joined the @wpsa.bsky.social Committee on First Gen Scholars. I hope we can support more research like this and more support for first-gen scholars!

After Bostock: conservative judges, LGBTQ rights, and the conservative movement After the groundbreaking LGBTQ rights decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), federal judges across the ideological spectrum used the decision to protect the rights of transgender plaintiffs....

One of the most read articles published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social in the last year:

After Bostock: conservative judges, LGBTQ rights, and the conservative movement, by Jason Pierceson

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you're attending WPSA 2026 @wpsa.bsky.social, consider submitting a paper to present at the WPSA Latina/o Politics Pre-Conference! See the call for papers below for details on how to submit an abstract. DM/email me or @ivyamcargile.bsky.social if you have questions!

Election Outcomes and Affective Polarization in the United States - Joseph B. Phillips, Seth B. Warner, 2026 Do election outcomes exacerbate affective polarization? While polarization often rises during campaigns and correlates with democratic backsliding, isolating th...

Out now and open access with @sethers.bsky.social at Political Research Quarterly! How do election outcomes shape affective polarization among Americans? 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: An Analysis of the Norm of Respectful Dissent - Alex Farone, 2026 Why do Supreme Court justices break away from the norm of respectful dissent? I answer this question by defining what constitutes a respectful dissent in the co...

Online First: Alex Farone, "R-E-S-P-E-C-T: An Analysis of the Norm of Respectful Dissent"

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Last day!

The Elsa Favila Travel Award is open to any member who is participating in the annual conference as a paper presenter, discussant, or in another capacity that entails considerable work at the meeting.

Deadline: January 31st

www.wpsanet.org/meeting/

The early registration deadline for the 2026 conference in San Diego, California, ends on December 31. Registration rates increase by $20 on January 1. Register now to get the better rate. Plus, early registration helps us in our planning!

www.wpsanet.org/forms/reg_fo....

Scaling Authoritarian Information Control: How China Adjusts the Level of Online Censorship - Rongbin Han, Li Shao, 2022 Autocracies can conduct “strategic censorship” online by selectively targeting different types of content and by adjusting the level of information control. Whi...

One of the most cited articles published in the journal in the last 3 years:

"Scaling Authoritarian Information Control: How China Adjusts the Level of Online Censorship," by Rongbin Han and Li Shao

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Double-Edged Sword: Political Engagement on Social Media and Its Impact on Democracy Support in Authoritarian Regimes - Ihsan Yilmaz, Shahram Akbarzadeh, Namig Abbasov, Galib Bashirov, 2025 Utilizing data from the Arab Barometer surveys, this study distinguishes between social media and the internet’s general use and their usage for political purpo...

One of the most-read articles in the journal in the last 6 months:

"The Double-Edged Sword: Political Engagement on Social Media and Its Impact on Democracy Support in Authoritarian Regimes"

by Ihsan Yilmaz et al.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...