Last day to apply!

We are hiring up to three new professors in political science this year. Two at Assistant or Associate level, one at Associate or Full. Fields are Comparative Politics, Governance, and Quant but these are just broad guidelines. I'm happy to answer any questions.

www.fgses-um6p.ma/jobs?field_t...

We are hiring up to three new professors in political science this year. Two at Assistant or Associate level, one at Associate or Full. Fields are Comparative Politics, Governance, and Quant but these are just broad guidelines. I'm happy to answer any questions.

www.fgses-um6p.ma/jobs?field_t...

Une chose que j'avais oubliée de mentionner dans mon tweet en anglais c'est que l'appel à contributions existe aussi en français et qu'il est possible de soumettre un résumé en français.
La date limite pour les soumissions est le 15 octobre.

The deadline is on 15 October!

Also please don't hesitate to circulate this post to help spread the word. Thank you!

The conference is entitled "Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene" and will take place from 6-11 July 2025. Rabat is a beautiful city and an opportunity to meet scholars from around the globe outside of a North American or European setting.

www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferenc...

If you have a paper abstract that you think speaks to the themes in our call for contributions above, then please reach out or head directly to the submission website:

www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferenc...

Together with two of my colleagues I'm putting together a panel for the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology which will take place in Rabat in July 2025. It's on the question of social justice in Africa, which we find to be eclipsed by technocratic discourse on fighting poverty.

We finally released an updated version of our dataset on physical violence in parliaments, the Fistfights In parliamentary Sessions Time Series (aka FISTS). It's on my website and the Harvard Dataverse, so feel free to check it out. We hope it's of use!

We're still looking for prospective APSA 2024 participants interested in a panel on the resource curse. Don't hesitate to get in touch (you'll find my email address by googling me).

Together with some colleagues, including @bensmith70polisci.bsky.social and @gswenson.bsky.social, we’re trying to put together a panel on the political resource curse for APSA 2024. If you have a paper that (broadly) fits please don’t hesitate to get in touch! polisky

Did you delete your Twitter account?

Our article can be found here:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Analysis | The ominous rise of congressional anger The United States has witnessed rising anger on Capitol Hill in the past. Then there was a war.

An interesting article by @washingtonpost.com columnist Philip Bump on rising tensions in the US Congress, partially drawing on our recent research (with @kiwiting.bsky.social) on physical violence in parliaments.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Thanks Sara :-)

Avoiding the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Most-Likely Case - Studies in Comparative Int... Why do some countries escape the political resource curse while others do not? Most scholars argue that avoiding the claimed anti-democratic effects of natural resources, especially oil, largely depen...

It's based on our recent article in
Studies in Comparative International Development, which you can find open access here:

How Timor-Leste Escaped the Political ‘Resource Curse’ Asia’s youngest nation has shown that resource wealth does not necessary impede the development of a stable democracy.

It's obviously very difficult to think and talk about other topics in these dark times but Geoffrey Swenson and I wrote a piece on a success story of democratisation in a prime candidate for the "political resource curse", Timor-Leste.