5/ Read the full paper (open access): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#ClimateDisclosure #ShareholderActivism #ESG #FossilFuels #CorporateGovernance #ClimateStrategy

3/ Key takeaways:
- Shareholder pressure has had limited effectiveness in driving real strategic change at fossil fuel companies as we show through firms' disclosure
- Even resolutions often fail to translate into concrete action

2/ We ask: Does shareholder pressure actually push fossil fuel companies to change their climate strategy? As we rigorously show: not much.

My job market paper is now available as a preprint! 🚨

Using survey evidence with a conjoint experiment, I test how state-level immigrant integration policy features affect perceptions of fairness and support.

3 key points, the big takeaway, the link, and a bonus below⬇️🧵

Four days off in quarter system is almost close to #valentine 💌 ;)

It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

This ad appeared this week on our West Philly block. Read all the way down.

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

Stumbling out of the Gates: Security Strategy and Military Weakness after Revolutionary Victory Revolutionary regimes may prove durable over time, yet they are often weak and militarily ineffective after victory. How do the circumstances of victory shape these weaknesses? Where old regime sec...

Happy to have a new open access Security Studies article on why & how revolutionary regimes often struggle to balance against threats soon after taking power, undermining military effectiveness www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Many congratulations @meghnaydv.bsky.social!

Many congratulations @adityasarkar.bsky.social !

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025.

epssnet.org/belfast-2026/

@rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

Book cover for When Rebels Win: Ideology, Statebuilding, and Power after Civil Wars by Kai M. Thaler, featuring an image of people riding a military vehicle and celebrating the 1979 Sandinista revolutionary victory in Nicaragua

When Rebels Win now has a cover! Thanks to the @cornellupress.bsky.social team for work on the design. It's out December 15, & available to preorder. Please get in touch if you're interested in having me talk about the book in a seminar series or a class! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

JREP abstract discussing attitudes toward ethnic nationalism among Black and Asian Americans and its relation to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Free for a limited period from the latest issue of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics -

Ethnic Nationalism and Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement among Black and Asian Americans - cup.org/40EfjUh

- Kylie Gaines & Pei-Te Lien

#JREP10 #BLM

Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation JESPER LINDQVIST, MIKAEL PERSSON, WOUTER SCHAKEL, ANDERS SUNDELL

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@jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, W.Schakel & A.Sundell look at 🗳️ voters’ policy preferences often misalign with what they get in practice with the study showing how this “electoral connection” gap contributes to unequal outcomes

#OA

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Lessons from AR Memorialization: Artists' and Activists' Approaches to Responsible AR Development | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Together with colleagues & led by PhD students Ana Cardenas & Payton Croskey, our new paper examines how artists & activists use augmented reality technology for memorializing episodes of violence & injustices, navigating technical & ethical dilemmas. Published open access dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities ABSTRACT Some privately developed neighborhoods on the outskirts of India’s cities are formalized by urban authorities while others are not. What explains this uneven formalization and what are its...

The new paper from Adam Auerbach & @tanukumar.com, challenges the conventional understanding of urban peripheries as neglected zones & demonstrates them as crucial sites of negotiation, innovation & contestation. Indeed, future of urban India can't be shaped just in city centres but at their edges.

proud look :)

In this CASI Deep Dive IiT Interview, as CASI Director Tariq Thachil prepares to step down from his role next month, CASI Managing Editor @rohanvenkat.bsky.social speaks to him about "CASI and the Complex Challenge of Studying India in the United States" casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/casi-dee...

How do political families reproduce power: evidence from Maharashtra, India How do political families maintain their hold in local politics? While the impact of dynastic politics on economic development has received scholarly attention, the underlying mechanisms that susta...

A fascinating and carefully researched article on party politics, networks, dynastic politics and the business-politics nexus in India. #entrepreneurialpoliticians #Maharashtra
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Event - Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy

Join us on March 19 for Prof @louisetillin.bsky.social's book launch w/ Christophe Jaffrelot, @indrajitroy.bsky.social
& Sheba Tejani

Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/makin... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

The next talk under
@mwfdelhi.bsky.social #seminarseries
🗣️Sneha Annavarapu, National University of #Singapore
📆Friday, 28 March 2025
🛐Maple Hall, India Habitat Centre, Delhi
Registrations mandatory.
To register send 📩 to events@mwsindia.org by
19 March 2025

Good to have a publication out with @katadeney.bsky.social just as I set up my bsky account.

How do international audiences perceive, and respond to, gender equality reforms in autocracies? latest from @sarahbush.bsky.social @danieladonno.bsky.social & @parzetterberg.bsky.social.

#OpenAccess for now at APSA: bit.ly/3s7jjyD