Next week! April 15, 1 pm ET! Join us as we hear from Songeun Emily Lee of @uh.edu as she presents her work on how legislator identity impacts congressional action. Read more and register here: jawspolisci.network
Welcome to the Dynamic Democracy App This app lets you manipulate, explore, and download the Dynamic Democracy datasets with information on state policies and public opinion assembled by Devin Caughey and Chris Warshaw. Click on the triangle next to each category for more details. • State Policies: This dataset includes information on approximately 200 policies in place in at least one state between 1936 and 2024. • State Policy Ideology : Measures summarizing aggregate policy outputs in each state/year between 1936-2024. • Public Opinion: Measures summarizing state publics views on approximately 80 issues, covering 1936-2024. • Mass Ideology.: Measures of state publics' economic and cultural ideological preferences, 1936-2021. • Policy Proximity.: Measures of how closely state policies match public preferences.
🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education…
dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io
Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social
The Cambridge Studies in American Legislatures series publishes research that confronts major questions affecting the study of legislative politics and political representation in the United States.
Now Open for Submissions
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Call for Papers (due March 1st)
Workshop on "Frontiers in Representation: Citizen Assemblies, Deliberative Mini-Publics, and Participatory Democracy," August 14, Vanderbilt University
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See below for applications for Winant Visiting Professorship in American Government @raioxford.bsky.social. I highly recommend!
Looking to hire a political economist or comparativist? Look no further! Shiladitya is a PhD candidate with EITM training who studies electoral politics. Find out more at sites.google.com/view/shiladi....
Looking to hire a political science PhD? UH has some great candidates on the job market right now. Over the next few days we’ll be highlighting them.
Today’s candidate is Grace Cho, a political theorist who studies religion and secularization.
@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in Comparative Politics (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply.
careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
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🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com
A great reminder from @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social as the academic job market season begins: “You won’t be the right fit everywhere. That’s okay. You only need one place where your work resonates and where you can continue to grow.” #academicsky #polisky
@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in American Political Thought (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply. #psjobs #poliscijobs careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
CSDP Post-Doctoral Associate:
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Princeton University's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP) seeks post-doctoral associates for 12-month positions starting in August 2026.
CSDP Visiting Scholar:
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Princeton University's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP) seeks visiting scholars for the 2026-2027 academic year. Applications are welcome from political scientists and scholars in related social science disciplines.
We are hiring! @houstonpolsci.bsky.social is seeking applicants for endowed Aspire professorship in IR. See link for more details.
Today Strength In Numbers published an open-source estimate of candidate quality in U.S. House elections. We estimate a traditional WAR number using a predictive model with effects for legislators, and introduce a new metric, WARP, which captures probabilities: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/and-the-mo...
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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Virtual Workshop: Keeping It Fresh: Teaching Multiple Sections of American Government
Join APSA's Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession for their professional development workshop series' fourth event. Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | 3:00 PM / 12:00 PM | Register Here This…
On June 16 at noon (ET), I will hold a super informal Zoom workshop on "Navigating the Tenure Track System" for political science graduate students and postdocs about to start a tenure track position. #polisci
To register, pls fill the following form: shorturl.at/vVuQb
Congrats, Isaiah! Very proud of you.
Congratulations!
LIVE on @StateNavigate South Carolina: 1. Social media links for 2024 candidates 2. Campaign finance details for 2024 candidates, including donations received and expenditures made. Includes sortable tables by name, date, and amount!
These young folks are building the most comprehensive state elections database I’ve seen since ballotpedia. Political scientists, go get it. statenavigate.org/south-caroli...
Last call to submit APSA committee nominations! 📢 Self-nominations are welcome! If you or your colleagues are looking for a meaningful way to contribute and expand your network, nominate yourself or others to serve on APSA committees now!
📧 Submit to: Nominations@apsanet.org
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Check out my new Element with Robert Alvarez on the election of Latino Republicans to Congress and State Legislatures. Free to download for two weeks at link below!
Blue runner also sells dry beans in addition to the cans, but probably hard to get outside of LA or SE Texas.