Amazing news Akshay, congratulations!

Travelling has three ls, Aidan.

Last chance to apply to our postdoc position in the LSE School of Public Policy!

Deadline is tomorrow (March 31): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Different considerations and smaller body of work, but he only appeared on 323 of 349 ballots for the Japanese baseball hall of fame.

BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of absenteeism in the public sector on political accountability and service delivery, focusing on a case study from India between 2006 and 2018.

NEW -

Absence: Electoral Cycles and Teacher Absenteeism in India - cup.org/3XCGVre

"Political interference has an effect on bureaucratic performance, and relationships between public sector workers and politicians can ameliorate absenteeism."

- @eeemda.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

As I sit here from my vantage in Providence, Rhode Island, my favourite walk is over a bridge that was twice rebuilt. First to displace thousands of immigrants from Cabo Verde to build a highway, and then to build a pedestrian bridge for folks like me to enjoy.

The only thing I might add is that these issues will only become more salient in high-income countries, too. The UK is poorer today than it was in 2007 and early returns suggest the US might go the same way.

What will become of international development after the end of the aid paradigm? Some thoughts in response to questions I get from students and young professionals

This www.africanistperspective.com/p/what-will-..., by @kopalo.bsky.social, was excellent, and touches on a lot that I have often struggled to articulate to colleagues and students.

Without disclosing the university, I know of one that is planning on removing 15% of all full time employees through letting adjuncts and visitings go and not hiring to replace people retiring.

Doesn't even come close to your wishful thinking.

These sorts of unhinged takes belong on the other site.

Storefront Campaigning Cambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - Storefront Campaigning

Our new book, Storefront Campaigning, is out *today* and FREE to download until 12/12!

doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Using original data on field office locations, Sean Whyard and I show where offices are placed - and why they matter in presidential campaigns. (1/x)

Swing by tomorrow at 10AM ET/3PM UK for some new work on bureaucratic selection and teacher politics from Brazil with Julia Coyoli, Leslie Finger, and Jonathan Phillips.

And check out the rest of the lineup Mobarak and Sonia have put together here: www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

Sublime Merge has worked well for me for quite a while now. And if you switch between mac and windows at all, they’re identical.

www.sublimemerge.com

#YMDteam

It's not wrong. It's an arbiter of good taste.

Rooting for Scotland like

Yo, JMCs

I have an idea for how to share new research while social media fragments..

In Nov/ Dec, I'll do weekly Substacks on new JMPs on gender.

If you'd like me to discuss your JMP, do share.

This would only be a nice, supportive discussion. 😊

draliceevans.substack.com

What is the value added of local democracy? Fascinating paper on a natural experiment in India: Local democracy aligns spending more closely with citizen preferences, but these gains accrue more to advantaged groups. documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...

I'll be presenting my work next week as part of the Brown-Harvard-MIT South Asia Seminar. Please join if you're in the area!

Details here: watson.brown.edu/southasia/ev...

Please do add me when you get a chance!

lol I didn't realise that this was part of the larger Discourse™️ -- had just signed-up for bluesky and hadn't been on twitter for weeks and yours was one of the first posts I saw here. I am now (unfortunately) caught up.

Last week was the conference of the Research on Improving Systems of Education (or RISE) program. Here are 28 takeaways: teachers, technology, long-term trajectories, and more. www.cgdev.org/blog/new-fin....

Curious what the disincentives are. Is it the incentive to be "novel"? My narrow view of (my corner of) political science is that there are incentives to borrow from other disciplines and demonstrate theoretical breadth with new applications.