EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference:
PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend
Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf
Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT.
More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR
Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...
Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?
Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:
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PEEP is back this year🤌 ! The 4th Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference will be hosted at Harvard on Sept 2, the day before APSA.
We welcome observational, experimental and formal theory work focused on Europe. Deadline: March 1st.
forms.gle/V6NEy4AfnSs7...
How do you measure the domestic mental load? 🧐
And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents?
I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out!
Hope this sparks some conversations 💡
tally.so/r/447Xxk
❗ Help needed ❗ Please take our 5-minute survey about interpreting research graphs 📈 And please help us share this post with lots of people 🤗
Take the survey here: supsy.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Thank you!!
It was great to host the Comparative Representation in Advanced Parliamentary Democracies workshop at UT. It is always fun and inspiring to hear about the cutting-edge research. @utgovernment.bsky.social
Brief pause from maternity leave to share that the article "Nonpartisan ballots and the partisanship of who serves in office", co-authored with the amazing Dan Butler and Adam Dynes, has just been accepted at @thejop.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Download our new book for FREE! Thiago, Laron, and I explain why studying whether and how voters know what parties want (and who goes with whom) is important and layout a framework for how to do this better. Check out the cover, promotional comic, and abstract
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So proud of @gdilandro.bsky.social for successfully defending his thesis "Political Parties and the Gender Voting Gap in Western Democracies: A Supply and Demand Framework." He's already published one dissertation paper in @bjpols.bsky.social & there's more great gender & politics work to come! 🍾
I show the feminization strategy doesn’t always work to reduce voter punishment for corruption in LatAm. But in Guatemala where women’s rep is low & “fairer sex” stereotypes more prevalent amongst survey respondents, voters punish a party less post-scandal when new candidate is a woman. Read more👇🏻📑:
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
Experiment on r/changemyview came under scrutiny from the community - excellent read on ethical concerns of AI interventions.
www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...
🚨News flash🚨
In a late-breaking development, UCLA political science has successfully cut a deal with Cesar Vargas Nuñez, who will be joining our roster in ‘26.
This guy has it all: sharp intellect, highly productive, and an all around great human being. Big win for our department & university.
🗣️ PEEP - Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference - is back this year in Vancouver (Sep 10).
Submit your work by April 30: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Last year's program below
(co-orgs: Maria Carreri, @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social, @awiedemann.bsky.social)
About 214,000* Germans living abroad had registered to vote** in yesterday's election. Because this was a snap election with a compressed timeline, many voters didn't receive their absentee ballots in time.*** I'm one of them: mine arrived today. The day after the election.
"Why parties can benefit from promoting occupational diversity in legislatures" is out @ajpseditor.bsky.social
@miacosta.bsky.social and I describe an incentive-compatible mechanism for parties to recruit candidates with different occupational backgrounds. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Amazing news and obviously so so well deserved! Congrats Zeynep and I hope we'll get to celebrate this soon! 🥳
How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life?
In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out.
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Gleiches Problem hier: bsky.app/profile/homo...
Bei mir kommt es auch heute nicht an und damit hat sich dann auch FedEx/DHL endgültig erledigt 🤷
I also don't know anyone in the US who has received their ballot yet. Monday is a holiday and also the last day to drop them off in most consulates (www.germany.info/us-de/269598...). DHL would need it by Wednesday and cost $90. Absolutely wild to think how many people won't have a chance to vote.
🚨 Women will disappear from the next Bundestag! While national news reports close to equal % of women candidates compared to 2021 shorturl.at/KSYvj, the upcoming election on Feb 23 will lead to an even more male-dominated parliament. Here's why the new electoral system is pushing women out—🧵
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Woohoo, looking great!! 🥳
Highly recommend going to Puerto Rico with the best friends/coauthors #SPSA2025
HUGE AMAZING news. Please share!!!
EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics.
Due Feb 1, 2025
www.egenpolisci.org
#gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social