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:

tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

This is amazing! Going to use it in my work 😉

Thanks much for the shoutout, @daviddarmofal.bsky.social !!

I'm really looking forward to David Carter's talk in our department's speaker series today! Thanks to my colleagues, @howardhliu.bsky.social & @samuel-bagg.bsky.social, the co-organizers of our department's speaker series, for organizing this!

Save the date! PolNet & PaCSS 2025 are joining forces at Harvard and Northeastern on August 11–14, 2025—workshops on Aug 11–12, conference on Aug 13–14. Stay tuned for details on CFP, registration, and more. See you at #PolNetPaCSS2025!

Can a Sense of Shared War Experience Increase Refugee Acceptance? - Ji Yeon Hong, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, Christopher Paik, 2024 How can one increase openness towards conflict refugees in states that have experienced conflict? While highlighting shared war experience may reduce hostility ...

To celebrate my (belated) permanent migration to #bluesky, I would like to shamelessly share my recent publication with Cecilia Mo and Christopher Paik on war experience and refugee acceptance in Korea at journal of conflict resolution 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The current sequence is like
1) probability/inference
2) OLS/model diagnostic/model selection/missing data
3) MLE + causal inference

Causal inference and machine learning should prob be two separate courses in the future, as many dept are doing so

Thanks, Victor. I’m glad that I finally made the switch!