Upcoming event from @getsea.bsky.social!
Learn about Southeast Asian Studies from graduate students studying SEA at universities across the US. Area studies, resources, programs, funding, advisors, general advice & more will be discussed!
Dec. 15 @ 2:00pm (PT) / 5:00pm (ET)
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Here is a new article just published co-authored w/@grantmitchell.bsky.social & @sharilfranke.bsky.social
We developed new measures of party institutionalization & party strength that cover both democracies & autocracies around the world since 1970. #polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Book workshops are *fantastic.* Whether or not resources are an issue, the Zoom version (2-3 hours) works incredibly well and makes it much easier for participants to attend.
Other book workshop tips 🧵:
Time to Encode/Decode new #empirical research on the allocations of #foreign #aid in #India. Read Brian Min, Eugenio Arima, @schooldaves.bsky.social, @a2hicken.bsky.social ky.social, @joelselway.bsky.social, and Ken Kollman's full article: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...
NEW 🇮🇩 "What [the protesters] really stand for, above all, is rejection of the entire ruling elite. And the entire ruling elite, more or less, stands united against them." @edwardaspinall.bsky.social on last week's protests and the limits of comparisons with 1998 www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
There's been a lot of speculation recently that Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra could resign before the Constitutional Court issues a ruling on her ethics case. Will she stay or will she go? www.coffeeparliament.com/p/will-she-s...
For all Southeast Asianist scholars, please consider submitting a paper proposal for SEAREG at UC-San Diego in December.
dcid.sanford.duke.edu/seareg-thema...
Crazy events occasionally compel me to venture out of my usual cozy niche in comparative politics and into foreign policy ... And few recent events (at least in my world) have been quite so crazy as this nomination.
theconversation.com/malaysia-con...
Finally wrote something about the Taiwan People's Party. Read to the end to find out why the TPP is the biggest reason most KMT legislators are going to face recall votes on July 26:
www.kharistempleman.com/blog/the-cur...
Street scene in Southeast Asia with a person pushing a bicycle loaded with baskets, overlaid with a call for papers on agency in volatile times.
Scholars from Southeast Asia have until July 20 to submit proposals for the #AAS2026 Rising Voices panel, “Against the Tide: Agency in Volatile Times for Southeast Asia.” Check out the full CFP at #AsiaNow!
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Front cover of Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience by Bunce et al.
'Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience' by Bunce, @tompepinsky.com, @beattyriedl.bsky.social & Roberts is now available using our #BISA2025 30% discount.
cup.org/3STKoPB
Add your selection to your basket and use code 102385 at check out.
A brilliant scholar and wonderful human being. He will be missed.
New working paper, with @a2hicken.bsky.social and @edwardaspinall.bsky.social: "New Patterns of Urban Political Reform in SE Asia." What can 18 SE Asian cities tell us about the likelihood and character of urban reform? We dive in here. Thanks to our fab research team and GLD!
tinyurl.com/3eur93v5
Happy to announce that I have a new publication in Comparative Political Studies co-authored with @a2hicken.bsky.social
We show that the type of authoritarian parties that survive democratization affect party building differently
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations!!
BJPolS abstract discussing the Party-System Democracy Index (PSDI) and its application in political science research.
From March 2025 -
Party Systems, Democratic Positions, and Regime Changes: Introducing the Party-System Democracy Index - cup.org/4iPyIIn
- @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social, @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social & @silindberg.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
"Why Nations Fail" has been getting a lot of attention in Thailand. But getting Thailand out of the middle income trap will need us to build a national conversation that goes beyond what AJR offers. www.coffeeparliament.com/p/looking-be...
Congratulations!!!!
The first comprehensive, cross-regional comparative study of democratic backsliding and resiliency around the world.
Global Challenges to Democracy eds. Valerie J. Bunce, @tompepinsky.com, @beattyriedl.bsky.social, & Kenneth M. Roberts
Out Now #Politics #BookSky
cup.org/3F5YRV7
Accepted (conditional on uploading replication files) for publication @bjpols.bsky.social my paper with Miguel Rueda and Shuning Ge "Do More Disaggregated Electoral Results Deter Aggregation Fraud?"
Updated draft can be found at: osf.io/preprints/os...
Please, submit nominations to the 2025 CES Carolina de Miguel Award: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/membership/g....
Super happy to see this finally out! Coauthored with a dream team! @gustavodiaz.org Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro & Matthew S. Winters
Check it out! 👇🏼
*long thread with a summary of the argument may be coming soon
New piece with Napon Jatusripitak! We analyze voter attitudes in Thailand in the wake of the grand compromise between Pheu Thai and the conservatives and how partisan allegiances may shift. www.iseas.edu.sg/articles-com...
This piece draws on original survey data (conducted with
@a2hicken.bsky.social and Chitchaya Chimtanoo), including a mapping of how voters in our sample shifted in their party choices between the 2019 and 2023 general elections.
The Bhumjaithai Party has proven willing to frequently act as an internal opposition party within the Pheu Thai coalition. And with the "dark blue Senate," they've thrown their weight behind protecting the constitutional status quo. coffeeparliament.substack.com/p/dark-blue-...
We are now accepting nominators for the CES 2025 Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award.
Nominations for the 2025 Award are due May 2, 2025:
councilforeuropeanstudies.org/membership/g...
Candidates for local offices in Thailand have usually been reluctant to run with a national party. So why have partisan labels become more common in the recent elections? I explore this phenomenon here: coffeeparliament.substack.com/p/party-in-t... #Thailand #SoutheastAsia
New paper in @pspolisci.bsky.social by Kirk Hawkins and I discussing the future of scholarship on populism and its effect on democratic contestation, participation, and representation. We give special attention to how we measure populism, as many current measurses are inadequate for future research.
