Thanks, Ingo! Graham Goff and I have put a lot of work into this package. {DAGassist} can estimate a wide range of models and classify covariate roles after you make your DAG either with {ggdag} or {daggitty}. We hope that the package can make DAG-consistent estimation a little easier for everyone!
We're hiring a Research Support Associate at MIT Political Science. Work with me, In Song Kim, Rich Nielsen, and Naoki Egami on methods and political economy. Great opportunity for those considering a PhD in the social sciences. One-year position with possible extension.
Thanks to @rbreich.bsky.social for sharing our article/ interview in @us.theconversation.com 🙏 ...
We offer some helpful lenses for making sense of the social movements taking shape in the U.S.
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⏳One month left to nominate papers for APSA's Experimental Research Section’s Best Paper Award! We’re excited to read creative experimental work tackling big political questions. Self-nominations welcome (and discussants, please nominate your panelists)!
Five more days to submit nominations for the Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology! A broad and unusual call. Feel free to self-nominate or to submit a nomination on behalf of work that has inspired you.
Felix, you may want to take a look this response to Marshall from Bertoli and Hazlett in Political Analysis: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🎉I'm excited to share my new article with @cjschneider.bsky.social, now online at International Organization @iojournal.bsky.social: “International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience.” Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S002...
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From Principles to Politics. Freedom, equality, and fellowship are principles of the republican tradition, in the U.S. and globally. Echoes can be found in liberté, egalité, fraternité ou mort (liberty, equality, and fraternity or death) in revolutionary France, in the revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar’s Letter from Jamaica, and in countless constitutions across the world. These are universal values, and they are also quintessentially American. The Trump administration’s perversion of these American values explains why his second administration is so unpopular. But its opponents must not repeat the errors of the Biden-Harris administration, which activated a negative coalition to win the presidency in 2020 but failed to secure a durable settlement thereafter. The Biden-Harris administration’s fundamental error was refusing to confront the enemy of freedom, equality, and fellowship as the enemy. Biden and Harris knew exactly the stakes; they warned Americans of what the Trump administration would do if returned to office in 2025. Yet they believed that normal politics was possible, and hoped to turn the other cheek, to bless those who cursed them. “The fever will break,” Biden had been predicting since Obama’s reelection in 2012. The Nazi propagandist Carl Schmitt was right to identify liberal democracy’s weakness: reducing political conflict to disagreement over economic policy or cultural values. But when the procedures of liberal democracy have been distorted by antidemocratic forces, the liberal’s response to these distortions must be unequivocal. Every liberal—republican, conservative, socialist, Christian, or any other—must draw the line when confronted with lawlessness, corruption, and perfidy by those who abandon freedom, equality, and fellowship for their personal ends. There can be no compromise on these principles.
The anti-Trump coalition is a negative coalition, defined by what it opposes. Durable political change requires a positive coalition, defined by what it believes and the principles that will defend. Here is my outline of those principles... and the stakes.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-republic...
Congrats, Christina(s)! It is awesome work!
Excited to share a new piece, co-authored with Eddy Malesky and Lucio Picci, at @foreignaffairs.com!
We return to the Trump administration's decision to suspend (and reform) the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
🧵: "How Washington Is Weaponizing Anticorruption Law."
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New Blog for CGD:
US Aid Cuts Fueled Conflict in Africa
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🚨 I’m hiring a Harvard-based Predoctoral Fellow.
If you’re excited about development, political economy, and public finance, apply!
✅ Full-time (July 1 start)
🗓️ Rolling deadline
🎓 Great fit for candidates considering a PhD
Apply ➡️ academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15884
Come work with me! Two postdoc positions open in @erc.europa.eu project PROTECT, examining how local change shapes public support for protectionist policies in areas like trade and finance. @stockholmuni.bsky.social
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This is tragic. The World Factbook was a useful resource to make sense of the world as a comparative politics scholar. The dismantling of the US state and its resources will leave a less knowledgeable world.
As President Trump withdraws the US from intl agreements - including the Paris Agreement and WHO - Lotem Bassan-Nygate and I ask how this affects public opinion towards cooperation? We descibe our recent findings in @goodauth.bsky.social : tinyurl.com/goodauth @harvardkennedy.bsky.social 1/4
A reminder that the deadline for the Political Economy of Aid and International Development meeting (at Georgetown U) is next Friday (30 January). Come to hear and discuss some of the best new work on the political economy of aid and international development.
Wow, great course — your students are lucky!
Already some excellent submissions in for #PEADS2026 from May 22-23 at Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. Don't have yours in yet? Don't worry there's still time - deadline January 30th! Please "re-sky" to spread the word!
We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds!
You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/
It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below.
The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.
Extremely cool paper from @akiraigarashi.bsky.social. Link: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Looking for 1-2 papers (and maybe one more discussant) to put together an #APSA2026 panel proposal on recent methodological developments in surveys/experiments (can go either way). Feel free to reach out!
Can state-building disrupt rather than stabilize society? In a new @apsrjournal.bsky.social article, @victorgayeco.bsky.social and I show that the expansion of state communication networks spurred rebellion for decades in France before the Revolution
👉 Article: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021.
This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏
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Really outstanding post for both CS and social science folks #linkoftheday
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Check out new position for a 2-year pre-doc starting summer 2026. I work closely with the pre-doc (meeting daily) and will actively mentor towards PhD application. Pre-doc will work on multiple behavioral/applied micro projects. Posting: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05225
We have now posted post-doc openings for the Reimagining the Economy Program at Harvard. Interested in economic transformation, industrial policy, place-based policies, and next-generation ideas on generating inclusive prosperity? Apply at www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...
📣What does life look like for the Ugandan women who were taken as children by the Lord Resistance Army in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, & are now adults raising families of their own? 📣
➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @alessandracassar.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social
A great opportunity for folks interested in data science + AI; lots going on at Hopkins in this area! Spread the word and apply!
I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.