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Proud that @monicabeeder.bsky.social contributed to a major reproducibility project in economics & political science, now published in Nature. A key step toward more robust, trustworthy social science. #Reproducibility #EconTwitter #PoliSci #Econsky
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The #ActEU book is here!
This #PoliSci book explores how trust and legitimacy shape Europe’s representative democracies, introducing the ActEU framework to assess democratic change and polarization.
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New paper on 'Coalition Breakdown and Subsystem Exit' in @psjeditor.bsky.social: why #advocacycoalitions may fragment, splinter and/or dissolve. #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
Open access: doi.org/10.1111/psj....
In "Neoliberalism and Unlawful Governance", Guillermina Seri examines how market-driven policies enable exclusion and abuse while privileging markets over democracy, rights, and nature—and highlights resistance and commons-based alternatives.
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Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism by Alan S. Kahan
Alan S. Kahan's Freedom from Fear is a provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today’s liberals.
Now in #paperback!
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Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power by Jamila Michener and Mallory E. SoRelle
Now available worldwide, Uncivil Democracy by @povertyscholar.bsky.social and
@profsorelle.bsky.social reveals how the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities.
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SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS in France, Russia, and China emerged from specifically political crises centered in the structures and situations of the old-regime states. The events of 1787-9 in France, of the first half of 1917 in Russia, and of 1911-16 in China not only undermined autocratic monarchical regimes but also disorganized centrally coordinated administrative and coercive controls over the potentially rebellious lower classes. The revolutionary crises developed when the old-regime states became unable to meet the challenges of evolving international situations. Monarchical authorities were subjected to new threats or to intensified competition from more economically developed powers abroad. And they were constrained or checked in their responses by the institutionalized relationships of the autocratic state organizations to the landed upper classes and the agrarian economies. Caught in cross-pressures between domestic class structures and international exigencies, the autocracies and their centralized administrations and armies broke apart, opening the way for social-revolutionary transformations spearheaded by revolts from below.
From Theda Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions: a Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
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What role do scientists play in providing policy knowledge in public debates? Drawing on the AFC, this study by A. Nam examines how scientists express elements of policy knowledge within a contentious offshore wind policy debate in the US. Link in the comments! #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
Are modern conflicts tied to the Second Coming? Some argue yes, but what do the Gospels suggest?
This new video on my YouTube channel breaks down 3 key points on religious claims regarding military action.
Let me know your thoughts!
youtu.be/gOOcP-K_f40
#PoliSci #NationalSecurity #Geopolitics
Citizens in #NorthMacedonia 🇲🇰 consume media during election campaigns less than 2.5 days/week on average — among the lowest in the @cses.bsky.social Dec 2025 advanced release. Surprising? Perhaps not, given the broader disillusionment with party politics in the country.
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"The first scholar to trace the erosion of the Framers’ antidemocratic constraints on faction and its contribution to our present political gridlock." - Douglas Ginsburg
American Factions by James L. Huffman (@lclarklaw.bsky.social), Coming Soon
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"The first scholar to trace the erosion of the Framers’ antidemocratic constraints on faction and its contribution to our present political gridlock." - Douglas Ginsburg
American Factions by James L. Huffman (@lclarklaw.bsky.social), Coming Soon
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https://cup.org/4bq2JfO
Paperback cover of Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum
"An illuminating—and alarming—book."—Washington Post
Ungoverning by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum is now available in #paperback!
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Who should govern #NorthMacedonia? @cses.bsky.social data points to a preference for non-politicians: 🇲🇰 tops the Dec 2025 advanced release in citizens favoring businesspeople and experts over party politics. That speaks volumes about democratic quality in the country.
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Is Iran really a nuclear threat?
The latest video (youtu.be/6O_FZlduChg) on my YouTube channel breaks down the 3 keys to developing nuclear weapons & the consequences we face because of this war.
Understanding the stakes is essential, so check it out!
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www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u... So much to unpack here. any #polisci #politicalscience experts who can help me understand ? drive.google.com/file/d/1JC8D...
Liam Midzain-Gobin stands in a sunny study space.
#BrockU's Associate Professor of #PoliSci Liam Midzain-Gobin thinks it’s time to ask different questions, and be open to honest answers, about Canadian and Indigenous sovereignty. All are welcome to attend Midzain-Gobin's lecture on Friday, March 27, in RFP. Learn more ➡️ https://loom.ly/rBTPzf4
Out now! This study by. J. Lee, S. Ju & B. J. Kim examines how citizens comply with government mandates when public disagreement with policy measures is high. Link in the comments! #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
Engels further elucidates the concept of the "power" which is termed the state-a power which arises from society, but Which places itself above it and becomes more and more alienated from it. What does this power mainly consist of? It consists of special bodies of armed men which have prisons, etc., at their disposal. We are justified in speaking of special bodies of armed men, because the public power which is an attribute of every state is not "directly identical" with the armed population, with its "self-acting armed organization." Like all the great revolutionary thinkers, Engels tried to draw the attention of the class conscious workers to the very fact which prevailing philistinism regards as least worthy of attention, as the most common and sanctified, not only by long standing, but one might say by petrified prejudices. A standing army and police are the chief instruments of state power. But can it be otherwise? From the point of view of the vast majority of Europeans of the end of the nineteenth century whom Engels was ad-dressing, and who have not lived through or closely observed a single great revolution, it cannot be otherwise. They completely fail to understand what a "self-acting armed organization of the population" is. To the question, whence arose the need for special bodies of armed men, standing above society and becoming alienated from it (police and standing army, the West European and Russian philistines are inclined to
From Lenin’s The State and Revolution
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Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets by Cornelia Woll
In Corporate Crime and Punishment, @corneliawoll.bsky.social examines the geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countries.
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246 Essential Works of Lenin As we have seen, the most deep-rooted economic foundation of imperialism is monopoly. This is capitalist monopoly, i.e., monopoly which has grown out of capitalism and exists in the general capitalist environment of commodity production and competition, and remains in permanent and insoluble contradiction to this general environment. Nevertheless, like all monopoly, this capitalist monopoly inevitably gives rise to a tendency to stagnation and decay. As monopoly prices become fixed, even temporarily, the stimulus to technical and, consequently, to all progress, disappears to a certain extent, and to that extent, also, the economic possibility arises of deliberately retarding technical progress. For instance, in America, a certain Mr. Owens invented a machine which revolutionized the manufacture of bottles. The German bottle manufacturing trust purchased Owens' patent, but refrained from utilizing it. Certainly, monopoly cannot, under capitalism, eliminate competition in the world market completely and for a long period of time (and this, by the by, is one of the reasons why the theory of ultra-imperialism is so absurd). Certainly the possibility of reducing cost of production and increasing profits by introducing technical improvements is an influence in the direction of change. Nevertheless, the tendency to stagnation and decay, which is the feature of monopoly, continues, and in certain branches of industry, in certain countries, for certain periods of time, it becomes predominant. The monopoly of ownership of very extensive, rich or well-situated colonies operates in the same direction. Moreover, imperialism is an immense accumulation of money capital in a few countries, which, as we have seen, amounts to 100 to 150 billion francs in various securities. Hence the extraordinary growth of the class, or rather of the category, of bondholders (rentiers), people who live by clipping coupons, who take no part whatever in production, whose p…
From Lenin’s Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
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In #PoliSci, one of the few things that was seen as a law of nature was the American "rally around the flag" effect -- if a American president goes to war, he (always "he" so far) becomes more popular (in the short term).
Why it didn't happen here is going to be lots of papers I'll want to read.
#polisci I'm curious about what's happening in academia and the democratization measurements. None of the theories or data can explain what is happening in the US right now. In fact, the democratization literature has some reckoning to do, especially the institutions sub-branch.
Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper
Counterrevolution by Melinda Cooper is a thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity & extravagance that characterizes government spending & central bank monetary policy.
The #paperback edition is now available worldwide! Learn more:
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Draws on a wide variety of primary sources to explain how the Declaration of Independence founded a nation and committed it to constitutional government.
One Nation Under Law by Carlton F. W. Larson (@ucdavis.bsky.social), Coming Soon
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Draws on a wide variety of primary sources to explain how the Declaration of Independence founded a nation and committed it to constitutional government.
One Nation Under Law by Carlton F. W. Larson (@ucdavis.bsky.social), Coming Soon
#LawSky #PoliSci #USHistory 🗃️
https://cup.org/47L4KlI
Serve on #APSACommittees! APSA committees are essential to advancing APSA’s mission, guiding key initiatives and fostering a vibrant #polisci community.
📩 Please email suggestions to nominations@apsanet.org by April 10th, 2026!
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Using Policy Feedback Theory and Grid Group Cultural Theory, M. Yuan, B. Swedlow & Q. Wu show how COVID-19 policy stringency and individuals' cultural worldviews influence trust in different levels of Chinese government. Link in the comments! #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
