Getting organized for the 2026 CES conference (deadline fast approaching); if you have a paper you're planning to present that is either on 1.) group appeals, or 2.) contemporary sources of social closure, lmk and we can see whether there's enough overlap for a shared panel submission! #polisky

This. No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued. This process takes at least a couple of years.

Taking a closer look at @mierkezat.bsky.social @swenhutter.bsky.social & @eborbath.bsky.social's paper on cleavage formation and civil society and cannot recommend it highly enough! Really insightful theorizing, e.g. on changes in the form of civil society and its effect on group-party linkages:

Here are some #APSA panels that explore the relationship between parties, CSOs, and democracy *in European Politics* featuring papers by brilliant jr women; @francescayton.bsky.social @maajanmor.bsky.social and what are sure to be sharp comments from uber smart and sharp @mierkezat.bsky.social!

Another European election, another likely record result for a far-right party: Norwegian parliamentary elections show small gains for the social democrats (Ap) and (if the numbers hold as counting goes on) the historically best ever result for the far-right FrP.

💥 Online first in West European Politics: "Cleavage theory meets civil society: a framework and research agenda" by @mierkezat.bsky.social @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Quite on the nose; from A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

New Working Paper! Why do policies that reinforce unequal opportunities persist? Some blame elites. I argue less secure families defend these "boundaries" against reform and call this "boundary defense". I test this on a 2010 referendum against school reform in Hamburg. Link: osf.io/preprints/soc...

Another fantastic piece out in our "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" special issue! (co-edited with @davidattewell6.bsky.social ) @mierkezat.bsky.social et al investigate the role of civil society in contemporary cleavage formation.  There are a few more SI contributions still to come!

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

📢 Call for papers: "Political Identities in Europe" workshop, Nov 13-14, 2025 @uvahumanities.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social How are political identities constructed across Europe? Deadline: Sept 26, 2025. 🔗 Info & submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Interesting new article that fits nicely within "The Building Blocs" research agenda (t.ly/us7kj), which we recently contributed to: t.ly/Dg6zK We, as scholars of Europe, can learn from scholars of MENA, SE Asia, etc, who have long emphasized the role of civil society for party competition.

Highly recommend giving it a read! What a fun and insightful writing journey. Also, I’m new here on Bluesky, excited to connect!

🔔 Very happy to see our paper published open access on cleavage theory and civil society! 📖 We have tried to sketch a new research agenda, that I think has a lot of potential. I very much enjoyed working on this! Check Alex's thread below 👇 & read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Vicente Valentim Receives the 2025 Robert A. Dahl Award for “The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand” The Robert A. Dahl Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor an untenured scholar who has produced…

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

Trying to put together a list of restaurant & bar recs for friends coming to Vancouver (my hometown) for #APSA2025 has evolved into a ... slightly different project #polisky

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

On both sides of the Pond, more than 15 years later, we are still not ready for the hard conversation about how needless austerity during the GFC is the single greatest reason we have arrived at our current politics. Maybe one day we’ll get there, but don’t hold your breath bsky.app/profile/mcop...

As Jonathan White argues, politics obsessed with numbers has shrunk our sense of the future. Art can spark collective imagination and a deeper purpose beyond economic metrics. Read my conversation with @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social here: www.culturepolicyroom.eu/insights/tod...

This isn’t even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not? What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/0032... 🧵 1/10

Can banning political ideologies protect democracy? 🛡️🆚🗣️ Our (w. @valentimvicente.bsky.social) paper finds: punishing individuals might backfire. We study a West German policy banning "extreme left" individuals from working for the state. #Democracy #PoliticalScience 🧵 url: osf.io/usqdb_v2

Wrapped up my position at Stanford and just arrived in Berlin for a visiting stint at the WZB before I begin an exciting new postdoc at Vanderbilt CSDI in mid-August. If any colleagues are in Berlin this summer and want to connect (or have Nashville housing leads!), please get in touch! #polisky

Die politischen Systeme der Bundesrepublik Deutschland & der Schweiz im Vergleich: auf gehts in unsere Studienreise mit 20 Masterstudierenden! We’re off to Berlin for a field trip with our students @unibe.ch! 🇩🇪 Anything in particular about German politics you’d like us to explore while we’re there?

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Fact Sheet: Maintaining student status when an SEVP certified school closes or loses its certification to enroll F-1 nonimmigrant students www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis...

Wow. If this had been implemented a few years ago, I would have had to drop out of my PhD. Unpaywalled link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

BREAKING: The Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students and says thousands of students must transfer. Follow live updates.

You may remember my “article hunt” assignment from a thread back in 2018, or from one earlier this year. I wrote about it for Political Science Educator: educate.apsanet.org/developing-r.... Big thanks to @colinmbrown.bsky.social and Matt Evans for curating this collection! #TeachLearnSky

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." #vanpoli

Report from @science.org: • NSF staff told that its 37 divisions are being abolished. Programs within to be drastically reduced. • Layoffs expected, details via memo Friday 5/9. • Another round of grant terminations expected. (Already 1400 cancelled ~$1bn) www.science.org/content/arti...

I'm having a book workshop in a couple of weeks and I just sent the draft manuscript to the discussants. After a year and a half of putting the project aside to respond to the whims of the job market, it feels absolutely amazing to have a working draft 🥳

Please share! We're incubating the Canadian Tax Observatory and 👀 a Founding CEO to drive an informed national conversation on links b/w: 📈 taxation 💰 economic fairness 🫶 a thriving democracy 🕐 Apply by May 21 #taxation #wealthequality #inequality #taxreform #taxfairness #cdnpoli #econsky

More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

we have nothing to lose but our supply chains

NEW: NSF announces it's "terminating awards that are not aligned with agency priorities...including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and misinformation/disinformation." #HigherEd #AcademicSky

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

me to the MPSA wifi

me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’

in light of exchange re: the role of gender and mobilization in the US election, wanted to share our recent CPS article @dpzollinger.bsky.social in which we use European survey data to test expectations about progressive voters based on gender and upward mobility. our findings suggest that,

A long shot, but does anyone have (or know where I can get) digitized copies of issues from "Forum E", the magazine of the Young European Federalists (JEF), published in the 1970s? Or even just if/where there's a physical archive? Thanks!! #academicsky #polisky #history

Moderate policy positioning: +1.6 vote margin Carefully tested ads: +.08 vote margin Ground game: +1.2 vote margin Gerontocratic leadership unwilling to even try to act as political leaders or advance a coherent vision: -15 vote margin Someone who is good at elections help, my party is dying

I've been thinking a lot about attacks on universities by far right actors, not just in the US, but also in Europe and Quebec. I think scholars of electoral realignment (myself included) have underestimated the extent to which this is a natural outcome of a consolidating education cleavage. #polisky

Daresay it's a very strange time to be a Canadian, of Ukrainian ancestry, living and working in the US