Political inexperience in Congress has measurable effects on legislative outcomes. Our research finds that when districts elect political newcomers over career politicians, congressional dysfunction tends to increase. New explainer of our PNAS study: theconversation.com/amateur-hour...

New editorial from me and @keithschnak.bsky.social. “Why Washington University must not sign Trump's 'compact'”

If you are a political theory PhD student or junior scholar interested in discussing all things publishing in political theory, please join the WPSA Political Theory virtual community on Thursday, October 30th for a panel on Academic Publishing. We have a great group of panelists! Please do join us.

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration” We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress. 🧵1/4

Congrats to our award winners!

Feeling very honored to receive the 2025 POP Emerging Scholar Award. Grateful to my mentors, co-authors, students, and colleagues who make my work possible. Excited to celebrate together at APSA! @apsa.bsky.social

🎉Now online (open access): "Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems" at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. @alicirone.bsky.social, @teele.bsky.social, Gary Cox, @fiva.no. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I'm thrilled that my book, Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior, is now available for pre-order through CUP and Amazon! Let me know if you'd like an electronic copy for your class, and I'll send it to you! www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

5/6 🧵In ‪@ajpseditor.bsky.social‬ @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social Klašnja & @simonweschle.bsky.social‬ show that higher pressures to spend in campaigns leads to a wealthier politician pool. Use data on MP wealth from 40 countries, & quasiexperimental evidence from 🇧🇷 & 🇨🇱 https://doi.org/pz7c

Now out in @ajpseditor.bsky.social: @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social, Marko Klašnja and I show that greater pressures to spend more money on campaigning leads not just to more politicians who are rich, but especially to more politicians who are are *super* rich onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

From April 2025 - When Reelection Increases Party Unity: Evidence from Parties in Mexico - cup.org/3DYOFxl - @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social "I apply correspondence analysis to a new dataset of over half a million legislative speeches in twenty states" #OpenAccess

"Party Considerations for Renomination in Pre-Electoral Coalitions" by @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social (Washington University in St. Louis) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Check out my new publication "Party Considerations for Renomination in Pre-Electoral Coalitions" at LSQ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NEW - When Reelection Increases Party Unity: Evidence from Parties in Mexico - cup.org/3DYOFxl - @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social "I apply correspondence analysis to a new dataset of over half a million legislative speeches in twenty states" #OpenAccess

So excited to see this paper out!

I'm really proud of this paper. We show that greater pressures to spend on campaigns disproportionately (and sometimes exclusively) benefit the super-rich.

🚨New publication Alert! 🚨 Conditionally Accepted at @ajpseditor.bsky.social "The Super-Rich and the Rest: Campaign Finance Permissiveness and the Wealth of Politicians" with my amazing co-authors @simonweschle.bsky.social and Marko Klasnja Full paper & appendix here: sites.wustl.edu/luciamotolin...

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍 🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations 📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p... Thanks for sharing! 🤝

PLEASE SHARE! Thread on EITM Europe where I will teach this summer with my brilliant friend @dzobrien.bsky.social as well as Thomas Bräuninger and Richard Traunmüller. There is NO TUITION FEE, but students must find funding for travel and accommodation. June 9-20 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/eitm/

🏆🚨🏆 Reminder 🏆🚨🏆 Please nominate doctoral dissertations for the @apsa.bsky.social Gabriel A. Almond Award, which honors the best doctoral dissertation in the field of comparative politics! Deadline: February 12, 2025. Submit nominations here: apsa.secure-platform.com/a/organizati...

If you mean this paper it also has a minor junior coauthor 😉 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#polisky bakes: new years marzipan 🐷

Welcome to the Research & Politics Bluesky page! Please spread the word and follow us for updates on the latest articles published in R&P.

🏆 Prize Alert! 🏆 The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN) is awarding their 2025 Prize! Learn more at the link below. Deadline to apply is February 1st! #GenderSky #internationalpolitics #PoliSky #Comparativesky #academia www.egenpolisci.org/prize-applic...

Apply to this APSA award if you wrote a book on European Politics 🇪🇺 And since we are it: Zoltan Buzas, @laurenrprather.bsky.social and I are in the committee of the APSA @intlcollaboration.bsky.social Best Book Award. Send us your book on international cooperation by March 3rd! 🌐

HUGE AMAZING news. Please share!!! EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics. Due Feb 1, 2025 www.egenpolisci.org #gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social

New publication alert, forthcoming in JoP: @mbechseeberg.bsky.social, Michael Wahman and I investigate how different campaign messages supporting women candidates affect voters' propensities to vote for female (relative to male) politicians. @mbechseeberg.bsky.social provides a summary 👇🏾

📣We are hiring! Please share! 👉2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science 🇳🇴 Department of Political Science, University of Oslo 📅 Deadline: February 3rd, 2025 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Excited to share findings from our research on Gender in the Ballot. Full paper available on our websites.

📢Join us! @tcdssp.bsky.social (Pol Scie) is hiring 2 assistant profs (1 comparative & 1 IR). I've only been at TCD since Sep but it's been a great place to work! Amazing colleagues, great students & vibrant research. Comparative: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX659/a... IR: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX664/a...

First attempt at homemade baguette, 7/10

#Polisky 🗂️ Call for papers Bocconi University-Columbia Universiy Conference on Political, Social, & Economic Inequality 🔄 Yearly occurring conference, inaugural conference at Bocconi, June 19-20, 2025. 📆 Deadline: December 31, 2024 ℹ️ 500 words abstract form: accounts.google.com/v3/signin/id...

Y'all, I watched HER.. the idea of telling Geminy about my day.. wtf

A thread about being wrong: 5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong. This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...

Finally in print at the APSR! With Mai Hassan and @stuarterussell.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

We're hiring for a position in Asian Politics. Split teaching duties between undergrad polisci and PhD level International Studies. I'm not on the search committee, but feel free to send questions my way. jobs.odu.edu/postings/22175

LASA acceptances are out! If you are going, ping me, and let's meet in San Francisco!!!!

⏰ Please share widely! We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq) wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!

🚨New publication Alert! 🚨 Conditionally Accepted at @bjpols.bsky.social "When Reelection Increases Party Unity: Evidence from Parties in Mexico" Full paper & appendix here: sites.wustl.edu/luciamotolin...

I had such a fantastic time at Visions in Methodology (2024)! Many thanks to @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social, Betsy Sinclair, and WUSTL Poli Sci! My coauthor Ekin Dursun and I are grateful for feedback we got on "Robust and Efficient Emotion Induction for Survey Experiments: In Defense of Vignettes."

Two days left to apply for VIM! Please share with others who might be interested!!

2 days left to apply!!!!!

Please consider nominating your amazing legislative studies students!

Did you student write an amazing dissertation on legislative studies in 2022 or 2023? Nominate them! I am chairing the committee this year! connect.apsanet.org/s3/carl-albe...

Yayyy! This will be a great event. Send in your proposals!!!