🌍🌐 @mcchacha.bsky.social and I are happy to welcome all the participants arriving for our "International Politics in Africa" workshop this week in Nairobi. Everyone has been working hard to submit full papers for the workshop (see attached list) + keynote by Gilbert Khadiagala! #africanpolitics

🚨Call for papers We invite submissions for the 2nd Workshop for Scholars of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties (EPOP) based in Northern UK 🏛️ University of York, 8-9 June 2026 Theme: Inequality, Authoritarianism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Dear reviewer, may I remind you that the plural of anecdote is not data? Your stories are interesting, but the data disagree.

I’m delighted to share a special milestone in the life of Party Politics 🎉 To mark the journal’s 30th anniversary, I had the pleasure of co-ed a Symposium with Paul Webb The symposium revisits the journal’s origins, intellectual trajectory, and its role in shaping the field over the past 3 decades.

This all sounds very familiar and correct. I've made similar arguments in these papers: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... link.springer.com/article/10.1... Congrats, Alex 👏🏼 👏🏼

Upping this: in case people are interested in submitting papers to the African Studies Association of the UK conference this year, @mcchacha.bsky.social and I are convening the International Politics in Africa stream. Looking for abstracts at intersection of comparative and IR in Africa. See below.

partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard. install.packages("partycoloR")

I'm very excited to start a short visit in the Department of European & International Studies at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. I'll be in London (mostly) on Wednesdays this semester, so drop me a line if you want to meet.

May you find the brightest light at the darkest times. Happy Chanukah!

It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social. A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:

The year 2024 confirmed a global environment defined by: ↔️ pronounced political fragmentation 🗳️ heightened electoral activity 📈 + a deepening wave of autocratisation that continued a 25-year trajectory. ⬇️ Read the 2025 yearbook now! buff.ly/lSheCuB

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Now that it's up online, I guess it's official: I'm on the job market! I study democratic backsliding, authoritarianism, and nonviolent resistance. My dissertation focuses on the nexus of domestic and international factors in shaping opposition to democratic erosion: polisci.msu.edu/graduate/hir...

Join us for “Populism: On the Rise” — a student-organised panel exploring a most pressing challenge in politics. 📅 Wednesday 29 October 🕒 15:00–16:00 📍 EBS 1.1 Ft. Professor Natasha Lindstaedt, Dr. Roi Zur, and Dr. Rafael Tauil, moderated by Professor Faten Ghosn. #EssexGov #EssexPoliticsSociety

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

💻 Attending the @ecpr.bsky.social webinar on #Israel's domestic political landscape after the #Gaza war tomorrow? 📘 Get up to speed on Israel's political developments + data in the latest report for PDY from @liranharsgor.bsky.social and @roizur.bsky.social. ➡️ bit.ly/48uS83v

Job Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)

Writing about Israel is emotionally challenging, but equally important to me. Thanks, @liranharsgor.bsky.social for inviting me to collaborate on this @pdyearbook.bsky.social report. Hopefully, next year's report won't have such a somber tone. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hard to explain the elated feelings today in Israel, at least those who are not far right: the hostilities are back, and this damn war is so over.

Writing a report about Israeli politics in 2024 for @pdyearbook.bsky.social was quite a challenge. Luckily, I had @roizur.bsky.social as a collaborator. We hope this report helps make sense of an extremely difficult period in the country’s history. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social 'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇 Read the full article (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Are you interested in how parties' parliamentary behavior (e.g., passing bills, calling for elections, forming coalitions, cooperating/conflicting) affects voters (e.g., electoral behavior, perceptions, affective polarization)? Please let me know. I am putting together an MPSA panel proposal.

Come join us @iepolisci.bsky.social! This dept has one of the healthiest environments I've found in academia. Plus, everyone does brilliant work and you get to live in a great city with a salary that allows you to enjoy it. We only work in English, so language is not an issue. Apply!

Today is your last day (until midnight Israel time - GMT+2) to submit your paper/panel/poster proposals for the annual meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association. The meeting will be held at the Hebrew University on 1.28.26. See you there!

The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el... Here’s a summary thread: 1/

Know a potential PhD student interested in #democraticresilience, environmental politics & the Baltics? If so pls encourage them to check out this funded studentship & chance to work with my wonderful colleagues Licia Cianetti and Fiona Nunan. For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

And we have an incredible list of section co-chairs for Belfast 2026, from 18 countries and every part of Europe. We are really grateful to these dedicated colleagues for taking on this role and helping us shape the future of political science in our continent. epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

There's no easy way to learn your colleagues are antisemites.

✨ Come and join @politicsoxford.bsky.social for 5 years ✨ This is the perfect position for a research and teaching active junior colleague with expertise in European politics and quant methods. Apply!

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

📢 Out now! The Handbook of Affective Polarization is officially published 🎉 📖 Open Access & packed with 30 great chapters thanks to amazing authors. Huge thanks to everyone, and in particular to @marianotorcal.bsky.social for the great (and fun) collaboration! 💙 Link below for the e-book 👇

Your personality doesn't always predict your views... Using data from Israel, @naamarivlin.bsky.social and co-authors show the relationship weakens when ethnonational conflict comes to the forefront. Out now in POQ: doi.org/10.1093/poq/... @ayakter.bsky.social al @liorsheffer.bsky.social

The Israeli internal crisis isn't about restoring democracy, nor is it a pendulum movement. It's a hollowing out of democratic institutions, opposition, and all means of oversight and accountability. It is, as Navot and Goldshmidt show, an elite-driven project to dismantle Israel's flawed democracy.

Yael Shomer, @etzelgov.bsky.social‬, and I have a new editorial in Frontiers. We review the multiple crises in Israeli politics since 2019 and summarize 6 articles published in a “Research Topic” related to these crises. We also review the scale of democratic backsliding before and during the war.

If you're hiring in the fall, I will be on the market! My dissertation studies exactly this question, looking at the conditions under which oppositions can successfully resist backsliding and mobilize public support.

📢 Job Alert | Political Science The Social Sciences Dept. at @uc3m.es is hiring a *2-year fixed-term faculty position* in Political Science. 📅 Deadline: June 14, 2025 🚀 Start date: Jan 1, 2026 📬 Questions? [email protected] 🔗 Full call & application: www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite...

4. Most recently, we published @sarahwagner.bsky.social’s analysis of “left conservatism” is Germany and the UK:

My ESS course 'Ideal Point Estimation, IRT, and Scaling Methods for Surveys and Behavior' returns this summer -- online and in-person, 21 July - 1 August. essexsummerschool.com/summer-schoo...

Call for proposals! EPOVB Early-Career Fellowship deadline: July 1, 2025 Submit to Melissa R. Michelson, at [email protected] dropbox.com/scl/fi/rcmsv...

Very excited to see this online. A huge thank you to a great team, I leaned a lot! Another huge thank you to all the experts who took the time to provide us with this amazing data.

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

🎓Scholarship Deadline Reminder!🎓 Thinking of joining the Essex Summer School? Don’t miss your chance to apply for a scholarship! 🗓️Deadline: 15 May 2025, 5 PM (BST) 📬Decisions Announced: 27 May 2025 🔗Apply here: essexsummerschool.com/summer-schoo... 📢 Spread the word and apply now!

Our department is on this platform now 👇🏼

Not alone enough

Exciting news: as I’ve started a new chapter as an assistant professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover, my postdoc position at MZES is now open! It’s a fantastic opportunity for recent PhDs: wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure, and plenty of time to develop your own ideas.

The international strength of political science research at Essex has been recognised in a new global ranking. Our Department of Government is ranked in the top five in Europe for citations and the global top 20 for 'recent impact' in an @apsa.bsky.social journal. www.essex.ac.uk/news/2025/04...

That turned out to be a huge understatement.