2025 made clear that political elites are often not bound by institutions/rules. This spring I’ll teach Political Leadership, a seminar focused squarely on elites (no regional focus). I’d love suggestions in the comments: articles, books, or syllabi (including your own)

2025 made clear that political elites are often not bound by institutions/rules. This spring I’ll teach Political Leadership, a seminar focused squarely on elites (no regional focus). I’d love suggestions in the comments: articles, books, or syllabi (including your own)

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!

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.

📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣 This does NOT happen everyday. THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

College costs are soaring! www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

File this under very clever data. Congratulations Joan!

Xiang Zhou (Harvard Sociology) and I are recruiting two postdoctoral fellows through the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard’s Fairbank Center. The theme for 2026–27 is the Social Foundations of State Power in China. Deadline: January 15, 2026. fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/affiliation-...

This project began in a "let's catch up" lunch meeting at APSA several years back. We did not realize at the time how hard it would be to collect the data necessary to answer a simple RQ: Does publishing disaggregated electoral results deter voting aggregation fraud?

🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

This was fun to write & we hope useful to scholars, policymakers & journalists. Alioune Ngom & I dig into #Senegal’s political history to correct two recurring media claims.👇Open access @africanaffairs.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/afra... @economist.com @liberation.fr @france24.com @en.france24.com

This was fun to write & we hope useful to scholars, policymakers & journalists. Alioune Ngom & I dig into #Senegal’s political history to correct two recurring media claims.👇Open access @africanaffairs.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/afra... @economist.com @liberation.fr @france24.com @en.france24.com

This is an interesting paper. I continue to sense that we as a field have concluded, either you have an identification strategy as defined here, or you don’t have a valid causal claim. And that is really not true.

Good week: On Wed, @loyolaeducation.bsky.social welcomed Dr @denismukwege.bsky.social, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting sexual violence in wars/Congo. On Th, Loyola Prof Elizabeth Schmidt delivered the @asanewsonline.bsky.social Presidential Lecture. Why did S. Rhodesia last 15 years? 👇

Do architecture and urban planning affect political behavior? Happy to share a paper that @tesaliarizzo.bsky.social and I have coming out at the APSR which uses computer vision to investigate how the built environment shapes inequalities in civic participation in Mexico: osf.io/preprints/so.... 🧵1/5

Book workshops are *fantastic.* Whether or not resources are an issue, the Zoom version (2-3 hours) works incredibly well and makes it much easier for participants to attend. Other book workshop tips 🧵:

The clock is ticking! ⌛ You have until Sunday to submit your proposal for the Spring!

Join the 1st DMV-WEPS! RSVP & info here: forms.gle/GQrG6HDx6xab... Friday, November 14 10am-5pm @gwu1821.bsky.social Dept. of Political Science

ASREC Graduate Student Workshop 19-21 March 2026 Orange CA Join me, @avitallivny.bsky.social, Dan Hungerman, and Jonathan Schulz for one day of lectures overviewing the field followed by attending the ASREC conference Deadline: 14 November Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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 🙏 A short 🧵

NEW - Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments - https://cup.org/47i6oKQ - @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social & Ina Lyftingsmo Kristiansen #OpenAccess

Here's 90 minutes with @adamprz.bsky.social, Sue Stokes, Steven Levitsky, and @dziblatt.bsky.social on the state of American democracy right now. It was a great honor for me to be able to convene this set of people to speak together at this moment. Please share! open.spotify.com/episode/0F8W...

To all DC, MD and VA scholars: Submit your paper to the first annual DMV-WEPS by 9/22! And please repost to spread the word @gvisconti.bsky.social @acooperman.bsky.social

1/2 Buscamos RA (con base en Francia—ideal Toulouse; remoto OK; medio tiempo o tiempo completo). Stata obligatorio. Proyectos en economía política (desinformación y capacidad estatal local) con @hlarreguy.bsky.social @jmerilainen.bsky.social Natalia Garbiras Diaz Mateo Montenegro

It was my great pleasure to celebrate @natalie-letsa.bsky.social's "The Autocratic Voter: Partisanship and Political Socialization under Dictatorship" today at @apsa.bsky.social. Buy, read, and cite this incredibly important book! www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Applications for our Visiting Fellowship are open @kellogginstitute.bsky.social, and I want to encourage folks of all ranks to apply! It is a tremendous intellectual community, and we are looking for postdoctoral as well as junior and senior faculty fellows kellogg.nd.edu/about-our-vi...

Daniel Baquero has organized a neat panel on “Reform and Development from Historical Perspectives” ⏰ 8 am tomorrow (Saturday) 📍 East 3 Projects by Daniel, Steve Monroe, me, Yajie Wang, @charasz.bsky.social + @kkrakows.bsky.social. Discussion by @lisablaydes.bsky.social + @ricarthuguet.bsky.social

Finally, if you are at #APSA2025, make sure to stop by at our HPE panel. When? Sun, Sep. 14, 10 AM Who? M. Wilfahrt, L. Arriola, @yoseftadesse.bsky.social, I. Kolesnikov, @ricarthuguet.bsky.social, J. Pierskalla, D. Smith, @jguardado.bsky.social, @robertovalli.bsky.social , @carlmc.bsky.social 🥳

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨 We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track. We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

Republican Members of Congress are no longer coming from elite institutions of higher education. Elite-educated legislators are more liberal. Important manifestation of the education divide between the parties & context for the current higher ed wars www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please share! We look forward to your submissions to EPSS in Belfast next year. We hope the below will be useful as you plan your panels/paper. Do reach out if you have any queries!

Peter Temin has himself written on the history of economic history at MIT here: read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

I get the sarcasm of calling myself a big gun was lost on some so, to be direct: I'm also the "guest professor" of Ep. 5 on industrial policy & state-led development, out today: www.npr.org/sections/mon... + check this great paper by @nathanlane.bsky.social academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

I get the sarcasm of calling myself a big gun was lost on some so, to be direct: I'm also the "guest professor" of Ep. 5 on industrial policy & state-led development, out today: www.npr.org/sections/mon... + check this great paper by @nathanlane.bsky.social academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

Beyond the ivory tower: I suggested to ‪@npr.org‬ ‪@planetmoney.bsky.social‬ they run a Political Economy Summer School, and they did! Ep 1 features no-name @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social‬ (well he did win the Nobel Prize) but the big gun comes in Eps 4 & 5 😛 www.npr.org/series/g-s1-...

🚨New forthcoming paper at JOP: @noamlupu.bsky.social and I use data from 10 surveys in N&S America to see whether lower-income, lower-wealth, and working-class people are less interested in running for office. Interest in running (nascent ambition) can lead to representation gaps. However, ...(1/2)

In February, the US gov shut down the Demographic & Health Surveys. It was the only data source on maternal & child health, births, household structure in many countries – making it crucial for research. In a new article I explain why it should be rescued. ourworldindata.org/demographic-...

Just out at World Development!🥳Vicky Paniagua (LSE) & I propose the concept DUAL MALAPPORTIONMENT (legislative mal. + cabinet mal.) sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ecalvo68.bsky.social @melissazrogers.bsky.social The article in "three slides":

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We (pdri-devlab) are hiring a research manager! Come join our team engaged in policy-relevant collaborative research (mostly migration, climate, enviormnet, big data for dev) in the great city of brotherly love. Pls share widely with your network. wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

This is a MAJOR development for European Political Science. Thanks & congratulations to those who made it happen, @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social, the rest of the Council and many others. Time for us to support it in every way we can: SPREAD the word, JOIN the list and EPSS, Donate.

We’ve had a great day at the workshop on culture at @iepolisci.bsky.social, co-organized with @emmylindstam.bsky.social and @ricarthuguet.bsky.social Thank you everyone for coming and for the very constructive and engaging discussions!

📣 New episode! What happens when there are multiple rules of law - when state law overlaps with religious and customary law? What does this mean for marriages, child custody, and even murder? Egor Lazarev discusses his research on postwar Chechnya: www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/epi...

My favorite paper received the David & Helen Kimble Prize for best article published by The Journal of Modern African Studies in 2022! 🥳 #culture #Makerere Article: t.co/Y3wXSZScIQ Blog post: tinyurl.com/4wd5xttn @africaatlse.bsky.social @mariasolemarsh.bsky.social @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

My favorite paper received the David & Helen Kimble Prize for best article published by The Journal of Modern African Studies in 2022! 🥳 #culture #Makerere Article: t.co/Y3wXSZScIQ Blog post: tinyurl.com/4wd5xttn @africaatlse.bsky.social @mariasolemarsh.bsky.social @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

Although topic selection reflects my own expertise & interests to some extent, my aim was to cover all traditional key topics of HPE, including warfare, state building, political & econ. elites, regime change, industrialization, imperialism, etc. Here is the link: www.janvogler.net/Class_19_His...

Here's the text version of that investigation into Rwanda's covert three-and-a-half-year war in Democratic Republic of Congo. It was a pleasure working alongside the team at NBC. www.nbcnews.com/world/africa...

In 2023, four of the seven US-based Nobel laureates were immigrants. That’s a wonderful thing for Americans. It has nothing to do with saying that Americans aren’t good at stuff. It means that America is a place where the best Americans and best immigrants work together to do great things.

In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, @jackpaine.bsky.social, Xiaoyan Qiu, and @ricarthuguet.bsky.social show that new spatial and historical data call into question the claim that European nations imposed arbitrary and exogenous borders on African states.