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.

The next APCG Online Colloquium will take place on May 13 at 12 pm (EST) with @ricarthuguet.bsky.social presenting his paper titled "Competence Amidst Instability: Cabinet Formation in Uganda Since Independence". www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-on...

New workshop in DC! Now taking submissions 👇

New publication! When is it fair to tax the rich? I ask what attributes of the rich (hard worker, charitable, from modest background, treats workers well, etc) affect support for taxing the rich. (1/2) doi.org/10.1177/0010...

🚨 My book "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular" is finally out today with @ColumbiaUP! 🚨 It tackles one of the biggest challenges today: How can we make freer human mobility between countries more politically sustainable? 🧵

Accepted (conditional on uploading replication files) for publication @bjpols.bsky.social my paper with Miguel Rueda and Shuning Ge "Do More Disaggregated Electoral Results Deter Aggregation Fraud?" Updated draft can be found at: osf.io/preprints/os...

🚨 Very excited that our paper on *Rulers on the Road* has been cond. accepted at the AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social. We analyze emperors' strategies of itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire 919-1519. Fun working with @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/Spm7z

🚨 Exciting news! Today, we’re launching DMV-WEPS — the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) Workshop in Empirical Political Science — together with @acooperman.bsky.social and @ricarthuguet.bsky.social. sites.google.com/view/dmv-wep...

Good news: I got tenure!! 🥳 Thank you all who helped since my early grad school days!! 🫶 Advisors, coauthors, colleagues, friends, family... Bad news: That means I'm no longer a junior scholar www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ3X...

Very happy to share the program of our workshop on culture, organized with @emmylindstam.bsky.social and @ricarthuguet.bsky.social. It will take place on June 25th, the day before EPSA starts, at @iepolisci.bsky.social (IE Tower). If you'd like to join, feel free to get in touch with one of us!

Very happy to see that my paper with Ken Scheve and @stasavage.bsky.social is online! it's about democracy, inequality and antitrust: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

63% of U.S. adults say tax rates on large businesses and corporations should be raised. A majority (58%) also support raising taxes on household income over $400,000. www.pewresearch.org/...

We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.

This is: 1. an absolutely nonsensical way to think about trade 2. nothing to do with tariff barriers, it’s just…relative trade. It’s just something else entirely 3. a CRAZILY back-of-the-envelope way to set global trade policy It is mad that this is real.

Very happy that this is out now! We find that railroad construction led to more separatism in Europe, showing strong opposition to modernization and state building among minorities. @robertovalli.bsky.social with a summary thread below👇

Thanks to @ricarthuguet.bsky.social for the thoughtful review of my book in @govjournal.bsky.social ! Grateful for the engagement with my work! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I made an HPE starter pack, please join in if you are here for HPE and Broadstreet!