IR Realists saying farewell to the Rational Actor Assumption

From November 2025 - Are Democratic Innovations Legitimate to the Broader Public? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Ghana - https://cup.org/47DOSRd - Eric Kramon #OpenAccess

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Wording Matters" @michaelhansenphd.bsky.social employs a survey experiment to test the effect of different frames on support for women's reproductive rights. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 polisky gendersky buff.ly/8CmpDpK

New strategies to catch LLM powered bots in panel surveys www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Currently in FirstView: In “Meaning Beyond Numbers: Introducing the Plot Staircase to Measure Graphical Preferences,” @talbotmandrews.bsky.social, Justin Curl, and Markus Prior examine how visual characteristics influence preferences. They find that people prefer increasing trends.

‼️ Two weeks left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP project 👇.

Beyond proud to see this piece with @simonotjes.bsky.social published. In the article, we quantitatively assess what drives the size of parliamentary administrations. We find that staff size reflects assembly size, population size and parliamentary power. doi.org/10.1111/lsq....

New article out today in @iojournal.bsky.social that tackles a pressing question: As the US retreats from democracy promotion, will autocracies abandon liberal norms and return to overt repression? Our @danieladonno.bsky.social Jon Pevehouse and @cjschneider.bsky.social answer: not so fast.🧵1/

Several recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question rdcu.be/eQGm4

Excited to share the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social featuring research on WPS, gender and diplomacy, feminist foreign policy, and UNSCR 1325. All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Gendersky Polisky

and @uni-konstanz.de is one of them 🙌 Deadline: 9 Jan, 2026 | 11:00 AM (CET)

"Underpinning a current of WPS activism and scholarship is a radical conceptualisation of feminist peace rooted in anti-militarism, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism." Check out Hannah Wright & Columba Achilleos-Sarll's article in our latest issue! 📘 👉 buff.ly/nSQ1tei

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

Small states with their interesting combinations of policy fields 😅

Late to the party. New publication with Axel Bayer in the International Political Science Review about political interactions of MPs in Zambia that switched their party affiliation. doi.org/10.1177/0192...

The Pardee Institute's Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) dataset is freely available to use and a great resource for studying global patterns of diplomacy: korbel.du.edu/pardee/count... theloop.ecpr.eu/world-leader...

🚨 New piece for @ecpr.bsky.social's @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — @maxheermann.bsky.social & I map trips of world leaders using @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social's COLT of over 78K+ foreign trips by heads of state and gov from 1990-2023. Reference: bsky.app/profile/jose...

(2) Remember the rapid early trips of "Außenkanzler" Friedrich Merz? In a blog post for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social, @meraymaddah.bsky.social and I explore a rich new dataset on diplomatic travels to analyse where state leaders go for their inaugural foreign visits. bsky.app/profile/ecpr...

🌐 World leaders' first foreign trips reveal more than diplomatic protocol - they are carefully crafted political stories. ✈️ @meraymaddah.bsky.social and @maxheermann.bsky.social analyse inaugural diplomatic journeys to uncover stability and change in global networks 👇 bit.ly/4lY2FHQ

From May 2025 - Legislative Cooptation in Authoritarian Regimes: Policy Cooperation in the Kuwait National Assembly - cup.org/4iVKa4R - @danieltavana.bsky.social & Erin York #OpenAccess

📢📢📢 CfP: What is a Parliament? ***Hurry! Deadline is this Friday!*** Interdisciplinary workshop on 19th September 2025 in London. Full details below. Kindly sponsored by Birkbeck, the University of Birmingham and @psa-parliaments.bsky.social Please apply and/or spread the word!

How are the classic social identities (urban-rural, education, etc. ) and perceptions about those groups related to a persons own European and national identity? Read it here (in fantastic company) in print

And here it is: introducing the European Political Science Society EPSS! 🎉🎉🎉 Follow @epssnet.bsky.social on bsky, visit its website www.epssnet.org, and become a member!

🏳️‍🌈This Pride Month, we are proud to support an initiative that challenges the systemic invisibility in data. Representation isn’t optional — it drives equity and action. When entire communities are erased from datasets, injustice gets coded in. We’re working to change that.

📢📢📢 JOBS: 4 postdocs 📢📢📢 Uni Münster has opened a call for 4! postdoc positions. I'm involved in one hiring and really hope that suitable candidates (in particular quants) apply! Why would you apply? Check out @thiloalbers.bsky.social FAQ! sites.google.com/site/tnhalbe...

Overleaf is down. Everyone take the day off

🌟 Thanks to the @winls.bsky.social for the opportunity to present on international parliamentary assemblies and their influence on gender-mainstreaming policies! Special thanks to the organisers @emisimison.bsky.social and for the great and helpful discussion points by @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social

Who deserves representation, and when? August De Mulder, Ine Gevers & @zeljkopoljak.bsky.social unpack the temporal dynamics of politicians’ claims of representation on social media: buff.ly/sTufzit @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #ECRs

Attending #MPSA2025 and interested in how IOs interact with gender representation across different political systems? Join us for the panel on "Substantive Representation" 📍 Sat, April 5 | 11:40am–1:10pm CDT / 12:40–2:10pm EDT I’ll be presenting our coauthored work with @dalangmalang.bsky.social

The latest #afkarDebate analysed #Lebanon's reconstruction, governance, economic, and security challenges with Aurélie Daher and @meraymaddah.bsky.social. A webinar hosted by @andrealopeztomas.bsky.social. Watch the full latest webinars devoted to #Lebanon and #Syria 👇🏽 youtu.be/1gjPsLzY0Qg?...

How will #Lebanon address challenges such as reconstruction, forming a new government, and Hezbollah’s disarmament? What role will the international community play? Do not miss our upcoming #afkarDebate 🗓️ Friday 28 March 12-1 pm 💻 On Zoom 🌐 iemed.org/events/leban...

This framing is super important Coverage has often implied there's something 'wrong' with men: "why are they lurching right?" But in many countries, the strongest ideological shift has been among young women.

Please share / RT: ***Call for papers: Conference on "Representation, Democracy, and the Economic Backgrounds of Politicians"*** Paper proposals should be submitted by February 21, using this form: forms.gle/Stz7apkkHTgt... Please direct any questions to [email protected].

NEW - The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies - cup.org/4hMcJCi - @carnes.bsky.social, Joshua Ferrer, @mgoldenprof.bsky.social, @esmelillywhite.bsky.social, @noamlupu.bsky.social & @eugenian.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Thrilled to share that I'll be a visiting research scholar at @harvard.edu 's Department of Government. Grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to learning more from the department’s faculty and students. 📍If you are in the area, I will be at Cambridge’s Knafel Building.

What is the Middle East? I’m thrilled to announce the publication- and free download - of my new, hopefully provocative Cambridge Element on the theory and practice of regions and area studies. Get it now and let me know what you think! abuaardvark.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

On April 8 and 9 together with colleagues I am organizing LoPaPol, a conference about local party politics. We would be more than happy to see you there! (register before February 1!) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Which Information Do Politicians Pay Attention To? Evidence from a Field Experiment and Interviews - cup.org/4jnwXmY - @rsenninger.bsky.social & @henrikseeberg.bsky.social

Hi folks, a good day to join BlueSky! Here is my causal inference starter pack for you. go.bsky.app/Fa2XSDH

In the latest issue of @iemed.bsky.social's afkar/ideas journal "Líbano en el limbo" my contribution on #Lebanon's civil society post-crisis. I unpack CSOs' evolvement & how the dependence on them/their resources may increase divisions in already fragile social contract www.iemed.org/publication/...

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Wichtiger Text von Kolleg*innen zum Repräsentationsdefizit in den deutschen Nahostwissenschaften 👇🏼

Our monthly writing group will meet on Thursday, December 12th, from 1:00-3:00 pm ET. Join us for accountability, advice, and community! All ranks of scholars are welcome to participate. Register for the Zoom link: docs.google.com/form... Polisky Gendersky

📣Reminder: 7 more days to apply to our 'Methods of Political Science' Conference in Mannheim in March 2025.📣 sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me... #polisky

I've seen so many great starter packs, but I've yet to encounter one on int'l organizations and cooperation. So, I made one. It is no doubt incomplete, but I hope you find it helpful nonetheless. Feel free to circulate and, if you have suggestions on who to add, send them my way! go.bsky.app/RbHqH38