📣 New article 👥 @allansikk.bsky.social @sonagolder.bsky.social @ibenskasr.bsky.social @paulinasl.bsky.social 👉 Does switching pay off? The impact of parliamentary party instability on individual electoral performance 📗 Open access in Electoral Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

We find all types of party switchers less likely to run again vs non-switchers. If seeking reelection, switching is bad for all (newly independent, splits, etc.) except defectors to other parties who can benefit from high list positions w/ new party even if their personal popularity drops. See 👇

I have a piece in East Asia Forum w/ Charles Crabtree & Jinhyuk Jang on Komeito’s exit from Japan’s 26-year ruling coalition. We highlight polsci research by Sukeui Sohn; @adampliff.bsky.social & Ko Maeda; @danbischof.bsky.social & @markuswagner.bsky.social. (1/3) eastasiaforum.org/2025/12/30/j...

Current Japanese politics highlight the importance of distinguishing ‘formal’ vs. ‘substantive’ minority cabinets. Our East Asia Forum article links to very useful work by @mariathurk.bsky.social and @svenjakrauss.bsky.social on this point. (Thürk LSQ 2022; Krauss & Thürk WEP 2022)

I recently published a piece in East Asia Forum w/ Charles Crabtree about the challenges facing Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi as head of a minority govt (even with outside support from Ishin, the govt was just shy of a majority). eastasiaforum.org/2025/11/27/t... (1/3)

Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1

Penn State Political Science is launching a new Semester in Washington program and we’re hiring a full-time on-site coordinator for the program, based permanently in Washington, D.C.

Going to be teaching about electoral rules in European democracies next week, so thanks to everyone reacting to @simonhix.bsky.social's proposal to change NL's electoral system... Very interesting discussion of important tradeoffs.

The US Administration is moving to severely restrict lawful, high-skill immigration. First H-1B visas. Next comes barring int'l students from staying to offer their talents to the US after graduation. I wrote earlier on the economic harms Americans can expect—> www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Just began teaching about the economic determinants of democracy & dictatorship. A student's thoughtful question after class has prompted me to re-read this smart article by @jeanhong.bsky.social which is on my list of recommended materials for the week: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky www.iast.fr/research-fel...

📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers! ❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊 💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas 💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance 📆 Deadline: 28 November Full information: 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

It's official! Check out the new International Center for Decentralization and Governance, an interdisciplinary initiative for the study of decentralization, governance, and federalism. Wish I could attend the conference on Asymmetric Decentralization in Santiago de Compostela in early November...

Please share widely! Great #PostDoc opportunity at one of Australia's top #PoliticalScience departments, on a #FutureFellowship on electoral resilience. 3yrs, great pay, and a workplace practically next to the Great Barrier Reef! Closing date is 1 Oct 2025 jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

If you are in Vancouver this week, do come along to Instaparty presentations @apsa.bsky.social 2025! instapartyproject.com @ibenskasr.bsky.social @sonagolder.bsky.social @paulinasl.bsky.social

For folks heading to #APSA soon - is there a version of the program that one can scroll though and see all the information about panels (without clicking though & back each time)? Not saying I miss those thick printed programs but wanted to check that I'm not overlooking an online version of them.

I'm putting together a talk on a new applied micro paper, and I'm reminded that (I believe) it's very hard to outperform the structure proposed in this piece by Jesse Shapiro. shapiro.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...

Me, sitting at my desk after teaching two classes, get my (sad desk) sandwich out for a quick lunch, open Bluesky for a few minutes and...

Stopped by the library to find the book that @dingdingpeng.the100.ci posted about even though classes start in a few days and I don’t really have time to read it. And then I saw this other book that looked really interesting (and which I also don’t have time to read). Left with 5 books in total.

Feeling nostalgic for the days when I could show students in my European politics class this classic Schabowski moment from my VHS (!) copy of the 1999 documentary "When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World"...

Duo, why are you making me worry about automatic desk rejections?

‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇

I tried to explain Howard Dean's "scream" to a 20-year old who has been following current political developments in the US. I failed.

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

The private sector will not fill the gaps. The size of the cuts is too big, and the incentives does not align to do basic research or train the next generation of PhD students. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

Wonderful footage of Parisians celebrating 80 years ago today. Ending, of course, with a rousing chorus of La Marseillaise

Party switching is one of the most impactful things MKs do, sometimes reshaping Israeli politics (hi Idit Silman). Csaba Nikolenyi's book dives into this fascinating topic, and I had the pleasure of reviewing it for Israel Studies Review. www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Good advice from a thoughtful and highly productive scholar and mentor!

📣 new fellowship at the MZES, University of Mannheim! Deadline 26 April 2025. Come join us 👇🏻

If only the United States of America had Strong Western Institutions.

Coalitions of the willing are back in vogue, with Macron hosting another summit tomorrow in Paris. Here’s a chart I made on forms of differentiated integration and political cooperation in Europe:

In addition to our usual ESS events in Colchester this year, we are offering five courses in Vancouver in partnership with Simon Fraser University.

My comparativist ideas of govt vs. opposition parties don’t allow me to make sense of this: “Republicans would then dare Democrats to vote against the package” [...] “whose votes are needed to ensure passage given the narrow Republican majorities in both chambers” www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

How many of the memes in the responses to Ben's comment should I be showing in my European politics class today? All of them, right?

I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!

Loved these 25 points. Academics, if you want to have an impact and educate, rather than impress, this is for you!

What's the story for why indirect cost recovery developed as the key way to fund research in US higher ed? I've been looking for work that would explain this historical development - as opposed to other funding models - and haven't found anything.

When you turn to Duolingo for a quick distraction and it chooses violence...

The call for applications for the doctoral Summer School on "Challenges to Electoral Democracy" is still open!! The application deadline is February 17. More information here: www.chairedemocratie.com/files/sites/...

Are you a grad student interested in survey research in East Central Europe but need funding? 🌟🌟 EEPG is excited to announce a time sharing survey & APSA 2025 Pre-Conference for grad students🌟🌟 CFP + FAQs + Application link: drive.google.com/file/d/1JwW8... DEADLINE: Feb 7 2025 @ Midnight PST

The ICPSR Summer Program is now hiring teaching assistants to help with our 40+ General Session classes. Applications are due Jan. 31, 2025. Please see our listing at myumi.ch/23Gy2 for more details and to apply. #SumProg25 #TeachingAssistant #HigherEdJobs #AcademicJobs

With so many new #BlueSky users, we want to reconnect with readers and share with a fresh audience a book published a few years ago by @sonagolder.bsky.social , @ignaciolago.bsky.social, André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, & Thomas Gschwend (1/n) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Happy New Year to you & yours!

Highly recommend this episode (and the podcast in general). I play a couple of excerpts in my European Politics class. It's an effective and entertaining way to highlight the fact that the EU as it exists today was hardly a foregone conclusion...

Finally had time to finish Michela Wrong's "Do Not Disturb". It's hard to put down (and extremely disturbing). Highly recommend. Here's a gift link to a review in the NYT from 2021: www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/b...

Just finished teaching Intro to Comparative Politics with the new (4th) edition! The revisions/updates were a long time coming (especially figuring out how to synthesize everything) but I really enjoyed sharing all the new material with students. So much good CP work out there! 1/3

How it started, how it's going.

A detail in this timeline caught my eye: "The DP had raised concerns over reports of informal meetings among Yoon’s high school alumni in military and ministerial positions." Brings to mind a great article by @jeanhong.bsky.social & Joon Nak Choi on social networks in the S.K. democratic transition:

The French political class trying to figure out what happens now, given that - the government has fallen - we’re not allowed new elections til July 2025 - we supposedly need a budget by Jan 1

Nice summary of current issues facing EU members - just the thing to read before heading off to teach European politics (using @catherinedevries.bsky.social et al.'s book, no less).