🆕 Beyond Policy: Identity in Party Competition 🗳️ Christina Zuber, of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social, @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social & Edina Szöcsik rethink how parties win #Elections arguing that success depends not only on policy preferences, but on linking preferences to #GroupIdentities

Will jemand meinen Studierenden bei ihren empirischem Praktikum helfen und ihre Umfrage beantworten? Es dauert 8-10 Min und behandelt Einstellungen zu unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen. Fur Teilnahme muss man >18J. sein und genügend Deutsch können: survey.unibw.de/FyQsbTufsfpu... Danke!

The stage for the 2026 World Cup is set. See you on June 11 🗓️

Polish PhD candidates in humanities/social sciences: Apply for our 8-month fellowship to the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social/ University of Alberta . Please share! Here is the link to the new info about the fellowship: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

Hungarian PhD candidates in the humanities/social sciences: apply for the 8 month fellowship to come to the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social/ University of Alberta. Our team has been working tirelessly to find ways to clarify how exciting this opportunity is. Share! www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

One more week to apply for the 8 month doctoral fellowship to bring a PhD candidate in the humanities/social sciences from the Czech Republic to the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social / University of Alberta. Please share! www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

Just a week to apply for our @wirthinstitute.bsky.social doctoral fellowship to bring a PhD candidate in the humanities/social sciences from Croatia to the Wirth Institute/University of Alberta for 8 months. Here is the link to the new info about the fellowship: www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

Trump's approval rating just fell below 40 percent in our tracking for the first time. And his net approval rating is now -17.4, also a new low and down about 5 points over the past several weeks. Original post

My latest with Christina Zuber and Edina Szöcsik, finally out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We outline an emerging new paradigm in the study of parties and elections. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Do you like studying historical parliaments? Presenting a new dataset of Roll Call Votes from the German Reichstag 1867-1918 by Frank M Häge. Read more in a new open access research note: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Mike Johnson is giving away Congress's power to Trump. Speaker Johnson’s Lack of Institutional Ambition – Outside the Beltway outsidethebeltway.com/speaker-john...

Inside the European Union, one country's intelligence services were monitoring the conversations of a journalist. In Hungary, of course @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/hung...

Admin at The New School are threatening the cancellation of 23 academic programs. Students, faculty, & staff are fighting back, demanding a public meeting & an end to the manufactured austerity crisis. Check out this powerful song produced by TNS students: @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

Our new poll finds 1 out of 8 Trump voters regrets how they voted in 2024, and Harris would win a hypothetical redo by almost 3 points www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-03-27...

"The release of the All Your Base is Belong to Us video is now closer to the first Star Wars film's release than to today." Today's #Deathknell by @professormusgrave.bsky.social profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday

Q: How can Governor Spanberger be a real leader here? A: She can say the time has come for America to move beyond the single-member district, that flawed and antiquated mode of representation that enables gerrymandering. It's time for PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

FOUR GRAPHS ABOUT 🇩🇰'S GENERAL ELECTION My read of the election in four graphs. First: big urban-rural divide. The two big mainstream parties, Social Democrats and Liberals, are now mainly rural/suburban, with niche parties dominating in cities. (1/4) #polisky

Since the narrative of “young right-wing men” persists so — here are some findings/patterns from the representative election statistics of the various German federal states. Spoiler: *IN NO GERMAN STATE DO MEN AGED 18–24 VOTE FOR THE AfD MORE THAN MEN AGED 35–60.*

Man sieht auch absolut keinen Rechtsruck unter Arbeiter:innen, wenn man Rechts-Links-Positionierungen anschaut. Der Teil der Arbeiterklasse, der vorher schon rechts war, hat in der AfD eine Partei gefunden. Linke Arbeiter wurden dagegen vergessen und demobilisiert.

Valuable summary of a couple days of our war no01.substack.com/p/march-19-2...

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - The Effects of Exposure to New Electoral Rules: Field Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone - https://cup.org/41rDghm - @avi-ahuja.bsky.social & @gmcclendon.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

“More than half a million ballots seized by top GOP candidate in California governor’s race” electionlawblog.org?p=154981

I voted, and now I'm heading to Pardubice for a week-long Erasmus teaching visit! One of my lectures will be open to the public, so come by if you're in the area. Also, if you're in town and up for a coffee, I'd love to meet!

"The people of the Twin Cities" are the winners of the prestigious 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

🚨 The AI industry wants human work to be fully replaced by AI. However, it will only be possible if most people, companies, and governments agree with the "NO WORK" paradigm. Hopefully, it will NOT happen. My article below:

Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases (A, G, C, T, U). Their presence in Ryugu and Bennu supports the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to the prebiotic chemical inventory of early Earth. http://dlvr.it/TRWtVp ☄️

In other news, had knee surgery this week. Followed by a giant macaron. Both went well.

Tisza seems to pretty much own March 15 this year, at least in Budapest.

Fake references make Waite’s job as a librarian “so much harder,” she added. “I expect this on the wider internet, but not in reputable scientific journals,” she told us. “…It’s really worrying.” retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l... #medlibs

🚨 People are starting to realize that they are fully UNPROTECTED from the negative consequences of AI. Now is the time for countries, individually and collectively, to democratically decide how they want to regulate AI. In a few years, it could be too late. My full article:

Here’s an essay on the ‘multiparty question’ that brings in political theory. More please! theconversation.com/why-the-rise...

American Political Development methodologies are powerful because it blends analysis of politics + history similar to, but not the same as what historians do. This is a great overview by Rosenberg of Suzanne Mettler's new book arguing that the rural/urban political urban divide is not inevitable.

The rise and fall of a piano-playing machine in the early 1900s indicates a robust demand for human labor that AI cannot replace, Adam Ozimek argues:

SECOND WIND: On @nprfreshair.bsky.social, Terry Gross speaks with election law expert Rick Hasen about the 2026 voting landscape, who says “the greatest threat to free and fair elections in 2026 is interference from the federal government.” www.npr.org/2026/03/03/n... @rickhasen.bsky.social

The presidential search process should not be controlled by unaccountable trustees. Faculty, students, and staff deserve meaningful participation in selecting university leadership. Sign & share to ensure an inclusive & transparent process for Ohio State University’s ongoing presidential search.

The first complete English translation of the Dialogues, a rediscovered companion to the Analects. Dialogues of Confucius, translated with commentary by Brian Bruya and Wenwen Li, is out now (5 May UK pub)! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Confucius #Philosophy

Just checked in for knee surgery. Shouldn't be a problem - not my first rodeo - but wish me luck!

For Women's History Month, check out this free to access article where "the results suggest a simple but powerful conclusion: as far as candidate quality is concerned, women should run more and men should run less." doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky #womenshistorymonth

When two kinds of unintelligence collude... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

telex.hu/english/2026...?

Great blog post by @gelliottmorris.com which is backed by decades of academic research. How you ask a question impacts how people answer the question! This has important consequences for how to think about puic opinion and how to treat opinion polls. Short 🧵

5/6 🧵In JEPP, @alexanderhorn.bsky.social & co-authors study equality & party competition. Text & election data in 🇦🇺🇩🇰🇩🇪🇸🇪🇨🇭🇬🇧. Show center-left parties can gain votes by emphasizing econ. equality & equal rights, postmaterialist left parties only by emphasizing the latter. doi.org/qm52

Still controlling for gender without thinking about why? You can cite me💚👩‍🔬💚 I show that the gender gap in progressive climate and environmental views is a persistent empirical regularity that cannot be explained by differences in socioeconomic background, political ideology, or risk aversion.

My friend Abi Ocobock is an outstanding scholar. Please share this widely!

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Reference groups and electoral behavior - https://cup.org/46neAJZ - Rune Stubager, Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social#OpenAccess& Michael Lewis-Beck #FirstView

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social and @lynseyaddario.bsky.social traveled to Sudan last year to report from the front lines of a brutal civil war. Addario’s photographs have been nominated for a National Magazine Award. Revisit the cover story: