Why is trade framed in terms of national security? An exciting new paper by @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social, Gemma Mateo and @andduer.bsky.social in @pspolisci.bsky.social explores how US trade policy is shaped by national security. The evidence suggests that security frames are used strategically.

#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social - Who Drives the Security Narrative in US Trade Policy? - https://cup.org/4sXC1ml - @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social, Gemma Mateo & @andduer.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

I am very happy to share that our open-access article with Gemma Mateo and Andreas Dür (@andduer.bsky.social) “Who Drives the Security Narrative in US Trade Policy?”, is now published in PS: Political Science & Politics (@pspolisci.bsky.social).

1/ So happy that my article “Disinformation as repression signaling: the cost of dissent in Russia” is out in @ersjournal.com! I show how autocrats use disinformation as part of the transnational digital repression toolkit to signal their capacity to repress. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇

Consider applying if you are working on contestations of the liberal international order. The deadline for submissions is March 1!

Call for Papers for a workshop on Contesting the Liberal International Order: Elites and Public Opinion" at the University of Salzburg, Austria, September 21-22, 2026. Call: drive.google.com/file/d/1LB67... Paper submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dean Schafer @schaferd.bsky.social @msstate.bsky.social tracked varieties of party positions through a word embedding approach.

@erinjenne.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social and @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social (University of Salzburg) discussed how populism and nationalism shows up in National Security Strategies.

New Working Paper 🚨 I am introducing the new dataset on Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR). It includes information on the composition of parliaments in 819 legislative terms in 130 autocracies from 1945 - based on over 200k individual-level observations. tinyurl.com/48h68hmh

📺In China, "Topical Debate Programs" bring officials, experts & citizens together to air concerns. ➡️J Chen, Y Wang, M Zhang & X Zhou show these programs boost trust in local government and deliberation can matter even with controlled agendas www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Excited for this! If you work on democracy or representation in multilevel Europe, sign up via your MyECPR account! @ecpr.bsky.social

We want to thank the @fwf-at.bsky.social, @erc.europa.eu, and @ecprsgir.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social for their support. We thank all paper givers and other participants for their time and effort. We hope that this workshop will leave a mark on all papers presented. Thank you for joining us! 🧵3/4

We had 12 papers, collectively authored by researchers from around 20 universities at different career stages and from across the globe. We were also very fortunate to welcome a stellar group of participants without papers. Clearly, LLMs are on many political scientists’ minds these days. 🧵2/4

Last Friday (Sept. 19), @andduer.bsky.social, @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social and I had the great pleasure of hosting an excellent workshop at @unisalzburg.bsky.social on how to use Large Language Models #LLMs to boost International Relations research. A short 🧵1/4

New post for POP 📢 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗔𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 is a great resource for teaching and learning 🔥 It was a pleasure to publish this article written by the editors of this amazing project @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & @cerpintaxt.bsky.social   us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/po...

Excited to announce the publication of my article in Comparative Political Studies on how crises shape the ideological legitimation strategies of authoritarian regimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....