Nice write-up of our recent paper on the link between campaign finance permissiveness and the wealth of politicians.

We're hiring at UNC Political Science! Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24) unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... #polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs

We're hiring at UNC Political Science! Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24) unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... #polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs

Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.

🚨 Reposting to avoid any confusion between EPSS & EPSA 🚨 If you want to support non-for-profit, member-led political science association, EPSS is the place to be! More here 👇🏽

At this point my book is practically writing itself...

🌟🎉 Celebrating @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social (WashU)—recipient of the 2025 Emerging Scholar Award! Her research is already shaping the field in big ways. Come and celebrate with her at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm) #APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social #EmergingScholar

I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.

Pal if you can share the secret of how to control a group of 3yos that’ll make you more cash than any AI project

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

5/6 🧵In ‪@ajpseditor.bsky.social‬ @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social Klašnja & @simonweschle.bsky.social‬ show that higher pressures to spend in campaigns leads to a wealthier politician pool. Use data on MP wealth from 40 countries, & quasiexperimental evidence from 🇧🇷 & 🇨🇱 https://doi.org/pz7c

Our paper (w/ wonderful co-authors @rwillh11.bsky.social, @simonweschle.bsky.social, @cbwlezien.bsky.social, and Jim Adams) is now out in print! 🎉 May be of interest to those studying electoral behavior, party strategy, or how citizens use information! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now out in @ajpseditor.bsky.social: @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social, Marko Klašnja and I show that greater pressures to spend more money on campaigning leads not just to more politicians who are rich, but especially to more politicians who are are *super* rich onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

In a just-accepted paper at the @thejop.bsky.social , @MelaniCammett, Guadalupe Tuñon, and I examine how campaign finance reforms have unanticipated effects: organized actors gain an edge. In our case, the Universal Kingdom of God Church in Brazil. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The WaPo-AI summary of the comments section on this piece is quite something

The #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social will continue to receive funding in the context of the German #ExcellenceStrategy @dfg.de @wissenschaftsrat.de. Details: t1p.de/ouhyj

It was educational and fun to participate in the @i4replication.bsky.social UK Replication Games. Our task was pretty smooth thanks to @simonweschle.bsky.social's excellent replication package and code, which could serve as a model example of literate programming. Here’s our replication report:

3-Politicians’ private sector jobs and parliamentary behavior, @ajpseditor.bsky.social Updated report here (based on author’s feedback): ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/i4rdps... Author: “Thanks a lot to the replication team for their careful analysis, I really appreciate all the work they put into it!”

Also, the APSA Class and Inequality section is finally on here. Give them a follow!

Going to APSA in Vancouver this year and need some additional funding? Applications for the Class & Inequality section support grants are now open! apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆 He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

Dark Money and Politician Learning (w/ @keithschnak.bsky.social) now online at @thejop.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🚨🎉Very excited to share our new paper with @rwillh11.bsky.social, James Adams, @simonweschle.bsky.social, and @cbwlezien.bsky.social!! Out today @JEPOP www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A short thread 🧵 1/n

Auslandsdeutsche: Habt ihr eure Wahlunterlargen auch noch nicht bekommen?

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].

PSA: The US politics coverage (really, all coverage) of the @financialtimes.com is infinitely better than the one of NYT and WaPo. And the digital edition of the paper is only $10/month. subs.ft.com/spa3_sfepaper

I love this paper

I'm really proud of this paper. We show that greater pressures to spend on campaigns disproportionately (and sometimes exclusively) benefit the super-rich.

I’m so happy to announce that my book is now published and available open-access! (🧵coming soon, too :)

I've said it before. If political science had a Nobel Prize, one of those awards should go to Chris Wlezien for inventing the idea of thermostatic preferences. A true social scientific breakthrough.

I filled in today for @stephenkb.bsky.social :: but before you start, what size of shareholding do you think MPs have to declare? on.ft.com/3VYfG9Z

"For each additional ten percentage points of foreign students graduating in a Master's cohort, we find 0.4 additional start-ups in that cohort." www.nber.org/papers/w33314

Very happy to announce that the 🚨CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference 🚨 will be held June 19-20, 2025 in Copenhagen. Deadline is coming up soon -- send us your papers before January 10, 2025. Link: sites.google.com/view/bcegero...

We @unikonstanz.bsky.social are hiring a junior professor in computational social science with a specialization in text-as-data methods and LLMs. Please share and contact me if you are interested! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

Nice analysis by the Economist on UK MPs' second jobs in the media. In the piece, I provide some international context to the numbers. www.economist.com/britain/2024...

I’m 25 years late, but this year I finally got into Fiona Apple. It’s never too late to change.

not seen it mentioned elsewhere so: my theory is that Elon has become obsessed with Britain because he's essentially stopped sleeping due to drugs and/or madness but for like six hours of his nights Americans are sleeping so Brits are the one English-speaking timezone awake and posting

Good morning!

Thrilled to announce the release of Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe with Cambridge UP 🎉🎉 The book argues that accommodating the displaced population can strengthen states and benefit local economies in the long run. 📚 [Amazon: tinyurl.com/24m2mbkf] See thread below:

This new AJPS paper by Alexander Sahn is a methodological tour de force, using tens of thousands of comments to show how public hearing commenters are older, white, NIMBY homeowners who exert extreme influence on zoning decisions at public meetings doi.org/10.1111/ajps... #polisky #PAsky

Academic writing is not the same as non-fiction writing, but we can still learn a ton from listing to non-fiction writers talking about their craft. This interview with Patrick Radden Keefe is a prime example.

My and @johannarickne.bsky.social 's paper on the ”Class Ceiling in Politics” is now out in the APSR with open access! We describe the key findings below. 1/9

We have a forthcoming BJPS paper and a new dataset on the gender, education, and occupational backgrounds of lawmakers in the world's democracies! Paper: www.noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm... Here's one application . . . (1/2)

My new Cambridge Element is FREE for the next few weeks. It takes on an important question: does the media's obsession with covering misinformation have the unintentional effect of eroding trust? I'll give some answers in this thread... www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Delighted to be joined by the inimitable Simon Kuper and @egocantos.bsky.social to talk about corruption, good chaps, car wash scandals, Lula, and more in this week's WWWD! Tune in to find out when and why politicians are on the make. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social shows.acast.com/whats-wrong-...

No grade inflation at German universities 😳

My book, The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public, is now available as an audiobook! www.amazon.com/Invented-Sta... (read by an actual professional narrator, NOT by me)

My book, "The Invented State: Misperceptions in the American Public" is out and available to order: www.amazon.com/Invented-Sta.... Here's the argument in a nutshell -- I'll use this thread to expand on each point.