We’re accepting submissions for Fall 2025 until August 14. If you’re on the market, it’s a great chance to practice your job talk with an audience! We also welcome paper presentations. Apply here: iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

ND grad students killing it this year! A 2nd discipline-wide diss prize: The @apsa.bsky.social political psychology award goes to the amazing @natanski.bsky.social Natan Skigin for “Challenging Stigma from Below: How Human Rights Movements Contest Repressive States and Shape Democratic Citizenship.”

The Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship program. Share this post! @apsa.bsky.social, @poscresearch.bsky.social

New visualization tool alert! The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN. It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower(). - install.packages("vayr") - alexandercoppock.com/vayr #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz

1/ I just published a new article titled “Criminal Violence, the State, & Society” in the Annual Review of Political Science, which examines the growing political science research on criminal violence over the past 15 years. Link 👉https://go.shr.lc/3GnoH7f Here is a summary of some key insights...

Having published a book recently, I found it sometimes hard to understand how the process worked (and luckily, had very kind mentors who helped). I have uploaded a short document detailing how my experience went, in case others find it helpful: www.vicentevalentim.com/_files/ugd/a...

New research by @natanski.bsky.social & Guillermo Trejo reveals a stark increase in violence against journalists in militarized regions of Mexico amid the War on Drugs, driven by local government and cartel interests in criminal governance. loom.ly/K5LVzgI

New important research by Guillermo Trejo & @natanski.bsky.social on violence against local journalists in Mexico's drug war. "Silencing the Press in Criminal Wars: Why the War on Drugs Turned Mexico into the World’s Most Dangerous Country for Journalists" Link here: bit.ly/4h1R74j

Are Democratic leaders making cities more dangerous than Republicans? Trump + others have repeatedly made claims like this. New paper in Science Advances w/ @chriswarshaw.bsky.social, Dan Jones & Matt Harvey shows that, in short, the answer is no.

elpais.com/america/2025... De @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social y Veronica Zubillaga. Muy buena lectura

Happy to share a new working paper "Calculation and Conscience: Motivations for the Substantive Representation of Ethnic Minorities" (with Stepahnie Zonszein, Apurav Bhatia and Will Dinneen). See osf.io/preprints/os...

The course websites for my Spring 2025 causal inference and data visualization classes (both with #rstats) are live! evalsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com datavizsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com

In a democracy, when and where should majorities rule? And when should their powers be limited? Steve Levitsky and I propose a framework to think through these questions in a new piece in the January 2025 issue of 'Journal of Democracy' muse.jhu.edu/article/947880

Silencing the Press in Criminal Wars: Why the War on Drugs Turned Mexico into the World’s Most Dangerous Country for Journalists @poppublicsphere.bsky.social Guillermo Trejo @natanski.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just published on APSR First View: "The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey" by Donald Green and Oliver Hyman-Metzger. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

25 años después, fue el Estado: la Corte Interamericana condena a México por la desaparición del zapatista Antonio González - elpais.com/mexico/2024-...

Breaking News: A massacre ordered by a gang leader left more than 100 people dead in Haiti’s capital, a rights group said.

Congratulations to Weatherhead Scholars Program Postdoctoral Fellow @natanski.bsky.social on receiving the 2024 Kellogg Dissertation Award! loom.ly/Oik-ECI

Here’s a starter pack of Kellogg Institute (ND ☘️) Fellows: current and former PhD students, faculty, visiting. 😊 Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/CoZB5N8 And help spread the word. @marcjacob.bsky.social @lgamboa.bsky.social @aperezli.bsky.social

I just gave a guest lecture in @chflachsland.bsky.social's "Policy Process class" on (right-wing) populism. I hope the students enjoyed it as much as I did. Here are my slides -- perhaps they are of interest to some of you. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gho7v...

🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/us/universit... A brief summary: 1/n

New notebook: Sample Size Calculations in #RStats : Money and Power arelbundock.com/posts/money_...

I am honored to have received the 2024 Kellogg Award for Distinguished Dissertation on Democracy and Human Development. My dissertation shows how grassroots human rights groups—including grassroots victims' voices—contest repressive states, foster solidarity, and mobilize demands for accountability

From 2025 BJPolS will be a fully #OpenAccess title which means new articles are published as Gold Open Access under a Creative Commons licence. You can find your open access options here - cup.org/4hWjxxI And in 2025 BJPolS will publish continuously (no issues).

A good way to support pro-democracy forces in Israel is to subscribe to Haaretz. It can teach the USA mainstream media a lesson or two about having a spine.

From the archives: Have you (like me!) wondered what the ATT means and how it's different from average treatment effects? I use #rstats to explore why we care about (and how to calculate) the ATE, ATT, and ATU #polisky #episky #econsky www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/03...

𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out! It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG. And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Starting the day with terrific news: my paper with Sergi Martínez (EAFIT) and Ethan vanderWilden (U of Wisconsin) on far-right normalization and discounting of their extreme positions has been conditionally accepted at Political Science Research and Methods (PSRM). I believe it's very timely.

📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

Reminder that I have a textbook on an introduction to mathematical statistics and regression, designed for first year PhD students in poli sci, but maybe useful to others. Let me know if you use it and have feedback! mattblackwell.github.io/gov2002-book/

Yes! 🎉I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the University of Georgia (@universityofga.bsky.social) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics next Fall!

🚨Do echo chambers polarize? Yes! 🚨Very excited that our paper “The Polarizing Effect of Partisan Echo Chambers” w @sarahobolt.bsky.social and James Tilley has been published FirstView at APSR! Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Thread 👇1/n

Public opinion influences the news more than viceversa. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Very happy to share that “The Enforcement of Political Norms” (w/ the great @amaliaab.bsky.social) has been accepted for publication at the BJPolS @bjpols.bsky.social. The accepted version can be found at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... polisky behaviorsky

New Article! polisky comparativesky I explain Conditional Cash Transfers' fast diffusion in Latin America by tracing policymaking in 18 countries. Presidents fast-tracked CCTs because they expected to gain popularity. The same didn't happen to public-private partnerships. doi.org/10.1017/lap....

Best Laid Plans: A Guide to Reporting Preregistration Deviations: http://osf.io/dwx69/

This research is, unfortunately, relevant again: "Whose Lives Matter? Mass Shootings and Social Media Discourses of Sympathy and Policy, 2012–2014" academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

Happy to share that our paper on why peripheral regions vote for the radical right is now out with the APSR: tinyurl.com/4zvv67d4 A quick thread on how this idea came along and developed within the last 5 years:

I've posted a new short paper called "Practical Advice for Producing Better Graphs" that ... provides practical advice for producing better graphs. 😀 Comments and suggestions welcome. jkastellec.scholar.princeton.edu/document/91

Thanks, Bit, for sharing my work. I really enjoyed working with you on this -- and very much appreciate @apsa.bsky.social support!

Finally published online in First View at APSR, our paper (with @rickmcalexander.bsky.social and Rob Williams) in which we show a link between right-wing radicalization and Iraq and Afghanistan war fatalities: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

{marginaleffects} 0.16.0: A unified interface to interpret results from 100+ statistical and machine learning models in #RStats! Predictions, slopes, differences, ratios & much more! See our new vignettes on Matching, Inverse Probability Weighting & ML: marginaleffects.com

Now at @bjpols.bsky.social, lots of evidence (8 panel experiments!) on misinfo and fact-checks during the 2020 election. TLDR: Fact-checks mostly worked. With @aecoppock.bsky.social, @emilythorson.bsky.social, @thomasjwood.bsky.social and Kim Gross.

Would welcome Mandarin speaking RAs to apply to our PhD program to work with me and colleagues on political economy of coal phasedown in China. Fall 2024 entrance. lbj.utexas.edu/phd-public-p...

A decade of hate crimes in America. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

More and more reports of violent spillovers from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are coming in. My research together with Jakob Enlund shows that the conflict violence does indeed increase hate crimes against both Jews and Muslims in the US. WP: lovechristensen.com/files/christ...

New preprint posted! A little note to help folks think about the consequences of using one design when many designs would test the same general claim. Example: For an experiment on party cues, you need to cue positions on a particular policy. Which policy? osf.io/zaykd/ #polisky #statsky

Check out this new special issue in Electoral Studies: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/elec... It contains 7 cool articles on the nature and causes of AP - using observational and experimental data, focusing on measurement, elites and ideology, and an important theoretical piece as well.

📢 📢 📢 OPEN DATA RELEASE 📢 📢 📢 New large-scale comparative dataset on (negative) campaigns and candidate personality worldwide NEGex 2.0 is now available: osf.io/mekwg/ Covers all nat elections worldwide (2016-2020) ✅ 142 national elections ✅ 720 candidates ✅ 457 parties Data is open & free