Join us this Thursday for our very own @ansonchung.bsky.social ( @gcpolisci.bsky.social ) presenting his paper “Strategic Circumvention of Constitutional Checks” at 6:30-8:00 at the Thesis Room. Email us for a copy of the manuscript.

Announcing the Fall 2025 Schedule of the Comparative Politics Workshop hosted @gcpolisci.bsky.social, come and join us this fall!

Announcing the 2025 Fall Schedule on the Public Policy Workshop hosted @gcpolisci.bsky.social, come and join us! October 16 session is on Thursday, and November 3 session is on Monday.

Join us this Thursday (5/8) on our final session of PP Workshop, featuring Prof. @jomoko.bsky.social (@gcpolisci.bsky.social) and Prof. Keena Lipsitz (@queenscollegecuny.bsky.social and @gcpolisci.bsky.social), which will be held in the GC Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07) from 6:30-8:30.

Excited to see my new article with Erica Simmons out in APSR FirstView! We argue that when social scientists extend their arguments to new cases, they are often not generalizing their findings, but translating them to new contexts instead. Want to know more? Read it. It's open access. 👇

A journalism lecturer at a Hong Kong university has defended student reporters accused by an official of making “sweeping generalisations.” In full: https://buff.ly/40nc9od

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

🚨 New paper out w/ @ericmerkley.bsky.social in Political Behavior, "The Nature of Online Talk: Incivility of Opposing Views and Affective Polarization" Link to paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Short thread below:

If you have any works on HK politics, plz consider submitting your abstract to GRAPH’s APSA panel by Jan 15! We are a new related group of APSA and this is our first year hosting our own panels. If u dun study HK, spreading the message would also help! Details: graph-hk.github.io/web/conferen...

From our new issue: "How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging" by Elise Blasingame, Christina Boyd, Roberto Carlos, and Joseph T. Ornstein. #ASPRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Created a Taiwan Studies Starter Pack for folks coming from Twitter. Let me know if you ought to be on here! go.bsky.app/TG2GBbz

New: 'Judging Composite Decision-Making: The Transformation of European Administrative Law' by Filipe Brito Bastos bit.ly/4hUO0Mt #EuropeanLaw #EULaw #AdministrativeLaw

PRE-ORDER NOW!!! @hartpublishing.bsky.social The book expands and updates the previous 2013 edition. Covering 31 courts, it confirms that explicit judicial dialogue only exists in certain parts of the world, notably in the common law tradition www.bloomsbury.com/uk/judicial-...

"1 in 14 judges confirmed during Trump’s presidency were confirmed after he lost his reelection bid. Perhaps the best known of those judges is U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon. " Will Biden/Schumer/Durbin show any sense of urgency in pushing to confirm judges?