Une chose que j'avais oubliée de mentionner dans mon tweet en anglais c'est que l'appel à contributions existe aussi en français et qu'il est possible de soumettre un résumé en français. La date limite pour les soumissions est le 15 octobre.

The deadline is on 15 October!

Together with two of my colleagues I'm putting together a panel for the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology which will take place in Rabat in July 2025. It's on the question of social justice in Africa, which we find to be eclipsed by technocratic discourse on fighting poverty.

We finally released an updated version of our dataset on physical violence in parliaments, the Fistfights In parliamentary Sessions Time Series (aka FISTS). It's on my website and the Harvard Dataverse, so feel free to check it out. We hope it's of use!

We're still looking for prospective APSA 2024 participants interested in a panel on the resource curse. Don't hesitate to get in touch (you'll find my email address by googling me).

Together with some colleagues, including @bensmith70polisci.bsky.social and @gswenson.bsky.social, we’re trying to put together a panel on the political resource curse for APSA 2024. If you have a paper that (broadly) fits please don’t hesitate to get in touch! polisky

An interesting article by @washingtonpost.com columnist Philip Bump on rising tensions in the US Congress, partially drawing on our recent research (with @kiwiting.bsky.social) on physical violence in parliaments. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It's obviously very difficult to think and talk about other topics in these dark times but Geoffrey Swenson and I wrote a piece on a success story of democratisation in a prime candidate for the "political resource curse", Timor-Leste.