NEW - Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals https://cup.org/43fmXFj - @alonadolinsky.com, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & @rwillh11.bsky.social #FirstView

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Changing the relationship status: how coalition history affects voter perceptions of parties - https://cup.org/3OVnR6B - @kendallcurtis.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Mitchell Robinson, when asked if he would be making the picture of him dunking on Embiid his phone background, said he would not because “It don’t got no truck in it.”

A political cartoon in the Chattanooga Times Free Press

🚨 Coming soon: “The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy” 🚨 My book is forthcoming in 2026 with @universitypress.cambridge.org. A preview of the cover art is below. Thanks to D. Carpenter, @sean-gailmard.bsky.social, and J. Gingrich for their endorsements! 🙏 More detailed info in the future. 😊

Interrupting my usual poli sci message… to ask for a vote! (It’s always Poli Sci). My band, Mighty Mo Jazz Orchestra, has been nominated for a Best In KC Jazz award by the Pitch! Please vote for us to support local community jazz vote.thepitchkc.com/arts-and-ent...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

German SPD, Greens, and Linke will stop posting on X. An important step and signal. X and its owner have long become a megaphone for the far right, a venue that is actively used to encourage abuse and violence. It‘s simply shameful how many in politics, media, and academia still actively post there.

From our February Issue: Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization by IN SONG KIM, MEGUMI NAOI and TOMOYA SASAKI doi.org/10.1017/S000...

The Republicans running your government just paid $1B of your tax dollars to make energy, and therefore literally everything else, more expensive. They have done this at a time when fuel costs are the highest they have been (also due to Republican choices) since the COVID supply shock.

It may, form time-to-time, really suck, but the fact of the matter is that tragedies and real-world circumstances simply don't translate into the Constitution having to give way for political expediency. At least, that's what SCOTUS keeps telling us about gun regulations.

We are organizing a pre-conference workshop at EPSS on the Politics of South Asia. To present, discuss, or attend, please submit your info by May 13th: forms.gle/pXaKtTLifJAY... Please circulate widely! If questions, contact me, @aliz-toth.bsky.social or @simonchauchard.bsky.social!

I’m honestly surprised that DOJ isn’t just falsely asserting that Allen fired a shot and struck an officer.

The School of Politics and International Relations is hiring an Assistant Professor (fixed-term, 3 years) in European Comparative Politics. Deadline: 19 May 2026 Job ad and details: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... @ucdpolitics.bsky.social

Couldn't be more true. I've seen snow at MPSA. I've seen rain. I've experienced a historical heat wave that had my ass ON THE "BEACH?!" Sweat through your wool. Shiver in your seersucker. Have fun, y'all. Crank a Daisy Cutter for me..

Thrilled that this is out at the APSR! 😀 I document how male elites creatively adapt to electoral reform in Indian village councils. Relevant for how we think about: 1) limits of reforms meant to equalize power, 2) (male) elite capture, 3) the "proxy" representative debate. A (late) 🧵

Why don't working-class people run for office? Anywhere you look in the world, people who run for office are considerably better off than most folks. That inequality affects the way our institutions work: from the kinds of policies they produce to how people feel about their democracy.

Thanks to @ximecalos.bsky.social for this fantastic summary of our research! Hidden Majoritarianism Hinders Women’s Political Careers: politicalsciencenow.com/hidden-major... @alicirone.bsky.social @teele.bsky.social @fiva.no

We’re in a moment of democratic upheaval in the U.S., w/ race central to how many understand the crisis. Join Katherine Tate, @coreydfields.bsky.social, & me as we talk Black politics & American Democracy. In-person & Zoom! May 18, 4–5:30pm PT Info + RSVP: cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/black...

Never change, Spike. (Photo posted by @omarjimenez.bsky.social)

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics! Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper. More soon!

Come join us for the Local Political Economy (pre) Conference in Boston on September 2nd!! This year we'll have papers AND posters. Indicate your interest in presenting, discussing, or just attending by 4/30/26 here: forms.gle/bP16UPzRxfsk....

There’s so much humor in this, but most importantly it’s going to make JD Vance’s book tour extra, super, AAA hilarious

It’s gonna be a real real cool time hanging with my Republican and performatively Catholic in-laws while they try to explain that Trump is right, actually, to shit talk the living voice of god on earth.

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

The last part seems important. Securing a win this large required progressive Hungarians voting for a ton of stuff they hate. Hats off to them for doing what was needed to take back their democracy.

Batdance > Purple Rain fight me Mark

I've got a new paper out today with @timlapira.bsky.social and @salilb.bsky.social in ERC showing that party ID strongly structures political elites' beliefs about climate change. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Just in time for fire season

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social#OpenAccess- Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Causal Mechanisms - https://cup.org/47LAo2G - JIAWEI FU & TARA SLOUGH #FirstView

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

I am wanting to study gender turnout gap in US elections by state (at least, county would be preferrable) for the last 10 or so years, but having trouble finding validated participation information from state voter files. Is there good archive of validated turnout information?

Thanks @neillewisjr.bsky.social! Also worth reading Black Elephants in the Room by Corey Fields and The Loneliness of the Black Republican by Leah Wright Rigeur. To be clear, ideology ≠ partisanship. But their work shows how Black conservatism rooted in racial considerations. Really good stuff!

Dumb McNamara: www.military.com/daily-news/i....

Really fun experience working on this paper with @owasow.bsky.social. When you think about it, it's just two Black and Jewish guys studying the effects of a Black and Jewish partnership to build 5,000 Black schools in the rural South on participation in the Civil Rights Movement

Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway. Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war. The most anti-Veteran President in history.

Delighted our paper (with an amazing group of co-authors) is forthcoming in the APSR Takeaway for Labour and other centre-left parties: fixing public services is key to reducing support for the populist right 👇

More wearable narcs

Kalshi and Polymarket haven’t posted bets on whether Trump will fall asleep during arguments. COWARDS

Super happy to see this paper finally formatted. While this paper might seem about political fundraising, it's really about the theory of *parties*: is it a broader network (UCLA school, i.e., Bawn et al. 2012) or elite/institutions-driven (re: Aldrich)? doi.org/10.1086/735435

We had a 100-0 bipartisan deal in the Senate and the House blew it up because the Republicans who run Congress apparently don’t talk to each other and prefer chaos.

Kim Mulkey has somehow made Duke sympathetic

X is boiling journalists’ brains

Great opportunity for politcal economists career.mpifg.de/jobposting/3...

The US has now lifted sanctions on Iran, who the GOP says is our greatest enemy, and Russia, who is actually our greatest enemy. How is this stupid fucking war making us safer?

From our FirstView article: Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems DANIEL M. SMITH, @AliCirone.bsky.social, @teele.bsky.social, GARY W. COX and JON H. FIVA. doi.org/10.1017/S000...