Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does. Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine. Put the tools to the use of theory. Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... This week we’ll feature three sections to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This time: Public Opinion, Political Communication & Political Methodology 🧵

When Nature Strikes: Which Regimes Exploit Natural Disasters for Fiscal Expansion? A new article in Governance with Suen Wang examines this question. We find that hybrid regimes do, while democracies and autocracies do not. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations

📚🏛️Welcome back to campus! Join us at our Open House next week to meet our faculty and fellow Europeanists 🇪🇺 Discover what CES has to offer! 🗓️ Sep 10, 4:30-6:00pm 📍Adolphus Busch Hall

New study out today—“Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised?“ finds a substantial political cleavage between urban and rural populations in multiple European countries. Place-based affective polarization is associated with voting along liberal vs nationalist divide #PoliticalScience

Det er jo ligesom i 2006, hvor den daværende finansminister sagde, at "faktisk går det så godt, at Danmark snart ejer hele verden"... www.dr.dk/nyheder/peng...

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

Very insightful update on the EU Commission’s new structural funds proposal. There already has been quite some renationalization in previous funding rounds, but the outright move away from regional funding would be quite a change to our understanding of EU governance.

Gudhjem sunset:

Out now🎉 - Evidence (from distribution analyses and machine learning models on EES 2014-2024 data) of strong similarities and growing convergence in EU public opinion, particularly on economic issues. Common right-ward shifts on immigration, yes - but underlying drivers still vary. shorturl.at/KCx0S

💸CBS-Princeton in Money in Politics conference starting in ~12 hours 💸

In Denmark, most intergenerational mobility variation is due to family location choices and random factors. Urban areas promote greater upward mobility than rural ones. New research brief from @durlauf.bsky.social (@harrissocial.bsky.social)and co-authors. #EconSky ow.ly/rw9q50UnGnR

Still six days to the application deadline for the V-Dem Directorship position!

Can gender quotas in parliament drive broader gender equality in state institutions? Analyzing 160 countries over 40 years, we find that quotas increase women’s access to state jobs — but only in democracies, not autocracies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #GenderQuotas #Democracy #Autocracy

As an ally to the US, Denmark sent soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq, had the second highest casualties per capita in Afghanistan. Trump is explicitly threatening a country that thought of itself as (one of) the US strongest ally.

Endelig fikk jeg skrevet ned kronikken som har tatt opp mye plass i hodet mitt de siste par ukene: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/gw...

German post election maneuvering still underway but next week come see this with two Spiegel journalists ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

Kom glad!: surveyselskab.dk/event/fysisk...

Thank you for inviting us @clint0475.bsky.social!!! An outstanding set of questions and discussion.

Happy to see this finally with page numbers!

Under Trump 2.0, it will be important to distinguish between policies that are illiberal, policies that are conservative and policies which constitute democratic backsliding. These are not the same thing.

From the abstract: "The U.S. has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with over seven million individuals admitted to jails each year. These incarcerated individuals are the only group in the U.S. that have a constitutional right to receiving "reasonably adequate" health care."

As Germany is heading to the polls the political divide across East and West Germany will show again. Using data collected from our project on political geography @svenhegewald.bsky.social finds that representational grievances drive disenchantment 1/2 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking for an updated textbook on democratization and autocratization for teaching or just interested in the conceptualization of democracy, historical and contemporary trends in regime types, and their potential causes and consequences? Then check this out: www.routledge.com/Democratizat...

Creating a list of people specializing in public policy and regulation. Please suggest additional names to add: bsky.app/profile/mads...

Jeg er stor tilhænger af skolemad. Med det stigende kulinariske niveau på restauranter, arbejdspladser og nu også i skolen, er danske supermarkeder en af de sidste bastioner for dårlig mad.

Winter is coming:

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc in Computational Social Science, especially text analysis in the MULTIREP @ERC_Research project at Uni Vienna @Dept_Government . If you do quantitative text analysis & are interested in pol representation, this 👇 is for you 🧵 (1/4) wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

Great to see new JCMS article from POLIS's David Moloney and @madsdagnis.bsky.social on issue salience in the Brexit negotiations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Today I received Christmas greetings wishing me 'R&R for the holiday' and my academic mind instantly thought it meant 'Revise and Resubmit.' Time to switch off the work mode and have some actual ‘Rest and Relaxation’. I wish you all R&R for the holiday!

Turnout rose in most of rural and small-town regions of the Netherlands, but dropped in the West and cities elsewhere. That, too, tells a story about the winners and losers of these elections.

Icymi: @madsdagnis.bsky.social

Fall in Cambridge, MA:

Excited that this project (JMP!) is now FirstView @APSR! doi.org/10.1017/S000... I show that segregation encourages the privatization of urban services. Conversely, integrated cities produce intergroup externalities that align the middle class w/ the poor in coalitions for public goods 🧵

#polisky Publication alert! 🎉   Delighted to see our article with the fab Liisa Talving ‘Euroscepticism as a syndrome of stagnation? Regional inequality and trust in the EU’ out at the Journal of European Public Policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The US: Lands on the moon using metric calculations, yet drives miles to buy gallons of milk and pounds of cheese. It's time to switch to the metric system! #MetricSystem2023

I'm fascinated by this article on satisfaction w/ democracy and govt participation by @simonotjes.bsky.social and David Willumsen -- in particular, the asymmetry between -ve effects of yr party being dropped from govt and meh effects of yr party entering government doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Yay! Incredibly deserved. Important to note that Claudia's work extended far beyond women in the labor market. Also pioneered the empirical revolution in labor economics more generally, and did important work on inequality — her Great Compression paper had a profound influence

“The more uncomfortable truth is that academic science has never been a trade that selects for or supports the best scientific minds in the world.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nobel-prize-debate-misses-the-mark-on-the-real-culprits-ignoring-scientific-merit/