As one does, I spent many evenings walking around the golf course in College Station, TX thinking about caretaker periods. A lot of that thinking went into this new JOP article co-authored with José Cheibub: doi.org/10.1086/738892

Yesterday, I did my second DHL relay race with an amazing team: @henrikseeberg.bsky.social, @lindekilde.bsky.social, C. Green-Pedersen, & @lucascoutoz.bsky.social. I had the goal of running the 5k below 21 minutes & came in at 20:34, my new personal record. Now looking forward to the 2026 race! 😊

Today is my first teaching day of Fall 2025. I'm teaching a grad course on Qualitative Methods, for the first time in almost 10 years. As several people have asked me to post my syllabus, here it is. Note that it can be, and often is, changed a bit during the semester.

#OpenAccess from @govandopp.bsky.social - Crafting Policies Together: Citizen Preferences After Crisis - cup.org/4mm8b7m - @paduis.bsky.social, Jennifer Cyr, Julieta Suárez-Cao & Matías Bianchi #FirstView

Our paper (w/ wonderful co-authors @rwillh11.bsky.social, @simonweschle.bsky.social, @cbwlezien.bsky.social, and Jim Adams) is now out in print! 🎉 May be of interest to those studying electoral behavior, party strategy, or how citizens use information! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

To be published this autumn 👇

Normalise writing a nice quick note to scholars literally every time you read and like their work. Our world is small and getting smaller. We need encouragement.

🚨 We’ve released the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data and Assemblies (AIEEDA) 🗳️ 25 European democracies, 1919–1939: party positions, cabinet formation, elections (and subnational geo-coded data for 6 countries) 1/2 ⬇️

Now, it's been attributed to an issue and has got its page numbers 😀 doi.org/10.1017/lap....

Hello dataviz and design people! We're looking for a freelancer to help us with data visualization and/or diagrams at Works in Progress. We cover topics like housing, technology, health, energy, and much more, and experience in these areas is a plus! If this is you, get in touch! (details below)

☺️ dame.is/ratingalttext Please use alt text, folks!

Thrilled to share my new publication w/ @morganwack.bsky.social & Kevin Aslett in Social Science Quarterly: “Silence in the Stands: Assessing the Impact of Russian State-Linked Sportswashing on Online Fan Behavior Following the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Most Francoist elites remained in relevant positions after the Spanish transition to democracy. Neither 1982 nor 1978 fit as marking the end of the transition, at least from the perspective of elite replacement. Economic elites maintained their positions of power www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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🇬🇧🇪🇺 Published Today in EJPR 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @simonhix.bsky.social @juhoharkonen.bsky.social and I find that 1/3 of the anti-Brexit shift in the UK can be attributed to the impact of cohort replacement (old voters dying, young people becoming eligible to vote)! 1/12 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thrilled to announce that my chapter, which helps students navigate and choose among different off-the-shelf data sets, is now published open access! Please check it out—I hope it’s helpful for many students and colleagues teaching comparative politics www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o... polisky

New paper alert! @chknutsen.bsky.social and I use comparable, multi-item measures of five key political issue areas covering 14 West European countries. We find that women tend to be more progressive than men, across countries and issue areas. A 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨My first solo-authored paper is out 🥳: I find that the effect of pre-electoral coalitions on government formation processes in presidential democracies increases as legislative polarisation grows stronger. doi.org/10.1017/lap....

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,187,692!

Hello everyone! I'm proud to announce that I'll begin as a PhD Student at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University next week! Very excited about this next chapter in my academic career 🙂 Thank you to all who have helped me get this far 😊

The authority of regional governments in East Asia based on RAI scores 📊! P.S.: missingness for North Korea 😣 Blogpost: lucascoutoz.netlify.app/posts/g2024_...

How are left-of-centre parties spread out in Brazil's ideological space over the years? This should be a GIF, but, unfortunately, BlueSky still do not support it =( The animated version can be found here: lucascoutoz.netlify.app/posts/f2024_...

🥳Online first: Regional coalition membership influences the perceived ideological positions of parties even on the national level. Evidence from Germany 2009-2021 by Ida B. Hjermitslev @svenjakrauss.bsky.social & @mariathurk.bsky.social tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Polisky

No longer dominant? The presidential share of all enacted laws is at an all-time low following Piñera's second term! This begs the question: is Chile still a hyper-presidential system? Blogpost: lucascoutoz.netlify.app/posts/e2024_...

We have so many elections in 2024, and Panama's has given us one of the most interesting results so far. I- The president-elect was not expected to run for the presidency to begin with II- The upcoming coalition government will fall short of a majority (~40%)

The ideological positions of New Zealand's parties based on their manifestos in recent elections! 📊 Interesting to see the convergence between ACT and National. A bit more on: lucascoutoz.netlify.app/posts/d2024_...

2024 #30DayChartChallenge | day 03 | comparisons | makeover . The data comes from 2022 TidyTuesday wk 08 & Freedom House. This #viz is about South America's political rights and civil liberties, 1995 - 2024.  . 📂: github.com/poncest/30Da... .  #rstats | #dataviz | #rstats | #ggplot2

The ideology of heads of government in Latin America over the years! My first successful animated map as well =) Data from @bastianherre.bsky.social. Kudos to him! Blogpost and gif on: lucascoutoz.netlify.app/posts/c2024_...

In the other place, a vivid example of a physical altercation in a Brazilian subnational legislature 👀 x.com/eixopolitico...

This month, I've taken a look at the FISTS, a dataset dedicated to reporting physical fights in parliaments, garnered and organised by @moritzschmoll.bsky.social and @kiwiting.bsky.social (kudos to them for that!). A couple of visualisations below 📊. Post: lucascoutoz.netlify.app/posts/b2024_...

Hi there! I've just made my first graph of the year: examining to what extent coalition governments in Western Europe have written coalition agreements! There's also a blog post about some of my plans for 2024 and a bit more about coalition agreements. lucascoutoz.netlify.app/posts/new_bl...

Took a winding road to get there, but I'm pleased to say that `ggfixest` is up on CRAN. grantmcdermott.com/ggfixest/ As the 📦 name suggests, `ggfixest` provides dedicated `ggplot2` methods for `fixest` model objects. So you can make nice coefficient/interaction plots with minimal effort. #rstats

Gaza casualty stats cited in the media (e.g. 61% or 68% of mortalities are civilian deaths) are *estimates* based on a clearly stated assumption: that all men 18-59 are [potential] combatants. Huge thanks to @abuaardvark.bsky.social & the team at @goodauth.bsky.social for their work on this piece.

Earlier this week, InSightCrime - a Think Thank working on crime - released a report on El Salvador. Despite relying a bit too much on official data for my liking, which is never ideal when researching crime, it's gathered an impressive amount of qualitative evidence. [1/4]

my kingdom for a native #rstats "not in" operator

Will the war between Hamas and Israel become a regional conflict? How can escalation be avoided? I talked with @profsaunders.bsky.social for @goodauth.bsky.social about escalation control, signaling, and intelligence about Iran's role in the Hamas attack. goodauthority.org/news/will-th...

GOP primary support, March-Sept. Of Rep registered voters 70-80% have favorable view of Trump, 20-30% unfav. In March DeSantis did well with Trump fav folks but has dropped a lot. Haley hasn’t budged. But among Trump unfavs DeSantis has cratered, Haley doubled but only to 20%

The Brazilian inter-branch relations are currently fraught with tension between the legislature and the judiciary. It's been claimed that the Supreme Court's been using monocratic decisions excessively. However, the data tell us that the n. of monocratic decisions has actually declined since 2018!

One of the few things I miss from the other place is the TidyTuesday community. I hope it doesn't take too long for it to develop here 🤞