As the initial excitement of winning elections cools down, the president-elect must begin thinking about how to govern. But what makes governing coalitions resemble pre-electoral coalitions in multiparty presidential democracies? I tackle this question here in @EPSRjournal. (1/7)

💫💫💫 Great News: We are over the moon that our paper "Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment?" is now published in BJPS @bjpols.bsky.social 🍾 🤗 👉🏻 doi.org/10.1017/S000... w/ Juha Ylisalo, Katrin Praprotnik & @laurenzennser.bsky.social 🧵1/5

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner: Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries Harmonized roles/policy areas Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940 Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p ⬇️

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 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

🚨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....

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 😊

🥳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

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%)

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

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

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

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