new WP (w/ @ntd.bsky.social): we use the case of Christian nationalism to make a broader point about "niche ideologies" in mass opinion research, and why you shouldn't scale them the same way you'd scale more general attitudes Link: osf.io/wbdut/files/...

🚨New Publication with Giacomo Di Pasquale & Emma Lofstedt for Political Research Quarterly "Bridges and Walls: How Rising Income #Inequality Drives Anti-Immigrant Politics and Republican Realignment" Available #OpenAccess #polisky doi.org/10.1177/1065...

Uploaded a new pre-print. This paper explores how legislative activity develops throughout legislative careers and whether senior legislators tend to start slacking off from legislative work. The paper focuses on Japanese prefectural assembly members. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

BLOG POST: why I think the measurement of disproportionality in mixed member systems is wrong, and what to do about it www.chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/mixed_...

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

New open access paper at @polcommjournal.bsky.social with @jsievert.bsky.social: we find that messages oriented towards national politics polarize people's views and evaluations of candidates and that messages stressing local matters sometimes do the opposite. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Campaign Lab are hiring for 3 new roles - Great opportunity for anyone from an academic or applied research background who's excited about running RCTs and doing data science with progressive campaigns in the UK! campaignlab.uk/work-with-us/

Another problem to which the best solution is mandating multimember districts with PR

My latest WP, a restructured version of the piece in the quoted thread. Helpful for thinking clearly about social media RCTs and their limits, useful for teaching about spillover in causal inference SocArxiv: osf.io/preprints/so... Dropbox: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zj43w... (1/5)

New paper out in Nature Human Behaviour. "Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources" with @seramirezruiz.bsky.social DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Ungated: rdcu.be/fh0Ss

🚨 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. 😊

Yay, another paper by Berna and Erkan to dismantle wishful thinking about how clear-cut replicability is as a signal of good science.

👇That, and the opportunity to be part of a research community featuring rockstar colleagues inlcuding Drew, Asya Magazinnik, Lynn Kaack, Will Lowe, and more great people at @hertieschool.bsky.social!

NEW - The First Wave of Globalization and Electoral Populism in the United States - https://cup.org/4vVZx50 - Ze Han & Helen V. Milner #OpenAccess #Populism

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion/IR (3 yrs) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Work on democratic resilience in times of crisis using cross-national survey data. flexible start (earliest possible) deadline: 31 May 2026 🔗 www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

And executives are, of course, perfectly aware of this attribution mechanism among consumers. We found lots of statements explaining it in their earnings calls with analysts. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I've got a paper "Bipartisan-cited science is rare, unevenly distributed, and disproportionately influential" published today at @pnas.org with @dashunwang.bsky.social. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This might be the cleanest example yet of what @thomasnhale.bsky.social @greenprofgreen.bsky.social and I called the politics of climate-forcing asset holders vs. climate-vulnerable asset holders 🌎

We conclude RM designs serve as a better default than PO designs. Social science engages with small effects, is resource limited, & often concerns directional tests. RM designs are better in these settings, though cases remain where large-N PO designs are better (magnitude RQs, sensitive topics).

Thrilled to announce my paper with @dianamejordan.bsky.social & sky-less Trent Ollerenshaw is now published open-access at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. In a (very) large replication & extension, we show that design effects of repeated measure experiments are nonzero but typically small. Thread:

Gratitude to the @psjeditor.bsky.social team for featuring my article "Agendas and Instability in American Local Politics" with Peter Mortensen in their blog! psjblog.net/2026/04/15/a...

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

🚨Job opportunity🚨 UNC Poli Sci is hiring a postdoc (one year renewable) to advance research on political behavior, with a special focus on free expression in higher education. Competitive salary and benefits. No teaching. Please encourage people to apply. Ad: timryan.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

I figured out a visiting position to spend January to June 2027 at the Universitat de Barcelona. Anyone have any tips on finding an apartment to rent?

The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10 journals.sagepub.com/toc/CPS/curr...

Missouri keeps electing Trump, Hawley & a GOP supermajority - yet voters passed Medicaid expansion, abortion rights, paid leave & marijuana legalization. All through direct democracy. New research on why. Find us at #MPSA2026, Thu April 23, 3:20 PM! #DirectDemocracy #Federalism #MissouriPolitics

📣 The programme for the European Political Science Society (EPSS) conference in Belfast is now out 👇

From our FirstView: Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking by G. AGUSTIN MARKARIAN, @jacobhacker.bsky.social , @maclockhart.bsky.social and ZOLTAN HAJNAL. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Do I know anyone who (successfully) submitted a registered report to #APSR/#JOP and is willing to share it with me? Would really appreciate seeing how people approached this new format!

🚨 I have an article out at APR titled “Educational Polarization in American Politics: More than Just a Diploma Divide” in which i look at how educational attainment shapes public opinion and political behavior across the entire education spectrum, not just the across the degree/no degree binary 1/x

Thrilled to share that my paper with @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and Caleb Lucas is now out at American Politics Research. In it, we introduce CongressData, a novel repository of 1,300+ variables on the US Congress. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

We’re hiring! 3 TT positions Two Assistant Professors in Political Science (Dutch required, deadline 17 May) careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Universi... One Assistant Professor of Political Theory (Dutch not required, d/l June 1) careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan... Share = 🙏❤️

The Society for Political Methodology invites applications for the editorship of @polanalysis.bsky.social beginning on September 1, 2026. Find out more - https://cup.org/4r50sgO Proposals are due on May 1, 2026.

@yiqingxu.bsky.social, Jens Hainmueller and Avi Acharya have a cool paper to get political scientists to just fit structural choice models to their choice survey experiments! yiqingxu.org/papers/2026_...

the correct take.

New work out today at @psjeditor.bsky.social: Using a survey experiment fielded with civil servants from 9 US states, Dan Butler and I find bureaucrats are less responsive to term-limited chief executives onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it. ~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years. Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability. Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it. This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification

We're hiring a Research Support Associate at MIT Political Science. Work with me, In Song Kim, Rich Nielsen, and Naoki Egami on methods and political economy. Great opportunity for those considering a PhD in the social sciences. One-year position with possible extension.

📢 Are women MPs better at estimating their party voters’ preferences on women’s issues? In our new paper (with @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and @breunig.eurosky.social), we analyze whether and under which conditions women MPs assess these preferences more accurately. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

This is similar to what we find in our recent study on which countries people want their government to learn from. China ranks in the middle but still comes out ahead of the United States, pointing to shifting perceptions of the two powers.

Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026. international.au.dk/about/profil...

Popular attitudes are often seen as a safeguard against democratic backsliding: if citizens don’t oppose lib democracy, politicians have little incentive to erode it. In @cpsjournal.bsky.social I argue that, while intuitive, this reasoning conflates two states of the world: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Stolen Representation by Michael P. Olson This book uses a tremendous amount of new historical data to illuminate how voting rights shape legislative representation. 📚 https://cup.org/4tt9W6u

I first tried to build a collection of congressional press releases starting in 2013. I think I might have finally done it. Introducing Congress Press:

It took a while to get the ad up, but we are hiring a pre-doc to start this summer: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

extremely happy to share that "Political Pundits and the Maintenance of Ideological Coalitions" is conditionally accepted at @polbehavior.bsky.social osf.io/8c3fr/files/...

I was at this (Hewlett-funded) convening and basically endorse the report, but want to add: because the crowd, as is common in "pro-democracy" spaces, ran the gamut from left-liberal to Never Trump/GOP-in-exile, we gingerly avoided the question of what healthy parties mean when one of them is fash.