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Social scientist interested in conflicts:
https://krzyskrakowski.github.io/
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Laia Balcells
about 1 month ago
Very happy to have this paper out. Thanks to all the people who gave us feedback at different stages.
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Simone Cremaschi
about 2 months ago
Does public service deprivation boost support for the populist right? New evidence in our paper, conditionally accepted at APSR 🥳, where we study how GP closures shape voting intentions in England. 👇
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American Political Science Review
about 2 months ago
From our FirstView articles: A Precolonial Paradox? Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies by MARTHA WILFAHRT.
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Jordi Muñoz
about 2 months ago
We are launching the dual degree between our Master in Institutions and Political Economy at the University of Barcelona
@ubmipe.bsky.social
and King's College London
www.ub.edu/mipe/#dual
@ub.edu
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Master in Institutions and Political Economy | UB
The Master in Institutions and Political Economy (MIPE) is a Social Science research program that combines Political Science, Economics, Economic History.
https://www.ub.edu/mipe/#dual
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Shay O’Brien
2 months ago
My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)
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Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026
How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00031224261425688?_gl=1*1syvh4l*_up*MQ..*_ga*MzQ3NjIxNDk5LjE3NzQ0NDY5Mzg.*_ga_60R758KFDG*czE3NzQ0NDY5MzgkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzQ0NDY5MzgkajYwJGwwJGgzNzQ5MDYxMTE
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
2 months ago
A new beginning in Göttingen 👋🤗 The
#MaxPlanckInstitute
for Political and Social Sciences launches under Ursula Daxecker & Steffen Mau addressing social & political challenges, including democratic backsliding, social inequality & conflict
www.ips.mpg.de
@steffenmau.bsky.social
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Yamil Ricardo Velez
3 months ago
Conditionally accepted at the APSR (w/
@scottclifford.bsky.social
&
@patrickpliu.bsky.social
): Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.
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Just finished reading the superb book "The Making of International Status" by
@mduque.bsky.social
and wrote a short note for
@jpeaceresearch.bsky.social
about it here:
www.prio.org/journals/jpr...
Excellent piece of work! By far my favorite IR book so far (although it's far more than IR...) 🙂
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The Making of International Status – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
https://www.prio.org/journals/jpr/booknotes/476
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Omar García-Ponce
3 months ago
"Midterms" by Adam Przeworski
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Midterms
The question we face in the US today is whether a party in office which is supported by 40 percent of survey respondents can win an election.
https://open.substack.com/pub/adamprzeworski/p/midterms?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Vicente Valentim
3 months ago
Fascinating new paper by and
@elena-amaya.bsky.social
and Robert Braun on the role of folklore in shaping far-right support in Weimar Germany:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Adam Scharpf
3 months ago
Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ... Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups? Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by
@academic.oup.com
:
tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
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Santiago Sanchez-Pages
3 months ago
Exciting project joint with
@cubel.bsky.social
and Mariele Macaluso.
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Ozan Aksoy
3 months ago
A new publication at
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We find that religious markers (esp. beards) can reduce perceived trustworthiness in Turkey. (That's why you often see me clean shaven ;-)
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics
3 months ago
Recently accepted by
#QJE
: “Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict,” by Gehring (
@kaigehring.bsky.social
) and Schaudt (@paulschaudt.bskz.social):
doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict*
Abstract. We provide quasi-experimental evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate drought-induced co
https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjag005
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VoxDev
4 months ago
Using surnames, we show that colonial-era hierarchies continue to shape access to Colombia’s best schools and elite social networks, limiting intergenerational mobility through both education and marriage. Read today's article to learn more:
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European Sociological Review
4 months ago
New OA In ESR How do institutions and social norms affect tax payment?
@lucaspasin.bsky.social
#Aaszekely
@squazzoni.bsky.social
find that in low-quality institutions contexts, social norms can trigger vicious cycles of evasion, even when evasion is socially disapproved
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf057
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An experimental study on institutions and social norms of tax payment
Abstract. The production of public goods, which are fundamental to well-functioning societies, requires the payment of taxes, but taxpayers have clear ince
https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf057
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OlhaZadorozhna
4 months ago
1/ 🎙️ New episode of Policy Implications! I talk with
@plvezina.bsky.social
about Ukrainian refugees in Poland who aren’t just workers, but entrepreneurs creating new businesses and even boosting Polish firm creation. This season is supported by
@econ4ua.bsky.social
and Kozminski University 💛💙
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Diana O'Brien
5 months ago
🚨Free book alert (for 2 weeks)! In her new CUP Element,
@caglayanbaser.bsky.social
shows that rebel groups with♀️combatants are seen as more gender-equal, democratic and morally legitimate, even when they perpetrate violence. This increases public support for government sponsorship of rebel groups!
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Michal Ovádek
5 months ago
can't wait to dig into the data with
@tommasopavone.bsky.social
. This is probably one of the largest survey experiments ever run in Slovakia, a country you will not find analysed in the big journals very often
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Costin Ciobanu
5 months ago
Happy to see my article with
@joostvanspanje.bsky.social
on the short-term political consequences of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy announcement published in
@psrm.bsky.social
.
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
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Victor Gay
5 months ago
There is growing interest in HPE about social conflict in the run-up to the French Revolution. In a new article at Data & Corpus, I describe the Jean Nicolas Database, a database of 8,516 rebellions in France (1661-1789) 👉Article:
doi.org/10.46298/dc....
👉Database:
doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
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Marcel Roman
5 months ago
🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨 Why are many Latino immigrants *not* naturalizing, learning English, and participating in American politics? We provide new theory and evidence across 3 surveys and an instrumental variables approach to show how migration motives shape immigrant integration.
tinyurl.com/3expvu8e
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Melissa Sands
6 months ago
Can Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) extract features of urban neighborhoods from street-view images? New with Paige Bollen (OSU) and
@joehigton.bsky.social
(NYU): Sometimes, but the models better recover national assessments that local ones, even w/additional prompting (which can make things worse!)
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Florian Foos
6 months ago
Carl is a fantastic researcher & knowing him well as a colleague, he will be an amazing mentor. Plus those look like very good postdoc positions. Please apply.
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Pierre-Louis Vézina
6 months ago
We got a new paper out on Ukrainian
#refugee
entrepreneurs in Poland, with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Piotr Lewandowski. Check it out here:
cevatgirayaksoy.com/wp-content/u...
and see below for a THREAD!!! 👇
#EconTwitter
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Tarik Abou-Chadi
6 months ago
Difficult to grasp how the crisis of UK universites - largely caused by bad policy and bad management - is not treated as a massive national problem that requires government involvement to help solve the issue. Product of a discourse in which parties don‘t want to be seen as appealing to graduates?
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Graeme Blair
6 months ago
New data release from the Deportation Data Project: Every ICE arrest, detainer request, and book-in to detention nationwide between September 1, 2023 and October 15, 2025.
deportationdata.org/news/2025-12...
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Deportation Data Project
https://deportationdata.org
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR
6 months ago
#OpenAccess from
@iojournal.bsky.social
- Population Displacement and State Building: The Legacies of Pashtun Resettlement in Afghanistan - https://cup.org/4rgO1il - David B. Carter,
@austinlw.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
& Luwei Ying
#FirstView
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NBER
6 months ago
Adaptive persistence of elite families despite regime change, alongside lasting regional scarring, highlighting the role of cultural transmission for social mobility, from Carol H. Shiue and Wolfgang Keller
www.nber.org/papers/w34451
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Marina Duque
6 months ago
Ever wondered why some countries get recognition while others struggle to be seen? My book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 is finally out in the world! 📘
academic.oup.com/book/61560
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The Making of International Status
Abstract. With great power rivalry on the rise again, many worry that struggles for status among states could lead to war. As a growing consensus indicates
https://academic.oup.com/book/61560
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King's QPE
6 months ago
📣Call for papers now open for our annual Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration. Rome🔥, May 28-29, 2026. More details below👇
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Per Engzell
7 months ago
This will spark some great papers: an open digital dataset of roads in the Roman Empire
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03626-z
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Oko.press RSS
7 months ago
Państwo z palcem na spuście: dlaczego Brazylia toleruje przemoc policji i co to mówi o demokracji? -
https://oko.press/dlaczego-brazylia-toleruje-przemoc-policji-i-co-to-mowi-o-demokracji
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Państwo z palcem na spuście: dlaczego Brazylia toleruje przemoc policji i co to mówi o demokracji?
Dopóki społeczna zgoda na przemoc policyjną będzie trwała, takie będą się powtarzać – w imię bezpieczeństwa, zemsty, polityki
https://oko.press/dlaczego-brazylia-toleruje-przemoc-policji-i-co-to-mowi-o-demokracji
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Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/jewish-notables-open-letter-un-sanction-israel
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Andrea Ruggeri
7 months ago
At La Statale Milano in the Social & Political Sciences Dept. with NASP graduate school & EPRA Hub we have organised a new seminar series: Milan Conflict Research Seminars (MiCoReS). Here this term programme.
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Real-World Sanctioning of Stigmatized Political Preferences
A growing body of literature is preoccupied with the role of norms for democratic outcomes. Yet, given the inherent difficulties in observing social sanctions, we lack real-world evidence of whether a...
https://preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/article-details/68da80093e708a7649c8fe35
8 months ago
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Journal of Peace Research
8 months ago
📢 New publication! 📢 Does political violence backfire in mature democracies? In this article,
@kkrakows.bsky.social
(
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
) and
@juansemorales.bsky.social
(Wilfrid Laurier University) examine how the January 6 US Capitol Attack affected public support for US politicians.
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Volha Charnysh
8 months ago
Looking for rising stars in Historical Political Economy? 🌍📚 Check out this year’s job market candidates:
www.broadstreet.blog/p/hpe-candid...
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HPE candidates on the job market
Job market season is here.
https://www.broadstreet.blog/p/hpe-candidates-on-the-job-market
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Robert Vief
8 months ago
🚨 New paper: “Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?” in the Journal of Politics (JOP) (joint work with
@anselmhager.bsky.social
and
@hannohilbig.bsky.social
) 👉 Have a look over here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Most important findings in this thread: 1/11
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Neeraj Prasad
9 months ago
🚨🚨🚨Announcing a special issue on “Political Violence in Democracies” published by
@jpeaceresearch.bsky.social
and edited by
@andrearuggeri.bsky.social
, U Daxecker, and me. In this very long 🧵, I will introduce the special issue with its 14 articles.
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
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Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025
It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...
https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433251351251
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APSA
9 months ago
Vicente Valentim Receives the 2025 Robert A. Dahl Award for “The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand” The Robert A. Dahl Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor an untenured scholar who has produced…
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Vicente Valentim Receives the 2025 Robert A. Dahl Award for “The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand”
The Robert A. Dahl Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor an untenured scholar who has produced scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy. Citation from the Award Committee: The Robert A. Dahl Award honors an untenured scholar whose work makes an outstanding contribution to the study of democracy and broadens our understanding of how democracies function.
https://politicalsciencenow.com/vicente-valentim-receives-the-2025-robert-a-dahl-award-for-the-normalization-of-the-radical-right-a-norms-theory-of-political-supply-and-demand/
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Department of Government, Essex
9 months ago
🚨New paper from our colleague
@dianebolet.bsky.social
and co-author
@florianfoos.bsky.social
: Media interviews with extreme-right activists normalise their ideas. 👉 Uncritical interviews ↑ agreement & perceived support 👉 Critical interviews ↓ persuasion but still raise perceptions of popularity
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Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - Volume 55
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/media-platforming-and-the-normalisation-of-extreme-right-views/747E769DA6CE4365E0151B55FDF4DEFA?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark
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Catherine E. de Vries
10 months ago
This September, I’m launching a new series as part of my Respect the Marble Substack called: Etched in Marble: Conversations with writers about how & why they write I wrote about in my latest post:
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/introducin...
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Introducing "Etched in Marble": Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures
Catherine Talks to Writers About Why and How They Write
https://catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/introducing-etched-in-marble-writers
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Tine Paulsen
10 months ago
@magnusrasmussen.bsky.social
,
@chknutsen.bsky.social
,
@charasz.bsky.social
,
@deandulay.bsky.social
, and I are closing down
#IPSA
with the last panel of the conference - come if you still have energy and want to see some intriguing projects using historical evidence in a variety of ways!
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Annual Reviews
11 months ago
📢 The most recent volume of the Annual Review of Political Science is now online. Take a look at the table of contents
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Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055425000218
12 months ago
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European University Institute
about 1 year ago
🏙️What happens when a city loses its capital status?
#MyPhDPitch
In 1999, Poland cut its regions from 49 to 16, leaving 31 cities without their former role. At
@eui-eco.bsky.social
,
@martakorczak.bsky.social
studies how this reform shaped local development, from brain drain to lost business appeal.
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VoxDev
about 1 year ago
🆕 Motives matter: Reducing fare evasion at metro stations in Argentina Today on VoxDev,
@kkrakows.bsky.social
(King's College London) & Lucas Ronconi (Universidad de Buenos Aires) discuss the impact of sanctions and social norms on accountability-seeking behaviour:
voxdev.org/topic/public...
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Motives matter: Reducing fare evasion at metro stations in Argentina
Both sanctions and social norms reduced fare evasion at metro stations in Buenos Aires, but only the latter increased accountability-seeking. What does this mean for civic engagement in developing cou...
https://voxdev.org/topic/public-economics/motives-matter-reducing-fare-evasion-metro-stations-argentina
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School of Politics and Economics
about 1 year ago
🆕 Public policy that appeals to a citizen’s sense of civic duty helps stimulate an interest in holding those in positions of power to account, according to a study co-authored by our academic, Dr Krzysztof Krakowski 🤝 Read more 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/policy-...
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Policy that appeals to sense of civic duty encourages citizens to seek accountability
Public policy that appeals to a citizen’s sense of civic duty helps stimulate an interest in holding those in positions of power to account, according to a new study.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/policy-that-appeals-to-sense-of-civic-duty-encourages-citizens-to-seek-accountability
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