🚨 📖 “Nationalism and the Transformation of the State” is out with CUP! I’m so happy to conclude 6 years of research with Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Yannick Pengl and many others like that! It’s open access @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org here: tinyurl.com/nastac What’s the book all about? A 🧵

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social#OpenAccess- How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan - https://cup.org/43SvKxE - TREVOR INCERTI #FirstView

NEW - Contentious Rituals and Intergroup Relations: Parading in Northern Ireland - cup.org/3L55Bp7 - Kit Rickard, Giovanni Hollenweger, @swebera.bsky.social & @kristinmbakke.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🚨🚨🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨🚨🚨 Preaching to the converted: Misinformation and voter preferences in election campaigns, co-authored with U Daxecker, and published in the @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Is misinformation an effective campaign tool — or just noise? See 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

nice coverage of our APSR article in The Print today! “Children are learning to fight fake news. Study shows classrooms help" theprint.in/feature/biha...

🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨 ➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation ➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India ➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months ➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms hopeful findings👇🏽

Very happy to be able to share the polling-level dataset on Indian Parliamentary Elections 2009, 2014, 2019 that we have been working on for more than a decade. Both the data and the data descriptor are open access: rdcu.be/eujHH @statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

Even subtle online rumors about out-group can ⬆️ resentment & conflict-related emotions. Results from large pre-registered experiment out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social , with Mathilde B. Mjelva, @sschutte.bsky.social , Helga M. Binningsbø. @statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

📢 New article📢 Why do assassinations of social activists persist in democratic regimes? Juan Albarracín, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak & Jonas Wolff link these killings to highly territorialized industrial deforestation in the Amazon, where criminal-political networks violently react to local resistance.

To get an overview of the special issue, read the introduction to the special issue here: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Volume 62 Issue 5, September 2025 Special Issue on Political Violence in Democracies, Journal of Peace Research is officially out. journals.sagepub.com/toc/JPR/curr...

📢 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.

📢 New publication! 📢 Why do ordinary citizens participate in election violence in democracies? Kathleen Klaus and @meganturnbull.bsky.social argue that such violence is often jointly produced by elites and citizens, enabled by threat-based narratives and social networks that legitimize violence.

The killing of right-wing influencer #CharlieKirk is the latest in a spate of acts of #political #violence in the #US. But what conditions have led to this trend, and what does it mean for #democracy? Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social & @andrearuggeri.bsky.social for @lseusablog.bsky.social

Thanks @lseusablog.bsky.social for guesting a reflection of ours on the recent political violence in the USA (but not only). For those who want to read our open access special issue intro on political violence in democracies @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social : journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Why is political violence on the rise in the United States? Ursula Daxecker and @neerajprsd.bsky.social of the University of Amsterdam and @andrearuggeri.bsky.social of the University of Milan look at the trend and where it might lead blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Thanks to @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social for giving us the possibility to guest edit a special issue on "Political violence in democracies". Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social and I wrote an open access introduction: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!

New article out in World Development! 🚨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (ungated if u click now) With Rachel Brulé and @alyssarheinze.bsky.social, we explain and document some of the paradoxical (and actually inequality-building) consequences of India´s extensive gender quota system.

🚨🚨🚨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...

And here it finally is: Thankful that our paper "Gender in elections: The consequences of killing women activists" is out in the Journal of Peace Research (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)

When you have to wear a high visibility orange vest over your camouflage fatigues!

NEW - The Religious Roots of Belief in Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from India - cup.org/472gDEr - @simonchauchard.bsky.social & @sumitra.bsky.social #OpenAccess

politicalsciencenow.com/kevin-d-pham... So proud of my colleague @kdpham.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Ralph J. Bunche Award!! @aissr.bsky.social @gijsschumacher.bsky.social

Congratulations @kdpham.bsky.social! 🥳

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Now out: new article w/ @niloufersiddiqui.bsky.social - "Conceptualizing Election-Related Violence" - takes stock of the rapidly growing literature on election violence, identifying points of agreement and disagreement across studies on how the concept is defined and disaggregated into sub-types.

What makes violence political? #polisky Hear UCR professor Jennifer Merolla describes a recently published article on political violence: www.youtube.com/shorts/ALwHd...

@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social and I summarize the main findings from our @nature.com article on air pollution, crop burning, and public health in South Asia in @voxdev.bsky.social 👇🏽

Interested in major power competition? Small states navigating a complicated world? The intersection of IR & comparative politics? Asia? This publication is for you:

I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section. I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.

This is a really important paper in the debate about optimal Social Democratic party strategies and the type of policy positions that are needed to deliver a "progressive majority". A must read!

This is a fantastic development for European political science led by some very brilliant people focused on excellent research A sea change. Bravo. Help however you can * join the mailing list by sending a message to [email protected] * join *now* to show support * spread the word

🚨EPSA 2025 friends, Program Committee co-chair here.... We still have a few great panels missing discussants!! **Details below: 1/n** PLEASE RETWEET AND CONSIDER DISCUSSING :) docs.google.com/spreadsheets... if you are able to assist with any of these roles please email: [email protected] ASAP

Very honored to receive the 2025 Francine Frankel Prize for the best book on South Asian Politics from APSA. Many thanks to the award committee. And it is a privilege to receive this alongside scholars like Adam and Tariq whose work I have long admired.

Explore incidents of election violence in 19th Century England and Wales on our interactive map at victorianelectionviolence.uk/interactive-.... Read short descriptions, see how violence changed over time, and follow the historical newspapers sources to discover more.

Congratulations to @sandipto.bsky.social, Tariq Thachil and Adam Auerbach for winning the South Asia Section's Francine Frankel prize for their books Machines and Migrants and Legalizing the Revolution Prizes will be presented at APSA 2025

NEW - Democratic Trajectories in the Third Wave: Aligning Theory and Methods - cup.org/4kihFA2 "This paper advances the study of democratic trajectories – whether democracies deepen, stagnate, erode or break down over time." - @aperezli.bsky.social & Scott Mainwaring #OpenAccess

Two vacancies for assistant professor (tenure track) at our Department of Political Science. One on International Relations, the other on EU Politics and Governance. I may be biased, but would 100% recommend applying. We are a warm, collegial, ambitious department. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

From March 2025 - Absence: Electoral Cycles and Teacher Absenteeism in India - cup.org/3XCGVre "Political interference has an effect on bureaucratic performance, and relationships between public sector workers and politicians can ameliorate absenteeism." - @eeemda.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨 What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description? We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers. Two main contributions... 🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

another day spent ENTIRELY on immigration and visa paperwork instead of research. the burdens of doing our jobs well are distributed so unfairly…

Happy to share a new paper now out in EJPR w/ @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @fabioellger.bsky.social and @mgruenewald.bsky.social exploring gendered effects of political violence on political supply. https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017 A 🧵 with findings

New publication with @lisajanssen.bsky.social in PolBeh: Political distrust pushes people away from the status quo, representative democracy. But distrusters are mostly critical citizens: Rather than technocracy or authoritarianism they pull towards direct democracy link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our article on how elites manage the human resource task of party building is out open access today in @apsrjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000... Thread below on the main findings 👇

1/ I just published a new article titled “Criminal Violence, the State, & Society” in the Annual Review of Political Science, which examines the growing political science research on criminal violence over the past 15 years. Link 👉https://go.shr.lc/3GnoH7f Here is a summary of some key insights...

@vipworkshop.bsky.social has extended the deadline to apply for our Peace Science pre-conference workshop in November! Apply here by 4/16: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My article with U Daxecker titled "Demanding Violence, Punishing Peace: Support for Party Violence in India" has been accepted for publication by The Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social. Below is a 🧵explaining the argument, the empirical case, and many thank you(s). doi.org/10.1086/736113