Read the full report here: www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...

In 31 out of 36 countries surveyed, less than half of people have confidence in Trump to do the right thing regarding world affairs. In 26 of those places, 30% or less have confidence in him.

From Laurel Harbridge-Yong @polisciatnu.bsky.social —"Can Primary Reform Solve the Primary Problem?"

New "What's Next?" essay by Laurel Harbridge-Yong @polisciatnu.bsky.social — "Can Primary Reform Solve the Primary Problem?" @nyulaw "What's Next?" features reforms, critiques, & original proposals from across the ideological spectrum Read the essay here: democracyproject.org/posts/can-pr...

📽️ Professor Iza Ding ( @izading.bsky.social ) joins @remarquenyu.bsky.social for a presentation on on "Liberal Elites and Democratic Defense" youtu.be/J0wDp5Xm13o?...

In A New World of Revolutions, @arturochang.bsky.social reconstructs the histories, politics, & legacies of the Age of Revolutions (c. 1770–1850) from the vantage point of popular movements in the Americas. Out now (28 July UK/EU pub). Check out a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I enjoyed writing this piece reflecting on American identities as we near the 250th anniversary of US independence. Many thanks to the team at @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social for their support and encouragement!

What impact does the rise of lawyers have on the design of international cooperation? Recent Ph.D. & UT-Arlington Prof. Bo Won Kim joins @syracuseu.bsky.social Prof. Minju Kim @minjulisettekim.bsky.social via @the-peio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s115...

New from @ipratnu.bsky.social fellow & Political Science Prof. Alexander Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social w/ Radha Sarkar (ITESM ) The Effects of Religious Messages and Endorsements on Political Attitudes: A Meta-Reanalysis @apsrjournal.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Applications open TODAY for the 2026-2027 Dissertation Completion #Fellowship. This award for #EarlyCareerScholars in the later stages of their #PhD program. It is intended to help #Students offset the cost of completing their dissertation. Eligibility Criteria & submission details ➡️ buff.ly/wS3aGJh

🔥Hot off the press via @ispp-pops.bsky.social A very particular set of skills: The role of perspective-taking in hostage diplomacy negotiations Profs. Dani Gilbert ( @danigilbert.bsky.social / @buffett.northwestern.edu ) & Cynthia Wang ( @cynthiascwang.bsky.social / @drrc-kellogg.bsky.social )

And so, that’s how we get a system which is both democratic and oligarchic at the same time, something which never existed before in human history. Northwestern Professor and EDGS Program Dir. @buffett.northwestern.edu Jeffrey Winters joins @democracynow.org www.democracynow.org/2026/5/27/th...

Our (with Radha Sarkar) meta-reanalysis of the experimental religion and politics literature is now out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social Open-access link: doi.org/10.1017/S000... Brief thread

¡¡VOLUME 24, ISSUE 2 IS NOW OUT!! shorturl.at/AtRFj shorturl.at/jblyl Incl. work by @jennifermwelsh.bsky.social, @rbkhoury.bsky.social, @aasiegel.bsky.social, @emilykmscott.bsky.social, @mironovavera.bsky.social, @emamet.bsky.social, @jholloway.bsky.social, @duncanmcdonnell.com...

It took a long time to process my trips to Syria & even longer to write about it. Over 14 years collecting Syrians' stories, I built a relationship to the country that was both intimate & vicarious. This essay shares new stories I heard when I visited & also my own. www.publicbooks.org/dear-syria/

Wage theft—when employers fail to pay workers what they are legally owed—remains a pervasive problem in the United States and around the world. New Policy Brief from @ipratnu.bsky.social fellow and Political Science Professor Daniel J. Galvin: www.ipr.northwestern.edu/our-work/pol...

Please join us in congratulating Professor Emeritus Jerry Goldman for receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association. 👏👏 👏 🎉🎉🎉 apsanet.org/membership/o... 🧵 includes quotations from the Law And Court Section Announcement:

@ipratnu.bsky.social, the Chicago Worker’s Collaborative, & the Workplace Justice Lab, dir. by Prof Daniel Galvin, have received an ANCHOR grant to survey temporary workers in Cook County to expose exploitation & enforce workplace rights for the most vulnerable. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

How Have Interpretivism and Big Data Changed the Landscape for Measurement Validation? New chapter by Prof. Jaye Seawright from Working with Concepts Foundational Essays by David Collier, with Research Notes on Innovation in the Field doi.org/10.1017/9781...

New Article from @chloethurston.bsky.social, @asdurso.bsky.social , Beata Woźniak-Jęchorek, & Megha Patnaik Understanding employee trade-offs in remote work: toward more sustainable workplace design doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

Political Science Professors Ana Arjona, @danigilbert.bsky.social & Shmulik Nili selected as 2026-27 @buffett.northwestern.edu Faculty Fellows More info: buffett.northwestern.edu/programs/fac...

@danigilbert.bsky.social tells the Sun that the driving force behind Iran’s hostage policy is institutional, not personal to any one individual such as the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. Gift Link: www.nysun.com/article/forg...

Announcing 2026 APSA MENA Book Awards! Best Junior Scholar Book: Rana Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social Civilizing Contention: International Aid in Syria's War (Cornell Press) Huge congrats!

Each year, @buffett.northwestern.edu awards non-residential fellowships to faculty whose research engages deeply with communities, archives & field sites worldwide. Learn more about this cohort's work: buffett.northwestern.edu/programs/faculty-funding/faculty-fellows-program/cohorts/

We're proud to announce our 2026–27 Buffett Faculty Fellows: @weinbergcollege.bsky.social Professors Jeong Eun Annabel We and Silyane Larcher, and @polisciatnu.bsky.social Professors Ana Arjona, @danigilbert.bsky.social, and Shmulik Nili.

Our new cohort of Buffett Faculty Fellows is embarking on projects spanning Colombia, France, Jeju, Okinawa, Hawaiʻi, & beyond, researching issues ranging from the hidden costs of civil war to the sacred grounds of Pacific islands, & from the logic of kidnapping to the philosophy of the unthinkable.

Yassin al haj Saleh and Wendy Pearlman www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

March 30, commemorated annually by Palestinians worldwide as Land Day, casts a lens on erasure and dispossession. In this essay, Wendy Pearlman shows how the dismantling of Palestinian society goes beyond territory to the very fabric of everyday life.

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs - Beyond the Law’s Reach? Reply to Critics - https://cup.org/4qwg24z - Shmuel Nili

Martin Naunov (Northwestern) will test a framework for understanding prejudice by distinguishing btw category bias (e.g. Black, gay, immigrant) and cue-level bias, or visible/audible markers (e.g. accents, tone), that make identities perceptible. www.russellsage.org/research/gra...

In his chapter in "Rethinking the Lawyers' Monopoly," Professor Brian Libgober (Northwestern) dissects the significant racial disparities in the civil justice system through a market-based lens. Open access at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Lawyers as Lobbyists: Regulatory Advocacy in American Finance Lawyers as Lobbyists: Regulatory Advocacy in American Finance By Brian Libgober, Northwestern University and Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University Administrative agencies have undertaken an increasingly substantial role in policymaking.…

Congratulations to BTG alum Daniel Krcmaric on his new book! Above the Law: The United States and the International Criminal Court, published by Cambridge University Press, is now available: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Above the Law by Daniel Krcmaric Explains why the United States fears the International Criminal Court and demonstrates why these concerns are overblown. 📚 https://cup.org/4bw0329

🎙️'Explorations on War' podcast - Episode 8 now live! Prof @wjhurst.bsky.social & Prof Ian Hurd discuss how norms, laws and expectations can prevent and impact wars ➡️ Watch a short clip below 🎧 Listen to the full episode Apple bit.ly/ExploApple Spotify bit.ly/ExploSpot YouTube bit.ly/Exp8-youtube

#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social - Who supports hostage recovery? Explaining individual variation in American support for bringing hostages home - https://cup.org/4sZqdQ1 - Danielle Gilbert & @laurenrprather.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView #ISA2026

Congratulations to BTG team member Danielle Gilbert for her recent article, "Trump wants to punish countries that wrongfully detain U.S. citizens." Read how "a new executive order aims to strike back against 'hostage diplomacy.'" goodauthority.org/news/trump-w... @danigilbert.bsky.social

Can norm-based information campaigns reduce corruption? by Aaron Erlich and Jordan Gans-Morse is now available in Early View. @aaronerlich.bsky.social @jgansmorse.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/01/15/c...

Jordan Gans-Morse, Daniel Gingerich, and I explore these and other issues in a new working paper 👇 The long and the short of it is, today’s comparative politics scholars value area studies. And we think they have a responsibility to support it preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/... 3/

Guest Host Iza Ding with Deborah Seligsohn: Inside COP30 in Belem, Brazil, and China's Climate Leadership

Excellent from Iza Ding on the Gaokao. "China’s gaokao factories and America’s college-industrial complex are not accidents. They are the logical outcome of a global system that has mistaken education for investment and human life for capital."

Transcript | Guest Host Iza Ding with Deborah Seligsohn: Inside COP30 in Belem, Brazil, and China's Climate Leadership

Thrilled this is finally out in its JOP-formatted version! Hope it's useful to anyone working on LGBT politics, (electoral) discrimination, status differentials within & across identity categories, and non-textual experiments. Main findings in quoted thread. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Thank you to Traci Burch for her insightful talk, “Voting After a Felony Conviction,” at last week’s Rooney Institute Seminar. We’re grateful for the chance to engage with such timely and important research. #PoliticalScience #NotreDame #RooneyInstitute

Nice companion piece from Traci Burch here, too: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Northwestern professor Tabitha Bonilla on the Illinois primary, voter turnout

Tabitha Bonilla believes it seemed as though American Eagle “more or less brushed the criticism off rather than directly address it or let those with negative reactions know that they have been heard”. www.huffpost.com/entry/sydney...

🔎 #ResearchWednesday | Why do non-state armed groups provide governance in areas they control? We had the privilege of hearing from Ana Arjona, Associate Prof. of Political Science at Northwestern University #nonstategovernance #criminalrule #armedgroups #adjudication youtube.com/shorts/aNDXq...

Check out our newsletter for... 🧵/3 🇲🇷 ➡️ 🇸🇦 A from 2024–25 Buffett Faculty Fellow Zekeria Ahmed Salem, who shares how his fellowship enabled him to retrace Hajj routes once traveled by the scholars at the center of his book project, Islamic Knowledge Unbound buffett.northwestern.edu/news/2025/my...

#BULawProf Dr. Ayodeji Kamau Perrin—an interdisciplinary scholar of human rights, social movements, and legal mobilization—reflects on how social movements and legal strategies intersect, and why courts alone rarely drive social change. Read more ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/record/a...