IPR events bring together researchers, policymakers, students, and community members to examine and discuss today’s most pressing social issues. Join us at one (or all!) of our events this fall! 🍂 spr.ly/63323AVzyb

Next week, join @polisciatnu.bsky.social's Ian Hurd, @loyolachicago.bsky.social's Juliet Sorensen, and Council fellows Cécile Shea and @profpaulpoast.bsky.social as they discuss the evolution and future of multilateralism through the lens of the United Nations' 80th anniversary. brnw.ch/21wVTkc

Do U.S. elections have a primary problem? @polisciatnu.bsky.social's Laurel Harbridge-Yong explains how low voter turnout in primaries gives more power to a small group of voters, which can skew representation. Read more: spr.ly/63327AKpFD

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN - @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social#OpenAccess

Meet Amanda Sahar d’Urso, 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipient Project Title: Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) American Identity in the United States Amanda Sahar d’Urso, Georgetown University Dr. Amanda Sahar d’Urso is an assistant professor of government at…

Join us and @ipratnu.bsky.social for a Distinguished Public Policy Lecture with @Ali Zaidi, former White House National Climate Advisor, on September 30. Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/1412826093...

🚨Calling all REP Members🚨 🗞️Share your news with us🗞️ Kiela Crabtree and I are taking on the annual REP newsletter! Please send in any news and/or announcements for us to include to Kiela ([email protected]) More details 👇

New article with Daniel Encinas. “Cleavages without Parties: Populism and its Voters in Peru.” Even without stable parties, Peruvian voting is quite predictable. Competition has long been structured by a core–periphery cleavage and a populist narrative of “people vs. elite.” Link: t.co/P7AuVXzSTZ

Now in Print! Elizabeth Good (@tgsatnu.bsky.social Ph.D. & @stanfordcisac.bsky.social Postdoc), "Power Over Presence: Women’s Representation in Comprehensive Peace Negotiations and Gender Provision Outcomes" via @apsrjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000... #NUResearch

"In the broadest sense, I study women revolutionaries who challenged what politics could be.” Ph.D. Candidate Amanda Ziyi Fu discusses her research, inspirations, and academic career in the @tgsatnu.bsky.social spotlight. Read more here: www.tgs.northwestern.edu/about/our-pe...

Nathalia Justo (www.nathaliajusto.com), @polisciatnu.bsky.social PhD & @grinnellcollege.bsky.social Prof., argues that state, United Nations, and nongovernmental organization representatives constructed human rights as moral to defer responsibility for rights realization. doi.org/10.1080/1475...

Deadline approaching! @poppublicsphere.bsky.social invites submissions for a special issue on Political Science and the University. Explore the political role, governance, and global impact of #highereducation institutions. 🗓️ Submit by August 1, 2025 🔗 buff.ly/yTdKDE5 #polisky

"We use real-world data to demonstrate a counterintuitive result: precision gains from block-randomized or pre-post designs can withstand significant sample loss that may arise during implementation." @gustavodiaz.org & Erin Rossiter via @polanalysis.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/pan....

#OpenAccess from ‪@polanalysis.bsky.social - Balancing Precision and Retention in Experimental Design - cup.org/44E5isE - @gustavodiaz.org & Erin Rossiter #FirstView

What corruption is most harmful? Unbundling citizen perceptions @aaronerlich.bsky.social (McGill), @jgansmorse.bsky.social (Northwestern), Simeon Nicther (@ucsandiego.bsky.social) & @aholver.bsky.social (@polisciatnu.bsky.social) via World Development doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

🔥Hot off the press & #OpenAccess !!! "Diverging Trajectories of Post-Soviet Constitutional Courts" by J.D./Ph.D. candidate & TGS Presidential Fellow Alisher Juzgenbayev (@alisher.bsky.social) & Alexi Trochev (Nazarbayev U) via @constlstudies.bsky.social #NUResearch doi.org/10.15781/43f...

Forty Acres and a Mule: Symbolic Politics and the Pursuit for Black Reparations in the United States @mattnelsen.bsky.social, Ph.D. candidate Monique Newton, & @asdurso.bsky.social via @poppublicsphere.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153... #NUResearch #polisky

Political violence is on the rise in the U.S. @polisciatnu.bsky.social's Laurel Harbridge-Yong spoke to IPR about how elected officials say threats and violence have changed the way they approach their jobs and how the public thinks about political violence. www.ipr.northwestern.edu/news/2025/th...

Available open-access below: doi.org/10.15781/43f...

Happy to see our work published in this promising relaunch of the journal!

Political violence is on the rise in the U.S. @polisciatnu.bsky.social's Laurel Harbridge-Yong spoke to IPR about how elected officials say threats and violence have changed the way they approach their jobs and how the public thinks about political violence. www.ipr.northwestern.edu/news/2025/th...

A study by @polisciatnu.bsky.social's Mary McGrath finds that voters reject politicians who retaliate against corporate critics. The research shows evidence of voters reacting even more harshly when politicians from their own party used their position to punish. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

1/2 Delighted to begin my engagement here with this recognition of my research and work. That being said, this research would not be possible without the continuing support of @polisciatnu.bsky.social and @buffett.northwestern.edu for which I am very grateful. Also, kudos to all collecting…

Professors from @polisciatnu.bsky.social and @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social are available to discuss aspects of the budget bill, including the no taxes on tips policy, cuts to Medicaid and SNAP as well as why legislators may be fearful of bipartisan compromise. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Excited and honored that my paper Nearly Realized Cases received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Kendra Koivu Paper Award from @apsa.bsky.social’s Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section. Grateful to be recognized by a section central to my work and my department @polisciatnu.bsky.social!

Please join us in congratulating Ph.D. candidate Matej Jungwirth (@matejjung.bsky.social / @tgsatnu.bsky.social), who was awarded the Jacques Rupnik Prize 2025 for his paper, “Thinking About Going Back Home in War”, presented @eui-sps.bsky.social‬ 💜👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉💜 bsky.app/profile/eui-...

⁉️In survey experiments, should you ask covariates before the treatment? ➡️ @asdurso.bsky.social @tabithabonilla.bsky.social G.Bogdanowicz study the effects of placing sensitive items in different parts of the survey and offer guidance on optimal ordering www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

"Winters, looking across history, believes that the U.S. has reached 'peak oligarchic power,'" says ‪Evan Osnos in a recent New Yorker piece featuring Jeffrey Winters, Director of @buffett.northwestern.edu‬'s EDGS Program: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I'll be at Women and Children First (one of my all time favorite bookstores) in Chicago tonight, with Jenn Morea, talking Rachel Carson...

The SPS Department is pleased to announce that @matejjung.bsky.social - @polisciatnu.bsky.social has been awarded the Jacques Rupnik Prize 2025 for his paper: “Thinking About Going Back Home in War”, presented at the EUI Workshop on Political Behaviour in CEE. Congratulations! #EUI #RupnikPrize

A study by @polisciatnu.bsky.social's Mary McGrath finds that voters reject politicians who retaliate against corporate critics. The research shows evidence of voters reacting even more harshly when politicians from their own party used their position to punish. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Wage theft, already a big problem, is poised to worsen under the reduction of investigators at the U.S. Dept. of Labor, finds a study coauthored by @ipratnu.bsky.social @polisciatnu.bsky.social prof Dan Galvin for the Workplace Justice Lab@Northwestern and @Rutgers. www.yahoo.com/news/rutgers...

Calling Northwestern Political Science PhD alumni - are you attending APSA this year and want to reunite with NU colleagues? Get in touch with me for reunion details! @polisciatnu.bsky.social

The number of federal investigators combating wage theft has plummeted in recent years & is expected to decline even further under Pres. Trump, according to a report by @polisciatnu.bsky.social's @djgalvin.bsky.social & his colleagues in the Workplace Justice Lab. www.huffpost.com/entry/wage-t...

How do voters respond to elected officials wielding their powers of office for retributive purposes? Prof Mary McGrath, Evan Myers & Anna Wander, "Electoral costs of political retaliation: bipartisan rejection of attacks on corporate speech" doi.org/10.1017/bap.... #NUResearch @ipratnu.bsky.social

The Political Economy of Finance Summer School 2025 at the Watson Institute has been off to a great start. We had @thunen.bsky.social on the dollar empire (no pic sadly but fantastic talk, and shirt); now politics of debt and debt relief with @chloethurston.bsky.social.

Prof Dani Gilbert (@danigilbert.bsky.social) joins Amb Robert O'Brien, Adam Boehler, Diane Foley, Amb Roger Carstens & Sarah Levinson Moriarty to launch the @csis.org's Combating State Hostage Taking & Wrongful Detention report www.youtube.com/live/MRTN6VS...

How can we ground political theologies in feminist, ecological, & Latin American epistemologies? How can Latin American ecofeminist liberation theologies contribute to illuminating & addressing the politics of our time? PhD candidate Ely Orrego Torres @elyorrego.bsky.social doi.org/10.5840/pga2...

The @csis.org Bi-Partisan Commission on Hostage Taking & Wrongful Detention released its long-awaited report on new tools to combat state hostage taking as well as key areas for international cooperation, US government organization, & outreach to US citizens. www.csis.org/analysis/com...

🚨 Must read new article alert! 🚨 Ph.D. candidate Qin Huang (@tgsatnu.bsky.social), "Towards machine-learning enhanced QCA: optimizing coverage and empirical significance" via Quality & Quantity doi.org/10.1007/s111... #NUResearch #polisky

Deadline extended! The Summer 2025 #APSA Centennial Center Research Grants deadline is now June 23 (extended from June 16). Open to all APSA members! Learn more:

“Prof. Gilbert's warm, welcoming presence in her course site invited all students to engage deeply with the course content." Dani Gilbert (@danigilbert.bsky.social) recognized for teaching excellence in digital course design at Northwestern University! 🥇💜💜💜🥇 www.it.northwestern.edu/departments/...

Meet IPR's faculty experts, who conduct rigorous, interdisciplinary social science research for the common good: go.bsky.app/HsbTU3X

New research by @polisciatnu.bsky.social's Ana Arjona finds that political assassinations in Colombia over the last 40 years lowered voter turnout in affected areas for up to four election cycles after each event, highlighting the lasting impact of political violence on democracy. spr.ly/6018Nfywm

Please join us in congratulating College Fellow and Assistant Professor of Political Science Isabella Bellezza (@isabellabellezza.bsky.social) for receiving the Joukowsky Dissertation Prize in the Social Sciences from Brown University! #NUResearch graduateschool.brown.edu/news/2025-05... 👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉

Each chapter of Heaven Has a Wall takes on a different aspect of U.S. borders: creation, enforcement, suspension and refusal. The chapters alternate with short interludes that each tell a story. northbynorthwestern.com/professor-el...

It’s #PrideMonth 🌈 & I'm proud to share my new JOP article. Using a survey experiment, I show: Republicans still penalize gay candidates. Democrats do not—but they do penalize even subtle gender nonconformity, expecting gay cands to look & sound “straight” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Hot off the press! 🔥 Ph.D. candidate Jacob Fortier (@fortierjacob.bsky.social), "Unraveling the Radical Flank Effect: The Role of Moderate Organizations in the Face of Radical Flank Violence" via Terrorism and Political Violence (@tandfresearch.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1080/0954... #NUResearch

„We are in a period that I call 'in-your-face oligarchy'. The sheer visibility of oligarchic power is vastly different than in the past,“ Professor Jeffrey Winters of @polisciatnu.bsky.social, a world renowned expert on wealth power, author of the book #Oligarchy, tells @zaminutusest.bsky.social

Thrilled to see this out! @polisciatnu.bsky.social I dig into the radical flank effect, looking at why moderate organizations sometimes gain from being contrasted with radicals and other times get dragged down by the association. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WB67G...