Interesting AmericasBarometer result from @johnsides.bsky.social in this week's @goodauth.bsky.social newsletter. Strong public willingness to trade features of democracy (free elections, free expression) for material and physical security, with some party differences. mailchi.mp/goodauthorit...

We’re so excited to be the new home for this important global survey project. Looking forward to working with the many scholars around the world who are such a big part of this collaborative network.

📢Big news! CGD at @vanderbilt.edu is now the U.S. home of the Comparative Study of Election Surveys (@cses.bsky.social). In partnership with @gesis.org, CGD will manage this flagship international collaboration on open, high-quality election data worldwide. tinyurl.com/y28xaxr4

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The New York Times editorial board has a nice visualization of selection on the dependent variable, if you're teaching a research methods class this semester: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Very happy to be partnering with Note Dame and launching data collection for the AmericasBarometer!

Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.

My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

CSDP Visiting Scholar: www.princeton.edu/acad-positio... Princeton University's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP) seeks visiting scholars for the 2026-2027 academic year. Applications are welcome from political scientists and scholars in related social science disciplines.

🏆 Big congratulations to @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social (LSE)! Winner of the 2025 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award for Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America 👏👏👏 Come and celebrate with him at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm) #APSA25

📣 APSA-POP Section Business Meeting 🗓️ Fri, Sept 12 • ⏰ 12:00 PM (Vancouver, PT) 📍 Vancouver, BC (room info TBA) All members welcome—bring a colleague! 🤝 Agenda includes reports, updates, and awards 🏆 #APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social

(2/2) . . . we don't find a social class gap in interest in running for office (but find the well-documented gender gap). Something is keeping working-class people out of office, but it's not interest (or, qualifications, or voter support). What could it be . . . ? www.noamlupu.com/Carnes_Lupu_...

🚨New forthcoming paper at JOP: @noamlupu.bsky.social and I use data from 10 surveys in N&S America to see whether lower-income, lower-wealth, and working-class people are less interested in running for office. Interest in running (nascent ambition) can lead to representation gaps. However, ...(1/2)

Millions of Venezuelans have fled their country, facing hardship and discrimination abroad. Yet many show remarkable resilience and hope for the future. @itsmarirodriguez.bsky.social explores what new survey data from COL and PER reveal about the Venezuelan diaspora: tinyurl.com/u47jyf4m

3️⃣ The collaboration may have ended, but its legacy endures. We’re proud of what we built together, and grateful to all the USAID and regional partners who made it possible.

2️⃣ Our partners across USAID were among the most thoughtful and dedicated collaborators we’ve ever worked with. Their efforts made an impact on millions of lives. We wish them the very best in the next chapter.

1️⃣ Through this partnership, we built the #AmericasBarometer as a vital tool for understanding democratic attitudes. Together, we: • Collected 400K+ interviews in 30+ countries • Innovated survey methods • Trained 100s of local researchers • Produced data for policy & academia

Yesterday marked the final day of USAID as we’ve known it. At the Center for Global Democracy and @LAPOP_Lab, we’re deeply grateful for more than 20 years of meaningful partnership. A short thread on what we built together 👇

📢 It’s here! The new Data Playground is live! Explore #AmericasBarometer data like never before: 📊 Interactive visualizations 🌎 Cross-country comparisons 👥 Insights by age, gender & more Try it now 👉 www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/data-p... #DataPlayground #AmericasBarometer

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Seligson Prize! 🎉Congratulations🎉 to Amy Erica Smith and @tboas.bsky.social for their article: “Religion, Sexuality Politics, and the Transformation of Latin American Electorates.” [1/4] Read it in ‪@bjpols.bsky.social: 🔗cup.org/4f3Ly4F

It remains baffling to me why people call themselves “Democratic Socialist”—with all its Soviet totalitarian connotations—rather than “Social Democrat,” which is what the rest of the world calls people with exactly the same policy positions.

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

The new Data Playground is almost here! Get ready for interactive visuals, demographic filters, & an intuitive interface. 👀 See by signing up for our exclusive preview session here: tinyurl.com/yvt26yhh 🗓️ Demo on Tues., June 17 @ 11 am CT 🚀 Launches Wed., June 18! #AmericasBarometer

🗓️ It’s official: we’re launching a powerful, user-friendly tool for exploring #AmericasBarometer data on Wed., June 18! ✨ Don’t miss the big day—sign up for a sneak peek: tinyurl.com/yvt26yhh 🗓️Demo on Tues., June 17 @ 11 am CT #DataPlayground #AmericasBarometer #PublicOpinion

What can the new Data Playground do? 📈Show time trends 🌎Compare countries 👥Visualize opinions by gender, education, age, and more 💻No R, no Stata—just clicks 📅Launching soon. Stay tuned. #ComingSoon #AmericasBarometer #PublicOpinion

We’re excited to introduce a refreshed Data Playground — your go-to tool for exploring AmericasBarometer data. 📊 Interactive graphs 🌎 Cross-country comparisons 👥 Insights by age, gender & more #AmericasBarometer #ComingSoon #DataPlayground #PublicOpinion

From February 2025 - The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies - cup.org/4hMcJCi - @carnes.bsky.social, Joshua Ferrer, @mgoldenprof.bsky.social, @esmelillywhite.bsky.social, @noamlupu.bsky.social & @eugenian.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🚨 Important update on our partnership with USAID. Read our full announcement below. ⬇️

AWARD NOMINATIONS DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 28!! Please nominate yourself or others, and a very short nomination email would suffice. Here are the awards with February 28 deadlines for nominations and their committees:

APSA's Political Organizations and Parties section is now on Bluesky! Follow us for section updates! @apsa.bsky.social

NEW - The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies - cup.org/4hMcJCi - @carnes.bsky.social, Joshua Ferrer, @mgoldenprof.bsky.social, @esmelillywhite.bsky.social, @noamlupu.bsky.social & @eugenian.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Very thankful to have been a small part of the massive effort that went into compiling this database, and happy to share that it's out today! Check out the Global Legislators Database below, a meticulous collection of info on the characteristics of elected politicians from across the world

⏳ Just a few more days left! ⏳ Applications for the **Summer School in International Survey Methods** close this **Saturday, Feb 15**! Don’t miss your chance to train with top experts in survey research. 🔗 Apply now: www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/summer...

YOUR HELP NEEDED: I'm a @nytimes.com reporter writing about nonprofits. If your nonprofit has been affected by this week's funding cuts and confusion, I want to hear from you. Tell me more here: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...

Please share / RT: ***Call for papers: Conference on "Representation, Democracy, and the Economic Backgrounds of Politicians"*** Paper proposals should be submitted by February 21, using this form: forms.gle/Stz7apkkHTgt... Please direct any questions to [email protected].

⭐ NAQT's MS Player of the Week is Lucas Lupu from University School of Nashville (USN/PDS) from Nashville, TN for his performance at 2025 Avery Trace First Freeze Tournament.

I’m shocked — shocked — that economic elites don’t actually care as much about inflation as they have been claiming for the last four years.

🚨 Applications are open! Join us at Vanderbilt University for the Summer School in International Survey Methods (June 2-11, 2025). Learn from top experts & enhance your survey research skills! Scholarships available for LAC participants. 🔗Apply by Feb. 15! app.smartsheet.com/b/form/44230...

For the record, they did not contact me

I genuinely don’t understand what replication means in the context of most political science research. How do you “replicate” a study that uses historical data, or even data from 5 years ago?

What if we treated people’s socially conservative values and preferences as real preferences that should be taken seriously (even if we disagree) rather than assuming that they’ve been brainwashed?

Spent much of Covid meeting weekly with a terrific group of research assistants to assemble the Global Legislators Database w/ @noamlupu.bsky.social @carnes.bsky.social @esmelillywhite.bsky.social Eugenia Nazrullaeva and Joshua Ferrer, written up in The Economist www.economist.com/interactive/...

Not “effect of inflation,” but “perceived effect,” which is itself a function of partisanship. That’s a pretty crucial distinction.

Obviously “the Ivy League” is to blame for everything. Because if you’re David Brooks, it can’t possibly be that stark economic inequalities and underinvestment in public education played a role in paving the way for populism. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

We have a forthcoming BJPS paper and a new dataset on the gender, education, and occupational backgrounds of lawmakers in the world's democracies! Paper: www.noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm... Here's one application . . . (1/2)

In case you need more evidence that running a government and running a business are not the same thing. Also: seems a lot like “for-profit city… to escape government control” is just corporate-speak for what we in political science call “dictatorship” www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...

Why are governments in wealthy democracies not doing more to reduce inequality? Happy to report that the volume Jonas Pontusson and I co-edited on this question is finally out with CUP and open access: cambridge.org/core/books/u...

Grateful to @alucardi1.bsky.social, @noamlupu.bsky.social, & Jorge Mangonnet for writing this @goodauth.bsky.social explainer on why Javier Milei won Argentina's runoff election. Importantly, they shift our focus to the institutional constraints and likely political gridlock Milei will face.