New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social! 🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result. Read full 🧵 below:

Happy to see @ankuepfer.bsky.social's & my study on when politicians engage in discourse — and when they prefer to avoid it — featured at @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social! blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

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

Polisky Dictatorsky 📣 Join us next week! On March 25, @danielkuhlen.bsky.social (Humboldt University) will present "Crackdowns Increase Public Safety: Causal Evidence from El Salvador" and Kaitlyn Chriswell (Brown University) and @igoracacio.bsky.social (Cal State, Fullerton) will discuss.

New paper with @ankuepfer.bsky.social accepted at EJPR🎉 When do MPs debate each other & when do they avoid discourse? Applying a new framework to study the emergence of elite discourse, we find that ideology and gov/opp dynamics shape MPs incentives to seek & avoid dialogical interactions. #polisky

Today @danielkuhlen.bsky.social, @jocmuel.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I released StatePol – a database on 🇩🇪 state MPs and cabinet members! statepol.github.io/Database/ A 📄 examining trends in descriptive representation in 🇩🇪 state politics is out @pvs-journal.bsky.social. bit.ly/statepol

New article w/ Jochen Müller @pluggedchris.bsky.social & @marcdebus.bsky.social in Regional & Federal Studies State parties' incentives to avoid coalitions bridging the gov-opp divide at federal level is dependent on level of legislative party system fragmentation doi.org/10.1080/1359... polisky