#EconSky: Tymofiy Mylovanov from the Kyiv School of Economics is a simply a hero. While Trump is busy allying with Putin, Tymofiy is out in the cold working for his students and his country. I will match all donations to KSE, up to $1K total (link below). www.youtube.com/shorts/RgDXI...

Join us in-person or via Zoom on Wednesdays for this term's edition of the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Contentious Politics Workshop! Topics to be covered include mobilisation, democratisation, protest exposure, and more. DM for Zoom links and our mailing list!

Today at 4pm GMT: Elisa Wirsching (@lsegovernment.bsky.social) is presenting "The Political Consequences of Police Slowdowns" at our Political Behaviour Seminar, organised together with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us in London or on Zoom!

Staggered difference-in-differences analyses with country-or state-level data don't seem to be a good idea. Also firm-level analyses require decent sample sizes. 👇

📢 CFP: 6th LSE–Cambridge Workshop on the Political Economy of Türkiye | Cambridge, 9–10 Jul 2026. 🎤 Keynote: Melani Cammett ✨ No fee, accommodation for invited speakers, limited travel grants ⏰ Deadline: 1 Mar 2026 #CFP #PoliticalEconomy #Türkiye

After a short hiatus, Respect the Marble is back: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/introducin... Introducing a new series The Long Carve: about how to decide which ideas deserves our long-term writing attention, & how we learn to keep writing when the outcome is unknown and uncertain. 🧵

PEEP is back this year🤌 ! The 4th Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference will be hosted at Harvard on Sept 2, the day before APSA. We welcome observational, experimental and formal theory work focused on Europe. Deadline: March 1st. forms.gle/V6NEy4AfnSs7...

🚨6th LSE-Cambridge Workshop on Political Economy of Türkiye🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 9-10 July 2026, Cambridge, UK Submission deadline: 1 March 2026 lse.ac.uk/contemporary... @lse-ei.bsky.social @lsects.bsky.social @orkunsaka.bsky.social

#DemocraticBacksliding: The erosion of US democracy under Trump is steeper than any recent precedent, including Hungary, Venezuela, Turkey, R//ZZ.l'a/nd Source: Financial Times @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/b474...

🚨 Deadline is tomorrow! 🚨 Submit your abstract for the 4th APSG Conference in London 15-16 June here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Job 🚨: The European Institute (@lse-ei.bsky.social) at LSE is hiring an assistant prof in International Migration. I'm not in the hiring committee but happy to answer Qs about the department, LSE or this bloody weather that is actually pretty pretty today. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Had a great time teaching a guest lecture on LLMs in Social Science Research with an applied example on text classification at @heikekluever.bsky.social seminar today! Thanks for the invite 💫 If you’re interested, you can check out the materials in my GitHub repo: github.com/violeta-haas...

Excited about chairing @bogatyrev.bsky.social in the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar at 4pm today. Konstantin will present his paper "Shifting Ground". Come along if you are in London, or join us on Zoom: www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...

Excited to welcome Kenneth F. Greene at the LSE Latin American Politics Seminar series today *12:00 - 1:30 pm UK time* (in-person and online). He will present parts of his new book “Against the Machine: Why Party Competition Disrupts Vote Buying” @lsegovernment.bsky.social

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!

"In an era of information overload, there is no scarcity of data or analysis; what is lacking is attention. And whoever controls that controls the debate." So true also way beyond IR, e.g. in government vs opposition dynamics of both authoritarian and democratic regimes.

📢 JOB ALERT! Postdoc opportunity in Political Behaviour & Political Economy (UKRI‑funded) - Please do share with anyone who might be a great fit. If you’re interested or would like to know more, please feel free to get in touch!! jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Do homophobia and sexual prejudice still exist in tolerant societies? In POQ, Ortega & Bosco's new study reveals how non-traditional relationships continue to be stigmatised in parenting contexts, even in seemingly liberal societies. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/ A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

‼️ The Consortium of National Election Studies (@nesconsortium.bsky.social) is such a valuable and important initiative! Follow their account to stay updated on the excellent work CNES is doing in terms of information sharing about election studies, data harmonization, and the CNES knowledge bank!!

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉 Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access) The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social (1/6)

As a BA International Fellow, I cannot recommend this opportunity strongly enough. Apply!

• @bogatyrev.bsky.social on the electoral effects of state-sponsored homophobia youtu.be/to_rmJNvInA Want more? Subscribe to the mailing list 👉 forms.gle/7XTXX13CYZkY...

🥳 New year, new publication 📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.

By way of preparing for teaching and making sense of current events, I spent today trying to synthesise the demand-side literature on democratic backsliding (see figure below). The starting point of most of this literature is simple: Do voters punish politicians who violate democratic norms, or do

Can reflecting on past democratic backsliding episodes “inoculate” citizens into vigilant liberal democrats? Drawing on the Slovak case, @movadek.bsky.social & I will find out: our registered report is in-principle accepted @thejop.bsky.social & survey results forthcoming! See tinyurl.com/uv5wybhs

My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.

🚨 Six days left to apply 🚨 2 x 3-year postdoc positions to work with me on the many impacts of border change, no teaching obligations, a vibrant department @lsegovernment.bsky.social, and London is a fantastic city! Deadline: Jan 4th. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped Pretty interesting data on the punctuality of (Western) European trains - and a sobbering/depressing reality for all people regularly using Deutsche Bahn...

I’ve found that many academics confuse their idiosyncratic tastes about how academic work should be done with laws that everyone else must follow. This tendency shows up again and again in their feedback and advice.

📢 UK-based early career researchers — looking for a strong way to kick off 2026? The Fellows in LSE’s Department of Government are organising an Early Career Workshop in late January. Submit your abstract now! 🗓️ Deadline: 28 December 2025 👉 Submit here: forms.gle/QukzsYDSM2Do...

Important follow-up from the authors of the recently replicated/reappraised APSR paper 👇

New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵 We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them? Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Cool new tool to check if your references contain retraction risks. www.retractionrisk.com

NEW WORKING PAPER: I've been working on something called "Electoral districts as samples from the national population". You can find it here: www.chrishanretty.co.uk/20251217-dis... (1/n)

I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.

We are launching a brand new Methodology Newsletter in 2026 📰 ❗ Sign up now to read the latest news and events from the department 👉 eepurl.com/gbamkr

🚨🚨🚨The UC3M has opened a recruitment process targeting exceptional senior/mid-career scholars based in prestigious institutions abroad (Important and timely: ALL R1 US are on the list). (Spanish): url-shortener.me/3NJX Rough (google) translation: url-shortener.me/3NKG I´m also happy to chat! 2/n

When method experts dive into applied work, it’s a win for all. Authors won’t fear replications if we make them routine and keep a non-adversarial dialogue, as no empirical work is perfect. Replications can help us learn. I just discovered Kolesar & Rothe (2018) thanks to this. We need more of this.

Thanks to @johnholbein1.bsky.social I learned about this paper on rent control in Berlin. Because I was marking, I immediately downloaded the replication materials. bsky.app/profile/john...

Dear hiring committees, I miss writing anything that isn’t a custom-fit job market package. Please consider standardizing the materials so I can return to the research and writing that motivates these applications. Signed, A tired postdoc who just finished a 12-page package and misses her work

I have received several emails from students asking for PDF copies of articles of mine that don’t exist. In one case, assigned by the student’s instructor

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/🧵

Few economists write like Dani Rodrik. He combines clarity, precision with the courage to say what others only think. Read my full conversation with him here: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-... 🧵

🌳 Thrilled to launch The PopulisTree — a new website covering decades of populism in Europe (both national and European elections) using a new taxonomy and dataset. 🔗 populistree.org 📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics: 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is amazing, and explains a lot about US politics. Thanks for writing this up @adambonica.bsky.social

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨 Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

📢 Call for Submissions UK-based early career researchers in political science, political economy & public policy: apply to our January Early Career Workshop at LSE. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Dec 2025 🔗 forms.gle/HXU4DnBq9HmX...