I just ran an experiment on myself related to peer review anonymity. The paper I read had promise but issues with organization and clarity. I wrote the first version anonymous as usual, then as I was inputting it into the website, I noticed it encouraged me to sign it with my name. (1/3) 👇

I had a lot of fun the other day giving a workshop on the modern DID revolution at Syracuse University's Maxwell School — thank you @adam42smith.bsky.social for hosting! I have posted the slides to my website at amandakweiss.com/did if anyone is interested.

Foreign Journalist Secretly Sad That Orban Was Replaced by Magyar Because He Can't Pronounce the New PM's Name

🚨 New paper in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social: Nils-Christian Bormann and I propose to model the electoral effects of ethnic and other cleavages with a new *Covoting Regression Model*. A short on the method and our results on ethnic voting in Sub-Saharan Africa. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 for the 𝗘𝗦𝗥𝗖 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the LSE European Institute @lse-ei.bsky.social A great opportunity for 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆-𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 in political economy, public policy, politics, and migration. 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 1 June 2026 (23:59 UK) More info 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

94% of votes counted, with a clear 2/3 majority for Magyar's Tisza projected. And not to spoil the mood, but the new parliament will be composed solely of right- to far-right parties. Next to the right-wing Tisza and far-right Fidesz, extreme-right Mi Hazánk also seems to have won 7 seats. #Hungary

One case is one case but it is remarkable how we just saw another wave of reports about the dire state of global democracy, and the poster child of this purported decline just lost a competitive election.

Delicious irony here: Orbán assumed opposition would be divided and rigged the electoral system to hugely favor the largest party. But seems Magyar’s movement won such a huge victory that it benefited from that system

Reuters says Tisza has at least 135 seats: 133 is the constitutional supermajority! Live by highly disproportional electoral systems (which Orbán made even more disproportional with the extra compensation votes awarded to winners), die by highly disproportional electoral systems.

Sorry, what? There’s a world in which the alternative is acceptable?

🚨 New article: Measuring the Emperor's Clothes My article with an NYUAD student 😁 is part of an upcoming issue on quantitative research in MENA. We provide a robust method for measuring dissent in dictatorships & apply it to Tunisia. Link: brill.com/view/journal... Ungated: osf.io/preprints/so...

Finally done (for now). If you study elections, want to use the Constituency-Levels Election Archive, but don't like bugs, then say hello to `clean_clea`, now on GitHub: github.com/jackobailey/...

Looking forward to a great Spring/Summer series with @eepgworkshop.bsky.social! We'll be kicking off next week (Fri April 17) with new work in progress from @isadesisto.bsky.social and @snitsova.bsky.social graciously discussing! More info + full schedule at the link below.

Do apply to this six-year research and teaching position! Apart from teaching two classes a term, you should have ample time to focus on your research goals as part of an international department in a great (and affordable) city.

🚨 New WP 📄 (w/ @muzhou-zhang.bsky.social and @winniexia.bsky.social ) We ask which countries people in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇩🇰🇮🇹🇷🇴 think their governments should learn from and show: 1) Citizens have clear favorites (Nordics top) 2) Performance info shifts what they prefer and how they explain it Comments welcome!

This paper claims that watching sports causes zero-sum thinking, with experimental and longitudinal evidence psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

We're hiring an LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods‼️ We are seeking an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in advanced quantitative methods and computational social science🚨 Apply here before 26 April👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🎓️ We're hiring an LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods We are seeking to appoint an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in qualitative methods🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Applications close👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

This looks like a great resource!

1/ Happy to release StatsClaw — an open-source multi-agent workflow for building statistical software with AI. w/ @tianzhuqin.bsky.social Site: statsclaw.ai Paper: bit.ly/statsclaw GitHub: github.com/statsclaw/

Today at 4pm BST: @simonhix.bsky.social (EUI) presents his new work on the Méline Tariff and the Rise of Socialism in 🇫🇷 at the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar (hybrid), co-organised with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us!

📄Published Today in Nature: 500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social). Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me... TLDR: 1/11

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

Proud to have "Nonbinary Gender Economics" out in JPE Micro. We document the economic experiences and preferences of nonbinary individuals—a population of 1M+ in the US that is often overlooked.

That’s a v nice service to the discipline. Unsurprisingly, the numbers are brutal. Too many things have gone wrong in the past decade. If only we had the institutions with the willingness to change them.

7/ The policy impact is striking: reproducibility rises from 29.6% before Data Access and Research Transpareny (DA-RT) to 79.8% after.

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

SciLove is one week old. 280 researchers across 33 countries, 2,025 papers saved, 14k+ swipes. Thank you to everyone who tried it early and provided feedback. Little tweaks and new journals have hopefully already improved the experience. Here's what the week looked like. 🧵

Very happy to share our new paper on “The Global Incumbency Advantage”! 👇👇 We provide the first estimates of the incumbency advantage at the national level for all elections worldwide since 1945. with Raphaël Descamps, Ben Marx and @vincent-rollet.bsky.social. Short 🧵 below (1/n).

This, so many times. Finding good questions that venture into the unknown is much harder than finding good answers to a given question.

Preparing to teach another class in Dutch and am reminded of this evaluation I got at KCL.

I’m pleased to share a call for papers for our upcoming workshop on Elections & Political Parties in Africa and Latin America, hosted by the Centre for Political Behaviour and Policy Analysis at the University of Reading. Abstract deadline: 6 April 2026. Link for submissions 👇🏽

1/ Updated paper alert! @guygrossman.bsky.social @yiqingxu.bsky.social, @william-dinneen.bsky.social, and I revised "The Credibility Revolution in Political Science" based on all the great comments we got. Three changes worth flagging:

New paper in Research and Politics with @scottrw630.bsky.social We ask a simple question: can politics shape ageism? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thrilled to share that next year I'll be @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social as the Einstein-Moos Postdoctoral Fellow, before starting @sc.edu as an Assistant Professor of Political Science in Fall 2027! Very excited to join such a dynamic department and to contribute to public ed back home in the Carolinas.

Today at 4pm GMT: Anna Clemente (@lsegovernment.bsky.social) is presenting “World War II Memories and Authoritarian Attitudes in Germany” at the Political Behaviour Seminar, organised with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social, & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us in London & online!

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization” Debates on international students often focus on capacity, funding, or competition. My paper shows the main effects on natives are not academic or economic, but social.

I’m excited to share that, beginning in August, I will be an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and in Fall 2027, I will join IE University as Assistant Professor of Political Science. I’m deeply grateful to the many people who have supported me along the way!

Also finding it hard to keep up with new research? I built something to fix this. SciLove — swipe through recent papers in your field. The feed learns from your saves. Also matches you with researchers saving your work back (opt-out if you prefer). www.scilove.app 3,000+ journals, updated daily

📢 Call for Papers – EUI PEARL PhD & Postdoc Workshop The Florence Political Economy Applied Research Lab is hosting a two-day workshop at the European University Institute. June 8–9, 2026. We'd love to see your work! [1/3]

I’m lucky to have some great mentors in political science - and even luckier to have the opportunity to serve as a mentor for others This new Mentoring Programme by EPSS is a great initiative to connect political scientists across countries and universities Please consider signing up 👇

It's that time of the year when I highly recommend all colleagues to apply for the nicest conference in Britain. It's especially affordable for PhD students thanks to the offsetting of the fees. And it's also great fun!

New version of our paper (w/ @tzkli.bsky.social) on estimating pre-trends placebos in regression imputation DiD! 3 big changes!

New short paper w @jkalla.bsky.social ! Candidates gain from moderation, but less than many theories expect. Many conclude voters must not care about issues. This is wrong. Small *average* effects mask large effects on specific issues & are consistent with widespread issue-based voting 🧵

A few thoughts on a new media paper with a novel design and a historically important outcome.

With APSA decisions out, we extended the deadline for submissions to the 4th Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference. If you are travelling to Boston in September, send us your work by March 20th! (CC @mariacarreri.bsky.social @awiedemann.bsky.social @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social)

Just registered: see you in Belfast @epssnet.bsky.social! If you're also a member, consider signing up to the mentoring scheme by March 31 (either as a mentee, mentor, or both 👋). I've found it to be really rewarding and worthwhile. Details here: epssnet.org/about/divers... #polisky

We explain political change using totally different causal models if we approve of outcome of not: 1. Change we like is organic, bottom-up genuine expression of public demand 2. Change we dislike is artificial, top-down result of manipulative elite I’m calling this Motivated Causal Attribution

oof (but also, great use case for coding agents) causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-cod...