This month we are featuring policy briefs on voting behavior. First up is a study about the effects of informing voters about incumbent malfeasance in Brazil from EGAPer @dhidalgo.bsky.social and co-authors Taylor Boas & Marcus Melo.

10 Things to Know About Pre-Analysis Plans buff.ly/VSO11X0 #EGAPMethodsGuide

Watch Archived Video of My Safeguarding Democracy Project Conversation with Danielle Citron, Brendan Nyhan, and Amy Wilentz on the Media and Social Media Information Environment in 2026 electionlawblog.org?p=152856 @brendannyhan.bsky.social @daniellecitron.bsky.social

‼️Deadline today for @egap.bsky.social Innovation Grants. See below

🚀 FINAL DAY TO APPLY— EGAP's 2025 Innovation Grants 🚀 Today is the final day to submit your proposal for innovations pushing the boundaries of governance and politics research! ⏰Deadline: TODAY, October 31, 2025. See instructions for submission here: buff.ly/hR0NZfX

For our final spotlight on research in #LatinAmerica, we are featuring Loreto Cox & Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, recipients of EGAP’s Priority Theme Small Grants Fund. Read about their examination of citizen anti-establishment sentiments in Colombia & Peru here:

Happy to share that my article with Miguel Rueda and Shuning Ge is out for early view at @bjpols.bsky.social. We show that the level of aggregation at which electoral results are published affects election integrity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Review of applications begins November 10 - please apply! apply.interfolio.com/172357

New career opportunity! CEGA is #hiring a Research Project Manager to join our new Data Privacy Lab to explore how privacy-enhancing technologies can be implemented in low- and middle-income countries. 🔗 Apply here: go.cega.org/dpl-rpm

10 Things to Know About Survey Implementation buff.ly/SSVVJw9 #EGAPMethodsGuide

🚀 ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY— EGAP's 2025 Innovation Grants 🚀 There is one week remaining to submit your proposal for innovations pushing the boundaries of governance and politics research! ⏰ Apply by: October 31, 2025. Learn more: buff.ly/hR0NZfX

My chapter on comparative studies of waste can be helpful to you or your students, as I offer a framework to conduct comparisons across cases, sites, units. It works beyond issues of waste (can be applied to other areas): #RPVMethods www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Today we are sharing our conversation with @garciaponce.bsky.social ‏and co-author Isabel Laterzo about their paper, “Who is to Blame? Youth Crime and Attribution of Responsibility in Urban Mexico”. Check it out: buff.ly/6n4yjKY

🚨One week left to apply for @egap.bsky.social innovation grants. Looking for really creative ideas in need of incubation. Relatively simple application process. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/maca... @awilke.bsky.social * Research Design / Analysis * Open Science * Aggregation * Transfer * Your idea here

Today at @lsegovernment.bsky.social we are welcoming @aalrababah.bsky.social to the Political Behaviour Seminar, run by our team with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Ala is presenting new research on the political consequences of the Tour de France👇

Congratulations to @pge-sis.bsky.social Professor @sumitra.bsky.social, winner of the @apsa.bsky.social experimental research section Best Paper Award!

🚨Postdoc altert 🚨 Come to @upenn.edu for a great postdoctoral fellowship opportunity at @perryworldhouse.bsky.social. Pass it on. perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/opportunitie...

10 Types of Treatment Effect You Should Know About buff.ly/e9OO9VR #EGAPMethodsGuide

📚 New research opportunity! CEGA is inviting one scholar from Ecuador to participate in a four-month fellowship at UC Berkeley in Spring 2026 focused on forced displacement, migration, and the livelihoods of refugees. 👉 Apply here: go.cega.org/spring26fellowship

Thank you to @mikealbertus.bsky.social for the opportunity to reflect on and discuss our work in this Q&A. You can learn more about our work and our new dataset here: democratic-erosion.org/about/

What are you doing Thursday Nov 13? This panel on survey methods for measuring "rare traits" seems v. important especially if we think small numbers of people sometimes have outsize influence on politics. The speakers appear to be Bluesky-less, but I'll tag the moderator @mattgraham.bsky.social!

nice coverage of our APSR article in The Print today! “Children are learning to fight fake news. Study shows classrooms help" theprint.in/feature/biha...

For our next spotlight on EGAP work in #LatinAmerica, check out this brief from John Marshall, Horacio Larreguy & @asimpser.bsky.social w/ José Ramón Enríquez! Their study asks how non-partisan social media ad campaigns can improve electoral accountability. buff.ly/Us0qcKj

The Berkeley Center for American Democracy is hiring a predoc next year to work with @gabelenz.bsky.social @hrendleman.bsky.social Cecilia Mo & me. Deadline Jan 30. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05187

🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨 ➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation ➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India ➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months ➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms hopeful findings👇🏽

10 Things to Know About Randomization buff.ly/XpyK3MU #EGAPMethodsGuide

Just posted a new review paper I co-authored with @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social. It is prepared for the Annual Review of Political Science. Comments welcome! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ixtd6...

Proud to have worked on this paper with @tiagoventura.bsky.social, Bernhard Clemen von Hohenberg, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, and Mabdalena Wojcieszak: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... .

🍁🍁Hello! We hiring in the junior market! 🍁🍁 Apply to work with us at McGill's Econ department! Full ad: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Excited to share the launch of my new center at UCSD focused on trust and transparency in U.S. elections. We will be supporting research on election administration and voter confidence through research-practice partnerships. More to come! today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...

This week, we are spotlighting a policy brief from Danilo Freire & @umbertomig.bsky.social w/ David Skarbek. Their study, conducted across 10 countries in #LatinAmerica asks which institutional facets of climate change policy local elites favor the most. Read more:

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

Excited to co-chair the Migration Politics section with @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social at the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast. Submit your abstracts by Nov 7!

Celebrating small wins this morning: Our new R package, geocausal, just broke 8,000 downloads. If you're interested in causal inference with spatio-temporal data, you can grab it on Github or CRAN github.com/mmukaigawara...

10 Things to Know About Mechanisms buff.ly/bivPRvu #EGAPMethodsGuide

Congratulations to all participants & partners who attended the LatAm Regional Hub Meeting for a successful event. Thank you for advancing evidence-based solutions on crime, environment & governance! ¡Gracias por avanzar en soluciones basadas en evidencia sobre crimen, medio ambiente y gobernanza!

💡REMINDER— EGAP's 2025 Innovation Grants 🚀 We are still accepting proposals for innovations pushing the boundaries of governance and politics research. Please share with your networks! ⏰ Apply by: October 31, 2025. Learn more: buff.ly/hR0NZfX

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

It's Day 2! The Latin America Regional Hub Meeting continues at GRADE Peru 🇵🇪. Discussions today focus on policing, environmental governance, and innovative strategies to strengthen democracy in Latin America.

Day 1 of our Latin American Regional Hub Meeting begins at GRADE Peru with Wyss Academy for Nature organized by @jvaldivi.bsky.social, Fernando Fernández, @santiagotobon.bsky.social & Leopoldo Fergusson. Two days of debate on crime, environment & governance! #EGAPLatAm #SolucionesPoliticas

This month we are featuring EGAP research in #LatinAmerica! First up, work from @santiagotobon.bsky.social investigating the impact of “place-based” interventions to reduce crime in #Colombia. His paper is co-written w/ @chrisblattman.bsky.social, Donald P. Green & Daniel Ortega.

We (Econ at ITAM) are hiring:econjobmarket.org/positions/11841 Pay is competitive with the US (in absolute terms), working language is English, virtually no service work, spend ~80% of your time in research, and you get to live in one of the coolest cities in the world. #econsky

So happy to see this out! We caution against excessive optimism that the opposition will restore countries back to their democratic trajectories after electoral victory. Weakened institutions and the memory of repression makes it tempting to continue rather than buck the trend of autocratization.

In the Calgary area this week? I’ll be at @ucalgary.bsky.social giving two talks. The first one with the Latin America Cities and Societies Group on the governance of homelessness.

🚨 We’re #hiring! CEGA is looking for a Postdoctoral Scholar to join our Data Privacy Lab and support the responsible implementation of privacy-enhancing technologies in low- and middle-income countries. 👉 Learn more and apply here: go.cega.org/DPLpostdoc

Last spring, I was elected to chair APSA’s Democracy & Autocracy Section for 2025-2027. I’m excited to be taking on the position as of this month. Thanks to @annemeng.bsky.social for leading the section the last two years!

New paper out. Do congressional candidates benefit from rejecting PAC contributions? Yes -across party lines- Americans really dislike PAC money. doi.org/10.1177/2053...

10 Things to Know About Multiple Comparisons buff.ly/lZEIVMF #EGAPMethodsGuide

Interested in hearing what we have been up to this year? Our autumn newsletter is out now 🍂