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In Madrid, can confirm it is warm 🥵 #EPSA2025

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On Friday at 17:00 (1A.10) I'll present "The Logic of Connective Faction: How Far-Right Media and Digitally-Networked Elites Radicalize Politics" (co-authored w/@curdknupfer.bsky.social & @yunkangyang.bsky.social) on panel "Politics, Media, and Radicalization" #EPSA2025 Paper: tinyurl.com/38czxhh6

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On Thursday at 17:00 (-1.A.05) @kaplaner.bsky.social presents "Balancing Versatility and Precision: A Framework for Capturing Legislative Design Choices in Democratic Systems", the first empirical paper of the @demolaw.bsky.social project. #EPSA2025 DEMOLAW conceptual paper: tinyurl.com/5auvzcbs

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On Thursday at 11:20 (0A.08) I'll be presenting "Comparing Intra-Party Factional Conflict: An Inductive Approach Using Leadership Contests", co-authored with @blumrm.bsky.social and @malpas.bsky.social in the panel "Intra-Party Conflict in Comparative Perspective" #EPSA2025 tinyurl.com/3acmdudt

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Heading to Madrid for #EPSA2025 this week, where I will be presenting two papers and am a co-author of a third. Both the temperatures and the research are guaranteed to be hot 🔥(I have been reliably informed that there will be a/c) Posts on each paper to follow...

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This week, we're in Madrid for #EPSA2025 where @kaplaner.bsky.social will present our first empirical research paper "Balancing Versatility and Precision: A Framework for Caputring Legislative Design Choice in Democratic Systems" on Thursday at 17:00 (-1.A.05).

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On Friday at 17:00 (1A.10) I'll present "The Logic of Connective Faction: How Far-Right Media and Digitally-Networked Elites Radicalize Politics" (co-authored w/@curdknupfer.bsky.social & @yunkangyang.bsky.social) on panel "Politics, Media, and Radicalization" #EPSA2025 Paper: tinyurl.com/38czxhh6

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On Thursday at 17:00 (-1.A.05) @kaplaner.bsky.social presents "Balancing Versatility and Precision: A Framework for Capturing Legislative Design Choices in Democratic Systems", the first empirical paper of the @demolaw.bsky.social project. #EPSA2025 DEMOLAW conceptual paper: tinyurl.com/5auvzcbs

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On Thursday at 11:20 (0A.08) I'll be presenting "Comparing Intra-Party Factional Conflict: An Inductive Approach Using Leadership Contests", co-authored with @blumrm.bsky.social and @malpas.bsky.social in the panel "Intra-Party Conflict in Comparative Perspective" #EPSA2025 tinyurl.com/3acmdudt

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Heading to Madrid for #EPSA2025 this week, where I will be presenting two papers and am a co-author of a third. Both the temperatures and the research are guaranteed to be hot 🔥(I have been reliably informed that there will be a/c) Posts on each paper to follow...

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First of two of my #ICA25 talks in Denver: a paper co-authored with @yunkangyang.bsky.social and @mikecowburn.bsky.social, wherein we theorize how ideological digital networks might radicalize elites and political factions. Pictured: me attempting to explain a visual metaphor... 😅🤷‍♂️

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Exceedingly cool new opportunity to do a Ph.D. in a great department surrounded by wonderful people. Might also be of interest to US students who want to be somewhere else for the next four years. #poliscisky #polisky

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Hey y'all I am hiring a PhD student. Minimal teaching load and many opportunities for more ;) uol.de/job566en

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Want to know what I've been up to in 2025? This is the new ERC project working with @steffenhurka.bsky.social @kaplaner.bsky.social & @steffiru.bsky.social

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@curdknupfer.bsky.social presenting our co-authored work (w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social) about connective factions Read the paper here: mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...

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Want to know what I've been up to in 2025? This is the new ERC project working with @steffenhurka.bsky.social @kaplaner.bsky.social & @steffiru.bsky.social

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🚨Manuscript accepted 🚨 @meredithconroy.bsky.social and I introduce and test a novel theory of asymmetric partisan opportunity for women in primary elections. Forthcoming at @jwpp.bsky.social. Preprint available at: mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...

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New paper forthcoming, led by my coauthor @mikecowburn.bsky.social Figures below show that D women win in un-winnable (left) + safe (right) districts, but are less successful in purple districts. R women struggle everywhere except un-winnable places (definition of "sacrificial lambs" in politics).

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Party-driven descriptive representation. Cool new work on party primaries.

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🚨Manuscript accepted 🚨 @meredithconroy.bsky.social and I introduce and test a novel theory of asymmetric partisan opportunity for women in primary elections. Forthcoming at @jwpp.bsky.social. Preprint available at: mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...

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Hello Jena! 🗽 Last night, we kicked off this year's GAAS PoliSci conference with a panel on Trump 2.0! @profausberlin.bsky.social, @atlanticboeller.bsky.social, @sarahwagner13.bsky.social and Prof. Michael Dreyer discussed current developments in the US!

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Going to be in Berlin in 2 weeks, to speak about "The Logic of Connective Faction" ...a project I've been working on with @yunkangyang.bsky.social and @mikecowburn.bsky.social. Looking forward to see all my old friends & colleagues at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 🫶

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As far as I can tell this primary campaign has been run on entirely on good faith community engagement. That this is the GOP reaction to a Democratic candidate (of color) actually engaging with their community is so telling. Congressional primary politics is not what it used to be.

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Happy to announce my first publication! 🚨 We extend an existing framework on disinfo resilience towards aspects that should be considered in dynamic contexts of backsliding democracies and especially investigate strengths and weaknesses in this regard in the Visegrád countries.

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At the new Mischiefs of Faction, @mattngreen.bsky.social runs the numbers on Trump's 1st hundred days. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

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Which structural features are important in shaping countries' vulnerability and resistance to disinformation amid democratic decline? New #wjds paper by A Peißker, @mikecowburn.bsky.social & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social: ➡️ doi.org/10.34669/wi....

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🚨 New Publication 🚨 w/Antonia Peißker & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social We extend a framework examining disinformation resilience in consolidated democracies to countries experiencing democratic backsliding, demonstrating the need to add civil society & institutional capture doi.org/10.34669/wi....

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