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IN NEW ISSUE: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes & Political Participation in Europe: @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & @jonaslinde.bsky.social find a general political participation gap between pro- and anti-immigrant citizens. OPEN ACCESS: https://buff.ly/41eWjLF @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!

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Polity has not coded any countries other than the US since 2018, but this places the US below the 2018 scores of Russia, Venezuela, Haiti, Iraq, Zimbabwe, the Central African Republic... Perhaps the inference we should make here is about the reliability of Polity.

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📢Applications Open for New Director of the V-Dem Institute V-Dem Institute and the Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg is looking for a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Science & Director of the V-Dem Institute. To application: shorturl.at/9rvmx 📆 March 27, 2025.

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(Cross-post from X) "Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond" by @pward89.bsky.social and me is now out with @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social It's FREE to download until Feb. 18: doi.org/10.1017/9781... So, what's in the Element...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science. 75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city. Deadline: February 15 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

The Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo is hiring 2-4 tenured associate professors, open to all subfields (details see job ad). It's a fantastic department with smart & friendly colleagues in a modern and green city close to nature. Apply! www.finn.no/job/fulltime...

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To all researchers in Historical Political Economy based in Europe: Please help @beckerbastian.bsky.social, @lhaffert.bsky.social, and me get a better picture of HPE in Europe and the challenges researchers face by participating in this 15 min survey: forms.gle/EtLna72JNXFh...

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We are hiring at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social : 2-4 tenured positions (if/when you qualify, you can apply for promotion to full prof.). Open to all subfields of political science. I am of course biased, but this is a fantastic department, socially & academically! www.finn.no/job/fulltime...

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Thrilled that my article has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 The article argues that low statistical power is a major impediment to acquiring cumulative knowledge on questions concerning cross-national differences: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 84 days ago • 8 comments

A snapshot of the situation in Romania: — A largely unknown far-right candidate shocks the nation by unexpectedly winning the first round of the presidential elections. 1/9

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

"Politically neutral scientists are viewed as the most credible" "On both the left & right..., there is a penalty for scientists displaying political affiliations: the stronger their posts, the less credible their research [is] perceived & the lower the public’s willingness to read their content"

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

I made a quick starter pack on scholars working/having worked on historical political economy (wide definition). go.bsky.app/Hz9LmgL (please make [self]suggestions to improve the starter pack)

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments

Thrilled to announce the release of Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe with Cambridge UP 🎉🎉 The book argues that accommodating the displaced population can strengthen states and benefit local economies in the long run. 📚 [Amazon: tinyurl.com/24m2mbkf] See thread below:

submitted 102 days ago • 37 comments

🚨 New research paper: Rulers on the Road. We map emperors’ itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire from 719 to 1519 and shed light on how they projected power without centralized bureaucracies. Very fun project with @claranw.bsky.social @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/npKQ4

submitted 309 days ago • 2 comments

We are hiring a postdoc for our project on itinerant rule in medieval Europe. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

submitted 321 days ago • 1 comment

Check out our new article where we find a participation gap between anti- and pro-immigrant citizens, and that the size of this gap is contingent on ideological views (left-right placement).

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🌟 New article 👥 Andrej Kokkonen @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social 👉 Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Political Participation in Europe 📗 Political Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0032...

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Workshop Call 📢📢 Second edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop. The organizers are @didacqueralt.bsky.social and me and we'll have Ken Scheve (Yale) as keynote speaker. In Barcelona on July 8 and 9, 2024. Send us your papers by March 7: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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We are planning the first WhoGov Workshop to be held in Oslo on the 29-30th of August 2024. We welcome all research using WhoGov in some capacity and we have funding to cover travel expenses for participants. Find the call for papers through the link or use the QR code: bit.ly/WhoGov_Workshop

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New PhD positions open in Gothenburg! It's an incredibly supportive and smart environment to be in as a PhD student. Consider applying or telling your students to apply (that's how I mustered the confidence to apply for a PhD).

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Come work with us on political trust and skepticism. Deadline: December 1st.

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Are political institutions persistent? A large literature on the long-term effects of precolonial African institutions assumes as much. But so far, we lacked quantitative evidence for this. In our new PSRM paper, @carlmc.bsky.social and I investigate this... doi.org/10.1017/psrm... polisky

submitted 476 days ago • 2 comments

Not ‘just’ a workshop anymore! Come and find out all things autocracies we are doing these days at apsg.work!

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Come join us in Vienna! We are hiring a tenure track assistant professor in social policy, broadly defined. Do get in touch if you have questions. https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-Track-Professor-in-the-field-of-Political-Science-with-focus-on-Social-Policy/1001235101/

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We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on political trust and skepticism in my ERC-funded research project CRITICALTRUST. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post... Please contact me if you have any questions!

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Delighted that my paper Young People Punish Undemocratic Behavior Less Than Older People is now conditionally accepted at @bjpols.bsky.social. I show what the title suggests using a large amount of survey experimental evidence. Thread below.

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How do Ukrainians think about self-defense against Russia? In a new paper out in the AJPS, @janinadill.bsky.social, Marnie Howlett and I find through a conjoint experiment that they are categorically against major concessions, even at very high costs of self-defense doi.org/10.1111/ajps... (1/6)

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Come work with us at the Department of Government at Uppsala University! We have an open position as Associate Senior Lecturer (=tenure track Assistant Professor) in political science. Deadline November 15 - but check it out now, the application process is cumbersome. www.jobb.uu.se/details/?pos...

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More and more reports of violent spillovers from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are coming in. My research together with Jakob Enlund shows that the conflict violence does indeed increase hate crimes against both Jews and Muslims in the US. WP: lovechristensen.com/files/christ...

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From Yuri Zhukov, now in print: "Repression Works (Just Not in Moderation)." A fascinating paper, with some rather normatively troubling implications. polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Prof. Claudia Goldin’s presentation of “Why Women Won” kicked off this summer’s NBER Development of the American Economy conference www.nber.org/conferences/... Original public livestream/recording seems gone, but it’s worth your 45 minutes so here’s a copy youtu.be/NP_A1kWMJu8

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Replication Games are coming to Stockholm! Don’t forget to sign up @i4replication.bsky.social #EconSky

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APSG moved! Is there a better way to land here than by opening with a brand new call for papers? Apply and share widely — especially grad students! Polisky Dictatorsky

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ASREC Graduate Student Workshop February 29-March 2, 2024 Chapman University Orange, CA An excellent introduction to the economics of religion by Jared Rubin, Jeanet Bentzen, Jean-Paul Carvalho & Avital Livny Apply here by November 10: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 521 days ago • 0 comments

Since so many more people have joined, just a reminder that @fortunato.bsky.social and I are recruiting a two-year postdoc for our project on legislative capacity. Come to beautiful Copenhagen and work on a fun project. PSJMinfo

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Check out this new special issue in Electoral Studies: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/elec... It contains 7 cool articles on the nature and causes of AP - using observational and experimental data, focusing on measurement, elites and ideology, and an important theoretical piece as well.

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First post on Blue Sky! Thought I’d start it with a thread laying out the chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (the proofs are finally in!) The Handbook comes out in November

submitted 528 days ago • 5 comments

VERY useful: Find people you follow on 🐦&🐘 here: skeet.labnotes.org?index (although I really wonder how it works without TwitterAPI 🤔)

submitted 529 days ago • 2 comments

New on bluesky. @profmusgrave.bsky.social I would also like to join the Polsky list, thanks!

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