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Join us this week in Bristol for our Workshop on Elections and Climate Change @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @environmentalpol.bsky.social @psaepopsg.bsky.social @jeppjournal.bsky.social @conorlittle.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @drsophiah.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

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Final tickets left for our workshop @bristoluni.bsky.social on climate, elections, parties and public opinion. @uobrisceh.bsky.social @policybristol.bsky.social @ree-uwe.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social @bath-iscc.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

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Final chance to attend our Elections and Climate Change workshop with @psaenvironmental.bsky.social this Thursday in Bristol with just a few spots left. Register for free through the link below. Alternatively, tune in remotely by registering through this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

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We are sponsoring an event on Thursday, organised by @psaenvironmental.bsky.social. Register now! Workshop: Elections and Climate Change. Lots of great contributors. Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

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🚨 How are more ambitious climate policies feasible politically? We have published 4 new research briefs on the political viability of climate policies. You can find all the briefs on our website. Here is a 🧵summarizing the briefs. Please share. politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

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If you want to check surviving poll books for the eighteenth century, our ECPPEC project lists 1,929 surviving poll books for the period 1695-1832, corresponding to 11676 separate elections. Searchable polling data here: ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/data-explorer/ #c18th #skystorians 🗃️

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New article from John Kenny , Lucas Geese , Andrew Jordan and Irene Lorenzoni reviews the usage of climate change questions in public opinion surveys & provides an overview of the types of concepts that can be elicited from these. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

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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)

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A short commentary on how valuable this dataset is for advocates and public opinion scholars: wrp.lrfoundation.org.uk/news/leaders.... The data is clear: global publics are really concerned about climate change and leaders around the world should heed these concerns!

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A starter pack of academics (mostly political scientists and political historians) I found on here who (broadly) work in the British Politics subfield. Please (self) recommend others I’ve missed. go.bsky.app/EqXUQbt

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The cabinet under modern despotism in Sid Meier's Civilization, the one fictional cabinet etched into my mind. The science advisor most of all.

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📊Do you have multiple datasets lacking shared identifiers and do you want to merge them? ➡️ @blibgober.bsky.social & @jerzakconnor.bsky.social introduce a massive training corpus and discuss various methods to enhance existing matching benchmarks www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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📊Do you want to use ecological inference to estimate the transfer of votes between parties from one election to another? ➡️José M. Pavía & Søren R. Thomsen introduce a new ecological inference technique: ecolRxC www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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‘Sometimes the obvious and the banal are paradoxically absent from the archive.’ So what to do? And in particular, who can tell me how many farmers I am missing in my counts? williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/10/16/t... 🗃️

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🗳️Why does vote buying persist under the secret ballot?💰 ➡️Using a formal model, a survey and a lab experiment, @sascenciob.bsky.social & H.Chang show material goods erode voters' confidence in ballot secrecy, making vote buying effective cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView #OpenAccess

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A great write up by @philipjcowley.bsky.social of our recent @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social article on 19th century election violence in England & Wales.

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Latest House magazine piece: on roughs and riots. Did you know that 17 people were killed in violence linked to the 1868 general election...? www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

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I wrote quite a personal piece about racism now and racism then. Have a read…. www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/10/04/a...

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Week in review! A new article and an interview. Read and subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/environm...

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This is very useful: a full list of all the newspapers that the British Newspaper Archive allows free access to: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a... #History 🗃️

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New article from David Caldwell, Gidon Cohen and Nick Vivyan. -> Climate attitudes are polarizing along party lines in Anglophone countries and Western Europe with worrying implications for the implementation of climate policy. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

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🧀 The Cheese Riot of 1764 🧀 In 1764 the people of Nottingham were so angry about cheese prices that they gatecrashed the city Goose Fair & knocked the mayor over with a massive piece of cheese. The military were drafted in. 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀

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It's an exciting day for the Victorian Commons team, as it's publication day for our senior research fellow @martinspychal.bsky.social's first book! Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act is available on open access: uolpress.co.uk/book/mapping... #19thC #parlisky #skystorians

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Teaching a quants course for historians next week (classic stats, mapping and textual analysis). Looking for papers/books illustrating their potential for historical research like this one on electoral violence (@gidoncohen.bsky.social et al) academic.oup.com/past/advance... Any other suggestion?

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“Regrets? I've had a few. There is a lot of work in working it out for yourself.” On learning quantitative methods by trial and error, with the emphasis v much on error. 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/s...

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#OnePlaceWednesday

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This looks fascinating at first skim - and great to see that it is open access. Look forward to reading it properly.

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Very interesting article, and #OpenAccess and free to read by all:

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Our interactive map will be useful for anyone looking to follow-up on election violence in an English or Welsh #OnePlaceStudy victorianelectionviolence.uk/interactive-...

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#OnePlaceElections was our blogging and social media prompt for July. As with all of our prompts however, the topic can be researched at any time—and this open access article may tempt you to research any electoral violence that took place in your English/Welsh #OnePlaceStudy! #OnePlaceWednesday

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