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I am looking for a postdoc in my new project on "The domestic politics of EU action against democratic backsliding". Please, check also the project website for the call for applications (as well as the calls for two more postdoc positions in Bremen and Wroclaw): sites.google.com/view/deudem

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if need a break from #BTW25, here's a 📄 on 🇭🇺 TISZA, a new challenger to #Orbán! A genuinely new party, led by a #Fidesz defector is currently leading the polls in #Hungary & has a 🇪🇺 pro-European, knowledgeable, and low trusting electorate. Voters are more pro #Ukraine🇺🇦 + culturally liberal. #Polisky

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Excited to share my new article in the American Journal of Political Science (@ajpseditor.bsky.social)! "Endogenous Opposition: Identity and Ideology in Kuwaiti Electoral Politics" explores how authoritarian elections generate opposition to incumbent autocrats. Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ukrer...

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📊✨ A #ggplot2 Grammar Guide by Gina Reynolds ✨📊 This evolving guide is a great starting point to help you, your colleagues, or students get oriented with ggplot2 & its extensions! 🔗 Check it out here: https://buff.ly/2WETF12 For more R resources, visit: https://buff.ly/41cFyjY #RStats #DataViz 🚀

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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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Here are some cool animations I made a couple years ago for teaching DAG-based causal inference Confounding!

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Would eliminating elections for public office get more women to have political ambitions? Our research (with @mrm32.bsky.social & @gholliba.bsky.social) in @bjpols.bsky.social suggests not. Elections are duplicative of effects of other public service components on women's political ambition.

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ParlLawSpeech also provides high-quality translations of speeches from the European Parliament 🇪🇺 and the Hungarian National Assembly 🇭🇺 into English. Learn more on our website at ParlLawSpeech.org/data and the respective GitHub page (github.com/ChRauh/OPTED...).

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‼️PostDoc (100% 2.5 years) @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @dfg.de project "How Mainstream Parties Deal with Conflict: Rules, Practices, Media Exposure" (PIs: Nicole Bolleyer & I) ⏰Start: 01.10.2025 ⏳Deadline: 06.04.2025 🎤Interviews: 14./15.05.2025 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/1... #Academicsky #Polisky

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With the amazing Jana Lipps and @giorgiomalet.bsky.social we have a new publication in ISQ! We explore and theorize citizens’ preferences for border securing policies using open-ended survey responses and a conjoint experiment academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

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🚨 please share! We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June. This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers. Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️ www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

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🚨Job opportunity! The Pedro Arrupe Fellowship in Forced Migration Studies In association with @campionhall.bsky.social & the Jesuit Refugee Service International Three years, full time. Deadline: 28 February More info and apply ➡️ www.campion.ox.ac.uk/news/current...

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🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

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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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📢 Call for papers 📢 Workshop "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" that I organise with colleague @dandekadt.bsky.social at LSE in November 2025. Anyone interested please send us a 250-word abstract by 26 March 2025 ! Learn more➡️ buff.ly/3CCijaY @lsemethodology.bsky.social

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New in POQ from Stephen Jessee, Neil Malhotra and @mayasen.bsky.social, new empirical research on why you should write shorter survey questions academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

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📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 5th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 19-21 May 2025 at King’s College London! Keynotes: Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick) and Peter van der Windt (NYU-Abu Dhabi). No fee, travel grants available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpeearly

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Four weeks left to apply for a DAAD GSSP or a Starter Scholarship at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences! DAAD Scholarship: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bagss/app... Starter Scholarship: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bagss/app... We are looking forward to your applications!

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What better place & time to learn R, if not the @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School in Vienna, hosted by @weareceu.bsky.social ? I'll teach an intro course between 📅 7–11 July 2025, details below: methodsnet.org/course/d01-0...

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🚨 Postdoc Fellow at LSE in Political Behaviour 🚨 We're hiring a 2-3 year postdoc fellow at the LSE to join our great department (with some teaching in political behaviour and comparative European or EU politics) Please spread the word and reach out with questions! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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📢 Call for Papers! Digital Communication and Computational Approaches to Understanding Social Movements in the Social Media Era Special Issue w. Computational Communication Research: tinyurl.com/2p8wcbh2 co-edited with: @smtorres.bsky.social & @oenna2002.bsky.social More details below 👇

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I just posted a new notebook: Causal Inference with the 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 📦 for #Rstats. It introduces the idea of G-Computation and tries to demystify the differences between ATE, ATT, and ATU. This is a first draft and I would looove any feedback! marginaleffects.com/chapters/gco...

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Be part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Climate Vulnerability team 🚀 I’m looking for a 2-year postdoc to join my group at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Apply if you’re an empirically minded junior researcher who just finished or abt to finish a PhD! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ634/p... ⏰ midday Feb 26 ⏰

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JOIN 2025 MethodsNET Summer School with Central European University (CEU) 📍 Central European University, Vienna 🗓️ 30 June to 18 July 2025 The full course list is online!! More details: bit.ly/4gLbv9V Early Bird Registration: Early February, 2025 #research #researchmethods #methodology #methods

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⚖️🇵🇱🇬🇧 To my considerable surprise, Przegląd Sejmowy - the public law review journal of the Polish parliament - traditionally Polish language-only - has a cfp in English for submissions on restoring democracy and the rule of law. Deadline April 30, I might actually try to write something!

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Having published a book recently, I found it sometimes hard to understand how the process worked (and luckily, had very kind mentors who helped). I have uploaded a short document detailing how my experience went, in case others find it helpful: www.vicentevalentim.com/_files/ugd/a...

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New paper 🚨with Natasha Wunsch in EJPR A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization We theorize & empirically explore how democratic backsliding may shape an affective divide between government & opposition supporters doi.org/10.1111/1475...

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🎄🌟 Exciting news! 📊🎉 The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩 Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹 Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU... #AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️

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Polisky Dictatorsky CfP is now open for our Third Conference on Authoritarian Politics taking place at King’s College, London, on 23-24 June 2025! To apply, complete this form with a 200-word abstract before 16 February 2025.: forms.gle/KBDiwPMABykv...

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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍 🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations 📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p... Thanks for sharing! 🤝

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Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

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I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place. psantanna.com/did-resources There, you will find - 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course - Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD - My DiD R/Stata/Python packages - Some DiD checklists - DiD materials from my friends Enjoy!

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Are starter packs still a thing? With all the European University Institute newcomers today I made a list of institutional and personal accounts I found so far. (Happy to update with new suggestions) Reply, share, and like to facilitate connections! 🙏 go.bsky.app/KGSw4gL

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thanks to @eui-eu.bsky.social and CRUI, this article of mine @govjournal.bsky.social is now 🔓 Open Access 🎉🤗

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there has to be a joke that starts like “4 CEU graduates walk into a sala lettura in Milan…” @nenaoana.bsky.social @ztruchlewski.bsky.social

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Not sure how many #academics are following me here, but here is a great opportunity to lead an awesome team of people in CSS at GESIS. This is actually my position, because I will be leaving academia at the end of the year (1/2)

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⭐I am looking for a Postdoc in Computational Social Science in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! More on the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due by 8 January 2025. Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #computationalsocialscience

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great research by great people — I also got somewhat nostalgic & it made me feel old, as I was there at the inception of the original idea of the @bjpols.bsky.social article as a rookie TA for an MA thesis workshop

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Thrilled to share our latest work, with @DanMercea and Matthias Hoffmann, published at @PolStudies. Using nat. rep. survey data from 6 European countries, we explore what differentiates actual and potential protesters between themselves and in relation to non-protesters. A short 🧵

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Call for proposals...... WORKSHOP: ‘Democratic backsliding’ to ‘re-democratizing’: understanding how East European countries get back on a liberal democratic course 3-4th June 2025 Charles University, Prague emckclac-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/person... @petraguasti.bsky.social

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after a delayed Frecciarossa, a missed connection, 6h wait in Mestre, a cancelled ÖBB RJX, a regionale to BLQ, and a ✈️ ticket bought 2h before take-off, I’m finally in Budapest… time to get some sleep & see y’all tmrw at my 🇭🇺 TK PTI talk (or on Friday 🇦🇹 @oegpw.bsky.social if you’re in Cisleithania)

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We are super pleased to announce the new 2023 wave of the Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey! The data offers info on party characteristics for 312 parties in 31 🇪🇺 countries, based on 324 expert judgments The data is available on HarvardDataverse. A quick 🧵: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 1/

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🗳️ Some thoughts on the 1st round of the 🇷🇴 #RomanianPresidentialElections as it now seems clear that the dark horse cand. Georgescu (no party, far-right) and Lasconi (USR, center-right, cult. progressive) will fight it out in the 2nd round (although PSD will prob appeal & there might be a recount) 🧵

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