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With the German election looming (23 February), I am re-upping this post about the new electoral system, and why it no longer fits the proper definition of a mixed-member system. fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/g...

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Check out this awesome postdoc opportunity with my friend @jonathanpolk.bsky.social at Lund: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... So much great work to be done in this area and working with Jon would be fantastic!

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What does Trump's capitulation to Putin on Ukraine & his hostility to the EU mean for Europe's potential to develop as a security power? My 2021 article w/@rdanielkelemen.bsky.social on war, state building & the EU provides some potential answers.1/ bit.ly/3pq7gYr

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I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

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When is the last time you sent an email to tell them you enjoyed their work? 🤔 I regularly send a quick email to colleagues to say I enjoyed their article/book or admire their work. You would be surprised to see how much even the most successful people appreciate this! ❤️

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Can I convince a very wealthy person to subsidize the National Parks for 4 years? If you know someone I’ve got my pitch ready.

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Maybe the best part of NBA League Pass is that instead of commercials, you see the on-court activities that the crowd sees. And sometimes magic happens.

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Transatlantic Relationship waxes & wanes, but this week was a low point Since 2016 🇪🇺 had time to prepare, but perhaps because it didn’t want divorce to be final, did too little What do Europeans think? @eupinions.bsky.social found out In 2017 just 25 % wanted 🇪🇺 to go its own way; 2024 > 60 % 🧵

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University of Kentucky president just put out statement that Trump’s proposed NIH cuts “will cost UK tens of millions of dollars annually,” and hurt local economy and its work to advance health of the state — “including cancer, heart disease, children’s health, Alzheimer’s and opioid use disorder.”

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You know your presentation is cooked when your discussant pulls up like this.

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Great new book, highly recommended for party and election scholars. We just read it in my PhD parties class paired with Lipset/Rokkan and @liesbethooghe.bsky.social/Marks on transnational cleavage.

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‼️ New paper out in EJPR! With @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, we use a new survey item that we fielded in surveys in five countries to examine who accepts party policy change. Check out the 🧵 by Maurits below for an overview of our findings!

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@liesbethooghe.bsky.social & Gary Marks measure the extent to which political parties on the contemporary socio-cultural divide are cleavaged. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of the forthcoming Special Issue "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies". #polisky #academicsky

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Gutting science, international studies, and higher education is a direct threat to U.S. global power. Subordinating science in the public interest to the political whims of unelected individuals undermines U.S. national interests, and is a major gift to boost lagging strategic competitors (PRC/RUS)

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I’m glad dry January is over.

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Syracuse peeps, these guys are at Maxwell talking about their book 2pm today. Oh, and I just realized @jeffkopstein.bsky.social is on Bluesky

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I'm going to be holding a workshop on pre-registration this spring at Syracuse. I'd love to see advice/slides/materials from people who have put on similar workshops. Currently planning on lots of practical examples plus a thorough discussion of the points here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal....

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Our paper on how plant disease pandemic destroying olive groves in 🇮🇹 fuelled far right support by activating local community narrative of state neglect forthcoming @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🧵 below ⬇️ For nerds: also presents research design for combing causal inference with ethnographic research

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What a great collection. It’s a real honor for our (@rbakker.bsky.social & @jonathanpolk.bsky.social) paper on multidimensional incongruence and political disaffection to be included alongside some modern classics!

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At @jeppjournal.bsky.social, we're collating collections on important topics. Here are 10 largely empirical papers published in JEPP on 'Public Legitimacy in and about the EU'. Please do recommend others we might have missed! Room for plenty more. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjp...

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The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt. The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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{tinytable} 0.7.0 for #RStats is out! 🚀 This 📦 converts data frames to html, tex, docx, typ, or md tables. Super simple, ultra flexible, 0-dep, and the website hosts a billion tutorials. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/ 0.7.0 fixes bugs and adds some cool features. Please update!

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Hello BlueSky, nice to meet you! The V-Dem Institute is an independent research institute and the Headquarters of the V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) project, based at the University of Gothenburg, SE. The V-Dem project is a unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. #Polisky 1(3)

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There is no mandate for this shitstorm of authoritarian action. Let me explain. 🧵 1/7

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APSA deadline extended to January 20th. Re-upping this advice for improving your proposal acceptance odds.

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Teaching on populism, or just thinking about it? Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser and I have published a symposium in @pspolisci.bsky.social on 'Populism and Democracy' which is now available (open access).

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Chelsea in the second half of games:

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