Lotem Halevy

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That's what I don't understand. Why still do this job then?!? It's not like we are incredibly well compensated.

And I will add that doing intellectually meaningful work that advances knowledge takes a long time and TIME IS A PRIVILEGED RESOURCE.

I might be out of a job soon, but if AI produced papers is what academia wants, then I don’t know if I actually want the job I worked so hard for anymore.

Prohibiting Workplace Sexual Harassment ‘Prohibiting Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Cross-Cultural Analysis is one of the most comprehensive and insightful contributions to the global discourse on workplace sexual harassment. Drawing on…

📕 In their book, Prohibiting Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, Cher Weixia Chen provides a cross-cultural analysis of how legislatures, judiciaries, NGOs, and corporations worldwide address workplace sexual harassment @elgarpublishing.bsky.social. buff.ly/4ukeRFC

📙 In their recent book, "Imperial Sexism: Why Culture and Women's Rights Don't Clash," Denise M. Walsh offers a new way to think about and address controversial gender practices that seem to clash with women's rights. buff.ly/bConl9H

@oxunipress.bsky.social #WomensHistoryMonth

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

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Putting my book together has been such an intellectually rewarding experience.

I know what went into it. I also know that AI couldn't have theorized any of it, collected any of the data (which I dug from church basements + archives), nor written any of it.

Thanks @davekarpf.bsky.social for this!

great stuff by @davekarpf.bsky.social

"Journal articles aren’t social science. They’re just a unit of measurement. They’re how we keep score. Producing journal articles isn’t what we are actually meant to be doing — we’re supposed to be learning meaningful things about people, power, and society."

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

Fantastic work from @davekarpf.bsky.social putting some perspective on the notion that AI can do social science research. It can generate passable journal articles, which is not necessarily the same thing. It's a chance to consider what we should be valuing. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Very happy to share that our paper "Political socialization and immigrants' support for progressive politics: the case of green parties" with @antvalentim.bsky.social is now published in @psrm.bsky.social!

Link to paper: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

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I am not a Turkey expert, so if you think I am wrong, please let me know! (Or if you have issues with the coding scheme, I tried to briefly outline also please let me know :))

As for the 1980 case, I coded it as religious legitimation due to changing the education system (so a positive case of the aggregate outcome of organized religion collusion with an authoritarian regime), but I agree that this was done mostly to pacify ideological threats and social control.

I look at: (1) the presence of religious militias (not present in the 1980 case), (2) funding for military by domestic or internat religious orgs/movement (not found again), collusion with religious organizations and associations for means of social control (present in 1980 following takeover).

Yes! Thank you! For inclusion criteria (and do not code on consequences, just causes), the sufficient condition is necessitates middle-top collusion to the takeover OR legitimize the regime (including changing the ed system immediately after). I use a pretty liberal definition of organized religion.

Opsie. Germany and Spain, but some people would argue against the inclusion of these cases as authoritarian ascent and repression without the involvement of organized religion, so let's call em edge cases.

The cases are: Egypt (1952), S. Korea (1961), Syria (1963), DRC (1965), Iraq (1968), Libya (1969), Uganda (1971), Chile (1973), Tunisia (1987).

Did I miss any?

This includes cases that are coded across datasets as secular military juntas, personalist dictatorships, and one-party nationalist regimes, but the role of religion is hidden if you look at the outcome, not the process of how the regime was legitimized in society AND the state.

How many non-communist authoritarian regimes rose to power w/o the aid of organized religion in the 19th and 20th centuries?

Years of my life documenting this across a global sample. There are 9 cases (N > 200) in which organized religion played no role in supporting the regime during its ascent.

"To recognise career stage as a relevant consideration would not be to abandon excellence but rather to acknowledge that excellence itself depends on the continued existence of viable career pathways."

This isn't just an Oxbridge phenomenon, and it has massive implications for knowledge production.

And in many other illiberal (electoral) democracies! YouTube, blogs, WhatsApp channels... and in the US look at the increase of journalists on substack!

Annual Review of Political Science Participatory Democracy and Its Limits Kevin J. Elliott Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics and Department of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; email: k.elliott@yale.edu

Annu. Rev. Political Sci. 2026. 29:17.1–17.19 The Annual Review of Political Science is online at polisci.annualreviews.org https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-032724- 125408 Copyright © 2026 by the author(s). All rights reserved Keywords participation, participatory democracy, deliberative democracy, lottocracy, political attention, representation Abstract This review surveys the limits of participatory democracy and reconsiders its merits, with particular emphasis on the limited attention of citizens. I trace the development of participatory democracy within political science and democratic theory and suggest that participation has fallen out of its previously central role as a criterion of democratic quality. What remains is a set of functions and pitfalls, which I explore in a series of inquiries into participation: (a) in lottocracy and electoral democracy, (b) in its relationship to representation, and (c) in local land use planning. I conclude with thoughts for future research informed by the discussion.

Forthcoming from me in the Annual Review of Political Science: "Participatory Democracy and Its Limits."

Download a complete preprint here: kevinjelliott.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Singing protests gain momentum as non-violent but emotionally stirring rebukes to ICE 'We're going to sing and sing and try to touch the hearts of the ICE agents,' said the Rev. Jacqueline Lewis, senior pastor at Middle Church in New York.

Via @fiona-murphy.bsky.social: Singing protests gain momentum as non-violent but emotionally stirring rebukes to ICE —> religionnews.com/2026/02/27/m...

But not all voters value dignity equally: using an identity allocation measure, I show that high ethnic identifiers are more likely to seek recognition and forgive malfeasance. Why do some voters become so attached to their ethnic identities? And why are they more often from lower social classes?

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

Denmark’s migration policy – an example to follow? - UK in a changing Europe Kristina Bakkær Simonsen explains why countries feel they have something to learn from Denmark's strict migration policy, but argues that there are many key pitfalls.

Last week, Shabana Mahmood visited Denmark and has made changes to the UK's asylum policy that emulate the stricter Danish system

✍️ In this piece from September, @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social argues there key pitfalls to copying this approach

🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...

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💡 Call for Papers for the 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference 2026 on the topic “Challenges to International Orders: Causes and Consequences”
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🔄Please share our call for papers within your networks. Deadline for submissions: 23 April 26
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In approx 10 years, I will be done answering emails about a reimbursement from 6 mnths ago.

Ah, yes, there are so many Lotem Halevys out there; the other Lotem Halevy must be registering for APSA using Lotem Halevy's credit card, but I need to prove that all the Lotem Halevys are, in fact, me.

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This is also supported by individual level data, which shows Labour losing more voters to the Greens than to Reform. The rise of Reform in traditional Labour areas does not mean that Labour voters in those places are all shifting to Reform. That’s an ecological fallacy (cf. @tabouchadi.bsky.social)

I would be really interested to know what's going on in Putin’s head right now. Yes, it's a dark and scary place and normally I wouldn't want to go there, but still.

According to Putin and other Kremlin insiders he was absolutely shaken by the US intervention in Lybia and especially Gaddafi's death