@mkolczynska
Assistant professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences • PhD Soc @ Ohio State • Sociology & Political Science • Social Science Data & Methods • R • assoc. editor @ IJPOR & Survey Research Methods • #pokolenieNCN
🚨Replication alert🚨
I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER.
I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems.
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The AJPS announces new policies on correspondence and corrections. Read the Editor's Blog here: ajps.org/2026/03/05/n...
EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference:
PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend
Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf
Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT.
More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR
Call for Papers 📣
The EUI SPS Department invites submissions for the workshop “Political Behaviour in Central & Eastern Europe.”
Research on elections, public opinion, parties and political participation in the CEE region.
Submit by 30 March 2026
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
#PoliticalScience
📣 New Data Release!
CNEP Merge 73 now available
🇯🇵 Japan 1993 - full documentation and original dataset restored
📊 Access the updated database at: www.upf.edu/web/cnep
#CNEP #ElectionStudies #ComparativePolitics
🧐 Can we trust estimates of political trust when preferences are hidden?
➡D Li, @xiaobolu.bsky.social S Ma & W Yang show social desirability can bias regressions, question the link between welfare and trust, and offer ways to reduce bias www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
📢 Seminari IPA-UPF | 25 Feb 2026, 15:00-16:00 @politiquesupf.bsky.social
🎤 Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) presents
📄 Inflaming the Ballots. The Political Impact of Violence: Insights from the 1909 Tragic Week
📍Campus Ciutadella, UPF, room 20.107
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@cvalebeek.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social use survery data from the Netherlands to find that #Trust variability may be just as strong a predictor as #Trust levels in #VotingBehaviour 🗳️
Academic and popular interest in nonreligion has risen in parallel with the growth of religiously unaffiliated populations. In many countries, census and survey questions used to measure religion have been modified to better capture nonreligious identities. Little attention has been given to how these changes in measures affect specific claims about the rise of the “nones.” Although there is no doubt that religiously unaffiliated populations have grown in many countries during the twentyfirst century, the degree of such growth has sometimes been exaggerated due to measurement effects. We review methodological issues that affect the estimates of the size of religiously unaffiliated populations and
How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious "Nones"
free for all to read: https://sociologicalscience.com/download/volume-13/february/SocSci_v13_89to108.pdf
🏛️ Do anti elitist parties behave differently in parliament?
➡️ @simonotjes.bsky.social & L Vorsteveld use a new voting model to show that anti elitist parties vote alike and differently from others, but only on legislative votes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
The book is open access through Oxford University Press, and is available here: doi.org/10.1093/9780... (9/10)
🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social):
We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.
Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.
w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social
URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
📢New co-authored article in @polbehavior.bsky.social about PARTICIPATION and REPRESENTATION!
✨We ask "Are the Politically Active Better Represented?" Our answer, using the most comprehensive data to date: A clear "YES" for nonelectoral participation like protest.
⬇️See Jesper's 🧵for more ✨
🚨Job alert 🚨
I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026.
If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026.
📤 Please share widely!
www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
Acceptances (+ rejections 😔) on panel & paper proposals for this year’s EPSS conference in Belfast 18-20 June went out today.
If you have submitted, please check your inbox!
You need to register for the conference by Friday 13 March.
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Two new articles in Party Politics
With
@gessler.bsky.social
Measuring party positions and issue salience with mass media and manifesto data"
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
With Hanspeter Kriesi
"Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe"
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
Feedback very welcome!
🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨
We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making.
4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026
Please share widely 🙏
The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...
How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
✨ Exciting opportunity to join the @pdyearbook.bsky.social editorial team ✨
✅ Are you passionate about data and analysis?
✅ Do you have a strong research background in political parties and governments in Europe and beyond?
✍️ Apply by 31 Jan 2026: buff.ly/2ZYPakN
You called? Check out Box 1 in this paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Thank you!!
No N in tables in this case, and it looks like none of the reviewers asked and the editor didn't notice. I'm pretty sure such issues are super common in published papers, but most are not scrutinized as much
Afaik what some polisci journals do is verify that the code produces the numbers that are reported in the paper, but this is different from reviewing the code to see all the data transformations, which obs were dropped, how exactly each model was specified (often not clear from the paper itself)
🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)
We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.
✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
Do editors do this extra work reviewing the code or reviewers? Or both?
Many of the issues can't be identified without looking at the code, and yet code review is not typically part of peer review. I asked for the code a few times when reviewing papers, and never got it. Could this be a fix - reviewing paper + code? But this would make it even harder to find reviewers
NEW: Ely Strömberg, Per Engzell, "How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
An English translation of our book "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" will come out @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/triggerpoints
It studies the social bases of political divides over migration, climate, diversity & redistribution
PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/