📣 Call for Applications: ECPR SGEU ECR Pre-Workshop
“The Far-Right as a Social Movement in Europe” organized with @larboe.bsky.social, 30 June 2026, one day ahead of the ECPR SGEU Conference in Catania, Italy.
This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.
Fascinating new paper by and @elena-amaya.bsky.social and Robert Braun on the role of folklore in shaping far-right support in Weimar Germany: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
This is unbelievable. Thank you for highlighting it! I wanted to wonder if this list is not unilateral and confirmed by the included researchers, but if people even publish there…
It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
1/ Refreshing perspective from @oii.ox.ac.uk scholars: "Meticulous citation is a marker of well-researched, serious scholarship." Dr. Roxana Radu and @rocher.lc outline the harms of citation by LLMs: the 'provenance' of generated texts cannot be determined or cited.
#LLMs #epistemicjustice
The Associated Press decided in June 2023 to stop referring to the 14 countries that emerged independent of Russian occupation in 1991 countries as “former Soviet republics.” The decision was taken on the advice of our journalists working in the region, and it has been generally well-received.
Women and girls from national minorities often face double discrimination. The new Conversations with Experts episode digs deeper into how gender issues can be mainstreamed in minority protection through the Advisory Committee’s monitoring work.
www.ecmi.de/default-titl...
‼️ The Consortium of National Election Studies (@nesconsortium.bsky.social) is such a valuable and important initiative!
Follow their account to stay updated on the excellent work CNES is doing in terms of information sharing about election studies, data harmonization, and the CNES knowledge bank!!
Rethinking Ethnic Mobilization: A Model and Three Theories of Sustained Minority Ethnic Mobilization
https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2025-rtdw9?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
#polisky
🎄 Now if this isn't the perfect Christmas gift for scholars of elections! A fresh @cses.bsky.social Module 6 Advance Release for you all to analyze and explore!
In #Estonia, all state educational institutions will be required to teach fully in Estonian by 2030. Politicians aim to better integrate Russian speakers, who make up around 30 % of the population.
Political scientist Félix Krawatzek has data on how the decision is being received. A #ZOiS_Spotlight.
A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social.
A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:
Inequality matters for ethnic conflict. But do group elites actually frame a situation as unjust? In a recent article (doi.org/10.1177/00323217251401758), @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, Christina Zuber and I analyse “grievance frames” in social media posts of ethnic organisations.
My study of 🇪🇺 public opinion is now published! Check it out if you want to know how attitudes towards European integration really covary with political ideology, which policy views predict EU support, and how party positions structure public opinion.
www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
🎉New publication
▶️ Russian speakers are less willing to fight for Latvia than ethnic Latvians.
▶️This is driven by greater Soviet nostalgia. Russian speakers in Latvia are less likely to see Russia as responsible for the war against Ukraine, which reduces their willingness to fight.
🚨New: "Thursdays are for Searches: The Russian Repression Calendar in Occupied Crimea"
➡️ konkoop.de/index.php/da...
📣 Does homophobia win elections?
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📢 📢 Call for Papers
IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop
Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social
🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)
📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026
Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy
#pleaseRT
Article abstract reads: Nature protected areas are hailed as an institutional solution to the global biodi-versity crisis. However, conservation entails local economic costs for some com-munities and benefits for others. We propose that the establishment of protectedareas in Africa follows an ethno-political logic which implies that governmentsdistribute protected areas such that their ethnic constituencies are shielded fromtheir costs but enjoy their benefits. We test this argument using continent-widedata on ethnic groups’ power status and protected area establishment since inde-pendence. Difference-in-differences models show that political inclusion decreasesnature protection in groups’ settlement areas. However, this effect is reversed forprotected areas that plausibly generate tourism income. We also find that ethno-political inclusion is linked to legal degradation of protected areas. Our find-ings support long-voiced concerns by activists that politically marginalized groupscarry disproportional costs of conservation. This has implications, given the likelyexpansion of protected areas the decades to come.
🚨New publication alert! 🚨
Our article “The Ethnic Politics of Nature Protection in Africa” is now out in @thejop.bsky.social 🎉-- fantastic collaboration with Stephen Dawson, @carlmc.bsky.social & Aksel Sundström
Article: doi.org/10.1086/739777
Short summary thread below 👇
❄️ December is here, so it's a good time to plan methods training for 2026! I’ve been asked about methods schools recently, so here’s a non-authoritative list. I did my PhD in Europe, and focus on quantitative political science, so this is inevitably biased and may be outdated. Additions welcome! 🧵👇
Name assimilation increases immigrants' earnings A LOT.
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🚨 The Ethnic Politics of Nature Protection in Africa: New paper with Stephen Dawson, @felixhaass.bsky.social and Aksel Sundström! We find that politically included groups get shielded from the local costs of establishing natural parks. Out now at @thejop.bsky.social shorturl.at/tm78R
🚨 New Publication! 🚨
In this piece, I examine both the extreme and the more “moderate” factions within the AfD 🇩🇪 and compare their positions on 🇺🇦/🇷🇺 with their stances on 🇮🇱/🇵🇸. Key insights and findings👇🏻
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Happy that our paper with @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, and @lstoetze.bsky.social found a home at @thejop.bsky.social. You can read it here 👇
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to all the fantastic people giving feedback and supporting us
Our paper just got accepted in the @thejop.bsky.social 🎉 and is now on the journal website: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... For me personally, it's a milestone: my first paper accepted after a peer review!
🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📸 New research just out revealing disturbing problems with AI image captioning. AI models can now analyse both texts and images, and are trained on vast collections of human-created content spanning centuries. Some claims these models could soon help human historians interpret and explain the past.
The 2025 Estonian local elections will have ramifications for both the national government and parties future strategies. My analysis for @neweasterneurope.eu #baltic #skystorians #europe #polisky
neweasterneurope.eu/2025/11/12/e...
