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🚨🚨 A new dataset on autocracies in town!!🚨🚨
In this new paper, I introduce "OPAMED" – the first large-N dataset on party members in party-based autocracies.
*IT IS OPEN ACCESS*🔓🔑(thanks @goteborgsuni)
A 🧵on why it is useful/how to use it 1/8
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Where not #OpenAccess, articles in our November 2023 issue are free to read until the end of 2024 -
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With papers by @ma_xinru, @daveckang, @jessicacweiss, @jerometenk, @kasuya_yuko, @thedailyseth, @BurhanMuhtadi, @GidongKim3, @FabioAngiolillo & many more
T O D A Y!
Come and join us for a new great workshop!
Joi us today Nov 5 for a great workshop!
@vlad_surdea (@ceu) will present "The Repression-Dissent Nexus in High-Threat Environments: Evidence from Communist Romania" and @AnjaNeundorf (@UofGlasgow) @rgolar23 (@LawGovDCU) and Eugenia Nazrullaeva (@LSEPublicPolicy) will discuss!
More takes on Trump's authoritarian traits, here are 2 visuals.
US party system's democracy index (PSDI) shows alarming erosions over the last 10 years dropping by 25%. Much more than the overall democracy levels.
Tomorrow's vote is very much on democratic preferences.
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👓What is the link between voters' perceptions of ideological incongruence with political parties and their satisfaction with democracy?
➡️@RCarrollEssex, @liaoyenchieh & L. Tang explore it using panel data from British Election Study data cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView
Present your work on autocracies in Birmingham next April during @PolStudiesAssoc!!
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⏳ Only 5 days to submit your abstracts for #PSA25 in Birmingham (14-16 April 2025)! Spread the word and get involved in our 75th Annual Conference!
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Join us on October 22 (8:00am PST, 11:00am EST, 5:00pm CET) for @AlsaadiSalam (@UofT_PolSci)'s presentation on Ethnic Stacking and Authoritarian Loyalty followed by comments by @MaiOHassan (@MITPoliSci) and @annemeng_ (@UVA).
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@anam_kuraishi will be speaking about her new book @iddbirmingham on 16 October - please do join us!
*Note new time - 2-3:30pm!
Many thanks to @joykailingxie for organising!
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How do domestic politics shape powerful states' engagement with international orders?
In a new 🚨 @SecStudies_Jrnl article 🚨, I look at Ming and Qing emperor legitimacy needs and Chinese tribute exchanges between the 14th and 19th centuries: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Our meta-analysis on executive power & corruption is now out in @cps_journal! 📜🔍
Together with @sg_dawson & Georgios Xezonakis, we dive into how constitutional designs influence corruption levels & what drives variation across studies. Check it out!
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On open access @PSRMJournal: Ballot symbols influence vote choice in India, and candidates respond by trying to choose popular symbols in a lottery
If you're an independent candidate reading this, you want the diamond ring and you want to avoid the ghobi
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New article! 🚨
"Prestige projects" in international development often have suspect developmental merit and a knack for controversy. What explains their persistence?
In @ISQ_Jrnl, I analyze demand for and supply of Chinese-financed prestige projects : academic.oup.com/isq/article…
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CALL for PAPERS for our Spring 2025 season is now open! 📣
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🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
Are you studying the Western Balkans? Submit your abstract for the "Contemporary Politics in the Western Balkans" workshop in Stockholm (April 10-11, 2025).
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1/ New paper @Nature!
Discrepancy between human expectations of task difficulty and LLM errors harms reliability. In 2022, Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut predicted: "perhaps over time that discrepancy will diminish" (youtu.be/W-F7chPE9nU, min 61-64).
We show this is *not* the case!





















