1/ New paper nature! Discrepancy between human expectations of task difficulty and LLM errors harms reliability. In 2022, Ilya Sutskever Ilya Sutskever predicted: "perhaps over time that discrepancy will diminish" (youtu.be/W-F7chPE9nU, min 61-64). We show this is *not* the case!

🚨 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). Deadline: Nov 1, 2024 🔗 forms.office.com/e/ADuWCi4CPd #WesternBalkans #PoliticalScience #CFP

New call for papers out!! Send us your best abstracts on authoritarian politics by 31 October 🎃

New article! 🚨 "Prestige projects" in international development often have suspect developmental merit and a knack for controversy. What explains their persistence? In International Studies Quarterly, I analyze demand for and supply of Chinese-financed prestige projects : academic.oup.com/isq/article-ab…

On open access PSRM Journal: 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 tinyurl.com/ypxa9b44

Our meta-analysis on executive power & corruption is now out in Comparative Political Studies! 📜🔍 Together with Stephen Dawson & Georgios Xezonakis, we dive into how constitutional designs influence corruption levels & what drives variation across studies. Check it out! 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

How do domestic politics shape powerful states' engagement with international orders? In a new 🚨 Security Studies article 🚨, I look at Ming and Qing emperor legitimacy needs and Chinese tribute exchanges between the 14th and 19th centuries: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

⁦Anam Kuraishi⁩ will be speaking about her new book ⁦International Development Department⁩ on 16 October - please do join us! *Note new time - 2-3:30pm! Many thanks to ⁦Kailing XIE⁩ for organising! ⁦College of Social Sciences⁩ ⁦Government Bham⁩ birmingham.ac.uk/schools/govern…

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Present your work on autocracies in Birmingham next April during Political Studies Association!! Last few days to submit your proposal to the newly establish ARC PSA section on authoritarian regimes!

👓What is the link between voters' perceptions of ideological incongruence with political parties and their satisfaction with democracy? ➡️Royce Carroll, Yen-Chieh (David) Liao & L. Tang explore it using panel data from British Election Study data cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

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What's the difference between intraparty preference heterogeneity, disagreement and conflict? Why are some these bad for parties but not others? We (w/ Nicole Bolleyer, Geschwister-Scholl-Institut f. Politikwissenschaft) tidy up the field and provide first answers. OA European Research Council (ERC)

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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Where not #OpenAccess, articles in our November 2023 issue are free to read until the end of 2024 - cup.org/3YgvRjh With papers by Xinru Ma, Dave Kang, Jessica Chen Weiss, Jeremy Wallace, yuko kasuya, Seth Soderborg, IG @burhanuddinmuhtadi, Gidong Kim, Fabio Angiolillo & many more