If you’re into race, gender, political institutions, and like a little causal inference in your coffee, check out my new open-access article! I show how minority legislators adapt to systemic barriers by cosponsoring more than their non minority peers—with SDID to back it up.

Again, I think academics have perhaps not quite groked what this sort of wholesale removal of a model means for replication in science. This isn’t versioned or downloadable, and you won’t be able to recreate it

What drives elected officials to engage with foreign security policy in democracies? Walter C. Ladwig III shows that in India’s Lok Sabha, electoral security, party affiliation, and social identity shape parliamentary attention—not just public salience. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/21…

Our article on legislative cooptation and opposition in the Kuwait National Assembly is finally out at British Jnl Poli Sci! Check out the quoted thread for a discussion of our key findings. Link: doi.org/10.1017/S00071…

Excited to contribute to this forum with a great group of scholars on how and why high-level diplomatic visits matter in IR. My chapter offers a conceptual framework to understand the determinants of such visits, drawing on insights from the existing literature. Check it out!

Excited to share my new article! I examine eight leaders from the Middle East by using a dataset including 1,307 political statements with nearly 2 million words. International Political Science Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Thank you to all speakers, participants & supporters of the 4th Global Conference on Parliamentary Studies that took place on Friday, 13.6.2025 in Athens! Your presence, insights & energy made this event truly special. Press release with the key outcomes: hellenicocrteam.gr/conclusion/

One of the most rewarding and professionally enriching experiences I’ve had was my traineeship at the European Economic and Social Committee’s External Relations section EESC External Relations If you’re curious about EU foreign affairs, trade & civil society engagement with EU neighbors, then this opportunity’s for you!

What if multilateralism isn’t a safeguard but a strategy deployed by autocracies? Daniëlle Flonk (一橋大学) & Maria Debre unpack how autocrats use “hollow multilateralism” to reshape global rules from within: doi.org/10.1093/ia/iia…

🌐 World leaders' first foreign trips reveal more than diplomatic protocol - they are carefully crafted political stories. ✈️ Meray Maddah & Max Heermann analyse inaugural diplomatic journeys to uncover stability and change in global networks 👇 bit.ly/4lY2FHQ

The Pardee Center for IFs Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) dataset is freely available to use and a great resource for studying global patterns of diplomacy: korbel.du.edu/pardee/country…

🔔 New piece for European Consortium for Political Research 's The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR w/ Max Heermann where we map inaugural travels of world leaders using Pardee Center for IFs 's #COLT of over 78K+ foreign trips by Heads of State & gov from 1990-2023. 👉 theloop.ecpr.eu/world-leaders-…

#OpenAccess from Politics & Gender - Gender Representation in Expert Advisory Bodies: Evidence from Norway - cup.org/455MS4n - Cathrine Holst, Johan Christensen & Solveig Topstad Borgen #FirstView

the feminine urge to reply to a statistical generalization with an anecdotal counter example

NEW - Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/47TPjIL - Hauke Licht & Ronja Sczepanski #OpenAccess

📢 Preprint! "𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁" After 2 years of questioning, I identify AI's two main pathways threatening cognitive agency. 🧵[1/n]

"What Happens When Women Win Elections? The Electoral Returns to Increased Representation of Women" by Frederik K. Kjøller, Benjamin C. K. Egerod, Lene Holm Pedersen, and Jens Olav Dahlgaard. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Hello everyone. A friend told me that I shouldn't post this message because it made me and other PhD students look bad. But I actually think it's important to show how PhD students (especially foreign ones) have to deal not only with research-related difficulties, but also with