🚨New on the #PSABlog PSA Chief Executive Michelle Doyle Wildman shares her reflections on a new report into trends in higher education research funding. And asks: is it time for a rethink? Read now: psa.ac.uk/psa/news/does-…

🚨 Issue 3/2024 is out now🚨 #UK General Elections on Facebook, fair-weather voters, anxiety and #policy, class #inequalities, and more! 👉 bit.ly/4aRhmaK The Political Studies Association Daniel Béland Patrícia Rossini / [email protected] Andreas (Nishikawa-)Pacher Ed Goodger Leticia M.Ruiz Rodríguez Tauchid Komara Yuda Dr. J. Stromer-Galley Emily Harmer

🚨 Nominations open until 6 September We are pleased to invite nominations for the 2024/2025 W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize which is awarded annually to the best book published in political science. Edinburgh University Press IntellectBooks Palgrave Macmillan Find out more: psa.ac.uk/psa/news/nomin…

🚨 Funding Opportunity We are delighted to continue supporting Black and minority ethnic students undertaking PhD study in Politics and International Relations through our Diverse Voices PhD Student Programme 2024. Find out more and apply: psa.ac.uk/diverse-voices…

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🚨Is Scottish Independence More Likely in the Future? Unpacking age, period and cohort effects, we find that... the most appropriate answer is that time will neither help nor hurt the independence movement🗳️ Open Acces: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11… The Political Studies Association Political Studies Review

We wanted to let you know that we will be taking a short break this month. We will answer all emails and process new submissions in mid-September 2024.

The research suggests that increased polarisation in #UK politics since #Brexit led to more negative Facebook campaigns in 2019 compared to 2017. 👉More: tiny.cc/e9gizz The Political Studies Association Patrícia Rossini / [email protected] Emily Harmer Dr. J. Stromer-Galley

"The outstanding strength of this book lies in its use of data, especially (but not only) from the #British #Election Study" 👉More: tiny.cc/tagizz The Political Studies Association PSA Parliaments @

PSR publishes papers where there was a sound theoretical reason for stipulating hypotheses but where these hypotheses had to be rejected. 👉The Null Hypothesis section: tiny.cc/9wi3vz 👉PSR article types: psr.brunel.ac.uk/article-types The Political Studies Association #NullEffectsMatter

#Throwback: This article provides an overview of the state of compromise in political theory, where compromise is increasingly discussed as a promising approach to dealing with disagreement in #politics and #society. 👉More: tiny.cc/1g2bvz The Political Studies Association @PSAPolThough

🔻New release 🔻Satisfaction with #democracy is key for stability. The author explores its relationship with party system closure, which refers to the predictability of inter-party relations in the governmental sphere. 👉More: tiny.cc/s4gizz The Political Studies Association

We’ve gathered together the key things you need to know about PSR Special Issues 👉If you want to submit your proposal, follow these guidelines: psr.brunel.ac.uk/special-issue

(2) From January 2025, Nora Siklodi, David Norman, Daffyd Townley, & I will be the new editorial team for Political Studies Review. We are excited to carry on the great work from Brunel Politics & History. x.com/PolStudiesAsso…

Lovely to see my recent Political Studies Review The Political Studies Association article with Lauren C. Bell Dr Amy Tatum Dr Caroline Leicht trending on the journal homepage. The article explores the value of ChatGPT as tool for research on state and territory level US politics👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

📢 Call for Papers for #PSA25 Want to join us for our 75th Annual Conference at the University of Birmingham from 14-16 April 2025? Make sure to submit your abstracts until 18 October. We look forward to hearing from you! More: psa.ac.uk/events/psa-ann…

🔻New release 🔻 "This article provides insights for those wishing to understand the value of tools such as #ChatGPT for political research generally, and for state and territory level #US #politics specifically." 👉More: bit.ly/4ehEbp5 #AI #artificalintelligence

🚨 Nominations open until 20 September We are pleased to invite nominations for the W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize which is awarded annually to the best book published in political science. Find out more: psa.ac.uk/psa/news/nomin…

To avoid losing the immediacy (and #impact) of the exciting early results, in the PSR Early Results section, authors can release early findings from projects in a short article format. 👉More: psr.brunel.ac.uk/article-types/ The Political Studies Association PSA ECN #AcademicTwitter #polsci