I’m thrilled to share that my first academic publication is out Social Forces. In this paper, with Gary Adler, Jr. | Sociological Distancer, we analyze religious identity and behavior over time to analyze the secularization question in Turkey. 1/n academic.oup.com/sf/advance-art…

On my way to Philadelphia to attend APSA and the Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference. Looking forward to presenting and meeting friends!

In #APSA2024 I co-organize "Authoritarian Statecraft 2.0". You are welcome to weigh in! I will present part of my dissertation -> how the CCP coopt lawyers to manipulate judiciary and show selective rule of law. Check this out... tinyurl.com/2yova2gk

نظر من در مورد اوضاع واحوال در کویت - برای ایرانیان: سیاست، دموکراسی و آزادی ‌بیان در کویت - در گفت‌وگو با فرناز سیفی aasoo.org/fa/articles/49… Farnaz Seifi(فرناز سیفی) آسو - Aasoo

Very excited for #APSA2024! I’ll be presenting a paper coauthored with Giancarlo Visconti on the long-term impact of armed conflict on voter turnout in Colombia. Check out our work in the panel Political Violence in Latin America (Friday at 2pm, 📍Marriott, Salon K).

New Pre-print out today! We're releasing Political DEBATE -- a new set of language models for zero/few-shot classification of political text. The models are open source, small enough to run on your laptop, and as good as proprietary LLMs within domain. arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02078

Kicking off #APSA24 bright and early tomorrow morning in the Democratic Backsliding panel (📍8am in Marriot, Franklin 6). I’ll be presenting my master’s thesis examining the relationship between implementation gender quotas and electoral violence. #PhDChat

If you are at APSA this week and work on political behavior and/or authoritarian regimes, pass by our panel tomorrow (Thursday) at 2pm in Franklin 13 (Marriott). I'll be presenting work on Lebanon with Christiana Parreira and Lindsay Walsh!

Mike is on the market this year, and anyone looking for someone at the cutting edge of LLMs and American Politics would do well to give his file a close look!

***DEMOCRACY AND THE UNIVERSITY***, hybrid roundtable on 24 Sept 4pm U-M Center for Emerging Democracies! Save the date! Registration details to follow

My new paper in Comparative Politics with Claire Trilling is out today! "Who Gains from Nonviolent Action? Unpacking the Logics of Civil Resistance" We ask: Are excluded minorities always at a disadvantage in civil resistance? 👇1/2

Interesting new article by Nick Lotito and Renanah Miles Joyce in JCR explores high levels of public trust in military across the Global South using public opinion data from 73 countries between 1995 and 2017 doi.org/10.1177/002200…

The past few years I've been developing a new research agenda exploring how the built environment -- the architecture of urban space -- shapes grassroots politics in urban Africa. Really excited to share part of this work AJPS: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 1/5

Is bicameralism good for democracy? 40% of African states have introduced an upper chamber to their legislature in the last thirty years. For government and western donors, this is good for democracy. My research suggests otherwise. The Conversation theconversation.com/african-countr…

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Siyasat Arabiya and Middle East Law & Governance: Special Issue on Quantitative Methods in the Political Science of the Arab Region Call for Papers dohainstitute.org/en/News/Pages/…

I recently updated this paper. The revision makes a stronger case for adopting the analytic lens of issue voting for studying coalitions. I think this framework is useful for understanding the effects of campaigns and media, as well as interpreting long-run realignments.

Amazing!

Deadline is this Sunday!