Beyond excited to see my amazing co-author Elizabeth Evans's and my book Disability and Political Representation in the flesh! Thank you to all the disabled politicians and representatives of Disabled People's Orgs who shared their experiences with us over the past 5 years. [1/2]

Join us in #Prague to discuss the future of the party paradigm ECPR SG Parties- deadline to submit a paper proposal: 21 November #ecprjs25 ecpr.eu/Events/Event/W…

We are pleased to invite you to the 2024 SSEES Postgraduate Conference, with keynotes by Tymofii Brik of Kyiv School of Economics and Mariya Levitanus of UoECPASS. 🗓️ 04-05 November 2024 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ buff.ly/3A5lx5r

US election forecasts! 🇺🇸 Delighted to see the PS special issue (19 articles) available online. I’m grateful to my co-editor, Philippe Mongrain, the contributors, reviewers, & the PS editorial team for their dedication to this project. POLITICAL FORECASTING GROUP Mizzou Truman School of Gov't & Public Affairs

À fire alarm delayed Baltic independence by a week. But it was a real pleasure yesterday to have Paris Pin-Yu Chen (Uni of Birmingham, f: UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies PhD) with us for another week of Baltic Politics & Society seminars! Always great to chat in Estonian with my Taiwanese friend, too. 🙂

Moldova, EU membership referendum: 99.5% counted Against: 50% In favour: 50% ➤ europeelects.eu/moldova

I'm going to share some graphs that dig a bit into what we can make of Moldova's first round of presidential elections and the EU referendum. I'm not going to consider the diaspora and only take voters within Moldova. I'm also going to present vote shares by region.

Are you interested in parliaments, political careers, and in opportunities for and resistances to greater diversity in pol. institutions?📑 Then there is a workshop for you at the ECPR Joint Sessions, sponsored by SGParliaments & hosted by Ragnhild L Muriaas & @CoffeHilde! 💫 info in🧵

Baltic Sexualities in Global Perspective is next week! We have brilliant papers, a keynote from Riikka Taavetti, and a roundtable on transnational approaches to sexualities with Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Richard Mole, Kath Browne & Yulia Gradskova. Register here tinyurl.com/5a8382c8

📊Do you want to estimate the transfer of votes between parties from one election to another? ➡️Jose M Pavia & Søren Risbjerg Thomsen introduce a new ecological inference technique: ecolRxC cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

Do changes in a party's leadership personnel matter for party policy? In this new article (🚨) in Party Politics, Wolfgang C. Müller and I show that new people in the main party executive introduce change in issue emphasis.🧵 🔓Open access: doi.org/10.1177/135406…

Why did attitudes towards racial mixing changed around early 1930s in Estonia? Brace yourself for a scandalous love story (on many levels!) and global connections in my article for the Estonian cultural monthly Vikerkaar vikerkaar.ee/archives/30967

This is an outstandingly good thread. It's heartening to know that the author of it is on the Defence Select Committee.

Call for applications for visiting fellows: “Subjectivities of Owning Land: Land Redistribution and the Nation-State in the Baltics Across the 20th Century” with Herder-Institut für hist. Ostmitteleuropaforschung Uni of Birmingham and Martin-Opitz-Bibliothek. See below for details...

Out in Feb 2025 with Hurst Publishers my new book tells a story of the making and unmaking of Kazakhstani identity. It also features a long overdue chapter on December 1986 protests & my decade-long archival search for the lost bits of colonial history hurstpublishers.com/book/what-does…

Join the Annual Lithuanian Political Science Conference “The Year of Elections: Lithuania, Europe, the World” on December 5-6 at IIRPS VU (Vokiečių str. 10, Vilnius)! Keynote speakers: Prof. Allan Sikk and Prof. Jan Claas Behrends. Find more information in the link below:

Honoured and excited to be invited to give a keynote speech about political parties and their people at the Annual Lithuanian Political Science Conference next week. Looking forward to wintry Vilnius! 🙂

Excited to share INSTAPARTY project paper co-authored w Raimondas Ibenskas, Paulina Sałek-Lipcean & Sona Golder in Legislative Studies Quarterly: Independents in Parliament: Temporary Status or Final Destination? doi.org/10.1111/lsq.70… instapartyproject.com