With protests sparking across Indonesian social media,Yoes C. Kenawas's timely presentation will explore Indonesia's first instance of direct dynastic succession by an incumbent president, examining the mechanisms behind Jokowi's dynasty-making. Sign up here: bit.ly/IndonesiaUpdat…

The smarter you are in China the less likely you will start a company. A career in the state is preferred instead. sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/s…

Congrats to our newest cohort of SEAREG Fellows! Kuan-Wu Chen, McCausland College of Arts and Sciences Hui-Yuan Neo, Cornell Government Jae Hyun Park, Political Science Tuwanont Phattharathanasut, 早稲田大学 Waseda University Shourya Sen, Princeton Politics They will present their working papers at the 2024 Winter SEAREG Conference.

Come join us at Copenhagen next summer! This is a really fun and intellectually stimulating conference and we welcome both theoretical and empirical work.

If you or your student defended a dissertation in 2023 or 2024 related to democracy/autocracy, nominations are open for the APSA Juan Linz Dissertation Award. Submissions will be accepted until March 15. Details here: apsanet.org/membership/org…

I wrote a piece for WSJ on the politics of NIH university funding The reactions have been incredibly polarizing - not surprisingly! Realistically I don’t think universities can get back to high indirects any time soon 🧵

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Andrew & I are excited to share “Presidential Election Concessions.” We present a new global dataset on concessions in presidential elections in all countries worldwide from 1980 to 2024 /1

Happy (that’s putting it mildly) to announce my new book, Dominance Through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan. Publication date: today! If you are interested in: cambridge.org/core/books/dom…

Our article “Social Media Narratives Across Conflict: Evidence from Syria” is now ahead of print at the Journal of Politics! Journal of Politics @[email protected] Kiran Garimella Erin Walk Ahmet Akbiyik

"GERDA: The German Election Database" is now officially out: nature.com/articles/s4159… Check out the data and more here: german-elections.com

1/ Three big, new India-relevant articles in American Political Science Review. Sumitra Badrinathan, Simon Chauchard & Niloufer Siddiqui on misinformation and vigilantism cambridge.org/core/journals/…

From Jerome Powell's speech at Princeton yesterday: "...Our great universities are the envy of the world and a crucial national asset. Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted." federalreserve.gov/newsevents/spe…

🚨NEW PAPER: Why are Members of Congress so extreme? We conducted a 4-wave panel of thousands of voters in 27 districts during last year’s primary AND general elections to trace polarization’s roots The results challenge conventional wisdom… and suggest lessons for parties🧵👇

In the Global South, WhatsApp is more popular than X or Facebook. New in Journal of Politics @[email protected], we ran a WhatsApp deactivation experiment during Brazil’s 2022 election to explore how the app facilitates the spread of misinformation and affects voters’ attitudes. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

Check out my sister’s new article about Diego Rivera in Art Bulletin!