Excited to be part of a workshop discussing opportunities for electoral reform (proportional representation no less!) in the United States. So much to learn from practitioners and activists in the field advocating for these reforms! Harvard Kennedy School

The Yale Community is invited to a 2-day conference on "Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies" this Friday and Sat: bit.ly/3mnC8us Isabela Mares Hahrie Han 한 하 리 Dan Mattingly Robert Lieberman Daniel Schlozman Melis G. Laebens @KubikJan David Samuels Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social David Bateman Yale MacMillan Center

This Friday and Saturday I will be organizing a conference with Isabela Mares at Yale MacMillan Center and YALE CHESS from a collective project on how liberal democracies can counter illiberalism. A short 🧵1/5

Reminder to join us today at 12-1:15 pm if you’re around New Haven. Looking very much forward to the discussion; thanks Isabela Mares for the invitation! isps.yale.edu/events/2023/03…

Girls power!

Economics ran out of pressing issues to solve?

Congratulations to Isabela Mares, whose book Protecting the Ballot has been named the winner of the European Politics & Society Best Book Award by @ApsaEuro/APSA! Available now in hardcover, paperback, and ebook: hubs.ly/Q01SmbbC0 Isabela Mares

I'm happy to share that "Pawned States" is the co-winner of the Riker Award for the best book in political economy from APSA. Thanks to the Committee and to the many friends and colleagues who helped along the way!

#Vol11Iss3 | Using a survey experiment from the United States during COVID, Kate Baldwin and Isabela Mares examine how different forms of populist rhetoric affect the desire for social protection during a time of crisis. Article in #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…

Thank you Francesc Amat and Dídac Queralt for a fantastic workshop @yale Universitat de Barcelona

I am very grateful for the invitation and looking forward to meet colleagues and friends at Brown. Thank you Professor @ErikPatashnik @WatsonInstitute for the invitation

📅3-4 Nov Oxford Politics and IR will host a workshop organised by Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia & Isabela Mares Isabela Mares, on strategies pro-democratic forces can adopt to counter the rise of #illiberalism in #liberal #democracies. (For uni members only). ow.ly/T78c50Q16M7

Re-reading one of the most profound, dense and innovative modern articles on peace: "Violence, Peace, and Peace Research" by Johan Galtung in Journal of Peace Research 1969. Footnote 4 reads: " Bertrand Russell writes (Autobiography,Vol, III, p. 221): 'When I was young..." 1/9

Coming soon with the wonderful Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 & Isabela Mares : The Democracy Deficit & the Future of the RoL in the EU 📌 5/12 4.15 ET (in person & online) 👉Information and registration: europeanstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/event/esc-yls-… Yale Law School Yale European Studies Council Yale MacMillan Center Samuel Moyn 🔭

Hours into negotiations on opening accession talks with Ukraine, it was Germany's Olaf Scholz who came up with the solution. Scholz told Orbán that he could leave the room so other leaders could take an unanimous decision, two officials said. Updates: politico.eu/article/europe…

A glimpse into the future of rule of law in the EU

Comparativists: it is time for section prize nominations! In the thread below we include contacts and information for each of our prizes for book, article, paper, dataset, emerging scholars, and mentoring apsanet.org/section20

Thank you, Daniel Hellmann, for the fantastic review of my recent book, Protecting the Ballot. pw-portal.de/themen/isabela…

Very excited to present new paper from our #MINISTERIALLOBBY DFG public | @[email protected] project in which we study how institutional design affects electoral selection at Yale University tomorrow!

A very important new research tool. Congratulations to the authors!