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📢 Join us TODAY (Oct 18) for OPUS Junior Scholars' Workshop at 10 AM CDT (5 PM CEST)! 🎤Presenter: Juan S. Gómez-Cruces (Hasso-Plattner-Institut) 📖Topic: "Rhetorical Fluidity in Populist Discourse" 💬 Discussant: Bruno Castanho Silva (@bcastanho.bsky.social) 👩‍💼 Moderator: Didem Seyis 🔗Registration link: uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

📌The 2nd Junior Scholars' Workshop of the semester was a success w/ Juan S. Gómez-Cruces and Adrien Halliez's paper on rhetorical fluidity in #populist discourse, Bruno Castanho Silva (@bcastanho.bsky.social)'s valuable feedback, Didem Seyis's moderation, and the audience's stimulating questions! Hope to see you on Nov 22!

Beware of monocausal explanations of why Trump won.

And dare I say as a DGS that, today, the world needs political science and statistics and history as much as it ever did. More than ever. It needs YOU, the early career scholars. Let’s go.

Why does Viktor Orbán's approval keep rising as Hungary’s democracy declines? Are Hungarians supporting him—or being silenced? Further analysis reveals the answer: media control, censorship, and misinformation. #Hungary #PeoplesGovt #MediaManipulation #autocracyiscoming

🚨Pollitik’s Fundamentals Forecaster predicts #Noboa will win #Ecuador Presidential elections on Feb 9, 2025! 🇪🇨 With a projected 55.8% of the first-round vote, he could become the first Ecuadorian incumbent to win re-election since 2013. #Elections #Forecasting

We are #hiring a funded #PhD in open-source software or alternative economic and production structures within digital tech as part of the Digital Technology, Governance and Policy Research Group Hasso-Plattner-Institut at Universität Potsdam Application deadline is January 16th tinyurl.com/fd2w4vu8

There is no moral justification for harming children, ever. Deliberately killing children, wounding children, starving children, orphaning children, is evil. There are absolutely no excuses for it. The perpetrators of such atrocities are a permanent stain on human existence.

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Yesterday, at the HPI, we shared our findings in a launch event, “@Pathto_Power 2024. Democracy Disrupted?”. Read more here: pathtopower.global/path-to-power-… Big thanks to Hasso-Plattner-Institut and GIZ for supporting this research project #DemocracyDisrupted #PathToPower #DigitalTechnology

Me reuni hoje pela manhã com a companheira presidenta do México Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. Conversamos sobre a conjuntura econômica na América Latina e Caribe, e no mundo. Decidimos estreitar ainda mais as relações entre nossos dois países promovendo agendas periódicas entre nossos governos

New data reveals a striking contrast between AMLO vs. Claudia Sheinbaum first six months as Mexico's president! AMLO's initial popularity declined amid controversial decisions, while Sheinbaum's approval rose to historic highs especially after U.S. tariff threats.#AMLO #Sheinbaum

Tal como lo advirtió Ciro Gómez Leyva, AMLO, en su cobardía, no se atrevió a salir a votar, por miedo al repudio de la gente.

Interesante que, en general, hay preferencia por perfiles independientes, muy educados y con experiencia en el PJ.

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Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum is currently riding the presidential honeymoon wave, just as predecessors did. But political science tells us this rarely endures. Can she defy history? 🌊📈🤔#MexicanPolitics #CostOfRuling #PoliticalScience #Mexico #Governance #ExecutiveGovernance

Durísimo artículo se ⁦Sabina Berman⁩ hoy en ⁦El Universal⁩

Can language models identify political stances as accurately as experts? We're testing language models to identify political stances using a transparent and academically rigorous approach. Only a bit more calibration, and we will be close to the mean of scores provided by experts