Paper: conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f2…

🔙 Did you miss our most-read book reviews in 2024? Read them now! 1⃣ Rebellion by Robert Kagan 🔗 tinyurl.com/nhkvaesv 2⃣ Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum 🔗 tinyurl.com/3zm5dmv5 3⃣ The Dispersion of Power by Sam Bagg (migrating to @samuel-bagg.bsky.social) 🔗 tinyurl.com/4vfpbab9

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨 The Political Science Graduate Symposium at USC has extended the submission deadline for American Politics, Public Policy/Admin, and Theory to January 15, 2025! Submit your abstract now: tinyurl.com/2vzfufas Let’s make this an event to remember!

강원대학교 통일강원연구원 선임연구원 채용 [마감: 2025년 2월 24일(월)]

We see some 🔥 work from Robert Kubinec on the first Trump trade war 👀 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Fantastic question, and one I’ve been thinking about for a long time. If you are willing to choose a preferred specification, you can report the smallest distance such that you do not reject all other specifications are within that distance from your main specification.

🗺️Can a legislator’s birthplace shape their vote? ➡C. Emrich H. Style & RJ. V. Wielen find that legislators’ roots leave a lasting political imprint. Those born near each other vote similarly, even beyond party or district demands cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

(1/4) 🚨Excited to share my new solo article in Political Behavior: “The Effects of Partisan Elites’ Violent Rhetoric on Support for Political Violence” This study examines how co-party elites’ violent rhetoric can fuel support for political violence focused on the U.S.

📊Structural equation modeling is common in political science, but model specification is tricky. ➡️B.Q. Zheng & P.M. Bentler propose a stepwise bootstrapped LM test to better detect missing parameters—improving fit, especially in small samples cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

강원대학교 통일강원연구원 개원·한국냉전학회 창립 10주년 공동학술회의(5.16.-17) kius.kangwon.ac.kr/Home/H40000/H4…

Our article on legislative cooptation and opposition in the Kuwait National Assembly is finally out at British Jnl Poli Sci! Check out the quoted thread for a discussion of our key findings. Link: doi.org/10.1017/S00071…

Global Challenges to Democracy by Valerie J. Bunce, Thomas B. Pepinsky, Rachel Beatty Riedl and Kenneth M. Roberts The first comprehensive, cross-regional comparative study of democratic backsliding and resiliency around the world. 📚 cup.org/43kwx9I

New book out: "Political Correctness in Academia: A Public Choice Analysis". A sharp and timely read—highly recommended!

카이스트 디지털인문사회과학부 및 데이터사이언스대학원에서 정치학/계산사회과학을 연구하고 있는 김태균입니다. 저희 Knowledge & Democracy Lab에서는 2026년 봄학기 디지털인문사회과학부 대학원 신입생 모집에 맞춰, 계산사회과학을 전공할 박사(Ph.D.)/석사(M.S.) 과정 학생을 찾고 있습니다.

How do gender stereotypes shape voters’ evaluations of female politicians in conservative electoral autocracies? New research from ERC affiliate Marwa Shalaby and coauthors in Morocco finds little evidence that stereotypes drive voter assessments. 🔗journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

"Represents what is best about comparative-historical analysis & is an essential touchstone not only for Latin Americanists, but for any scholar who works on regime change." The Birth of Democracy in South America by Raúl L. Madrid, Out Now #OA #Politics cup.org/43txg9X

Yet another task LLMs can do decently well... replicate V-DEM democracy ratings (with some predictable failures) arxiv.org/abs/2503.22315

My new book -- Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America and New Global Disorder -- comes out on October 28, 2025. You can preorder now: harpercollins.com/products/autoc…