📢 Big news! 📢 This year, LAPOP Lab will be hosting our second annual Summer School in International Survey Methods! This 9-day intensive training program will take place in person on Vanderbilt's campus from June 17-27, 2024. To take part, be sure to apply by Feb 15. 🔗👇

I'm excited to have received the support from APSA for my dissertation on how Chinese political elites allocate discretionary power to subordinates. Thanks to APSA, my committee Joe Fewsmith, Taylor Boas Yuhua Wang Steve Rosenzweig (@scrosenzweig.bsky.social), & BU Political Science BU Center for Innovation in Social Science for their support!

I am very happy to see this piece with Taylor Boas Danny Hidalgo Monique Menezes accepted in Journal of Politics @[email protected]! It was a great combination of insights from qualitative work tested on quantitative data. Full disclosure: we didn’t know what DAPs were when we started this project!

We are hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor in International Relations for the 2024-25 academic year. Apply by 3/10: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27226. womenalsoknowstuff POCAlsoKnowStuff #psjminfo

En este número se incluye mi reseña del excelente libro de Taylor Boas sobre evangélicos y política electoral en América Latina 👇revistas.usal.es/cuatro/index.p…

***BOOK REVIEW*** We are proud to publish Isabel Castillo C.'s review of "Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America A Kingdom of This World" by Taylor Boas w/Cambridge University Press - Politics! Congrats to both! doi.org/10.14201/rlop.…

New #FirstView #OpenAccess in PS: Political Science & Politics: "Who Participates in Focus Groups? Diagnosing Self-Selection." Analyzing several focus groups recruited from a pool of large-N survey respondents, I assess what variables drive the decision to participate. doi.org/10.1017/S10490…

The BU Political Science graduate students are tearing it up this year. Check them out! First, Farah Adeed has received a SEASSI grant for a two-month summer program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Farah studies religion, elections, and democracy in South and Southeast Asia.

Thanks, Amazon algorithm, for recommending my book to me! They are right: it's available now in paperback for the low, low price of $34.99. Check it out! amazon.com/Evangelicals-E…

Interested in a 20% discount on the paperback edition of Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America? Order from Cambridge University Press - Politics via cambridge.org/9781009275118 and enter POLI1624 at checkout!

We've lost a trailblazer and a mensch. May his memory be for a blessing. Vanderbilt University Political Science LAPOP Lab t.e2ma.net/message/2jrnvk…

"Policies Make Politicians: Intermediaries, State Benefits, and Political Entrepreneurship in Brazil," with Yuri Kasahara, Danny Hidalgo and Monique Menezes, now available Ahead of Print in Journal of Politics @[email protected]! No institutional access? Free PDF for the first 50 that click journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/QNA5SPN…

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Religion, Sexuality Politics, and the Transformation of Latin American Electorates - cup.org/4f3Ly4F - Amy Erica Smith & Taylor Boas

A highly credible, scientific Parallel Vote Tabulation shows a landslide opposition victory in Venezuela. Democracies must act to help the Venezuelan people defend this victory. #VenezuelaLibre

This pre-registered Parallel Vote Tabulation shows convincing evidence of an opposition victory in Venezuela. Kudos to Dalson Figueiredo, Raphael Nishimura, Walter Mebane, and an anonymous Venezuelan scholar for using science to defend democracy. supervisiondev2.metabaseapp.com/public/dashboa…

Is there no strong norm of replicability in quantitative sociology? Went looking for the data from an AJS article and found nothing. Checked out the AJS guidelines--essentially "submitting replication data/code is best practice, but we know it's hard and don't require it."

After four overdue article reviews and a tenure letter in the past two weeks, I finally cleared my plate...for APSA discussant duties, letters for job candidates, a book workshop, and more article reviews. And non-academics think we're "off" when not teaching...

Big APSA News: BU Political Science is hiring! Environmental policy, subfield open. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28327 Info will also be up on ejobs soon. Cc POCAlsoKnowStuff womenalsoknowstuff #psjminfo

An exciting conference is coming up, in an exciting city, Florianópolis, Brazil! Check out the call for WAPOR (World Association for Public Opinion Research) Latin America 2025. I'll be there! waporlatam2025.org