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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Sep 8

Multilateralism is not necessarily fading! There is still civilian support for it in different parts of the world. Using two sets of independent conjoint experiments, we show that civilians in Liberia prefer multilateral actors (the UN) to oversee (not rebuild) security sector reforms

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Sep 5

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social -

International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia - cup.org/47q06KN

- Cameron Mailhot & @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social

#FirstView

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The Gender and Security Sector Lab @gsslab.bsky.social · Sep 8

📣 Publication alert 📣

GSS Lab Director Dr. Sabrina Karim (@sabrinamkarim.bsky.social) and GSS Lab Fellow Dr. Cameron Mailhot have a new paper out on civilian preferences for international state building, utilizing survey evidence from Liberia.

Congratulations! 🎊

#polisky #int-rel

International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia | International Organization | Cambridge Core

International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Sep 5

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social -

International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia - cup.org/47q06KN

- Cameron Mailhot & @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social

#FirstView

Wayne Sandholtz @wsandholtz.bsky.social · Nov 20

Are you a researcher who hopes your work will shape policy?
*Consider policymakers' incentives!*
For a policy to have legs, politicians must believe it will help them win elections🗳️. But researchers often (willfully?) overlook this crucial detail. A 🧵 on my recent WP: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

School reform in Liberia improved test scores but lost votes by

Public service reforms can provoke political backlash from service providers, but when quality increases sufficiently, the electoral rewards can outweigh the costs

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Jun 29

www.cnn.com/travel/ithac...

This upstate New York town is a showstopper for scenery | CNN

Jam-packed with waterfalls tumbling through dramatic gorges, the vibrant college town of Ithaca in New York’s Finger Lakes region also has the cultural landscape of a much larger destination.

www.cnn.com

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · Jun 16

Paper on the ideology gender gap with Eurobarometer data from @gesis.org by @nennstielr.bsky.social and
@hudde.bsky.social . Most interesting finding: while young women are becoming more left-wing in 11 countries, in 5 of them young men are also becoming more right-wing (DK, FI, SE, FR and LT)

Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries

Abstract. Growing gender differences in political ideology among young people are a major concern because of their potential long-term societal implication

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Jun 13

This is the best ad

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jun 7

www.military.com/daily-news/2...

a big part of this is that if they have a choice between having an integrated service that's inclusive or a divided service that's not, they'll opt for the latter because they believe that integration destroys institutions

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jun 6

This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

To trust the polling, the trends are perhaps more distressing among those still too young to have even dipped their toes into the work force. According to the data analyst David Waldron’s assessment of the world-class Monitoring the Future Survey, run by the University of Michigan, in 2018, 84 percent of eighth- and 10th-grade boys said they agreed either “completely” or “mostly” that women should have the same job opportunities as men. Five years later, the number had fallen to 72 percent. The share who agreed “at all” that men and women should be paid the same money for the same work had fallen from 87 percent to 79 percent. The share who said they agreed “completely” with equal pay for equal work had fallen from 72 percent to 57 percent — just over half.

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · May 16

I’ll be working on salvaging as much as I can from my defunded NSF CAREER grant

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · May 16

Cornell University College of Arts & Sciences is nicely represented: nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Two A&S professors awarded the Berlin Prize

The highly competitive Berlin Prize is awarded annually to U.S.-based scholars, writers, composers and artists from the United States who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · May 16

Very excited to be joining the Spring 2026 fellows at the American Academy in Berlin @americanacademy.bsky.social What an amazing group of people!

www.americanacademy.de/announcing-t...

Announcing the 2025-26 Class of Fellows - American Academy in Berlin

Learn more about the incoming class of Berlin Prize Fellows and their projects.

www.americanacademy.de

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 1

🧪 Concrete evidence of political motives:

Out of 1044 NSF terminations so far, *not a single one* started under Trump 1.0. Zilch. Nada. 0%.

That is, all terminated NSF awards started Feb 1, 2021 or later after Biden took office.

Yet, Trump 1.0 awards still account for 15% of still-active awards.

Graph comparing % of NSF awards separated for those terminated vs. all active by award start year

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

So sorry Jeff

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

I am so sorry to hear about the Journeys grant. It is such an amazing program and I learned so much from it.

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

Without this grant, we will lack crucial knowledge about the extent of police violence globally, about how to prevent it, and about how to transform police forces into agencies that protect civilians rather than perpetrate violence against them.

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

Finally, it included an educational component to train police officers from around the world on how they can work to mitigate police violence within their own agencies.

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

It also involved conducting the largest quantitative survey of police officers worldwide—including participants from Uruguay, Senegal, Zambia, Jordan, and many other countries—to understand how officers' experiences shape their decisions about using force.

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

Using these data, the project sought to identify the political causes of police violence and ways to mitigate it.

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

This project used large language models and machine learning to aggregate data on global police violence, uncovering the extent of the problem, geographic variation, and differences in types of violence.

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

All around the world, police forces commit violence against civilians on a daily basis—whether during protests, through extrajudicial killings, or in routine abuses during traffic stops.

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

What was my research about?

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

After winning it, my plan was to dedicate the resulting book to him. Now, I am not sure that I will be able to finish the book. Aside from this loss, and the obvious job loss for my students and post-doc, each termination comes with a cost to losing knowledge.

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

This is the most prestigious award that the NSF gave out to junior scholars and something that my dad had always pushed me to apply for and hoped I would win.

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

Now, I am not sure that I will be able to finish the book. Aside from this loss, and the obvious job loss for my students and post-doc, each termination comes with a cost to losing knowledge.

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

This is the most prestigious award that the NSF gave out to junior scholars and something that my dad had always pushed me to apply for and hoped I would win. After winning it, my plan was to dedicate the resulting book to him.

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · Apr 24

For this month's final member spotlight, check out our Q&A with @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social . The feature dives into her work on the role of gender inclusion & gender norms on police performance as well as citizen trust in security institutions. Read more: buff.ly/AX1x0YH

Q&A with Members: Gender and policing with Sabrina Karim – EGAP

Author: Max Méndez Beck

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The Gender and Security Sector Lab @gsslab.bsky.social · Apr 23

Congratulations @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social, @zinab.bsky.social, @kathleenfallon.bsky.social, Inka Lilja, and Sarah Rowse for their hard work!

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Ulrich Glogowsky @uglogowsky.bsky.social · Apr 10

🚨 New #Publication: We tracked how policy and parenthood reshaped gender inequality in Germany from the 1960s to today. In early decades, only 14% of the gender gap was due to kids—now it's 64%.

How did children become the biggest factor? Thread🧵

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 with Hansen, @dominiksachs.bsky.social & Lüthen

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