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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 20h

The October issue of @worldpolitics.bsky.social is out! Have a read: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55724 #WTO #Africa #autocrats #multilateralism #TheSouth #ExchangeRate #partisanship #race #politics #Colombia @nlnathan.bsky.social

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Got Theory? World Politics articles do. In this new series, we will highlight the theoretical contributions of current and past @worldpolitics.bsky.social articles, as submissions that succeed at WP significantly advance theoretical debates in #international #relations or #comparative #politics.

World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

The October issue of @worldpolitics.bsky.social is publishing soon! It discusses #WTO rulings; #autocrats & city street networks; the #Southern turn away from #multilateralism; how #partisanship affects exchange rate policy; and land titling, #race, and #political #violence in #Colombia

World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 7d

World Politics now has an #AI policy! That #policy lives on our website wpj.princeton.edu/authors-revi... and will be included in our updated Editorial Policies and Procedures document. The #journal is also adding an AI query to ScholarOne #Manuscripts that all #authors will be required to answer.

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 16d

Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...
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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 16d

This figure shows that across 6 #European countries, among potential Social Democratic Party voters, economically left and culturally progressive positions are more popular. Only on the issue of #immigration is this moderated by education.

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 16d

In Figure 7 from their @worldpolitics.bsky.social July article, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Hausermann, Reto Mitteregger, Nadja Mosimann, and Markus Wagner address whether #policy positions create divergent reactions among groups of Social Democratic Party #voters, based on #education

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 24d

Individual requesters either learned to make more expert requests or gave up; and officials developed strategies to handle the large volume of requests, which made them more responsive to more expert requests. @aaronerlich.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 24d

Using both #qualitative and #quantitative methods, the authors find that the entire institution shifted over time. It moved from a mass #public orientation toward a brokered #expert orientation.

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 24d

This figure from their article shows how the use of this institution by the public grew dramatically over time, while for most of the same period the average level of expertise exhibited by these requests also increased.

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 24d

The July article from Brian Palmer-Rubin, Jésica E. Tapia Reyes, Daniel Berliner, Aaron Erlich, & Benjamin E. Bagozzi seeks to explain feedback loops between public participation and government responsiveness over time in the case of public requests for government information in Mexico.

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 24d

Did an access-to-information system in #Mexico work? Did it become more responsive to public requests for information over time, or did portions of the public become more "expert" in their requests, which in turn ensured responses from the system?

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · 27d

@pward89.bsky.social and I were delighted to win the Best Article Award from APSA’s Democracy and Autocracy section for our @worldpolitics.bsky.social article “Elite Management Before Autocratic Leader Succession: Evidence from North Korea.” muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Sep 8

3 of 6 authors of the July @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, "Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality" spoke with The Storied Teller about #inheritance #taxation & #wealth #inequality. @madselk.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...

Mind the Gap

In the July 2025 (Volume 77, Number 3) issue of World Politics, Mads Elkjær, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen; Ben Ansell, professor in the De...

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Sep 3

Drawing on his July 2025 @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, @ascharpf.bsky.social spoke to The Storied Teller about Henry Kissinger's #International Seminar at #Harvard and #SoftPower campaigns. #HenryKissinger #StudyAbroad #GlobalEducation #ArchivalResearch wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...

The Kissinger Files

In the July 2025 (Volume 77, Number 3) issue of World Politics, Adam Scharpf, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, studies Henry Kissinger’s Inte...

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 27

Those who would benefit most—low-wealth individuals—are least likely to voice an opinion, while those who stand to lose the most—high-wealth individuals—are highly engaged and generally opposed. Read more from this July issue article: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2... @projectmuse.bsky.social

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 27

This striking asymmetry helps to explain why inheritance taxation remains unpopular and politically difficult to implement.

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 27

Only 2 in 5 people with low wealth express a view, while the rest say they don’t know or have no opinion. Among high-wealth individuals, by contrast, 19 out of 20 express a clear preference.

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 27

Figure 3 from "Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality" illustrates how people with low #wealth are much less likely to have an opinion about #inheritance #taxation than people with high wealth @madselk.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @aslicansunar.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 26

Congratulations to Kurt Weyland for an honorable mention from @apsa.bsky.social section on Qualitative & Multi-Methods Research for his July 2024 @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, "Concept Misinformation." #coup #fascism #democracy Read the article doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 21

@worldpolitics.bsky.social is pleased to put out The Storied Teller again, this one based on an April article from Margarita Gelepithis & Marco Giani. WP spoke with the authors about the #discrimination paradox they find in #education. @mgiani.bsky.social wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...

The (Discrimination) Paradox*

In the April 2025 (Volume 77, Number 2) issue of World Politics, Margarita Gelepithis, an associate professor at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Politics and International Studies, an...

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 4

The rest of the world – especially South Asia and East Asia and Pacific – generally saw very little coordination over this period. doi.org/10.1353/wp.2... @princetonpiirs.bsky.social

World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 4

Other regions – Eastern #Europe and Central #Asia (red dots), #LatinAmerica and the Caribbean (blue dashes), and sub-Saharan Africa (black) – started with slow bilateral growth and then experienced sharp increases through regional multilateral conventions.

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 4

Overall, bilateral (one-to-one) agreements have seen gradual increases, while multilateral agreements have seen stepwise expansions whenever a group of countries adopts a shared convention. Western Europe and other early #OECD member states (purple) have led the way, rising steadily since 1953.

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 4

This figure from @axelcronert.bsky.social and Joakim Palme's July @worldpolitics.bsky.social article shows how the number of country-pairs covered by #SocialSecurity agreements has grown in each world region between 1945 and 2015. doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

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