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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 27d

The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life.

A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation.

No more political violence.

In Wake of Charlie Kirk Murder, Sen. Bernie Sanders Addresses Rising Political Violence in America

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

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Andrej Kokkonen @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congrats Jacob!

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Andrej Kokkonen @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congrats Carl! So well deserved.

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Jun 30

Reminder: Great job opportunities at Aarhus University!

Please help spread the word before everyone disappears for summer break! 🏖️

Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Erik Bengtsson @bengtssonz.bsky.social · May 11

Delighted that my paper with @felixkersting.bsky.social on agrarian inequality, authoritarianism and democracy in Prussia and Sweden has been accepted for publication in Comparative Political Studies!

Find the previous version here:

osf.io/preprints/os...

OSF

osf.io

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Andrej Kokkonen @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social · May 2

I have participated in a panel at APSA (the main political science conference) and an ECPR-workshop where historians were invited. Both worked well. In Sweden we also have a yearly conference on Swedish political history, where both historians and political scientists participate.

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Andrej Kokkonen @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social · May 2

I really liked Lyon's review and constructive tone. I totally agree with his last paragraph.

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Andrej Kokkonen @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social · May 1

Thank you very much for you input Duncan! It is really appreciated. The paper benefited a lot from reading your work on the HRE, although I am certain we have a lot more to learn from you and other historians. Overall, we should communicate more across disciplinary boundaries.

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Dan Pemstein @danpemstein.com · Apr 30

A few years ago, @danweitzel.net, John Gerring, @skaaning.bsky.social and I were curious how well one could predict subjective democracy measures using easy(ish) to code observables. Turns out, *quite* well, even out of sample. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Measuring electoral democracy with observables

Most cross-national indices of democracy rely centrally on coder judgments, which are susceptible to bias and error, and require expensive and time consuming coding by experts. We present an approach to measurement based on observables that aim to preserve the nuanced quality of subjectively coded democracy indices. Our observable-to-subjective score mapping is free of idiosyncratic coder errors arising from misinformation, slack, or biases. It is less susceptible to systematic bias that may arise from coders’ inferences about a country’s regime, for example, from the ideology of the ruler. The data collection procedure and mode of analysis are fully transparent and replicable, and the procedure is based on random forests and is cheap to produce, easy to update, and offers coverage for all polities with sovereign or semisovereign status, surpassing the sample of any existing index. We show that this expansive coverage makes a big difference to our understanding of some causal questions.

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Andrej Kokkonen @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social · Apr 30

That sounds fascinating. Would be really interesting!

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Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social · Apr 29

🚨 Very excited that our paper on *Rulers on the Road* has been cond. accepted at the AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social. We analyze emperors' strategies of itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire 919-1519. Fun working with @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/Spm7z

Itineraries of 25 Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, 919 to 1519

Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common, yet insufficiently researched pre-modern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire AD 919-1519, we argue that rulers focused on monitoring `marginal' elites. Powerful rulers could count on family members and thus targeted unrelated local elites. Weak emperors had to monitor their less loyal relatives and left unrelated nobles unvisited. We reconstruct emperors' itineraries from 72'665 dated and geolocated documents and measure territorial control by their relatives. Exploiting the weakening of imperial power through the Great Interregnum (1250-1273), we find that strong, pre-1250 emperors frequented areas controlled by their relatives relatively less. In contrast, family control increased visits post-1273. Causal identification rests on the discontinuous reduction of emperors' power through the Great Interregnum and differences in family relations between subsequent emperors. The results show strategic itinerant rule as an important but understudied form of governance.

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · Apr 16

We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵

Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Feb 26

IN NEW ISSUE: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes & Political Participation in Europe: @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & @jonaslinde.bsky.social find a general political participation gap between pro- and anti-immigrant citizens.

OPEN ACCESS: https://buff.ly/41eWjLF

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Jonathan Polk @jonathanpolk.bsky.social · Feb 21

I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!

Postdoctoral fellow in political science: party competition in Europe

Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos

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Andrew Little @anthlittle.bsky.social · Feb 12

Polity has not coded any countries other than the US since 2018, but this places the US below the 2018 scores of Russia, Venezuela, Haiti, Iraq, Zimbabwe, the Central African Republic...

Perhaps the inference we should make here is about the reliability of Polity.

Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · Feb 12

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.

tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · Feb 11

📢Applications Open for New Director of the V-Dem Institute
V-Dem Institute and the Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg is looking for a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Science & Director of the V-Dem Institute.
To application: shorturl.at/9rvmx
📆 March 27, 2025.

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Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social · Feb 4

(Cross-post from X)

"Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond" by @pward89.bsky.social and me is now out with @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social

It's FREE to download until Feb. 18: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

So, what's in the Element...

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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · Dec 20

We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science.

75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city.

Deadline: February 15

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, February 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Felix Haass @felixhaass.bsky.social · Dec 20

The Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo is hiring 2-4 tenured associate professors, open to all subfields (details see job ad).

It's a fantastic department with smart & friendly colleagues in a modern and green city close to nature. Apply! www.finn.no/job/fulltime...

2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science | FINN.no

AboutThe University of Oslo is Norway's oldest and highest ranked educational and research institution with 28 000 students and 7000 employees in abroad range

www.finn.no

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Cathrin Mohr @cathrinmohr.bsky.social · Dec 12

To all researchers in Historical Political Economy based in Europe: Please help @beckerbastian.bsky.social, @lhaffert.bsky.social, and me get a better picture of HPE in Europe and the challenges researchers face by participating in this 15 min survey: forms.gle/EtLna72JNXFh...

Historical Political Economy - Insights from Europe

Thank you for your interest in our survey. We are a team of researchers based at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, University of Bonn and University of Geneva. The goal of this survey is to map the ...

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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · Dec 7

We are hiring at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social : 2-4 tenured positions (if/when you qualify, you can apply for promotion to full prof.). Open to all subfields of political science.

I am of course biased, but this is a fantastic department, socially & academically!

www.finn.no/job/fulltime...

2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science | FINN.no

AboutThe University of Oslo is Norway's oldest and highest ranked educational and research institution with 28 000 students and 7000 employees in abroad range

www.finn.no

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Andrej Kokkonen @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social · Dec 10

Bra jobbat! Mycket viktig artikel.

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Jonathan S Doucette @jdoucette.bsky.social · Dec 10

Thrilled that my article has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 The article argues that low statistical power is a major impediment to acquiring cumulative knowledge on questions concerning cross-national differences: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What Can We Learn about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data? | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

What Can We Learn about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data?

www.cambridge.org

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · Dec 6

A snapshot of the situation in Romania:

— A largely unknown far-right candidate shocks the nation by unexpectedly winning the first round of the presidential elections. 1/9

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