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Didac Queralt

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Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale. www.didacqueralt.com I write and teach about state building from a historical perspective. Author of Pawned States: https://www.amazon.com/Pawned-States-Building-International-Princeton/dp/0691231524/ref=tm

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Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social · Mar 13

🚨New pre-print! It builds on the State Formation seminar that I teach at Yale, benefiting from rich conversations with brilliant students. The piece tackles state formation, state building, and outlines 3 paths of future research: civil wars, international constraints, and bureaucratic capacity.

From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development | Annual Reviews

Our understanding of state development—a term that encompasses both state formation and state building—has grown significantly in the last two decades. In this review, I outline the foundations of the...

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Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats to all for this publication! Fascinating results.

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 16d

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨

I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity.

I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

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Jordi Muñoz @jordimunoz.bsky.social · 19d

We are hiring! We are looking for a prospective PhD student to work at the Department of Political Science of the University of Barcelona and the Institutions, Politics and Economics Research Center in connection to a research project on Backlash. More details here: sites.google.com/view/jordi-m...

Jordi Muñoz - Calls

PhD fellowship in Political Science at the University of Barcelona

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Xiaobo Lü | 吕晓波 @xiaobolu.bsky.social · 26d

I will be engaging a conversation with @daliyang.bsky.social, @vicshih.bsky.social, @tompepinsky.com and Martin Dimitrov on my new book at the #APSA2025 Author Meets Critics panel on 9/14, 10:00 to 11:30am PDT. Come join us if you are still around.

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Domination and Mobilization

Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Domination and Mobilization

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Lotem Halevy @lotemhalevy.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looking for #APSA panels? Come see ours:
New Research on the Legacies of Colonialism in Historical Political Economy
Sat 9/13 4:00 to 5:30 pm.

Thank you @agustingoenaga.bsky.social for organizing (what is going to be) an informative and productive panel!

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Guillermo Toral @guillermotoral.com · Sep 5

📢 We're hiring! 3 lines in CP, IR, and IPE. Come join us in Madrid!

I'm not in the committee but more than happy to answer questions (via DM, email) and/or chat.

IE Political Science @iepolisci.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨

We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.

We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

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Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social · Sep 1

Exciting news. Congratulations!!

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Matthew Shugart @laderafrutal.bsky.social · Aug 29

UC Davis is recruiting in comparative politics!

"We are especially interested in candidates working on regional and/or emerging-market powers, though the successful candidate may work in any area of Comparative Politics."

Assistant level, tenure track.

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07299

Department of Political Science - Comparative Politics

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social · Aug 28

❓❓ Question for the political science community: Is there any publication with recent data on professional trajectories after PhD completion? Thanks in advance!

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Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social · Aug 28

❓❓ Question for the political science community: Is there any publication with recent data on professional trajectories after PhD completion? Thanks in advance!

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Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excellent news! Congrats!!!

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Paul Staniland @pstaniland.bsky.social · Aug 25

The University of Chicago Department of Political Science is hiring at the junior level in American Politics and Quantitative Methods; links below:

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Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social · Aug 18

Congratulations!!!

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David Fortunato @fortunato.bsky.social · Aug 14

International Economics, Government and Business at the Copenhagen Business School is hiring and setting up pre-interviews at APSA 2025 (and online for those not attending).

ABDs and early assistants in political science should consider this an open-field search

members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...

American Political Science Association > Sign In

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.

CASSM Centre Manager

Full-timeFixed-term for 5 yearsGrade 8: £48,235 - £57,255 per annum

www.politics.ox.ac.uk

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Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social · Aug 11

Can’t wait to read. Congrats to both of you!!

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Pavithra Suryanarayan @pavisuri.bsky.social · Aug 11

Please share! We look forward to your submissions to EPSS in Belfast next year. We hope the below will be useful as you plan your panels/paper. Do reach out if you have any queries!

Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Please share:

@pavisuri.bsky.social and I are delighted to share details for the political economy of development section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026

We welcome great work and fresh ideas! Please spread the word among interested colleagues not on here

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Call for Papers

Call for Papers: Political Economy of Development (PED) Section – EPSS 2026, Belfast We invite submissions of high-quality work on any topic in the political economy of development or comparative pol...

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 7

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

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EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium @behaviour-eui.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!

We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025).

If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31

EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium

Please fill in the details below to submit your proposal. Kindly provide the title and abstract of your paper, as well as your availability to present. The Colloquium is held every Tuesday from 17:00 ...

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Aug 1

🚨 Very excited to share that the call for papers for the EPSS annual conference in Belfast 2026 is live.

🔝 Lots of innovation to enrich the way we exchange ideas in political science in Europe.

🙏🏼 Sharing is caring!

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 1

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast 
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026 
📍 ICC Belfast 
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Jul 16

We are looking for a lecturer in Comparative European Politics at Oxford. Join an incredibly stimulating intellectual environment. It is a 5-year position that should be great for early career researchers. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · Jul 15

📢APPLY NOW!: DPIR seeks a Departmental Lecturer in Comparative European Politics to provide teaching and supervision at the undergraduate and graduate level and contribute to the Departmental examining and graduate admissions processes.🗓️ CLOSES: 12pm, 5 Aug: ow.ly/brXi50WpZav

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · Jul 15

Anna Grzymala-Busse Receives the 2025 Heinz I. Eulau Award for American Political Science Review for “Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation Anna”

The Heinz I. Eulau Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to…

Anna Grzymala-Busse Receives the 2025 Heinz I. Eulau Award for American Political Science Review for “Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation Anna”

The Heinz I. Eulau Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best article published in the APSA journal American Political Science Review Citation from the Award Committee: Anna Grzymala-Busse’s “Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation” challenges paradigmatic understandings of state development, according to which centralizing European states overcame fragmentation in the early modern era by consolidating strong states through warfare.

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Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social · Jul 24

Much deserved recognition @annagbusse.bsky.social not only for the article but the book, too. A *major* contribution! Congrats!!

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨New forthcoming paper at JOP: @noamlupu.bsky.social and I use data from 10 surveys in N&S America to see whether lower-income, lower-wealth, and working-class people are less interested in running for office. Interest in running (nascent ambition) can lead to representation gaps. However, ...(1/2)

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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy? 🚨

At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE)—organized jointly with @dkofanov.bsky.social & @tinepaulsen.bsky.social—we discuss state-of-the-art research on a regular basis.

‼️ We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️

Link & info in post #2.

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