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Dimiter Toshkov

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comparative politics, European Union governance, research methods and design, data visualization, bureaucracy and public administration

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Mar 14

How do attitudes to 🇪🇺 European integration relate to political ideology and policy preferences?

A major update of my study:
- I added the latest 2023 ESS data for citizens and 2024 CHES data for parties
- I built an app to explore these relationships across datasets, indicators, years & countries

Average support for further European integration of citizens (blue line, based on GAM with cubic regression splines) and positive orientation towards European integration of political parties (black dots and red line, based on a local polynomial regression) as functions of left-right self-placement of the citizens and general left-right party positions as estimated by experts. Originally, party positions on European integration are scored on a 1-to-7 scale, which has been rescaled from 0 to 10 to match the public opinion data. Data: ESS Wave 11 (2023), CHES (2024).

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Lars Brummel @larsbrummel.bsky.social · 22d

💡New publication in Governance @govjournal.bsky.social!

Read our article, together w/ @dtoshkov.bsky.social and Brendan Carroll, on the perceived legitimacy of region-specific crisis interventions in Germany and the Netherlands, here ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/gove...

Short summary of our main findings ⬇️

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ECPR Standing Group on the European Union 🇪🇺 @ecprsgeu.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 New call for the SGEU FUTURE Grants! 🚨

Are you a PhD student doing research on 🇪🇺 European integration? Do you need financial support for your fieldwork?

If yes, apply to the new edition of the SGEU Future Grants.

Deadline is 30 September 2025. Details here:

ecpr.eu/news/news/de...

New call for the SGEU FUTURE Grants

European Consortium for Political Research

ecpr.eu

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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · Jul 15

Why do people support policies that go against their interests?

Miroslav Nemčok and coauthors show that voters shift their views to match their party, even when that means supporting painful welfare cuts.

Out now in POQ: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
@miroslavnemcok.bsky.social @hannawass.bsky.social

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Jun 27

And please consider the SGEU in Catania 1-3 July 2026 as a follow-up.

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Jun 27

Also works well with the SGEU Conference in Catania 1-3 July 2026: there will be strong need for some Sicilian sunshine after two events on the island of Ireland 😉.

Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Jun 27

The reintroduction of compulsory military service is more contentious, as well as military exercises in protected nature areas.
These are the first results from our new survey of the population of South Holland, with @larsbrummel.bsky.social
Stay tuned for more insights on policy polarization in NL.

Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Jun 27

There is a very strong support among people in Holland for an active role of the Dutch government in international cooperation and defence. There are also big, cross-partisan majorities in favor of increasing the defence budget and continuing sending weapons to Ukraine.
shorturl.at/svcZp

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · May 23

"and I saw this optical illusion where bars of the same size look radically different if you paint them in certain colors"

"say no more"

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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · May 23

Two vacancies for assistant professor (tenure track) at our Department of Political Science. One on International Relations, the other on EU Politics and Governance.

I may be biased, but would 100% recommend applying. We are a warm, collegial, ambitious department.

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — 2 Assistant Professors: International Relations (option a) and EU Politics and Governance (option b

The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science with a specializat...

werkenbij.uva.nl

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · May 23

Another consequence of granting ever more powers to the president is that a democratic transition becomes ever less likely. Do we really believe Republicans will accept a Democratic president with this sort of unchecked power in 4 years?

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · May 22

New, from me:
Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...

Why the Supreme Court decision on firing independent agency heads is a big deal

The demise of Humphrey's Executor and the rise of unitary executive theory

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · May 22

🚨 New publication 🚨 : Happy to share that my paper, "Losing Touch: The Rhetorical Cost of Governing" is now forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Short 🧵 about the paper here 👇 1/10

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · May 21

as an editor, you can always choose not to share crappy reviews with the author or explain which points you don't consider valid. the technology cannot be an excuse.

the bigger goal should be to introduce more accountability in the review process for everyone involved: reviewers, editors & authors

Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · May 21

in that case, yes, and it would need an ethics approval, but I don't see how it applies to reviews I receive in my correposndance with a journal.

Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · May 21

ha, but would I be infringing your copyright by making your review of my work public, if the review is anonymous?

Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · May 21

What is a potential negative consequence of making the reviews public while they remain anonymous? I can only see upsides: sharing knowledge, giving context for the readers of your work, shaming journals for fwd-ing crappy reviews, etc.

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · May 21

Does anyone know what is the copyright status of the peer reviews of our work that we recieve from journals? Are we allowed to make them publicly available, legally speaking? What would be the consequnces of just posting the reviews online (other than pissing off the editors, obviously)?

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Apr 7

Great list of methodological results/advice articles

Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Apr 7

Gave a talk to our PhD students today, and feeling appreciative of all the recent methods work on improving common practices. Thanks to all the authors who work to make their work accessible, especially on social media.

A few articles we discussed:

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Apr 1

If you are a complete novice to R, you can follow the slides to get a start, and if you have some experience already, you can find tips to streamline your workflow & bring your dataviz game to the next level. The slides also have plenty of up-to-date resources for further reading.

Happy leaRning!

Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Apr 1

Last week I completed another edition of my short introductory course to R for social science PhD students @fggaleiden.bsky.social. The course covers fundamentals, data wrangling, data analysis (stat models) and data visualisation. All the slides are freely available at dimiter.eu/R-tutorial.h....