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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 2d

Great opportunity if you’re interested in pursuing a PhD in political science at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - with a particular interest in elections and campaigning ⬇️

Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

www.lse.ac.uk

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 22h

These postdoctoral positions are made possible by an incredible $55 million gift from Francis & Kathleen Rooney to support Notre Dame’s new institute focused on democracy research and education

🔗 al.nd.edu/news/latest-...

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 3d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

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Ryan D. Williamson @ryandane.bsky.social · 4d

This paper was a long time in the making, one of my favorites I’ve ever worked on, and is now live at SPPQ! doi.org/10.1017/spq....

Is Gerrymandering Poisoning the Well of Democracy? Evaluating the Relationship between Redistricting and Citizens' Attitudes

Ryan D. Williamson and Florian Justwan

Redistricting is often a hotly contested affair within states as the party in power attempts to maximize its chances for electoral success through injecting partisanship into the process. Previous works have evaluated how different redistricting practices can influence elections, but little is known about how redistricting can impact citizen attitudes toward government. Using an original survey with a unique experiment, we evaluate the relationship between how redistricting is performed and how satisfied citizens are with the state of democracy in the United States. We find that the mere perception of redistricting being done in a partisan manner leads to decreased levels of system support. Further-more, our models show that independent redistricting commissions tend to reduce the perceived prevalence of gerrymandering and boost citizens' evaluations of the democratic process.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 5d

New paper with @hjghassell.bsky.social and @michaelheseltine.bsky.social out in @bjpols.bsky.social.

We develop measures of voter perceptions of candidate ideology and candidate messaging ideology and find that perception's are related to what candidates say www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Plot showing perception of voter ideology of candidates overtime. It is separated by House and Senate. Republicans are drifting slightly to be more conservative, Democrats are mostly staying in one place.

Plot showing messaging ideology of candidates overtime. It is separated by House and Senate. There is increasing separation between parties over time, with Republicans becoming messaging more moderately during the Trump era and then shifting to the right during Biden.

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Take Sipma @takesipma.bsky.social · 5d

Are universities perceived as left-wing bastions? Are police officers seen as right-wing? And are judges considered impartial?

In a new publication in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Erika van Elsas, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, and I answer these questions ... (1/3)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Citizen perceptions of ideological bias in public service institutions: A cross-institutional analysis in five countries | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Citizen perceptions of ideological bias in public service institutions: A cross-institutional analysis in five countries

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Ceri Fowler @cerifowler.bsky.social · 5d

Very pleased to say my new article is out @polstudies.bsky.social ! In it I compare single individuals to those with partners with different past vote choices/party identifications and demonstrate that this is associated with an individual's own vote choice. doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Partner Effects and Gender Gaps in Vote Choice in the United Kingdom: Brexit and Subsequent Elections - Ceri Fowler, 2025

This article explores differences in voting behaviour between those that were single and those that had a Eurosceptic or Europhile partner at the United Kingdom...

doi.org

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 5d

OU is hiring in Public Administration. Feel free to reach out to me with questions. Looking at the Assistant or Associate level. Job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/174095

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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 7d

Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u...
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.

acdatacollective.org

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Francesco Bromo @francescobromo.bsky.social · 7d

It's been a long time coming... José Cheibub and I have a new @thejop.bsky.social article! All the questions you've ever had (and were too afraid to ask) about caretaker periods in parliamentary democracies won't be answered here, but it's a start!

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Full-Power Cabinets and Caretaker Administrations in Parliamentary Democracies, 1945-2024 | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 10d

The median college student is willing to pay just under $3k to attend a college where the share of students with opposing political views is 10 percentage points lower.

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Kyle Saunders @kylesaunders.bsky.social · 12d

New (very timely!) paper with Erin Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social,
@matthewhitt.bsky.social & myself, accepted at Behavioural Public Policy entitled "Mindset to Gain? Framing Effects, Need for Chaos, and the Limits of 'Burning It All Down'"--a thread and a link:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 12d

The University of Utah Department of Political Science is hiring a department chair at the rank of Full Professor! This job is open to any subfield.

Let me know if you have questions about the search, including (as you likely are wondering) why we are hiring an external chair.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14d

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 16d

Unveils divergent American and German housing policies over the past century and their major impact on each country's capitalist model.

Through the Roof by Alexander Reisenbichler (@utoronto.ca), Out Now

🗺️ 🗃️ #LawSky #BookSky #PolicySky #Housing

https://cup.org/47L03JF

Cover of Through the Roof featuring a home on an increasing price arrow

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Daniel Rowe @danrowe.bsky.social · 25d

We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed).

The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions.

Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)

Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics at University of Oxford

Recruiting now: Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Lord Norton of Louth @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social · 26d

‘Parliaments in Western Europe’, first published in 1990, is republished today by Routledge as part of their Library Editions: Politics of the European Union series www.routledge.com/Parliaments-...

Parliaments in Western Europe

Over the last 20 years economic pressures have forced the governments of Western Europe to take hard and often immediate decisions. Policy-making has become more detached from parliaments as a result....

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Justin Kirkland @jhkirkland1.bsky.social · 26d

This paper, the works on power in Diff in Diff by @amandaweiss.bsky.social, @fhollenbach.org and @bcegerod.bsky.social, Gelman's and @carlislerainey.bsky.social's posts on power, they've all made me (and should make others) think about this stuff quite differently. Thanks for the important work!

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 26d

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

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Justin Kirkland @jhkirkland1.bsky.social · 26d

This paper (and its working versions before it) have probably done more to reorient my thinking about design than anything else I've read. Just really critical work for political science to think about in any type of hypothesis testing environment. Well done to this team.

Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 27d

This is a paper I really care about. I feel the core message is very important for social scientists in general, and political scientists in particular.

"Quantitative Research in Political Science is Greatly Underpowered."

(with A+ co-authors)

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 27d

This is a paper I really care about. I feel the core message is very important for social scientists in general, and political scientists in particular.

"Quantitative Research in Political Science is Greatly Underpowered."

(with A+ co-authors)

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Michael Hankinson @hankinson.bsky.social · 26d

On Friday at #APSA, I'll be presenting new research on how political geography shapes the siting of collective goods. We use the consolidation of municipalities in Denmark to show how the distribution of entire electorate affects where wind energy is politically viable.

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Yann Kerevel @ykerevel.bsky.social · 27d

Comparative job ad is now live. Review of applications begins September 26.

lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

Yann Kerevel @ykerevel.bsky.social · Aug 27

LSU is hiring at the assistant level in Comparative (open specialization), and two positions in Judicial Politics. CP job should post soon and judicial job is live. I’m on the CP search committee but happy to answer questions about both searches!

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Guillermo Toral @guillermotoral.com · 29d

Excited that @epssnet.bsky.social promotes and supports the small but growing community of PE of development scholars in Europe!

One of the most exciting things about EPSS 2026 @ Belfast.

Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Please share! Call for papers in the political economy of development

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

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We welcome great work and fresh ideas!

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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Michael Nelson @mjnelson.bsky.social · 29d

Penn State is searching in Comparative Politics or International Relations for someone with a focus on non-democratic politics who can offer undergraduate and graduate courses in political methodology.

Assistant Professor, Political Science

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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