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Miriam Golden

@mgoldenprof.bsky.social

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Political scientist, specializing in comparative politics. Political institutions, representation, and accountability, using all manner of methods. Knows something about corruption and political malfeasance. Currently CDDRL, Stanford University.

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Nov 24

Spent much of Covid meeting weekly with a terrific group of research assistants to assemble the Global Legislators Database w/ @noamlupu.bsky.social @carnes.bsky.social @esmelillywhite.bsky.social Eugenia Nazrullaeva and Joshua Ferrer, written up in The Economist www.economist.com/interactive/...

Which countries have the most-educated politicians?

American lawmakers have lofty credentials, but not necessarily more skills

www.economist.com

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 8d

So proud of my collaborators @noamlupu.bsky.social @carnes.bsky.social @eugenian.bsky.social and all our amazing research assistants across the world for having used our Covid lockdown to collect an award-winning dataset!

www.instagram.com/p/DPNEGA5kmG...

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

www.instagram.com

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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · Aug 1

The Call for Papers for the 2026 EPSS annual conference in Belfast is now live!

Looking forward to your submissions!! Check out all details in this thread 👇

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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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Jun 27

@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy

These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas

www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...

🚨Please share widely!

#Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social
@ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

wzb.eu

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Jun 26

CVS pop

Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Jun 22

Congratulations to @susannagarside.bsky.social for defending a terrific @eui-sps.bsky.social dissertation on the politics of climate change. We are delighted to send her to @ox.ac.uk for a post-doc and look forward to her future contributions.

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EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social · Jun 19

Congratulations to @mgoldenprof.bsky.social
SPS Professor, for winning the 2025 APSA Best Dataset Award!

The Global Legislator Dataset, built during her time at EUI, is now a landmark in comparative politics.

A proud moment for SPS and the
@eui-eu.bsky.social Institute

#GlobalDataset

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Jun 18

Congratulations Konstantin!

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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · May 26

Consider applying! The fellowship includes a mentor for a full year and two online feedback sessions. Open to all subfields

Yusaku Horiuchi @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social · May 26

The Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship program. Share this post! @apsa.bsky.social, @poscresearch.bsky.social

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Anselm Hager @anselmhager.bsky.social · Mar 13

EuroWEPS 11 is here! We'll meet in Bergen on May 16 to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is March 30.

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Mar 6

top 15 in 2000 = Harvard, UCSD, UCB, Stanford, UCLA, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Duke, Michigan, Cornell, Wisconsin, MIT, Ohio, Chicago. @apsa.bsky.social @cpsjournal.bsky.social @apsa-europe-polsky.bsky.social @apsamena.bsky.social @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social

Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Mar 6

Were you teaching or taking the core graduate course/field seminar in comparative politics in (or around) year 2000? If so, @melinaplatas.bsky.social and I are collecting syllabi from the top 15 US departments that year. Please send what you have! Email [email protected] or [email protected]

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Feb 25

Deeply saddened by the loss today of my UCLA colleague Ed Ed Leamer, a brilliant scholar, extraordinary communicator, and wonderful person. His classic work influenced generations of scholars.

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Feb 19

NEW -

The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies - cup.org/4hMcJCi

- @carnes.bsky.social, Joshua Ferrer, @mgoldenprof.bsky.social, @esmelillywhite.bsky.social, @noamlupu.bsky.social & @eugenian.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract describing the Global Legislators Database, which includes demographic and biographical data on legislators from nearly 100 parliamentary democracies worldwide.

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Feb 14

I found this Foreign Affairs piece by Levitsky and Way hugely insightful in putting together Trump's disparate decisions and activities. But no particular outcome is foreordained, and thinking through who can be mobilized to put up roadblocks is the next step. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The Path to American Authoritarianism

What comes after democratic breakdown.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Feb 11

That would be an interesting comparison. Can’t wait to read it!

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Feb 11

Really interesting work. Just wondering why you are expanding to 107 journals rather than limiting the focus to the (30? 50?) most highly cited. Won’t you be picking up a lot of never- or rarely-cited articles in obscure journals that are essentially noise?

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Jan 30

Civics instruction was standard in the US for much of the 20th century. I had it in elementary school. It is not part of an authoritarian plot. There are many reasons to oppose many Trump policies — possibly including this one — but there is nothing per se wrong with civics education.

Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Jan 20

@joposato.bsky.social perhaps there is limit to the number of obs in that format? Suggest you open the .dta format, which is complete.

Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Jan 20

Delighted by the attention the US dataset with @eugenian.bsky.social has generated! It extends back in time and fills in two datasets (Ansolabehere, Ban and Snyder 2017 doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... and Klarner 2018 doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...). Graph shows which state-years are ours and which theirs.

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Jan 20

Are you interested in U.S. legislative history? Newly-available complete dataset on all persons serving as legislators in the 50 state houses between 1900 and 2016: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

dataverse.harvard.edu

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Jan 11

So much appreciation to Mexico and also Canada.

Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Dec 11

I wonder if men are equally mean to one another but they just keep on working? That is not my experience — I do think men are meaner to women — but I also think women might be more thin skinned.

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Saumitra Jha @saumjha.bsky.social · Dec 10

We’re hiring a predoctoral fellow for our Stanford Conflict and Polarization lab! We do field experiments, lab experiments and also love to go hunting in the archives for novel data to help shed new light on solving these important problems. Please apply if interested & share with any who might be!

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · Dec 5

So important to study how government performance affects voting behavior and support for incumbents. Congratulations @catherinedevries.bsky.social for the pathbreaking work.

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