Tomorrow I begin my term as Head of the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Grateful to Jonathan Rynhold, the outgoing chair, for his dedicated service. Looking forward to a fascinating and challenging term ahead, and to working together with our outstanding faculty and staff.

Pleased to share that 'Empirical Political Theory: A Methodological Framework', by yours truly, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press, with publication planned for spring 2026. I am grateful to the friends who made this possible, and to the ECPR Group on Methods of Normative Political Theory.

my department published a call for applicants for tenure track positions: politics.biu.ac.il/node/1957

but will choose a specific chapter according to her/his interests; do I repeat the noted preliminaries, or risk misunderstandings? I choose a brief repetition where necessary, but keep wondering whether this is the correct choice...

one of the challenges of writing a methods monograph, is that each chapter explores a different topic; but often shares other preliminary assumptions with other chapters; I'm pretty sure a given reader will not read the whole thing,

page by page, slowly but consistently 'Empirical political theory, a methodological framework' by yours truly and under contract with OUP, is being completed. I now have something like/more or less/ the full manuscript. A lot of work still to be done, but I can see the ending...hopefully...sort of..

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looking forward to this

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looking forward to this very much! (and to seeing many friends). the paper to be presented (with Liron Lavi) explores conceptual concretization in empirically informed political theory.

Progress

Needed to merge several different bibliographic lists into one, delete redundancies, arrange alphabetically, and consistently arrange according to APA. A tedious task. Claude did it in 30 seconds.

congrats! will get cited today!

a new article debating political theory methodology. Many thanks to the great methods group at the ECPR. Open access.

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'Empirical Political Theory: A Methodological Framework', by yours truly, is under contract with Oxford University Press. It is designed to assist political theorists incorporating empirical elements in their research with key tasks—including a typology of data usages, a research design, etc.