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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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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 8d

Something like that, even less if you refer to % of Jews (i.e., excluding Arab citizens). But it also means that only those 2/3 Haredim are, and none of the Dati/Masorti are. At least a good chunk of each of these groups are Jewish Nationalists.

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 9d

This is no chance Israel is correctly measured. It goes against everything we know from years of public opinion research in Israel.

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Vincenzo Emanuele @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social · 20d

🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social
'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇

Read the full article (open access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.tandfonline.com

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Zeynep Somer-Topcu @zeynsom.bsky.social · 21d

Are you interested in how parties' parliamentary behavior (e.g., passing bills, calling for elections, forming coalitions, cooperating/conflicting) affects voters (e.g., electoral behavior, perceptions, affective polarization)? Please let me know. I am putting together an MPSA panel proposal.

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · 29d

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · Sep 5

Could it be something technical like the count stops when the last seat is populated? @laderafrutal.bsky.social

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · Sep 5

Come join us @iepolisci.bsky.social!

This dept has one of the healthiest environments I've found in academia.

Plus, everyone does brilliant work and you get to live in a great city with a salary that allows you to enjoy it.

We only work in English, so language is not an issue.

Apply!

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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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations 🎉 🎉

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations 🎉 🎉

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · Sep 4

Today is your last day (until midnight Israel time - GMT+2) to submit your paper/panel/poster proposals for the annual meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association.

The meeting will be held at the Hebrew University on 1.28.26. See you there!

כנס נוכחי - קול קורא | האגודה הישראלית למדע המדינה

צומת דרכים משטרית - אתגרים והזדמנויות

www.ispsa.org

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · Sep 3

ברכות ובהצלחה

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Chapel Hill Expert Survey @chesdata.bsky.social · Aug 14

The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
Here’s a summary thread:
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Tim Haughton @timhaughton.bsky.social · Aug 1

Know a potential PhD student interested in #democraticresilience, environmental politics & the Baltics? If so pls encourage them to check out this funded studentship & chance to work with my wonderful colleagues Licia Cianetti and Fiona Nunan. For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

BISCA PhD Studentships - University of Birmingham

PhD opportunities in Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA) at the University of Birmingham.

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Aug 1

And we have an incredible list of section co-chairs for Belfast 2026, from 18 countries and every part of Europe. We are really grateful to these dedicated colleagues for taking on this role and helping us shape the future of political science in our continent.
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · Jul 29

There's no easy way to learn your colleagues are antisemites.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jul 15

✨ Come and join @politicsoxford.bsky.social for 5 years ✨

This is the perfect position for a research and teaching active junior colleague with expertise in European politics and quant methods. Apply!

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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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · Jul 28

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

shorturl.at/kcTbG

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Eelco Harteveld @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social · Jul 24

📢 Out now! The Handbook of Affective Polarization is officially published 🎉

📖 Open Access & packed with 30 great chapters thanks to amazing authors. Huge thanks to everyone, and in particular to @marianotorcal.bsky.social for the great (and fun) collaboration! 💙

Link below for the e-book 👇

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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

Your personality doesn't always predict your views...

Using data from Israel, @naamarivlin.bsky.social and co-authors show the relationship weakens when ethnonational conflict comes to the forefront.

Out now in POQ: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

@ayakter.bsky.social al
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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · Jul 16

That's true almost every time. I'm old enough to remember Barak's betrayal in the secular left.

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Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · Jul 16

I agree, but will add that the opposition is so fragmented and dysfunctional that a minority government can pass some legislation. Not the big things, but some things.

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Eitan Tzelgov @etzelgov.bsky.social · Jul 16

The Israeli internal crisis isn't about restoring democracy, nor is it a pendulum movement. It's a hollowing out of democratic institutions, opposition, and all means of oversight and accountability. It is, as Navot and Goldshmidt show, an elite-driven project to dismantle Israel's flawed democracy.

Roi Litvak-Zur @roizur.bsky.social · Jul 15

Yael Shomer, @etzelgov.bsky.social‬, and I have a new editorial in Frontiers. We review the multiple crises in Israeli politics since 2019 and summarize 6 articles published in a “Research Topic” related to these crises. We also review the scale of democratic backsliding before and during the war.

Frontiers | Editorial: The crises of the Israeli democracy

The Crises of the Israeli Democracy:Introduction to a Research TopicJune 9, 2025Introduction: Israeli Democracy’s CrisisDuring the past ten years, Israel has...

www.frontiersin.org

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