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Silviya Nitsova

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British Academy International Fellow, Politics Department, University of Manchester | Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis | UNC PhD | money in politics, oligarchs, political economy, Ukrainian & post-communist politics, networks | snitsova.com

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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · Jun 30

🚨 New research 🚨

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How do oligarchs foster favorable policy outcomes in developing democracies?

I used social network and regression analyses of unique quantitative data and original interview-based evidence on the case of Ukraine (2014-2022).

Here’s what I found.

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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 1d

We have a new article in @cpsjournal.bsky.social theorizing founding leader personality cult emergence in Vietnam, China and Indonesia. It'll be part of a special issue "Imagining Nations" w/ @eunajo.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, @jiyoungko.bsky.social

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Founding Leaders and National Narratives: Anthropomorphism and the Roots of Founding Leader Personality Cults in Three East Asian Cases - Paul Schuler, Trung-Anh Nguyen, Yongfeng Tang, Mohammad Khan, ...

Founding leader personality cults are crucial components of national narratives. Yet, relatively little research examines how they emerge. A small political sci...

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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · 5d

We need to build proper labs in the social sciences and promote team work!

Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 5d

Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields.

But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
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Frances Cayton🇺🇦 @francescayton.bsky.social · 6d

Come join us! We have an awesome lineup of presentations this fall from grads and early career researchers. Our first workshop is next Friday 10/10 at 11ET/5pm CET.

You can get more info + sign up for our list-serv to get the papers and Zooms here: eepg-workshop.github.io

East European Politics Graduate Workshop @eepgworkshop.bsky.social · 6d

🎉 We're excited to share our Fall/Winter 2025-26 schedule! We have a stellar lineup of research highlighting cases from Central Europe to Central Asia🎉

Workshops are on Fridays 5pmCET/11amET/8amPST with links+papers shared on our list-serv the week before.
Sign up here⤵️
eepg-workshop.github.io

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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · 6d

Lego truly is a great company.

Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 6d

Zelenskyy speaking at EPC in Copenhagen on drones, Russia and European security.

Spot the Lego flowers he was gifted in the foreground

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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 6d

An important new paper from my talented, but BlueSky-less PHD Jose Lopes

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The unfulfilled promises of upward mobility and support for radical left parties in Western Europe

In recent decades, educational expansion has produced a large swathe of university graduates which labour markets are increasingly less able to absorb…

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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.

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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · 10d

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Reilly Steel @reillysteel.bsky.social · 12d

Happy to share that my article, "The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001-2022," has been published in the American Political Science Review (@apsrjournal.bsky.social)! Link here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 12d

Are Firms Gerrymandered?

Are Firms Gerrymandered? By Joaquín Artés, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Aaron R. Kaufman, New York University Abu Dhabi, Brian K. Richter, University of Chicago and Jeffrey F. Timmons, New York University Abu Dhabi We provide the first evidence that firms, not just…

Are Firms Gerrymandered?

Are Firms Gerrymandered? By Joaquín Artés, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Aaron R. Kaufman, New York University Abu Dhabi, Brian K. Richter, University of Chicago and Jeffrey F. Timmons, New York University Abu Dhabi We provide the first evidence that firms, not just voters, are gerrymandered. We compare allocations of firms in enacted redistricting plans to counterfactual distributions constructed using simulation methods.

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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · 17d

Looking forward to reading this! 👀

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 17d

#OpenAccess from @polanalysis.bsky.social -

A Statistical Model of Bipartite Networks: Application to Cosponsorship in the United States Senate - https://cup.org/48qWQ24

- @adelineylo.bsky.social, Santiago Olivella & Kosuke Imai

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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations, Lotte!! 🎉

Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations, Sarah! Looking forward to learning more about the project when you visit us at Manchester next semester! @uompols.bsky.social

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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · 21d

This is a fantastic and much needed contribution. Highly recommend to anyone interested in building strong designs for rigorous empirical work with networks.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Dec 12

Designing Empirical Social Networks Research by Jennifer M. Larson

An introduction to the study of social networks, with a focus on theory-building to guide empirical research design.

New in the Methods for Social Inquiry series #ResearchMethods

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Designing Empirical Social Networks Research

Cambridge Core - Research Methods In Politics - Designing Empirical Social Networks Research

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Pepper Culpepper @pculpepper.bsky.social · Sep 8

Want to understand the long term drivers of why big business is so unpopular now? (And it’s not just in the US—we trace this phenomenon around the world). Check out our new book coming in January. Too late for Xmas, but what everyone is secretly hoping they get for Valentine’s Day 2026.

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · Sep 4

Call for Proposals: Politics and Political Economy of Eurasia Workshop at the 83rd MPSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 23–26, 2026. Deadline: September 18, 2025. Highly recommend.

Politics and Political Economy of Eurasia Workshop

Chicago, US

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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · Sep 4

Big congratulations, Jacob!!

Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations, Carl!

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ukrainians don’t think much of Putin’s ‘peace’ plan.

Our surveys from earlier this summer show overwhelming opposition to a Russian land grab.

See the data here: goodauthority.org/news/ukraini...

Ukrainians don’t think much of Putin’s ‘peace’ plan.

Our surveys from earlier this summer show overwhelming opposition to a Russian land grab.

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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations, Jan!

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year's WhoGov workshop on Political Elites! It is amazing to see so much great research presented on political elites and meet so many great people.

And thank you to @inalkristiansen.bsky.social and @jonaswschmid.bsky.social for co-organizing the event

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Silviya Nitsova @snitsova.bsky.social · Aug 28

As a foreigner who’s had the privilege of receiving research training and earning a PhD from a US university, and someone who’s experienced directly and indirectly what value to science and society the powerful combination of these two things can bring, the news below is just devastating.

Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · Aug 28

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · Aug 18

We are really excited to welcome so many excellent scholars to Oslo for our WhoGov workshop/mini conference on political elites on September 1-2.

If you are in or around Oslo and want to join for a session or a day, please reach out. You can find the program here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wp9m6...

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · Jul 30

Very happy to announce the publication of Workplace Politics, with @szakonyi.bsky.social and Ora John Reuter. Drawing on data from 8 countries with a deep-dive on Russia, we examine when, why, and how politicians and employers pressure their workers to vote in elections. academic.oup.com/book/60445

Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections

Abstract. In many countries politicians rely on employers to influence the voting behavior of their employees, but this type of voter mobilization is remar

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