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Simon Weschle

H-index: 12
Political science 25%
Economics 18%
carnes.bsky.social
Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.
epssnet.bsky.social
🚨 Reposting to avoid any confusion between EPSS & EPSA 🚨

If you want to support non-for-profit, member-led political science association, EPSS is the place to be!

More here 👇🏽
epssnet.bsky.social
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

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apsa-pop.bsky.social
🌟🎉 Celebrating @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social (WashU)—recipient of the 2025 Emerging Scholar Award!
Her research is already shaping the field in big ways.
Come and celebrate with her at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm)
#APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social #EmergingScholar

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leedrutman.bsky.social
The only way to end the gerrymandering wars is proportional representation.
benansell.bsky.social
I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.
CASSM Centre Manager
Full-timeFixed-term for 5 yearsGrade 8: £48,235 - £57,255 per annum
www.politics.ox.ac.uk
lewisgoodall.com
Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton at world’s biggest AI conf AI4 in Las Vegas. Is asked what could AI gain control of soon?

“Us…they’re just going to be much smarter than us. Imagine you were in charge of a playgroup of 3 year olds…it wouldn’t be very hard to get control of them….

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inqdp.bsky.social
5/6 🧵In ‪@ajpseditor.bsky.social@luciamotoliniac.bsky.social Klašnja & @simonweschle.bsky.social‬ show that higher pressures to spend in campaigns leads to a wealthier politician pool. Use data on MP wealth from 40 countries, & quasiexperimental evidence from 🇧🇷 & 🇨🇱 https://doi.org/pz7c

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apsainequality.bsky.social
Going to APSA in Vancouver this year and need some additional funding? Applications for the Class & Inequality section support grants are now open!

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simonweschle.bsky.social
To be fair, he's tweeting that he's upset that he *didn't* get anything out of it, which suggests he thinks the causal effect of campaign finance is zero :)
uni-konstanz.de
The #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social will continue to receive funding in the context of the German #ExcellenceStrategy @dfg.de @wissenschaftsrat.de. Details: t1p.de/ouhyj
lmnovaes.bsky.social
In a just-accepted paper at the @thejop.bsky.social , @MelaniCammett, Guadalupe Tuñon, and I examine how campaign finance reforms have unanticipated effects: organized actors gain an edge. In our case, the Universal Kingdom of God Church in Brazil.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Special Interest Trade-Offs: Campaign Finance Reforms and Religious Influence in Politics in Brazil | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
simonweschle.bsky.social
The WaPo-AI summary of the comments section on this piece is quite something
simonweschle.bsky.social
Thanks, Lukas (and your co-authors), I really appreciate it!

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i4replication.bsky.social
3-Politicians’ private sector jobs and parliamentary behavior, @ajpseditor.bsky.social

Updated report here (based on author’s feedback): ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/i4rdps...

Author: “Thanks a lot to the replication team for their careful analysis, I really appreciate all the work they put into it!”
simonweschle.bsky.social
Also, the APSA Class and Inequality section is finally on here. Give them a follow!
apsainequality.bsky.social
Going to APSA in Vancouver this year and need some additional funding? Applications for the Class & Inequality section support grants are now open!

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skytteprize.bsky.social
Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆

He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."
simonweschle.bsky.social
Brian, I just got this email too...did you find helpful discussions on this? And has anyone figured out whether the expected royalties from this for authors would be a few cents, or much more? The info on royalties is very opaque, which makes me think it's the former...
adamprz.bsky.social
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
Diary
Week 1
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simonweschle.bsky.social
Unwahrscheinlich, selbst wenn sie heute kommen müsste ich das per FedEx zurück schicken, und das fängt bei 100 Dollar an.
simonweschle.bsky.social
Dauert wohl länger das in die USA zu schicken...

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