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Andreina Thoma

@andreinathoma.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher at Uni Oslo | studying political elites, also excited about gender & politics, voting rights reforms, historical political economy & more.

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The WhoGov Project@whogov.bsky.social · 2w ago

The WhoGov Project has a new webpage 🎉 It brings our datasets, publications, team, and news together in one home. We have big plans for expanding the dataset and building the project, and we'll keep it updated. Take a look (and join our mailing list): whogov.net

WhoGov — Data on governing elites

Mapping the people who govern us — worldwide and across centuries. WhoGov provides open, global data on the members of government, from 1966 to today. Hosted at the University of Oslo.

whogov.net

𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥@jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's a great honor to work with such a talented team of young scholars! Welcome to @statsvitenskap.bsky.social @javierpadilla.bsky.social, @andreinathoma.bsky.social, @jonaswschmid.bsky.social and @gelonn99.bsky.social. I am looking forward to expanding knowledge on political elites with you!

The WhoGov Project@whogov.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are happy to announce that our team has been strengthened by four new members who will code many, many ministers with us in the years to come! Welcome to our new PhD @gelonn99.bsky.social and our new Postdocs @javierpadilla.bsky.social, @andreinathoma.bsky.social & @jonaswschmid.bsky.social!

Picture of the four new team members on Campus.
Andreina Thoma@andreinathoma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So happy to be part of this project and looking forward to study political elites with this amazing team!

The WhoGov Project@whogov.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are happy to announce that our team has been strengthened by four new members who will code many, many ministers with us in the years to come! Welcome to our new PhD @gelonn99.bsky.social and our new Postdocs @javierpadilla.bsky.social, @andreinathoma.bsky.social & @jonaswschmid.bsky.social!

Picture of the four new team members on Campus.
Carl Henrik Knutsen@chknutsen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025. Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius. Largest declines came, by far, in the US. This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index.

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Dr. Carissa Tudor@carissa-tudor.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Excited to share my new publication @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! We often think that women’s formal political participation began in the 1900s. Using archival records from over 150 assembly meetings between 1493-1789 in France, I show that, in fact, some women had political rights much earlier!

The Political Limits of the Patriarchy: Women’s Rights in Early Representative Institutions | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

The Political Limits of the Patriarchy: Women’s Rights in Early Representative Institutions

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NBER@nber.org · 10mo ago

Analysis of German elections shows female candidates underperform mainly because parties nominate them in less favorable districts, not due to voter bias or candidate traits, from Thomas Fujiwara, Hanno Hilbig, and Pia Raffler www.nber.org/papers/w34396

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Andreina Thoma@andreinathoma.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share our new article published in @spsr.bsky.social! We compiled Swiss municipality-level direct-democratic vote results from 1866 to 1944 through extensive archival work and filled some gaps in existing datasets up to 2023. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Municipality‐Level Outcomes of Direct‐Democratic Votes in Switzerland, 1866–2023

Switzerland relies heavily on direct-democratic institutions to decide on a wide range of political issues. Since 1848, more than 600 direct-democratic votes have taken place at the national level. H...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Cecilia IG@ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · last yr.

I am incredibly honored that my paper "Shaping institutional change in skill formation", which is my first-ever PhD project, has received the @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy& Welfare Best Paper Prize and has been published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Shaping institutional change in skill formation: the role of background ideas in growth strategies

States are taking on an increasingly prominent role in shaping policy across advanced capitalist democracies. This paper conducts a comparative study of state intervention in skill formation betwee...

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James Ball@jamesrball.com · last yr.

This is: 1. an absolutely nonsensical way to think about trade 2. nothing to do with tariff barriers, it’s just…relative trade. It’s just something else entirely 3. a CRAZILY back-of-the-envelope way to set global trade policy It is mad that this is real.

hi, no thanks@hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social · last yr.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.