From our FirstView: Rebel Victory and Authoritarian (Dis)Order by @kbclarke, @annemeng_ and @jackpaine_prof. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

🚨 New in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! 🚨How do the origins of authoritarian regimes shape their subsequent trajectories? @kbclarke.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social and I are excited to share "Rebel Victory and Authoritarian (Dis)Order" /1

We’re doing a polisci tennis social the Wednesday before APSA!! Sign up here - all levels welcome! I might get stickers made!!! 🎾🎾🎾

Joan Ricart-Huguet@ricarthuguet.bsky.social · 4w ago

New pre-APSA "workshop": tennis social! 🎾 Wed Sep 2, 3–6pm at MIT, w/ @jguardado.bsky.social & @evlieb.bsky.social All levels welcome - even Djokovic fans 😜 Details + sign up (join list even if you can't make it this year): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

Yay!! The section is in great hands! Thanks for taking over @scottrw630.bsky.social! 👑

Scott Williamson@scottrw630.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Last spring, I was elected to chair APSA’s Democracy & Autocracy Section for 2025-2027. I’m excited to be taking on the position as of this month. Thanks to @annemeng.bsky.social for leading the section the last two years!

To all DC, MD and VA scholars: Submit your paper to the first annual DMV-WEPS by 9/22! And please repost to spread the word @gvisconti.bsky.social @acooperman.bsky.social

Giancarlo Visconti@gvisconti.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Exciting news! Today, we’re launching DMV-WEPS — the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) Workshop in Empirical Political Science — together with @acooperman.bsky.social and @ricarthuguet.bsky.social. sites.google.com/view/dmv-wep...

@pward89.bsky.social and I were delighted to win the Best Article Award from APSA’s Democracy and Autocracy section for our @worldpolitics.bsky.social article “Elite Management Before Autocratic Leader Succession: Evidence from North Korea.” muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

I was coding some stuff and I realized that I have "lived through" a coup!! Thailand, February 1991. I wish I could remember it. All I can remember is having a birthday party at McDonalds around that time.

New workshop in DC! Now taking submissions 👇

Giancarlo Visconti@gvisconti.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Exciting news! Today, we’re launching DMV-WEPS — the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) Workshop in Empirical Political Science — together with @acooperman.bsky.social and @ricarthuguet.bsky.social. sites.google.com/view/dmv-wep...

EITM was one of the most fun and impactful experience I had in grad school. Highly encourage grad students to apply!! What's better than nerd summer camp?? 🏕️

Monika Nalepa@monikanalepa.bsky.social · last yr.

This year we will be in Michigan in August. Apply if you are midway through your PhD program in the social sciences to learn from the best in the discipline how theory and empirical methods come together!

In light of Trump making the 3rd term comments on Sunday, I thought it would be interesting to revisit the broader data on term limit evasion attempts. In 2020, Mila Versteeg (UVA Law) and I worked with some law students to collect data on strategies incumbents use to circumvent term limits /1

NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

New paper! @annemeng.bsky.social's thread lays out the key findings, but the v short version is (1) concessions are rising, (2) but primarily for unfair elections, (3) incumbents concede much more and this is probably causal, (4) weak evidence for conceding being a norm osf.io/preprints/os...

Anne Meng@annemeng.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨New paper alert!🚨 @anthlittle.bsky.social and I are excited to share “Presidential Election Concessions.” We present a new global dataset on concessions in presidential elections in all countries worldwide from 1980 to 2024 /1

See our closely related Bright Line Watch report on concession timing in the 2020 and 2022 Congressional elections brightlinewatch.org/refusing-to-...

Anne Meng@annemeng.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨New paper alert!🚨 @anthlittle.bsky.social and I are excited to share “Presidential Election Concessions.” We present a new global dataset on concessions in presidential elections in all countries worldwide from 1980 to 2024 /1

🚨New paper alert!🚨 @anthlittle.bsky.social and I are excited to share “Presidential Election Concessions.” We present a new global dataset on concessions in presidential elections in all countries worldwide from 1980 to 2024 /1

Polity has not coded any countries other than the US since 2018, but this places the US below the 2018 scores of Russia, Venezuela, Haiti, Iraq, Zimbabwe, the Central African Republic... Perhaps the inference we should make here is about the reliability of Polity.

Cullen Hendrix@cullenhendrix.bsky.social · last yr.

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

Apply to participate in the 3* APSG Conference in London! Deadline is *16 February* don’t miss it!

Authoritarian Political Systems Group@apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 2y ago

Polisky Dictatorsky CfP is now open for our Third Conference on Authoritarian Politics taking place at King’s College, London, on 23-24 June 2025! To apply, complete this form with a 200-word abstract before 16 February 2025.: forms.gle/KBDiwPMABykv...

My paper with @kbclarke.bsky.social and Jack Paine, “Violent Origins and Authoritarian Order: Divergent Trajectories after Successful Rebellions,” was featured in a NYT article analyzing recent events in Syria! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...

Why Do Some Rebel Governments Last When Others Fall?

One factor matters most, and it could be a problem in Syria.

nytimes.com

CUP book authors: Did you get an email about signing the addendum for new AI licensing deals? Are you going to sign it?

omg. Finally logged back in here after a year, and so many delightful surprises were waiting for me! Like a million notifications, a 6 month old message from @darinself.com, and the discovery that I had made Hot Cheetos my background photo when I first created my account!

When @annemeng.bsky.social and I started this project I thought it might get some attention but didn't expect a special issue with nearly 30 leading scholars of democracy writing replies. Huge thanks to the folks at PS and all the contributors for a lively and constructive discussion.

PS: Political Science & Politics@pspolisci.bsky.social · 3y ago

Now on FirstView - PS's special issue on Democratic Backsliding featuring @anthlittle.bsky.social y.social, @annemeng.bsky.social & others All articles are free to access until the end of March. Watch the APSA Roundtable on Democratic Backsliding at this link, too: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#polisky "Theories of Democratic Backsliding" with @carlorato.bsky.social @luozhaotian.bsky.social and Edoardo Grillo is now accepted at the Annual Review of Political Science. Read if you are looking for help organizing and applying the theoretical literature on backsliding: t.co/UwFneFzAl7

Beware the UVA poll going around on support for violence & democracy tinyurl.com/uvacpoll I've never heard of firm; few details on methods/sample; and question wording is messy and non-standard. Our survey using more careful methods finds support for violence is extremely rare tinyurl.com/viol-poll

Andrew Little is here you guys!!! 🥳 😬🚨 Here he is --> @anthlittle.bsky.social

Got a new working paper w/ @robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social tl;dr influxes of Black people during the Great Migration led Northern towns & cities to remove directly elected mayors & replace them w/ appointed city managers design: shift-share IV paper: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r54lw...

Does anyone have a good way to convert a pdf to LaTeX? Doesn't need to be perfect, just something better than copying/pasting the pdf text into TeX and then reformatting all the math by hand. I quickly tried free online things that didn't work. Thanks!

I've started a list of PoliSky Sub-feeds. If you know of one (or started one) that should be added, please re-skeet the feed announcement and @profruback.bsky.social when you do. I'll add it ASAP. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... (@maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social, @profmusgrave.bsky.social )

PoliSky Sub-Feed List

Sheet1 PoliSky Sub-Feed List (list maintained by @profruback.bsky.social -- @ me with a reskeet of the feed announcement and I'll add it ASAP) Topic / Subfield / Speciality,Feed Name (click to view),...

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