🧵 Introducing ReproAI, an author-facing agentic AI plugin for replication packages: reproai.org We built this tool to help authors prepare replication packages before submission, w/ @leoyangyang.bsky.social.

ReproAI: the plugin for reproducible replication packages

An author-facing AI plugin that helps you prepare a cleaner, reproducible replication package before submission.

reproai.org

The Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World will be out this July Endorsement below by @argohdes.bsky.social

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Our article "Cadre networks and bureaucratic careers in autocracies" has just been published online first in @thejop.bsky.social 🎉 — joint work with Alexander De Juan & Jan Pierskalla www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Short summary thread below 👇

🎧 Audiobook Giveaway Lottery! Dive into the secret logic behind repression & coups with our new audiobook: "MAKING A CAREER IN DICTATORSHIP" I’m giving away 3 FREE copies! 1️⃣ Repost this 2️⃣ Do it by Monday 12 PM (noon) After that, I’ll randomly select 3 winners and send the audiobook links!

Adam Scharpf@ascharpf.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ... Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups? Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com: tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ... Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups? Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com: tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:

🚨 New article out! “Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000... We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany. Short summary thread below 👇

🚨 New paper out! 🚨I'll post a summary thread with the main findings shortly.

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 10mo ago

NEW - Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right - https://cup.org/3Jm68SS - Alexander De Juan, @felixhaass.bsky.social & @juvoss.bsky.social #OpenAccess

New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social! 🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result. Read full 🧵 below:

Happy to see @ankuepfer.bsky.social's & my study on when politicians engage in discourse — and when they prefer to avoid it — featured at @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social! blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

When do politicians engage in discourse – and when do they avoid it?

Ideological polarisation shapes who debates whom in the German Bundestag, but substantive discourse may become less common in the years ahead.

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Happy to share a new paper now out in EJPR w/ @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @fabioellger.bsky.social and @mgruenewald.bsky.social exploring gendered effects of political violence on political supply. https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017 A 🧵 with findings

Polisky Dictatorsky 📣 Join us next week! On March 25, @danielkuhlen.bsky.social (Humboldt University) will present "Crackdowns Increase Public Safety: Causal Evidence from El Salvador" and Kaitlyn Chriswell (Brown University) and @igoracacio.bsky.social (Cal State, Fullerton) will discuss.

New paper with @ankuepfer.bsky.social accepted at EJPR🎉 When do MPs debate each other & when do they avoid discourse? Applying a new framework to study the emergence of elite discourse, we find that ideology and gov/opp dynamics shape MPs incentives to seek & avoid dialogical interactions. #polisky

Today @danielkuhlen.bsky.social, @jocmuel.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I released StatePol – a database on 🇩🇪 state MPs and cabinet members! statepol.github.io/Database/ A 📄 examining trends in descriptive representation in 🇩🇪 state politics is out @pvs-journal.bsky.social. bit.ly/statepol

New article w/ Jochen Müller @pluggedchris.bsky.social & @marcdebus.bsky.social in Regional & Federal Studies State parties' incentives to avoid coalitions bridging the gov-opp divide at federal level is dependent on level of legislative party system fragmentation doi.org/10.1080/1359... polisky