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Deshdeep Dhankhar

@deshdeep.bsky.social

PhD Student in Political Science @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social| Affiliated Fellow @mwfdelhi.bsky.social Max Weber Shifting| Prev. JHU SAIS, UPenn @casipenn.bsky.social| Democracy, Opposition & Social Change | Institutions, Party, Identity & Local Governance

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Denis Lomov@denislomov.bsky.social · 5mo ago

3/ Key takeaways: - Shareholder pressure has had limited effectiveness in driving real strategic change at fossil fuel companies as we show through firms' disclosure - Even resolutions often fail to translate into concrete action

Taylor Trummel@tntrummel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My job market paper is now available as a preprint! 🚨 Using survey evidence with a conjoint experiment, I test how state-level immigrant integration policy features affect perceptions of fairness and support. 3 key points, the big takeaway, the link, and a bonus below⬇️🧵

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Ryan Briggs@ryancbriggs.net · 6mo ago

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
Mashail Malik@mamalik.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

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Kai Thaler@kaimthaler.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Happy to have a new open access Security Studies article on why & how revolutionary regimes often struggle to balance against threats soon after taking power, undermining military effectiveness www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Stumbling out of the Gates: Security Strategy and Military Weakness after Revolutionary Victory

Revolutionary regimes may prove durable over time, yet they are often weak and militarily ineffective after victory. How do the circumstances of victory shape these weaknesses? Where old regime sec...

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Silja Häusermann@siljahausermann.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025. epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ @rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

EPSS 2026 Conference | June 18–20 | ICC Belfast, UK

Join top political scientists for the EPSS 2026 Annual Conference in Belfast. Submit papers, attend panels, and network with fellow researchers.

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EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This week: Electoral + Voting Behaviour & Climate Politics ▶️ Electoral + Voting Behaviour 🧵

European Journal of Political Research@ejprjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📘 64.4 @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, W.Schakel & A.Sundell look at 🗳️ voters’ policy preferences often misalign with what they get in practice with the study showing how this “electoral connection” gap contributes to unequal outcomes #OA 🔗

Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation

JESPER LINDQVIST, MIKAEL PERSSON, WOUTER SCHAKEL, ANDERS SUNDELL

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Kai Thaler@kaimthaler.bsky.social · last yr.

Together with colleagues & led by PhD students Ana Cardenas & Payton Croskey, our new paper examines how artists & activists use augmented reality technology for memorializing episodes of violence & injustices, navigating technical & ethical dilemmas. Published open access dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Lessons from AR Memorialization: Artists' and Activists' Approaches to Responsible AR Development | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Deshdeep Dhankhar@deshdeep.bsky.social · last yr.

The new paper from Adam Auerbach & @tanukumar.com, challenges the conventional understanding of urban peripheries as neglected zones & demonstrates them as crucial sites of negotiation, innovation & contestation. Indeed, future of urban India can't be shaped just in city centres but at their edges.

Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities

ABSTRACT Some privately developed neighborhoods on the outskirts of India’s cities are formalized by urban authorities while others are not. What explains this uneven formalization and what are its...

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Center for the Advanced Study of India@casipenn.bsky.social · last yr.

In this CASI Deep Dive IiT Interview, as CASI Director Tariq Thachil prepares to step down from his role next month, CASI Managing Editor @rohanvenkat.bsky.social speaks to him about "CASI and the Complex Challenge of Studying India in the United States" casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/casi-dee...

CASI Deep Dive: Tariq Thachil on CASI and the Complex Challenge of Studying India in the United States | Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)

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Andrew Wyatt@andrewwyatt.bsky.social · last yr.

A fascinating and carefully researched article on party politics, networks, dynastic politics and the business-politics nexus in India. #entrepreneurialpoliticians #Maharashtra www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How do political families reproduce power: evidence from Maharashtra, India

How do political families maintain their hold in local politics? While the impact of dynastic politics on economic development has received scholarly attention, the underlying mechanisms that susta...

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