Have you ever wondered about what we know about the broad patterns, the causes, and the consequences of contestation of IOs? We – @jonastallberg.bsky.social, Michael Zürn and I – did and therefore set out to take stock of the state of the art. Our review is out now in @iojournal.bsky.social.

Contestation of International Organizations: Patterns, Drivers, and Responses | International Organization | Cambridge Core

Contestation of International Organizations: Patterns, Drivers, and Responses

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I’d apply ⬇️

Danbischof@danbischof.bsky.social · 2d ago

Postdoc position within my group 3 years (100% TVl-13): stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/2... ⏱️ 06.11.2026 If you have questions: get in touch!

Very interesting project: Living Science uses an AI agent to reproduce key findings from seminal papers in economics, document what holds up and extend the analysis with newer data. It's like a follow-up paper with robustness checks and extensions. New paper every week.

I don't mean to brag, but at my PhD defence this paper 👇 was called the "filet" of my dissertation 🥩 and now you can read it in @thejop.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/CCJJW...

📄 New working paper w. Alex De Juan, @felixhaass.bsky.social & Henry Thomson: We study Weimar Germany in 1932 to ask whether far right electoral success pacifies extremist movements - or can fuel violence when mandates do not translate into power. osf.io/preprints/so...

1/3 How can Europe thrive in a fragmenting world and reform despite political divisions between and within countries? In our @cepr.org Europe 2050 contribution, @jafrieden.bsky.social & I argue that political feasibility must be a central consideration in any reform design. cepr.org/publications...

🚨New article in Nature Scientific Data: The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures: doi.org/10.1038/s415... with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @sopro.bsky.social @chrauh.bsky.social @miklossebok.bsky.social 1/6

The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures

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I don’t understand people who make stuff up in their research. Isn't that what grant proposals are for?

Good move by @epssnet.bsky.social to add a new section on ‘Poltics and AI’ to its 2027 conference in Copenhagen. Chaired by @gregoryeady.bsky.social and @zdgreene.bsky.social 👏 CfP: epssnet.org/2027-copenha...

Call for Papers | EPSS 2027 Copenhagen Conference

Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Copenhagen 2027. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.

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📣 Call for papers now open! The next Annual Conference of the European Political Science Society will take place in Copenhagen, 24–26 June 2027. Submission deadline: 13 November 2026 (23:59 CET) Looking forward to it! #EPSS2027 @epssnet.bsky.social

Saxony-Anhalt went to the polls, with the AfD falling just short of a majority. Here are some takeaways based on the preliminary results across all 218 municipalities and local socioeconomic characteristics. A thread 🧵(1 /n) Full analysis + write-up: juliuskoelzer.de/saxony-anhal...

But what happens when AI companies finally run out of generic, vaguely profound names for their models?

New preprint w/ Jian Gao, @yianyin.bsky.social & @dashunwang.bsky.social. We link campaign finance, faculty rosters, voter files, a ~7,000-scientist survey & bibliometrics to ask if scientists' politics show up in the science that gets made & used. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

1/5 How do civil servants react when politicians aim to challenge democratic institutions? And what role does their manager play in this regard? I study these questions in a new article in academic.oup.com/jpart w @mpvluttervelt.bsky.social @mathiasoestergaard.bsky.social Zuzana Murdoch Benny Geys

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the Public Management Research Association. Publishes research with the aim to advance the organizational, administrative, and policy sciences as they apply to government and g...

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Clicked on a reviewer invitation today and received this exceptionally rare message 🤯 “Thank you for your time, but unfortunately we already have enough reviewers for this manuscript.”

We’re hiring! Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in: Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA 1/3

📄 nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02464-x Wilma, PhD (Pretty helpful Dog) and #postdog 🐾 @au.dk End🧵

Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources - Nature Human Behaviour

This analysis of 1.2 million policy documents from 185 countries identifies global inequalities in whose knowledge is cited in policymaking. Governments in the Global South rely more on foreign source...

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A recent study by @seramirezruiz.bsky.social and @rsenninger.bsky.social analyzed more than one million government policy documents from 185 countries. 🔬 What they found: whose evidence gets cited depends a lot on where you're citing from. 2/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 gets studies from everywhere. But how can she sniff out what's reliable evidence? When in doubt she trusts what comes from her own backyard, Wilma thinks 👃 Turns out many governments run on the opposite instinct when citing research. 1/🧵

What effect sizes can a design reliably detect, and how does that compare to the smallest effect size of interest? These questions are rarely pondered outside of experiments. I (with assistance from Claude) wrote an R package, "simpower", that helps with this: github.com/faranordk/si....

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

Does losing an election affect politicians' democratic attitudes? A large literature documents a winner–loser gap among voters, but evidence on political elites was long scarce. A series of recent studies has narrowed this gap. A thread on the state of the evidence. 🧵

New WP!📄📣 For anyone working with quasi-experiments (especially UESD) and survey data, this is for you. Treatment events may affect not only opinions, but also survey participation and thereby bias causal estimates. I develop a framework to assess and tackle this bias. osf.io/preprints/so...

New book! Policy changes are distributed a lot like earthquakes - and stuff like waves, wind, and sandpiles. It is very hard to predict exactly what will happen next month, but there is a lot of regularity in how often changes are small and how often they are large. 🧵

Relax, NYT, he changed planes and used other people as a decoy, it is not like he is Houdini

🔥🔥🔥 noahdasanaike.github.io/sage.html

If journal editorial is of interest to you - replace me at @jeppjournal.bsky.social as Associate Editor. I've loved working with JEPP. The team, papers, and reviewers have been awesome. Happy to answer questions if you have any. editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Associate Editor needed for Journal of European Public Policy

Associate Editor needed for Journal of European Public Policy

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📄 And another working paper: **Pretty much all citizens say they support democracy.** But what do they mean by that? We ask whether voters from different partisan camps mean the same thing when they talk about "democracy." Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

Where do governments turn for policy knowledge? In 185 countries, evidence cited in policy documents is dominated by a few Global North countries, with the 🇺🇸 at the centre. Our paper (w/ @seramirezruiz.bsky.social ) is now out in the July issue of @nathumbehav.nature.com. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Happy to share that this paper with @jacobnyrup.bsky.social has been accepted for publication, subject to minor revisions, in AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social 🚨 Couldn't be more proud! Watch this space for the final version of the paper! 🚣 (a tiny viking row for us) tinyurl.com/ynk7epa5 👆

𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥@jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We use the new PtP dataset to compare cabinet members on background characteristics. Overall, politicians look pretty similar across genders. But women in the most prestigious positions conform closer to the typical politician than men, indicating that women must conform to make it to the top.