Christian nationalism isn't just a worldview — it's an emerging identity. In POQ, Walker et al. find that various definitions of Christian nationalism can influence respondents' self-categorization. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Unbelievably, there are *two* academic jobs at Cardiff University. One in British politics (seemingly broadly defined) cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/53... One in political behaviour/opinion 🙌 cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/52...

Lecturer in Politics - Teaching and Research in Law Building | Internal & External Website

View details and apply for this Lecturer in Politics - Teaching and Research vacancy in Law Building. Lecturer in Politics - Teaching & Research School of Law and Politics The School of Law a...

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Victor Araújo@victoraraujo.bsky.social · 3w ago

📄 New pre-print on SSRN New evidence on a timely question: Does holding anti-democratic leaders legally accountable produce democratic backlash? Contrary to widespread concerns, I find no evidence that accountability increased affective polarisation or reduced support for democracy. 🧵👇

*PSA27 Annual Conference* ⛵️ Join us in #Hull for #PSA27 to discuss 'Seismic Politics: impacts and responses from the global to the local' 📆 22 - 24 March 2027, University of Hull ➡️ Details including key dates and FAQs online buff.ly/PjjSIr6 #PoliticalStudies #Politics #InternationalRelations #PIR

PSA27 Annual Conference - Political Studies Association

Join us in Hull for PSA27 to discuss Seismic Politics – impacts and responses from the global to the local “PSA [conference] was really great. It gave much-needed exposure to interact with…

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📄 New pre-print on SSRN New evidence on a timely question: Does holding anti-democratic leaders legally accountable produce democratic backlash? Contrary to widespread concerns, I find no evidence that accountability increased affective polarisation or reduced support for democracy. 🧵👇

ótimo uso da regressão descontínua no tempo. a prisão do Bolsonaro ocorreu de forma muito tempestiva p/ funcionar como unexpected event. de todo modo, esse achado reforça uma ideia importante, segundo a qual a lei precisa ser cumprida em regimes democráticos, mesmo q isso contrarie os mais radicais.

Victor Araújo@victoraraujo.bsky.social · 3w ago

📄 New pre-print on SSRN New evidence on a timely question: Does holding anti-democratic leaders legally accountable produce democratic backlash? Contrary to widespread concerns, I find no evidence that accountability increased affective polarisation or reduced support for democracy. 🧵👇

📄 New pre-print on SSRN New evidence on a timely question: Does holding anti-democratic leaders legally accountable produce democratic backlash? Contrary to widespread concerns, I find no evidence that accountability increased affective polarisation or reduced support for democracy. 🧵👇

Extremely happy - and even more honoured - to be trusted with one of the most exciting journals @ejpgjournal.bsky.social to co-edit with such an amazing team, starting July 1 2026! We'll celebrate already next month at #ecpg2026newcastle 🥳 @nclpolitics.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social

European Journal of Politics and Gender@ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are delighted to present the new editorial team of the @ejpgjournal.bsky.social ! Led by @grahn.bsky.social and @maarja.bsky.social as co-EIC, the six-strong team represents a new generation of gender and politics and LGBTQ+ politics scholars who will take the journal forward from July 2026.

🚨CfA🚨 We're looking for a postdoc joining us in summer in Berlin. 3-year position @hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiedatascience.bsky.social. Pursue your own research agenda in data science for public policy - ML/AI, causal inference, computational methods. Questions? Don't hesitate to reach out!

Data Science Lab - Hertie School@hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Would you like to tackle major societal challenges through cutting-edge data science? Then join our team as a Postdoctoral Researcher – Data Science for Public Policy (gn). We're hiring! 🚀 Apply 👉 hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs... #Data4Good #WeAreHiring

🚨Job alert🚨 We are looking for two lecturers/assistant professors in environmental politics (permanent!) www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

I’m pleased to share a call for papers for our upcoming workshop on Elections & Political Parties in Africa and Latin America, hosted by the Centre for Political Behaviour and Policy Analysis at the University of Reading. Abstract deadline: 6 April 2026. Link for submissions 👇🏽

The call for papers for #EPOP2026 in Liverpool (17–19 September) is now open! We welcome submissions across all areas of research on elections, public opinion and parties. Deadline: 26 April Submit your proposals here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/eve... @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Public Opinion Analytics Lab (POAL)@poalab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 New POAL brief from @victoraraujo.bsky.social & @miriamsorace.bsky.social out now: how to properly evaluate the causal impact of shocks, debates, and political crises on public opinion. Diagnostics, pitfalls, examples … all in three pages! Read here: www.poal.co.uk/POAL_brief_U...

For colleagues in the London area: next week (6-7 March), we're hosting the annual LSE Behavioural Political Economy Workshop at @lsegovernment.bsky.social together with @florianfoos.bsky.social and @thchau.bsky.social. If you'd like to come, please sign up here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/uxaAx17DHq

Has exPresident #Bolsonaro fostered a lasting issue alignment in Brazil that transcends his personal fortunes? To answer, this 🆕study draws on longitudinal public opinion data from the Brazilian Electoral Study and the Face of Democracy survey series.👇👇👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...

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Why did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes? doi.org/10.1017/S153... @kanol.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de @politikuhh.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”

Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

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Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers “We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.” (Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

One week left to apply - join us in Hamburg @politikuhh.bsky.social for the next years 👋

theresa gessler@gessler.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

Sometimes a divided opposition is not a good sign for dictators. We explain this with @natanski.bsky.social

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 8mo ago

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Preemptive multipartism and democratic transitions - https://cup.org/4qhmLPo - @natanski.bsky.social & @aperezli.bsky.social #FirstView

Our neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members: – Assistant Professor in Political Economy – Assistant Professor in International Politics – Assistant Professor in Political Science Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 More details: jobs.tcd.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social

Survey experiments have become a popular methodology among social scientists. Has it been effective? In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣 This does NOT happen everyday. THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n

my totally unsolicited end-of-the-semester advice to junior scholars is to keep the nice notes that students write to you in a safe place so you can reference them when things get tough in the future.

Currently in FirstView: In “Survey Professionalism: New Evidence from Web Browsing Data,” Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, @tiagoventura.bsky.social, Tiago Ventura, @jonathannagler.bsky.social, @ericka.bric.digital, & Magdalena Wojcieszak provide evidence on survey professionalism across three samples.

"Even if the transition succeeds — if Maduro and other compromised regime figureheads depart, the military stands down, and González assumes the presidency — Venezuela is also highly unlikely to become a peaceful democracy overnight."

How Venezuela Actually Becomes a Democracy | Journal of Democracy

The South American country may be on the verge of real change. But it isn’t going to descend into civil-war chaos like Libya. It will be difficult, imperfect, and far better than what Venezuelans have…

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New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf... 🧵

"[Political science] studies without an explicit identification strategy...constitute nearly 40% of empirical quantitative work."

Needed - larger samples, more realism about (the lack of) heterogeneous treatment effects: -"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size" -"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant" academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments

Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment

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