Five more days to submit nominations for the Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology! A broad and unusual call. Feel free to self-nominate or to submit a nomination on behalf of work that has inspired you.

We invite nominations for the @apsa.bsky.social CP Section's Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology. Self-nominations welcome! Deadline: March 15, 2026. Send nominations to golden@ucla.edu. Details 👇

So proud of my collaborators @noamlupu.bsky.social @carnes.bsky.social @eugenian.bsky.social and all our amazing research assistants across the world for having used our Covid lockdown to collect an award-winning dataset! www.instagram.com/p/DPNEGA5kmG...

The Call for Papers for the 2026 EPSS annual conference in Belfast is now live! Looking forward to your submissions!! Check out all details in this thread 👇

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · last yr.

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... 🚨Please share widely! #Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

CVS pop

Congratulations to @susannagarside.bsky.social for defending a terrific @eui-sps.bsky.social dissertation on the politics of climate change. We are delighted to send her to @ox.ac.uk for a post-doc and look forward to her future contributions.

Congratulations to @mgoldenprof.bsky.social SPS Professor, for winning the 2025 APSA Best Dataset Award! The Global Legislator Dataset, built during her time at EUI, is now a landmark in comparative politics. A proud moment for SPS and the @eui-eu.bsky.social Institute #GlobalDataset

Consider applying! The fellowship includes a mentor for a full year and two online feedback sessions. Open to all subfields

Yusaku Horiuchi@yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social · last yr.

The Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship program. Share this post! @apsa.bsky.social, @poscresearch.bsky.social

EuroWEPS 11 is here! We'll meet in Bergen on May 16 to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is March 30.

Were you teaching or taking the core graduate course/field seminar in comparative politics in (or around) year 2000? If so, @melinaplatas.bsky.social and I are collecting syllabi from the top 15 US departments that year. Please send what you have! Email golden@ucla.edu or paloma.abrilponcela@eui.eu

Deeply saddened by the loss today of my UCLA colleague Ed Ed Leamer, a brilliant scholar, extraordinary communicator, and wonderful person. His classic work influenced generations of scholars.

NEW - The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies - cup.org/4hMcJCi - @carnes.bsky.social, Joshua Ferrer, @mgoldenprof.bsky.social, @esmelillywhite.bsky.social, @noamlupu.bsky.social & @eugenian.bsky.social #OpenAccess

I found this Foreign Affairs piece by Levitsky and Way hugely insightful in putting together Trump's disparate decisions and activities. But no particular outcome is foreordained, and thinking through who can be mobilized to put up roadblocks is the next step. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The Path to American Authoritarianism

What comes after democratic breakdown.

foreignaffairs.com

Are you interested in U.S. legislative history? Newly-available complete dataset on all persons serving as legislators in the 50 state houses between 1900 and 2016: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

We’re hiring a predoctoral fellow for our Stanford Conflict and Polarization lab! We do field experiments, lab experiments and also love to go hunting in the archives for novel data to help shed new light on solving these important problems. Please apply if interested & share with any who might be!

Hope to have some CS followers to recommend a LaTeX editor with vi integration, ideally one that shows the compiled document on the screen in real time. Was using Latexian but does not seem to work on a Mac any longer. Any suggestions? Needs to be independent of the internet (no Overleaf!). Thanks.

We have a forthcoming BJPS paper and a new dataset on the gender, education, and occupational backgrounds of lawmakers in the world's democracies! Paper: www.noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm... Here's one application . . . (1/2)

Spent much of Covid meeting weekly with a terrific group of research assistants to assemble the Global Legislators Database w/ @noamlupu.bsky.social @carnes.bsky.social @esmelillywhite.bsky.social Eugenia Nazrullaeva and Joshua Ferrer, written up in The Economist www.economist.com/interactive/...

Which countries have the most-educated politicians?

American lawmakers have lofty credentials, but not necessarily more skills

economist.com

Delighted to see EUI Ph.D. @valentimvicente.bsky.social's book, The Normalization of the Radical Right, called out by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social as his Best Book of 2024! Congratulations Vicente! www.ft.com/content/bddc...

Best books of 2024: Roula Khalaf, Janan Ganesh and other FT journalists pick their favourites

FT editors, columnists and specialists share the titles that have inspired them

ft.com

Brandenburg Gate in Berlin tonight

Please apply for or promote this post doc with @fhollenbach.bsky.social and myself at Copenhagen Business School. 2 years. No teaching. Well paid. Comparative political economy, legislative institutions, interbranch politics. PLEASE contact one or both of us for more info if you have questions