2026 May SWERP event: Yong Kyun Kim (Seoul National University) will present on territorial rewards and state restructuring in Vietnam’s 2025 provincial mergers. May 8, 10am KST (May 7, 9pm ET). Hope to see you there!

Less than 24 hours away!

Seo-young Silvia Kim@sysilviakim.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New SWERP event alert! Three SNU master’s students will present their research in a lightning-round format. Join us Apr 3 10 AM KST (= April 2, 9 PM EST) to see Seoul National’s crème de la crème in action. Personally looking forward to this one.

Super happy to see this paper finally formatted. While this paper might seem about political fundraising, it's really about the theory of *parties*: is it a broader network (UCLA school, i.e., Bawn et al. 2012) or elite/institutions-driven (re: Aldrich)? doi.org/10.1086/735435

Keep Winning with WinRed? Online Fundraising Platform as the Party’s Public Good | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 2

What determines the relative importance of extended party networks versus party leaders in parties’ campaign strategies? We synthesize theories of party organizations by highlighting the interplay bet...

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서울대 사회과학대학 2026학년도 제1차 교원 채용 공고가 떴습니다. 정치외교학부에서 한국정치 전임교원을 모십니다. 많은 관심 부탁드립니다. 접수기간이 빠듯하니 확인 꼭 부탁드립니다 (해외 계신 분들은 시차 주의!) social.snu.ac.kr/%EA%B3%B5%EC...

서울대학교 행정대학원 BK 프로그램에서 포닥 1명을 새로 모집합니다. 최근 박사학위를 취득하신 분들께 좋은 기회가 되길 바랍니다. 지원 마감은 다음 주 월요일입니다. gspa.snu.ac.kr/kr/Board/Det...

New SWERP event alert! Three SNU master’s students will present their research in a lightning-round format. Join us Apr 3 10 AM KST (= April 2, 9 PM EST) to see Seoul National’s crème de la crème in action. Personally looking forward to this one.

Happening tomorrow evening for US folks--𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟑/𝟏𝟐 𝐚𝐭 𝟗𝐩𝐦 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧. I genuinely love this topic and hope you can join! 😁 @sysilviakim.bsky.social

John V. Kane@uptonorwell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 Interested in survey experiments? I'll be giving a virtual talk on (false) null results in experiments--and how to protect against them--at SWERP on 3/13 (3/12 8pm EST). Hope to see you there, and thanks to @sysilviakim.bsky.social for inviting me! Link to join: swerp.netlify.app

New year, new forthcoming book announcement! Very excited to post more about it soon! Link: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

1. Downgraded from Claude Max to Pro. My mental health has significantly improved. Less feeling like I'm being chased all the time (was whipping myself for higher productivity) 2. Claude>>Codex for me so far 3. Still haven't figured out how best to raise the next academic generation in this era

🚨 Interested in survey experiments? I'll be giving a virtual talk on (false) null results in experiments--and how to protect against them--at SWERP on 3/13 (3/12 8pm EST). Hope to see you there, and thanks to @sysilviakim.bsky.social for inviting me! Link to join: swerp.netlify.app

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.

So happy that my Cambridge Element with @yesolakweon.bsky.social has been published! Free access for the next two weeks!

Tiffany Barnes@tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣📣📣And, just this morning I learned that @yesolakweon.bsky.social & @jeonghyunkim.bsky.social is available for free download too!! Be sure to get your cooy in the next 2 weeks 🎉📚🦉 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

It’s now official. I’ll be publishing my first book, Respectability Politics, w/ @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Proud to join a press w/ a strong lineage in Black studies & Black politics, including Cohen’s Boundaries of Blackness, which has deeply inspired my work. Now to get these revisions done.

Just built ✨FlowCraft✨, a free, open-source diagramming app (thanks Claude Code!) Browser-based, no server, no signup, no tracking, no subscription, no dependencies, and no Internet required. Just open a single HTML file and start diagramming. AGPL. github.com/sysilviakim/...

Look at the intensity gap in this NYT graph of how voters describe their current feelings toward Trump www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration” We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress. 🧵1/4

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

U.S. political scientists, are any of your depts *not* admitting new PhD students this year (esp. for international applicants)? I'm gathering info to help students know where to reconsider applying. Applications are not cheap and they're despairing. Appreciate any details.

The latest issue of PA is out now. We have a great collection of papers by @yamilrvelez.bsky.social, @sysilviakim.bsky.social, @mattblackwell.bsky.social, @sophieehill.bsky.social, @dwlee.bsky.social, @melissazrogers.bsky.social, @kaipingchen.bsky.social, @samuelbaltz.bsky.social (1/2)

서울대학교 정치외교학부에서 전임교원을 채용합니다. 미국정치 1명 및 미국 외교정책 1명입니다. 다음 링크를 참고 부탁드립니다. 감사합니다. social.snu.ac.kr/%EA%B3%B5%EC...

SWERP is back for fall 2025! Under what international contexts are citizens more likely to support peace with a foreign adversary? Jungmin Han will present about how third-party interactions shape public opinion on rapprochement. Sep 26, 2025, 10am KST (= Sep 25 9pm ET)

I'm not at APSA, but my master's student/coauthor, Sangmyung, is presenting! Come see how ideological "incongruence" in the U.S. has changed in the last decade. Sat, Sep 13, 2-3:30pm local time.

This was a really fun paper to write (but a pain to collect data!) It took me embarrasingly long to wrap up and submit, so I'm thrilled it's now in the books.

Hans Hassell@hjghassell.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Ideologically extreme candidates don't solicit more small dollar donations. New at @respol.bsky.social from @sysilviakim.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ideologically extreme candidates don't solicit more small dollar donations. New at @respol.bsky.social from @sysilviakim.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Currently in FirstView: In “Addressing Measurement Errors in Ranking Questions for the Social Sciences,” Yuki Atsusaka and @sysilviakim.bsky.social examine the statistical consequences of measurement error and introduce a framework for improving ranking data analysis.

📢 Thrilled to share our new article introducing CampaignView—a comprehensive open-source dataset of congressional candidate campaign bios and policy platforms (2018–2022). Paper + data here: campaignview.org & doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 🧵1/4

SWERP returns with 2025's third presentation. Dr. Kyosuke Kikuta asks: what is the effect of solar eclipses on violence? Find out how armed groups rationally can use darkness for their tactical purposes. 5/2 10am KST = 5/1 Thu 9pm EST. See you soon! swerp.weebly.com

Wasn't there a paper recently about how partisans are willing to tolerate cost to themselves and copartisans as long as outpartisans were going to suffer more? Anybody remember which paper this was?

Targeting people for their political views is not going to stop with immigrants. Gift link: wapo.st/43Ssl2Q

Opinion | They’re coming for immigrants first

And the Trump administration is signaling that no one else might be safe, either.

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🚨 New paper (with Kasey Rhee & Nico Studen). We use a new within-precinct design to isolate how ideology affects vote choice holding turnout fixed, analyzing 3.4M precinct observations across state & fed elections (2016-2022). tldr: Ideological moderation affects vote shares, but not by much. 🧵⬇️