As SPS HoD during this ranking period, I’m thrilled with this outcome—it's a testament to the hard work our department has put in to remain at the forefront of political science.

For those interested in the impact of anti-corruption efforts: here are some reflections by Luciano Da Ros and myself about the legacy of Brazil's historic probe a decade after its inception @ConversationUK. theconversation.com/what-rem…

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 Voters dislike when politicians engage in corrupt behavior. But how do politicians themselves perceive and judge corruption? My new paper with @RFisman and @mgoldenProf looks at this question. 🧵1/12

Anyone able to help contact the editorial team at @polanalysis? Have been trying to resubmit a slightly late revised article, cannot get Scholar One to allow it, and the email address for the editorial assistant has been out of order for the last 10 days.

Who hates trade? Well, it depends on trade in what.. Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ep…

Congratulations to @eui_sps student Ivetta Sergeeva, winner, 2024 Doctoral Students Award, Nationalism/Migration section, Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) for "Pushing Away the Brain Gain: Effect of Discrimination on Integration of Politically Induced Migrants."

Thank you for being such a constructive member of my group. @EUI_EU benefits hugely from its vibrant visiting and exchange programs.

Dear friends in academia, We are in receipt of an urgent petition against Boycotts of Israeli Academicians which I thought you would wish to sign. It started with scholars from the humanities and social science, but can be signed by academics from other fields as well. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Here’s the description: Statement against the Boycott of Israeli Academics We, scholars from the humanities and social sciences, though not exclusively from these fields, are deeply concerned about the increasing isolation of our academic colleagues in Israel. Calls for boycotts against Israeli academic institutions are not new, but since the brutal attack by Hamas on October 7th and the subsequent Israeli-Hamas War, these calls have taken on a new dimension. On April 12, 2024, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz published an article based on interviews with over 60 Israeli scholars and reported an astonishing range of discriminatory practices. These include the termination of scientific collaborations, cancellation of conference invitations, refusal to consider scholarly submissions to journals, rejections of promotion evaluations, and withdrawal of offers for academic appointments, among other instances.Regardless of how each of us currently analyzes the situation on the ground and evaluates the actions of the Israeli government and army, we want to make clear that we stand against all forms of boycotts targeting Israeli scholars and Israeli academic institutions. We firmly advocate for cooperation and continued work with them. We are also convinced that the gradual, often subtle exclusion of Israeli scholars contradicts fundamental principles of professional comportment and academic freedom. Moreover, an academic boycott against Israel is counterproductive regarding internal Israeli debates as well as Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, as Barak Medina argued in his essay Is it Justified to Boycott Israeli Academia?We strongly believe that international exchange – especially in troubled times like these – is essential for maintaining an open and global academic community. The alarming trend of excluding Israeli scholars from international academic discourse requires unequivocal response on our part. We, the undersigned, call on scholars to stand in solidarity with our Israeli colleagues on this critical issue.Statement AuthorsAnne Rethmann (FU Berlin/Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Daniel Siemens (Newcastle University)Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt University) ------------------ Feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues. Let me just add that, in my opinion, the statement is too mild. The next statement to sign is one calling for doubling down on our Israel-collaboration efforts. Thanks Judea Computer Science and statistics @yudapearl

Such an exhilarating experience to learn DeclareDesign from @maqartan! And a valuable research tool for multiple reasons.

We just posted an exciting role on our #UCLA team for an early- or mid-career researcher who wants to design and conduct policy-relevant research with administrative data in California. Please share with your networks: capolicylab.org/careers/rese… #JobAlert #EconTwitter #economics

How can political scientists engaged in contemporary research in the global South dialogue effectively with historical researchers? Some preliminary proposals: Dialogues Across Time: Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Democratization academic.oup.com/psq/article…

📅 This Wed, Feb 21st, at 4:30pm CET, I'm thrilled to invite you to @AshElshehawy's presentation on 'Digital Politics and Foreign Interventions: A Natural Language Processing Approach' as part of the CIVICA Data Science seminar series. 👉 Register free: socialdatascience.network/sp…

🆕CIVICA short visits' sequel greets new scholars in the next round! 1️⃣8️⃣ faculty and post-docs across CIVICA will join the initiative starting from December. 👀 Discover who will soon be bringing their expertise to your university 👉loom.ly/XHtd3Qw

brandenburg gate, berlin right now quite a statement from the german government

Congratulations to @APSAtweets for relocating all meeting activities out of the JW Marriott and to all political scientists who raised their voices so we would not be forced to decide between crossing picket lines and attending our annual meetings! connect.apsanet.org/apsa2023…

This week's #TBT Uganda-based policy brief highlights a study by EGAPers @DougParkerson, @DanielNPosner, and @piaraffler about whether bottom-up accountability can generate improvements in health outcomes. ow.ly/jQbc50OZSOJ

In the @nytimes opinion "For Some Key Voters, Trump Has Become Toxic," Thomas Edsall showcases EGAPer @VinArceneaux & co-authors' study about the lasting ramifications of Trump's false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. #EGAPMembersInTheNews nytimes.com/2023/07/05/opini…

Mark your APSA calendars: The first ever business meeting for the South Asian Politics Section will be 6:30PM – 7:15 PM on Thursday 8/31 in JW Diamond Salon 7. The section happy hour will be held at HiDef Brewing Co hidefbrewing.com on Thursday 8/31 starting at 7:30PM