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Simon Hix
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Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics, EUI. President-Elect, @epssnet.bsky.social. FBA, FRSA. Democracy, parties, elections, electoral systems etc. Live music. COYI

Simon Hix is a British political scientist, holder of the Stein Rokkan chair in comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence. His main areas of research are voting in parliaments, democratic institutions, and EU politics. .. more

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Yep. And also platforms like Institute4Replication are a good innovation. Much faster and more flexible. I use it for the course I teach on “Replicating Research in Political Science”. i4replication.org
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I4Replication advances research credibility through systematic replication studies, academic events, and open-source tools for researchers.
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I agree. I’m sceptical that having an in house replication specialist would solve the issues we’re discussing. We know (eg. from principal-agent work) that, as a monitoring mechanism, “fire alarms” can be more effective than “police patrol”. So, in that sense, the system isn’t broken.

Sure. Are you willing to pay for that, e.g. by paying to submit papers? Almost no money from journal publishers to pay for anything like that, so journals rely a lot on temporary and usually voluntary labour.

I understand that. I know this stuff is far from easy. I’m just reporting what Dan and Stuart have been saying. Better to talk directly to them.

From what has been said (and that’s all I can judge), the replication and the response to the replication should ideally have been published online at the same time. Both sets of authors made other points, and they can address those themselves.

Yep. On the same page. We need to collectively work out how to do this stuff better.

Thanks Hugo. This debate is now on the curriculum of the course for next term :-)

Btw, it sounds like @apsrjournal.bsky.social didn’t handle this as well as they might have done. Lessons for the future, perhaps.
Ouch! Hoping this argument doesn’t escalate. I have enormous respect for @dandekadt.bsky.social and @turnbulldugarte.com. Both are phenomenally smart and creative scholars. Some of the very best around.
Some researchers, like myself, care about knowledge production and finding the "right" answer.

Others care more about getting a publication based on saying that others are wrong rather than engaging in a discussion about what the current state of knowledge is and whether it needs to be corrected.

Thanks Dan. Didn’t mean to be snarky. Just thought I’d flag that, in case you weren’t aware. Good to know it’s in hand.
Some researchers, like myself, care about knowledge production and finding the "right" answer.

Others care more about getting a publication based on saying that others are wrong rather than engaging in a discussion about what the current state of knowledge is and whether it needs to be corrected.
A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published.

Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response.

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SPLITTERS !!! #LifeOfBrian

Hi Dan. This is fascinating. But (somewhat ironically!) the link to your replication files on Dataverse doesn't seem to work (doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...). Maybe fix that. Ta!
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Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
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Today I published a replication outlining concerns with "Instrumentally Inclusive" by Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega (2024, APSR).

I document seemingly idiosyncratic and ad hoc choices made by the authors that create a pattern of statistically significant results consistent with their theory.

To do list:
- buy more of the Xmas gifts this year!
on.ft.com/4pAF8Pc Santa Claus is still a woman
Santa Claus is still a woman
There is something particularly stubborn about gender roles at Christmas
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People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!

Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072

(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org

Great to see the CJEU enforcing basic rights throughout the EU www.bbc.com/news/article...
Same-sex marriage must be respected throughout EU, top court tells Poland
The ruling covers the case of a Polish couple who married in Berlin but Polish authorities refused to recognise their marriage.
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Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

📣 Please share! 📣

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Gender-based violence has no place in a free and equal society.
No woman or girl should have to live in fear.

On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we call for an end to all forms of violence and affirm the right for every women to live in safety and dignity.
Are you worried about the devastating cuts we are seeing to arts, humanities & social sciences in UK universities? Last call for my lecture in Leicester this Thurs 27th Nov on the value of these subjects and how they support UK security, cohesion and prosperity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
Shaping a Brighter Future
The first event in our Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, delivered by Hetan Shah, Chief Executive, The British Academy
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NEWS -

The Politics of Imperial Nostalgia - https://cup.org/4p1QbRA

"right-wing opposition to criticism of the imperial past is stronger than left-wing support"

- Christopher Claassen & @danjdevine.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

Eek! I'm sitting on 6 reviewers for journals, all due in the next 10 days! Never experienced so many so tightly bunched. Would love to see an analysis of submissions by month for these journals ... or maybe editors could manage the pipeline differently, e.g. "sorry, we're full until next month"!
Happy that our paper with @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, and @lstoetze.bsky.social found a home at @thejop.bsky.social. You can read it here 👇

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Thanks to all the fantastic people giving feedback and supporting us
Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
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@casmudde.bsky.social makes the case (again!) to social democratic leaders that aping the far right is not a good electoral strategy!

… it’s almost like they a deliberately ignoring political science research in their dash to oblivion 🤦‍♂️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com

Greatest opening bass riff to any album ever!

When my daughter was tiny and we played that album over and over, she once asked: “Daddy, why does he want to be a dog?”. Since then I’ve never been able to hear it differently!