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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 16h

This is really good. But stepping back, it is also a sign of where comparative politics and political theory are going these days, towards productive engagement on basic questions of civilian rule, republicanism, and the politics of order. The field needs more work like this.

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 16h

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · 18h

As someone whose professional interests have overlapped heavily with Przeworski's, I felt (and concurred with) this bit: "The brutal fact that we find it so difficult to predict what will happen under our current circumstances is evidence that we do not have theories we can rely on."

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 21h

The use of AI generated content in political messaging has become a feature in today’s communication ecosystem.

How often is it used in the 🇳🇱 election campaign, and by whom?

Check out colleague @favstats.eu and @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social’s AI campaign tracker #tk2025

www.campaigntracker.nl/en/

Dashboard -

www.campaigntracker.nl

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

Big news for Europe and Switzerland!

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 4d

🎓 Join us for our Autumn 2025 Webinar Series: “Using Social Media as a Research Tool”, co-organised with @aykutozturk.bsky.social!

We explore how social media data can help study democracy, political communication & public engagement. 🧵👇

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Diana Galos @dianagalos.bsky.social · 3d

💥 Do candidates’ hobbies on social media influence hiring?

New study w. @fresejoris.bsky.social finds no overall effect of “high-class vs. low-class” activities. But when hobbies signal class without clear job relevance, higher-class candidates are favored.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Online social class cues and employability: Experimental evidence from Germany

Social media platforms, such as Twitter or Instagram, offer easily accessible information – relevant or not – for employers when evaluating candidates…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Pavithra Suryanarayan @pavisuri.bsky.social · 4d

More than a decade of effort went into this magnificent dataset. What an incredible public good. People need to know how hard it is to do rigorous empirical work in political science.

Francesca R. Jensenius @fr-jensenius.bsky.social · 4d

Very happy to be able to share the polling-level dataset on Indian Parliamentary Elections 2009, 2014, 2019 that we have been working on for more than a decade. Both the data and the data descriptor are open access: rdcu.be/eujHH

@statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

Screen shot of the title and abstract of the article I am talking about

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 4d

Hague in his 1st conference speech as leader: "I am proud to be British. I believe in the United Kingdom, and so do hundreds of thousands of British blacks and British Asians. I want to see men and women from our ethnic minorities playing their full part in the mainstream of our national life..."

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

Annoyingly Hague's full speech text doesn't appear to be online anywhere, so maybe there is something egregiously stupid in it, but it is a much more skilful bit of 'I lead the party that has run the country for 18 years' positioning:

We care too, claims Hague

Key extracts from William Hague 's 1997 conference speech.

www.theguardian.com

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 7d

Meta’s decision to ban ads about politics, elections, and social issues on their platforms like Facebook and Instagram in the EU is now implemented.

This is the new policy. Any ad about fx elections, civil rights, economy, health, climate, immigration, or foreign policy is now (presumably) banned.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 New assistant prof job posting at LSE with a focus on crime and criminal justice

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, , LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university <spa...

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats, @nilsredeker.bsky.social !

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 5d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, she comes close, but on policy some of it is still in the making as you say, while it's pretty clear where Jenrick would end up, to the right of Badenoch, wherever that will be. Let's see if she will be there long enough to announce any policy based on these reviews.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 5d

So if you think you've seen full-on accommodation of the radical right yet, more is still to come.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 5d

It's sufficiently clear by now that if Badenoch is the most rightwing leader the Tories ever had, Jenrick's Conservative Party would be indistinguishable on second dimension politics from Reform.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 5d

He also just isn't very funny, no matter how hard he tries.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 5d

This Jenrick speech could have been given as is at the Reform conference a couple of weeks ago. One of the most striking parts, for a Shadow Justice secretary, are the parts on Northern Ireland. Incredible how far the Tories have moved away from John Major's legacy.

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Jonas Schaible @beimwort.bsky.social · 6d

„Wenn sie erkannt wird, verliert die Provokation ihren dunklen Zauber.
Das, was Russland (in manchen Fällen gesichert, in manchen Fällen mutmaßlich) tut, sind also keine Provokationen.“

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Wenn es aussieht, wie Kriegsvorbereitungen, sind es womöglich Kriegsvorbereitungen

Und keine Provokationen.

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Len Metson @lenmetson.com · 6d

Could not recommend this highly enough - LSE is a great place to be doing a PhD, and Campaign Lab are a fantastic organisation to collaborate with -

More than happy to talk to anyone thinking of applying!

Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

www.lse.ac.uk

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 6d

Very cool field experiment on political conformity by one of last year's @lsegovernment.bsky.social MSc Political Science Political Behaviour Stream students, Moses Siregar: blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2025/10...

When Cybertroopers Shape the Crowd: Online Conformity in Indonesia - LSE Southeast Asia Blog

Cyber troop operations in Indonesia don’t persuade citizens with facts — they manufacture consensus through visibility, secrecy, and conformity. Drawing on a field experiment with over 900 Instagram u...

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 6d

Is this not how you do lunch with your PhD students @drjennings.bsky.social ?

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing.

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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 6d

🧵 New publication: How do people feel about regulating #AI in election campaigns? 🧵

In a new article, @adrauc.bsky.social, @kunkakom.bsky.social, and I examine when and why people support stronger AI regulation in political competition.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Explaining public preferences for regulating Artificial Intelligence in election campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan

The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in election campaigns, such as AI-generated political ads, automated messaging, and the widespread …

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 6d

You need to be eligible for ESRC funding to qualify for this studentship. Please contact me if you have questions. Deadline for applications is 10 December. Please help spread the word.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 6d

This is a collaborative studentship, meaning you'll be spending some research time with our partner organisation, which will provide additional mentoring, access to real-world campaigns and data plus an individual research budget.

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