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Dr. Philip J. Howe
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Professor & Chair of Political Science & Fulbright Program Adviser, Adrian College; currently visiting at Corvinus University, Budapest; frmr IWM Vienna & Hungarian Academy of Sciences. RT≠agree
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Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 1d
"Continuity and Discontinuity in Legislative Representation: from Austria-Hungary to the Austrian and Czechoslovak First Republics," co-written by me, Tom Lorman & Dan Miller, in the final volume of the monumental Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918!

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Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918
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THANK YOU to all who pre-ordered my book! In the category of New Releases in Immigration Policy. I'm at #3 and it's for a book that isn't out yet until March 10. I'm speechless and grateful to all of you who bought, or asked your libraries to order. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Anna O. Law's Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship--African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants with a picture of a US flag with an image of a person standing behind it. The book is #3 on Amazon's list of New Releases in Immigration Policy
January 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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this is real and real fucking exhausting
January 21, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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📣 The Italian Political Science Review invites submissions for a special issue on “The Comparative Politics of Gender”, guest-edited by @klbeckwith.bsky.social and myself.

Deadline for submitting your proposal: February 8, 2026.

Take a look at the call 👇

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Call for Papers: The Comparative Politics of Gender
Deadline February 8, 2026
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January 7, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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My latest article “Promising links: how parties combine policy issues with group appeals“ (coauthored with Martin Haselmayer) is now available open access!
Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
#PoliSky
Promising links: how parties combine policy issues with group appeals
Despite growing interest in how parties use social group appeals to reach out to different groups within society, the combination of policy issues and social groups in parties’ campaign strategies ...
doi.org
January 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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@haukelicht.bsky.social and I have exciting news! Our joint project „Group Appeals in Parliamentary and Electoral Debates“ has been approved for funding by the DFG and the FWF! The project will start on Feb 1, 2026 and we’ll be hiring:
📍Pre-doc (Mannheim)
📍Post-doc (Innsbruck)
Stay tuned for calls!
May 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I had a really great time in Ghent! Thank you @jasmienluypaert.bsky.social for the invitation!
gasparugent.bsky.social GASPAR UGent @gasparugent.bsky.social · Nov 4
How and why do parties target specific social groups? 🎯On Friday 28th November, Dr. @lenamariahuber.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) will discuss the importance of social group appeals during the next edition of the Gaspar Lecture Series.
➡️Registration link: event.ugent.be/registration...
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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The University of Vienna
@univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
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January 20, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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PP sent this out today. Any principled thoughts? paulepeterson.substack.com/p/will-mamda...
Will Mamdani be a Sewer Socialist?
The New York mayor should clean up delivery of basic services, because he can’t do much more
paulepeterson.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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Pretty stunning to see the range and scale of impacts on higher ed.
Trump 2.0’s impact on higher ed: The first year in 8 numbers
A chaotic 2025 brought dozens of federal college probes, thousands of revoked international student visas, and billions in threatened research funding.
www.highereddive.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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US science after a year of Trump

A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
go.nature.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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One might even say organizations are racial structures.
cantb.bsky.social Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 2d
1/ A more serious MLK Jr. Day post: The article shows the bureaucratic absurdities associated with the administration’s request to collect admission data desegregated by test score race, and gender; it also reveals that the intent is to segregate higher education. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
Trump's admissions data collection strains college administrators
Universities must report student demographics, grades and test scores by March 18
hechingerreport.org
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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regfedst.bsky.social
📌𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘁! 📌
🇱🇧 🇮🇶 Under what conditions are 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿-𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 established, and when are they effective?

🔓 Read the #openaccess article by @allimcculloch.bsky.social Soeren Keil, Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif and Sahar Ammar here 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1359...

#power #agreement #Lebanon #Iraq
December 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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🔊 Tomorrow!

Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social with Prof. Cathie Carmichael, who will examine the Habsburg garrison complex in Trebinje, and discuss the downfall of #Habsburg military power in 1918.

🗓️ 21 January at 5.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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The Habsburg Garrison Complex in Trebinje: A Lost World
A SSEES Southeast European studies book talk with Prof. Cathie Carmichael
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January 20, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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"Continuity and Discontinuity in Legislative Representation: from Austria-Hungary to the Austrian and Czechoslovak First Republics," co-written by me, Tom Lorman & Dan Miller, in the final volume of the monumental Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918!

@oeaw.bsky.social

www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ihb/resea...
Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918
www.oeaw.ac.at
January 20, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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NEW -

Legislator or Representative? Politicians’ Tasks According to Voters - https://cup.org/49LV0Ia

"Politicians’ need for prioritizing time and energy is acute and consequential for democracy"

- Helene Helboe Pedersen

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract summarizing a research study about the influence of politicians' prioritization on democratic engagement. Discusses how voters' values impact their preferences for representatives, with a focus on study results from Denmark, Germany, UK, and US.
January 20, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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Thursday: NEW Virtual Networking Sessions for Organizing Panels at the ASEEES Annual Convention.
See tips and guidelines or register for a networking session: buff.ly/ILgiGgN
#ASEEES26

Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern
January 20, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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The Life of MLK Jr (as told by white people)

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Transcript of cartoon: PANEL 1 A Black woman sits in an armchair, holding a little baby. The baby is crying. CAPTION: MLK Jr was born. PANEL 2 A young Black boy sits up in bed, in a dark bedroom, clutching his blanket. CAPTION: Then he had a dream. BOY: I had a dream that someday our children would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin! So stop playing the race card! OFF-PANEL VOICE: Martin, go to sleep! PANEL 3 Panel three shows a graveyard, The gravestone in the foregound has, carved on it, “Martin Luther King Junior. “Stop Playing The Race Card.” CAPTION: And he NEVER said or did anything else EVER. And then he died. The end! CAPTION AT BOTTOM OF STRIP: THE LIFE OF MLK JR (AS TOLD BY WHITE PEOPLE)
January 19, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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#OpenAccess from the Journal of Law and Courts -

A Database of the United States Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket, 1993–2025 - https://cup.org/4pOXlbr

- @jkastellec.bsky.social & Anthony R. Taboni

#FirstView
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January 19, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Wrote a thing about whether the American presidency even exists anymore. No reason. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
Does the American presidency exist anymore?
Last week Donald Trump flipped off a worker at a Ford plant for yelling “pedophile protector” at him.
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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With the irreplaceable help of @davidsteinecke.bsky.social, Christina Zuber and I venture into legislative studies with this analysis of party groups and role call voting in parliaments in multinational societies.

@uni-konstanz.de @lsqjournal.bsky.social

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Competing Principals in a Multinational State: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907–1914
This article examines legislative behavior in the lower house of the Imperial Austrian Reichsrat, a historical legislature representing a multinational society. The coincidence of economic and center...
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January 19, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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Howdy! After a taking a looonnnng break from social media, I have finally started a Bluesky account. At the moment, I am beginning to rebuild my Twitter network - if you recognize me from that platform (or, for that matter, from real life) please friend me.

Good to be back!
January 18, 2026 at 2:18 PM