I am happily settled in at the @lsegovernment.bsky.social and looking forward to presenting joint work with @aarslew.bsky.social on Thursday. Please join us for the talk either in London or online.

In my article ”What Can We Learn about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data?”, I show that low statistical power presents an obstacle to learning about cross-national differences. A thread below: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The super election year is ending, with many winners and losers.

Our new @thejop.bsky.social paper, (@henrikseeberg.bsky.social, @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social ) asks: How do winning and losing candidates see elections?

Spoiler: Losers are more concerned about fairness.
Link: doi.org/10.1086/734240

We are hiring at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social : 2-4 tenured positions (if/when you qualify, you can apply for promotion to full prof.). Open to all subfields of political science.

I am of course biased, but this is a fantastic department, socially & academically!

www.finn.no/job/fulltime...

Publication alert - now online @thejop.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

CfP: The Migration & Ethnicity Workshop @aarhusuni.bsky.social 📣 Coming to Aarhus for a shorter/longer stay Feb-June 2025 and wanting to present work-in-progress to our lively and supportive environment of migration and ethnicity ppl? Get in touch to get a spot in the workshop! poliscisky migcitsky

Can we convince voters to support women in elections via voter education campaigns? Or do such campaigns risk suppressing support for women candidates? New paper with @gofosu.bsky.social and Michael Wahman forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Today at 1 pm in the speaker series on Democracy and Development, we have an exciting visit by @ascharpf.bsky.social who will give a talk on "Dictatorships and their Corporate Enablers". The talk is open to everyone who finds themself in Aarhus today!

Are political institutions persistent? A large literature on the long-term effects of precolonial African institutions assumes as much. But so far, we lacked quantitative evidence for this.

In our new PSRM paper, @carlmc.bsky.social and I investigate this... doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

polisky

Delighted that my paper Young People Punish Undemocratic Behavior Less Than Older People is now conditionally accepted at @bjpols.bsky.social.

I show what the title suggests using a large amount of survey experimental evidence. Thread below.

In our new APSR article Hikaru Yamagishi, Stuart Bramwell, and I show that democracy is an important driver of women’s inclusion in government. Yet, we also show that it is experience with democracy that matters since it takes time to create an even playing field. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...