Mariia Tepliakova
@mtplk.bsky.social
she/her
postdoc @ UvA (AISSR | Politics of Diversity) 🇳🇱
politics & gender • CEE • EU
mtplk.eu
postdoc @ UvA (AISSR | Politics of Diversity) 🇳🇱
politics & gender • CEE • EU
mtplk.eu
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🚨 CfP: SekMethoden 2026
🗓️ March 12-13, 2026
🗺️ Hannover, Germany
⏰ DL Dec 07, 2025
👉 Apply here: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/sekmethoden2...
👥 @gessler.bsky.social, @lukrudolph.bsky.social, @donyhu.bsky.social, Jona Baumert, Morten Harmening and I look forward to your submissions!
🗓️ March 12-13, 2026
🗺️ Hannover, Germany
⏰ DL Dec 07, 2025
👉 Apply here: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/sekmethoden2...
👥 @gessler.bsky.social, @lukrudolph.bsky.social, @donyhu.bsky.social, Jona Baumert, Morten Harmening and I look forward to your submissions!
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🚨 CfP: SekMethoden 2026
🗓️ March 12-13, 2026
🗺️ Hannover, Germany
⏰ DL Dec 07, 2025
👉 Apply here: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/sekmethoden2...
👥 @gessler.bsky.social, @lukrudolph.bsky.social, @donyhu.bsky.social, Jona Baumert, Morten Harmening and I look forward to your submissions!
🗓️ March 12-13, 2026
🗺️ Hannover, Germany
⏰ DL Dec 07, 2025
👉 Apply here: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/sekmethoden2...
👥 @gessler.bsky.social, @lukrudolph.bsky.social, @donyhu.bsky.social, Jona Baumert, Morten Harmening and I look forward to your submissions!
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⚙️ #ecprjs26 Workshop director 🎬 @liliiasablina.bsky.social
💡 Seeks Papers that assess how and why certain illiberal actors are able to foster transnational and international connections and collaboration while others remain relatively isolated
⌛ Submit by 10 Dec buff.ly/5NUxBkL
#Polisky #Populism
💡 Seeks Papers that assess how and why certain illiberal actors are able to foster transnational and international connections and collaboration while others remain relatively isolated
⌛ Submit by 10 Dec buff.ly/5NUxBkL
#Polisky #Populism
Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen: Negotiating Contrasting Illiberalisms
13th Biennial Conference of the Standing Group on the European Union, 1 – 3 July 2026, Università di Catania
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
⚙️ #ecprjs26 Workshop director 🎬 @liliiasablina.bsky.social
💡 Seeks Papers that assess how and why certain illiberal actors are able to foster transnational and international connections and collaboration while others remain relatively isolated
⌛ Submit by 10 Dec buff.ly/5NUxBkL
#Polisky #Populism
💡 Seeks Papers that assess how and why certain illiberal actors are able to foster transnational and international connections and collaboration while others remain relatively isolated
⌛ Submit by 10 Dec buff.ly/5NUxBkL
#Polisky #Populism
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What happens when abortion access becomes restricted even without a law officially passing?
With Francesco Billari and @aksoyundan.bsky.social, we investigated how incidence of abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth changed under the anti-abortion campaign in Turkey.
With Francesco Billari and @aksoyundan.bsky.social, we investigated how incidence of abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth changed under the anti-abortion campaign in Turkey.
October 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
What happens when abortion access becomes restricted even without a law officially passing?
With Francesco Billari and @aksoyundan.bsky.social, we investigated how incidence of abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth changed under the anti-abortion campaign in Turkey.
With Francesco Billari and @aksoyundan.bsky.social, we investigated how incidence of abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth changed under the anti-abortion campaign in Turkey.
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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! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🚨 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! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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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....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
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📚 SESP #ArticleCollections #Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe
1⃣5⃣ articles
🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, N. Conti, @bonniefield.bsky.social
#Equality #LGBTIQ* #Sexism #Feminism #Rights
🔗https://tandfonline.com/journals/fses20/collections/Gender-and-Sexuality-in-Southern-Europe
1⃣5⃣ articles
🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, N. Conti, @bonniefield.bsky.social
#Equality #LGBTIQ* #Sexism #Feminism #Rights
🔗https://tandfonline.com/journals/fses20/collections/Gender-and-Sexuality-in-Southern-Europe
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
📚 SESP #ArticleCollections #Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe
1⃣5⃣ articles
🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, N. Conti, @bonniefield.bsky.social
#Equality #LGBTIQ* #Sexism #Feminism #Rights
🔗https://tandfonline.com/journals/fses20/collections/Gender-and-Sexuality-in-Southern-Europe
1⃣5⃣ articles
🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, N. Conti, @bonniefield.bsky.social
#Equality #LGBTIQ* #Sexism #Feminism #Rights
🔗https://tandfonline.com/journals/fses20/collections/Gender-and-Sexuality-in-Southern-Europe
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🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
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Doctoral scholarship for EU students to work with me at Oxford on democratic backsliding, democratic defence, or illiberalism: Renato Morelli Corpus Christi College Graduate Scholarship in Politics 2026-27. Deadline 9 Jan 2026. Please circulate!
Details at: users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/Ad...
Details at: users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/Ad...
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Doctoral scholarship for EU students to work with me at Oxford on democratic backsliding, democratic defence, or illiberalism: Renato Morelli Corpus Christi College Graduate Scholarship in Politics 2026-27. Deadline 9 Jan 2026. Please circulate!
Details at: users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/Ad...
Details at: users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/Ad...
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🥊 Who contests the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and its Deforestation Regulation? And why? 🤔
👉 @alexboegner.bsky.social shows it’s not just affectedness — allies are far more forgiving 👇
📕 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉 @alexboegner.bsky.social shows it’s not just affectedness — allies are far more forgiving 👇
📕 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🥊 Who contests the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and its Deforestation Regulation? And why? 🤔
👉 @alexboegner.bsky.social shows it’s not just affectedness — allies are far more forgiving 👇
📕 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉 @alexboegner.bsky.social shows it’s not just affectedness — allies are far more forgiving 👇
📕 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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💫 The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics is ready for Christmas!
With the opening chapter by Professor Norman Davies and 56 chapter by more than 80 fantastic authors (I cannot tag them all but would love to), many thanks to all starting from the co-editors (Fernando is not here, Kasia should be)
With the opening chapter by Professor Norman Davies and 56 chapter by more than 80 fantastic authors (I cannot tag them all but would love to), many thanks to all starting from the co-editors (Fernando is not here, Kasia should be)
November 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
💫 The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics is ready for Christmas!
With the opening chapter by Professor Norman Davies and 56 chapter by more than 80 fantastic authors (I cannot tag them all but would love to), many thanks to all starting from the co-editors (Fernando is not here, Kasia should be)
With the opening chapter by Professor Norman Davies and 56 chapter by more than 80 fantastic authors (I cannot tag them all but would love to), many thanks to all starting from the co-editors (Fernando is not here, Kasia should be)
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Our paper just got accepted in the @thejop.bsky.social 🎉 and is now on the journal website: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... For me personally, it's a milestone: my first paper accepted after a peer review!
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Our paper just got accepted in the @thejop.bsky.social 🎉 and is now on the journal website: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... For me personally, it's a milestone: my first paper accepted after a peer review!
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NEW ARTICLE: @palesl.bsky.social, Vesa Koskimaa and I have an letter out in JOP, "Politicians talk less about the future as they age" doi.org/10.1086/739406 (1/10)
Legislators talk less about the future as they age | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
NEW ARTICLE: @palesl.bsky.social, Vesa Koskimaa and I have an letter out in JOP, "Politicians talk less about the future as they age" doi.org/10.1086/739406 (1/10)
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The 2024 EU @chesdata.bsky.social has been added to both the trend file (1999-2024) and the Shiny app. Please take both for a spin!
www.chesdata.eu/ches-europe
chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/
www.chesdata.eu/ches-europe
chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The 2024 EU @chesdata.bsky.social has been added to both the trend file (1999-2024) and the Shiny app. Please take both for a spin!
www.chesdata.eu/ches-europe
chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/
www.chesdata.eu/ches-europe
chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/
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A new article with @mjnelson.bsky.social in PRQ, using a conjoint, CPS ASES and medical residency application data, finds that abortion bans make states less desirable places to live for young women, college graduates and doctors.
This law is more extreme.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This law is more extreme.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A new article with @mjnelson.bsky.social in PRQ, using a conjoint, CPS ASES and medical residency application data, finds that abortion bans make states less desirable places to live for young women, college graduates and doctors.
This law is more extreme.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This law is more extreme.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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People value free and fair elections, and prefer living in a country with free and fair elections but with less desirable outcomes (e.g. low levels of wealth) to living in a country without free and fair elections but with better outcomes journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00104140251392539
Are People Willing to Trade Away Democracy for Desirable Outcomes? Experimental Evidence From Six Countries - Jonathan A. Chu, Scott Williamson, Eddy S. F. Yeung, 2025
To what extent do people prioritize living in a democracy over other indicators of good governance or personal well-being? This question has become contested as...
journals.sagepub.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
People value free and fair elections, and prefer living in a country with free and fair elections but with less desirable outcomes (e.g. low levels of wealth) to living in a country without free and fair elections but with better outcomes journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00104140251392539
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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I’ll do a thread on it later, but I want to share my new article in Politics & Gender, which looks at the long-term stability of masculinity and femininity self-placement measures, and how Trump support impacts them.
Oh, it’s also open access, so that link works for anyone.
Oh, it’s also open access, so that link works for anyone.
Longitudinal Measures of Masculinity and Femininity: Stability, Change, and Trump | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Longitudinal Measures of Masculinity and Femininity: Stability, Change, and Trump
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I’ll do a thread on it later, but I want to share my new article in Politics & Gender, which looks at the long-term stability of masculinity and femininity self-placement measures, and how Trump support impacts them.
Oh, it’s also open access, so that link works for anyone.
Oh, it’s also open access, so that link works for anyone.
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⚙️ #ecprjs26 Workshop directors 🎬 @maarja.bsky.social & @mtplk.bsky.social
💡 Seeks Papers examining how gender & sexuality shape democratic representation, political participation and power structures
✔️ @sgparliaments.bsky.social endorsed
⌛ Submit by 3 Dec buff.ly/YsJGQYo
#Polisky #CallforPapers
💡 Seeks Papers examining how gender & sexuality shape democratic representation, political participation and power structures
✔️ @sgparliaments.bsky.social endorsed
⌛ Submit by 3 Dec buff.ly/YsJGQYo
#Polisky #CallforPapers
Understanding Gender Differences in Legislatures and Beyond: Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Examining the Causes, Consequences, and Institutional Effects
Joint Sessions of Workshops, 7 – 10 April 2026, University of Innsbruck
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
⚙️ #ecprjs26 Workshop directors 🎬 @maarja.bsky.social & @mtplk.bsky.social
💡 Seeks Papers examining how gender & sexuality shape democratic representation, political participation and power structures
✔️ @sgparliaments.bsky.social endorsed
⌛ Submit by 3 Dec buff.ly/YsJGQYo
#Polisky #CallforPapers
💡 Seeks Papers examining how gender & sexuality shape democratic representation, political participation and power structures
✔️ @sgparliaments.bsky.social endorsed
⌛ Submit by 3 Dec buff.ly/YsJGQYo
#Polisky #CallforPapers
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🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
1/4 🧵
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
1/4 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
1/4 🧵
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
1/4 🧵
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We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics - Nuffield College Oxford University
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
CfP🚨
Maarja and I are grateful to @sgparliaments.bsky.social for their endorsement and look forward to exciting paper proposals on politics and gender in legislatures (and beyond!) using quantitative and computational methods.
Shoot us a message if you have any questions ✉️
#ecprjs26
Maarja and I are grateful to @sgparliaments.bsky.social for their endorsement and look forward to exciting paper proposals on politics and gender in legislatures (and beyond!) using quantitative and computational methods.
Shoot us a message if you have any questions ✉️
#ecprjs26
Paper proposals for the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions, taking place in beautiful Innsbruck, April 7-10 2026, are now open. If you're working on an exciting gender paper using quants methods, please apply to our workshop: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @mtplk.bsky.social @sgparliaments.bsky.social
Events
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
CfP🚨
Maarja and I are grateful to @sgparliaments.bsky.social for their endorsement and look forward to exciting paper proposals on politics and gender in legislatures (and beyond!) using quantitative and computational methods.
Shoot us a message if you have any questions ✉️
#ecprjs26
Maarja and I are grateful to @sgparliaments.bsky.social for their endorsement and look forward to exciting paper proposals on politics and gender in legislatures (and beyond!) using quantitative and computational methods.
Shoot us a message if you have any questions ✉️
#ecprjs26
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🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
epssnet.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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For my course on Conflict and Representation in the EU, I made an interactive Shiny app that plots CHES party positions, for all countries, years (1999-2024) and (most) dimensions in the dataset. Enjoy!
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
#polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
#polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
For my course on Conflict and Representation in the EU, I made an interactive Shiny app that plots CHES party positions, for all countries, years (1999-2024) and (most) dimensions in the dataset. Enjoy!
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
#polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
#polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky
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If you know anyone considering doing a PhD in political science or sociology, encourage them to apply to the EUI PhD program and join the institute's landmark 50th cohort of PhD researchers in the SPS Department! Applications from Central and Eastern Europe are particularly welcome!
🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
If you know anyone considering doing a PhD in political science or sociology, encourage them to apply to the EUI PhD program and join the institute's landmark 50th cohort of PhD researchers in the SPS Department! Applications from Central and Eastern Europe are particularly welcome!