Simon Weschle
@simonweschle.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science at UNC.
www.simonweschle.com
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📣 New EJPR publication!
@stefaniebailer.bsky.social, @nathaliegiger.bsky.social and I study citizens’ attitudes toward MPs’ side income disclosure in 7 European countries.
MPs who conceal income are trusted least, even less than those with very high side incomes.
doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100303
@stefaniebailer.bsky.social, @nathaliegiger.bsky.social and I study citizens’ attitudes toward MPs’ side income disclosure in 7 European countries.
MPs who conceal income are trusted least, even less than those with very high side incomes.
doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100303
October 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📣 New EJPR publication!
@stefaniebailer.bsky.social, @nathaliegiger.bsky.social and I study citizens’ attitudes toward MPs’ side income disclosure in 7 European countries.
MPs who conceal income are trusted least, even less than those with very high side incomes.
doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100303
@stefaniebailer.bsky.social, @nathaliegiger.bsky.social and I study citizens’ attitudes toward MPs’ side income disclosure in 7 European countries.
MPs who conceal income are trusted least, even less than those with very high side incomes.
doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100303
Nice write-up of our recent paper on the link between campaign finance permissiveness and the wealth of politicians.
Only the Super-Rich can Run
Campaign finance doesn't just influence winning, it decides who can even stand for elections
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September 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Nice write-up of our recent paper on the link between campaign finance permissiveness and the wealth of politicians.
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We're hiring at UNC Political Science!
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24)
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24)
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#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs
Assistant Professor
This tenure-track position includes 40% teaching, 40% research and 20% service to the department/college. The service portion includes, but is not limited to search committees, review committees and a...
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September 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We're hiring at UNC Political Science!
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24)
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24)
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs
We're hiring at UNC Political Science!
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24)
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24)
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs
Assistant Professor
This tenure-track position includes 40% teaching, 40% research and 20% service to the department/college. The service portion includes, but is not limited to search committees, review committees and a...
unc.peopleadmin.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We're hiring at UNC Political Science!
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24)
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Methods (Deadline Oct 24)
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs
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Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.
September 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.
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🚨 Reposting to avoid any confusion between EPSS & EPSA 🚨
If you want to support non-for-profit, member-led political science association, EPSS is the place to be!
More here 👇🏽
If you want to support non-for-profit, member-led political science association, EPSS is the place to be!
More here 👇🏽
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
September 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
🚨 Reposting to avoid any confusion between EPSS & EPSA 🚨
If you want to support non-for-profit, member-led political science association, EPSS is the place to be!
More here 👇🏽
If you want to support non-for-profit, member-led political science association, EPSS is the place to be!
More here 👇🏽
At this point my book is practically writing itself...
Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
At this point my book is practically writing itself...
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🌟🎉 Celebrating @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social (WashU)—recipient of the 2025 Emerging Scholar Award!
Her research is already shaping the field in big ways.
Come and celebrate with her at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm)
#APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social #EmergingScholar
Her research is already shaping the field in big ways.
Come and celebrate with her at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm)
#APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social #EmergingScholar
September 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🌟🎉 Celebrating @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social (WashU)—recipient of the 2025 Emerging Scholar Award!
Her research is already shaping the field in big ways.
Come and celebrate with her at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm)
#APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social #EmergingScholar
Her research is already shaping the field in big ways.
Come and celebrate with her at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm)
#APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social #EmergingScholar
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I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.
CASSM Centre Manager
Full-timeFixed-term for 5 yearsGrade 8: £48,235 - £57,255 per annum
www.politics.ox.ac.uk
August 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.
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Pal if you can share the secret of how to control a group of 3yos that’ll make you more cash than any AI project
Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton at world’s biggest AI conf AI4 in Las Vegas. Is asked what could AI gain control of soon?
“Us…they’re just going to be much smarter than us. Imagine you were in charge of a playgroup of 3 year olds…it wouldn’t be very hard to get control of them….
“Us…they’re just going to be much smarter than us. Imagine you were in charge of a playgroup of 3 year olds…it wouldn’t be very hard to get control of them….
August 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Pal if you can share the secret of how to control a group of 3yos that’ll make you more cash than any AI project
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EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
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5/6 🧵In @ajpseditor.bsky.social @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social Klašnja & @simonweschle.bsky.social show that higher pressures to spend in campaigns leads to a wealthier politician pool. Use data on MP wealth from 40 countries, & quasiexperimental evidence from 🇧🇷 & 🇨🇱 https://doi.org/pz7c
August 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
5/6 🧵In @ajpseditor.bsky.social @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social Klašnja & @simonweschle.bsky.social show that higher pressures to spend in campaigns leads to a wealthier politician pool. Use data on MP wealth from 40 countries, & quasiexperimental evidence from 🇧🇷 & 🇨🇱 https://doi.org/pz7c
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Our paper (w/ wonderful co-authors @rwillh11.bsky.social, @simonweschle.bsky.social, @cbwlezien.bsky.social, and Jim Adams) is now out in print! 🎉 May be of interest to those studying electoral behavior, party strategy, or how citizens use information!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Does political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties?
Research identifies numerous factors associated with citizens’ perceptions of party ideologies, including the Left-Right orientations of parties’ election manifestos, governing coalition arrangemen...
www.tandfonline.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Our paper (w/ wonderful co-authors @rwillh11.bsky.social, @simonweschle.bsky.social, @cbwlezien.bsky.social, and Jim Adams) is now out in print! 🎉 May be of interest to those studying electoral behavior, party strategy, or how citizens use information!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Now out in @ajpseditor.bsky.social:
@luciamotoliniac.bsky.social, Marko Klašnja and I show that greater pressures to spend more money on campaigning leads not just to more politicians who are rich, but especially to more politicians who are are *super* rich
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@luciamotoliniac.bsky.social, Marko Klašnja and I show that greater pressures to spend more money on campaigning leads not just to more politicians who are rich, but especially to more politicians who are are *super* rich
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
We provide a comprehensive theoretical and empirical account of the relationship between campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians. We argue that the heavily right-skewed wealth distri...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Now out in @ajpseditor.bsky.social:
@luciamotoliniac.bsky.social, Marko Klašnja and I show that greater pressures to spend more money on campaigning leads not just to more politicians who are rich, but especially to more politicians who are are *super* rich
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@luciamotoliniac.bsky.social, Marko Klašnja and I show that greater pressures to spend more money on campaigning leads not just to more politicians who are rich, but especially to more politicians who are are *super* rich
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
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In a just-accepted paper at the @thejop.bsky.social , @MelaniCammett, Guadalupe Tuñon, and I examine how campaign finance reforms have unanticipated effects: organized actors gain an edge. In our case, the Universal Kingdom of God Church in Brazil.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Special Interest Trade-Offs: Campaign Finance Reforms and Religious Influence in Politics in Brazil | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
May 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
In a just-accepted paper at the @thejop.bsky.social , @MelaniCammett, Guadalupe Tuñon, and I examine how campaign finance reforms have unanticipated effects: organized actors gain an edge. In our case, the Universal Kingdom of God Church in Brazil.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The WaPo-AI summary of the comments section on this piece is quite something
May 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The WaPo-AI summary of the comments section on this piece is quite something
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The #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social will continue to receive funding in the context of the German #ExcellenceStrategy @dfg.de @wissenschaftsrat.de. Details: t1p.de/ouhyj
May 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social will continue to receive funding in the context of the German #ExcellenceStrategy @dfg.de @wissenschaftsrat.de. Details: t1p.de/ouhyj
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It was educational and fun to participate in the @i4replication.bsky.social UK Replication Games. Our task was pretty smooth thanks to @simonweschle.bsky.social's excellent replication package and code, which could serve as a model example of literate programming.
Here’s our replication report:
Here’s our replication report:
3-Politicians’ private sector jobs and parliamentary behavior, @ajpseditor.bsky.social
Updated report here (based on author’s feedback): ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/i4rdps...
Author: “Thanks a lot to the replication team for their careful analysis, I really appreciate all the work they put into it!”
Updated report here (based on author’s feedback): ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/i4rdps...
Author: “Thanks a lot to the replication team for their careful analysis, I really appreciate all the work they put into it!”
May 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It was educational and fun to participate in the @i4replication.bsky.social UK Replication Games. Our task was pretty smooth thanks to @simonweschle.bsky.social's excellent replication package and code, which could serve as a model example of literate programming.
Here’s our replication report:
Here’s our replication report:
Reposted by Simon Weschle
3-Politicians’ private sector jobs and parliamentary behavior, @ajpseditor.bsky.social
Updated report here (based on author’s feedback): ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/i4rdps...
Author: “Thanks a lot to the replication team for their careful analysis, I really appreciate all the work they put into it!”
Updated report here (based on author’s feedback): ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/i4rdps...
Author: “Thanks a lot to the replication team for their careful analysis, I really appreciate all the work they put into it!”
May 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
3-Politicians’ private sector jobs and parliamentary behavior, @ajpseditor.bsky.social
Updated report here (based on author’s feedback): ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/i4rdps...
Author: “Thanks a lot to the replication team for their careful analysis, I really appreciate all the work they put into it!”
Updated report here (based on author’s feedback): ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/i4rdps...
Author: “Thanks a lot to the replication team for their careful analysis, I really appreciate all the work they put into it!”
Also, the APSA Class and Inequality section is finally on here. Give them a follow!
Going to APSA in Vancouver this year and need some additional funding? Applications for the Class & Inequality section support grants are now open!
apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
APSA - Login
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April 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Also, the APSA Class and Inequality section is finally on here. Give them a follow!
Reposted by Simon Weschle
Going to APSA in Vancouver this year and need some additional funding? Applications for the Class & Inequality section support grants are now open!
apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
APSA - Login
apsa.secure-platform.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Going to APSA in Vancouver this year and need some additional funding? Applications for the Class & Inequality section support grants are now open!
apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
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Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆
He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."
He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."
April 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆
He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."
He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."
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Dark Money and Politician Learning (w/ @keithschnak.bsky.social) now online at @thejop.bsky.social:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Dark Money and Politician Learning | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
March 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Dark Money and Politician Learning (w/ @keithschnak.bsky.social) now online at @thejop.bsky.social:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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🚨🎉Very excited to share our new paper with @rwillh11.bsky.social, James Adams, @simonweschle.bsky.social, and @cbwlezien.bsky.social!! Out today @JEPOP
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A short thread 🧵
1/n
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A short thread 🧵
1/n
Does political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties?
Research identifies numerous factors associated with citizens’ perceptions of party ideologies, including the Left-Right orientations of parties’ election manifestos, governing coalition arrangemen...
www.tandfonline.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
🚨🎉Very excited to share our new paper with @rwillh11.bsky.social, James Adams, @simonweschle.bsky.social, and @cbwlezien.bsky.social!! Out today @JEPOP
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A short thread 🧵
1/n
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A short thread 🧵
1/n