Sona Golder
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Sona Golder
@sonagolder.bsky.social
Political scientist, comparativist. Prof. at Penn State.
Co-PI on INSTAPARTY: Party Instability in Parliaments
(Norwegian Research Council)
https://instapartyproject.com
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The other Prof. Golder has an electoral systems data paper - and a couple of updates (w/ Nils Bormann) - that were published in Electoral Studies (in 2005, 2013, 2022). mattgolder.com/elections
Elections
DES Version 5.0 (1919-2020) Nils-Christian Bormann and I are releasing version 5.0 of the Democratic Electoral Systems (DES) dataset. The new dataset is the same as DES 4.2 but expands the time per…
mattgolder.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Thanks to @elizabethbitmeehan.com for the solution so that we can easily scroll through ALL the #APSA2025 panels...
[Note that panel locations might not be up to date]

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September 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for.
September 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Looks fascinating - and a great example to use for my European politics class (which begins with 6 weeks on 20th century history) about why history matters for understanding politics today...
August 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Have you been spying on me while I added a new reading because that one week seemed too empty?
August 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Had a long chat with my MIL yesterday, and she didn't mention it either! But then, I imagine the news blackout could extend to Northamptonshire from Oxfordshire...
August 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM