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Gratifying to see the @civica.bsky.social Political Behavior and Institutions meetings doing so well! Thanks to @zsolt.bsky.social and CEU for their great job hosting our third annual meeting and to @chriswratil.bsky.social for his keynote! www.ceu.edu/news/2025-06...
Mark Kayser
Mark Kayser
On May 26 CEU hosted the third annual Political Behavior and Institutions Conference, a thematic activity organized through the CIVICA alliance.
📢 EPSS community updates!
We’re excited to share some milestones and announcements with you 👇
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I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
This we’’ll feature the last two sections today:
🔝 This week: Comparative Politics of Development & Political Representation
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New #openaccess "Citizen forecasting in a mixed electoral system: The 2021 German federal election as a test case" (with Andreas Murr, @lstoetze.bsky.social and @markkayser.bsky.social) in International Journal of Forecasting. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... 1/
The Romanian School of Government (SNSPA) has just nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize! How does @civica.bsky.social, and its members, feel about this (SNSPA is a member of CIVICA, which includes LSE, @sciencespo.bsky.social, Bocconi, @eui-eu.bsky.social etc)?
snspa.ro/en/snspa-the...
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On Thursday, March 13, 2025, the Senate of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration – SNSPA, the Romanian School of Government, decided to initiate the procedures for nom...
Delighted to see this out! Are individuals equally willing to trade off different public goods for partisanship? Would they prefer in-group loyalty to election integrity and to national security in a real context of threat? Take a look!
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Very happy that my paper has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social!
Do insurgents help or hurt genocide targets? Contrary to common belief, I find that insurgent presence reduced Jewish victimisation during the Holocaust in France.
Here's what I discovered 👇
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Intergenerational occupational mobility influences far-right support across both countries and time but only downward mobility matters in a correctly estimated model. Happy to see this work with @alanjacobs.bsky.social appearing in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Andrew Heiss
Mark Kayser
Arndt Leininger
Simon Hix
Much debate has centered on the relative effects of economic and cultural factors on support for far-right parties. Recent work, however, has proposed a synthes...
Just published on APSR First View: "Allies of the Weak: La Résistance and Jews in the Holocaust" by Kasia Nalewajko. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We're hiring a Professor of Military Strategy and Technology @hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiesecurity.bsky.social!
More details here: apply.interfolio.com/163523
NEW -
How Bad Can It Get? Polarization and the Public Interest When It Matters - https://cup.org/3MBqFV9
- Mark A. Kayser & @knalewajko.bsky.social
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