“Me after answering one email.” Daniel L. Tavana

A cool thing happened at ISA (in our absence): My brilliant coauthor Alexandra Siegel and I received the Outstanding Paper Award from ENMISA for our work on civil organizing during war.

Many thanks to the committee! And to Rawan Arar (Emerging Scholar Award winner 🔥) for the photo

In my #Kuwait elections analysis, I anticipated confrontation knocking. But it knocked quicker than expected.

Emiri decree today delays parliament’s opening session from 4/17 to 5/14. Keep in mind decree for 4/17 session came out yesterday. What happened in last 24 hours?
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My thoughts to The New York Times: “The semi-democratic mechanisms that provide citizens input into how they are governed have atrophied. The abuse and decay of these mechanisms could, in the long term, render them permanently unusable, irrelevant or dysfunctional.” nytimes.com/2024/04/04/wor…

'Not much change is expected' in the current election, Al-Saif warned. 'Crises have become a permanent feature of the system...Radical reset requires reforming the constitution and going at root causes to avoid cyclical problems and elections on steroids.' france24.com/en/live-news/2…

The results of today’s elections might be different from the results of elections since Dec.2020.However, individualism will remain the main feature of the political system in Kuwait. Politicians win & lose, and prime ministers r appointed & replaced, but political crises remain.

MIT is excited to host BWGAPE on Friday May 3! This coming Friday — Marcy 29 — is the last day to submit your working paper or research design: docs.google.com/forms/d/1qymPe…

Looking forward to hosting you in Cambridge! Noah Nathan Evan Lieberman

🚨Revised WP alert!🚨 And could not be more timely given Pakistan's 🇵🇰 recent elections, where an internet blackout made the logistics of finding polling stations so salient. Why does women's turnout still lag behind men's? 1 possible answer: mobility.
🧵 w/ Natalya Adam-Rahman:

Policy brief with Ernesto Tiburcio
'Political Polarization: US Lessons for Latin America' funded by UPPER
upperesearch.org/policy-briefs/

It was a lot of fun chatting to Alvita Akiboh (Yale History) about her book 'Imperial Material', a history of national symbols in America's overseas territories from UChicagoPress. Available to listen now on Spotify and the New Books Network website
newbooksnetwork.com/imperial-mater…

My paper with Yuree Noh is out Comparative Political Studies Despite the proliferation of gender quotas in non-dem, no work has examined the correlates of public support for quotas. We address this question relying on original survey data from Tunisia & Morocco journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… POMEPS

Borders in #Africa were not decided in Berlin & are not random! Causes? Geography, precol states & negotiations btw Europeans & Africans. Time to update high school textbooks! Jack Paine Xiaoyan Qiu & I American Political Science Review 🙏🥳 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

My article is now in the April print volume of govandopp
It analyzes religious institutions' diverse responses to democratic backsliding and regime survival, with religious competition and historical pro-democratic roles as the main explanatory factors.
doi.org/10.1017/gov.20…

🚨Publication🚨 Is there a relationship between state-provided religious education and support for political Islam? Do graduates of state religious education view Islamists as potential allies or competitors? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Today at Penn State Political Science: Arthur Spirling on 'Extensions to Embedding Regression: Models for Context-Specific Description and Inference.' Please join us in Pond Lab at 12:15!

Alright everyone, let's talk about next weeks elections, who is even running, boycotts, and what this all means.

This is going to be one of my longest posts ever, but if you're addicted to politics, I promise it will be interesting.

1. What Elections Are Happening?

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Excited to announce -- a bit belatedly -- that my first book manuscript has been accepted at Cambridge University Press - Politics, and should be out later this year!

The title is 'Seeing is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better.' Look forward to sharing it!

Did you student write an amazing dissertation on legislative studies in 2022 or 2023? Nominate them! I am chairing the committee this year! connect.apsanet.org/s3/carl-albert…