If you are interested in the sociology of elites, this is a project and a website to follow:

worldelitedatabase.org

Wondering what's going on in Argentina? Come join a Charlemos conversation on Milei on Monday at 12 PM ET with Mariana Llanos, Mariana Sendra, moderated by John Polga-Hecimovich. Register below!

Latecomer State Formation is a looong book (450 pages). It includes an extremely detailed Index, so in order not to make the book humongous I moved the Bibliographic Essay to an online version (recently updated). If you are interested it is here: sebastianmazzuca.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/biblio…

We're hosting the 4th Early Career workshop in Quantitative Political Economy 16-17 May 2024! The event is open to PhD students and Postdocs from any social science using quantitative methods to study politics and policies.

Apply now! More info here:

sites.google.com/view/kingsqpe/…

#Research that analysed our #data (2002-19) was recently published by Political Studies (@SageJournals).

Andrej Kokkonen (@goteborgsuni 🇸🇪) and Jonas Linde (@UiB 🇳🇴) explored the relationship between attitudes to immigration and political participation.

doi.org/10.1177/003232…

¿El peronismo es un partido personalista o institucionalizado? Ambas cosas, argumentamos con Leiv Marsteintredet en Social Science Quarterly: “La institucionalización del personalismo serial”.
doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.1…

Please forgive the typos, I am responding on my phone from my beach house.

Come join us in beautiful #Bari for this year's edition of our conference! I'm sure we'll again have two days of interesting presentations and discussions. Details in ⬇️

My brilliant colleague Jon Einar Flåtnes and I are looking for a #tenuretrack #postdoc with experience/interest in #RCTs (or skills in causal inf) in Africa and climate change adaptation in a large new research project. Check out the link

Dette er altså stoda på mitt fakultet. khrono.no/setter-ansette…

Come join us Department of Comparative Politics, UiB!

Two PhD positions in the ERC project 'Contested frontiers of settler states', PI Aaron Spitzer.

Deadline 5th August 2024.

jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

The OxCGRT Seminar Series is an innovative platform for scholars working on COVID-19 responses. Our researchers will discuss LEGITIMULT findings on Economic and Social Crisis Management in Multilevel System. Marius Guderjan, Mario Kölling, Johanna Schnabel . Link in comment.

We are looking for a new team to lead our journal Political Studies Review. This is an exciting opportunity for a new team of editors to build and develop both the journal’s reputation and their own research or scholarship profiles.

Find out more: psa.ac.uk/psa/news/call-…

Extremely important ruling / issue, not least in view of elections in Brazil this year. I recommend Gaspard Estrada’s chapter on the challenge digital platforms pose to electoral institutions (published in the book we edited with Leiv Marsteintredet )

#SepaQue María Corina Machado reiteró las denuncias que previamente hizo al primer ministro de Noruega, Jonas Gahr Støre, sobre los incumplimientos por parte de Miraflores de los Acuerdos de Barbados. bit.ly/4ak88U2

There could be yet another impeachment coming in Peru, with some lawmakers seeking to remove Boluarte over what I will call #Rolexgate . This comes after 1/3 of her cabinet resigned Monday.
apnews.com/article/peru-p…

New article with Andrej Kokkonen in Political Studies. We find a general political participation gap between pro- and anti-immigrant citizens. The size of the gap is however contingent on peoples' ideological left-right placement. Open Access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

U.S. officials believe reverting to Trump-era sanctions on Venezuela would raise the price of gas and prompt more migration from Venezuela as Biden campaigns for re-election. So don't expect any hardline response as Venezuela continues hardline crackdown. wsj.com/world/americas…

Really excited to share that this amazing new Element about regression discontinuity designs is now available in our Cambridge University Press - Politics QCMSS series. It's free for downloading and viewing online for a limited period, take advantage of the opportunity to add this to your collection!…

Mariana Llanos (@GIGA_Institute) presentó su libro (coeditado con Leiv Marsteintredet): “Latin America in Times of Turbulence. Presidentialism under Stress' en Escuela de Política y Gobierno UNSAM.
Este libro es resultado del trabajo y reuniones anuales de esta red.