For master's students interested in social science research: Free (!) week-long summer school at
European University Institute in Florence, Tuscany in September 2024. Classes by scholars such as Ellen M. Immergut, Simon Hix, Arnout van de Rijt... Apply by 15/5. Check: blogs.eui.eu/sps-summer-aca…… #polsci

Sharing a statement (EN/DE) signed with some wonderful fellow social scientists in or from Germany

statementisraelgaza.wordpress.com

We criticize Germany's stance on the Israel / Gaza conflict as being out of line with its own values 1/n

This Friday (5 April) King’s is hosting the 2nd workshop in Comparative Politics and Political Economy. We have an excellent line-up of speakers: Marie Beigelman, Anna Getmansky, Melanie Meng Xue, Michele Rosenberg, Cédric Chambru, Sascha Riaz, Gloria Gennaro. Come if you're around!

Happy to announce that I’ll join European University Institute as Peter Mair Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics in September. This is a dream come true for me, and I’m excited to join a vibrant group of scholars including Elias Dinas Simon Hix Ellen M. Immergut Tommaso Nannicini, and many others.🥳🇮🇹🇪🇺

Alexander De Juan, Felix Haass, Carlo Koos, Sascha Riaz, & Thomas Tichelbaecker leverage battlefield dynamics to understand how WWI casualties influenced right-wing nationalist electoral support during the interwar period.
#APSRNewIssue
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🎓 We are advertising a Pre-Doc/PhD position at Humboldt. You get a nice office in the heart of Berlin, free coffee, and a tremendous community of scholars working on cutting-edge social science. Your own project can be on whatever excites you! Deadline is Feb 21. Ad is below

Some random practical PhD advice in no particular order:

- almost everyone should start their dissertation by writing a paper, even if you plan to write a book dissertation. It’s less pressure and you can always expand it if you find the page count growing and growing.

PEPSI seminar for spring term! We have an amazing set of upcoming speakers! David Doyle, Ben Ansell, Soeren Henn,Stephane Wolton, Victoria Paniagua,Miguel Pereira,Milena Djourelova, Lena Song, and Gloria Gennaro
Get in touch if you want to attend in person.

Still some time to apply to the EUI’s PhD programme, and have a chance to join one of the largest political science doctoral student communities in the world! Please get in touch if you have any questions. I’m in charge of admissions this year.

'School Shootings Increase NRA Donations' is now out in Science Advances. In this paper, I provide causal evidence for substantial and lasting increases in total NRA donations and donor numbers in affected counties after school shootings. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… (1/n)

👩‍🎓  #Academicjob  👨‍🎓
We are looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) for our research department “Transformations of #Democracy ” (Director: Daniel Ziblatt ).
🚨 Apply until January 14, 2024.
👉 wzb.eu/en/jobs/postdo…
WZB Democracy Fabio Ellger Sebastian Hellmeier Heiko Giebler

📣Politics Lecture Series Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

As our final speaker of the year, we are thrilled to welcome Sascha Riaz, who will share research on:

'Public Pools and Xenophobia' 🏊🤬

Join us tomorrow at 12pm!

EuroWEPS 8 in a stunning location (former kings palace, no less) in Munich. Thanks to Jerome Schaefer and the Bavarian Academy for hosting us!

New OnlineFirst article: Volha Charnysh and Sascha Riaz discuss the relationship between proximity to victims and elite support for justice after genocide using a new dataset on West German parliament

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Pleased to see my paper on placebo tests (with Guadalupe Tuñón and Allan Dafoe) published at AJPS

We provide a definition of placebo tests, a typology of test types, a theory of what makes them informative, & a review and critique of common tests 1/

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

NEW: France’s riots may be subsiding, but their underlying causes persist

In France, immigrants face social exclusion, faring *far* worse than the native-born on almost every socio-economic indicator.

Far less integration than in UK, Germany even the US

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Hey #academictwitter , for a project I’m trying to find datasets where one can know the *day* when respondents were born, and that also have a decent number of observations (dozens thousands ideally).

Any leads would be much appreciated.

Thanks very much in advance!

(1/7) Sharing a new paper w/ Albert Chiu, Ziyi Liu, & Xingchen Lan: dropbox.com/s/r58w5d9b1nu8…
We surveyed six newly proposed estimators as potential remedies to TWFE models under HTE and conducted a systematic reanalysis of 38 recently published papers in APSR, AJPS & JOP.

New from Anselm Hager (HU Berlin) Hanno Hilbig (Princeton) Sascha Riaz (Oxford) shows that easing immigrant labor market access *improves* attitudes towards migrants (in Germany). Mechanism is improved native-migrant workplace interaction.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Congratulations to all of the freshly minted HarvardGovernment PhDs who graduated in 2022-23!

Doing a PhD is tough even without all of the challenges this particular cohort has faced. We're so proud of all you've accomplished!

Since not everyone could celebrate in person, a 🧵!