brett.bessen

Assistant Professor of Political Science @TecdeMonterrey. I research comparative political behavior. Retweets for reading later :)

[brett.bessen @BessenBrett]

🚨 Restoring institutional confidence in backsliding democracies: Evidence from Mexico 🇲🇽 🚨

Presidential attacks can decrease public trust in democratic institutions. What—if anything—can be done about it?

Our new article in PNAS shows that presidential attacks erode trust in democracy’s referees.

But credible rebuttals help restore it — even among presidential supporters.

https://t.co/8FkX5cnxGH

@andresdu @PNASNews @AMonsivaisC @EdnaJaime @CSocialesTec @INEMexico @rcastrocornejo @Reforma @BrendanNyhan

[Ben Yoel @benyoel_]

I'm pleased to see our paper introducing the Democratic Erosion Event Dataset, an events-based dataset on democratic erosion, finally out in Scientific Data. In our data, we distinguish between resistance, precursors, symptoms, and destabilizing events https://t.co/6lYAE5UIQw

[Makito Takei (武井槙人) @Makito_T]

The Effects of Religious Messages and Endorsements on Political Attitudes: A Meta-Reanalysis | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core - https://t.co/JsOsSIZGjU

[Tom Wood @thomasjwood]

Political science job market remains 30% smaller than the last pre-pandemic cycle in this month's @APSAtweets June 2026 ejobs update

[Rodrigo Castro Cornejo @rcastrocornejo]

Happy to share that I received tenure. The UMass Board of Trustees approved my promotion to Associate Professor.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout these years—advisors, colleagues, family, & friends.

Very grateful to @UMassLowell for its vote of confidence.

[brett.bessen @BessenBrett]

@KyleSiler @PNASNews Very cool! Have an ungated version by chance?

[Rebecca Bell-Martin @rbellmartin]

An enormous loss for our community. I will always remember how Raul introduced everyone as “my great friend” — and meant it. Every single time. Tu recuerdo vive en nosotros, my great friend.

[FLACSO México @FlacsoMx]

La FLACSO México lamenta el sensible fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega entrañable profesor-investigador, colega, amigo y miembro muy querido de nuestra comunidad académica.

Expresamos nuestras más sentidas condolencias a sus familiares, amistades, colegas, estudiantado y a las comunidades académicas de las que formó parte.

[Rodrigo Castro Cornejo @rcastrocornejo]

Sheinbaum critica que EUA se convierta en el "principal elector". Pero gracias a ella y a AMLO, su partido se convirtió en el gran elector.

Difícil su argumento soberanista/democrático desde quien capturó el Poder Judicial, Supreme Corte, CNDH, Tribunal Electoral, INE, etc.

[brett.bessen @BessenBrett]

Eg, Ideology measures based on the full population of sitting representatives (during a particular time). Another one: A measure of public ideology is presumably better with a probabilistic sample like the ANES than a selection of 30 of my best students. Is your point really that we don’t know that some samples are more representative than others? The measure of the latent variables should be better without those selection problems (even if we don’t directly observe the latent var).

[Andy Hall @ahall_research]

Full professors: ngmi

[Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood]

Full professors: "I don't need AI for regress vdem https://t.co/9rLMZzDcci, robust"

[Revista Estudios Sociológicos @esociologicos]

En tiempos de incertidumbre democrática, Adam Przeworski ofrece un balance crítico sobre lo que sabemos —y lo que aún no sabemos— acerca de la supervivencia de la democracia.

🔗 Lee el artículo completo en Estudios Sociológicos: https://t.co/3KHg0QysPS

@CES_COLMEX @elcolmex

[Connor Ewing @ConnorMEwing]

Good job, Pope.

[brett.bessen @BessenBrett]

Not only are many of the estimates model sensitive (somewhat expected) but many of the coefficients reported in text don’t match the replication file (wild).

[Rex "garbage in" Douglass Ph.D. @RexDouglass]

Bahahaha
https://t.co/Qwiyn0WgRG

[Rex "garbage in" Douglass Ph.D. @RexDouglass]

Bahahaha
https://t.co/Qwiyn0WgRG

[Yusaku Horiuchi @YusakuHoriuchi]

📊 Based on my journal-submission log since Dec. 2013, I made this figure showing how often manuscripts are rejected—and how long it takes—before (conditional) acceptance. I hope it helps PhD students and junior scholars see the real world of publishing in political science. 💪📚

[Makito Takei (武井槙人) @Makito_T]

My article on social desirability bias in surveys about foreign policy, coauthored with @yasuki_kudo and Sohei Shigemura, was just published in @JPR_journal! We report the results of a list experiment in Japan. https://t.co/51Qrn0OVcz

[Rachel Schwartz @rachel_schwartz]

Excited to share the publication of the @CUP_PoliSci Element "New Forms of Democratic Erosion in Latin America" (co-authored with the brilliant @l_gamboag).

Available to download and read for free until June 3 here: https://t.co/oe3cTlSQQ2

[AMECIP_Oficial @AmecipOficial]

¡Es hoy!
🏛️ La Asociación Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas (AMECIP) y El Colegio de San Luis te invitan a la primera conferencia del ciclo/seminario interinstitucional: “Democracia fracturada. Problemas políticos contemporáneos de México”

🎓 Conferencia:
"El fin del sistema de partidos de la transición y la reconfiguración del poder político en México"
👨‍🏫 Impartida por:
Alberto J. Olvera Rivera

📅 Miércoles 20 de mayo de 2026
🕔 17:00 h (Hora del Centro de México)
▶️ Sigue la transmisión en vivo: https://t.co/HNsC4ZeaON
📖 Coordinación Académica:
Dr. Javier Contreras Alcántara / El Colegio de San Luis
#DemocraciaFracturada #CienciaPolítica #México #Democracia #Academia #AMECIP #COLSAN