New book on democracy. #OpenAccess Seven Myths about Democracy by Jørgen Møller & Svend-Erik Skaaning, Routledge https://t.co/HPv8mxdj8A. Challenges (full or partial) misunderstandings about the meaning, trajectory, causes, and consequences of democracy.
I made a public guide for preparing social science replication packages 📦
It includes prompts for Codex/Claude Code 🤖
https://t.co/X6apuxJRfY
Please repost if this might help researchers preparing replication materials.
New in our FirstView!: Elite Partisan Disagreement and Military Victory: Evidence from South Korean Battle Experiments by MICHAEL F. JOSEPH, JOON H. CHUNG, and
HUI SEONG PARK. https://t.co/FxxtYNJKQ7
Can social ties between legislators of opposing parties help explain the survival of authoritarian parties during democratic transitions? This article found that it can. Read more here:
https://t.co/rwkv8vnsXl
PhD Students - How to generate a graphical abstract in seconds?
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An absolute banger of a paper.
“A Gentle Introduction to Matrix Calculus” by econometrics legend Jan Magnus — one of the clearest explanations of matrix derivatives ever written.
If you work in econometrics, machine learning, statistics, or optimisation, this paper is pure gold.
I’m happy to see that my paper with Hata-san has been nominated for the Political Studies Review's Best Short-Form Article Prize!
https://t.co/QZNCByAwY8
In autocracies, party membership offers benefits to citizens who join the ruling party. But what happens when the people who apply are not the people the party wants? This article reveals how the CCP reshaped recruitment to favor white collar workers. https://t.co/9KfTcHFq5y
@RachelPaeng The Political Domain Enhanced BERT-based Algorithm for Textual Entailment (DEBATE) is benchmarked against other popular supervised classifiers. Ultimately, DEBATE is both efficient and completely open source. Read the paper here: https://t.co/JhW8pHydWX
Very excited to announce the release of my new book today, Land Power! Based on 15 years of work, it tells the story of how land shapes societies, from racial hierarchy to inequality, development, gender & the environment.
In hardcover/eBook/audiobook. More in 🧵 @BasicBooks 🥳
Thrilled to share that my new article, "Why do authoritarian regimes provide welfare?", is now published online in @democ_journal. This project has been a long journey, and I am incredibly grateful for the comments from many colleagues that helped shape the final version. 🧵
This research underscores that autocratic welfare isn't just about coalition size—it’s about information. I hope this adds a new layer to how we understand institutionalization and power consolidation in authoritarian settings.