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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Job Alert: The Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy is hiring for an Assistant Professor of Public Management. Applications due October 16: apply.interfolio.com/194125

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🚨 Job Market Candidates 🚨 studying politics and gender/women/sexuality: I want to feature your paper on a substack (this one genderpoliticsresearch.substack.com)! Take a couple of minutes by September 15th and send me your JMP info here: forms.gle/MDZY52C1pxgS... #GenderSky #polisky

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Gender & Politics Research | Bhumi Purohit | Substack

Politics, Gender, and related topics. Click to read Gender & Politics Research, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🚨 We're hiring for a 10-month Research Manager position in northern India 🚨 Gabi Kruks-Wisner, Anustubh Agnihotri, and I are looking to hire for a project on the intersection of social media + government accountability Application due before Sept 10th: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #polisky

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Research Manager_RCT Digital Voices.docx

RESEARCH MANAGER POSITIONProject: “When do digital voices augment government accountability?” Lead Researchers Dr. Anustubh Agnihotri Dr. Gabi Kruks-Wisner Dr. Bhumi Purohit Project Duration Oct...

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My paper on gendered bureaucratic discretion is out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social ! TLDR: women politicians have lesser political capital to overcome bureaucrats' biases that they are worse at implementing policies than male politicians, influencing how women navigate buer. for policy implementation.

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

My book with Santhosh Mathew and Devesh Sharma is out! We discuss how the architecture of public finance management works in India yields inefficient public service delivery, and the potential reforms. If you work on these issues and can't access the link, send me a DM: academic.oup.com/book/62489

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Public Financial Management, State Capacity, and Public Services in India

Abstract. Despite well-funded and well-designed public programmes, service delivery often falls short of expectations. While existing research highlights v

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

El Nodo Regional de EGAP en Latinoamérica @egap.bsky.social realizará un taller de Días de Aprendizaje Santiago en alianza con el Instituto de Sociología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, del 27 al 31 de julio de 2026: egap.org/project/dias... Compartan con sus redes y consideren aplicar

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Días de Aprendizaje 19: Hub Regional de EGAP en América Latina, 2026 – EGAP

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nicoblar.bsky.social @nicoblar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

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ISA-SAWP Colombo 2026: Call for Proposals

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My 2-year-old opened the newspaper, took a look at a photo of the cabinet, and said, "Why only uncles? Why no aunties?" This cabinet has a lot of other problems too but why indeed.

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I like to pull together the latest work on gender and politics from the global south a few times a year, mostly as an accountability mechanism to keep up. Here's the latest one with articles published since September 2025: open.substack.com/pub/genderpo... #GenderSky #PoliSky

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Winter 2025 Roundup

Articles on authoritarianism, toxicity in politics, and more.

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Sarah Brierley @sarahbrierley.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.

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Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

🚨Reminder to consider this great opportunity! Clarification: timing is a bit crazy yes, but we ideally need people to express interest before the end of the year so we can potentially work on an application when we come back in early January :)

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

For folks in the social and research sectors in Telangana: we're looking for a research manager based in Hyderabad for a new project involving training of elected politicians to improve governance. Job ad here, please pass on the word: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Research Manager_Peer Mentorship Project.docx

RESEARCH MANAGER POSITIONProject: “Peer Mentorship in Telangana” Lead Researchers Dr. Rachel Brulé (Boston University, USA) Dr. Bhumi Purohit (Georgetown University, USA) Alyssa Heinze (UC Berkele...

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Kailash Rajah @krajah123.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Excited to post the latest version of my JMP: The female labor supply constraints of spousal jealousy bit.ly/4nn9apn I use two field experiments to study the role of spousal jealousy in constraining married women’s employment. More below 👇:

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

been inactive on bsky b/c i've been busy ruining things

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 16/10/2025

#FirstView from @iojournal.bsky.social - How Migrating Overseas Shapes Political Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment - cup.org/4n84OB6 - Nikhar Gaikwad, @kolbyhanson.bsky.social & @aliz-toth.bsky.social

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/10/2025

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨 ➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation ➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India ➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months ➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms hopeful findings👇🏽

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I know there are many crises at the moment but I would like us to discuss another one: bros talking crypto at cafes. It's inescapable and insufferable and someone do something.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

NC GOP release is clear about the anti-democratic intent - memory-holes TX redistricting and says they will "block the efforts of blue state Democrats to take control of Congress from Republicans" as if winning an election is illegitimate bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

At a time when we're witnessing so much cruelty, it's crucial to recognize and credit good people doing thankless, benevolent, and sometimes therefore dangerous work.

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Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🚨🚨 Some hope: media and information literacy trainings - modules providing crucial skills to better consume information - in classroom settings appears to move the needle, and to have positive externalities! Check out the (open-access) results of our large field-experiment in India.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Francesca and her colleagues have contributed so much public data on India, it's truly transformative (and fricking hard work!)

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

My two year old has started following me around and constantly asking "Mumma doing? Mumma doing?" and it's easily my favorite part of each day

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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/09/2025

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

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Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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Allison Grossman @allisong.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Final reminder! Political scientists in the southeast, submit your paper to SoWEPS to get great feedback and hang out in New Orleans on 11/7! We match you with a discussant and everyone reads ahead. Submissions due TOMORROW 9/19: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #polisky

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Really great and carefully done paper on the bureaucracy ⬇️

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 09/09/2025

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Excited to be working from Madrid this year at @uc3m.es in the Fall and IE in the Spring!

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Please share: Seeking seed funding to develop innovations for open science, design, aggregation, transfer..? Call open now with @egap.bsky.social egap.org/our-work/res... @awilke.bsky.social Deadline 31 October

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EGAP Innovation Grants 2025 – EGAP

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The 51st @51st.news · 20/08/2025

Do you need a helping hand? Here’s where to find all kinds of help in D.C., from legal aid to housing assistance. 51st.news/a-guide-to-g...

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A guide to giving and receiving help in D.C.

Where to find all kinds of assistance, from legal aid to food donations to political organizing.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 24/07/2025

“Mothers arrive at our clinics exhausted, often after walking for hours carrying malnourished babies,” writes Mohammed Mansour with the International Rescue Committee in Gaza. “They ask, ‘Will my child survive?’ or ‘Do you have any milk or food?’ These are questions we can’t always answer.”

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Opinion | The World Is Letting Gaza Starve

Today, many children in Gaza are so hungry they may never recover, and our supplies are critically low.

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

🚨 Paper now as "just accepted" at @The_JOP. We ran the first WhatsApp deactivation experiment focused on multimedia content ahead of the 2022 election in Brazil. We find a reduction in users' recall of false rumors -- and, to a smaller degree, of true news. Null effects on attitudes. Full thread ⬇️

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

For those interested in what has been recently published on gender and politics in the global south, here's a roundup of some articles since Jan 2025: open.substack.com/pub/genderpo... #GenderSky #PoliSky

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Summer 2025 Roundup

Articles on abortion liberalization, women's surveys, and more

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I have a new review article w/ Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs (just submitted to JEL). I've written ~6 review articles, and I think this is the best one. We make some useful conceptual points IMO. But you decide! Comments welcome! seemajayachandran.com/womens_power...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The Trump administration made Jim Ryan's resignation one of the conditions of the DOJ's case against UVA's alleged DEI. The executive branch just taking over every institution in US society--quite authoritarian.

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Dems will actually put money behind a guy with corruption or harassment charges rather than a progressive, eh? Cool cool

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Nick Kuipers @nickkuipers.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

My book was just sent to press! It'll be available in print end of July. Focusing mostly on the topic of bureaucracy in Southeast Asia during the 20th c, the book develops an argument about how state-building can present headwinds for nation-building.

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Amanda Sahar d’Urso @asdurso.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Contributing to the lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social

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Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

R2 thinks I should convert my paper into a letter b/c of poor evidence - meanwhile I've been trying to write a book instead, oops.

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Mango lassi, one of the best inventions used to explain rank choice voting, also an excellent invention. You go get those desi votes, Zohran.

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Tiffany Barnes @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Want to hear more from fantastic EGEN scholars? Follow this starter pack! go.bsky.app/SeabEZc

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