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Diana O'Brien @dzobrien.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Congratulations to my brilliant colleague @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social on receiving the Legislative Studies Emerging Scholar Award! A well-deserved recognition for a terrific scholar. If you haven't yet checked out her book, Unity Through Particularism (CUP, 2026), now's the perfect time. 🎉

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“Just collect more data” is one of the most common responses to uncertainty in quantitative research. But in a lot of social science, that advice is impossible—or even misleading. Our new working paper asks: when has a study reached its information limit? Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Sarah Bowen @sarahkbowen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I am so shocked and saddened by this news. Raúl Pacheco-Vega was such a generous and kind person, supporting and offering his wisdom to so many people, far and near. This is just awful. Que descanse en paz.

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Lucia Motolinia @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

What an honor being invited to discuss my book in UNAM. A link to the event here: Un honor la invitación para discutir mi libro en este evento. Pueden encontrar el vídeo de la sesión aquí: www.youtube.com/live/NiYv15k...

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"Unity through Particularism How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior"

YouTube video by Canal Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales

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Lucia Motolinia @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I’ll be presenting my book Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior next Monday at the IIS-UNAM Seminario Interinstitucional El Futuro de la Democracia en México. Hope to see you there!

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Lucia Motolinia @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Really enjoyed this conversation on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book, Unity Through Particularism. We discuss how electoral institutions shape legislative incentives and what that means for representation. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/unity-throug...

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Lucia Motolinia, "Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior" (Cambridge UP, 2026) - New Books Network

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Lucia Motolinia @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

My new book, "Unity Through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior," is finally out with Cambridge University Press. A 20% discount is available on the Cambridge site using the code UYTPM25. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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APSA- Political Organizations & Parties Section @apsa-pop.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

📣 Call for Nominations: Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award ⏳ Deadline: February 27 📧 Email nominations to: @jmcrosson.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @garlicksauce.bsky.social @shamiragelbman.bsky.social @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social

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Lucia Motolinia @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

So happy to see this paper finally out!!!!!

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

‼️ New working paper ‼️ We find bipartisan appeals credibly signal policymaking intentions—on an issue-by-issue basis We show how and why bipartisan lawmaking persists amid congressional conflict: progress often comes through issue-specific pathways rather than broad consensus between Ds and Rs 🧵👇

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Political inexperience in Congress has measurable effects on legislative outcomes. Our research finds that when districts elect political newcomers over career politicians, congressional dysfunction tends to increase. New explainer of our PNAS study: theconversation.com/amateur-hour...

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Amateur hour in Congress: How political newcomers fuel gridlock and government shutdowns

The public’s frustration with ‘politics as usual’ has led more political newcomers to win office. But amateurs are more likely to view bipartisanship as a concession, not a tool for advancing policy.

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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

If you are a political theory PhD student or junior scholar interested in discussing all things publishing in political theory, please join the WPSA Political Theory virtual community on Thursday, October 30th for a panel on Academic Publishing. We have a great group of panelists! Please do join us.

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration” We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress. 🧵1/4

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APSA- Political Organizations & Parties Section @apsa-pop.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Congrats to our award winners!

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Lucia Motolinia @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Feeling very honored to receive the 2025 POP Emerging Scholar Award. Grateful to my mentors, co-authors, students, and colleagues who make my work possible. Excited to celebrate together at APSA! @apsa.bsky.social

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

🎉Now online (open access): "Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems" at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. @alicirone.bsky.social, @teele.bsky.social, Gary Cox, @fiva.no. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Lucia Motolinia @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I'm thrilled that my book, Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior, is now available for pre-order through CUP and Amazon! Let me know if you'd like an electronic copy for your class, and I'll send it to you! www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

5/6 🧵In ‪@ajpseditor.bsky.social‬ @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social Klašnja & @simonweschle.bsky.social‬ show that higher pressures to spend in campaigns leads to a wealthier politician pool. Use data on MP wealth from 40 countries, & quasiexperimental evidence from 🇧🇷 & 🇨🇱 doi.org/pz7c

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Simon Weschle @simonweschle.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Now out in @ajpseditor.bsky.social: @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social, Marko Klašnja and I show that greater pressures to spend more money on campaigning leads not just to more politicians who are rich, but especially to more politicians who are are *super* rich onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

We provide a comprehensive theoretical and empirical account of the relationship between campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians. We argue that the heavily right-skewed wealth distri...

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

From April 2025 - When Reelection Increases Party Unity: Evidence from Parties in Mexico - cup.org/3DYOFxl - @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social "I apply correspondence analysis to a new dataset of over half a million legislative speeches in twenty states" #OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of personal vote-seeking incentives on legislative accountability and the introduction of the 2014 Mexican electoral reforms. The text analyzes changes in state legislations and party responses in twenty states.

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

NEW - When Reelection Increases Party Unity: Evidence from Parties in Mexico - cup.org/3DYOFxl - @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social "I apply correspondence analysis to a new dataset of over half a million legislative speeches in twenty states" #OpenAccess

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Simon Weschle @simonweschle.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I'm really proud of this paper. We show that greater pressures to spend on campaigns disproportionately (and sometimes exclusively) benefit the super-rich.

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Lucia Motolinia @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🚨New publication Alert! 🚨 Conditionally Accepted at @ajpseditor.bsky.social "The Super-Rich and the Rest: Campaign Finance Permissiveness and the Wealth of Politicians" with my amazing co-authors @simonweschle.bsky.social and Marko Klasnja Full paper & appendix here: sites.wustl.edu/luciamotolin...

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ResearchWashington University in St. Louis

You can access my Google Scholar page here. PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES 5. “The Super-Rich and the Rest: Campaign Finance Permissiveness and t...

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍 🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations 📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p... Thanks for sharing! 🤝

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David Fortunato @fortunato.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

PLEASE SHARE! Thread on EITM Europe where I will teach this summer with my brilliant friend @dzobrien.bsky.social as well as Thomas Bräuninger and Richard Traunmüller. There is NO TUITION FEE, but students must find funding for travel and accommodation. June 9-20 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/eitm/

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Kyle Marquardt @kailmarkvart.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

🏆🚨🏆 Reminder 🏆🚨🏆 Please nominate doctoral dissertations for the @apsa.bsky.social Gabriel A. Almond Award, which honors the best doctoral dissertation in the field of comparative politics! Deadline: February 12, 2025. Submit nominations here: apsa.secure-platform.com/a/organizati...

Nominate doctoral dissertations for the Gabriel A. Almond Award. The award honors the best doctoral dissertation in the field of comparative politics. The deadline is February 12, 2025.

Eligibility: Dissertations must have been successfully defended within the previous two calendar years (dissertations for the 2025 award must be defended in 2023 or 2024). APSA will accept only one nomination for the Almond Award per school or political science department. Nominations from non-PhD departments and institutions are welcome if the nominee is currently employed there. Self-nominations are accepted. Nominees do not have to be members of APSA, affiliated with an institution in the United States, or an American citizen in order to be considered for an award.

The award is presented at the APSA Annual Meeting and carries a cash prize of $750.

The award was created in recognition of Dr. Gabriel Almond’s contributions to the discipline, profession, and Association. He was a long-time faculty member at Stanford University and former APSA President (1966). Almond’s scholarly work contributed directly to the development of theory in comparative politics and brought together work on the developing areas and Western Europe that prevented splintering into an array of disparate areas studies.

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Andrew Little @anthlittle.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

If you mean this paper it also has a minor junior coauthor 😉 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Welcome to the Research & Politics Bluesky page! Please spread the word and follow us for updates on the latest articles published in R&P.

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The Gender and Security Sector Lab @gsslab.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

🏆 Prize Alert! 🏆 The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN) is awarding their 2025 Prize! Learn more at the link below. Deadline to apply is February 1st! #GenderSky #internationalpolitics #PoliSky #Comparativesky #academia www.egenpolisci.org/prize-applic...

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The Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) Working Group

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Apply to this APSA award if you wrote a book on European Politics 🇪🇺 And since we are it: Zoltan Buzas, @laurenrprather.bsky.social and I are in the committee of the APSA @intlcollaboration.bsky.social Best Book Award. Send us your book on international cooperation by March 3rd! 🌐

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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

HUGE AMAZING news. Please share!!! EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics. Due Feb 1, 2025 www.egenpolisci.org #gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social

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The Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) Working Group

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George Kwaku Ofosu @gofosu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

New publication alert, forthcoming in JoP: @mbechseeberg.bsky.social, Michael Wahman and I investigate how different campaign messages supporting women candidates affect voters' propensities to vote for female (relative to male) politicians. @mbechseeberg.bsky.social provides a summary 👇🏾

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

📣We are hiring! Please share! 👉2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science 🇳🇴 Department of Political Science, University of Oslo 📅 Deadline: February 3rd, 2025 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034) | University of Oslo

Job title: 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025

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Tiffany Barnes @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Excited to share findings from our research on Gender in the Ballot. Full paper available on our websites.

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Matthias Dilling @matthiasdilling.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

📢Join us! @tcdssp.bsky.social (Pol Scie) is hiring 2 assistant profs (1 comparative & 1 IR). I've only been at TCD since Sep but it's been a great place to work! Amazing colleagues, great students & vibrant research. Comparative: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX659/a... IR: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX664/a...

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Assistant Professor in Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Political Science. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Lucia Motolinia @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

First attempt at homemade baguette, 7/10

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

#Polisky 🗂️ Call for papers Bocconi University-Columbia Universiy Conference on Political, Social, & Economic Inequality 🔄 Yearly occurring conference, inaugural conference at Bocconi, June 19-20, 2025. 📆 Deadline: December 31, 2024 ℹ️ 500 words abstract form: accounts.google.com/v3/signin/id...

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Lucia Motolinia @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Y'all, I watched HER.. the idea of telling Geminy about my day.. wtf

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Laura Bronner @laurabronner.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A thread about being wrong: 5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong. This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...

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Horacio Larreguy @hlarreguy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Finally in print at the APSR! With Mai Hassan and @stuarterussell.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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