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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

sadly, my wife … and someone I was supposed to meet at APSA who had to cancel their trip

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One last post-APSA tweet. It was fun! 🤩

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

APSA is over but you can still check my poster on the social origins of foreign policy preferences and support for counter-hegemonic actors using survey data from Kuwait. 🔗 apsa2026.ipostersessions.com?s=10-43-A4-5... Full paper also available for those interested.

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Graduate students are invited to network with each other and meet informally with APSA officers and council members at the Graduate Student Happy Hour. Located in Hynes, 210, 6:30 p.m. #APSA2026

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’d love to some data on inclusivity in networking. @siweicheng.bsky.social is working on a cool project on racial segregation in conferences across disciplines. Not sure if they covered APSA, but id be curious to see if/which big polisci conferences are the exception to what seems to be the norm.

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There’s definitely a commitment issue. We even had a panelist dropping out of our all-grad-students-panel after the program was released following their advisor’ request/suggestion.

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Excited to be attending #APSA2026! I'll be presenting a paper with the epic @sharangrewal.bsky.social on the roots of democratic decline in Tunisia (a deep dive into legislative polarization with idealstan 🤠).👇 + I'm discussing a panel with brilliant work from @meddhiah.bsky.social & Tiffany Simon👇

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're interested in elites and revolutions, or authoritarian politics more broadly, please join our panel on Sep 3 at noon EST at the Marriott (Orleans). @lisablaydes.bsky.social will chair the session, and @rmkubinec.bsky.social will be our discussant. #APSA2026

Power Diversification and Elite Survival

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My reading on my way to Manchester for #POLNET. We need more exhaustive single-country books like this.

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm developing a taste for small conferences. After @wzb.bsky.social's #MoPED in Berlin last month, I'm getting ready for @politicalnetworks.bsky.social's #POLNET2026, next week in Manchester, to present this paper on "Gendered Informational Inequality in Elite Networks" (available upon request).

Gendered Informational Inequality in Elite Networks: Evidence from Tunisia by Mohamed Dhia Hammami.
Abstract: Much of the information necessary for political work, economic competition, and poli-cymaking is not publicly available. Elites acquire it through informal networks, where it isbrokered and gatekept rather than freely shared. This paper argues that the capacity to controlsuch information flows, what I call informational power, constitutes a form of de facto polit-ical power that is unequally distributed across gender groups and within them. Using a noveldataset of 15,940 elite entities in Tunisia, I operationalize informational power through be-tweenness centrality, which captures an individual’s structural capacity to broker informationbetween otherwise disconnected network segments. Women occupy significantly less centralbrokerage positions than men (훽 = −0.264, p < 0.001), a finding that holds across multiplemodel specifications and survives controls for network size, reach, local density, and ethnicbackground. Comparing the gap across centrality measures locates it in brokerage: it is largestfor betweenness, exceeds the degree gap in the predicted direction, and coincides with higherlocal clustering among women, the structural signature of ties that close existing groups in-stead of bridging disconnected ones. A quantile regression and apex-tier analysis reveal thatthe penalty intensifies at the top of the brokerage distribution, a glass ceiling in informationalpower. Because the structural barriers that suppress women’s brokerage filter most womenout of bridging positions entirely while a small number of exceptional brokers clear them,the between-group inequality also generates a more concentrated distribution of informationalpower within the female elite than within the male elite

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Relevant again, with today’s Morocco 🇲🇦 France 🇫🇷 game.

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Tuesday’s match carries the same symbolism and may trigger the same post-colonial inter-group tensions … or may not if Senegal wins.

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This reframes what Baker & Cupery (BJPS 2023) call “post-colonial amnesia”, the surprising neutrality toward former colonizers found in the AfroBarometer data. It may not reflect the absence of colonial sentiment. It may reflect the fact that surveys only measure one attitudinal dimension.

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The match activated colonialism’s “archive of meaning” (Go 2024), triggering structured emotional entitlements (Gustafsson & Hall 2021) directed at the former colonizer’s people/social group, not the state or economic exchange.

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The effect is exposure-driven: significant among news watchers (−0.191, p<0.05), who drove the aggregate result. Absent among Amazigh men, marginalized from post-colonial Arab-centric national identity. The effect is gendered: no effect among women.

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The defeat decreased Arab men’s favorability toward French people (social outgroup) by ~0.225 on a 4-point scale. Views of France as a country? No effect. Economic cooperation with France? No effect. Reactions are compartmentalized.

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Algeria (also former colony) lost to France 2-1 at the 2022 Mediterranean Games. The match fell midway through Arab Barometer fieldwork in Algeria. Pre-match respondents = control; post-match = treatment. Same survey, same questions, different exposure to the as-if-random defeat (Muñoz et al. 2020).

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I argue that these are sites of active post-colonial contestation. Previous studies predict prejudice reduction from sports contact, but the evidence draws on cooperative encounters. A match between a former colony and its colonizer is adversarial by design. I study what this does to public opinion.

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Tuesday, Senegal 🇸🇳 plays France 🇫🇷 , its former colonial ruler, in the World Cup. French police was set on high “vigilance across the territory” (AFP). Why are such post-colonial encounter sensitive ? Answer from a paper I wrote (available on request, previously presented at MPSA)🧵

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

📢 Public good announcement : I’m releasing 3 R packages 📦 with data from the last 2 censuses in Tunisia 🇹🇳, including one with harmonized panel data (I’m using in my dissertation). Available on my GitHub. CRAN version upcoming. www.mohameddhiahammami.com/data

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Done with #APSAVRM26. Looking forward to presenting the same paper at the @yaledatascience.bsky.social. FDS workshop on AI for social science research methods organized by @dremmazang.bsky.social, Daniel Karell, Tong Wang and @harshparikh.bsky.social. fds.yale.edu/events/fds-w...

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

But according to @chenoweth.bsky.social data, the effectiveness of that kind of mobilization dropped significantly. Right ?

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Thanks for organizing the workshop. Impressive lineup.

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Looking forward to presenting my new paper on the use of Agentic RAG for elite network data collection, with an application to the Israeli case, at the APSA Virtual Research Workshop organized by @javierosorio.bsky.social, P. Brandt, V. D'Orazio and L. Khan. eventdata.utdallas.edu/workshops/ap...

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Early version of the network based sampling method I use in my dissertation field research is out in the new issue of QMMR. Many thanks to the Emerging Methodologist Workshop team for making this possible. www.mohameddhiahammami.com/working-papers doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami - Working Papers

Sampling Elites: A Network-Based Approach to Reduce Bias in Elite Research

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Can’t wait for our panel with @lisablaydes.bsky.social, @sharangrewal.bsky.social, @shalaby12.bsky.social, @aasiegel.bsky.social, Neil Ketchley, and me. We’ll discuss data scarcity in MENA and how to overcome it. 📅 Today, 2:00–3:30pm PDT 📍 VCC, West Level 1, Room 113 (or Zoom) tinyurl.com/ymnyafts

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Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

In a few minutes, I’ll be presenting a novel network-based method for better sampling of elites at the Emerging Methodologists Workshop panel on frontiers in QMMR. 📍 VCC Floor: East Meeting Level, East 8 (or Zoom) #APSA2025

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