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Miriam Golden

@mgoldenprof.bsky.social
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Political scientist, specializing in comparative politics. Political institutions, representation, and accountability, using all manner of methods. Knows something about corruption and political malfeasance. Currently CDDRL, Stanford University.

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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Five more days to submit nominations for the Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology! A broad and unusual call. Feel free to self-nominate or to submit a nomination on behalf of work that has inspired you.
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We invite nominations for the @apsa.bsky.social CP Section's Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology. Self-nominations welcome! Deadline: March 15, 2026. Send nominations to golden@ucla.edu. Details 👇
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Complete agreement with my colleague Frank Fukuyama on not appeasing Trump on Greenland and tariffs. Perhaps Europeans can inspire US pols to stand up to an increasingly isolated madman.
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
You should learn enough unix to protect yourself from accidental deletions.
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It can correct complex tables and figures generated from R and/or latex in record time!
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I agree it is a game changer. It is accessed directly from the terminal, and if you work in Plan Mode, it will allow you to approve every change it makes before it operates on your code. To work effectively from a terminal on a Mac, best to familiarize yourself with some basic Unix commands.
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
So proud of my collaborators @noamlupu.bsky.social @carnes.bsky.social @eugenian.bsky.social and all our amazing research assistants across the world for having used our Covid lockdown to collect an award-winning dataset! www.instagram.com/p/DPNEGA5kmG...
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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The Call for Papers for the 2026 EPSS annual conference in Belfast is now live! Looking forward to your submissions!! Check out all details in this thread 👇
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... 🚨Please share widely! #Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
CVS pop
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Congratulations to @susannagarside.bsky.social for defending a terrific @eui-sps.bsky.social dissertation on the politics of climate change. We are delighted to send her to @ox.ac.uk for a post-doc and look forward to her future contributions.
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EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Congratulations to @mgoldenprof.bsky.social SPS Professor, for winning the 2025 APSA Best Dataset Award! The Global Legislator Dataset, built during her time at EUI, is now a landmark in comparative politics. A proud moment for SPS and the @eui-eu.bsky.social Institute #GlobalDataset
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Congratulations Konstantin!
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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Consider applying! The fellowship includes a mentor for a full year and two online feedback sessions. Open to all subfields
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Anselm Hager @anselmhager.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
EuroWEPS 11 is here! We'll meet in Bergen on May 16 to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is March 30.
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
top 15 in 2000 = Harvard, UCSD, UCB, Stanford, UCLA, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Duke, Michigan, Cornell, Wisconsin, MIT, Ohio, Chicago. @apsa.bsky.social @cpsjournal.bsky.social @apsa-europe-polsky.bsky.social @apsamena.bsky.social @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Were you teaching or taking the core graduate course/field seminar in comparative politics in (or around) year 2000? If so, @melinaplatas.bsky.social and I are collecting syllabi from the top 15 US departments that year. Please send what you have! Email golden@ucla.edu or paloma.abrilponcela@eui.eu
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Deeply saddened by the loss today of my UCLA colleague Ed Ed Leamer, a brilliant scholar, extraordinary communicator, and wonderful person. His classic work influenced generations of scholars.
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
NEW - The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies - cup.org/4hMcJCi - @carnes.bsky.social, Joshua Ferrer, @mgoldenprof.bsky.social, @esmelillywhite.bsky.social, @noamlupu.bsky.social & @eugenian.bsky.social #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract describing the Global Legislators Database, which includes demographic and biographical data on legislators from nearly 100 parliamentary democracies worldwide.
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I found this Foreign Affairs piece by Levitsky and Way hugely insightful in putting together Trump's disparate decisions and activities. But no particular outcome is foreordained, and thinking through who can be mobilized to put up roadblocks is the next step. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
That would be an interesting comparison. Can’t wait to read it!
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Really interesting work. Just wondering why you are expanding to 107 journals rather than limiting the focus to the (30? 50?) most highly cited. Won’t you be picking up a lot of never- or rarely-cited articles in obscure journals that are essentially noise?
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Civics instruction was standard in the US for much of the 20th century. I had it in elementary school. It is not part of an authoritarian plot. There are many reasons to oppose many Trump policies — possibly including this one — but there is nothing per se wrong with civics education.
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
@joposato.bsky.social perhaps there is limit to the number of obs in that format? Suggest you open the .dta format, which is complete.
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Delighted by the attention the US dataset with @eugenian.bsky.social has generated! It extends back in time and fills in two datasets (Ansolabehere, Ban and Snyder 2017 doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... and Klarner 2018 doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...). Graph shows which state-years are ours and which theirs.
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Are you interested in U.S. legislative history? Newly-available complete dataset on all persons serving as legislators in the 50 state houses between 1900 and 2016: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
So much appreciation to Mexico and also Canada.
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I wonder if men are equally mean to one another but they just keep on working? That is not my experience — I do think men are meaner to women — but I also think women might be more thin skinned.
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Saumitra Jha @saumjha.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We’re hiring a predoctoral fellow for our Stanford Conflict and Polarization lab! We do field experiments, lab experiments and also love to go hunting in the archives for novel data to help shed new light on solving these important problems. Please apply if interested & share with any who might be!
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
So important to study how government performance affects voting behavior and support for incumbents. Congratulations @catherinedevries.bsky.social for the pathbreaking work.
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Hope to have some CS followers to recommend a LaTeX editor with vi integration, ideally one that shows the compiled document on the screen in real time. Was using Latexian but does not seem to work on a Mac any longer. Any suggestions? Needs to be independent of the internet (no Overleaf!). Thanks.
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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
We have a forthcoming BJPS paper and a new dataset on the gender, education, and occupational backgrounds of lawmakers in the world's democracies! Paper: www.noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm... Here's one application . . . (1/2)
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Spent much of Covid meeting weekly with a terrific group of research assistants to assemble the Global Legislators Database w/ @noamlupu.bsky.social @carnes.bsky.social @esmelillywhite.bsky.social Eugenia Nazrullaeva and Joshua Ferrer, written up in The Economist www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Which countries have the most-educated politicians?
American lawmakers have lofty credentials, but not necessarily more skills
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Delighted to see EUI Ph.D. @valentimvicente.bsky.social's book, The Normalization of the Radical Right, called out by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social as his Best Book of 2024! Congratulations Vicente! www.ft.com/content/bddc...
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Best books of 2024: Roula Khalaf, Janan Ganesh and other FT journalists pick their favourites
FT editors, columnists and specialists share the titles that have inspired them
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
So sorry to hear and hope you recover quickly enough to eat leftovers!
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Constanze Stelzenmüller @constelz.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin tonight
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David Fortunato @fortunato.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Please apply for or promote this post doc with @fhollenbach.bsky.social and myself at Copenhagen Business School. 2 years. No teaching. Well paid. Comparative political economy, legislative institutions, interbranch politics. PLEASE contact one or both of us for more info if you have questions
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Postdoc in Business and Government at Copenhagen Business School (2 years) | CBS - Copenhagen Busine...
We invite applications for a 2-year postdoc on the project “The Determinants and Consequences of Legislative Capacity” starting August 1st, 2024. The project is led by associate professors Florian...
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Miriam Golden @mgoldenprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Please add me to the list.
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