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Stanford APARC @aparc.stanford.edu · 28/09/2026

❗ Job Alert! Our Japan Program is hiring a research scholar to collaborate with the program director on interdisciplinary research projects focused on Japan and comparative social science, combining cutting-edge, mixed-methods research with contributions to the program's activities > buff.ly/QeZX4th

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our School of Politics and International Relations at @ucddublin.bsky.social is hiring two permanent (!) Assistant Professors in any field of political science, international relations, political theory, or development. Deadline: 9 November Start date: 30 August 2027 my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2), UCD School of Politics and International Relations, Permanent
Applications are invited for a permanent post of a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2) within UCD School of Politics and International Relations.

The UCD School of Politics & International Relations (SPIRe) is a globally ranked, research-active school with teaching and research expertise across the fields of political science, international relations, normative political theory, international development, and other areas. It is committed to the highest standards in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research supervision. The school is home to a number of research centres, and further information can be found at: https://www.ucd.ie/spire/about/

95 Lecturer/Asst Professor Above The Bar (7943) Salary Scale: €66,055 - €104,600 per annum

Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines.

Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 9th November 2026.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.

UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.

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Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We're hiring! GW’s Political Science Department is seeking a junior tenure-track professor in Comparative Politics. The search is open to any substantive or regional focus and all methodological approaches. Review of applications begins October 16. www.gwu.jobs/postings/128...

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Assistant Professor of Political Science

The Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in Comparative Politics at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning as early as Fall 2027. This position is pendin...

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Ignacio Lago @ignaciolago.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🧵 New article in *Political Research Quarterly*: “Beyond the Average: Revisiting How District Magnitude Shapes Party Systems,” co-authored with @santiagolagop.bsky.social. 📄 DOI: doi.org/10.1177/1065...

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great resource for those interested in studying Korean elections! Song, Hwang & Lee introduce the Korean National Assembly Elections Dataset (KNAED): candidate-level data for all South Korean legislative elections, 1948-2024. 👏 @electoralstudies.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 10/09/2026

#OpenAccess from the new issue of @pspolisci.bsky.social - Where You Go, What You Do, Who You Are: Predictors of Political Science Job-Market Outcomes, 2023–2024 - cup.org/4ytudLz - Scott W. Desposato

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We’re hiring! Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in: Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA 1/3

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Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Rochester Political Science is hiring an Assistant Professor in political methodology this year! Please apply!!! Feel free to reach out with any questions. apply.interfolio.com/192333

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Ajay Verghese @ajayverghese.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm excited to let you all know that Middlebury is hiring a comparativist who works on African Politics! I am the search committee chair, so hit me up with any questions you may have. Deadline is 9/1. apply.interfolio.com/188248

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Joshua Kertzer @jkertzer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🚨 Going up on eJobs later today: Harvard has an open-field tenure-track search this fall, with priority areas in American Politics, International Relations, Formal Theory, and Quantitative Methods. Feel free to reach out with any questions! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16668

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TENURE-TRACK PROFESSOR IN GOVERNMENT

The Department of Government seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Government. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2027. The tenure-track professor will be responsible for teaching ...

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Wow! This month's @apsrjournal.bsky.social features THREE exciting articles about Japanese politics by up-and-coming scholars! Trevor Incerti on the revolving door for bureaucrats; Kyosuke Kikuta on territorial disputes; and Makoto Fukumoto on economic elites and democratic erosion in prewar Japan.🤩

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Anne Meng @annemeng.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

🚨Job alert 🚨 UVA is hiring an assistant professor in CP! Apply here 👉🏻 apply.interfolio.com/190673

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Yang-Yang Zhou 周泱泱 @yangyangzhou.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're hiring this fall at Dartmouth Government for an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics! See apply.interfolio.com/191508 I'll be at APSA Boston and will plan to be available at the Sheraton lobby on Friday Sept 4 afternoon if you'd like to meet and ask any questions.

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's been 81 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan. This recent article by @joshuabyun.bsky.social & @carsonaust.bsky.social might interest anyone trying to understand the contemporary motivations and longer-term consequences.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 12/08/2026

Big news for Southeast Asian studies in North America! The Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG) is pleased to announce a 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 in partnership with four Southeast Asian universities. Details below 👇 dcid.sanford.duke.edu/seareg/postd...

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SEAREG Postdoctoral Fellowship | Duke Center for International Development

The Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG) is launching a Postdoctoral Fellowship program that will begin in the summer of 2027 with one Fellow holding a 12-month positio

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Northwestern is hiring in quant methods (assistant level, tenure track) Please repost and share with those you think would be good candidates, thank you! polisci.northwestern.edu/about/facult... #psjobs #psjminfo #poliscijobs

Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Methodology (Tenure-Track)
The Department of Political Science at Northwestern University invites applications for a full-time position in Quantitative Political Methodology at the rank of Assistant Professor, tenure-track, to begin Fall 2027. We emphasize methodology with a strongly applied perspective: successful candidates will maintain an active, independent research program that includes methodological contributions in their own right, while also teaching quantitative research methods courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and applying those methods to substantive questions in their area of expertise. We are especially interested in candidates whose work bridges data-driven/computational approaches with design-based inference, though we welcome applicants making cutting-edge contributions in either of these traditions or in other areas of political methodology. Successful candidates' substantive research agendas may be in any area of political science or may cross boundaries; as with all Northwestern faculty, successful candidates will be expected to provide service to the department, the university, and the profession.

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Asli Cansunar @aslicansunar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy (HPE)? 🚨 At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE), we discuss state-of-the-art research in the field on a regular basis. ‼️We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️ Please see the link below if you’d like to join.

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Florida State University’s political science department is hiring this year at the junior level in American Politics and Comparative Politics. Applicants for both jobs should have strong substantive and quant methods skills but otherwise the fields are open. The postings should be on ejobs soon.

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.

Nagasaki, bomber's eye view: Close-up view of the head of the mushroom cloud at the Nagasaki explosion, as seen from either the bomber or the observation plane.

Nagasaki, distant ground view: Photo of the Nagasaki cloud taken ~15 minutes after the atomic bomb detonation, by Hiromichi Matsuda, stationed at Koyagi-jima Island, some 5 miles / 8 km away.

Nagasaki, before and after, aerial views.

Nagasaki, ground view, some weeks after the attack.

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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Do you teach about the gender gap? Consider including this paper — a 10 year effort — challenging the traditional/modern dichotomy in Catholic contexts.

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Justin and I were housemates in grad school and started this project over 10 years ago. Life events, career moves, and other demands slowed us down, but I'm glad to finally see it in print! 🎉 Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 10/10

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The important policy implications are that women's representation could be improved simply by making information about candidates more accessible or by encouraging voters (especially women) to make use of the optional preference vote. 9/10

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We estimate that if voters in the real-world elections in 2016 and 2019 for Japan's upper house had voted like the treated respondents in our survey samples, as many as 31 (rather than 21) female candidates could have been elected. 8/10

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A conjoint experiment with hypothetical candidates was included after the main experiment in one of the two surveys. The results show that respondents also had more favorable views toward female candidates in the abstract after the treatments. 7/10

Figure 6: Marginal means of the gender attribute in the conjoint experiment, by treatment group. Note: Each circle in the top row represents the estimated marginal means (MMs) for each category of gender on a respondent’s probability of choosing a hypothetical politician. The horizontal bars represent 95% confidence intervals robust to clustering at the respondent level. The top row shows the MMs by treatment group; the bottom row shows the differences between the indicated treatment groups.

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We then look at outcomes for female candidates specifically. The results show that both treatments (information and compulsory preference voting) increase vote shares for female candidates (though there is no apparent additive effect). 6/10

Figure 5: Share of female candidate supporters, by treatment group. Note: White and light gray bars represent the support rates of female candidates across treatment groups in each election year. Dark gray bars represent support rates in the aggregated sample of both surveys. All group means are bounded by 95% confidence intervals.

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We first find that providing information increases respondents use of the preference vote (rather than simply voting for a party, thus relegating the choice over candidates to other voters). In other words, when voters have more information, they are more likely to cast a preference vote. 5/10

Figure 4: Proportion of preference voters by treatment group, with and without information. Note: White and light gray bars represent the rates of preference voting across Groups 1 and 2 in each election year. Dark gray bars represent rates in the aggregated sample of both surveys. All group means include 95% confidence intervals.

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The candidate profiles included information on prior political experience and other markers of quality, which could disabuse voters of uncertainty or statistical discrimination related to female candidates' qualifications. 4/10

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Our experiments, fielded during campaigns for Japan's upper house and featuring the actual candidates running, included two treatments: (1) providing candidate background info; (2) making preference voting compulsory. Our main DV is the share of preference votes for female candidates. 3/10

Figure 2: Experimental design: information (𝑇1 ) and compulsory preference voting (𝑇2 ). Note: Group 1 received no treatment. Group 2 and Group 4 received treatment 1, the option to view biographical profiles of candidates for any party. Group 3 and Group 4 received treatment 2, compulsory preference vote (no party vote). All groups first voted on prefectural tier candidates; Group 2 and Group 4 were also shown candidate profiles for prefectural candidates. For the 2019 survey, respondents in all groups completed ten conjoint exercises featuring hypothetical candidates after the main experiment.

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Open-list PR features long lists of candidates, making it harder for voters to choose among them. This might hurt female candidates' prospects, through statistical discrimination or because women voters are less likely to cast preference votes, but more likely to support women when they do. 2/10

Figure 1: Party lists in the national tier (with female candidates indicated). Note: The ballot shown is for three parties (LDP, DP, JCP) in the 2016 election. In the actual survey, respondents viewed a single, continuous ballot with three columns (parties), stacked, with additional parties. Arrows indicate female candidates (not shown to respondents). Party names and gender composition of each list (M, F) are indicated above ballot headings.

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

New in @electoralstudies.bsky.social w/Justin F. Reeves: "Getting to know her: Information and gender bias in preferential voting systems." Can women's success in open-list PR elections be improved by (1) providing candidate information and/or (2) making preference voting compulsory? 🧵1/10

Abstract/title page of article in Electoral Studies: "Getting to know her: Information and gender bias in preferential voting systems," by Justin F. Reeves and Daniel M. Smith.

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CSIS Japan Chair @japan.csis.org · 31/07/2026

The priority deadline for the CSIS Japan Chair fall internship is this Sunday, August 2 at 11:59pm. For more information and to apply, visit bit.ly/4yncC8F

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Japan's "House of Councillors" is moving forward with an English-language name change to "Senate." This may reduce confusion outside Japan, but I'll miss the uniqueness of the term. Will they change "Diet" to "National Assembly" next?

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

When do dominant-party systems break down? Join us this Thursday, when #JPOSS will feature Tyler Rongxuan Chen (U. of Michigan) and his new research on dominant parties in Japan, Malaysia, and Taiwan. Ko Maeda and Ora Jon Reuter will discuss. Registration ⬇️

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Opening soon! The 2026 round of APSA #eJobs Signaling will take place from August 1st to August 15th! Signaling allows interested jobseekers to send up to 3 signals to potential employers with their eJobs ID and a brief message of interest. Learn more:

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eJobs Job Market Signaling - American Political Science Association (APSA)

eJobs Job Market Signaling The 2026 round of APSA eJobs Signaling will take place from August 1st to August 15th! Signaling allows interested jobseekers

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Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University @harvardusjapan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thurs., 7/23, 8-9 pm ET: Join #JPOSS #61 to discuss “Crisis from Within: Elite Defection, Intraparty Competition, and the Breakdown of Dominant Party Systems”, by Tyler Rongxuan Chen (U. of Michigan). With Ko Maeda, Ora Jon Reuter, @profdansmith.bsky.social. Info & paper: jposs.org/event/tyler-...

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

📢 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise. apply.interfolio.com/189477

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Tomorrow I will co-moderate a panel on AI use in grad school with @aricaschuett.bsky.social, who has put together a superb panel: @yiqingxu.bsky.social Rachel Gillum @yamilrvelez.bsky.social @lpargyle.bsky.social Grad students (& others) should tune in! Register: connect.apsanet.org/graduate/

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Huge sale at Stanford University Press! My book, Dynasties and Democracy, is just $14.10 in paperback.

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Our department has three calls for tenure track positions. IE is a fast growing group of scholars doing top-notch work, which offers very attractive conditions in a great European city. If you are looking for an academic job in Europe, definitely do consider applying.

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Ongoing struggle for comparativists is deciding which is more annoying: Americanists ignoring relevant CP work (within-discipline parochialism), or economists ignoring relevant political science work in general (interdisciplinary ignorance/arrogance)?

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Charles McClean @cmcclean.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Excited to share my new article with Don Lee @electoralstudies.bsky.social Using a conjoint experiment during an electoral reform debate in Korea, we show that women and young people favor strengthening representation—but not at any cost to accountability. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I would predict there might be regional variation depending on % of Black voters in the district (in contrast to nationalization of Dem vs Rep competition), but a lot would depend on what elites push for.

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This is a thoughtful piece. Do you have any thoughts/concerns about the possibility that PR could encourage the formation of a new party focused explicitly on the interests of Black citizens (i.e., party fragmentation along ethnic divisions rather than policy divisions)?

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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This resonates with my recent experience (and frustration) with teaching paper-based seminars. Not an issue in my blue-book-exam-based lecture course. The latter, which is more labor-intensive for me as instructor, is now much more enjoyable to teach because students' work is more credible.

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I saw an initial story in Nikkei that noted with some puzzlement the investment in Kura Sushi but this makes it even better.

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Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University @harvardusjapan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thurs., 5/21, 8-9 pm ET: Join #JPOSS #60 to discuss “Why Do AI Models Tell Left-Wing Voters to Support the Communist Party? AI Voting Advice in Japan’s 2026 General Election”, by Sho Miyazaki and Andrew B. Hall, with Kentaro Fukumoto, @kmcelwain.bsky.social, and @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social.

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