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Arndt Leininger @aleininger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📢 A new resource for referendum research is now online! We're excited to launch RefSurv – an infrastructure for facilitating comparative research on referendum voting. 🔎📊 Explore it here: referendumsurveys.org 1/

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Welcome to RefSurv! - RefSurv

This website presents RefSurv - an infrastructure for facilitating comparative research on voting in referendums. RefSurv is short for referendum surveys and made for scholars who want to research re…

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Spencer Mckay @spencermckay.com · 08/07/2025

This new report looks great. Lots of alignment with what we found last year in our GenAI and Elections report for @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social . We apparently have terrible SEO for it but it's here for anyone interested: open.library.ubc.ca/media/stream...

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Alice el-Wakil @anewq.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

CfA: PhD scholarship in political theory @ucph.bsky.social Part of my project "Citizens' Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems," which will explore how citizens should participate in making political agendas Apply by Aug. 3, 2025 ➡️ employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie... #PolTheory #demoinno

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PhD Scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH): Citizens’ Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems (CASDS)

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Spencer Mckay @spencermckay.com · 18/04/2025

'Viewpoint diversity' is affirmative action for incompetent and malicious people.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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Spencer Mckay @spencermckay.com · 04/02/2025

One of my final exam questions last semester asked students to write a response to Musk and Ramaswamy's WSJ op-ed that took aim at 'unelected bureaucrats'. Many of them landed here too, asking: who elected Elon?

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 02/02/2025

Canada is a country worth fighting for against anyone who’d roll up and sock us in the kisser, goddamn them. I will still stand up for my country and our right to decide for ourselves how we want to live. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...

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Confessions of a Reluctant Nationalist

I'd throw a punch to fight for Canada's sovereignty while reserving and exercising my right to criticize this country. That's a fine form of patriotism.

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Spencer Mckay @spencermckay.com · 30/01/2025

Great thread, with a bunch of pieces I teach in my 'political theory and public policy' class. Seems particularly relevant right now.

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Democratic Innovations APSA @di-apsa.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

👋 Hi, we have just migrated here from you know where. Give us a follow for news and events about democratic innovations. We are currently putting together our newsletter, so if you have publications or events you want us to share, put them in the replies.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

We're getting the social media crisis wrong The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics. On Zuckerberg today and Musk over the last few weeks. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...

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We're getting the social media crisis wrong

The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics

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Inessa De Angelis @inessadeangelis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Excited to share that my article "Torrential Twitter? Measuring the Severity of Harassment When Canadian Female Politicians Tweet About Climate Change" has been published at Social Media + Society! doi.org/10.1177/2056...

Torrential Twitter? Measuring the Severity of Harassment When Canadian Female Politicians Tweet About Climate Change article screenshot. Published at Social Media + Society.

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Nicole Curato @nicolecurato.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

🤩 The CfP for the 7th Deliberative Democracy Summer School is out now 🤩 A toast to our colleagues from the University of Zurich for hosting the European version of the summer school. Grants available for students with limited institutional support. www.ipz.uzh.ch/en/study/doc...

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Seems lots of new people joined Bluesky over the weekend, so I'm re-upping this starter pack I created of people working on democratic innovations for a more participatory and deliberative politics. Still room for others to be added, so give me a shout if I missed you. go.bsky.app/LX11yEA #polisky

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

My article, "What Is It Like To Be a Partisan? Measures of Partisanship & Its Value for Democracy," is now available OPEN ACCESS at Perspectives on Politics. It's political theory aimed at improving both empirical & normative studies. Thread below: Polisky PolTheory www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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What Is It Like To Be a Partisan? Measures of Partisanship and Its Value for Democracy

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Alice el-Wakil @anewq.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

10 more days to apply to the "Democracy from the perspective of citizens" workshop at #NOPSA 24 Up to 15 participants To advance normative and empirical debates on citizen-centred approaches in democratic theory On June 25-28 At the University of Bergen Organized with Maija Setälä

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Hans Asenbaum @hansasenbaum.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

New special issue in Democratic Theory with @meritaina.bsky.social ✨DEMOCRATIC SELF-TRANSFORMATIONS✨ Check out the brilliant contributions. It's open access! www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... @moyalloyd.bsky.social

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Afsoun Afsahi @afsounafsahi.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Wrote a good book in political theory? Know someone who did? Consider submitting it for consideration for the CB Macpherson award! cpsa-acsp.ca/macpherson-p.... #cpsa #polisci

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