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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Pixels & Patterns will explore how computational tools are changing the way we study history, politics, and society. We will share research in progress, workflows, datasets, visualizations, and lessons learned, with an emphasis on open science. www.pixelsandpatterns.org

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Pixels and Patterns | Steven Denney | Substack

Research and reflections at the intersection of social science, digital humanities, and artificial intelligence. Click to read Pixels and Patterns, a Substack publication. Launched 4 days ago.

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

New working paper with @aronvandepol.bsky.social. How do the language and ideas of national identity in educational material vary over time and especially across regime types? We examine the question using 67 South Korean national history textbooks (kuksa, in KR) covering the period 1895 to 2016.

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Korean Histories invites submissions for its next issue (5.2). The journal welcomes original research articles, translations with commentary, and review essays that engage with the broad field of Korean historiography understood as a social practice. www.korean-histories.org/announcement...

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Call for Papers: Korean Histories 5.2 – Korean Histories

Korean Histories invites submissions for issue 5.2. The journal welcomes original research articles, translations with commentary, and review essays engaging with the broad field of Korean historiogra...

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I'm building an open-source skill library for Claude Code that encodes methodological best practices to assist the planning, writing, and analysis process. Selected skills include conjoint design, topic modeling, LLM classification, and pre-registration. github.com/scdenney/open-science-skills

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GitHub - scdenney/open-science-skills: A library of Agentic Skills for Claude Code and LLM agents, codified from experimental social science standards and methodological texts.

A library of Agentic Skills for Claude Code and LLM agents, codified from experimental social science standards and methodological texts. - scdenney/open-science-skills

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

People are generally "proud" to be a national of their country, or so they say. Why might some citizens overstate their level of national pride? In a new article, my co-authors and I examine how social pressure shapes expressions of national identity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Identity Conformity in Taiwan and South Korea: Why Citizens in Divided Societies Are Pressured to Overstate National Pride

To what extent do social and political pressures in divided societies compel individuals to exaggerate allegiance to a dominant national identity? This study examines how conformity pressures shape...

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Happy to see this out and to be a part of the editorial team. Huge props to @aronvandepol.bsky.social for his leadership in seeing this journal revived -- with a new website and production system.

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Yesterday, we held the 1st Annual Leiden University Workshop on Immigration & Democracy. A full day of discussion on new research covering migration, identity, and democratic attitudes. Excellent presentations and constructive feedback across all panels.

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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

📢Early view What do welfare preferences in #DividedSocieties teach us about #NationalIdentity ❓ Peter Ward & @stevendenney86.bsky.social find that candidates orginally from Eastern Germany or North Korea are less preferred by Western Germans and South Koreans 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

New in Policy & Society (OA): “Welfare Chauvinism in Divided Societies: The Role of National Identity in Social Policy Preferences”, with @rpcward89. academic.oup.com/policyandsoc... What can we learn about national identity through welfare preferences in divided societies?

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Welfare chauvinism in divided societies: the role of national identity in social policy preferences

Abstract. What drives discriminatory welfare preferences against co-ethnics and intra-national groups in societies shaped by historical division? This arti

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

More than a third of Lucid (now Cint) respondents in 2019 were "professional" respondents according to a new article in @polanalysis.bsky.social , and that's the conservative estimate www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

35 years ago, on October 3, 1990, Germany was reunified. Just two months later, voters in the former GDR went to the polls in the first free federal election since the Weimar era. Despite decades of socialist dictatorship, East German voting behavior displayed marked regional differences. Thread🧵

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

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PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Now on FirstView! This study examines how Japan’s graying influences immigration attitudes–offering insight the country’s unique stance on immigration and the political future of aging Western democracies. #polisky #immigration #academisky doi.org/10.1017/S104...

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This is a really cool paper on the socialisation effects of studying at University. Surprisingly, the effects (moving in a leftward, liberal direction) are biggest for STEM students and those who move away from home to study, attend a single campus uni, and who live in ‘university towns’ and London.

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🚨 New working paper! 🚨 @grattonecon.bsky.social and I just completed the first draft of "The Rise and Fall of Technocratic Democracies". Excited to present it in Munich this week—thanks to Laura Seelkopf, Christoph Knill & others for hosting us! 🧵👇 ▶️ Motivation Many democracies have undergone a

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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I’m happy to share this paper in @cpsjournal.bsky.social on democracy and national narratives, with insights from South Korea and Taiwan. It is part of a special issue on postcolonial narratives with @paulschuler.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, + others. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This paper explores how democratization can reconstitute understandings of nationhood by empowering a new class of “storytelling elites”---those with the institutional and rhetorical resources to challenge the state’s narrative. In this critical juncture, storytelling elites may challenge (1) the bottom-line premise or (2) the sideline elements of the prevailing national narrative. Their narrative strategies, in turn, shape how the terms of the debates are redefined and structured under democracy. I develop this argument through a comparison of “One Korea” and “One China” narratives in postwar South Korea and Taiwan. Using interpretive process tracing of archival and other qualitative data, I find that democracy helped entrench “One Korea” narratives in South Korea but displace “One China” narratives in Taiwan, as new storytelling elites challenged dominant narratives of “oneness” to varying degrees. This resulted in increasingly divergent support for unification as a national objective, with enduring implications for peace.

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

My comprehensive overview of Lee Jae-myung's return to power, focusing on domestic political considerations. Some key takeaways and additional considerations given Lee's victory. 👇

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The most comprehensive account yet of how South Korea’s progressive bloc has evolved in the foreign policy domain -- and what Lee Jae-myung’s election victory tells us about changes to its foreign policy tradition. A must-read. The key takeaways, as I see them. 👇

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Esther Arenas-Arroyo @estherarenasarroyo.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

My new article shows that high-speed internet access worsens adolescent mental health, especially for girls. It increases screen time, reduces sleep, studying, and socializing, and encourages online coping with emotional distress. @wuvienna.bsky.social Available at the Journal of Health Economics 👇

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High Speed Internet and the Widening Gender Gap in Adolescent Mental Health: Evidence from Spanish Hospital Records*

We exploit variations in fiber optic (FTTH) deployment to assess the impact of high-speed internet access on adolescent mental health. Our findings re…

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I am presenting and participating today at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Social Science Korean Studies Network in Europe (SoKEN), hosted by @hannes-mosler.bsky.social at the University of Duisburg-Essen. My presentation explores support for 'guardianship democracy' in East and Southeast Asia.

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

How do voters behave in democracies with unstable parties? In a newly published article in Party Politics, @pward89.bsky.social and I examine South Korea, a textbook case of an “ephemeral party system.” The article is Open Access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The Supreme Court overturned Lee Jae-myung’s acquittal in an election law case, ordering a retrial. The final outcome and the impact on the public's view of Lee are to be seen. General disarray at the highest levels of governance in South Korea at present. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

With Yoon Suk-yeol's impeachment upheld, South Korea heads to snap elections. Lee Jae-myung is the strong favorite for next president. My cover article for The Diplomat examines Lee's return to center stage since his razor thin defeat to Yoon in 2022. More 👇 magazine.thediplomat.com/2025-04/will...

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Will Lee Jae-myung Rise From South Korea’s Political Chaos?

Lee Jae-myung’s strategic bet – that he can leverage widespread public discontent without further deepening societal divisions – will pose a key test for South Korea’s democracy.

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

If we take opposition to Yoon's impeachment as a measure of authoritarian political attitudes, there are some observations we can make and hypotheses, some competing, that we can consider. 👇

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

With Yoon's impeachment ruling due this Friday, here's Gallup Korea polling data from the 4th week of March. Support/oppose impeachment-ALL: 60/34 (+26) -progressives: 93/5 (+88) -conservatives: 27/69 (-42) -18-29: 62/26 (+36) -70+: 35/58 (-23) -18-29 males: 52/36 (+16) -18-29 females: 72/15 (+57)

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Seoul High Court overturned Lee Jae-myung's conviction for election law violations, clearing a major obstacle for the Democratic leader’s potential presidential bid. However, the prosecution intends to appeal Lee's acquittal to the Supreme Court. www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2025...

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검찰 "2심, 이재명 주장만 신뢰…상고해 대법원서 위법 시정" | 연합뉴스

(서울=연합뉴스) 이보배 권희원 기자 = 검찰이 26일 더불어민주당 이재명 대표의 공직선거법 위반 혐의를 무죄로 판단한 2심 판단에 대해 1심에...

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

between 1995 and 2014,∼20 percent of the apparent decline in global inequality can be explained by the overstatement of GDP growth in less democratic countries academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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Overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies and the recent decline in global inequality

Abstract. After rising for almost two centuries, global income inequality declined substantially after 2000. While past scholarship on global inequality ha

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Leiden Asia Centre @leidenasiacentre.nl · 27/01/2025

Join us for our 17th Asia Academy! South Korea is facing significant political turbulence after President Yoon Seok-yeol’s unexpected declaration of martial law, leading to his impeachment and arrest. What are the implications for South Korea? More info: leidenasiacentre.nl/event/asia-a...

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Asia Academy #17 - South Korea's Political Rollercoaster - Leiden Asia Centre

South Korea is facing considerable political turbulence following an unexpected declaration of martial law by President Yoon Seok-yeol, who is now impeached and under arrest. The decree and subsequent...

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I will present new research on South Korean immigration attitudes tomorrow at the conference "Recalibrating ‘Skill’ in Changing Immigration Regimes", hosted by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. A snippet of the main findings 🧵🔻.

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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

People don't really think any of this! Overestimates of small proportions are a quirk of general innumeracy, not genuine misperceptions. See research by @brianguay.bsky.social et al: —PNAS forthcoming: www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2... —Psychonomic Bulletin 2017: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

As per Gallup Korea, support for the country's two main parties—left-leaning Minjoo Party (blue) and right-leaning People Power Party (red)—has reverted to pre-martial law levels. This follows a brief high for Minjoo at the time of President Yoon's impeachment. www.gallup.co.kr/gallupdb/rep...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Taking a step back from the fray of politics and political scandal in South Korea, data show that attitudes toward political rule are changing. Compared to its peer group of liberal democracies, support for democracy is in modest decline, but the story is much more complicated. 📊🧵

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Regarding the "what can be done to address backsliding" - institutional reforms that addressing core issues (lack of representativeness, etc.). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Marta Kołczyńska @mkolczynska.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

This is what I get for satisfaction with democracy with the Eurobarometer, from the EU25 in 2004-2023. Not much of a downward trend here.

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Working with WVS longitudinal data for another task, I reproduced the generational analysis using a different var: support for democracy. In electoral and liberal democracies, I find that young adults are not "rapidly losing faith in democracy". Attitudes are holding steady in support.

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Much to unpack in the OG piece. But, here, “satisfaction” and “faith” aren’t the same. Also that y-axis is unjustifiably truncated. And we have got to stop using arrows.

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Laura Jacobs @lcjacobs89.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Glad to see this study w @jbpilet.bsky.social out in Party Politics: via an experiment in Belgium, we show that claims by a mainstream party (N-VA) to rule with the radical right (VB) legitimizes the latter, while not electorally benefitting the former journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Benjamin A. Engel @benjaminaengel.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

In this short reflection article for the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, I focus on the impact of the New Right and election conspiracies among the Korean far right on Yoon's decision to declare martial law. 1/ apjjf.org/2024/12/engel

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Making Sense of South Korea’s Senseless Martial Law Declaration - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Han argues that appointing the three Constitutional Court candidates nominated by the National Assembly belongs exclusively to an elected president. There is a political logic to this, but it does not seem legally justified.

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

With majority support from the National Assembly (192/300 votes), South Korea's National Assembly impeaches acting President Han Duck-soo. Han’s refusal to appoint constitutional judges triggered this impeachment. The ruling PPP did not participate in the vote. www.joongang.co.kr/article/2530...

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards. www.nber.org/papers/w33289

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 15/12/2024

I am increasingly convinced that comparative politics (including especially me) has fundamentally misunderstood contemporary democratic backsliding. We are attending to elections and the rule of law, when the politics is more fundamental, about a vision for the state and society within it 1/x

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Myunghee Lee @immyungheelee.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The more I dig, the more I reach the conclusion that the party’s alignment with the far-right was strategic (disturbing!), but Yoon has become a true believer in far-right rhetoric (scary!).

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

With a vote of 204 for, 85 against, 3 abstentions, and 8 spoiled ballots, President Yoon Seok-yeol is the second (conservative) president in three administrations to be impeached in South Korea.

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Karl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Gallup Korea's new numbers are out, just 24 hours ahead of the 2nd impeachment vote. Thread incoming.

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Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🚨Why is ethnic & racial homogeneity correlated with higher trust & social cohesion?🚨 Using new historical data from Brazil, our paper shows how cohesive & homogenous communities are both more likely to develop under stronger state institutions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The pro-Han Dong-hoon "line"/faction (친한계) and pro-Yoon line (친윤계) shows clearly in a presser during the congress to elect a new party floor leader. Han, the party leader, speaks out against Yoon and now calls for his party to support impeachment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVjU...

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[현장영상] "대국민 담화, 내란 자백한 것" 한동훈 발언에 국힘 의총 '초토화' / JTBC News

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