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Susana Tavares

@susanadptavares.bsky.social
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PhD student researching social movement organizations and protests targeting UN peace missions at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

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Susana Tavares @susanadptavares.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"Instead of identifying a threat to democracy, the polarization frame integrates it into a stylized geometry of disagreement." doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I wrote about the psychological impact of having one's village erased by Israel. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...
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Psychological toll mounts as Lebanese villages erased by Israel’s war
Displaced Lebanese face a void as war annihilates the physical and emotional anchors of their past and identity.
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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Re No10 in Manchester: The historical context of those choices is different, but it's not like Germany having half of its ministries in Bonn and the EU having some of its bureaucracy and the EP in Strasbourg has prevented the radical right from criticising the political project as elitist.
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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Yesterday was the first time since 2022 that progressives have successfully primaried Democratic incumbents. I have a working paper on the "Tea Party of the Left" since Bernie Sanders's 2016 run. Paper is mixed method with candidate interviews and causal analyses papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Tea Party of the Left? Progressive Insurgent Influence in the Democratic Party, 2018-2022
<div> <div> <div> <p></p> <div> <div> <div> <p><span>Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic presidential nomination twice. But his “politica
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Worth reading napinillos.substack.com/p/the-honest...
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The Honest Case for the Humanities
Or: Why I’m Tired of My Colleagues Making Arguments That Only Work on Us
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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats
Screenshot of a website with "The Warehouse" at the top. The user has typed "add interactivity to a ggplot" into the search bar at the top of the website and results below include plotly and ggiraph
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
📢 New article 🌟 👥 Elin Haugsgjerd Allern @allernelin.bsky.social , Maiken Røed @ma1ken.bsky.social and Gunnar Thesen 🔎 Organizational ties to political parties and interest groups’ news coverage 📗 Open Access in European Journal of Political Research doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Amazing the personal risks people will take to preserve archival material www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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The secret mission to rescue the UN’s vital Palestinian refugee archive
Millions of documents chronicling generations of trauma saved from Gaza and East Jerusalem in 10-month Unrwa operation
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/05/2026
All right, this just came across my radar, and it is *brilliant*. You won't find a better or more compact explanation for [waves hands] all of this. This is the skeleton key.
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Susana Tavares @susanadptavares.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Jonas Wiedner @jwied.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Why do some minority groups organize around their ethnicity, while others do not? In a new study just out in AJS @amjsoc.bsky.social (w/@mschaeffer.bsky.social, S. Carol and S. Böller), we crunched data on over 25000 immigrant organizations for an answer. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement" The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...
Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped
the Civil Rights Movement

Omar Wasow∗ Jacob M. Grumbach∗

April 1, 2026

Abstract
What precipitates the collapse of seemingly durable social orders like Jim Crow? During the 1920s, approximately 5,000 “Rosenwald Schools” were built across the rural South through a partnership between philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and Black communities who raised matching funds, donated land, and petitioned local governments. Local elites saw vocational training that would preserve the racial order. We argue Black educators used this accommodationist cover to build veiled capacity: organizational infrastructure for collective action behind a veil
of compliance. Counties with more Rosenwald Schools show greater civil rights protest in the 1960s. Mediation analysis reveals that pre-existing social capital predicted protest through Rosenwald teacher placements, not enrollment. Instrumental variable models suggest the effect is not driven by community selection. Moving from no Rosenwald teachers to the 75th percentile predicts 45% more protest. The political effects of education may depend less on what elites intend than on what educators build where elites cannot see.
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Amanda Sahar d’Urso @asdurso.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
ICYMI my solo article on MENA identity. When MENA Americans aren’t given a “MENA” option on forms, they answer identity-related questions on politics more strongly (eg higher end of the scale) than if“MENA” had been added. Having the group label or not changes the average response!
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 13/03/2026
I wonder if comparative pol people have tested this hypothesis: no country (post 1945) has successfully and peacefully democratized while being treated as a military-strategic adversary of the US
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Brian J. Phillips @brianjphillips.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This is big. The last kingpin. Of Mexico’s biggest cartel- CJNG. Many thought he was already dead. Now he is.
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Yiqing Xu @yiqingxu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
1/ Sorry for double-posting from X. Sharing a new working paper for the Year of the Horce 🐎: "An AI-assisted workflow that scales reproducibility in empirical research" (bit.ly/repro-ai) w/ Leo Yang Yang
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Victor Gay @victorgayeco.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
In a new paper with @evadavoine.bsky.social @enguehard.bsky.social & I. Kolesnikov, we build a historical GIS of a core fiscal institution in early modern France: the gabelle (salt tax). It generated up to 25% of tax revenue and sparked intense popular resistance. 👉 hal.science/hal-05501504 🧵1/7
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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social): We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys. Short version: It mostly doesn’t. w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 11/02/2026
I've been observing academic LinkedIn for a while. Unfortunately I'm not witty enough to write a sarcastic op-ed, so all I can say is posts in academic LinkedIn are so weird
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Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"Switzerland + its stakeholders are recognised worldwide for their integrity + transparency. They are not attractive for illegally acquired assets ... [but] it is likely that there's a high number of unreported cases" - Switzerland's new Anti-Corruption Strategy 🤨 www.news.admin.ch/en/newnsb/sy...
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Federal Council adopts Anti-Corruption Strategy 2026–29
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/02/2026
I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage. The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts. Follow along!
A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top.

The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements:

    Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below.

    Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam.

    Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground.

    Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched.

The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
After a short hiatus, Respect the Marble is back: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/introducin... Introducing a new series The Long Carve: about how to decide which ideas deserves our long-term writing attention, & how we learn to keep writing when the outcome is unknown and uncertain. 🧵
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Introducing The Long Carve: What Deserves Your Four Thousand Weeks?
A series about choosing and staying with one idea long enough for it to change you
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Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🎉 This is now out in the latest @apsrjournal.bsky.social issue with page numbers! We find that modernization and expanding state reach through railroad construction in Europe tended to produce backlash and separatism among peripheral ethnic minorities.
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Fabian Eberhard @fabianeberhard.com · 23/01/2026
Während wir auf Trumps geopolitische Eskapaden blicken, geht unter, was gerade im Inneren der USA geschieht: In Internierungslagern werden Menschen getötet. Der neueste, erschreckende Fall ist der des Familienvaters Geraldo Lunas Campos.
Camp East Montana bei El Paso
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 16/01/2026
#OpenAccess from @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social - The political economy of policy instruments: The Left and collectively governed markets in Germany - cup.org/4qjQnMB - @ndurazzi.bsky.social & Cecilia Ivardi (University of St.Gallen) #FirstView
Logo of the Journal of Public Policy featuring gold text on a black background with the hashtag '#OpenAccess' below the title.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Amidst mass killings and internet shutdowns the Iranian regime has also found a way to jam access to Starlink: restofworld.org/2026/iran-st... @restofworld.org
Starlink terminals rely on GPS signals to locate themselves and connect to satellites. By disrupting these signals, Iranian authorities can render the devices unreliable without touching the satellites themselves.

When Russia tried similar jamming in Ukraine, SpaceX responded within hours with software updates that restored service. So far, no such fix has arrived for Iran. SpaceX has not commented on the disruption.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I also hope it makes clear how important it is to just read the papers you are citing (gasp!), and if necessary to develop the methodological expertise to interpret them sensibly.
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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Some reflections from me on January 6 in comparative and historical perspective (first time on substack) open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...
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January 6 in Historical Perspective
January 6, 2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2026
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Tupac tried to scold y'all
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Victor Gay @victorgayeco.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
There is growing interest in HPE about social conflict in the run-up to the French Revolution. In a new article at Data & Corpus, I describe the Jean Nicolas Database, a database of 8,516 rebellions in France (1661-1789) 👉Article: doi.org/10.46298/dc.... 👉Database: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 🧵1/6
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/12/2025
I think it’s fairly common that somebody raises concerns about selection bias (as a threat to internal validity) but then others read it as a concern about generalizability (i.e., external validity). The former is way more damning for any attempt to make sense of the data.
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Lotem Halevy @lotemhalevy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Selection on the cases with digitized data. Selection on the questions with easily accessible data. What does this do to knowledge production? Here is a great piece that deals with some of these issues. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Taming Abundance: Doing Digital Archival Research (as Political Scientists) | PS: Political Science &amp; Politics | Cambridge Core
Taming Abundance: Doing Digital Archival Research (as Political Scientists) - Volume 55 Issue 3
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Finally completed the 12 part podcast series on Fela Kuti. Well worth it. A complex human being, an amazing artist, a political visionary but also a hugely flawed man. open.spotify.com/show/320MJFB...
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12: Bloodline Covers
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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Enzo Nussio @enzonussio.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I used MEMES as a teaching tool: Students designed memes to capture a core idea of the course readings. The ensuing class discussion often led to new perspectives on the readings, plus students had fun. The course was on State and Violence @ipz.bsky.social University of Zurich A selection:
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Susana Tavares @susanadptavares.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Every academic has one superpower: the ability to turn a five-minute task into a three-month digression
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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NBER @nber.org · 24/11/2025
Studying the logic of state surveillance based on the universe of Italian files finds that states target educated and subaltern groups, with mobilization and radical change potential, from Gemma Dipoppa and Annalisa Pezone www.nber.org/papers/w34492
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Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Apply to join the Transparency International EU (@transparency-eu.bsky.social) team as an Illicit Financial Flows Policy trainee, monitoring anti-corruption and anti-money laundering developments and trends at EU level. Applications due by 7 December 2025 transparency.eu/illicit-fina...
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Illicit Financial Flows Policy - Traineeship - Transparency International EU
Transparency International EU (TI EU) is an international non-profit association under Belgian law (AISBL) based in Brussels (Belgium). We work closely with Transparency International national chapter...
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Philipp Kerler @philipp-kerler.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I'm delighted to announce that my paper "How terrorism affects support for democracy" doi.org/10.1007/s111... is now published in Public Choice. Thanks to all my dear colleagues and friends who supported this project in whatever way over the years.😍🥳🍀
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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Ugly campaigns hurt voter trust. Weak institutions make it worse. New research on negative campaigning in Africa reveals what really undermines democracy. See the data here: goodauthority.org/news/ugly-ne...
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Ugly campaigns hurt voter trust. Weak institutions make it worse.
New research on negative campaigning in Africa reveals what really undermines democracy.
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
www.tagesanzeiger.ch/representati... It's really really frustrating to realize that many economists still don't know that political science exists.
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«Viele Politiker sind kulturell zu weit links für ihre Wähler und wirtschaftlich zu weit rechts»
Die Wählerschaft fühle sich von der Politik schlecht vertreten, sagt Politökonom Laurenz Guenther. Er macht einige radikale Vorschläge.
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The billions of research funds channeled into the pockets of Elsevier and other commercial publisher in return for very little actual value is one of academia's big inefficiencies that will eventually be replaced by more attractive Community-run alternatives
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 14/11/2025
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
A stamped letter saying "Die Wohungsnot Schuld Der Juden"
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