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Volha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Why did poor Southern whites defend slavery, an institution that hurt their economic prospects? In a new Broadstreet post, Michele Rosenberg explains how planter elites used clientelistic relationships and media to capture support. Read here: www.broadstreet.blog/p/identity-p...

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Identity Politics: Economic Incentives, Elite Capture, and Collective Memory

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Volha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Why did Southern whites who didn’t own slaves defend slavery, an institution that hurt their own economic prospects? In a new Broadstreet post, Michele Rosenberg explains how planter elites relied on clientelistic relationships to capture political support: www.broadstreet.blog/publish/post...

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Volha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Looking for rising stars in Historical Political Economy? 🌍📚 Check out this year’s job market candidates: www.broadstreet.blog/p/hpe-candid...

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HPE candidates on the job market

Job market season is here.

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Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Searching in HPE or related fields? Check out these great students/postdocs on the market!

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HPE candidates on the job market

Job market season is here.

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mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Congratulations to the four MIT Political Science faculty members who were included on MIT's summer reading list: Professors Andrea Campbell, @vcharnysh.bsky.social, Fotini Christia and @kathleenthelen.bsky.social! news.mit.edu/2025/summer-... @mit-cis.bsky.social

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Tine Paulsen @tinepaulsen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

‪Interested in “the historical roots of electoral politics” and have a free spot on your Friday afternoon schedule? Come see this fun EPSA panel! Ft. @vcharnysh.bsky.social‬, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, ‪‪@rantuna.bsky.social, Jose Maycas-Sardi, @nilsblossey.bsky.social‬, and Makoto Fukumoto

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Pau Vall-Prat @pauvallprat.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We have a great lineup of papers for the Junior Workshop in HPE. A limited number of spots are available for scholars interested in attending the workshop. Fill this form if you want to join us next June 25 at UC3M forms.gle/DckGoQDfniTU... @tinepaulsen.bsky.social @franvillamil.bsky.social

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Broadstreet Blog @broadstreetblog.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

New Broadstreet post by Peng Peng: Narratives of Imperial China as a meritocracy need a corrective. Using data from Qing dynasty she shows exams didn’t just determine who governed—they created a bureaucracy that was culturally & ideologically unified, raising questions about how we study meritocracy

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The Myth of Meritocracy: How Exams Helped Build an Empire

By Peng Peng (Washington University in St. Louis)

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Volha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Check out this fun new Broadstreet post by @alicirone.bsky.social on trends in crowdsourcing historical data

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/02/2025

"In this theoretically rich, historically nuanced study of post-WWII population transfers, Charnysh offers evidence that will make liberals swoon: where the receiving state is willing to supply public goods, diversity outperforms homogeneity." Uprooted by @vcharnysh.bsky.social cup.org/4hskLQi

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Uprooted

Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Uprooted

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The book isn't going to promote itself, so I will. Here is a New Books Network podcast episode on Intent to Destroy, if you don't have anything better to listen to. Thanks to John Vsetecka for the conversation.

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Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024) - New Books Network

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Volha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

An outstanding HPE workshop in a stunning setting—don't miss the chance to apply! Deadline: Feb 28 🔗 shorturl.at/w96jk

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Taylor Fravel @fravel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Great opportunity!

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Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Check out my new paper w Brenton and Emiel. Just out at World Politics: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Volha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Great opportunity for students working on East Central Europe!

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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Introducing the Centre for Democratic Resilience - world-leading research and educational programmes to understand and promote the resilience of liberal democracy: ow.ly/1sKl50UL7Wn

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Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) @sioecon.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Two days until the deadline! Don't forget!

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Volha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Big thanks to @javiermejiac.bsky.social for an engaging conversation about my new book, Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe. 📖✨ Catch our discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ1lW3EqE8w 📚 Get the book: tinyurl.com/27pwac6v

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Javier Mejia @javiermejiac.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

🎙️ New #EPHPodcast with @vcharnysh.bsky.social! We discussed her work on mass displacement: how post-WWII Poland & West Germany turned diversity & ruptured ties into stronger states and thriving local economies. Plus, idea generation beyond academia. 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/fQ1lW3EqE8w?...

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

On #InternationalMigrantsDay we highlight the struggles of migrants without legal status. ❗ These people are highly vulnerable to labour exploitation & fundamental #rights abuses. 👉 Understanding the rights of those 'outside the law' is complex. Read a blogpost by Clare Fox-Ruhs 📌 loom.ly/FTTA-kc

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Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Call for Papers, it’s free to attend for presenters: Young Scholars Conference 2025 🗓️ May 5-6, 2025 | UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 📊 Theme: History, Social Science, and Digital Methods for Researching China 📝 Abstract by: Jan. 15, 2025 🔗 Submit here: ow.ly/hpe150UsSee 🚩Details: ow.ly/WmPq50UsSef

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Liza Mügge @lizamugge.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The website of my research group Politics of Diversity is online! Scroll and explore our ongoing and completed projects on migration/ethnicity/race, gender/sexuality and intersectionality www.politicsofdiversity.eu

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The projects of Politics of Diversity

In the Politics of Diversity group we study real-world questions on political representation and power, struggles for equality, backlash, oppression and policies. We focus on three dimensions of polit...

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Markus Wagner @markuswagner.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

⚠️ Six-year position at our department - work in lovely Vienna with a friendly team, 2 classes a term, and follow/develop your own research agenda. Feel free to ask me questions you might have. Deadline 24/01/25 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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University Assistant (postdoc)

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Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Book award 🚨! Deadline for the European Pol. & Soc. APSA book award is March 15th. To nominate a book on European Politics please email an electronic copy at cavaille@umich.edu. Committee members: Isabela Mares, @simonhix.bsky.social and myself!

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Evan Lieberman @evlieb.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Following #COP29, critical to understand sources of support, resistance for climate aid to the Global South. Published today in Climatic Change, we highlight that messages about America's historic carbon emissions boost support for climate-related foreign aid... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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How information about historic carbon emissions affects support for climate aid: evidence from a survey experiment - Climatic Change

In recent years, international climate negotiations have reached increasing consensus that the wealthiest countries should make significant financial contributions to offset the damages caused by the ...

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Volha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Ford Madox Ford argued that page 99 reveals a book’s quality. I applied the Page 99 Test to my new book Uprooted at page99test.blogspot.com

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The Page 99 Test

"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford

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Bill Frelick @billfrelick.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Despite joyous images of Syrian refugees going home, no government should be sending or planning to send people back involuntarily. My thoughts on the continuing need for refugee protection at a time of revolutionary change: www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

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As Many Syrian Refugees Return Home, Others Cannot

Despite joyous images of Syrian refugees going home, no government should be sending or planning to send people back involuntarily.

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Evan Lieberman @evlieb.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Congratulations @vcharnysh.bsky.social on the publication of Uprooted!

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Marco Incerti @marcoinbxl.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The European University Institute, one of Europe’s leading academic institutions has landed here. Our X now frozen. Please help us rebuild our community @simonhix.bsky.social @filipkostelka.bsky.social @maartenpvink.bsky.social @tomaashby.bsky.social @valentimvicente.bsky.social #Academicsky #Polsky

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 11/12/2024

Everything about this is perfect: a local Dutch water authority (Hoogheemraadschap De Stichtse Rijnlanden) is still paying €13.61 a year to the bearer of this bond, which was floated to reconstruct a damaged dike in 1624. The bearer is the New York Stock Exchange. www.ft.com/content/5122...

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Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Planning on attending the EPSA conference in June? Consider coming one day before and joining our (w/ @emmylindstam.bsky.social & Joan Ricart-Huguet) one-day workshop on Culture at @iepolisci.bsky.social. Deadline to apply is Feb 15th 2024. More info and submissions at forms.gle/S9id4GsVwokK...

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EPSA Pre-Conference on Culture

We invite submissions for a pre-EPSA workshop on the topic of “Culture”. The event will take place on June 25th, 2025 at IE University Madrid. The study of culture has a long-standing tradition in pol...

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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)

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Raphael Cunha @raphaelcunha.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Fantastic post by @vincentab.bsky.social on the power-money trade-off in sample sizes (with accompanying R code): "...'You need a bigger sample than you can afford.' ... it is crucial to tackle this problem head-on, and integrate cost explicitly in sample size calculations and power analyses."

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Sample Size Calculations in R: Money vs. Power – Vincent Arel-Bundock

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mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

How mass migration remade postwar Europe: Volha Charnysh’s new book examines refugees and state-building in Germany and Poland after World War II, as new residents spurred economic and civic growth. news.mit.edu/2024/how-mas... @vcharnysh.bsky.social

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Mathias Poertner @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/us/universit... A brief summary: 1/n

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 29/11/2024

Every academic right now

A version of the kermit vs darth kermit meme where good kermit tells the online academic that they should grade, while darth kermit tells them they should eat more pie.

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Johan Fourie @johanfourieza.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I made a list of all the economic historians on the economics job market! Help me update the list by tagging those I've missed.

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The #econhist class of 24/25

Examining how war, migration, trade, policy, education and innovation shaped economies and societies over time

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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

With @ginvernizzi.bsky.social, @carloprato.bsky.social and Shigeo Hirano, we're thrilled to announce the inaugural Bocconi-Columbia Conference on Political, Social, and Economic Inequality. 📅 Mark your calendars: June 19-20, 2025 at Bocconi University!

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Sergi Pardos-Prado @sergipardos.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Do radical right parties need to detach themselves from the legacy of right-wing authoritarian regimes to be successful? It would appear not, or not anymore. New work with @anjaneundorf.bsky.social now forthcoming at @thejop.bsky.social. A couple of thoughts 👇

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

#Polisky 🗂️ Call for papers Bocconi University-Columbia Universiy Conference on Political, Social, & Economic Inequality 🔄 Yearly occurring conference, inaugural conference at Bocconi, June 19-20, 2025. 📆 Deadline: December 31, 2024 ℹ️ 500 words abstract form: accounts.google.com/v3/signin/id...

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Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Lots of discussion here and elsewhere about the weight that (would-be) autocrats place on loyalty vs. competence. So, yeah, but there’s so much more to say. @szakonyi.bsky.social has a nice discussion in this Oxford Handbook chapter on authoritarian bureaucracy, just coming online.

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Few people more know more on this topic than Andrei Yakovlev. Tuesday 1:00 PM East Coast - on line and in person. harriman.columbia.edu/event/busine...

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Business-Government Relations in Russia Before and After 2022 | The Harriman Institute

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NBER @nber.org · 25/11/2024

Investigating the existence of racial disparities in the dissemination of ideas using paper citation networks in economics, from Marlène Koffi, Roland Pongou, and Leonard Wantchekon www.nber.org/papers/w33150

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Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Put together a quick starter pack for political methodologists (broadly defined) who have made their way over to BlueSky. If I've missed folks, please let me know! go.bsky.app/JBavA7x

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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Important update on #RomanianPresidentialElections from @grigopop.bsky.social -- second post in the thread has survey data from his work as well.

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Konstantin Sonin @ksonin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Catherine the Great, the Russian Empress in 1762-96 was not that great, actually. With Broadberry and Korchmina's paper forthcoming in JEH in December, there is now Russian GDP series spanning three centuries. See how bad Catherine the Great was, economy-wise.

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Prof. Kai Gehring @kaigehring.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Calling all theoretical and empirical political economy scholars! 📢 Join us in beautiful Riga, Latvia 🇱🇻 for the next EPCS Conference. We also welcome work on related topics like public econ, development or political science. ✍️ #EPCS2025 #PoliticalEconomy #Riga

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