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PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Now on FirstView ft. @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social, Gemma Mateo & @andduer.bsky.social! "We found that Members of Congress had a 22-percentage-point higher probability of using a national-security narrative compared to members of the executive branch." doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky

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Robert A. Huber @robert-a-huber.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Why is trade framed in terms of national security? An exciting new paper by @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social, Gemma Mateo and @andduer.bsky.social in @pspolisci.bsky.social explores how US trade policy is shaped by national security. The evidence suggests that security frames are used strategically.

Title and abstract of paper.
Title: "Who Drives the Security Narrative in US Trade Policy?"
Abstract: "Appeals to national security play a central role in contemporary US trade politics. Who drives this security narrative and why? We argue that executive branch actors, regardless of political party affiliation, are more likely to frame trade policy in national-security terms. In Congress, however, we expect Republicans to rely more heavily than Democrats on a national-security narrative. We tested these expectations through a systematic analysis of trade-related discourse by congressional and executive actors from 2001 to early 2025. Using a large language model to examine a substantial corpus of speeches, press releases, and official statements, we find only partial support for our argument: the anticipated partisan difference appears, but security framing is more prevalent in Congress than in the executive branch. Overall, the evidence suggests that actors use security framing as a strategic tool to reinforce their role and confer legitimacy on particular trade policies."

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Mehmet Yavuz @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I am very happy to share that our open-access article with Gemma Mateo and Andreas Dür (@andduer.bsky.social) “Who Drives the Security Narrative in US Trade Policy?”, is now published in PS: Political Science & Politics (@pspolisci.bsky.social).

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Liliia Sablina @liliiasablina.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

1/ So happy that my article “Disinformation as repression signaling: the cost of dissent in Russia” is out in @ersjournal.com! I show how autocrats use disinformation as part of the transnational digital repression toolkit to signal their capacity to repress. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Disinformation as repression signaling: the cost of dissent in Russia

Despite growing research on transnational digital repression (TDR), the role of disinformation in targeting extraterritorial populations remains underconceptualized. This article addresses this gap...

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Moritz Marbach @moritz-marbach.com · 27/02/2026

🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇

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Mehmet Yavuz @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Consider applying if you are working on contestations of the liberal international order. The deadline for submissions is March 1!

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Andreas Dür @andduer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Call for Papers for a workshop on Contesting the Liberal International Order: Elites and Public Opinion" at the University of Salzburg, Austria, September 21-22, 2026. Call: drive.google.com/file/d/1LB67... Paper submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Call for Papers_Geotrade2.pdf

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AUTHLIB @authlibeu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Dean Schafer @schaferd.bsky.social @msstate.bsky.social tracked varieties of party positions through a word embedding approach.

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AUTHLIB @authlibeu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

@erinjenne.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social and @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social (University of Salzburg) discussed how populism and nationalism shows up in National Security Strategies.

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Felix Wiebrecht @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New Working Paper 🚨 I am introducing the new dataset on Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR). It includes information on the composition of parliaments in 819 legislative terms in 130 autocracies from 1945 - based on over 200k individual-level observations. tinyurl.com/48h68hmh

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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

📺In China, "Topical Debate Programs" bring officials, experts & citizens together to air concerns. ➡️J Chen, Y Wang, M Zhang & X Zhou show these programs boost trust in local government and deliberation can matter even with controlled agendas www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Excited for this! If you work on democracy or representation in multilevel Europe, sign up via your MyECPR account! @ecpr.bsky.social

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 23/09/2025

We want to thank the @fwf-at.bsky.social, @erc.europa.eu, and @ecprsgir.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social for their support. We thank all paper givers and other participants for their time and effort. We hope that this workshop will leave a mark on all papers presented. Thank you for joining us! 🧵3/4

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 23/09/2025

We had 12 papers, collectively authored by researchers from around 20 universities at different career stages and from across the globe. We were also very fortunate to welcome a stellar group of participants without papers. Clearly, LLMs are on many political scientists’ minds these days. 🧵2/4

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 23/09/2025

Last Friday (Sept. 19), @andduer.bsky.social, @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social and I had the great pleasure of hosting an excellent workshop at @unisalzburg.bsky.social on how to use Large Language Models #LLMs to boost International Relations research. A short 🧵1/4

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POP @populismblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

New post for POP 📢 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗔𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 is a great resource for teaching and learning 🔥 It was a pleasure to publish this article written by the editors of this amazing project @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & @cerpintaxt.bsky.social us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/po...

Mehmet Yavuz @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Excited to announce the publication of my article in Comparative Political Studies on how crises shape the ideological legitimation strategies of authoritarian regimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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