Daniel Kovarek

Why do we like local politicians? Fielding survey experiments in 🇭🇺, I find that localness serves as a cue for 🐷 pork barrel politics, but not for 💰 clientelism. New Open Access 🔓 paper based on my dissertation research is out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

💡Now temporarily #FREE: 'Elite defection and opposition realignment in #Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (#TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections' by @kovarekd (@EUI_Schuman) doi.org/10.1080/215991… - @AdamFagan24 @kopeckydvorec @LBustikova @AndreaPirro

🚨my new paper is out in @EEPolitics on #TISZA, 🇭🇺 #Hungary's new centrist anti-establishment opposition party, currently leading the polls 📊 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Post-Doctoral Position in Quantitative Political Science Methods #ECPRMemberJobs 🎓 Degree in political science or similar discipline required ⏰ 24-month contract 🇩🇪 Leibniz University Hannover ⌛ Saturday 15 February uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/759…

🚨 LSE Postdoc Fellow in Political Behaviour 🚨 We're hiring a 2-3 year postdoc fellow at the LSE to join our great team @LSEGovernment! Please spread the word and reach out with questions! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/68…

1/5 Thrilled to share my first PhD research publication in @Gov_Journal! I propose 'hybrid appointments' framework challenging merit-patronage dichotomy + first empirical study of @Kurdistan top civil servants: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/go…

📢Call for Special Issue Proposals 2025📢👇

📢New issue of #PAG20 is out!📢 @hamelpolisci & @nmbauer investigate the link between gendered issue types and successful credit claiming in "Gender, Issue Stereotypes, and the Electoral Returns to Distributive Politics in the United States" buff.ly/40RBbvI

🚨🚨Hiring! One postdoctoral position in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid. Application deadline: end of February. Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications and fun.

🚨 Happy to see one of my PhD papers out at JEPOP 📚 I examine whether MPs' attention to local issues in parliamentary activities affects their re-election chances in party-centred contexts tandfonline.com/eprint/G2HVG3I… Ungated version here: eavigano.github.io/papers/jepop1.…

📚 The volume co-edited by our @OSUNForum conveners Kirk A. Hawkins and @littvay provides a series of specific predictions about the distinct impact of populist ideas. Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/3buw5wr8

Very happy to co-organize with @halikiopoulou and @FES_Democracy the Democratic Expeditions Workshop this September in Budapest at @CEUDemInst We’re looking for comparative studies of the far-right in Latin America and Europe Proposals welcome here: democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP-d…

@Ameni_Meh @littvay @williamandmary @MiddleEast_HKS @Kennedy_School yay, congrats!! 🎉👏

#Jobmarket update. After several interviews and flyout invitations, I am excited to share that I will be joining the Department of Government at @williamandmary as Assistant Professor this fall. I am incredibly grateful to the support I got from @MiddleEast_HKS @Kennedy_School

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a FAPESP fellowship as part of a research project in partnership with KU Leuven. Project "Street-level bureaucrats in the eye of the populist storm? Lessons from Municipal Transitions of Power." More info: neburocracia.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

From our new issue: "Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism" by Mai Hassan (@MaiOHassan), Horacio Larreguy, and Stuart Russell. #ASPRNewIssue. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Job announcement: Junior Professorship in Computational Social Science at the University of Konstanz. Join us at the Center for Data and Methods! Feel free to reach out if you have questions. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2af…

🚀 Just launched the {metatargetr} 📦 website with exciting updates! Now you can retrieve historical targeting & report data from the Meta Ad Library 📊 powered by an archive I built since Meta only provides recent data. Check it out here: favstats.github.io/metatargetr/ #rstats

New study: An analysis of 400 occupations found that taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest proportion of deaths from Alzheimer’s—raising the possibility that constant stimulation of the hippocampus, used for navigational and spatial processing, might be protective