Miriam Golden

As SPS HoD during this ranking period, I’m thrilled with this outcome—it's a testament to the hard work our department has put in to remain at the forefront of political science.

For those interested in the impact of anti-corruption efforts: here are some reflections by Luciano Da Ros and myself about the legacy of Brazil's historic probe a decade after its inception @ConversationUK. theconversation.com/what-remains-o…

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 Voters dislike when politicians engage in corrupt behavior. But how do politicians themselves perceive and judge corruption? My new paper with @RFisman and @mgoldenProf looks at this question. 🧵1/12

@StommesDrew @NiloSiddiqui @ZohaWaseem @WorldDevJournal Thank you so much. That would be great.

@mgoldenProf @NiloSiddiqui @ZohaWaseem @WorldDevJournal Thanks for expressing interest! I’ll send you the paper via email if that’s ok.

I’m delighted to share that my paper coauthored with @NiloSiddiqui and @ZohaWaseem, “Illicit Gains and State Capture: Political Party Extortion in India and Pakistan”, has been accepted for publication at @WorldDevJournal.

Anyone able to help contact the editorial team at @polanalysis? Have been trying to resubmit a slightly late revised article, cannot get Scholar One to allow it, and the email address for the editorial assistant has been out of order for the last 10 days.

@sarahsunnbush @melinaplatas @cps_journal @sarahsunnbush @melinaplatas eager to read this. Fantastic idea, and your findings should give pause to potential users of subjective democracy ratings.

@melinaplatas @cps_journal Does the national identity of experts who assess country performance on democracy matter? Yes! We suggest there are several reasons why: national and non-national experts consume different info, conceive of democracy in different ways, and display in-group-out-group bias. 2/

New article with @melinaplatas published #openaccess @cps_journal: “National Identity and Democracy Ratings” journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11… - here's a short🧵with some of our findings 1/

@ucmerced @UCBerkeley @ArriolaLR @ArriolaLR congratulations! @UCMerced is lucky to have you in this position.

After a national search, Dr. Leonardo Arriola was chosen as the next Dean for the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts. He joins us from @UCBerkeley where he is a Political Science Professor and Director of the Center for African Studies. 🔗ucm.edu/9ont60

Who hates trade? Well, it depends on trade in what.. Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

Congratulations to @eui_sps student Ivetta Sergeeva, winner, 2024 Doctoral Students Award, Nationalism/Migration section, Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) for "Pushing Away the Brain Gain: Effect of Discrimination on Integration of Politically Induced Migrants."

Thank you for being such a constructive member of my group. @EUI_EU benefits hugely from its vibrant visiting and exchange programs.

@VinArceneaux I also signed, because isolating our Israeli colleagues in no way helps to advance peace, to restrain the current Israeli government, or to create conditions for an independent Palestinian state. We should do all we can to protect our colleagues’ academic freedom.

Same! Whatever one thinks about the conflict, boycotting academics punishes individuals for their government’s decisions, is bad for science, and administrative boycotts violate academic freedom.

Dear friends in academia, We are in receipt of an urgent petition against Boycotts of Israeli Academicians which I thought you would wish to sign. It started with scholars from the humanities and social science, but can be signed by academics from other fields as well. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Here’s the description: Statement against the Boycott of Israeli Academics We, scholars from the humanities and social sciences, though not exclusively from these fields, are deeply concerned about the increasing isolation of our academic colleagues in Israel. Calls for boycotts against Israeli academic institutions are not new, but since the brutal attack by Hamas on October 7th and the subsequent Israeli-Hamas War, these calls have taken on a new dimension. On April 12, 2024, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz published an article based on interviews with over 60 Israeli scholars and reported an astonishing range of discriminatory practices. These include the termination of scientific collaborations, cancellation of conference invitations, refusal to consider scholarly submissions to journals, rejections of promotion evaluations, and withdrawal of offers for academic appointments, among other instances.Regardless of how each of us currently analyzes the situation on the ground and evaluates the actions of the Israeli government and army, we want to make clear that we stand against all forms of boycotts targeting Israeli scholars and Israeli academic institutions. We firmly advocate for cooperation and continued work with them. We are also convinced that the gradual, often subtle exclusion of Israeli scholars contradicts fundamental principles of professional comportment and academic freedom. Moreover, an academic boycott against Israel is counterproductive regarding internal Israeli debates as well as Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, as Barak Medina argued in his essay Is it Justified to Boycott Israeli Academia?We strongly believe that international exchange – especially in troubled times like these – is essential for maintaining an open and global academic community. The alarming trend of excluding Israeli scholars from international academic discourse requires unequivocal response on our part. We, the undersigned, call on scholars to stand in solidarity with our Israeli colleagues on this critical issue.Statement AuthorsAnne Rethmann (FU Berlin/Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Daniel Siemens (Newcastle University)Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt University) ------------------ Feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues. Let me just add that, in my opinion, the statement is too mild. The next statement to sign is one calling for doubling down on our Israel-collaboration efforts. Thanks Judea Computer Science and statistics @yudapearl

@fr_jensenius @SITEStockholm @ProfAnanish @NRInstitute @maits225 Wish I could be there! Do not see the paper online and am eager to receive it.

If you happen to be in Stockholm on Tuesday, please join at @SITEStockholm for a discussion of work in progress on India about possible trade-offs in "politician quality." This is part of a larger collaboration with @ProfAnanish @NRInstitute @maits225 hhs.se/en/about-us/ca…

Such an exhilarating experience to learn DeclareDesign from @maqartan! And a valuable research tool for multiple reasons.

We just posted an exciting role on our #UCLA team for an early- or mid-career researcher who wants to design and conduct policy-relevant research with administrative data in California. Please share with your networks: capolicylab.org/careers/resear… #JobAlert #EconTwitter #economics

How can political scientists engaged in contemporary research in the global South dialogue effectively with historical researchers? Some preliminary proposals: Dialogues Across Time: Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Democratization academic.oup.com/psq/article-ab…

📅 This Wed, Feb 21st, at 4:30pm CET, I'm thrilled to invite you to @AshElshehawy's presentation on 'Digital Politics and Foreign Interventions: A Natural Language Processing Approach' as part of the CIVICA Data Science seminar series. 👉 Register free: socialdatascience.network/spring2024/ses…

@Manoel_Gehrke @HaughtonTim @Fromagehomme Congratulations @Manoel_Gehrke on a fabulous and important study.

Many thanks to those of you whose great work was an inspiration [we have a long list of references] and to those who provided feedback and encouragement, including @mgoldenProf, @HaughtonTim and @Fromagehomme. #article" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Why are politicians more likely to be prosecuted and convicted for corruption in some contexts rather than in others? Take a look at our paper, recently published in @govandopp: #article" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cambridge.org/core/journals/…🧶

@tara_slough @kopalo Totally agree with @kopalo. It’s an inspiring piece of work.

@kopalo Thank you, you are too kind!

This is one of those excellent papers that should become an instant classic. Great question. Clear conceptual framework. Solid empirics. Congratulations @tara_slough!