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🌎 Admissions are still open for the MSc & MPhil in Latin American Studies at Oxford. One year or two. Interdisciplinary. Research-driven. World-class. Is this your next step? 🔗 lac.ox.ac.uk #LatinAmericanStudies #Oxford #PostgradStudy

Happy Sunday ☀️ New in Legislative Studies Quarterly: "Divergent Position Taking Under Uncertainty With an Application to Chile's 2021–2022 Constituent Convention" by Jorge Fabrega (@UDD_cl @Princeton) and John Londregan (@UDD_cl @Princeton) 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

In a new #InsiderInterview, produced in partnership with @berggruenInst, @MIT's @DAcemogluMIT and @Harvard's Michael J. Sandel discuss the breakdown of civic life and the need to restore trust in public institutions. project-syndicate.org/onpoint/saving…

CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED! The deadline to submit an abstract for the upcoming conference on "AI-Driven Modeling and Forecasting for Democratic Development and Decline" (AIM4D) has been extended to March 16! Learn more: go.nd.edu/b40b88

@gdilandro @NuffieldCollege @UniofOxford Congrats!!

Me alegra compartir que comienzo una nueva etapa como investigador postdoctoral en la Universidad de Oxford @NuffieldCollege @UniofOxford!

The slide from democracy to authoritarianism is often subtle, gradual, and driven from within. The newly launched Tyranny Tracker is a sophisticated tool for classifying political regimes across the spectrum. journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusi…

Join us Feb 26-27 for @UTAustin's renowned public law conference, focused this year on how #courts navigate #democracy and headlined by Lee Epstein. Now in its 11th year, the event is led by #PublicLaw PhD students in the @UTGovernment. Read more at tinyurl.com/3cytdmax.

New from the CCP 🚨 Giovanni Sartori told political scientists to take their vocabulary seriously. Now there's a tool for that. sartori.network lets you explore how 10 research teams across law and political science define and connect 2,010 concepts.

"A Rich Woman's World? Wealth and Gendered Paths to Office" by Rachel Bernhard (@NuffieldCollege), @aeggers (@UChicago), and Marko Klašnja (@Georgetown) is available to read now at the link below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

When a democratically elected president acts undemocratically, how do you hold him accountable? muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Elected leaders across the globe are intentionally undermining their governments’ ability to govern. How and why do these leaders seek to dismantle the states they lead? muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

📢 Call for Submissions: UK-based early career researchers in political science, political economy & public policy: apply to our January Early Career Workshop at LSE Government. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Dec 2025 🔗 forms.gle/HXU4DnBq9HmXPi…

@egocantos Congrats!!

En este paper miramos si los argentinos que se identifican con agrupaciones políticas: estereotipan a sus rivales como autoritarios; tienen reacciones emocionales + fuertes frente a la victoria/derrota; y evidencian compromisos democráticos más endebles. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Paper recomendado!!👇👇👇

🗳️ New on ICONnect: "The People Said NO: Now What?" Ecuadorians rejected President Noboa's referendum to replace the constitution. @PatySValarezo analyzes what this means for the Constitutional Court iconnectblog.com/the-people-sai… #Ecuador #ConstitutionalLaw #ICONS

The new Comparative Constitutions Project website is now live! We're also releasing version 5.0 of our Constitutional Chronology and Constitutional Characteristics datasets, updated through 2023. Explore and download: comparativeconstitutionsproject.org

@mjavierrod Es estadisticamente signicativa la caída inter elección del voto correista? Se repite el mismo patrón en el resto de ciudades/distritos?

Creo q el titular más importante no es q perdió, sino q perdió en todas partes POR IGUAL. ¿Por qué eso es lo más notable? Pq en ECU hay 2 patrones dominantes: (1) ascenso rápido y sostenido del voto no-correísta y (2) descenso lento pero sostenido del voto correísta 1/5

Acaba de publicarse la nueva edición de la International Review of Constitutional Reform, editada por @RichardAlbert y @LRobertoBarroso. Con @pvkastner escribimos el capítulo sobre #Ecuador 2024 🇪🇨 y sus reformas constitucionales. Link 👉: shorturl.at/JYh7e

📢 📘Hoy se publicó el International Review of Constitutional Reform 2024, editado por los profesores @RichardAlbert y @LRobertoBarroso. En él se recoge el capítulo de #Ecuador que escribimos con @JLCastroMont. 👀👉👉Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@ArtabeEugenia @BadasTweets @PRQjournal Congrats!!

The paper “The Partisan Foundations of Attitudes Towards State Supreme Courts," that I co-authored with @BadasTweets and Lucia Lopez, is now available online at Political Research Quarterly (@PRQjournal).