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A reassessment of Quentin Skinner's classic paper on its 50th anniversary, drawn from a @britishacademy.bsky.social conference - Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond, edited by @adrianblau.bsky.social & open access at www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
The submission deadline for the King's Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy is approaching (March 10). Submit your paper!
No registration fee, and we *do have* a few travel grants available for participants from outside of London.
We've published a free e-book celebrating the 50th anniversary of Quentin Skinner's seminal essay 'Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas' including his own reflections on the contributions
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
About half the time Iβm cited, even by scholars I respect, I donβt make the argument attributed to me. βΉοΈ
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Brave New World Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2026 at Mancept @uompols.bsky.social
Call for papers:
#CfA: Call for Applications fΓΌr bis zu zwei Post-Doc Fellowships im research program "Turning Points: Normative Orders in Transition?". Thema des Jahres 2026/27 ist "The Global Order in Transition". Bewerbungsschluss ist am 15. MΓ€rz 2026. π
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While you're all messing around on Bluesky: I have a new working paper on the Gallagher index, the most common measure of disproportionality.
TL;DR: I show that it is constrained by the size of the party system, which can cause problems comparing elections across time and space.
Statement from Matt Goodwin, Reform UK candidate: βGiven the reports we are reading in UK media about family voting and sectarianism, I am deeply concerned about the extent to which the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election is a free, fair, and democratic election.β
Twatt Badloser soiling his reputation even further with this anti-democratic accusation. Goodbye, good riddance - anything but Goodwin.
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CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN
International Politics/(Un)Ethical Worlds: Morality, Power, Resistance and the Aesthetics of Politics in Dark Times.
20th-21st July 2026 βIn-Person @standrewsir.bsky.social
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- Dr. SeΓ‘n Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social
- Dr. James Souter
Call closes: 20th April 2026
Ukrainian veterans facing Amsterdam crowds with mirrors saying THIS IS WHO WE PROTECT
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I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
(I think it wasnβt to warn Cassian Andor, who most people didnβt know was there. Rather, it was to warn everyone: Imperial soldiers/stranger danger. Of course, your main point is right.)
Ilia State University Deputy Rector Prof. Giorgi Gvalia says Georgian Dreamβs new education policy will strip the university of up to 90% of its programs and students. Popular fields like law, psychology, international relations, and business would effectively be eliminated.
Day 443 of daily, uninterrupted protests in Georgia.
This is genius!
π’ Call for papers!
We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at Kingβs College London!
Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)
No fee, travel grants might become available!
Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026
Likewise, at least for Skinner (who I've just edited a book on).
Still, I am conscious of how much just 2 years of SPS at Cambridge warped my understanding of political theory and political science in some important respects. It genuinely took me years to recover!
I was told in Cambridge that Geuss is OK with his caricatures. Apparently he calls himself an "intellectual terrorist" who will do whatever he can to undermine Rawls/Rawlsianism. I don't know if this is true.
(Let's not forget his feeble response when his Habermas caricatures were called out.)
Absolutely, 100% agree. And I would add that Dunn, Geuss and Skinner also oppose liberalism. When this intersects with political philosophy (Dworkin, Rawls, etc.), they seem willing to use any stick with which to beat their opponents.
(Obviously, Skinner has left Cambridge!)
Definitely.
Dunn, Geuss, Skinner - all do this. Their referencing is invisible (Dunn, Geuss) or incorrect (Skinner).
I made this argument in Cambridge; it did not go down well.
(One exception is Geussβs 2003 critique of Rawls, which was much better.)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I once defended Rawls against someone who had been in Cambridge for 10 years for undergraduate, Masters and PhD, and he had never heard any of my defences before. (Iβm not a Rawlsian.) I remember similar caricaturing when I was an undergraduate at Cambridge. Itβs embarrassing - a collective failure.
It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
