"A la cumbre asistieron...Javier Milei, ...Daniel Noboa...Nayib Bukele...También acudieron los presidentes de Bolivia, Costa Rica, República Dominicana, Honduras, Panamá, Paraguay, Guyana y Trinidad y Tobago, así como al presidente electo de Chile, José Antonio Kast."
Trump to Latin American leaders: "I'm not learning your damn language. I don't have time."
🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
Congratulations!
Our article is out in @thejop.bsky.social with @marchooghe.bsky.social and Michael Lewis-Beck
Using 2019 Belgian election data, we show that economic voting is multidimensional-and that different dimensions vary across regional economic context!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Delighted to see our article out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social! Right on time to make a contribution to the debate on the @ec.europa.eu's new initiative to reform its Better Regulation policy. Open access & part of @erc.europa.eu ERC project CONSULTATIONEFFECTS.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🏆Nominations are open for the £4,300 Stein Rokkan Prize
✨ Mark this #InternationalWomensDay by nominating outstanding work by women in comparative social sciences 📚️
🎙️ Presented with @sciencecouncil.bsky.social & @sampol.bsky.social
⏳ Nominate by Fri 1 May
#IWD2026
The United States and Venezuela agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations in a major shift in a historically adversarial relationship, the State Department said on Thursday.
El tiempo vuela! Solo falta un mes para el cierre clave del XIII Congreso ALACIP - Arg
Fechas:
- 03.04: Envío de resúmenes
- 10.04: Presentación de paneles cerrados y mesas redondas.
- 22.05: Último día para inscripción temprana
En la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella del 21 al 24 de julio de 2026
This is a great book by Levitsky & Way which Trump, Hegseth & Rubio should have read before attacking Iran. It argues that dictatorships born of social revolution - such as Iran - are exceptionally durable. It is wishful thinking that the Iranian regime evaporates after a short bombing campaign
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📣 CFP | Populist World Order Narratives, Hamburg, 24 to 25 Sept 2026.
I am organizing a workshop on #populism and #WorldOrder narratives as part of our WONAGO project. Submit your abstract by 31 May 2026. Travel and accommodation funding available.
Please circulate widely.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In #Bergen on March 4?
Join Hilmar Mjelde, Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, @leivm.bsky.social and Kai Grieg in a discussion about what comes next in #Venezuela.
Organized by UN Students Bergen, Kabinettet, and #LAGHøyden.
📢 New article 🌟
👤 Alexander Verdoes
👉 District expectations and strategic defection in two-tiered proportional systems: The case of the 2021 Norwegian election
📗 Electoral Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election
apnews.com/article/hung...
NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
Our PopGov project is live! 📣
We’re recruiting 3 Postdocs at @UCLouvain! 🌍 Help us to disseminate the call! 🙏
The Norwegian government's Birth Rate Commission has handed its report to Minister of Children & Families Lene Vågslid. The report highlights our 'Taxing #Reproduction' research.
Norwegian report:
www.regjeringen.no/en/documents...
'Taxing Reproduction':
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Drug cartel roadblocks paralyze Guadalajara; Businesses, transportation and activities are suspended www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/est...
@emeequis.bsky.social tiene una buena visión general de cómo se informa sobre este evento en los EE. UU. y Europa.
I am extremely honored, and equally perplexed, that my book has received the Stein Rokkan Prize.
Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with this project along the way. So much of the book is the result of feedback by kind people who took the time to listen and read. Thank you.
❓ @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social and @sergiulipcean.bsky.social ask: If the European Commission consults more stakeholders, are its proposals less likely to be changed by legislators?
✅ Bottom line: Yes, but it depends
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations to Yvette Peters and Jana Belschner on receiving funding from the Research Council of Norway for the project Beyond Discrimination: Addressing Structural Challenges to Gender Equality in the Social Sciences!
In light of the European Commission's decision to reform (again!) its Better Regulation and public participation procedures, Steve Balla and I wrote a short piece on the erosion of public comment in the EU and the US. @regstudies.bsky.social
regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu/no-further-c...
Sampol seminar today with Professor Paul Marx, Universität Bonn, presenting on “Conservatives in conversations. A focus-group study on polarization, cultural backlash, and pluralistic ignorance in political talk”. Thanks for visiting and for an interesting presentation!
🏆 Warm congratulations to @valentimvicente on receiving the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research for his book "The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand".
https://council.science/news/vicente-valentim-wins-2025-stein-rokkan-prize/
Well, this is a bit of a plot twist.
Venezuela: del gringo go home al gringo come home.
elpais.com/america/2026...
