@meraymaddah
PoliSci PhD Candidate @ University of Konstanz Doctoral Researcher in "International Politics of National Legislators" political elite behavior | international parliamentary assemblies/IOs | representation | hybrid regimes Own views
"How do authoritarian actors navigate the liberal international order, adopting democratic facades without committing to democratic principles?"
Federico Salvati engages with this question in our latest issue! Out now, and #OpenAccess
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Women’s participation in skills training Pakistan is constrained primarily by social and safety barriers, rather than preferences or the ability to monetise skills.
Read today's article to learn more:
We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds!
You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/
It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below.
The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.
Homer Simpson hugging a rotten sandwich
IR Realists saying farewell to the Rational Actor Assumption
BJPolS abstract on citizen-led democratic innovations, focusing on challenges faced by modern democracies and the importance of including citizens in decision-making processes.
From November 2025 -
Are Democratic Innovations Legitimate to the Broader Public? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Ghana - https://cup.org/47DOSRd
- Eric Kramon
#OpenAccess
Research article titled "Wording Matters: Support for Women's Reproductive Policies in the US" by Michael A. Hansen.
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
In "Wording Matters" @michaelhansenphd.bsky.social employs a survey experiment to test the effect of different frames on support for women's reproductive rights.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
polisky gendersky
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New strategies to catch LLM powered bots in panel surveys www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Compelling! The production/reception gap raises scope conditions Qs: curious if effectiveness varies by coalition status/speaker seniority/or media environment and if the gendered interpretation patterns others found extend particularly to partisan conflict signaling? Great multimodal contribution
Congratulations!! @na-wehl.bsky.social
Currently in FirstView: In “Meaning Beyond Numbers: Introducing the Plot Staircase to Measure Graphical Preferences,” @talbotmandrews.bsky.social, Justin Curl, and Markus Prior examine how visual characteristics influence preferences. They find that people prefer increasing trends.
‼️ Two weeks left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP project 👇.
Beyond proud to see this piece with @simonotjes.bsky.social published. In the article, we quantitatively assess what drives the size of parliamentary administrations. We find that staff size reflects assembly size, population size and parliamentary power.
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New article out today in @iojournal.bsky.social that tackles a pressing question: As the US retreats from democracy promotion, will autocracies abandon liberal norms and return to overt repression? Our @danieladonno.bsky.social Jon Pevehouse and @cjschneider.bsky.social answer: not so fast.🧵1/
Several recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question rdcu.be/eQGm4
Excited to share the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social featuring research on WPS, gender and diplomacy, feminist foreign policy, and UNSCR 1325.
All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Gendersky Polisky
and @uni-konstanz.de is one of them 🙌
Deadline: 9 Jan, 2026 | 11:00 AM (CET)
"Underpinning a current of WPS activism and scholarship is a radical conceptualisation of feminist peace rooted in anti-militarism, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism."
Check out Hannah Wright & Columba Achilleos-Sarll's article in our latest issue!
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🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
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Screenshot of a UNSCR debate saying "The President: I now give the floor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Education, and Sport of the Principality of Liechtenstein."
Small states with their interesting combinations of policy fields 😅
Late to the party. New publication with Axel Bayer in the International Political Science Review about political interactions of MPs in Zambia that switched their party affiliation. doi.org/10.1177/0192...
The Pardee Institute's Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) dataset is freely available to use and a great resource for studying global patterns of diplomacy: korbel.du.edu/pardee/count...
theloop.ecpr.eu/world-leader...
From 🇩🇪 Merz’s sprint through Paris, Warsaw & Brussels to 🇮🇳 Modi’s Maldives visit & 🇺🇸 Trump’s Riyadh debut, inaugural trips reveal:
- Regional alliances
- Religious symbolism (🇵🇱→Vatican)
- Strategic pivots (🇮🇱→Jordan, 🇺🇸→Saudi Arabia)
- Global South leaders favor neighbors, not former colonizers.
🚨 New piece for @ecpr.bsky.social's @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — @maxheermann.bsky.social & I map trips of world leaders using @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social's COLT of over 78K+ foreign trips by heads of state and gov from 1990-2023.
Reference: bsky.app/profile/jose...
(2) Remember the rapid early trips of "Außenkanzler" Friedrich Merz? In a blog post for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social, @meraymaddah.bsky.social and I explore a rich new dataset on diplomatic travels to analyse where state leaders go for their inaugural foreign visits.
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🌐 World leaders' first foreign trips reveal more than diplomatic protocol - they are carefully crafted political stories.
✈️ @meraymaddah.bsky.social and @maxheermann.bsky.social analyse inaugural diplomatic journeys to uncover stability and change in global networks
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BJPolS abstract discussing how authoritarian regimes use legislative institutions to cope with economic and policy challenges, using the example of Kuwait's National Assembly and collaborative policy mechanisms.
From May 2025 -
Legislative Cooptation in Authoritarian Regimes: Policy Cooperation in the Kuwait National Assembly - cup.org/4iVKa4R
- @danieltavana.bsky.social & Erin York
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📢📢📢 CfP: What is a Parliament?
***Hurry! Deadline is this Friday!***
Interdisciplinary workshop on 19th September 2025 in London.
Full details below.
Kindly sponsored by Birkbeck, the University of Birmingham and
@psa-parliaments.bsky.social
Please apply and/or spread the word!
How are the classic social identities (urban-rural, education, etc. ) and perceptions about those groups related to a persons own European and national identity? Read it here (in fantastic company) in print
And here it is: introducing the European Political Science Society EPSS!
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Follow @epssnet.bsky.social on bsky, visit its website www.epssnet.org, and become a member!
🏳️🌈This Pride Month, we are proud to support an initiative that challenges the systemic invisibility in data.
Representation isn’t optional — it drives equity and action.
When entire communities are erased from datasets, injustice gets coded in.
We’re working to change that.