Allan Sikk
@allansikk
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Parties, candidates, elections, democracy. Data, visualisation. Europe, UK. @UCLSSEES. https://t.co/ROQ4pRiqye Co-PI on https://t.co/KPjIwu1Xqr
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Joined May 2010
Publication day🚨Parties and party systems change and so must our understanding of them. "Party People" with @PhilippKoeker (@OUPPolitics, @ECPR, @ECPR_SG_Parties) out now as📖, soon to follow on Oxford Scholarship Online💻#partypeople #evolution #candidates #parties
We (@allansikk & @PhilippKoeker) are excited about the release of our book Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution with @OUPPolitics on 19 October. https://t.co/ys0b48GbIh
@ECPR_SG_Parties @ECPR #candidates #parties #partypeople #evolution 1/3
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Excited to share INSTAPARTY project paper co-authored w Raimondas Ibenskas, Paulina Sałek-Lipcean & Sona Golder in Legislative Studies Quarterly: Independents in Parliament: Temporary Status or Final Destination? https://t.co/lsO9yn7GMP
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Political parties are essential for structuring parliamentary decision-making in democracies. However, in some countries, as many as 10% of legislators experience spells outside of parliamentary...
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Join the Annual Lithuanian Political Science Conference “The Year of Elections: Lithuania, Europe, the World” on December 5-6 at IIRPS VU (Vokiečių str. 10, Vilnius)! Keynote speakers: Prof. Allan Sikk and Prof. Jan Claas Behrends. Find more information in the link below:
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Honoured and excited to be invited to give a keynote speech about political parties and their people at the Annual Lithuanian Political Science Conference next week. Looking forward to wintry Vilnius! 🙂
The #AnnualConference is next week! 📢 Don’t miss exciting keynotes, engaging panels on elections and other no less relevant political science themes + a discussion between researchers and Lithuanian MPs. 👉 Check out the full programme here: https://t.co/AUgwdvKnAu
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Out in Feb 2025 with @HurstPublishers my new book tells a story of the making and unmaking of Kazakhstani identity. It also features a long overdue chapter on December 1986 protests & my decade-long archival search for the lost bits of colonial history https://t.co/ROibXRt4BI
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Call for applications for visiting fellows: “Subjectivities of Owning Land: Land Redistribution and the Nation-State in the Baltics Across the 20th Century” with @LeibnizHI @unibirmingham and @mob_herne. See below for details...
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This is an outstandingly good thread. It's heartening to know that the author of it is on the Defence Select Committee.
There is a lot going on in the news at the moment, but there is a story that is consistently being underreported: Russia. A 🧵 (potentially with 🖍️)
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Do changes in a party's leadership personnel matter for party policy? In this new article (🚨) in Party Politics, Wolfgang C. Müller and I show that new people in the main party executive introduce change in issue emphasis.🧵 🔓Open access: https://t.co/ZrIMACyDBE
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Why did attitudes towards racial mixing changed around early 1930s in Estonia? Brace yourself for a scandalous love story (on many levels!) and global connections in my article for the Estonian cultural monthly Vikerkaar
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We are pleased to invite you to the 2024 SSEES Postgraduate Conference, with keynotes by @brik_t of @kse_ua and @MLevitanus of @UoECounsandPsyc. 🗓️ 04-05 November 2024 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ https://t.co/mpzPnGSHI1
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📊Do you want to estimate the transfer of votes between parties from one election to another? ➡️@JoseMPavia & @SoerenRT introduce a new ecological inference technique: ecolRxC https://t.co/leoE0Xv8J7
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Beyond excited to see my amazing co-author @ProfLizJEvans's and my book Disability and Political Representation in the flesh! Thank you to all the disabled politicians and representatives of Disabled People's Orgs who shared their experiences with us over the past 5 years. [1/2]
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Baltic Sexualities in Global Perspective is next week! We have brilliant papers, a keynote from Riikka Taavetti, and a roundtable on transnational approaches to sexualities with @NikolaosPapado7, Richard Mole, Kath Browne & Yulia Gradskova. Register here https://t.co/2I3RKhm9lE
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Are you interested in parliaments, political careers, and in opportunities for and resistances to greater diversity in pol. institutions?📑 Then there is a workshop for you at the ECPR Joint Sessions, sponsored by @SG_Parliaments & hosted by @RMuriaas & @CoffeHilde! 💫 info in🧵
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I'm going to share some graphs that dig a bit into what we can make of Moldova's first round of presidential elections and the EU referendum. I'm not going to consider the diaspora and only take voters within Moldova. I'm also going to present vote shares by region.
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Moldova, EU membership referendum: 99.5% counted Against: 50% In favour: 50% ➤ https://t.co/gxBwuJxOy7
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À fire alarm delayed Baltic independence by a week. But it was a real pleasure yesterday to have @parispychen (@unibirmingham, f: @UCLSSEES PhD) with us for another week of Baltic Politics & Society seminars! Always great to chat in Estonian with my Taiwanese friend, too. 🙂
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US election forecasts! 🇺🇸 Delighted to see the PS special issue (19 articles) available online. I’m grateful to my co-editor, @p_mongrain, the contributors, reviewers, & the PS editorial team for their dedication to this project. @pol4casting @MizzouTSGPA
**NOW ONLINE** PS's Special Issue on #Forecasting the 2024 US #Elections is up & free to read! Check it out: https://t.co/9BHKKqyRx8
#Election2024 #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump #vote #forecast **Image made w photos from Getty by Scott Olson, Justin Sullivan & Brendan Smialowski
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