Our article on legislative cooptation and opposition in the Kuwait National Assembly is finally out at @BJPolS! Check out the quoted thread for a discussion of our key findings. Link: https://t.co/oJ8oxggsLM

AGAPS has sponsored three panels at this year's annual MESA meeting. Check them out if you are in DC!

AGAPS is proud to present three films at the MESA Filmfest - details below!

If you are attending MESA this weekend, please attend the AGAPS business meeting on Saturday (tomorrow) at 1pm ET in Meeting Room 3!

🚨 To what extent is the American public willing to hold incumbents accountable amid incremental erosion of democracy? What strategic sequence of democratic backsliding may harm voter accountability? I answer these questions in this new paper at @BJPolS. https://t.co/vlzRIwTp7d

The University of Manchester and the University of Sharjah are hosting "Islamic Feminism: Hermeneutics and Activism" on Wednesday, November 26 with Dr. Mulki Al-Sharmani. Register to attend below! https://t.co/LExMBmpMJK

It’s been years of collaboration, hard work, and innovation — and we’re excited to share our software with you finally!

Penn State Political Science is launching a new Semester in Washington program and we’re hiring a full-time on-site coordinator for the program, based permanently in Washington, D.C.

Motivations behind high-level visits differ between great and small powers. My paper, which has page numbers now, examines Jordan’s high-level visits (1989–2023) to understand motivations of small powers. for limited complimentary e-copies, https://t.co/POFbuJoOSU

The Autocratic Voter by Natalie Wenzell Letsa Provides a social identity framework for understanding why ordinary people in autocratic regimes choose to get involved in politics. 📚 https://t.co/vRwtosF9DI

To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, and to support emerging scholars, I'd like to buy and mail copies to ten graduate students. If you’re a grad student who’d like a copy, reply or DM me! https://t.co/QqqkeUBzSK

What explains public #trust in the military in #conflict states? Using survey data from #Libya, @TarikYousef & I examine the impact of regional, generational &class divides,& the implications for democratic transitions & backsliding. @Princeton @ME_Council

Call for abstracts: #methods-forward research on #MENA #publicopinion in international politics, security, &governance. We especially welcome surveys/experiments & mixed methods with clear policy relevance. Open to all career stages. Abstracts due Oct 31 https://t.co/pgNTadmI3V

NEW - The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination - https://t.co/moSBNRyK5h "decades after the fall of the GDR, the attitudinal effects of authoritarian socialization persist" - Nourhan A. Elsayed, @HannoHilbig, Sascha Riaz (@EUI_EU) & @dziblatt #OpenAccess

Why don't business elites defect from authoritarian regimes? They face huge risks, especially during economic crises, when dictators choose to financially extort or purge their business allies. And yet, despite their power to disrupt, business elites rarely switch sides. My

🏭 How can we measure firms' political influence across countries? ➡️Using surveys of 27,000+ firms in 41 countries and a Bayesian IRT model, D. C. Francis & @rmkubinec estimate firm-level influence scores and show how they vary across regimes https://t.co/KjZSgDxeb6 #FirstView

Our Call for Papers for the Spring 2026 is now open! Submit your proposal by November 9th using this link: https://t.co/ii9ZXVfDFa For more information visit:

Coming from Stanford University Press in the summer of 2026! @lisablaydes and I edited a book "Ba'thist Iraq through Archives" with a star studded list of contributors! https://t.co/328TlwJHyq

The new R&P chair elect is Sabri Ciftci, Professor at Kansas State University. Sabri is primarily a scholar of Islam and democracy, Muslim political attitudes, Arab public opinion, and Turkish politics. We’re excited to have you serve

New paper alert. Are legacies of conflict always expressed along the conflict’s primary dimension? No. Leveraging a natural experiment of history in Catalonia, we find that post-conflict politics reshapes the legacies of violence. With @joan_barcelo_ https://t.co/u9zizCw6WE

New publication! 🎉 Excited to share that my job market paper, “How to Politely Say No: Jordan's Indirect Bandwagoning Behavior toward US–China Competition,” is now published in Foreign Policy Analysis! Free access available here: https://t.co/pHxKlftUJE