Daniel Kovarek
@kovarekd
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postdoc @EUI_EU, PhD from @CEU ■ spends evenings w/ friends & neighbors, studies their voting in daytime ■ amateur clarinetist on the side
Florence, Tuscany
Joined January 2016
Why do we like local politicians? Fielding survey experiments in 🇭🇺, I find that localness serves as a cue for 🐷 pork barrel politics, but not for 💰 clientelism. New Open Access 🔓 paper based on my dissertation research is out:
journals.sagepub.com
Recent literature on friends-and-neighbors voting focused on explaining citizens’ motives behind supporting local candidates; the cue-based account suggests tha...
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💡Now temporarily #FREE: 'Elite defection and opposition realignment in #Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (#TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections' by @kovarekd (@EUI_Schuman) https://t.co/C9Vtdw8uma - @AdamFagan24 @kopeckydvorec @LBustikova @AndreaPirro
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The 2024 European Parliamentary elections yielded an opposition landslide in Hungary. Respect and Freedom (TISZA), a genuinely new party led by a Fidesz defector, emerged as Orbán's unequivocal cha...
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🚨my new paper is out in @EEPolitics on #TISZA, 🇭🇺 #Hungary's new centrist anti-establishment opposition party, currently leading the polls 📊
tandfonline.com
The 2024 European Parliamentary elections yielded an opposition landslide in Hungary. Respect and Freedom (TISZA), a genuinely new party led by a Fidesz defector, emerged as Orbán's unequivocal cha...
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Post-Doctoral Position in Quantitative Political Science Methods #ECPRMemberJobs 🎓 Degree in political science or similar discipline required ⏰ 24-month contract 🇩🇪 Leibniz University Hannover ⌛ Saturday 15 February
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🚨 LSE Postdoc Fellow in Political Behaviour 🚨 We're hiring a 2-3 year postdoc fellow at the LSE to join our great team @LSEGovernment! Please spread the word and reach out with questions! https://t.co/CyP27esYf7
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1/5 Thrilled to share my first PhD research publication in @Gov_Journal! I propose 'hybrid appointments' framework challenging merit-patronage dichotomy + first empirical study of @Kurdistan top civil servants:
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This article examines the complex balancing of political loyalty and meritocratic competence in the appointment of top civil servants—a pivotal aspect of public administration that is particularly...
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📢New issue of #PAG20 is out!📢 @hamelpolisci & @nmbauer investigate the link between gendered issue types and successful credit claiming in "Gender, Issue Stereotypes, and the Electoral Returns to Distributive Politics in the United States" https://t.co/r1le5EPTeg
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🚨🚨Hiring! One postdoctoral position in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid. Application deadline: end of February. Job ad & details: https://t.co/rU6ThZMsHj Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications and fun.
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🚨 Happy to see one of my PhD papers out at JEPOP 📚 I examine whether MPs' attention to local issues in parliamentary activities affects their re-election chances in party-centred contexts https://t.co/eioLMaQhUr Ungated version here: https://t.co/D0wxVNN5Us
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📚 The volume co-edited by our @OSUNForum conveners Kirk A. Hawkins and @littvay provides a series of specific predictions about the distinct impact of populist ideas. Details: 👉 https://t.co/BFwItnug15
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Very happy to co-organize with @halikiopoulou and @FES_Democracy the Democratic Expeditions Workshop this September in Budapest at @CEUDemInst We’re looking for comparative studies of the far-right in Latin America and Europe Proposals welcome here:
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I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a FAPESP fellowship as part of a research project in partnership with KU Leuven. Project "Street-level bureaucrats in the eye of the populist storm? Lessons from Municipal Transitions of Power." More info: https://t.co/ItVtzckA4e
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From our new issue: "Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism" by Mai Hassan (@MaiOHassan), Horacio Larreguy, and Stuart Russell. #ASPRNewIssue. https://t.co/Mj9vkURyLv
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Job announcement: Junior Professorship in Computational Social Science at the University of Konstanz. Join us at the Center for Data and Methods! Feel free to reach out if you have questions. https://t.co/O8yxogBbGq
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🚀 Just launched the {metatargetr} 📦 website with exciting updates! Now you can retrieve historical targeting & report data from the Meta Ad Library 📊 powered by an archive I built since Meta only provides recent data. Check it out here: https://t.co/Tgs0xkPDOB
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New study: An analysis of 400 occupations found that taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest proportion of deaths from Alzheimer’s—raising the possibility that constant stimulation of the hippocampus, used for navigational and spatial processing, might be protective
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Working on party politics at the local level? Please join us on April 8 and 9 in Leiden at the Local Party Politics Workshop.
universiteitleiden.nl
Local government is of increasing importance for citizens. In many European countries, the same logic of party government that we have on the national level is transferred to the local level. Yet we...
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