🚨New working paper: Here we experimentally demonstrate across 33 countries that civic education can mitigate the negative effects of partisan polarization by increasing the likelihood of voting for non-partisan, pro-democratic candidates. 1/

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Thrilled that my article on ruling parties and authoritarian collapse during the Arab Uprisings has been published as part of a special issue on (and with!) Theda Skocpol, as well as Stathis Kalyvas Hugo Drochon 🇺🇦 and Markus Kreuzer. It's available open access 👇👇👇journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Excited to welcome Penn Poli Sci Dept's Guy Grossman to State College! Join us Wednesday (4/17) at noon at Penn State Political Science if you're on campus.

Delighted that it's now possible to pre-order Making Sense of the Arab State. Edited by yours truly and Marc Lynch with chapters from both Marc and me, as well as an amazing line up of scholars.

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Check out this podcast on Kuwaiti parliament, its recent election, and my thoughts about parliamentary resilience

New paper with Emily Sallenback published at Democratization

We study nostalgic sentiment for Marcos Sr. in the Philippines using a social media approach, machine learning, and statistical analysis.

50 free online copies:
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“Me after answering one email.” Daniel L. Tavana

A cool thing happened at ISA (in our absence): My brilliant coauthor Alexandra Siegel and I received the Outstanding Paper Award from ENMISA for our work on civil organizing during war.

Many thanks to the committee! And to Rawan Arar (Emerging Scholar Award winner 🔥) for the photo

In my #Kuwait elections analysis, I anticipated confrontation knocking. But it knocked quicker than expected.

Emiri decree today delays parliament’s opening session from 4/17 to 5/14. Keep in mind decree for 4/17 session came out yesterday. What happened in last 24 hours?
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My thoughts to The New York Times: “The semi-democratic mechanisms that provide citizens input into how they are governed have atrophied. The abuse and decay of these mechanisms could, in the long term, render them permanently unusable, irrelevant or dysfunctional.” nytimes.com/2024/04/04/wor…

'Not much change is expected' in the current election, Al-Saif warned. 'Crises have become a permanent feature of the system...Radical reset requires reforming the constitution and going at root causes to avoid cyclical problems and elections on steroids.' france24.com/en/live-news/2…

The results of today’s elections might be different from the results of elections since Dec.2020.However, individualism will remain the main feature of the political system in Kuwait. Politicians win & lose, and prime ministers r appointed & replaced, but political crises remain.

MIT is excited to host BWGAPE on Friday May 3! This coming Friday — Marcy 29 — is the last day to submit your working paper or research design: docs.google.com/forms/d/1qymPe…

Looking forward to hosting you in Cambridge! Noah Nathan Evan Lieberman

🚨Revised WP alert!🚨 And could not be more timely given Pakistan's 🇵🇰 recent elections, where an internet blackout made the logistics of finding polling stations so salient. Why does women's turnout still lag behind men's? 1 possible answer: mobility.
🧵 w/ Natalya Adam-Rahman:

Policy brief with Ernesto Tiburcio
'Political Polarization: US Lessons for Latin America' funded by UPPER
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It was a lot of fun chatting to Alvita Akiboh (Yale History) about her book 'Imperial Material', a history of national symbols in America's overseas territories from UChicagoPress. Available to listen now on Spotify and the New Books Network website
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My paper with Yuree Noh is out Comparative Political Studies Despite the proliferation of gender quotas in non-dem, no work has examined the correlates of public support for quotas. We address this question relying on original survey data from Tunisia & Morocco journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… POMEPS

Borders in #Africa were not decided in Berlin & are not random! Causes? Geography, precol states & negotiations btw Europeans & Africans. Time to update high school textbooks! Jack Paine Xiaoyan Qiu & I American Political Science Review 🙏🥳 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…