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What effect do ideologically extreme candidates have on voters? "We show that in-party voters, out-party voters, and independent voters are more likely to turnout to vote and partisans are more likely to support their party’s candidate in elections with ideologically extreme

Join us next week for our next OPUS Junior Scholars Workshop, where we will explore the populist movement in South Asia. 🗓 Date & Time: Friday, April 25, 2025 🕗 8:00–9:00 PM (EST) | 2:00–3:00 PM (CET) 🌐 Virtual Event 🔗 Registration: tinyurl.com/opusapril25

🚨 Join our junior scholars leadership team on populism! Want to connect with peers, collaborate on events, and help shape a vibrant research community on populism? We're inviting new members to join the OPUS Steering Committee. Apply by April 30: forms.gle/dWJzmgSDPWeqi8…

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"Descriptive Representation in an Era of Polarization" by Anna Weissman. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Currently in FirstView: “Synthetically generated text for supervised text analysis.” Andy Halterman proposes a method for using LLMs to generate synthetic training data for training smaller, traditional supervised text models.

Many political science faculty perceive declines in academic freedom since January, especially on Israel/Palestine (43%) & DEI (42%). Self-censorship reported in extramural speech (55%), communicating with students (40%), teaching (33%), and research (20%).

How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: unibocconi.it/en/news/networ… Università Bocconi

Support for populist leaders depends on how entertaining people find them, more so than support for non‐populist leaders. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

🎙️ Join us for our next OPUS Conversation with Dr. Jennifer McCoy (Dr. Jennifer McCoy) as she presents her new book "Depolarizing Politics and Remaking Democracy", co-authored with Murat Somer. 🗓️ May 28 | 🕘 9–10 AM ET 👥10-15 min talk & Q&A session 🔗Register: tinyurl.com/jennifermccoy

Empirical papers have steadily replaced theoretical papers (& simulation) in economics: economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Only a couple of days left until our OPUS Conversation with Dr. Jennifer McCoy - make sure you're registered! We look forward to seeing you there!

"What Good is a Regression? Inference to the Best Explanation and the Practice of Political Science Research" from Spirling and Stewart journal: doi.org/10.1086/734280

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NEW - Democratic Trajectories in the Third Wave: Aligning Theory and Methods - cup.org/3HgwFzG - Anibal Perez-Linan & Scott Mainwaring (both Keough School of Global Affairs) #OpenAccess

Currently in FirstView: In “Crowdsourced Adaptive Surveys,” Yamil Ricardo Velez introduces a methodology (CSAS) that converts open-ended text from participants into survey items and applies a multi-armed bandit algorithm to determine which questions should be prioritized in the survey.

NEW PAPER: A Longitudinal Study on the Dynamic Relationship Between Affective Polarization and Radical Right’s Emergence: The Case of VOX in Spain By Josep Maria Comellas Bonsfills & Mariano Torcal Loriente buff.ly/w53reSE @SAGECQPolitics Political Studies Association

IPSA 2025 is happening in my hometown, Seoul! On the first day, I am attending exciting panels on populism and large language models. It feels great to experience an international conference here. I am looking forward to the next three days! #IPSA2025

Although this was my first time attending IPSA, I noticed a shared pattern with APSA & MPSA. Panels on LLMs consistently draw a full audience. The rapid advancement of research at the intersection of political science & LLMs continues to make this field dynamic! #IPSA2025