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Fantastic macro data source for 243 countries - GDP, inflation, government finance, trade, unemployment, interest rates etc. - open-source - continuously updated - unification and extension of existing resources (IMF, World Bank, and OECD) with historical records:

Cedar Girls’ student, 13, is youngest uniformed group member to respond to cardiac arrest emergency bit.ly/3WU4Xh3

If you are interested in analyzing municipality-level results from recent House of Representatives elections in Japan, please feel free to use the data available at the links below: github.com/yhoriuchi/jele… github.com/yhoriuchi/jele… github.com/yhoriuchi/jele…

It is amazing that the Singapore 2025 budget has corporate and income tax rebates and a whole range of cash voucher subsidies for households and individuals and we still are projected to have a more than $6billion budget surplus.

📢#Rome to Host the #IPSA2027 World Congress of #PoliticalScience 🇮🇹 The Congress program will be developed under the guidance of Program Co-Chairs Vanessa Elias de Oliveira and Francesca Longo. go.ipsa.org/MwZmoz

Excited to share my new article in the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS)! "Endogenous Opposition: Identity and Ideology in Kuwaiti Electoral Politics" explores how authoritarian elections generate opposition to incumbent autocrats. Link: dropbox.com/scl/fi/ukrer5r…

This explainer by Jamus Lim is sorely needed. In last week's debate about the budget, I kept looking out for cogent public explainers from any economics professor or anyone from Economics Society of Singapore. I didn't find any. Instead, we got Calvin Cheng and Ben Leong. 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

My favourite dialogue in all of Game of Thrones. Narrates the problem of power so well.

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The Turkish opposition's frontrunner and scores of politicians from the main opposition party were detained this morning. This is a coup against the main opposition party, with far-reaching consequences for Turkey’s political regime. Since the country’s transition to democratic

🚨The early-bird deadline for the #IPSA2025 is tomorrow!🚨 Register by 20 March 2025 to enjoy the early-bird discount. All participants, including session chairs, panel chairs, discussants and paper givers, must register to attend the Congress. wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/registration

There’s news circulating in Singapore about a job advertisement for a Buddhist nun offering a monthly salary of S$5,000 to S$11,000. Many friends have asked me for my thoughts on it, so here they are. A thread 🧵 1/ mothership.sg/2025/03/spore-…

New volume out today on Democratic Backsliding and Recovery. Coedited by Rachel Beatty Riedl , Murat Somer , Ken Roberts and me. 15 case studies, including countries currently with massive protests against autocrats: Hungary, Serbia and Turkey. aapss.org/annals/volumes…

Peter Crouch scoring a header for Liverpool and hitting the robot celebration in charity match against Chelsea 😍 IS IT 2007 AGAIN?!

Malaysia faces +24% “Reciprocal Tariffs” But unclear if semiconductors are exempt as per WH factsheet And if exempt, whether they’ll still face the baseline 10% tariff In 2024, ~13% of Msia’s exports went to the US, w/ electronics (incl semiconductors) making up ~60% of that

[EWL] UPDATE: Due to a track fault, please expect an additional 20mins of travelling time between #Queenstown and #BoonLay. Shuttle train is available between #JurongEast and #Lakeside. Free regular bus is available between #BuonaVista and #BoonLay. Train service is still

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Join us for the Inaugural Conference on Peace and Democracy in Asia Pacific and the World 🗓️ Sept 26–27, 2025 📍 Korea University 🎯 Theme: The Climate Challenge: Democracy, Governance, and Global Response ✈️ Round-trip economy airfare + accommodation bit.ly/44zfFOU

Our school at Waseda University is recruiting for open-rank positions in Political Science (open subfield). We welcome applications from scholars at any career stage. Come join our dynamic and internationally oriented academic community in Tokyo. waseda.jp/fpse/pse/news-…