Ben Yoel

Now that Marco Rubio is back in the news, this is a good time to share that my dissertation introduces a dataset of all remarks by Secretaries of State from the 1990s until now (~17,000 speeches). This has been a labor of love, but you can find some visuals on my website. Data to be released soon!!

I had to teach international cooperation and Keohane yesterday in my War and Security class...and now I have to cover public opinion tomorrow...so I feel your pain.

Thanks so much, Yusuf! Looking forward to presenting in your class next month :)

Thanks, Jeff, for all your support!!

Thanks so much, Ariel! Hope you're well.

Thank you!!

Thanks, Bob! Was great meeting at APSA.

Thank you!! I'm very excited. Will reach out to you soon with some questions I have about the Bay Area :)

Thanks, dude!

Thanks, Erin! I hope you're doing well.

A special shoutout to Erica Frantz, Michael Wahman, Ana Bracic, and @consueloamat.bsky.social, without whom this wouldn't have been possible. Now to defending the dissertation in the next two months...

Thanks so much, Alex! And congrats on the new book. I'm citing it a bunch in the dissertation :)

I'm absolutely thrilled to share that, starting in August, I'll be a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social! I'll be focusing primarily on foreign pressure and opposition to democratic backsliding. I'm very grateful to my committee and others for their support.

I'm surprised Israel 2021 hasn't made it on this list...(it was very much in the midst of efforts to stall Bennett-Lapid from forming a govt).

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I’m extremely excited to share Ian Ostrander's and my new article, “President Biden and Diversity in Executive Appointments,” published in American Politics Research!

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@mattgrossmann.bsky.social, @joshmccrain.bsky.social, and I are putting together a panel at PolMeth in July on using CongressData, CSPP, and SenateData. We are aiming to have up to 5 people (preference to junior faculty using the data or interested in doing so). Please reach out to me if interested!

@mattgrossmann.bsky.social, @joshmccrain.bsky.social, and I are putting together a panel at PolMeth in July on using CongressData, CSPP, and SenateData. We are aiming to have up to 5 people (preference to junior faculty using the data or interested in doing so). Please reach out to me if interested!

@lgamboa.bsky.social's book has some great answers to this!

Thank you!

Thank you, Eric!

Thank you so much, that's far too kind.

Thanks, Lior! Hope all is well with you.

Dataset - Democratic Erosion The Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (DEED) records discrete events related to democratic erosion and autocratic consolidation across countries and over time.

In the meantime, if of interest, you can find the data here on our website, with Shiny apps that I built. democratic-erosion.org/dataset/ This was previously funded by a large State Department grant that I was part of that has since been disbanded.

Thank you! I had forgotten about GDELT. Will give that a try, thanks!!

Article accepted!!!!! Will share more soon but excited to have our dataset on democratic erosion as an events based process as a paper out soon in Nature!

Thanks, António! The problem is that MMD is missing a lot of data :/

Protest scholars: I'm looking for event data on protests that covers the 2000s to early 2010s. I'm trying to track democracy protests globally but ACLED doesn't seem to have pre-2016 for most countries and most of the existing ones I know of aren't at the event level. All help much appreciated!

Two day workshop on the international dimensions of democratic backsliding at UChicago ✔️ had the pleasure of presenting some of my dissertation work on the effects of foreign cues on support for oppositions in backsliding democracies.

We've seen this phenomenon occur a lot lately, for instance, vis-a-vis protests in Iran. Here's a recent statement by Minority Leader Jeffries in the US House supporting those protests. My work shows that the *content* of the rhetoric matters a lot, as does individual-level commitment to democracy.

Pope Leo XIV meets with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado Pope Leo XIV has met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the Vatican

Oppositions often seek out international support. My dissertation offers some insights on how such foreign pressure shapes attitudes toward opposition actors using a conjoint in Hungary. I'll be presenting my research on this today at UChicago's Backsliding workshop!
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