@mgoldenprof.bsky.social
Political scientist, specializing in comparative politics. Political institutions, representation, and accountability, using all manner of methods. Knows something about corruption and political malfeasance. Currently CDDRL, Stanford University.
Five more days to submit nominations for the Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology! A broad and unusual call. Feel free to self-nominate or to submit a nomination on behalf of work that has inspired you.
We invite nominations for the @apsa.bsky.social CP Section's Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology. Self-nominations welcome! Deadline: March 15, 2026. Send nominations to golden@ucla.edu. Details 👇
Complete agreement with my colleague Frank Fukuyama on not appeasing Trump on Greenland and tariffs. Perhaps Europeans can inspire US pols to stand up to an increasingly isolated madman.
You should learn enough unix to protect yourself from accidental deletions.
It can correct complex tables and figures generated from R and/or latex in record time!
I agree it is a game changer. It is accessed directly from the terminal, and if you work in Plan Mode, it will allow you to approve every change it makes before it operates on your code. To work effectively from a terminal on a Mac, best to familiarize yourself with some basic Unix commands.
So proud of my collaborators @noamlupu.bsky.social @carnes.bsky.social @eugenian.bsky.social and all our amazing research assistants across the world for having used our Covid lockdown to collect an award-winning dataset!
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The Call for Papers for the 2026 EPSS annual conference in Belfast is now live!
Looking forward to your submissions!! Check out all details in this thread 👇
@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy
These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas
www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...
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Congratulations to @susannagarside.bsky.social for defending a terrific @eui-sps.bsky.social dissertation on the politics of climate change. We are delighted to send her to @ox.ac.uk for a post-doc and look forward to her future contributions.
Congratulations to @mgoldenprof.bsky.social
SPS Professor, for winning the 2025 APSA Best Dataset Award!
The Global Legislator Dataset, built during her time at EUI, is now a landmark in comparative politics.
A proud moment for SPS and the
@eui-eu.bsky.social Institute
#GlobalDataset
Congratulations Konstantin!
Consider applying! The fellowship includes a mentor for a full year and two online feedback sessions. Open to all subfields
EuroWEPS 11 is here! We'll meet in Bergen on May 16 to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is March 30.
top 15 in 2000 = Harvard, UCSD, UCB, Stanford, UCLA, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Duke, Michigan, Cornell, Wisconsin, MIT, Ohio, Chicago. @apsa.bsky.social @cpsjournal.bsky.social @apsa-europe-polsky.bsky.social @apsamena.bsky.social @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social
Were you teaching or taking the core graduate course/field seminar in comparative politics in (or around) year 2000? If so, @melinaplatas.bsky.social and I are collecting syllabi from the top 15 US departments that year. Please send what you have! Email golden@ucla.edu or paloma.abrilponcela@eui.eu
Deeply saddened by the loss today of my UCLA colleague Ed Ed Leamer, a brilliant scholar, extraordinary communicator, and wonderful person. His classic work influenced generations of scholars.
NEW -
The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies - cup.org/4hMcJCi
- @carnes.bsky.social, Joshua Ferrer, @mgoldenprof.bsky.social, @esmelillywhite.bsky.social, @noamlupu.bsky.social & @eugenian.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
I found this Foreign Affairs piece by Levitsky and Way hugely insightful in putting together Trump's disparate decisions and activities. But no particular outcome is foreordained, and thinking through who can be mobilized to put up roadblocks is the next step. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
That would be an interesting comparison. Can’t wait to read it!
Really interesting work. Just wondering why you are expanding to 107 journals rather than limiting the focus to the (30? 50?) most highly cited. Won’t you be picking up a lot of never- or rarely-cited articles in obscure journals that are essentially noise?
Civics instruction was standard in the US for much of the 20th century. I had it in elementary school. It is not part of an authoritarian plot. There are many reasons to oppose many Trump policies — possibly including this one — but there is nothing per se wrong with civics education.
@joposato.bsky.social perhaps there is limit to the number of obs in that format? Suggest you open the .dta format, which is complete.
Delighted by the attention the US dataset with @eugenian.bsky.social has generated! It extends back in time and fills in two datasets (Ansolabehere, Ban and Snyder 2017 doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... and Klarner 2018 doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...). Graph shows which state-years are ours and which theirs.
Are you interested in U.S. legislative history? Newly-available complete dataset on all persons serving as legislators in the 50 state houses between 1900 and 2016: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
So much appreciation to Mexico and also Canada.
I wonder if men are equally mean to one another but they just keep on working? That is not my experience — I do think men are meaner to women — but I also think women might be more thin skinned.
We’re hiring a predoctoral fellow for our Stanford Conflict and Polarization lab! We do field experiments, lab experiments and also love to go hunting in the archives for novel data to help shed new light on solving these important problems. Please apply if interested & share with any who might be!