Women in Legislative Studies

If you are teaching Intro to US Politics/American Government at the college level this coming year and would like a place to share resources, ideas, and questions, please join our Slack! Email me at sara.chatfield @ du.edu for the link.

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Genpol researchers looking to get your summer work in the pipeline?! We are still accepting submissions for a JWPP special issue on women's agency & parties - submit by 8/15! @winls.bsky.social @jwpp.bsky.social #genpol #polisci

Registration: Women in Legislative Studies Writing Group 2025 Summer Bootcamp This is the registration form for the Women in Legislative Studies Writing Group Summer Bootcamp, August 4th - 7th, 2025. We'll send you a zoom link shortly before the event.

Join us next week for our annual Summer Writing Bootcamp, August 4-7, which will run each day from 1:30-3:30 ET. The bootcamp combines writing accountability and professional development in an informal setting for women + non-binary scholars studying legislative politics.

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Writing group today at 1:30 Eastern!

New in @thejop.bsky.social from @a-weissman.bsky.social -- how descriptive representation has changed in an era of heightened polarization.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Using Social Media to Respond to Negative Polls: Politicians’ Issue Responsiveness on Facebook | The Journal of Politics: Vol 87, No 3 Social media has changed the link between politicians and voters. An unsettled question is how politicians use social media in the political agenda-setting competition. Do they respond to issue priori...

How do Danish MPs use social media to respond to negative polls? Helene Helboe Pedersen and Henrik Bech Seeberg answer this question in their recent Journal of Politics article.

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Polisky

Women in Legislative Studies: Writing Groups Women in Legislative Studies Writing Groups. The writing groups will provide combinations of regular writing times each week, accountability mechanisms, feedback on research, writing-related advice, a...

Writing Group Today! Write with us at 1:30 Eastern. 🖋️

More info here: www.womeninlegislativestudies.org/writing.html

Measuring Conflict in Local Politics Mirya Holman1 , Rebecca Johnson2 , and Tyler Simko3

It’s publication day!!🎊 In a new Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social piece, Rebecca Johnson, Tyler Simko @simko.bsky.social & I ask: How do you measure conflict in local politics in the United States?
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Deadline next week! Nominate a mentor who has made a lasting impact on your academic journey. The Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentoring Award honors mentorship that opens doors and builds futures in the discipline.

🗓 Submit by July 15th
🔗 buff.ly/byS20WH
#MentorshipMatters #LatinxScholars #PoliSci

Writing group today! ✍️

Check out this new piece in Politics and Gender by @hannabrant.bsky.social - "Cisheteropatriarchal Institutions and the Representation of LGBTQ+ Legislators"

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Writing group is today at 1:30pm Eastern. Join us!

Excited to be co-editing this special issue with Simone Bohn and Teresa Sacchet! Consider submitting your work on women's agency within/around political parties! Reach out here/email with any questions - wyliekn at jmu dot edu. @winls.bsky.social #polisky

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Congratulations to Guan Wang for winning the Best Annual Conference Discussant Award in the Foreign Policy section at APSA 2024!

Party Considerations for Renomination in Pre‐Electoral Coalitions Pre-electoral coalitions are common across diverse political contexts. In this letter, I examine their impact on one of the most consequential functions of political parties: the candidate selection ...

Check out Lucia Motolinia's new publication titled Party Considerations for Renomination in Pre-Electoral Coalitions at Legislative Studies Quarterly here:

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QUALREP

💫QUALREP Gender and Politics Seminar💫

We're putting our own PIs in the hot seat for the final seminar this term - @profrosiecamp.bsky.social & @profsarahchilds.bsky.social!

Event details:

📆 Wed 28 May
⏰3-4pm GMT
📍Online - register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bfd7b0...

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It's writing group day! Join us to write in community at 1pm Eastern.

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Registration Professional Development Seminar, May 16 2025, "Preparing Your Job Market Files" This is the registration form for the upcoming Women in Legislative Studies Professional Development Seminar. We'll send you a zoom link shortly before the event.

Reminder: TODAY at 2pm ET is our professional development seminar, which this month is focused on"Preparing your Job Market Files."

To attend, please register here: forms.gle/KE1QC57DL8...

We hope to see you there!

Registration Professional Development Seminar, May 16 2025, "Preparing Your Job Market Files" This is the registration form for the upcoming Women in Legislative Studies Professional Development Seminar. We'll send you a zoom link shortly before the event.

Please join us this Friday, May 16th at 2:00 pm ET is the next Women in Legislative Studies Professional Development Seminar.

The topic for this week is "Preparing Your Job Market Files."

To attend, please register here: forms.gle/KE1QC57DL8...

Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025 - The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant supports the advancement of research goals and professional development of early career political science scholars. The grant will award…

One day to go! Are you conducting #research on racial justice, inequality, or accessibility politics? Apply now for the 2025 APSA Diversity & Inclusion Advancing Research Grant. Open to early-career scholars in political science. buff.ly/YqTIxZo #EarlyCareer #polisky

New paper published by Guan Wang and Weifang Xu: Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress in International Studies Quarterly

Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

It's our virtual conference day! We have an exciting lineup of new research today.

Registration Professional Development Seminar, April 18 2025, "Starting Your New Job" This is the registration form for the upcoming Women in Legislative Studies Professional Development Seminar. We'll send you a zoom link shortly before the event.

Don't miss our professional development seminar TODAY at 2pm Eastern! It's for anyone starting a new job who wants a space to discuss this next professional stage.

Register here if you need the link: docs.google.com/form...

Registration Professional Development Seminar, April 18 2025, "Starting Your New Job" This is the registration form for the upcoming Women in Legislative Studies Professional Development Seminar. We'll send you a zoom link shortly before the event.

Our monthly professional development seminar topic is "Starting Your New Job" Register here to join us this Friday at 2pm Eastern: docs.google.com/form...

Polisky

Women in Legislative Studies Mission statement: To engage, support, and promote women who study legislative politics.

Writing group is TODAY! Come write with us! More details here: www.womeninlegislativestudies.org.

Elisa Maria Wirsching's article in Journal of Politics explores the impact of the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act on congressional staffers' behavior.

Check it out here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Polisky

🦉 A reminder that the first Spring Virtual Workshop on Legislative Studies, sponsored by @winls.bsky.social, will take place on 25 April - see programme below and make sure to register by 17 April using this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Legislative Underrepresentation and Executive Dominance: Why Powerful States Accept Legislative Malapportionment Abstract. Why do politically and economically powerful states accept the loss of their legislative power by assenting to their underrepresentation in the n

Why do politically and economically powerful states accept the loss of their legislative power by assenting to their underrepresentation in the national legislature? Find out why in Hiroi and Neiva’s new article: doi.org/10.1093/publ...

Registration: Women in Legislative Studies Writing Group This is the registration form for the Women in Legislative Studies Writing Group. We'll send you a zoom link shortly before the event.

Don't forget that writing group is TODAY from 1:00-3:00 pm ET. Join us for community and accountability!

Register Here: docs.google.com/form...

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