Perspectives on Politics

@carotorreblanca.bsky.social , Will Dinneen, and my paper entitled "Political Science Under Pressure: Competition and Collaboration in a Growing Discipline, 2003-2023" has been (conditionally) accepted at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social.

This paper has been a labor of love. osf.io/preprints/os...

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Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age - https://cup.org/425MDEm

- @duncanbell.bsky.social & @blazefutures.bsky.social

4/6 🧵In @poppublicsphere.bsky.social, @edwardgoldring.bsky.social, Schmid & Apaydin find blame-shifting (esp. force majeure) by autocrat backfires. Survey experiment: Erdogan’s approval dropped (6-8%) among upper class after the 2023 earthquake in 🇹🇷. doi.org/g93527

🎉 New publication out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with @duncanmcdonnell.com and Michelle Evans!

We expected public bias to work against aspiring Indigenous political candidates in Australia. Instead, we found the opposite - an 'inverted hierarchy' of bias.

Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Changing Attitudes and Provoking Action: Perspective-Taking Mobilizes White Americans for Prisoner Release - https://cup.org/4mu4H2a

- Mackenzie Israel-Trummel

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The Inverted Hierarchy: How Public Bias Can Favor Potential Indigenous Candidates - https://cup.org/3VLXQ9x

- Josh Holloway, Duncan McDonnell & Michelle Evans

#FirstView

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The Inverted Hierarchy: How #Public #Bias Can #Favor #Potential #Indigenous #Candidates

By @jholloway.bsky.social, @duncanmcdonnell.com & Michelle Evans

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Institutions as Perpetrators: Power and Political Violence in Responses to Rape - https://cup.org/3VLsHTS

- Milli Lake & Alexandra C. Hartman

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Institutions as Perpetrators: #Power & #Political #Violence in #Responses to #Rape

By Milli Lake & Alexandra C. Hartman

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Calls for Papers - American Political Science Association (APSA) Calls for Papers Calls for Papers  Please find any active calls for papers for Perspectives on Politics below. About Perspectives on Politics Perspectives

Due Tomorrow! Submit to the @poppublicsphere.bsky.social's Call for Papers, “Political Science and the University.”

How does university education shape political attitudes and behavior? How did the pandemic affect higher education? View submission guidelines and submit today: buff.ly/9X51I3v

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Business as Usual? #Conventional #Politics, #Critical #Junctures, and #Policy #Feedback in the #Paycheck #Protection #Program

By Michael Schwan, Marc Schneiberg & @tennispolprof.bsky.social

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Americans who have a college degree vote differently than those who do not. Here’s why that matters | CNN Sixty percent of Americans do not have a college degree. Alan Wiseman a professor of political economy at Vanderbilt University, joins Smerconish to discuss how this affects elections.

Alan E. Wiseman on CNN yesterday talking about a Perspectives paper (w/Craig Volden & Jonathan Wai):
"On the #Decline of #Elite-#Educated #Republicans in #Congress."

#OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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1/Percentage of Republican representatives who attended elite educational institutions declined from 40% to 15%, and the percentage of similarly educated Republican senators declined from 55% to 35%, while the ranks of elite-educated Democrats rose in both chambers.
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Political ethnography alert! 🚨

Fabulous article by @professorbiko.bsky.social and Tali Mendelberg in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social showing that MAGA is as much about 'reclaiming lost status' as it is about culture wars or policy preferences.

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Attributing Responsibility to Big Tech for Mass Atrocity: Social Media and Transitional Justice - https://cup.org/46pocmw

- Juan Espíndola

Deadline Extended to October 1st: Calls for Papers - American Political Science Association (APSA) Calls for Papers Calls for Papers  Please find any active calls for papers for Perspectives on Politics below. About Perspectives on Politics Perspectives

The Perspectives on Politics Call for Papers are due next week!

What is the role of the University in promoting and/or resisting political and social change? Submit manuscripts for “Political Science and the University" by October 1! buff.ly/9X51I3v

cc: @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

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'On the Decline of Elite-Educated Republicans in Congress' by Craig Volden, Jonathan Wai & Alan E. Wiseman was the most-downloaded @poppublicsphere.bsky.social paper in August 2025.

You can read it #OpenAccess here - cup.org/47ZVCe3

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Business as Usual? Conventional Politics, Critical Junctures, and Policy Feedback in the Paycheck Protection Program - https://cup.org/46ipa5s

- Michael Schwan, Marc Schneiberg & @tennispolprof.bsky.social

#FirstView

📣Just issued on @poppublicsphere.bsky.social our article analyzing 🔴left #parties in #government and the reduction of inequalities 📉. @fedetrastulli.bsky.social
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DEADLINE - October 1, 2025

Political Science and the University

@poppublicsphere.bsky.social invites political scientists to use their expertise to explain what is and ought to be happening at institutions of higher education.

Find out more - cup.org/3KzG1Ig

cc @apsa.bsky.social

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NEW ISSUE from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -

Perspectives on Politics - Special Section: Challenges to Democracy - Volume 23 - Special Issue 3 - September 2025 - https://cup.org/3VCgRep

Incudes a Special Section: Parties in Competition & Government

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Precarious Voices: The #Political #Act of #Transmission in #Feng #Menglong’s #Mountain #Songs #Compendium (c. 1610)

By Leigh K Jenco

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#APSA2025 - you can find a list of PoliSci & IR journals published by Cambridge University Press that have a presence on Bluesky here -

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Including @apsrjournal.bsky.social @pspolisci.bsky.social @poppublicsphere.bsky.social @politicsgenderj.bsky.social & more

#APSA2025

The deadline has been extended until October 1, 2025.

Republican Members of Congress are no longer coming from elite institutions of higher education. Elite-educated legislators are more liberal. Important manifestation of the education divide between the parties & context for the current higher ed wars
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Alan Wiseman talks about a new Perspectives article (co-authored w/ Craig Volden & Jonathan Wai; available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...) in The Smerconish podcast yesterday.

"Boundaries of #Queerness" has gotten its first review! Thanks Douglas Page and @poppublicsphere.bsky.social for the considerate and thorough engagement with the book. Particularly pleased to be in the excellent company of @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social and @christopherewing.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Taken together, we argue that emotionally charged, easily digestible videos help populist autocrats tell a compelling story that turns past glories and threats into a basis for regime legitimation.

Special thanks to Didem Seyis and Ezgi Şiir
Kıbrıs for outstanding research assistance!

Author Screenshot (T.C. İletişim Başkanlığı 2020)

My article "Film-Making the Nation Great Again" with
@liselhintz.bsky.social is out now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social!

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We show how Turkey’s ruling party instrumentalizes history through emotionally evocative videos to legitimize the authoritarian incumbent

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My article "Film-Making the Nation Great Again" with @draege.bsky.social is out in Perspectives!

Poli sci work on authoritarianism and populism largely overlooks audiovisual strategies.

Our multi-modal study uses a new dataset of 11,000+ regime YouTube videos in Turkey.

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