Neeraj Prasad

YouTube video by Political Science Research What makes violence political? #politicalscience

What makes violence political? #polisky
Hear UCR professor Jennifer Merolla describes a recently published article on political violence:

www.youtube.com/shorts/ALwHd...

This makes the assumption that Toyota merely manufactures everything in Japan and exports complete units to the U.S. I am not of the actual numbers, but I would assume that Toyota’s manufacturing profile in North America might be similar to that of GM or Ford.

@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social and I summarize the main findings from our @nature.com article on air pollution, crop burning, and public health in South Asia in @voxdev.bsky.social 👇🏽

Interested in major power competition? Small states navigating a complicated world? The intersection of IR & comparative politics? Asia? This publication is for you:

I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section.

I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.

ABSTRACT With low but rising levels of violent political threats and violent acts by civilians in the U.S., researchers increasingly want to measure violent public views – fearing the erosion of collective norms inhibiting violence while also regarding individual attitudes as a risk for rare violent action and more common forms of aggressive political behavior. But how should violent views be measured and interpreted? Drawing on our decade-plus researching these views with several dozen questions and a catalog of related work by others, we provide a practical measurement guide for assessing violent political views with extensive new observational and experimental illustrations that also make important methodological and substantive contributions to the field. We provide considerations for choosing good measure(s): empirically-informed measurement principles, general and specific question evaluations, a deep dive into question design, reliability and validity, and more. The Online Appendix also catalogues a century of violence questions and more published works.

My paper w/ @lilymasonphd.bsky.social is accepted at Public Opinion Quarterly! 🥳

"How to Measure Public Support for Political Violence"

It has nuanced guidance for items & interpretation, & catalogs survey Qs since 1930s. I'll thread another day.

Thanks to editor & reviewers for great feedback!

This is a really important paper in the debate about optimal Social Democratic party strategies and the type of policy positions that are needed to deliver a "progressive majority". A must read!

I always take two micro-mini-pico retirements (coffee breaks) a day

This is a fantastic development for European political science led by some very brilliant people focused on excellent research

A sea change. Bravo.

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🚨EPSA 2025 friends, Program Committee co-chair here....

We still have a few great panels missing discussants!!

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PLEASE RETWEET AND CONSIDER DISCUSSING :)

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if you are able to assist with any of these roles please email: info@epsanet.org ASAP

Very honored to receive the 2025 Francine Frankel Prize for the best book on South Asian Politics from APSA.

Many thanks to the award committee. And it is a privilege to receive this alongside scholars like Adam and Tariq whose work I have long admired.

Explore incidents of election violence in 19th Century England and Wales on our interactive map at victorianelectionviolence.uk/interactive-....

Read short descriptions, see how violence changed over time, and follow the historical newspapers sources to discover more.

Congratulations to @sandipto.bsky.social, Tariq Thachil and Adam Auerbach for winning the South Asia Section's Francine Frankel prize for their books Machines and Migrants and Legalizing the Revolution

Prizes will be presented at APSA 2025

BJPolS abstract detailing the study of democratic regimes and economic development patterns, focusing on the use of latent growth curve models to analyze changes in 103 democratic nations since 1974.

NEW -

Democratic Trajectories in the Third Wave: Aligning Theory and Methods - cup.org/4kihFA2

"This paper advances the study of democratic trajectories – whether democracies deepen, stagnate, erode or break down over time."

- @aperezli.bsky.social & Scott Mainwaring

#OpenAccess

Vacancy — 2 Assistant Professors: International Relations (option a) and EU Politics and Governance (option b The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science with a specializat...

Two vacancies for assistant professor (tenure track) at our Department of Political Science. One on International Relations, the other on EU Politics and Governance.

I may be biased, but would 100% recommend applying. We are a warm, collegial, ambitious department.

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of absenteeism in the public sector on political accountability and service delivery, focusing on a case study from India between 2006 and 2018.

From March 2025 -

Absence: Electoral Cycles and Teacher Absenteeism in India - cup.org/3XCGVre

"Political interference has an effect on bureaucratic performance, and relationships between public sector workers and politicians can ameliorate absenteeism."

- @eeemda.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

good_description/good_description_ddk_agb.pdf at main · ddekadt/good_description Homepage of "Good Description" by Daniel de Kadt & Anna Grzymala-Busse - ddekadt/good_description

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨

What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description?

We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers.

Two main contributions...

🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

another day spent ENTIRELY on immigration and visa paperwork instead of research.

the burdens of doing our jobs well are distributed so unfairly…

Happy to share a new paper now out in EJPR w/ @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @fabioellger.bsky.social and @mgruenewald.bsky.social exploring gendered effects of political violence on political supply.

https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017

A 🧵 with findings

Pushing and Pulling: The Static and Dynamic Effects of Political Distrust on Support for Representative Democracy and its Rivals - Political Behavior Distrust is widely argued to stimulate support for political and institutional change. Yet, there is little agreement among scholars whether distrust pulls people towards rivaling decision-making mode...

New publication with @lisajanssen.bsky.social in PolBeh:
Political distrust pushes people away from the status quo, representative democracy. But distrusters are mostly critical citizens: Rather than technocracy or authoritarianism they pull towards direct democracy
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our article on how elites manage the human resource task of party building is out open access today in @apsrjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Thread below on the main findings 👇

Congratulations Professor Holman

Or maybe a three percentage point decline, which could be within the error margins, does qualify as barely budged. I am not saying this in favor of Trump, just playing devil’s advocate. Unfortunate though.

1/ I just published a new article titled “Criminal Violence, the State, & Society” in the Annual Review of Political Science, which examines the growing political science research on criminal violence over the past 15 years.

Link 👉https://go.shr.lc/3GnoH7f

Here is a summary of some key insights...

VIP Peace Science Workshop Interest Form Please use this form to submit your project (paper or research design) for potential inclusion in the Violence Instability and Peace (VIP) pre-conference workshop at the Peace Science Society's 2025 A...

@vipworkshop.bsky.social has extended the deadline to apply for our Peace Science pre-conference workshop in November! Apply here by 4/16: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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