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@mikecowburn.bsky.social

Research Fellow, @demolaw.bsky.social, Zeppelin Universität Intra-Party Politics | Candidate Selection | Legislative Politics | PolComm | Primaries Author: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries https://tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx www.mikecowburn.com

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Thank you! Very kind

04.08.2025 14:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this book is huge. i've never been able to believe that primaries are not a driver of polarization, an avenue for a re-anchoring movement. i have seen the dilemmas for that view posed by Sides and others, but i've resisted them fiercely. here is amazing data collection & a smart, plausible solution.

04.08.2025 14:20 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Felix continuing his fantastic work on intra-party politics. Always worth reading

01.08.2025 08:31 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Felix continuing his fantastic work on intra-party politics. Always worth reading

01.08.2025 08:31 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Congrats! This looks awesome! 🙌🏻

28.07.2025 18:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you work in higher-ed, please read this interview with @dkreiss.bsky.social.
I believe the types of public signals to the sector he points to here have direct ramifications beyond the US.

24.07.2025 08:29 — 👍 34    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 1
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A Scion of Democratic Politics Defeats the Upstarts in an Arizona Primary

The left-most candidate – who was endorsed by AOC, Bernie and the Working Families Party – won the congressional primary, and the NYT is spinning it as a loss for Mamdani’s politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...

16.07.2025 04:20 — 👍 2038    🔁 359    💬 54    📌 57
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Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: “indexing by proxy” in a German immigration debate Abstract. This study examines the mechanisms by which illiberal politics make the news by disrupting democratic systems. During the late 20th century, a li

This is such a great new piece of research by @curdknupfer.bsky.social et al. It should be mandatory reading for journalists. academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

13.07.2025 10:11 — 👍 133    🔁 70    💬 3    📌 10

The dumbest person alive (who of course has an Atlantic column): It just doesn’t make any sense, there is this thing that works really well and these conservatives want to stop it helping people. I am so confused. Do they know about this? Surely they wouldn’t do it if they know. A mistake surely?

03.07.2025 13:08 — 👍 212    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0
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Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy Abstract. This volume introduces a “connection action” framework for explaining democratic backsliding. We bring together a mostly political science compar

The entire Open Access book is now available for FREE download here:
academic.oup.com/book/60493

02.07.2025 16:28 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries Cambridge Core - American Studies - Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries

Not directly dealing with “brand” here but my book might be of interest tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx

My primaries dataset could be used to answer this question (I don’t know if there would be enough cases for an RD): doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

28.06.2025 11:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The DEMOLAW team having a beer in a square in Madrid

The DEMOLAW team having a beer in a square in Madrid

DEMOLAW team drinks in Madrid #EPSA2025

27.06.2025 21:32 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Happening this afternoon #EPSA2025

27.06.2025 09:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Intra-party politics scholars having fun in a bar

Intra-party politics scholars having fun in a bar

Intra-party politics night out in Madrid #EPSA2025 #falafel

@blumrm.bsky.social @janaschwenk.bsky.social @malpas.bsky.social @jacobgunderson.bsky.social @mkaltenegger.bsky.social @felixlehmann.bsky.social @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social

26.06.2025 19:34 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Happening this afternoon! #EPSA2025

26.06.2025 11:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happening today! #EPSA2025

26.06.2025 06:46 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Flyer for Mike Cowburn’s book “Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries”

Flyer for Mike Cowburn’s book “Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries”

Waking up this morning and wondering how primaries became factional contests between ideologically-distinct candidates, and whether these primaries have transformed parties?

Well do I have just the book for you…

tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx

25.06.2025 07:48 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
Flyer for Mike Cowburn’s book “Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries”

Flyer for Mike Cowburn’s book “Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries”

Waking up this morning and wondering how primaries became factional contests between ideologically-distinct candidates, and whether these primaries have transformed parties?

Well do I have just the book for you…

tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx

25.06.2025 07:48 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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The democratic socialist @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has beaten Cuomo and is now the Democrats’ nominee for Mayor of NYC, de facto Mayor-Elect. Democrats and liberals serious about defeating illiberalism better pay attention. There is a model for organizing the majority and saving democracy. 1/7

25.06.2025 07:35 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

In Madrid, can confirm it is warm 🥵 #EPSA2025

24.06.2025 11:49 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I will email you! Thank you 🙂

24.06.2025 05:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We actually wanted to speak to you about this paper. We are applying some of your (inter-party) framework from Anti-System Politics at the intra-party level. Will you be in Madrid?

24.06.2025 05:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Title and abstract of paper

Title and abstract of paper

On Friday at 17:00 (1A.10) I'll present "The Logic of Connective Faction: How Far-Right Media and Digitally-Networked Elites Radicalize Politics" (co-authored w/@curdknupfer.bsky.social & @yunkangyang.bsky.social) on panel "Politics, Media, and Radicalization" #EPSA2025

Paper: tinyurl.com/38czxhh6

23.06.2025 12:34 — 👍 42    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 1
Title and abstract

Title and abstract

On Thursday at 17:00 (-1.A.05) @kaplaner.bsky.social presents "Balancing Versatility and Precision:
A Framework for Capturing Legislative Design Choices in Democratic Systems", the first empirical paper of the @demolaw.bsky.social project. #EPSA2025

DEMOLAW conceptual paper: tinyurl.com/5auvzcbs

23.06.2025 12:34 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
Title and abstract of the paper

Title and abstract of the paper

On Thursday at 11:20 (0A.08) I'll be presenting "Comparing Intra-Party Factional Conflict: An Inductive Approach Using Leadership Contests", co-authored with @blumrm.bsky.social and @malpas.bsky.social in the panel "Intra-Party Conflict in Comparative Perspective" #EPSA2025
tinyurl.com/3acmdudt

23.06.2025 12:33 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2

Heading to Madrid for #EPSA2025 this week, where I will be presenting two papers and am a co-author of a third.

Both the temperatures and the research are guaranteed to be hot 🔥(I have been reliably informed that there will be a/c)

Posts on each paper to follow...

23.06.2025 12:33 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Very useful, thanks! Hopefully we get a chance to catch up

23.06.2025 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Props to @curdknupfer.bsky.social for that one

23.06.2025 13:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry @curdknupfer.bsky.social not sure why that tag didn’t work

23.06.2025 13:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This week, we're in Madrid for #EPSA2025 where @kaplaner.bsky.social will present our first empirical research paper "Balancing Versatility and Precision: A Framework for Caputring Legislative Design Choice in Democratic Systems" on Thursday at 17:00 (-1.A.05).

23.06.2025 12:44 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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