Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)

10 Things to Know About Mechanisms buff.ly/bivPRvu #EGAPMethodsGuide

Congratulations to all participants & partners who attended the LatAm Regional Hub Meeting for a successful event. Thank you for advancing evidence-based solutions on crime, environment & governance! ¡Gracias por avanzar en soluciones basadas en evidencia sobre crimen, medio ambiente y gobernanza!

💡REMINDER— EGAP's 2025 Innovation Grants 🚀

We are still accepting proposals for innovations pushing the boundaries of governance and politics research. Please share with your networks!

⏰ Apply by: October 31, 2025.

Learn more: buff.ly/hR0NZfX

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

It's Day 2! The Latin America Regional Hub Meeting continues at GRADE Peru 🇵🇪. Discussions today focus on policing, environmental governance, and innovative strategies to strengthen democracy in Latin America.

Day 1 of our Latin American Regional Hub Meeting begins at
GRADE Peru with Wyss Academy for Nature organized by @jvaldivi.bsky.social, Fernando Fernández, @santiagotobon.bsky.social & Leopoldo Fergusson. Two days of debate on crime, environment & governance! #EGAPLatAm #SolucionesPoliticas

Priority Theme Spotlight: Place-based interventions with Santiago Tobón – EGAP Author: Max Méndez Beck

This month we are featuring EGAP research in #LatinAmerica!

First up, work from @santiagotobon.bsky.social investigating the impact of “place-based” interventions to reduce crime in #Colombia. His paper is co-written w/ @chrisblattman.bsky.social, Donald P. Green & Daniel Ortega.

We (Econ at ITAM) are hiring:econjobmarket.org/positions/11841
Pay is competitive with the US (in absolute terms), working language is English, virtually no service work, spend ~80% of your time in research, and you get to live in one of the coolest cities in the world.
#econsky

So happy to see this out! We caution against excessive optimism that the opposition will restore countries back to their democratic trajectories after electoral victory. Weakened institutions and the memory of repression makes it tempting to continue rather than buck the trend of autocratization.

In the Calgary area this week? I’ll be at @ucalgary.bsky.social giving two talks.

The first one with the Latin America Cities and Societies Group on the governance of homelessness.

🚨 We’re #hiring!

CEGA is looking for a Postdoctoral Scholar to join our Data Privacy Lab and support the responsible implementation of privacy-enhancing technologies in low- and middle-income countries.

👉 Learn more and apply here: go.cega.org/DPLpostdoc

Last spring, I was elected to chair APSA’s Democracy & Autocracy Section for 2025-2027. I’m excited to be taking on the position as of this month. Thanks to @annemeng.bsky.social for leading the section the last two years!

New paper out. Do congressional candidates benefit from rejecting PAC contributions? Yes -across party lines- Americans really dislike PAC money.

doi.org/10.1177/2053...

10 Things to Know About Multiple Comparisons buff.ly/lZEIVMF #EGAPMethodsGuide

EGAP Newsletter: Autumn 2025 Hear what we have been up to so far this year...

Interested in hearing what we have been up to this year? Our autumn newsletter is out now 🍂

🚨 new paper out w/ @simonchauchard.bsky.social in BJPS @bjpols.bsky.social on the link between misinformation and religiosity- does religious belief cause people to endorse more misinformation? And if so, what can we do about it?

thread below ⬇️

Brief 47: Refugee Messaging and Host Society Attitudes in Turkey – EGAP EGAP researchers: Tolga Sinmazdemir, Thomas Zeitzoff

For our final spotlight on #conflict, Tolga Sinmazdemir with @zeitzoff.bsky.social & Anna Getmansky look at the case of Syrian refugees in Turkey to explore how negative messaging influences perceptions of refugees & attitudes towards domestic conflict.

Read more: buff.ly/rC9cuc2

Deadline to Apply on September 30! Please send in your application

10 Things to Know about Spillovers: buff.ly/nuX2I09 #EGAPMethodsGuide

Final reminder! Political scientists in the southeast, submit your paper to SoWEPS to get great feedback and hang out in New Orleans on 11/7! We match you with a discussant and everyone reads ahead. Submissions due TOMORROW 9/19: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#polisky

Brief 46: Measuring Social Support During Counterinsurgency in Colombia – EGAP EGAP researcher: Aila Matanock

For today's spotlight on EGAPers researching #conflict, read about @matanock.bsky.social work with Miguel Garcia-Sanchez to measure social support during counterinsurgency in Colombia.

Read more at buff.ly/Py6JVO0

Rob Blair (@robertblair.bsky.social), Anna Wilke (@awilke.bsky.social), and I have a new draft of our paper "Can Community Policing Improve Police-Community Relations in a Low-Income Country Setting?"

Comments are welcome:
osf.io/preprints/os...

Explore the Community Experts Roster today and host a virtual talk or lecture to continue crucial conversations about research and evidence-sharing.

Learn more at buff.ly/vYvKwG3

🌟 NOW LIVE 🌟

EGAP’s Community Experts Roster connects universities & other institutions with practitioners with deep expertise on a range of topics- from government transparency & accountability to evidence-based program design to productive research/practitioner partnerships.

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

10 Things to Know About Project Workflow: buff.ly/xVh6ElM #EGAPMethodsGuide

👉 Apply today— 2025 Innovation Grants 🚀

We are accepting proposals for innovations pushing the boundaries of governance and politics research.

Deadline: October 31, 2025.

Learn more: buff.ly/hR0NZfX

Our paper is finally forthcoming :)

Excited and honored that “Creating Partisans” has won the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award for its contributions to research on pol. organizations and parties from @apsa.bsky.social! Many thanks to the committee & everyone who helped improve the book! @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org