When are politicians willing to liberalize abortion laws? Check out of new article in CPS- the latest from the Bergen-Berkeley gang! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

GLD's Research Seminar Series introduces the research process and covers 3 stages of research: Refining a research question Selecting methodology Presenting findings. All 15 videos are free to use and available on our website with English & Arabic subtitles: gld.gu.se/en/education...

This paper is good! And it crystallizes an idea: the type of social change whose outcome you could measure through a randomized controlled trial is almost certainly system-preserving. So, if you only study the policies that RCTs can evaluate, you'll *never* study transformative social change.

MSmeganstevenson.bsky.socialJan 2, 2024 7:37pm

So pleased to see my paper out! It surveys 50+ years of randomized control trials in criminal justice and shows that almost no interventions have lasting benefit -- and the ones that do don't replicate in other settings. 1/ www.bu.edu/bulawreview/... #econsky #polisky #metascience #philsci

congrats, @rubenmathisen.bsky.social !

@benjaminwittes.bsky.social@rparloff.bsky.social@annabower.bsky.social about Judge Cannon's cryptic order in the Mar-a-Lago case, the latest in the Section 3 litigation, and the release of proffer videos in Fulton County on Trump's Trials and Tribulations. Listen now:

The Lawfare Podcast: Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: What Is Judge Cannon up to Now?

Professor of Government, University of Bergen. Head of MA program in Politics and Governance of Global Challenges www.uib.no/en/studies/M...

Thank you CEDAR (Uni of Birmingham) for offering an opportunity to exchange on democracy in Africa. Nic, Lise and I had a great time discussing the implications of our book on democratic backsliding! @manoelgehrke.bsky.social

Working on political institutions and democracy in Africa? We're calling for participants for a mini-conference during the next APSA. Scholars from the continent and early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. Submit your abstract by Dec. 4: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

APSA Mini-Conference 2024: Call for Papers - Institutions and Democracy in Africa

Following the introduction of multiparty electrons across many parts of Africa in the early 1990s, domestic and international analysts hoped that democracy would take root by institutionalizing horizo...

Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have been children

Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have b...

Medical-aid groups in the Gaza Strip told Insider they were running out of supplies due to Israel's counterattack and blockade.