Scientists when asked for their data "upon reasonable request"

Please don't submit papers that test mediation models based on self-report scales to the European Journal of Personality, unless you have a rock-solid causal model (very unlikely to happen). They will be desk-rejected.

First published fruit of my Narodowe Centrum Nauki Opus project: a paper helmed by the excellent Chris Claassen on how to measure support for democracy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Grüne Welle für den 🚲-Verkehr: An der Saarlandstraße zeigen nun grüne LED-Bodenleuchten, wie man ohne rote Ampeln durch die Stadt radeln kann. Solange die grünen Leuchten an sind, können #Fahrdad​fahrende ohne Stoppen fahren. Einfach wie genial, oder? #Mobilitätswende #Hamburg

The Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) is seeking up to three Associate Editors, starting in 2025. The call is here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruit…

"We find no evidence that preregistration in itself reduces p-hacking and publication bias." But... "When preregistration is accompanied by a preanalysis plan we find evidence consistent with both reduced p-hacking and reduced publication bias."

Huge success for LMU: In the renowned Shanghai Ranking #ARWU Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) is the best German university. The Shanghai Ranking shows LMU rising a whole 16 places up the ranking list since last year and is now in 43rd place worldwide. 🏆

This is a great article!

Wie fair ist unser #Steuersystem? 🟰📋 #LMU-Politikwissenschaftlerin und Politökonomin Laura Seelkopf spricht darüber, wie Steuersysteme zur Ungleichheit zwischen den Geschlechtern beitragen können. Geschwister-Scholl-Institut f. Politikwissenschaft #steuern #politikwissenschaft

Democratic Convention reveals new ad featuring unearthed footage of January 6: “If Trump is elected, he will never be held accountable.”

1/ 🚨 Political campaigns worldwide are increasingly using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to gain an edge. But how does this affect our democratic processes? 🤔 In a new study Adrian Rauchfleisch, Alexander Wuttke, see: kunkakom.bsky.social, and I show what the American public thinks about AI use in elections.

From our new issue: "Bureaucratic Quality and the Gap between Implementation Burden and Administrative Capacities" by Xavier Fernández-I-Marín, Christoph Knill (Christoph Knill@[email protected]), Christina Steinbacher (Christina Steinbacher), and Yves Steinebach #ASPRNewIssue. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Wie Höcke doch noch in den Landtag kommt. Quelle: Bild

Join the event of HfP Professor Tim Büthe about transparency in qualitative research at FIU. The event is aimed at doctoral candidates, post-docs, and professors. 📆September 3, 2 pm (Miami Time) 👉🏻fiu.zoom.us/my/paphd

📢 Making the case for democracy Using a field experiment in 🇩🇪 Alexander Wuttke, see: kunkakom.bsky.social & Florian Foos introduce ‘democratic persuasion’ as an actionable intervention to foster the resilience of citizens' commitment to liberal #democracy #OA 🔓 bit.ly/3XWGoRT

This RCT features politicians from five German parties. Results are potentially scalable. Given what we have seen yesterday, it’s not a magic bullet by any means, but maybe some politicians might consider including it in their repertoire when interacting with citizens.

Evidenz basierend auf 16 Online Town Halls mit 8 MdBs/MdLs.👇 Falls Interesse besteht, bitte einfach melden. Gerne besprechen wir die Ergebnisse und vielleicht können weitere Politiker & Politikerinnen diese Strategie ausprobieren.

Very little polisci work using LLMs is "replicable" in the usual sense of that term. If this sounds like a problem, come see ppr w Christopher Barrie and Lexi Palmer Thurs @ APSA 12-130pm, PCC112A. We give some theory + empirics on where things stand and where we should be trying to go

New Pre-print out today! We're releasing Political DEBATE -- a new set of language models for zero/few-shot classification of political text. The models are open source, small enough to run on your laptop, and as good as proprietary LLMs within domain. arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02078

🚨 New preprint 🚨 I am excited to share a piece with Rui Mata and Zak Hussain in which we advocate for a greater reliance on open LLMs in the behavioral and social sciences. Despite the availability of powerful, more reproducible open alternatives (e.g., via Hugging Face),