Here is another great review of "DEMOCRACY: A User's Guide", this time from "An older man with more conservative values": 📘 amazon.com/gp/customer-re… #⃣ #ThursdayVibes #ThursdayWisdom #Books

Such a pleasure to sit down with Dan Banik In Pursuit of Development 🎙️🌍 and talk #MissionDrivenBureaucrats! Thanks for the great conversation!

Recent research suggests "amateur" candidates without elected experience are on the rise, especially in Congress. Some political reporting even considers a lack of experience an asset for Republican politicians politico.com/news/magazine/…

🚨 Call for applications 🚨 **Graduate Student Workshop** November 13, 2024 in Manchester Apply before September 17: forms.gle/ke8aJbanBtHQrd… All students will be fully funded. Applications from students and JMCs working in econ history, dev, pol econ, etc encouraged. (1/4)

New book on Political Regionalism within African countries out with CUP (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). Please check out this blog post recap at LSE International Inequalities Institute: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2…

Third annual Urban Politics in the Global South Conference! Submit your paper/ abstract by September 9. 🏙️ ⬇️ And thanks for organizing, Noah Nathan Tanu Kumar Alicia Cooperman

"Why Parties Can Benefit From Promoting Occupational Diversity in Legislatures" (w/ Mia Costa) now forthcoming at AJPS. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/osf/… 1/4

My department Wits Politics is looking to hire a permanent staff member at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level with a specialism in gender studies, sexuality and feminist theory and politics. irec.wits.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.jsp….

We are hiring! The LSE ID department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Development Studies, with a focus on gender and development, China and/or food systems and livelihoods. The position starts in Sept. 2025. More information can be found here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/38…

🗞️Paper: Are elected officials in municipal govts knowledgeable about their role and responsibilities? Adam Auerbach, Tariq Thachil and I find officials in India's small towns have strikingly low knowledge on how to govern. Paper American Political Science Review (cambridge.org/core/journals/…)

The Loyalty Trap (Columbia Univ Press) has a cover! I'll be speaking on the book next month Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg on October 21 for the Department of Political Science's Public Administration and Public Policy Seminar gu.se/en/event/the-p….

Corruption is a threat to #development, affecting the poor and most vulnerable. Yet, #government agencies struggle to identify corruption in public spending. This Governance Risk Assessment System report outlines its implementation. Read the report: wrld.bg/8rVb50Q8Wji

I have a new paper conditionally accepted at Journal of Politics @[email protected] where Massimo Morelli and I show how important it is to have a skilled bureaucracy for politicians' ability to get things done! Check it out! lucabellodi.com/material/BM_Po…

I'd like to recommend Aditi Malik (@aditimalik.bsky.social)'s extraordinary new book on parties and election violence in India and Kenya. She and I will share a book roundtable at APSA this Thursday at 8 am. We have some fantastic discussants, too: Yonatan Morse, S. Birch, A. Pitcher, and I. Nooruudin

Looking forward to this event with UCL Policy Lab next week! If you're in London and interested in how a different approach can empower bureaucrats, improve performance, and ultimately make all of our lives better, do come along.

Are you hiring this in political science and/or the computational social sciences? Then I have good news for you. Because WashU Political Science has 🎉 ‼️ 🔥FOUR AMAZING STUDENTS 🎉 ‼️ 🔥 on the market this year. Read on and I'll tell you more about them (in alphabetical order).

Interested in bureaucracy, education, public services or South Asia? Join me APSA plus an exceptional set of colleagues for a roundtable on my book, #MakingBureaucracyWork. Fri, Sept 6, at 8am (Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth A1). Info here: tinyurl.com/27vn65vy

For those interested in the impact of anti-corruption efforts: here are some reflections by Luciano Da Ros and myself about the legacy of Brazil's historic probe a decade after its inception The Conversation. theconversation.com/what-remains-o…