Asmus Leth Olsen

We (@karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social) are re-building the field of Public Administration from the ground up! Well, okay, we built a website with a table of papers. The Archive of PA outside PA is a living archive of PA research published outside PA journals. Go see: www.paopa.org

EPSS in Copenhagen! Hope to see all of your there. Send your abstracts now.

EPSS in Copenhagen! Hope to see all of your there. Send your abstracts now.

A surprisingly large part of declining measured scientific productivity is attributed to declining average quality of the researcher pool. Have a nice day! www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

New, from me: Everything seems awful, but Co. Kerry, Ireland is great. A photo essay on what to do if you visit (especially for Killarney and Dingle). Replies are open, so please add your own suggestions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

This doesn't look good at all for Cambridge and Prof. Arday. The evidence presented so far is pretty damning.

Case study: Why is AFD of 25%?

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

Our book The Brussels Bubble: Inside the European Union in the Digital Age with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org is out now OPEN ACCESS! We take you on an ethnographic journey behind the scenes of multilateralism, from Brexit to COVID-19 to Russia's war on Ukraine 👉 Find it here: tinyurl.com/m237ry4b

Landing in Belfast for the European Political Science Society. Please share your favorite things to do, places to eat or drink. (Don’t bother recommending the Titanic museum (done it) or conflict tours).

現在は行政研究の黄金期にあるが、かなりの論文が経済学ジャーナルに掲載されている。それらと行政研究ジャーナルの論文とはどう違うか？──を記述的に比較するというもの。 Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals doi.org/10.1017/S104...

Fixed it

Copenhagen is stocking up on high-end saisons and training staff to describe every style as “pleasantly tart” to maximize sales. @donmoyn.bsky.social is in town.

Still funny

And how the do we get Econ to cite PA? Doing literature reviews behind enemy lines is a way forward. Here is a model example by @pamherd.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social — see: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... bsky.app/profile/asmu...

When schools close, due to COVID-19 lockdown or holidays, the gender gap in reading increases. This is a challenge as boys already struggle more with reading skills than girls. New paper in @pnas.org with Emil Smith, @davidreimer.bsky.social & @madsjaeger.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Election day in Denmark Dutchification of the party system continues with record levels of party fractionalization. We will be more Dutch than the Dutch before the end of today. (The Dutch will still have way more narrative systemic reviews in Public Administration journals.)

Building affordable housing ➡️ support for funding housing. Nearby homeowners ⬆️ support; renters ⬇️ support. Both are “the policy adjacent”—secondhand recipients & drivers of policy feedback. Forthcoming @ajpseditor.bsky.social ( doi.org/10.1111/ajps...) w/ A. Magazinnik & @msands.bsky.social 1/9

#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social - Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals - https://cup.org/4bp1jna - @asmusletholsen.bsky.social, @karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social & Paul van Leeuwen #FirstView

This is great paper about interdisciplinarity: *points out that Econ is now doing a lot of high quality public administration research *Econ is also mostly ignoring traditional PA research, PA is a bit more attentive to Econ *Both groups would benefit from engaging much more with each other

Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ... Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups? Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com: tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

Veloplagt forskerkritik af Philip Larsen: www.altinget.dk/artikel/forf...

"Can AI automate policy evaluation?" Looks like an amazing project - AI is changing science production in very deep ways: ape.socialcatalystlab.org

"Vil du med hjem og se min samling af .md-filer?"

Contender for worst logo of all time

Trump right now on the psychological benefits of owning Greenland: >>who the hell wants to defend a license agreement<< 🫣

"President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize" 🙃 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

What is something nice I can say about Delaware? bsky.app/profile/donm...

I would like to announce my own goodwill mission to Denmark this May, where I will meet @asmusletholsen.bsky.social and the King. www.cbsnews.com/news/congres...

New stuff bsky.app/profile/jose...

This is a really cool paper. It shows that role models can influence how people think about college majors & working in government. But it also shows that effects fade over over time which should constrain our expectations about how one shot interventions like training actually can change behavior.

My first working paper is now live! Can minority role models help diversify the bureaucracy of the future?

This: In the same week that Vance expressed concern that France and the United Kingdom had nuclear weapons, he said Denmark was not a very good ally to the US. It is shameful. bsky.app/profile/thom...

Tak til chatten: >>“Imaginaries” is a conceptual Swiss army knife: high-status, flexible, theoretically respectable, and safely non-positivist. Its heavy use reflects not conceptual laziness, but a field where epistemological signaling through titles has become central to publication success.<<

My first name is made up in two novel ways in this review (just before the reviewers point out that the book under review spells @alasdairroberts.bsky.social wrong in two different ways). An the authors are Norwegians - brothers from another mother! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"viewpoint discrimination is a key motivator behind these student demands. While the desire to restrict academic freedom also reflects an interest in upholding prof. academic standards... these principles are applied unevenly & predominantly to conservative viewpoints" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Good morning. A coda (from me) on this replication business. While I understand the impulse, it is disheartening that most of the discussion generated by this replication is about the replication "process" -- both the APSR's process and my own process. What could we be talking about instead?

I have now read the response by Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega again with a clearer eye. Multiple claims in this response are untrue or seek to obscure the truth. My interest has always been the accuracy of the scientific record, so I feel compelled to note some of these claims here.

incredible that we can turn correcting coding errors into litigation about the process in which we are allowed to transmit this information