Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)

🍂 Our Autumn newsletter is out now! 🍂 Read all about what EGAP has been up to lately 👉 buff.ly/GHKd8GH

10 Things to Know About Pilot Studies buff.ly/OuCokJz #EGAPMethodsGuide

...and that's a wrap on #EGAP32 🎉 We are grateful to everyone who joined us @novafrica.bsky.social over the last three days! And a huge thank you Pedro Vicente and the Nova team for hosting and ensuring everything ran so smoothly. Until next time! 👋

In our final #EGAP32 session, our new Methods Working Group led a conversation about future directions for EGAP's methodological focus. Thank you to everyone who shared ideas about how to build constructive collaborations, link theory and empirics and contribute to evidence-based policy decisions.

“Exposure to content from untrustworthy sources on social media is less common and more concentrated than people typically think.” Professor @brendannyhan.bsky.social co-authored a study that found cutting users’ exposure to such sources by 70% didn’t measurably change their political attitudes.

…and we are back for day two of #EGAP32 @novafrica.bsky.social! We are excited to continue digging deep into #experimentalresearch on innovative evidence based policy in the area of #conflict and beyond.

Today we discussed six amazing projects🌟 Topics ranged from the effects of mediation on violence & social cohesion to a collaborative effort to bridge the gap between policy-relevant academic research & public engagement through media. We look forward to another full day tomorrow of #EGAP32!

Thank you to our expert moderator Morgan Holmes and our entire panel: Oke Epia (Order Paper), Viola Asri (CMI), Sana Khan (Spark Microgrants), Flora Myamba (Women & Social Protection Tanzania) & Seema Shah (@internationalidea.bsky.social)

In our first plenary today we heard from some of EGAP's institutional members. They described the work they are doing on the ground, how research collaborations can support their aims, and some of the constraints and limitations they face moving #experimentalresearch forward.

Thank you @novafrica.bsky.social for hosting us!

It’s Day One of #EGAP32 @novafrica.bsky.social! We are looking forward to two full days of exchanging ideas and connecting over #experimentalresearch on the theme of #conflict and more. First, we will hear from practitioners about their work and experiences partnering with research teams.

New working paper with Matt Blyth, Marco Aviña, and @semrasevi.bsky.social ! paper: alexandercoppock.com/coppock_etal... shiny: anonymouspoliticalscientist.shinyapps.io/afcp-explorer/ Answer to the title question: effects of partisanship and policy are much bigger than demographics or experience

📖 Read online today: @rezartabilali.bsky.social, Sam Freel and Borja Martinović (2026). Reform or revolution? How progress and longstanding injustice narratives shape support for incremental versus radical social change. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

10 Things to Know About Sampling buff.ly/i75UYEr #EGAPMethodsGuide

New paper 🚨: Is there a democratic advantage in war? 30 years of research say yes. We reevaluate these claims with new data on wars and democracy and find very little evidence to support the claim that democracies win wars at (much) higher rates than non-democracies Paper: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

For today's spotlight on #PartnershipLessons 🤝 EGAP's @jakebowers.bsky.social & Matthew Winters w/ Malawi's Institute for Public Opinion & Research assess the effect of incentives and information about public good provision on local attitudes that form barriers to tax collection. buff.ly/HbRUvZQ

10 Things to Know About Survey Experiments buff.ly/E1yDs4j #EGAPMethodsGuide

How does civil society repression affect the information about #humanrights violations that reaches the international community? Join Professor @ucmerced.bsky.social Leonardo Arriola for his talk on October 23. www.politics.utoronto.ca/events/who-r...

⭐️ In today's #PartnershipLessons spotlight: Ali Cheema, Ali Hasanain & Jacob Shapiro partner w/ Ahsan Zia Farooqui (Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives) to evaluate a policing intervention focused on “citizen-centric problem-oriented policing” in Pakistan. Learn more: buff.ly/rv7QU86

🚨new working paper🚨 Chris Blair (@chriswblair.bsky.social), Jeremy Weinstein, and I describe here The Dataset of World Refugee and Asylum Policies, in which we code de jure asylum policy for 205 countries, from 1951-2022. We hope you will find the paper and data helpful. osf.io/preprints/so...

Excited to have joined the editorial committee of Comparative Politics! Looking forward to reading your submissions.

Can #radio increase the quality and utilization of #healthservices in developing contexts? Join @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Prof. John Marshall this Thursday, Oct, 8th at our 'Political Economy and Behaviour Seminar Series.' #Tanzania www.politics.utoronto.ca/events/gener...

10 Things Your Null Result Might Mean buff.ly/HnFTKht #EGAPMethodsGuide

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