Daniel Kovarek

no better way to depart from #ecprgc25 than 👀 my paper just published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social! I find localism in an unlikely place & show that people feel more represented when they live in incumbent MEPs' hometowns, using survey data from 🇷🇴🇭🇺🇮🇹🇧🇪 doi.org/10.1177/1465... #Polisky

📊🌱 Curious about R, but never quite knew where to begin? First up in our #KOMEX2027 course series: Introduction to R with Daniel Kovarek. 💻 Online | 📅 18–19 Feb 2027 🔗 Explore the course and register 🔎 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred... @methodsnet.bsky.social

21:30 is easily becoming my new favorite timestamp — Orbán conceded right around then in April, and tonight Vučić did the same, on the dot.

my friend and co-author based at a Hungarian state uni always tells me "this is not a job, this is a hobby". He is not wrong.

🎉 New article in @eupthejournal.bsky.social, co-authored with @tonirodon.bsky.social The EU channelled billions to local governments through NextGeneration EU. Did the mayors who delivered it get rewarded at the ballot box? Spoiler: No 🧵1/

How should we track human decisions in the kind of data science project that Alex envisions, and how can we ensure LLMs implement our decisions faithfully? One idea would be "Data Analysis Decision Records" What do you think? I'd love any feedback on #DADR ! vincentarelbundock.github.io/dadr

Ever wondered what attributes are relevant in your conjoint experiment? And what assumptions you need to estimate it? Asya and I got you covered. In a new working paper we propose the APNS: the probability that an attribute's level change is necessary and sufficient for the selection of a profile.

Join my @komex.bsky.social course & learn the basics of programming and data analysis in R in just 2 days online at #KOMEX2027, without any prior knowledge! 👩‍💻📊 Link: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

[OUT] 'Crises and regime instability: autocratization and democratization pathways across political regimes', new paper by @lucatomini.bsky.social, professor at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol), with Guido Panzano, in Journal of Peace Research academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...

We are looking for a new PostDoc in our team! You'll work with @danbischof.bsky.social on an amazing research project and be part of our team (incl. me and @mwegemann.bsky.social) in Münster. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions! Deadline: 6 November

Happy weekend! This Saturday brings you the rare joy of a 🙌job🙌 in: surveys! democratic attitudes! experiments! three years!! research only (if you want)!!!! with @rikkidean.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social !!!!!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTB393/r...

We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7

I’m pretty sure when the rest of the world said the US should switch to SI, they meant kilograms and meters, not this

📢 Free book alert! What happens to the gender gap in political ambition in local government—the “best case” for women? Men STILL report more ambition. Using 3 datasets, this book unpacks why & shows that 🚺 are also much more likely to have “local-only” ambition. Free download + author 🧵 below!

🧵 Just accepted @thejop.bsky.social, with @tswalve.bsky.social "What's in a name? Name recognition, place-based identities, and candidate success" Voters prefer local candidates. But how do they know who's local? Often simply from the name on the ballot👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

@christinajuen.bsky.social and I chair an open panel on "Local Party Politics and Governance" at the @dvpw.bsky.social Congress 2027. If you have any questions, please reach out (and also ignore the "Prof" LMU stuff in the call, which obviously is wrong...)😉 CfP: www.dvpw.de/dvpw2027/en/...

📣 Send in your abstract by tomorrow to our Special Issue in @cogitatiopag.bsky.social on Giving or Taking Voice? Representative Claims and Group Appeals in the Public Sphere: www.cogitatiopress.com/app/politics... #cfp #representation #representativeclaims #groupappeals #publicsphere #mixedmethods

Everyone studies how populists deform the administrative state. But what happens after they lose? In a new 🔓 OA piece in PAR, w/ Bauer, Motta & Schultz we compare bureaucratic repair in 🇭🇺 #Hungary, 🇧🇷 #Brazil & 🇵🇱 #Poland — and why undoing the damage is harder than doing it. doi.org/10.1111/puar.70186

This looks like a great forthcoming special issue from Michael Bauer, Taco Brandsen, Eva Sørensen and @stevenvdwalle.bsky.social, examining public administration in illiberal times. #polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

EuroWEPS 14 is here! We'll meet in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social and discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars especially welcome to apply! Deadline is Sept 11.

'How Place-Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent' Our latest essay on place and discontent is out today in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social Free to read ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1467...

🚨Super excited to share this new WP with Joohye Jeong, @adamberinsky.bsky.social, Soong & Parker. We ask a simple but extremely practical Q for survey researchers: 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬/𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲? Answer: Not really, no. 👍

"Explores how politicians' career control over bureaucrats has profound implications on outcomes from corruption to local public goods provision" - Mai Hassan The Co-opted State by @sarahbrierley.bsky.social, Out Now and #OpenAccess https://cup.org/4wl66NC #PoliSky #BookSky

We are hiring two postdocs in the ERC project (DIS)EMPOWER led by Professor Michael Becher (DL Oct 30). The project analyzes how work automation shapes the power of workers in the workplace and in democratic politics. careers-ieedu.icims.com/jobs/3160/po... careers-ieedu.icims.com/jobs/3161/po...

📣 We are hiring - please share! 👉 1-2 Postdoctoral Fellows with specialization in political data science or comparative politics as part of the ERC project “Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge” (AutoKnow)- PI Tore Wig. 📅3-4 years ⏳September 10, 2026. 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We’re SWEEP-ing in a new era 🧹🧹🧹 EEPG is now Scholars Working on East European Politics. What does this mean? We’re now broadening the community to include scholars at all career stages. Lots of fun in store with our new-look on our website (sweep-workshop.github.io) & below⤵️⤵️

The euro banknotes seem to get a new look, and the @ecb.europa.eu has hosted a survey, asking which desing is the preferred one. I really like the stork on the 50€ banknote. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...

📢 Now online in AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social)! With Katie Clayton, Aaron Kaufman, @kinggary.bsky.social , and @mayyakomis.bsky.social, we offer a unified framework for conjoint analysis—and argue for analyzing data at the CHOICE level. 📊 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ajps... 🛠️ yhoriuchi.github.io/projoint/

📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PostDoc? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social and Johannes Giesecke at Humboldt University, @scripts-berlin.eu and @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 2026

🚨New paper out in JEPP @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 Women are underrepresented in local politics, and the problem isn't only their election but retention. In a survey experiment with 500+ English councillors, we find that family-friendly council policies increase women's static ambition. 🧵

sure, June Ball parties are wild & graduations are moving, but for me it's always been the CEE pol behavior conf organized by @filipkostelka.bsky.social that marks the end of EUI spring term when familiar & new faces, grad school friends & emeriti show there's great research east of the Oder/Leitha

From our FirstView: Vetting for Virtue: Democracy’s Challenge in Excluding Criminals from Office by SIGURD S. ARNTZEN, @fiva.no and RUNE J. SØRENSEN. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

📢 Open call for two additional contributions to our Special Issue "Methodological Advances for the Study of German Politics" @pvs-journal.bsky.social. 📄 Submit by July 12: www.sosci.uni-hamburg.de/pvs/ ℹ️ www.dvpw.de/gliederung/s... @gessler.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

My department at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social is advertising 3 Tenure-Track AP positions in Political Science and 2 Teaching positions. The department is nice, non-toxic, and in good financial shape (which is not a given these days, in the UK or elsewhere): warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

New paper in @EJPR: Why doesn’t regional inequality always spark backlash? It also depends on relative regional gains, not just absolute regional income. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Come work with me! 12 days left to apply! 👇 And if you are at #EPSS, go see the presentations by @clint0475.bsky.social to get a taste of what we do.

if you're still in Dublin @ces-europe.bsky.social #CES2026 join our panel on Thursday morning at 9AM 🌅🥱 with @vanghel.bsky.social @alexmoise.bsky.social @nenaoana.bsky.social @ztruchlewski.bsky.social featuring experiments on the EU 🇪🇺

looking forward to present our co-authored paper w/ @dasilvapp.bsky.social featuring brand-new experimental data on financial nationalism in Hungary @ces-europe.bsky.social #CES2026 in Dublin on Wednesday in this great panel w/ @duarteamaro.bsky.social @bcaihuelas.bsky.social @tedperl.bsky.social 🍀

excited to present some work in progress on sham opposition parties in competitive authoritarian regimes tmr @eui-eu.bsky.social in this panel! many thanks to @angelovpanaro.bsky.social @anvaccaro.bsky.social Tiziana Corda & Valerio Vignoli for organizing this great workshop!

1/ Happy to share that "Factorial Difference-in-Differences" (FDID), with Anqi Zhao and @pengding00 , is out in JASA - ACS. doi.org/10.1080/0162... It has been a truly thrilling experience working with Anqi and Peng.

New paper with @martingross.bsky.social in Political Studies 🗣️ "Feeling overlooked and underrepresented? Citizens’ preferences for dialect-speaking representatives" Do dialects matter for political representation? Short answer: yes.

Post-doc position at @scripts-berlin.eu! If you are a survey researcher interested in cross-national research on how people perceive liberalism, democracy etc, take a look! You’ll get to work with 🥳 @swenhutter.bsky.social: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...

From our May Issue: Institutional Recognition: Activating Representation to Build Police Responsiveness to Women by @gabikw.bsky.social, @amangla.bsky.social and @sandipz.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

How should we conceptualize political interest? In POQ, Laffineur et al. demonstrate that political interest and disinterest are distinct social identities through a newly developed methodological approach. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

reminder for myself: next time I teach stats, I shall mention the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party

📣 New paper with @jschultecloos.bsky.social in European Union Politics. Who rallied hardest around the EU flag after Russia's 2022 invasion? Not convinced Europeans. The EU's traditional skeptics. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What is the analogue of class guilt you feel witnessing the scenes in Ankara and Istanbul just weeks after my home country ousted its own autocrat with a landslide? Thinking of my Turkish friends tonight, stay safe!

For my Horizon Project EDGE I am looking for a senior researcher from October 1st. This is a 3-year position on inequalities and democracy support. All information on the job and application process is here: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2639403?...