Silviya Nitsova

🚨New version of paper🚨 osf.io/preprints/os... How do oligarchs shape policy outcomes in developing democracies? I argue they do so through informal networks of legislators personally linked to them. Using unique quantitative & qualitative evidence from Ukraine, I show that:

Our article with @grigopop.bsky.social and @jacobtucker.bsky.social is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! This has been a very long journey from the initial draft to publication, so we are very excited 😀 I'll summarize our findings in the next few of posts in the thread.

Der neue Ukrainian Analytical Digest No. 21 ist erschienen. Darin setzen sich drei Texte mit den ukrainischen Oligarchen auseinander und blicken auf ihre Rolle und ihren Einfluss in Politik und Gesellschaft. Spannende Ausgabe! Jetzt lesen unter: css.ethz.ch/content/dam/...

We're hiring at UNC! Assistant or Associate level, any area of comparative politics. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob... If you have any questions, get in touch with me!

Special issue on "Political Networks" in Network Science! Submission open now. Deadline 13 November 2026. www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... Guest editors: Philip Leifeld, Shahryar Minhas, Monica Di Gregorio. #SNA #PoliSky #PolMeth #NetSci #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis #PoliticalNetworks #NWS

The US has lost one of its national treasures and the world has lost an icon. Rest in peace, Dolly Parton. We’ll always love you.

Highly recommend. [📢 shared through Valeria Umanets] Call for Papers: Politics & Political Economy of Eurasia Workshop @ MPSA2027 Chicago | April 1–4, 2027 We welcome research on politics & political economy across Eurasia, from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. Deadline: Sept. 15 More info:

New #AJPS paper 🚨: "Endogenous Coalition Formation in Policy Debates." doi.org/10.7910/DVN/.... Statistical modelling and forecasting of discourse networks, based on the policy learning strategies of actors. 12 years from first analysis to publication! 😅 #policy #polisky #SNA @ajpseditor.bsky.social

It was time for a SWEEP! 🧹 We are transforming our grad workshop, EEPGW, into a new online East European politics workshop for scholars *at all career stages*! Below is our Call for Papers📄 & an APSA happy hour🍸& a call to share your APSA panel so fellow East Europeanists can be in the loop📝!

Proof that network data collection generates more questions than answers. Which is a good thing! Thanks to everyone who joined. I really enjoyed the discussion.

If you ever get the chance to see @rommari.bsky.social & Jez Myers give a talk, do so. Their “How NOT to Flee a War” tonight was brilliant. Thank you for sharing your story. 🇺🇦 🐝

A great opportunity for PhD students and early career researchers that I can’t recommend strongly enough: The Ronald Coase Institute is holding its Workshop on Institutional Analysis on December 6-12, 2026 in Mexico City, Mexico, at ITAM. Fellowships available. More at www.coase.org/whatsnew.htm

📑❗️Our article with @grigopop.bsky.social and Graeme Robertson on the effects of Ukraine’s decentralization reform on satisfaction with public services (and democracy) in Ukraine 🇺🇦 was just published in Comparative Political Studies! doi.org/10.1177/0010...

The Draft Volume of the APSA AI Task Force, cochaired by Josh Tucker and me, is now available. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE will be published by Cambridge Press later this year, but the draft chapters are available today: apsanet.org/wp-content/u...

My new paper with Margarita Zavadskaya is out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! Since 2022, the Kremlin has turned pseudo fact checking into a key propaganda strategy. But how does it affect citizens? We run an experiment to answer this Q (10/): doi.org/10.1017/S153...

My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)

It really takes a village to do good research. Those of you interested in the process of knowledge production might find our new PNAS interesting. Details below.

How do people react to different forms of election manipulation in politically polarized settings? New from me at Democratization @democratization.bsky.social, with survey-experimental evidence from Georgia 🇬🇪: doi.org/10.1080/1351...

🚨Job opportunity🚨 UNC Poli Sci is hiring a postdoc (one year renewable) to advance research on political behavior, with a special focus on free expression in higher education. Competitive salary and benefits. No teaching. Please encourage people to apply. Ad: timryan.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

With Radev's win in Bulgaria, imo, we'll see something new at the EU level-- advocacy for pro-Ru positions not from a euroskeptic position a la Orban/AfD/RN but from an ostensibly pro-EU position: Europe should abandon Ukr and go back to cheap Ru energy to be stronger and strategically autonomous.

Last BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, "(Anti)corruption and conditionality in the geopolitical enlargement: Ukraine’s EU accession in comparative perspective" @popovaprof.bsky.social @eepolitics.bsky.social tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Next, "Beyond the rent-seeking: resilience and civic transformation of Ukrainian business" by Inna Melnykovska @eepolitics.bsky.social tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The first paper of my dissertation is published now in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social! Press coverage of the richest Germans is rare but focused on a minority of highly visible individuals and varies along the historical origins of fortunes. doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292

Submission deadline for the Political Networks Conference 2026 extended to 22 April following requests and to accommodate Easter breaks. Submission and full scope details: sites.google.com/view/confpol.... Please RT. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience #SNA

Check out our great Spring/Summer lineup at @eepgworkshop.bsky.social and come join for our first session next Friday, where @isadesisto.bsky.social will present fascinating work in progress with @snitsova.bsky.social serving as discussant!

Looking forward to a great Spring/Summer series with @eepgworkshop.bsky.social! We'll be kicking off next week (Fri April 17) with new work in progress from @isadesisto.bsky.social and @snitsova.bsky.social graciously discussing! More info + full schedule at the link below.

🚨 7 days left! Submit your proposal for the 19th Annual Political Networks Conference by April 12. Don’t miss it 👇

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Miscalculation of Rheinmetall CEO fails to grasp that the combination of what some might call “low” tech civilian with conventional weapons & tactics is what makes Ukraine’s fight innovative. But what drives civilian engagement? - we have a NEW paper about that! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Two more weeks to apply!

The deadline is approaching to send in your proposal for the 2026 WiLS conference. Please fill out the form by March 31 even if you plan to attend as a discussant/chair/participant. Hope to see in in Virginia in October! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

With APSA decisions out, we extended the deadline for submissions to the 4th Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference. If you are travelling to Boston in September, send us your work by March 20th! (CC @mariacarreri.bsky.social @awiedemann.bsky.social @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social)

🚨📆 Deadline extension!📆 🚨 If you're interested in presenting your work (at any stage!) submit @ the link below by Fri March 13 at 11:59 PM PST. A big thanks to those who submitted proposals already-- we look forward to reading your submissions & to another great set of workshops✨

*Academics of Bluesky:* Do you know a great UG/PG student with excellent quants skills? @nspmartin.bsky.social and I are advertising a great fully-funded PhD on MRP and minority voting with our friends at Ipsos, so send them our way! ✌️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.