Alexandra Jabbour
Assistant prof at the University of Warwick • Previously : Max Weber Fellow at the EUI, PhD UMontreal• Political economy, Public Opinion, Political Behaviour, Housing • #TeamOM • http://alexandrajabbour.github.io
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourI hear the new Dutch coalition agreement includes this (translation): “We are also investigating the introduction of an electoral threshold and a new electoral system for the House of Representatives, in which preferential votes are given more weight.” Fascinating to see how this plays out.
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbourreminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourNew submission format at SBE: “Replications as Registered Reports” link.springer.com/journal/1118... You can get "in-principle acceptance" before data collection even begins; final paper gets published regardless the results, if the study is conducted rigorously. #EconSky
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourA very interesting paper, worth a read especially on a day like this .
- Why did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes? doi.org/10.1017/S153... @kanol.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de @politikuhh.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourThe section is searching for new editors for @jepsjournal.bsky.social ! Please check out the call here, and circulate widely: connect.apsanet.org/s42/editor-s...
- I’m still not sure whether I like it or not. But at least it makes me smile, sometimes
- "It isn’t just you. A lot of people are spending more time on #LinkedIn." www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
- « Not as many people now have a mortgage that they’ve paid off and a roof over their head that they can call their own. Lots more people are renting, relying on housing benefit which has been frozen, so it’s not rocket science, eventually they will end up experiencing homelessness »
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourCan reflecting on past democratic backsliding episodes “inoculate” citizens into vigilant liberal democrats? Drawing on the Slovak case, @movadek.bsky.social & I will find out: our registered report is in-principle accepted @thejop.bsky.social & survey results forthcoming! See tinyurl.com/uv5wybhs
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourNew position at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, dont’t hesitate to apply if you study ecological transitions👇👇👇
- Come and join us at the CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée: we are looking for a new assistant professor in political science working on ecological transitions. www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourMadrid is quickly becoming a great hub for social science research. If you would consider moving here, here’s one potential way to do so:
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourYes. This is important. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourNew post-doc position working with me in a new lab at @snfagora.bsky.social ! It's one year appointment, renewable for up to 5 years. The position includes data analysis and independent research, mentorship of lab members, and participation in SNF Agora Institute life. apply.interfolio.com/178796
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚀 Announcing the Besample Dissertation Grant (N=3,000) If you’re a Ph.D. student in psychology, economics, sociology, political science, communication, or any related field, this is your chance to get full funding for testing your theory across cultures. Apply: study.besample.app/jfe/form/SV_...
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourOver the moon 😍. My paper "Renewing Democracy: How Exposure to Electoral Turnovers Reinforces Citizens’ Democratic Support" is accepted in World Politics. LINK: osf.io/preprints/os.... First paper fully conceived since my second child was born 4 years ago. For those who know, big milestone. 🧵 1/
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨 I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions. Link and more information in second post. Position Start: Fall 2026 Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️
- Really cool work from Lauren! *Pret A Manger cannot be classified as French
- I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨 Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- I love football, especially my beloved Olympique de Marseille. But Infantino makes it extremely difficult not to consider boycotting the World Cup. It was already a close call with the one in Qatar
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourExperimental participants to us
- Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourA short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility. osf.io/preprints/me...
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourFriday brought good news and bad news. Today I am now allowed to share the good. Via the generous donation of the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I now have a few million euros to help understand more about the selective inclusion of LGBTQ+ citizens
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourSo this happened a little while ago. I'm very grateful to the judges from the @psaireland.bsky.social and to @kevcunningham.bsky.social for generous financial support of the prize. It was great to be in Galway a few weeks ago to collect the award at the PSAI annual conference. lnkd.in/dEsZBksB
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🎤 The ninth session of the PBC will host @riazsascha.bsky.social from @eui-sps.bsky.social, who will present: "Regime Loyalty in Wartime Nazi Germany" 📍 Join us on Zoom! Please register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
- It’s annoyingly unsurprising
- Announced in the Budget today: a £925 levy on the fees paid by foreign students Asked on 24 Nov, the public said of a 6% tax rate on such fees... Support: 57% Oppose: 18% yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- I don’t see this article predicting the end of surveys, just a faster, somewhat forced shift toward higher-quality sampling. The solutions it lists (pts 1–5 on p. 9) are already known but costly and depend on survey firms’ willingness to cooperate (1/2)
- If AI pushes the field away from low-quality samples, that’s a win for science (2/2)
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚨 New working paper 🚨 We often see populist parties like Reform UK blame higher energy bills on climate change policies. What are the political consequences of this strategy? Very early draft; comments and criticisms are welcomed! full draft: z-dickson.github.io/assets/dicks...
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbourmy friends, I am in a 10-person capacity record bar in Tokyo requesting songs and drinking Japanese whisky. the owners are a married couple chain smoking behind the bar, slinging cocktails, and spinning records. this is heaven??? goodbye forever I have died ✌️
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourToday, we took part in a symposium at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence on the challenges & opportunities experienced by descendants of immigrants in Italy. We presented recent and ongoing PhD projects from SPS researchers @eui-sps.bsky.social of the EUI @eui-eu.bsky.social, and my work on discrimination.
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚨Only 2 days left to apply
- 📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025. www.iast.fr/research-fel...
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourCool new working paper on why and how cable news threw gasoline on the culture war fire. The culture war isn't optimal for electoral candidates, but it's optimal for cable news companies. ungated: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/27v4x...
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourHelp candidates on the market by signing up for a mock interview. It doesn't cost you much time, but it can help candidates tremendously!
- 👇#EJME 25/26 Mock Interviews: Recruiters needed! ℹ️on how to sign up: www.eeassoc.org/news/call-re... @david-schindler.de @eayeconomists.bsky.social @ecqe.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourRejection is one of the toughest parts about academia and this post provides some great guidance on how to deal with it (that I will start trying to follow myself). Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:
- Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚨 New paper out! Very happy to see our (Tom Arend, @fabioellger.bsky.social and mine) paper out at the @bjpols.bsky.social. We explore how voters react to new, disruptive political actors. 1/3
- NEW - Green Party Entry and Conservative Backlash: Evidence from Germany - cup.org/48uxlNy "research suggests that radical right party success can provoke electoral backlash" - Tom Arend, @fabioellger.bsky.social & @antvalentim.bsky.social #OpenAccess
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourDespite everything else going on, France last night honoured Robert Badinter, the former justice minister who ended the death penalty in 🇫🇷 in 1981. He entered the Panthéon in a moving moment of national tribute that the French do so well
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨 We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track. We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.
- New office, new role: I’ve started a new job this summer as an Assistant Prof at Warwick. Now I just need some good books to fill these shelves. Recommendations welcome!
- I agree with Charlotte, but I'd add the Max Weber Fellowship to the list. I cannot emphasize how great the programme is (research, networking, quality of life, social life, etc). The deadline is a month before the IAST's fellowship: www.eui.eu/apply?id=max...
- It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky www.iast.fr/research-fel...
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourThis week, I’ve started a new position as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. I’m excited to open this new chapter at @unileiden.bsky.social !
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourIn a moment when the narrative has swung so far to the other end, this book by Volha Charnysh is more important than ever. It shows the displacement of people historically fostered state capacity, private entrepreneurship, and long-term economic performance. www.cambridge.org/core/books/u...
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourI'm looking for someone UK-based with web-scraping skills who can scrape a substantial amount of data for me from the French parliamentary website in exchange for a fixed (negotiable) one-off fee. French language skills are not essential as full instructions will be provided. 1/2
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourAre you interested in how parties' parliamentary behavior (e.g., passing bills, calling for elections, forming coalitions, cooperating/conflicting) affects voters (e.g., electoral behavior, perceptions, affective polarization)? Please let me know. I am putting together an MPSA panel proposal.
- Amazing work from @evakrejcova.bsky.social @filipkostelka.bsky.social and N.Sauger!
- 1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚨 Job Alert U. de Montréal 🚨 Assistant/Associate Prof: Politics or IR of China If that sounds like you and you speak some French, please consider applying for this job. Our dept is ultra-friendly, support is good, and Montréal is amazing! Reach out with any Q?s tinyurl.com/y9trt5va
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourLSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp! 💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis 🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies) 🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪 📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
- Je suis un peu à la ramasse sur l’actu politique française, j’essaie de me rattraper et je découvre seulement aujourd’hui cette perle : Bayrou qui balance sur le “confort des boomers”. On fait ça quand on n’a aucune élection en ligne de mire
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourSomething political science would benefit bigly from: World Politics style multi-book review articles where none of the books are written by political scientists. For example: one on “zones” featuring @atossaaraxia.bsky.social, Slobodian, etc. Let’s bring new stuff into the field!
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour📢 Call for Papers – London Experimental Seminar Series (LESS) in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social. We are launching a new forum for experimental political science research: First seminar: 19/11/2025. Deadline: 31/08/2025. Submit here: forms.gle/ZUJcBbZoDoaY...
- "First, please please please let’s move on from the Harry Potter references." Kevin Munger is the best. Period. His response to the Economist article is great: kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...
- My problem with this (weird) article from @economist.com on the EUI is that I just don't get the jokes. It's all Harry Potter metaphors, and I'm as familiar with Harry Potter as I am with Star Wars: not at all
- My problem with this (weird) article from @economist.com on the EUI is that I just don't get the jokes. It's all Harry Potter metaphors, and I'm as familiar with Harry Potter as I am with Star Wars: not at all
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
- 📢 University of Warwick is hiring two Assistant Professors (apply by 17 July 2025): •International Relations (Conflict & Security): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR672/a... •International Organisations: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR770/a... #PoliSciJobs #PolScijobs
- Reposted by Alexandra Jabbour🚀 Launching the Humboldt Governance Lab @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social! We deliver evidence-based insights and policy advice on today’s key challenges to democracy. 🌐 hu-govlab.de Follow us for research, updates & collaborations. #GovLab #Democracy #PolicyResearch
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourTogether with @jellekoedam.bsky.social, @tinepaulsen.bsky.social, and @nicolaiberk.bsky.social, we brought together an amazing group of researchers doing exciting work here in Zurich — and it turned into a super fun, engaging workshop. Huge thanks to everyone who joined and made it so special!
- You can reach me on Bluesky or via email (EUI or Warwick). Thanks a lot!
- For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourNew WP w/ @riazsascha.bsky.social: via >42 million placebo tests, we show type I error inflation in Unexpected Event during Survey Designs (UESD), propose an adjustment, implement via new R package uesdRobust, and demonstrate utility by replicating two top UESD studies. osf.io/preprints/os... 1/9
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourYesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourVery happy that my doctoral thesis was awarded the EUI's Linz Rokkan Prize in Political Sociology. I am grateful to my supervisors, Hanspeter Kriesi and @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social, and @eui-sps.bsky.social's amazing research ecosystem. The thesis can be read here (cadmus.eui.eu/entities/pub...)
- Congratulations to @jonadejong.bsky.social, recipient of the Linz Rokkan Prize for his doctoral thesis. A prestigious recognition for outstanding academic research. #EUI #ThesisAward #LinzRokkan www.eui.eu/ServicesAndA...
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourAs some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Did Model 1 or Model 2 generate these sequences? Why? Model 1: Pólya urn, starting with one black and one red ball. 1 (0) stands for black (red). Model 2: Empty probit model, random intercepts with mean 0, ICC = 1/2. All 100,000 sequences here: tinyurl.com/35pkyfxa
- Reposted by Alexandra JabbourI look forward to meeting many of you soon in Madrid for EPSA 2025. In case that’s helpful to anyone, here are some of my personal Madrid favorites:
