Nick Kuipers @KuipersNicholas Twitter profile

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 months

This is my last week at NUS. Starting in July, I’ll join the Department of Politics at Princeton as an Assistant Professor. I’m sad to leave friends and colleagues in Singapore but I’m also really looking forward to this next chapter. Go Tigers!!!

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Nick Kuipers

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2 years

Governments across the world use exams to select civil servants. In this new @apsrjournal article, I consider how the outcomes of these high-stakes exams might be affecting the attitudes of applicants, focusing on aspirants to the Indonesian civil service...

Cambridge University Press - Politics

@CUP_PoliSci

2 years

#FirstView from @apsrjournal - Failing the Test: The Countervailing Attitudinal Effects of Civil Service Examinations - - @KuipersNicholas

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Nick Kuipers

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1 year

My dissertation “Meritocracy Reconsidered” won the Mancur Olson prize from @apsatweets for best dissertation in political economy!! I’m really humbled and flattered by this recognition.

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 years

In this new @WorldPol article, I explore the origins of out-group intolerance in Indonesia, arguing that the colonial era opium concession system has had an enduring effect in structuring contemporary animosities...

World Politics

@World_Pol

2 years

#Firstview #Free The Long-Run Consequences of The Opium Concessions for Out-Group Animosity. Click here to view

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Nick Kuipers

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2 years

I finished my PhD this week! I used to joke that finishing graduate school seemed to involve neither carrot nor stick. But there was definitely lots of help along the way. Thanks to everyone who supported me!!

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 months

In our new piece just out at @pacificaffairs , with @risa_toha and @nathanaeldotid , we explore the drivers of Prabowo’s landslide victory in the recent Indonesian presidential election, focusing on the youth vote. Read here:

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

1 year

Whenever I felt this way during grad school I reminded myself that Armageddon and Deep Impact were basically the same film. Each came out within 2 months of one another in 1998 and both made over $300m at the box office. Does the trick!!

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1 year

Do other PhD students stress about someone else publishing their dissertation argument in an article before they can finish the dissertation? Not sure how to describe this feeling, but coming across related articles can be nerve-racking

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Nick Kuipers

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2 years

An auspicious sign from outside my office window on the first day of the semester

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

11 months

I feel 0 doesn't sufficiently capture the extent to which I would never recommend IRB to a friend

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 years

Pumped to see this finally out in @poppublicsphere . Alison and I started working on this project my first semester of graduate school (!) Using both admin data and interviews, we explore the reasons that smaller cities tend to have better access to public service facilities.

Cambridge University Press - Politics

@CUP_PoliSci

2 years

#OpenAccess from @PoPpublicsphere - City Size and Public Service Access: Evidence from Brazil and Indonesia - - Alison E. Post & @KuipersNicholas #FirstView #PoP20

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

6 months

Download our data! We have been surveying Indonesian voters every week for the past three months and will continue to do so for the next ten months.

New Mandala

@newmandala

6 months

NEW: @nathanaeldotid and @KuipersNicholas introduce HI-RES SIKAP, a new online survey that allows researchers to examine short-term shifts in Indonesian public opinion:

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 years

Really looking forward to this!

Cornell University Southeast Asia Program

@seapcornell

2 years

Join us at the Kahin Center on Thursday at 12:30pm for a discussion on "Meritocracy Reconsidered: Bureaucratic Selection and Nation-Building in Indonesia." @KuipersNicholas of @NUSingapore will host! Details:

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Nick Kuipers

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2 years

We’re calling for nominations of the best papers on Southeast Asian politics presented at APSA 2021. Nominate yourself! Papers are eligible in either an (1) open category or (2) emerging scholar category (3 > yrs since phd).

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

4 months

Had a great time sharing this new research with folks at @ANUIndonesia !

ANU Indonesia Project

@ANUIndonesia

4 months

To what degree do politicians accurately perceive the level of importance Indonesian voters attribute to environmental concerns? You can find the recording and slides of @KuipersNicholas fascinating ISG in this link:

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Nick Kuipers

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3 months

So proud of my good friend @NeilOBrian4 on being awarded a Carnegie fellowship!! Stay tuned for his book coming out later this year on the roots of polarization in the US

Neil A. O'Brian | Carnegie Corporation of New York

www.carnegie.org

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

4 months

Looking forward to hosting @sahnicboom for this seminar on neighborhood representation on Thursday. Come if you're free and in Singapore!

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

10 months

Check out this piece by @thedailyseth and @BurhanMuhtadi in which they develop some new survey measures to capture old axes of resentment in Indonesia. A useful resource for anyone doing surveys in Indonesia. Read it!!

Resentment and Polarization in Indonesia | Journal of East Asian Studies | Cambridge Core

Resentment and Polarization in Indonesia - Volume 23 Issue 3

www.cambridge.org

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 years

Had a blast hosting @SlaterPolitics and @JosephWongUT to hear about their new book!

Joseph Wong

@JosephWongUT

2 years

Great turnout and discussion at our book seminar on democracy and development in Asia. @SlaterPolitics and I are grateful to hosts @KuipersNicholas @whoisjonchu and the @NUS_PoliSci @nus_ari @LKYSch @NUSingapore

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Nick Kuipers

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2 years

I’m proud of this paper and the work that went into it. But there are unanswered questions that I hope to address in future work: e.g., are these results a generic effect of all forms of selection—or are they specific to meritocratic selection?

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 years

A few more days to submit your nominations!! We're on a later schedule than all the other sections (what's the rush??)

Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 years

We’re calling for nominations of the best papers on Southeast Asian politics presented at APSA 2021. Nominate yourself! Papers are eligible in either an (1) open category or (2) emerging scholar category (3 > yrs since phd).

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Nick Kuipers

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1 year

Thanks @shahbano_ijaz for the excellent write up!

Syeda ShahBano Ijaz

@shahbano_ijaz

1 year

Had the pleasure of writing the public summary for @KuipersNicholas ' recent APSR article:

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Nick Kuipers

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1 year

way to go bhumi!!!

APSA

@APSAtweets

1 year

Bhumi Purohit Receives the 2023 William Anderson Award

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 years

I love this paper. Pooling over 1m survey responses (!) across 25 countries, @garethnellis finds no uptick in religious intolerance around elections

Gareth Nellis

@GarethNellis

2 years

Happy to see my new paper, "Election Cycles and Global Religious Intolerance," appear in @PNASNews today. Hugely grateful to a crack team of @UCSDnews undergrads, above all Jiayi Li and Toni Liria-Sala, for their outstanding RA work.

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Nick Kuipers

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1 year

@APSAtweets Thanks go to my committee, Jennifer Bussell, @TomPepinsky , Jason Wittenberg, @guoxu_econ , and especially my dissertation chair @thaddunning .

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

5 months

Looking forward to this!

ANU Indonesia Project

@ANUIndonesia

5 months

In this ISG, @KuipersNicholas from @NUSingapore explores Indonesian voters and politicians’ policy preferences on issues such as the environment. #IndonesianPolitics #EnvironmentalPriorities #VoterVsPolitician #EnvironmentalPolicy #DemocraticRepresentation

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

1 year

An amazing model of researchers working productively with policymakers

M. Chatib Basri

@ChatibBasri

1 year

Yg tertarik mengenai peningkatan pajak melalui reform administrasi vs tariff di Indonesia. Rekomendasi paper ini mulai di adopsi @KemenkeuRI th 2022. Berikut paper @mayara_pfs @Ben_Olken @rema_nadeem dan saya di American Economic Review 2021 access link

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 years

I interpret the findings as consistent with a broader critique of meritocratic selection: people who fail the exam appear frustrated, believing the process was unfair, and even reporting lower levels of national identification. Meanwhile, the winners appear self-satisfied.

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@KuipersNicholas

2 years

I use variation inherent in Indonesia’s nested and sequential hiring procedure to isolate the effect of winning vs. losing. Using this approach, the absolute effect of winning appears 2-3x bigger than the effect of losing. But 20x more people fail the exam than pass.

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

1 year

nice recap of work by @mrgunalan on the extreme demand for govt jobs in india. resonates with what's happening elsewhere in places like china and indonesia

VoxDev

@vox_dev

1 year

Highly competitive examinations for public service recruitment in #India have detrimental economic effects. Today on VoxDev, @mrgunalan ( @azimpremjiuniv ) highlights the key policy implications from this new research:

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

1 year

Interesting perspective from @BurhanMuhtadi on the considerations structuring Ganjar’s (read: Mega’s) choice for VP

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute

@ISEAS

1 year

Fulcrum Commentary by @BurhanMuhtadi - ... the decision as to who will run with Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo to be his vice-president will most likely lie with none other than a former president who is Ganjar’s party boss. #Indonesia @ISEAS

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Nick Kuipers

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2 years

Using these boundaries, I show that individuals who reside in areas where the opium concessions operated report higher levels of out-group intolerance today, as compared to nearby areas where it had been outlawed.

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2 years

This was divide-and-rule: the Dutch farmed out the sale of an addictive substance to redirect local frustrations towards an intermediary group. But the sale of opium was outlawed in pockets across Java.

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Nick Kuipers

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1 year

@saiful_mujani Thanks Pak Saiful! Couldn’t have done it without your help 🙏🙏🙏

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Nick Kuipers

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1 year

check out @thedailyseth discussing PAN's electoral prospects!

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

1 year

Interesting new poll from SMRC on the presidential race. The dates seems important here. I wonder how the results would look if surveying had carried into last week when Golkar and PAN swung their support to Prabowo. My guess is very little impact.

muchlis a rofik

@muchlis_ar

1 year

Ganjar Rebound Hasil survei nasional tatap muka SMRC terbaru: 31 Juli-11 Agustus. Jumlah sampel 5000. Tertutup tiga nama: Ganjar 35,9% Prabowo 33,6% Anies 20,4%. Yang belum tahu 10,1%. Head to Head Ganjar vs Prabowo: Ganjar 41,5% Prabowo 44,5% (selisih suara antara keduanya

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Nick Kuipers

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2 years

On behalf of the Southeast Asian Politics Related Group ( @seaprg ), Kikue Hamayotsu and I will begin reviewing nominations on July 31st. Submit nominations here:

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

1 year

@having__trouble go yeomen

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

1 year

@realosamet @ElvinOngPolSci has a book titled opposing power that you should consider!! i also love the recent paper(s) by @mdtrinh_ on statistical obfuscation in vietnam.

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

1 year

Please consider submitting your abstract/paper to this apsa pre-conference on bureaucratic politics. We encourage submissions from across subfields and world regions! Those who wish to attend can sign up as well

Bhumi Purohit

@bhumipurohit

1 year

Calling all bureaucracy & poli sci scholars! Coming this August - a fantastic @APSAtweets pre-conference at USC. Submit your abstract + extended intro/PAP/working paper here. Interest in attending/discussing also welcome: Deadline April 20.

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

1 year

@muchlis_ar @saifulmujani @saidiman @saiful_mujani 🙏🙏🙏

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

10 months

Read and cite Alexander's new paper!! We should also all be using the word "boomlet" more to describe trends in academic research. Great word

Alexander Sahn

@sahnicboom

10 months

this article adds to a boomlet of papers on the municipal politics of progressive era: @KuipersNicholas and my work on civil service reform, @SarahAnzia and @trounstine on public sector organizing, @mariacarreri @payson_julia @danmthomp on the social and political fx of reform

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

1 year

Come to Singapore this summer to hoover up some methods knowledge!!

Methods School

@MethodsSchool

1 year

🚨🚨Only 2 more days before our early bird registration rates for the #ipsaNUS Methods School expires on 15 April! Register now to save on your course registration fee! Normal registration rates kick in on 16 April and end on 31 May. @ipsa_aisp @NUSingapore @NUS_PoliSci

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 years

I don't have an APSR to promote, but I've been waiting for years for Neil to blink first before launching a twitter. Hello world!!

Neil O'Brian

@NeilOBrian4

2 years

Good a reason as any to re-launch the Twitter account!

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Nick Kuipers

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2 years

simpler times

crazy ass moments in american politics

@ampol_moment

2 years

Tony Hawk skates in the White House. (2009)

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2 years

@JaeJaeykim2 @PoPpublicsphere Yup! (although I think you mean Alexander) There's been a bunch of recent work highlighting the importance of city size, including by @tanu_kumar1 @MatthewStenberg and @msgHankinson

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Nick Kuipers

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10 months

@ElvinOngPolSci @NUSingapore @FASSNews Congratulations Elvin!

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 years

@worldpol The Dutch would lease the monopolistic right to sell opium, with the winners of the auctions almost always being ethnic Chinese. Its scale was massive: at its peak, nearly 18% of Dutch revenues came from these leases.

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 years

In July 2020, with the help of the civil service agency, we sent emails to everyone who applied for a government job in 2019, asking for their participation in an online survey. Using these responses, I compared the attitudes of people who passed to those who failed.

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2 years

@whoisjonchu *Indonesia :) Thanks Jon!

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1 year

@ElvinOngPolSci @APSAtweets @NUS_PoliSci @FASSNews Very kind words, Elvin!

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Nick Kuipers

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2 years

I learned a lot while working on this project, not least from some excellent research on the opium trade in colonial Southeast Asia. Check out Empires of Vice by @DianaSueKim and Opium to Java by Jim Rush!

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@KuipersNicholas

1 year

@saadgulzar Thanks for the boost, Saad! Sorry to hear about the Pakistan collaboration. I think @mrgunalan is trying to do something similar in India. In theory it's a very replicable research design, which I mention briefly at the end of the paper

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@BurhanMuhtadi Congrats Prof. Burhan!!

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@jeremymenchik @curareligion Congratulations Jeremy! Amazing news

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2 years

the stuff of dreams

why you should have an animal

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2 years

The main inferential difficulty with this project was in disentangling the twinned countervailing effects: are the observed differences in attitudes across winners and losers attributable to, say, the sting of failure or the aggrandizing effects of success?

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@HtetThihaZaw @a2hicken @SlaterPolitics @n_ichino Congratulations!!

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Nick Kuipers

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1 year

@ChongJaIan Thanks Ian!!

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Nick Kuipers

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2 years

I think if crabs lived mainly on land we would call them bugs and probably wouldn’t eat them

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@evewarburton @CornellPress @seapcornell Congrats, Eve! Looking forward to reading

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1 year

@NGarbirasDiaz @APSAtweets aperitivos on me next week!

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@DanSpoko @APSAtweets i just spent like 5 minutes googling and i actually have no idea where on the internet this dissertation is. i'll email you a pdf lol

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@DanSpoko @APSAtweets Dan!!! I'm relaxing man

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2 years

@NeilOBrian4 sans tex just for you neil. caught this guy lounging after lunch

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Nick Kuipers

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@gabi_kw @AkshayMangla @sandipz @FT Well deserved! Congratulations, Gabi!!!

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@sahnicboom Thanks big dog

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@a_alrababah @Unibocconi Congrats!!

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@ianRturner focus on the monkey!!

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2 years

Flashback to APSA 2021

Liminal Spaces

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@tarachandra_1 @USIP Congrats Tara!!

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@sahnicboom Patronage for the popolo!!

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@gemmadipoppa @mfcarillo @APSAPolEconomy @APSAtweets Congratulations Gemma!!

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@saadgulzar @mrgunalan My sense is that institutional appetite for sharing even anonymized administrative data is shrinking in Indonesia and elsewhere... Opaque new data privacy laws and little perceived upside for public officials making this sort of research difficult

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2 years

@GraceKuipers15 @tausifnoor Go bears!!

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1 year

@ianRturner Thanks, Ian!

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@didikuo1 @StanfordCDDRL Congrats Didi!!

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2 years

@GarethNellis I think @mdtrinh_ has done something along these lines in a working paper

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@armenon_memorie @cornellgov @CornellCAS @UCMercedPoliSci Congratulations!!!

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@OttoKienitz Thanks Otto!

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Nick Kuipers

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1 year

@_danigilbert Chris Carter has a recent piece in the APSR that uses interviews to trace mechanisms of persistence:

Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State...

Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America - Volume 118 Issue 1

www.cambridge.org

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@KuipersNicholas

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@LachlanMcNamee @PrincetonUPress @polisciucla @MonashPolsIR @MonashUni @UCLA @MigCitizenAPSA @IntOrgJournal Looks fascinating!

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

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@tribsantos I think it’s an interesting open empirical question! My speculative view is that examination failure is unique in localizing blame (and resentment) in the applicants themselves. But applicants who fail under patronage, for eg, can externalize blame elsewhere.

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Nick Kuipers

@KuipersNicholas

2 years

An incredible data drop for researchers interested in the bureaucracy

Kunal Mangal

@mrgunalan

2 years

🚨Big news!🚨 Yesterday the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) started releasing *individual level* data from their recruitments under their new Open Data Policy: 1/n

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Nick Kuipers

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What a neat contraption!! Clearly chaotic but good

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