Agustín Goenaga
agustingoenaga.bsky.social
Agustín Goenaga
@agustingoenaga.bsky.social
Political scientist at Lund University. Democracy, Development, Historical Political Economy. Novelist at night.
New article out in Social Science History. Oriol Sabaté and I
trace 140+ years of UK parliamentary debates on policing — showing when it mattered, who spoke, and how conflicts shifted across time.
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Rise of Modern Police Forces in the United Kingdom: Tracking Legislative Debates Around Police Reform (1803–1945) | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
The Rise of Modern Police Forces in the United Kingdom: Tracking Legislative Debates Around Police Reform (1803–1945) - Volume 49 Issue 2
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September 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Looking for #APSA panels? Come see ours:
New Research on the Legacies of Colonialism in Historical Political Economy
Sat 9/13 4:00 to 5:30 pm.

Thank you @agustingoenaga.bsky.social for organizing (what is going to be) an informative and productive panel!
September 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A few years ago, Jean-Paul Gagnon started a series on @ecprtheloop.bsky.social about the importance of studying conceptions of democracy across time and place.
That discussion became a multi-authored book, The Sciences of the Democracies: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
The sciences of the democracies - UCL Discovery
UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.
discovery.ucl.ac.uk
August 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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New study on measuring, comparing, and predicting knowledge related to politics and reproductive healthcare in the US. dx.doi.org/10.1080/1554...
March 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Our very own @jonathanpolk.bsky.social is hiring a 3-year postdoc for his project, "Political party competition and the transnational cleavage in Europe"! Deadline 14/4 - apply via link below! @hannaeback.bsky.social @robertklemmensen.bsky.social @agustingoenaga.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!
Postdoctoral fellow in political science: party competition in Europe
Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos
lu.varbi.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Check out this awesome postdoc opportunity with my friend @jonathanpolk.bsky.social at Lund: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

So much great work to be done in this area and working with Jon would be fantastic!
Postdoctoral fellow in political science: party competition in Europe
Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos
lu.varbi.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Julie Hassing Nielsen and @agustingoenaga.bsky.social examine how different pandemic strategies in Denmark and Sweden affected business owners‘ opinions regarding not only public health measures but also democratic rights. See the full article at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....
Back to Business? Business‐Owners and Their Responses to COVID‐19 Policies in a Comparative Perspective
While necessary to protect human lives, many of the measures implemented by governments to contain the COVID-19 pandemic imposed significant costs on the population. Drawing on an original representa...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Check out our Spring 2025 CP Seminar Series @pollu.bsky.social and the fantastic list of presenters put together by the brilliant @agustingoenaga.bsky.social and Kajsa Hansson! Bonus: our speakers are warm and inviting in case you ever miss that cozy holiday feeling. So come by if you can!
We're sharing an early Christmas present - a lovely list of incredibly talented and accomplished speakers for our spring edition of the CP Seminar Series @pollu.bsky.social. Thanks to @agustingoenaga.bsky.social and Kajsa Hansson for putting it all together and to the fantastic presenters! 👇🏼
December 17, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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Study w/ @agustingoenaga.bsky.social on political resources and evaluations of democratic institutions.
doi.org/10.1080/0362...
December 7, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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The CP Group @pollu.bsky.social is stoked to have @bengtssonz.bsky.social present his cool study on the electoral consequences of land inequality today! Come by! @jonathanpolk.bsky.social @hannaeback.bsky.social @robertklemmensen.bsky.social @agustingoenaga.bsky.social @floriso.bsky.social
November 5, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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Big shoutout to Jonathan Polk and Alex Ryan, who, as new convenors of our Comparative Politics Group @comppollu.bsky.social at Lund, have organized a fantastic spring 2024 schedule of our CP Seminar Series! @hannaeback.bsky.social @robertklemmensen.bsky.social @agustingoenaga.bsky.social
January 10, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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@alanjacobs.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book "Integrated Inferences"

See here: integrated-inferences.github.io for links to:

* The book plus open access version (thanks Cambridge!)
* Accompanying R package on CRAN: CausalQueries

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December 15, 2023 at 7:21 PM
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Do governments worldwide have the ability to implement their policies and achieve their goals?
 
We just published a new topic page on state capacity at Our World in Data:
 
ourworldindata.org/state-capacity
 
A thread on what the page has in store:

polisky
December 4, 2023 at 1:05 PM
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This month, the @comppollu.bsky.social at Lund is stacked with fantastic presenters. Last week we were amazed with Fredrik Mohammadi Norén and his SWERIK project - a research corpus with open data of the Swedish Riksdag, from 1867 to now! @hannaeback.bsky.social @agustingoenaga.bsky.social
November 13, 2023 at 9:21 AM
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The next theme of Lund's CP Seminar Series is gender. @comppollu.bsky.social is super excited to have @elinbja.bsky.social present her exciting research on autocratic genderwashing at noon tomorrow! Open to public! @robertklemmensen.bsky.social @hannaeback.bsky.social @agustingoenaga.bsky.social
November 13, 2023 at 9:24 AM
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The Comparative Politics Group (@comppollu.bsky.social) is so excited to welcome another rising star @laurasilvialungu.bsky.social to present her research on subjective economic status tomorrow at noon! Open to public! @robertklemmensen.bsky.social @hannaeback.bsky.social @agustingoenaga.bsky.social
October 23, 2023 at 8:11 AM
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💥OUT NOW: Vol. 47, Issue 1, 2024

The Special Issue "Coalition Dynamics: Advances in the Study of the Coalition Life Cycle"

Guest Editors: @hannaeback.bsky.social , Johan Hellström and Wolfgang C. Müller

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/4...
West European Politics
Coalition Dynamics: Advances in the Study of the Coalition Life Cycle. Guest Editors: Hanna Bäck, Johan Hellström and Wolfgang C. Müller. Volume 47, Issue 1 of West European Politics
www.tandfonline.com
October 23, 2023 at 5:01 AM
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No-fault divorce also applies to coalitions! See why 👇🏼

This article was made possible by my inclusive academic village. (among others, @comppollu.bsky.social @hannaeback.bsky.social @agustingoenaga.bsky.social @robertklemmensen.bsky.social Julie Hassing Nielsen and Jon Polk @pollu.bsky.social)
Serious Conflicts with Benign Outcomes? The Electoral Consequences of Conflictual Cabinet Terminatio...
Serious Conflicts with Benign Outcomes? The Electoral Consequences of Conflictual Cabinet Terminations
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October 18, 2023 at 5:55 PM
@profmusgrave.bsky.social would you mind adding me to Polisky? Thank you!
October 11, 2023 at 2:32 PM
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@comppollu.bsky.social at Lund is thrilled to welcome the rising star @elenaleuschner.bsky.social to present her exciting and timely research on when and why emotions matter in protest at noon tomorrow! Open to public! @robertklemmensen.bsky.social @hannaeback.bsky.social @agustingoenaga.bsky.social
October 9, 2023 at 7:46 AM
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LU's Comparative Politics Group and Department of Gender Studies are beyond honored to have @mlkrook.bsky.social present her exciting research on semiotic violence and the U.S. Capitol insurrection today at noon! @robertklemmensen.bsky.social @hannaeback.bsky.social @agustingoenaga.bsky.social
October 3, 2023 at 5:22 AM
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Once in a while, a department is lucky enough to welcome a stellar group of scholars discussing a theoretically and normatively important topic. Well, this week, our poli sci dept at Lund University has the privilege of doing so! Stoked to learn about the new frontiers of gender politics research!
September 25, 2023 at 7:13 AM
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Anyone on Polisky can now post to the PSJMInfo feed. Just use "PSJMInfo", "poliscijobs", "psjobs" or "💼" in your post.
@profmusgrave.bsky.social: i've created a PSJMInfo feed thanks to your instructions. when people ask to be added, do i do this just via adding to the Mute list? Do I do anything more on the SkyFeed builder once it's done? Thanks so much.
September 22, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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I've started a list of PoliSky Sub-feeds. If you know of one (or started one) that should be added, please re-skeet the feed announcement and @profruback.bsky.social when you do. I'll add it ASAP.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

(@maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social, @profmusgrave.bsky.social )
PoliSky Sub-Feed List
Sheet1 PoliSky Sub-Feed List (list maintained by @profruback.bsky.social -- @ me with a reskeet of the feed announcement and I'll add it ASAP) Topic / Subfield / Speciality,Feed Name (click to view),...
docs.google.com
September 21, 2023 at 3:19 PM